Flashpoint dragon rising Vs ARMA II. Are these good and which is better?

[Arclight]

Think I picked up DR for €5,- on Steam; still feels like wasted money.

Started it up, saw the animations of simply moving, fell on the floor rolling around laughing for 5 minutes, quit and never looked back.


Get ArmA too while you're at it.

Have our own server for the guys on SubSim. Open to public, but only good guys dropping by.

[Savage]

Also look into getting ACE2 for Arma 2. Looking forward to Op. Arrowhead

[Dowly]

Depends. Well, not in case of OFP 2, it sucked. But if you have played OFP1, dont expect much new from A2 (but expect a very good PC to run it, which is unforgivable, A2 was supposed to run much better than A1). You can get A1+A2 pack for 50€ or so, I'd advice to get that, stick to A1+ACE1 until A2 is ironed out and optimised properly.

PS. Both A1 & A2 are like SH, they give a half arsed game for modders to fix and better. If you want singleplayer exprience, both A1 & A2 fail at it miserably.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Think I picked up DR for €5,- on Steam; still feels like wasted money.

Started it up, saw the animations of simply moving, fell on the floor rolling around laughing for 5 minutes, quit and never looked back.


Get ArmA too while you're at it.

Have our own server for the guys on SubSim. Open to public, but only good guys dropping by.

Well I've been playing DR in the weekend and though it's arcadish I enjoyed whacking human players. Great fun I must say. What a stress reliever.

Originally Posted by Dowly

Depends. Well, not in case of OFP 2, it sucked. But if you have played OFP1, dont expect much new from A2 (but expect a very good PC to run it, which is unforgivable, A2 was supposed to run much better than A1). You can get A1+A2 pack for 50€ or so, I'd advice to get that, stick to A1+ACE1 until A2 is ironed out and optimised properly.

PS. Both A1 & A2 are like SH, they give a half arsed game for modders to fix and better. If you want singleplayer exprience, both A1 & A2 fail at it miserably.

Umm the combined pack isn't available here. Arma 2 is sold at 55 bucks here while DR is at 50.

I just got notified that my board game local pre-order is ready for pick up or delivery. It's twilight struggle deluxe. If it's as good as people say I may postpone buying Arma 2 for need of ruling da world. . .or maybe not

I promised myself this to be my last board game because most are sitting on the shelf except during big holidays. If only more people played board games more often...especially in the weekend.

[Arclight]

Alright, I gave it a second chance, but are you ****ing kidding me?

Graphics are a joke at their highest, especially LOD distances, and the viewport is a joke. But let's leave the graphics aside.

I'm firing over 200-300 meters with a marksman rifle, and I don't hit squat. That on it's own just ruins the whole thing.

Though to be honest, I'm judging it from an OFP view-point; like it actually is something that deserves the OFP name. Another problem is I know a few things about weapons, enough to know that a marksman rifle that can't even reach out to 300m effectively is an instant fail as far as realism goes.

Sorry, but I don't like arcade shooters. As hard as it tries to provide depth to gameplay, it ultimately fails to deliver a believable experience. It's trying to be a PC game on a console, and that's something that just doesn't work.

* oops, sorry, forgot to bitch about the constant running: no toggle between run or walk? Really?

[Jack Davidson]

ArmA 2 is a particular favourite of mine and I'm looking forward to Operation Arrowhead. The ArmA modding community is great....lots of additional content, equipment, maps, islands, campaigns, as well as some very active groups for MP.

I tried the demo for Dragon Rising and couldn't get beyond 5 minutes into it...just didn't do it for me at all...

[Castout]

My ARMA 2 copy should arrive tomorrow .

Though I'll probably get Arrowhead too when it comes out if I like ARMA 2 but the thing is US forces have been made into game far too much. I'd like to see more of European armies(German, French, etc) and more middle eastern armies such as Israelis, Iranian, Hezbollah, Syrian, etc.

Games involving US army or US marine have been made too many times already. It's a good thing there's the Russians in ARMA 2.

Originally Posted by Arclight

Alright, I gave it a second chance, but are you ****ing kidding me?

Graphics are a joke at their highest, especially LOD distances, and the viewport is a joke. But let's leave the graphics aside.

I'm firing over 200-300 meters with a marksman rifle, and I don't hit squat. That on it's own just ruins the whole thing.

Though to be honest, I'm judging it from an OFP view-point; like it actually is something that deserves the OFP name. Another problem is I know a few things about weapons, enough to know that a marksman rifle that can't even reach out to 300m effectively is an instant fail as far as realism goes.

Sorry, but I don't like arcade shooters. As hard as it tries to provide depth to gameplay, it ultimately fails to deliver a believable experience. It's trying to be a PC game on a console, and that's something that just doesn't work.

* oops, sorry, forgot to bitch about the constant running: no toggle between run or walk? Really?

Umm I get good kills in 600 m ranges with the Sniper rifle in OFP: DR!
I've been promoted to Corporal and now ranked at 8500 something from the 20,000 something when I first started.
With rifleman rifle equipped with marksman optics I usually set for one shot rate of fire and aim for the enemy head from the distance. Felt great when they go down.

I enjoy the MP a lot and now trying to infect a friend too.

My most memorable moments in OFP DR is in a particular annihilation session where two teams fight each other to death, me as a Sniper managed to have some long distance kills without ever being noticed or fired upon. In fact in that session I was never killed. In the end I ran out of my Sniper rifle ammo and decided to make myself a sort of ninja. So I switched to my medium range mini sub machine gun and started to create havoc in the town in the middle of the map. The enemy team started to panic as I tallied some kills and began firing at the wrong direction altogether trying to suppress me I believe while I was somewhere else and had them on my sight within a mere 5-7 meters when the game ended.. We lost but that was FUN .