Comments on: New Operation Flashpoint 2 Images

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Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:21:15 +0000

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By: Piispa

Piispa — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:12:25 +0000

They’re authentic, alright.. Authentic bullshots.

By: THX-1138

THX-1138 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:22:12 +0000

Yeah, I don’t understand why people complain about ArmA being unplayable etc. I really enjoy it, and after the patches it is perfectly playable.

As for these pics, they look like doctored screenshots to me. I noticed the texture stretch on that guy’s arm and thought if it was a concept image they’d have that sorted out. Although the rest do look rather painted to me.

By: Cigol

Cigol — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:40:57 +0000

In what way is ArmA unplayable exactly? I’m having a hoot with my copy…

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:21:03 +0000

Odds on for it being COD4.

By: Taxman

Taxman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:18:33 +0000

Bullshots but using in game assets from the looks of it.

It will be interesting to see just how much of a “military sim” this game will be or will it ease up on things to draw more people in.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:59:01 +0000

But the question remains: Will we ever see the likes of Op Flashpoint again? I fear not. The guys behind ARMA may well be those whom we know and love from the original but they have clearly lost the plot (ARMA is, at best, an unplayable shambles) and Codies are simply incapable of NOT ruining franchises (it is actually their mission statement now I believe) so I think we are screwed. This makes me very sad.

By: Seth Tipps

Seth Tipps — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:45:20 +0000

What I find interesting is they seem to have had legal trouble showing camelbaks (the odd thing that looks like an extra plate on the back of the soldiers’ body armour in the screenshots) the way they actually look. That’s the only explanation I can give for them looking the way they do. But on the whole, holy crap. I agree those are doctored but the stuff that they missed indicates that this is still going to be seriously pretty.

By: KaiserPanda

KaiserPanda — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:40:30 +0000

No love for Armed Assault II?
http://games.tiscali.cz/reviews/arma2brddojmy/
Shaping up to be amazing. An amazing game, versus amazing photoshop work. COUGH.

Turin Turambar:
That’s not ArmA II, it’s an ArmA I mod.

By: Svenska

Svenska — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:59:57 +0000

dude has claws

By: Faust

Faust — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:43:07 +0000

Ok, here’s some kinda proof that they’re probably screenshots. In this picture…. *Grabs the link…*

http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek/screen_detail.asp?id=11965&img=bnge.jpg

You can see the texture stretch on his arm.. which hints that at worst they are doctored screenshots, but still screenshots. I could be being a complete idiot, but I think that’s pretty solid.

Faust

By: Unrein

Unrein — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:23:14 +0000

I’m pretty sure those screens are the real deal, they simply seem to be heavily color corrected (might be an actual in-game effect) and otherwise edited.