It’s been a while and many people have wondered where we (this site was operated by the Heroes of OFP:DR group) and many of the community’s leaders have disappeared to after pulling out involvement after the failure of launch and the first patch. I am happy to announce that many of us are still together and we are lingering onwards as a group. While our support for CM’s DR is no more our support for high quality players, community builders and makers of good friendships is still ongoing.

Just like we where in DR we continue to remain a private invite only group. To better represent the quality of our members and work, we have re-branded our group to The Professional Corps – short ProCorps or PCO.

We can be found at our public IRC channel of Gamesurge.#ProCorps if you ever want to revisit with us and some of the older members of DR.

What inspired this post was partly the link in the older “site was closed” message below no longer being valid, and partly a journey I took yesterday looking around for the old guard. I was happy to find out that The Germans (illuminator, Reverent - OperationFlashpoint2.info (Domain Expired) ) have moved on and are successfully running a new fan site for Battlefield Bad Company.

Once again the Das Community Portal lives on, and its looking quite sexy if I might add, Illuminator never fails to make his sites look good.

As for OFP2.info the son of OFP.gamepark.cz (OFP.info) which was/if not still one of the best OFP sites on the net for ages. They or at least there staff have moved on. As some of you may know I (Sir. Polaris) worked there for a while providing a mirror to the daily stream of DR developments. I stopped working there when I left DR in total, a community member named Kenworth stepped in and he has now departed. I talked to Cervo the owner and he was not fond of the how the events unfolded for DR, however I think he is ok with how things have turned out now. The last post on OFP2.info advocated visiting http://www.armedassault.info/ which to my knowledge is a sister site. From what I know OFP2.info much like this site have moved on and its staff dispersed or working at ArmedAssault.info

I also found out yesterday that Ryujin from the Combat Simulation Project fame was also alive and kicking over at http://BF-BC2.info. Apparently from insider sources we might see CSP some time in the future

Other then the new guard (Joined 1-3 months before release or later) over at CM’s OFP:DR PC General there really isn’t much left of the people we knew for the last 1-2 years (Old Guard) . If you happen to be one do make your self known, good people are hard to find

I will save you the relapse again down memory lane, if you do ever show up in IRC bring some Jack and Hot Coco, all of us as a community really made a impact to OFP:DR it’s a shame however we got scattered, stonewalled and now unable to support the games continuing development.

Once again, heres to all the community minded people of Old OFP:DR that put others first before them self and helped carve a community of leaders and fans that helped grow this game to the best it could be providing the resources we had.

I hope to see you all soon and I hope you find your way back to the community and it’s people in the future!

Cheers!

As of Feb 16th 11:52 AM EST, Dragon rising has been officially declared dead.

There will be lingering technical support but no more advancements to the game.

Thanks for all the support and memories!

Due to the death of OFP: DR, this website is closed and will be disabled and taken down in piecemeal over time.

It’s a shame it has come to this but it’s the combined outcome of many failures. I hope to see all of you on the other side – lets hope for a realism revolution in the future.

You can download the patch and DLC from any one of the locations below.

The below mirror site download locations should become live and active at around 3pm today.

PLEASE NOTE THIS VERSION OF THE PATCH IS ONLY FOR RETAIL BOXED VERSIONS OF THE GAME.

Gamershell

Fileshack

StrategyInformer

WorthPlaying

Big Download

Boomtown

4players.de

Official Torrent
For further details about what is contained in the patch and Skirmish DLC you can use the links below:

Patch fixlist

Skirmish DLC Content

- Helios

Source

Create your mission with the Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising mission editor, share it with the community, and win a Limited Edition Design by Invasion® Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising desktop PC equipped with Intel®Core™i7-960 processor, Intel®Core™i7-860 processors, and some Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising collector goodies !

1. November 2nd – November 29th : Mission creation and submission
2. November 30th – December 13th : Mission testing and rating by the community : players download submitted missions, test and rate the missions. The 12 best average notes determine the finalists.
3. December 14th – December 28th : Mission testing and rating by the jury : the jury composed by staff members of Codemasters, Intel, Games Fed and Turtle Entertainment test and rate missions.

PRIZES

• 3 Codemasters games : DiRT 2 / Overlord 2 / Fuel
• A3 poster signed by the Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising development team
• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising t-shirt
• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising cap
• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising carabineer touch

3rd to 12th :

• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising t-shirt
• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising cap
• 1 Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising carabineer touch

• 1 Limited Edition Design by Invasion® Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising desktop PC equipped with Intel®Core™i7-960 processor

3rd to 12th :

• 1 Intel®Core™i7-860 processor

MISSION REQUIREMENTS

http://www.intelofpdrcontest.com/en/

Here are the latest updates on the game development itself:

Patch’s:

A lot of you have asked about a patch for the game and I can confirm that we do have one currently in development.

I can’t give out any details regarding a fix list or a release date at the moment, but please keep on adding your feedback to the console bugs/game issues thread, as I am passing these on to the dev team.

As soon as I have more info confirmed to me, I will make sure I inform the forum asap.

Discussion

Server issues:

I’ve noticed a few threads created by people having problems connecting/finding games online.

Just wanted to quickly reassure you that I’ll make sure to do some investigating tomorrow when I am back in the office and provide you all with update regarding the situation.

Apologies to anyone who’s experienced problems.

Discussion

Besides from the very odd tuvan throat singing in the game here is what olly has to say regarding the songs in the game + song downloads.

Many thanks to Olly and the sound team guys for putting together this brilliant music pack! Thanks again to Olly for writing the below as well .

Tuvan throat singing? There were definitely a few raised eyebrows when it was first suggested that we wanted this style of music to grace our game, after all it’s not your typical war game music. Then again OFP DR is not your typical war game so we felt we wanted our choice of music to really stand out.

During development we all lived with this piece of music in the menu to see how it sat, Immediately it struck a chord, it’s full of sorrow and is not a gung ho orchestral motivational piece, it really gave the game an ominous feeling and combined with the random radio chatter (well done to those that spotted it) kept you wanting to hear more.

Eventually we needed to get some proper music in before we started showing the game to the press and the public, we had worked with Christian Marcussen before and knew he had the talent to deliver, Christian composed a piece of music that invoked all the same feelings of Fly Fly My Sadness and also combined that with a more western feel to give OFP DR a truly unique sound.

On many occasions we took this game to universities and had students, professionals and even forum members visit Codemasters, everyone wanted to sit and listen to the whole piece to the end and was very taken back by such “different” music, it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea but at least we hope that for some people it’s given them those same feelings we had when we first heard it.

Also we have put together for you a pack of music loops from all of our trailers, we’d love to hear them being used on films you make and posted on youtube! Thanks to Mark Willot for taking the time to make these available in such a useful format.

Enjoy.

Download Music Pack as MP3

Download Music Pack as WMV

Below is the list of the latest reviews of the game: Operation flashpoint: Dragons rising.

Zoo Magazine (UK) – 5/5
IncGamers – 9.4/10
CHIEF Magazine (NL) – 93%
Games.ch (Germany) – 93%
PC Zone UK – 90% and Classic Award
Power Unlimited (NL) – 90%
Gaming Heaven – 90% and Silver Award
hrej.ch (Czech) – 9/10
Gamesradar – 9/10
Hardgame2.com (Spain) – 9/10
Electronic Theatre – 89/100
Gamersnet.nl - 88/100
PC Gamer Sweden – 87%
Play.tm – 85%
XGN (Dutch) – 8.5/10
Meristation (Spain) – 8.5/10
3D Juegos PC Review – 8.4/10
gram.pl – 5 out of 6
Pelit Magazine (Finland) – 83%
psonly.nl (Dutch) – 83%
Vandal.net (Spain) – 8.3/10
IGN UK – 8.1/10
Official Xbox Magazine – 8/10
Gameplayer (Swedish) – 8/10
Multiplayer.it (Italian) – 8/10
Now Gamer – 7.8/10
Gamestar (Germany) – 78%
PC Games (Germany) – 77%
Gamespot – 7.5/10
Official PS3 Magazine – 7/10
Eurogamer - 7/10
Videogamer.net – 7/10
BonusWeb.cz (Czech) – 6/10
Doupe.cz (Czech) – 5/10
Eurogame.cz (Czech) – 4/10

Video reviews
www.gamekings.tv (Dutch)

So, we are released! Our baby is on its own in the big wide world. It’s been quite a journey involving many, many man months of hard work. A few thanks are in order. First of all I have to thank one of the most talented and surely the hardest working team I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, I’d also like to thank all of the support teams at Codemasters for their help and expertise. Final thanks as well to you the community, for your unflinching support over the past couple of years.

The team have been eagerly reading the reviews and all your feedback on the forums and we’ve been very pleased with how the games been received, especially by console users. One of my main goals on this project was to introduce console gamers to this genre and get them excited about the possibilities of actually having to think about their actions in combat. I feel we have achieved this and I feel we are at the beginning of a very exciting journey for the Flashpoint series, We’re already prototyping new features and our Ego tech moves forwards in leaps and bounds – watch this space!

I know that our PC user base is clamouring for more features already, and we are not oblivious to your pleas! We have DLC, patches and title updates all due out (in weeks rather than months) and we are also collating all feedback regarding any issues discovered, so please keep on posting your bug reports in the tech help forum.

So to conclude, its been an epic journey for everyone on the team, trust me, you will never know how challenging this game was to develop. Blood, sweat and tears have flown regularly in the studio, now let champagne flow, we’re all going out to celebrate!!!

All the best, see you on the Battlefield

Sion

As above I do believe some apologising is needed as we havn’t made the time recently to update this website. But now that I (Tyro) have awoke from my flashpoint enduced coma I believe that I now have an obligation to start updating this site again.

So starting from today I will be updating to current + more based on release from codemasters themselves.