Comments on: OpFlash: Dragon Rising Preview On EG

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:57:51 +0000

Does anything? My whole life is shallow compared to the one my AE has in UC :( Now you’ve made me depressed LOL

By: dsmart

dsmart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:45:49 +0000

Sadly, it doesn’t. :(

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:24:09 +0000

I’ll have to do that when I get home and get access to my personal E-mail ^_^ Still I don’t see how this can compare to flying a warmonger over a base from such a high altitude that nothing can fire back, zooming out and just watching the PTA tear the base apart .I guess we will see.

By: dsmart

dsmart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:10:53 +0000

Well the reason for that is we tend to focus on gameplay elements rather than hiding shoddy gameplay with flash.

For AAW – given its massive scope – we still made some compromises in trying to balance between gameplay and graphics.

We struck a good balance, but sadly we had to drop SpeedTree vegetation simply because we ran out of time. We’re going to still do it as a free patch depending on how the game is received. Since most of the fps combat takes place at bases – not in the great outdoors like OpF and such – we don’t view it as a terrible loss.

One thing is 100% certain (hence the reason for the IGN focus testing), you won’t need to pull your hair out trying to play the game. We made it as accessible as possible and not like someone else’s game.

If you can get in on the BETA – and you’re fan of our games – you’ll immediately see how far we’ve come since the BC/UC days.

If this is your type of game, send me email to (betaprogram – at – 3000ad.com) and request a key. Make sure u identify yourself though because that email is getting hammered, now that the IGN test is live.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:53:11 +0000

Not to meniton your game will probably run better under any situation than OpFlash. Never had a problem running any BC or UC games other than random crashs but that happens with any and all games. At least when it is running it runs smoothly.

I’m guessing there is still birds flying around and stuff on AAW as well I hope ?

By: dsmart

dsmart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:42:53 +0000

First and foremost, the scale of the game needs to be expressed. Dragon Rising presents a 135 square mile island, with an engine offering a draw distance of up to 35km. This isn’t an exaggeration – we’ve seen it with our own eyes as a Cobra helicopter rises above the hills to reveal the extraordinary vista. The new engine is designed to allow a great deal of stuff on screen at any one time, which is essential for one of the game’s most distinctive features: shooting people from miles away.”

It would have been particularly impressive if not for the fact that our game has a 400 sq. km world and a draw distance of 40km. Completed with real-time day/night transition, weather conditions etc. heh

/shameless plug

New dev blog and shots just released today

Speaking of which, those of you who were asking about getting a Beta key, they were sent to RPS today. More over here.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:22:06 +0000

Do we have any idea what the specs on this game are going to be like?

By: Slippery Jim

Slippery Jim — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:47:09 +0000

I’ve had a look but I can’t find it. You’ll just have to ignore what I said since I can’t back it up, unless I do come across it.

By: Mang

Mang — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:48:56 +0000

@Slippery Jim: got a link?

By: Slippery Jim

Slippery Jim — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:36:56 +0000

For you information: An official statement on the Codemasters forums has now said that the viewdistance will NOT be up to 35km. It might have been a target before, but that was ages ago. I don’t know when this interview with Clive was done, but it was quite a while ago they said this. Clive may not have found out about it yet.

By: HidesHisEyes

HidesHisEyes — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:05:19 +0000

What i’m looking for from OFP2 is to have a game that’s really atmospheric and scary, BECAUSE bullets whizz past you and you know they’re deadly, BECAUSE i don’t have an antitank… Not because i’m fumbling for which combination of F keys will order my squad to run and fucking hide.

The one thing i’m looking for from at least one of these sims is missions where i’m not in command (offline preferably), where i just feel like a grunt, where i’m given orders and follow them… And with AI improving, so that that doesn’t need to be scripted, i think that’s where i’ll find my sim. The fact that this will run on consoles is a bonus to me because my computer isn’t that great, but i know it’ll run anything that runs on a 360 from experience (FC2 was totally playable). Not the best reason, but worth noting.

I shall be royally pissed if it ends up with the games4windows “X360 controllers only” bullshit but i can’t see that happening… Let me fly helis with my joystick! :)

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:11:10 +0000

KP: Ghost Recon’s storyline is pretty much exactly the Georgian crisis, down to actually using the region South Ossetia itself.