Get a CM shirt among 12 others in Ebay sale

Lauren (London Girl/ DR Press Informant) has made for sale 13 gaming shirts. This is just a heads up for anyone that may be interested. They are currently sitting at 58$ CAD or 33 GPB.

Buy here: http://bit.ly/14jGg5

With a great thanks to our German Komrads over at OperationFlashpoint2.info I have obtained a first look at the editing of XML for OFP2. You will need a account over at OperationFlashpoint2.info to download the files (noting is free ). However if your interested in editing this is good news indeed – hurry and save a copy before CM fines the Germans for uploading source code .

Go Go Go

Source: Private Message

PC Preview Some good and bad points here to mull over.

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Thanks to TKVirus for providing this post.

Thanks to all the 110+ people chilling out in IRC for keeping me and other company during the wait.

We all await GameStar.de to hunt him down and kill him – but such is life, so view often and make a backup .

PART #2

We just received word from a Citizen Kained that he is a exhibition stand designer and im on a job at Gamescom in Koln. He tell us about him self and follows into “So, if you have a question or want vid footage of something I can probably get it. I only have my nokia N95 here so footage may not be too good”. Heres your opportunity to get your questions out. He then goes on to tell us about the game

“The game itself is very slick, the aiming / firing feels like youve got to be quite accurate and doesnt feel arcadey at all… however it does feel more fun than ARMA and a quicker pace. They only have the single player mode here but overall I think its something to get excited about.”

Source

Whats in it:
* 200 Files and 73 Folders
* 71.0 MB unpacked | 50.9 MB Packed [.ZIP]
* Community Made Content
- Avatars
- Fan Art
- Over 15 Cutouts, including PSD’s Like the Soldier Cutout PSD as Seen here:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7…loadxn5.th.jpg
* Important Links
* The Operation Flashpoint Logo PSD
* The OFP Font
* All the Official Images
* All the rare photos I could find.
* A Clean cut wallpaper, in 3 styles for every screen format.
- OFP Gray
- White
- Black
* Some Website images (borrowed from the CSS of this forum)
* A YouTube PSD Template
* Links and Website building content.

and much more!

It took some time to collect, find and make the content but I wanted to make somthing to give out to the community to help it grow. I plan to keep working on it, but the Devs are also doing a Fansite kit and I didn’t want them to duplicate the work needed. So I made a early release.

Everyone’s (minus a few personal and questionable ones) avatars and image submissions have been added and accredited. There was a lot of submissions quality – The Images are great for other forums and instant messaging clients. 87 Avatars in total.

Hopefully this helps out!

Have fun on you fan related endeavours,
- Sir. Polaris

Mirrors:
19-08-2009 | Knights that Say Ni

As a leading fansite of the game this issue has not gone unnoticed by the staff here. I (Sir. Polaris) has spoken many of times out on this subject and offered many viable options to correct the issues we face.

This issue however still remains and still confuses some people. I get asked too often “why is this happening?”. As a result I have created this flowchart. It’s aim is to help create a understanding on a fairly complex issue. This issue which is a root problem in the larger issue of the degeneration of the forums.

This, combined with a review of my previous postings should give a soild understanding of the issue and what steps you can help take to avoid being a part of the problem and to correct the issues we have now. It should also bring awareness to why saying “lets just forget about it”, wont do any good.

Posted by Helios moments ago is a summary of all the German Media that was missed by the English media in the last few days.

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[Helios]
Thought some of you may be interested in this, even though you might have been aware of at least some of these previews. Below is a round-up of the vast majority of the coverage the game has recently received in the German press, who as you might know are very particular when it comes to their FPS games

Gamestar:
http://www.gamestar.de/preview/actio…shpoint_2.html
“Yeehaa, all in all everything is working very well so far. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising’s first two missions commence astonishingly smooth. I am curious, whether this is also true for the rest of the game. Although the visuals are not as good as the first screenshots made us believe, but that doesn’t make any difference to me. After all I can play that game fluently on my Laptop with nothing more than 1 GB RAM and a 7600 GT and even then is a good looking game.”

ESL:
http://www.esl.eu/de/ofp_dr/news/944…DR-in-Hamburg/
“You probably want to know what this DVD has to offer. But please keep in mind that I can’t write about all the contents of that DVD. But nevertheless I can assure you that, if Codemasters sticks to their schedule and fixes all the before mentioned bugs, you can expect a bombastic game. I am already confident with all that I have seen so far.”

OperationFlashpoint2.info:
http://www.operationflashpoint-dr.in…?article_id=24
“It is true; some features of the game had to be excluded. BUT: It already is a hell of fun to play that game. If you consider that the release date is scheduled for October, it is amazing how final it already is. I did not experience any performance problems or LOD-bugs at all. Only a couple of small bugs I mentioned before distinguish this preview-version from being final. It definitely tops some other products on my hard disk that were supposed to be final. If Codemasters is going to use the rest of the time reasonable and fixes some bugs, OFP: DR is going to be the one and only tactical warfare simulation. And by the way: If you see how your avatar-soldier is assembling and reloading a Javelin, you won’t have any doubts that this is the closest to reality tactical shooter ever. No trace of CoD or BF feeling. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, I am awaiting you!”

GamersGlobal:
http://www.gamersglobal.de/angeteste…-dragon-rising
“Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising seems to be a worthy sequel to the ingenious first part. It is as remorseless, hard and versatile as Bohemia Interactive’s original was then. We do hope that Codemasters will not commit the same mistakes as Bohemia did with its Armed Assault games: Including too many features without proper testing and releasing the game way to early. Considering the first two missions we played, we are pretty confident that this is not going to happen with OFP: DR. This game is not designed to attract Rambo, because as soon as you pop up your head on the wrong side of the bush you might have done your final mistake. We are going to be very careful on October 8th 2009.”

DemoNews:
http://www.demonews.de/previews/index.php?artikel=2256
“Run & shoot never was the style associated with Operation Flashpoint. This is also true for the new Episode. The focus of the game has been laid on realism, tactics, and forcing the player to anticipate the behaviour of the enemy during surprise-attacks. Furthermore there were a lot of modding possibilities, which enabled players to create new maps and a never ending amount of scenarios. All these features are also included to Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. The setting of the 2nd World War has been changed to a near future universe. Realism is expressed by the ability to destroy the whole environment, the behaviour of the corps, or ballistic characteristics of the projectiles; not even mentioning the authentic visual quality of the engine producing the battlefield. Somehow all these features need to be computed and that requires state of the art hardware. Those players who can’t wait to get their hands on it should take look at the minimum requirements at first. In return, despite all simulation aspects, the combats are filled with action and suspense, pushing the adrenaline to the limit. Fans of the prequel can expect to be satisfied. The game will be released on PS3 and Xbox360 as well.”

Gaming XP (Austria):
http://www.gamingxp.com/bericht-2797…gon_rising.htm
“OPDR is already more finished than the direct competitor Arma 2. The developer spent a lot of time in small details in order to make the game experience more intense and to create the right atmosphere. The complex interface of the predecessor was completely build new an the AI will set new standards if the bugs are fixed. If Codemasters uses the time till release and fixes the bugs and improves the graphics and sounds even more, the success will be there. A action-loaded tactical shooter and potential hit!

Gamers.de
http://www.gamers.de/artikel/430/Ope…/?skipJIS=true
“Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is about to climb on the top of all warfare simulations and prepares to stay there for a while. Thereby should be considered, that it’s not an action-shooter, rather than a simulation, that shows the player the most realistic scenario possible. Changing weather, simulation of night and day, fluent movement of the figures, detailed reloading animations and the implementation of sonic speed are only some of the features Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has to offer. The realistic visuals of the landscape and animated sky will transfer the player right into the battlefield. In contrast to the beautiful landscape there is the hard reality of war, which Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising brings as close to the player as possible.”

Gamers Network
http://www.gamer-network.com/index.p…&article=22689
”After taking a trip to the Sakhalin islands there is no doubt that Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is going to be a worthy sequel. Although it is not as hardcore simulated as ARMA 2 it offers a lot of versatile assignments, a huge area, intuitive controls and beautiful visuals. Only the AI had some blackouts and should be further improved by Codemasters.”

In-Game
http://www.ingame.de/content/c/93504/
“Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising not only pledges a lot, but also keeps promises. Whereas ARMA 2 could not comply with the high requirements, OFP: DR shows how it has to be done. Every small detail was considered for implementation. Shooting at the enemy is not a wise idea without anticipating their reactions. Codemasters is about to release the game for PC, PS3, and Xbox360. Every cover has to be chosen carefully, if you don’t want anything to block your sight towards the enemy.”

Eurogamer.de
http://www.eurogamer.de/articles/ope…ising-vorschau
”Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising could be a real hit. It depends on the ability of the developers fixing the bugs. It is also important to me how the story is going to be presented and on behalf of that how far I can identify myself with the playable characters. There were no cut scenes and all the briefing has been delivered by text, which is a little bit dull. It is not possible to save the game by the player himself, so the level of difficulty should be well balanced. At some points the preview-version was way too tough, which was also favoured by the absence of my brothers in arms. In retrospect this explains why designer Tim Browne himself virtually died that often during his presentation – comforting in some way!”

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Heres all the news from now to the 10th of August. Put your mouse over a link to see the full title. This was ripped from the forums to save time.

http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…erview-130809/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…ds-on-preview/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…screen-convoy/

http://www.consolemonster.com/newspo…?id=0000005843 <- Click here and Help out the community with hits.

http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…mi-over-ruins/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…possible-fake/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…int-interview/

http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…h-sion-lenton/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…-ofpdr-growth/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…urens-preview/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…video-preview/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009/08/laurens-qa/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…ssion-footage/ <- Important
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…ssion-footage/ <- Important
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…amxbox-100809/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009/08/100809-ign/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…e-with-lauren/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…ermany-100809/ <- Important
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009/08/grampl-100809/ <- Cool Screen
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…hands-on-1008/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…motion-100809/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…swag-pictures/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…star-hands-on/
http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…own-interview/
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http://operationflashpoint2.org/2009…-video-100809/ <- Important
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All this happened in the 4 days