Incredible game. Nothing else is as immersive. I actually REMEMBER missions from 20 years ago because they were so intense Nothing else comes close. Graphics or not. Flashpoint did an amazing job pulling you in and making you feel like you were there - maybe because it’s more like a simulator than recent games feel like a superficial skin. This game had so much freedom - and you could literally go ANYWHERE.
@Greghouse I just discovered operation flashpoint dragon rising the other day and played for a few hours yesterday. Scariest thing so far is hearing "gunship, 500 meters east."
@Elate Backup It was one of the games that even with bad graphics, still made up for it ten fold with gameplay. Which is the exact opposite of today’s games.
This game never looked 4k in my memory. Blood did But holy hell, i play Arma 3, and this game is still better It's just something about the responsive shooting. Later Arma games the people... jerk around and ragdoll silly when they die. Here you see them fall Can't explain it, wish they would remake this game
My heart still hurts when I remember the day when I opened the game and there were no servers because gamespy arcade was shut down. One of my saddest childhood moments.
I made a big ass persistent Terminator campaign in the editor. I had an intro with theme music, nukes, dogs that spotted robots, intractable NPC with conversation trees you could squad up, and missions that either allowed the Terminators to grow in numbers and patrol zones, or cut them off. I loved OFP
@@olliesloane151 No, it was a mod, and I just built a mission around it. I made a persistent Band of Brothers one too. I had alot of random event triggers. You could even die at the very beginning if your C47 got hit on the way in and had to start over. I had 50 of em all drop sticks of 12 with rally points. When you reached the first attack, you had no idea how many squads would actually make it to the rally. I loved to make random treed iron man missions, but the average player would hate that shit.
@@olliesloane151 I only knew enough scripting to be able to read and change out the variables and targets in them. So I just jacked everyones scripts from everything and made missions for myself out of others mods.
I remember shitting my pants on one of the first missions where you have to run for your life in the woods to a LZ to be extracted. Amazing game that will always be remembered
I remember the fear when coming out of a forest i listened to an engine noise, laid down under a nearby bush, and suddenly 2 T-72 appeared coming toward me down the road, and suddenly one of them approaches me and starts moving all over the place near my bush, And there i was, cointaining my breath, while i was listening to the engine very close and that noise made by the tank threads "wikiii, wiiikiii, wiiikiiii", and after a couple of minutes it joined the other tank in the road and eventually left... I suffered from PTSD for a while.
If that's the mission I'm thinking of, I remember stealing the Hind-D and blowing up a good chunk of the Soviet opposition before I was shot down and parachuted into a nearby lake and just barely made it out before my character drowned. There was a search team heading my way and I could barely walk and had to crawl until I found a medical tent, and even after I managed to fix my wounds, I still had a couple miles left to go before reaching safe territory. Those was the most intense hour of my life.
I used to play it all the time, but the game is so broken and unclear sometimes it's infuriating, for example, very start of the game, run to the truck and back, but when you go to stand in line, it doesn't wanna trigger, so you eventually fail, or right after that on the obstacle course, it usually just doesn't wanna work at all. I can't think of a game with more broken AI either. And the controls feel weird no matter what you change them to. I played it again not long ago though, and I still love it.
It's old man. This was state of the art back in the day. It's probably got some corrupted files since being copied and digitised over the years, maybe?
@@hippocks146 It was always like this. I can't link it but there was/is a website where a bunch of people including the devs, were talking about the whole development of the game and what went right and wrong, why it's so broken, etc. Like I said, the game is still amazing but it's so broken and always was. I don't think you could ever get a glitchless playthrough.
Opflash was my first large scale tactical shooter. I'd played some of the Early Rainbow 6 and Ghost Recon. But man Opflash was amazing. Was playing a Coop scenario at a Lan party. We had to defend this small town from waves of Infantry and Tanks. Had like 10 minutes to prep. So i went and layed out Anti tank mines, claymores. C4 charges. Then got myself a sniper rifle and made it to a nice window with a view. Got a few hits before a armor column had made its way to the edge of town. I was 3 streetes in from the edge of the town. 1 of them set off a at mine that started a chain reaction of all the other mines, claymores, and c4 charges i had setup as a last line of defense. Ended up blowing up half the town along with me in it.
I remember placing a mixture of around 80 T55, T72 and T80s around a long stretch of road and then turning it to 0100 with visibility at almost 0 and storms on. Got in a Jeep with the lights off and invited my friend to join me, telling him I wanted to show him a base I made. So we drove for about five minutes and nothing was happening so I said out loud “I think I’ll turn my lights on” As soon as the word “on” left my mouth I turned them on and for a fraction of a second I saw we were surrounded by the tanks…and they all shot us at once. We got launched halfway across the map.. God I miss those days.
@@GodDragonLich Yeah we used to have Lan parties of Opflash and delta force, there was just something about them that modern games seem to be lacking. As bluedrake put it, complex but in a simple way. Opflash was where i got into playin around with vehicles , i remember playin the Apache pve scenario of blowin up a convoy. So simple but i enjoyed it so much. And that sparked my interest in flight sims. Like back in the early 2000's /late 90's there was WW2 online. Had all the vehicle workings similar to Opflash. Tank driving wasnt just the W key, it was by driving and breaking each tracks, It was a full open scale world of europe, no zoning or anything with tanks and planes and this was while most people were on dial up or if lucky cable / dsl. You had to spend lots of time driving to get up to the battlefront. But it gave better gravity to actual engagement, gave it importance.
i never managed to pass that mission, setting the "traps" at many different locations, but the mission was very intense. I always played it alone. I think it was called "lost squad".
When this game came out I didn't have a computer that could run it and I read everything I could about this game. Playthroughs, lan set-ups, etc. It's part of the need to watch, blue drake.
I am 55 and I've played some of Battlefield series, Call of duties and Armas. But this game has a special game engine or game logic that enchanted me. For example, if you save the game and reload it, the positions and conditions of you enemies are different from before of the saved game. This is not common in other games. I've kept CWC with most of its modes and maps in around 22 GB folder.
The game I can't get out of my head is NovaLogic's "Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising" (2004). 64-100 player servers, 6/2/1 hour games. Way ahead of its time.
and also its expansion "escalation". And lets not forget their previous title "Delta force. Black hawk down"/ and expansion "Team sabre". Amazing games too.
Also the fact that you could have rounds like that, or 50 players on an original xbox in Black Hawk Down, with ZERO lag. They had the holy grail of netcode sorcery.
Blue, you should try to organize some community play dates. With your viewership, you could easily bring some of these dead games back to life for a weekend at a time. You could do a video a week prior to tell us how to get any mods or patches that we'd need, and you could have some of the others in your community do a test run a few nights before the scheduled event to make sure everyone is running correctly and can connect. With a bit of organization, you could easily make this a successful thing. You could even have supporter events. If we knew that we'd have access to well supported and organized events in these games, many of us would very gladly throw you a few dollary-do's a month. I really wish you'd do this, it could be the start of something wonderful. If it picked up enough steam, you'd even get offers for sponsoring certain events, and getting access to more industry assets. Which for you would be great since you're trying to make the entire industry a better place. Do it Blue!
-"Five. 10 o'clock. Enemy. Man. 200 metres. Front.Engage at will" -"Got. That sucker". -"Five. Return to formation". -"say it again" -"Five. Return to formation" -"Where are you?..." (15 min later, 2 km away by walk) ..."where are you"...
This is the one that literally sunk it's teath into my kneck, sucked the soul right outta me, glad it did, it was well worth it! Dude, I truly feel like we and many others of us here are cut from the same cloth. Incredible! So happy you're sharing this stuff, reminiscing heavily here. Had loads of fun as a kid, playing as a tank commander or whatever. Just priceless! ❤️☮️
The memories! I remember having so much fun as a kid in the editor and just watching the ladas do multiple flips as I blew them up with my shilka. There was also a certain custom campaign mission which I tried again and again and never won. You would rush to like a stash point with some sandbags and stuff and then defend it from the approaching enemy. It was so cool seeing the enemy infantry try and flank through the woods and how much danger you felt in when the BMPs came plowing in and you eventually being the last man standing. Might have to actually install and play this game again seeing this and thinking about it.
I remember when I was 8, in 2001 and just from seeing the box art on the shelf I pressured my mum to buy it for my birthday. Played it all the way up until 2009. Loved this game so much.
Joint Operations: Combined Arms was one of my favorite old shooters back during the era of 1942 and BF2, such a great game too. Wish the Joint Operations series had continued!
I just love the control system in OFP - you don't have direct access to a movement, so you won't be able to do unrealistic moves with your character - it's just following a pointer as best as it can, and you can't do tricks. For me is a most realistic concept of a controll that a game can have - a separation between mouse, and actual movement.
I remember the excitement amongst a small group of us that all went to walmart and bought a copy of this when it came out. Even had to upgrade my PC to play it.
Still play it for the nostalgia from time to time, never played online just the gameplay. It was so hard untill I learned that you acctually could quick save.
Had the retail copy of this and had forgotten all about this wonderful game. I will be buying this just for the nostalgia. Thank you for reminding me that this existed. Nowadays it seems that graphics come before gameplay.
The best memories from this game actually are from the multiplayer side of it. It was amazing to play in a clan versus other clans with a group of friends with mods and custom maps. Back then when everyone played counter-strike 20 years ago they did not understand this game. But some of us did.
The best game of my childhood. I still get chills when I remember single player campaign mission when you get surrounded by Russians on Everon and you run for evac.
Operation Flashpoint the OG game? I loved playing that game in multiplayer with my dad in a clan. I KNEW it, just finished typing that the second you said it. Dad and I loved it so much because you could build your own maps and for the time it was above everything else out there. Eventually OP brought us Arma, DayZ Mod, and PUBG. You’re right saying this game was complex but not TOO much. Pretty sure I was in middle school when this came out and even I could figure it out back then. I mean I joined a clan of adults and played the game with them. So much fun back then with PC gaming.
Loved that game. I remember seeing it before in some game magazine. And when it came out 20y ago and I brought it from a shop, there was no CD inside the hull :D
Opflash was a ground breaking experience for me personally. Coming from m1 tank platoon and doom it introduced vast penetrable forests, the ability to mount and dismount vehicles, the ability to ambush and then loot the dead and aiming and breathing.
The most favourite nostalgic game for me, hand down. I saved for ages to get this as a kid, and my specs were far off from optimal, but I enjoyed years of this game.
Same for me, CTI is what kicked off my Arma series addiction! The 3 sided Mountain Warfare mission in Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead is my unmatched all time favorite mission, the shear chaos that happens in these dynamic missions is amazing, it's like Planetside 2 but with AI 👌
I used to play this game as a kid, really good experience, but I always got stuck on "Montignac Must Fall". To my delight, I recently revisited the game and beat it without a hitch. I finally redeemed myself.
Flashpoint is what got me into tactics, what got me into co-op. Before flashpoint, I'd played Soldier of Fortune, linear, guts and guns, Command & Conquer, Top down, basebuilding and war, and Quake, Fast paced FPS fragging... but Flashpoint, that's where I cut my teeth, that's where I grabbed my friends and we had real experiences... We'd boot up the PC after school, usually after 6pm when internet was cheaper, and we'd hear the "welcome to gamespy" before joining our favourite server, and we'd spend countless hours and lives, running through it together. Our team still lives on today, we were Roamers Recon, now just Roamers, We were first in last out, we'd tie in with the JFF clan, providing intel and positioning, And through Arma 2, Arma 3, Rust, Squad, Battlefield, COD, SCUM, Eve Online, Zomboid, there are a few of us who still tell the stories to the new guys of events that happened in Flashpoint. Good memories.
i remember getting this game when i was 8. always went to a video rental shop to pirate games with my dad and one day i picked this because i liked the screenshots on the back of the box. best random pick ever! played it every single day i could for more than 3 years straight!
The last time I played through this was 2010, back then the graphics weren't great but was still passable considering all the extra mods you could upgrade it with
Used to play this with my younger brother when we were little. We flew the AH-1 Cobra with, me the pilot and him the gunner. Playing with two potato PC's over LAN. Those were the days.
or that other mission where you appear in the middle of a J-shaped forest at dusk, and at the bottom there is a base where you need to infiltrate and destroy 3 tanks with charges. You can see occasional foot patrols, inside and outside the base. Suddenly a car with a commander arrives and enters the base (if the memory does not fail me). Any approach via the main door triggered a loud Cold war-style alarm and suddenly both the base units and the 3 tanks start switching their lights on and searching all over the place. You there, hidden under a bush listening to the enemies footsteps searching next to you, noticing their shadows, listening to the tanks tracking you through the forest... The only way i managed to destroy the tanks was killing the outer patrol using a supressed pistol, and entering the base via a small hole in one of the back walls. PTSD guaranteed.
We use this game paired with a laser rifle as a trainer in the army, at like 1:30 that village in the distance, I have on like a hundred occasions laid in a room with this SAW that has an air compressor hooked up to it for recoil and it points a laser at a huge projector while I just mindlessly shot at little arma characters through that town
Damn this brings back memories! The mission editor was amazing, and the mods... oooh the MODS! Can't remember my favorite OPF mod side, all I remember it was a very simple and green(ish) website. Anyways, this game looked much better in graphics-wise back in the day.
is the Operation Dragon Rising DLL still available to play online in 2023? I remember you worked with a mod person to created but cant find it. Thanks BLueDrake!
Even just infantry combat patrols, with a group of players who know the game. Seeing them top-down move in column slowly along a riverbed for low profile, advancing on a position, spreading out to line formation, weapons ready. Not just constant Call of Duty action, but also everything leading up to and after it. Vibes like the Generation Kill hummvee raid on the airfield. Battlefield before Battlefield. And by god yeah the mods and mission/script editor. MilSim Morrowind.
loved it back then.. as a kid i couldnt finish the first mission lol.. damn shot in the leg, u cant run , shot in the arm , bye bye 2h weapons.. damn son thats been pretty sick back then
Found it in my collection as ARMA: Cold War Assault "Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release."
I remember the AI being so advanced in Operation Flashpoint. Like the responsiveness of giving orders. and we're not just giving orders to 4 squad, we can give orders to more than 10 soldiers at a time & sometimes even 5 squad groups including tank and a helicopter. Which is pretty impressive to this day for an FPS game. New games barely got the AI right at times. Sometimes in newer games we only get to give orders to 3 squad or just one (games like Army of Two, & Spec Ops the line). But anyways, it is still a cool game, and it feels like a semi real time tactics mixed with First person.
I'm proud to say I was there playing this game on xbox, wasting hours in the editor making all kinds of funky missions. We have come a long way... and I feel old...
I grow up playing this game in my teeangers years i spend so much time doing the mission and the editor i was to addicted been able to create my own battle and own fantasy this game rocked!! And now it is called old grandpa of Arma 3 :D
I knew this video was coming the moment I saw you trying to get CTI running. OFP was such an amazing foundational game and it's still enjoyable to this day. Can we set up a Drakelings Community match??
Most scary shit ever.
"Shilka, 200 meters"
Last words before death: "10 o'clock T80, 100" 😀
Incredible game. Nothing else is as immersive. I actually REMEMBER missions from 20 years ago because they were so intense Nothing else comes close. Graphics or not. Flashpoint did an amazing job pulling you in and making you feel like you were there - maybe because it’s more like a simulator than recent games feel like a superficial skin. This game had so much freedom - and you could literally go ANYWHERE.
@Greghouse I just discovered operation flashpoint dragon rising the other day and played for a few hours yesterday. Scariest thing so far is hearing "gunship, 500 meters east."
These games always look 4k in our memories
@Elate Backup It was one of the games that even with bad graphics, still made up for it ten fold with gameplay. Which is the exact opposite of today’s games.
@@GodDragonLich seriously, I’ll take a game with 2012 graphics it the gameplay were super awesome and a great experience.
enemy shilka 5 o clock
oh no 3 is down this is 2 taking command
sentences you can hear
This game never looked 4k in my memory. Blood did
But holy hell, i play Arma 3, and this game is still better
It's just something about the responsive shooting. Later Arma games the people... jerk around and ragdoll silly when they die. Here you see them fall
Can't explain it, wish they would remake this game
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My heart still hurts when I remember the day when I opened the game and there were no servers because gamespy arcade was shut down. One of my saddest childhood moments.
there is an unofficial multiplayer fix
but i dont find people playing there
@@kast7n336 Yeah ik about that but as you said its dead tho, thanks for the info anyway!
Same but with fsx
@@mikiii5418 who has decided it’s dead we can populate
I literally cried when GameSpy was shut down
This game had a kick ass warhamer 40k mod. I spent so much time making battles in the editor with it.
Yea I really loved dropping in the middle of battle as a space marine using the drop pods
I made a big ass persistent Terminator campaign in the editor.
I had an intro with theme music, nukes, dogs that spotted robots, intractable NPC with conversation trees you could squad up, and missions that either allowed the Terminators to grow in numbers and patrol zones, or cut them off.
I loved OFP
@@Jerimiah10 that sounds kick ass. Did you release it as a mod?
@@olliesloane151 No, it was a mod, and I just built a mission around it.
I made a persistent Band of Brothers one too. I had alot of random event triggers. You could even die at the very beginning if your C47 got hit on the way in and had to start over. I had 50 of em all drop sticks of 12 with rally points.
When you reached the first attack, you had no idea how many squads would actually make it to the rally.
I loved to make random treed iron man missions, but the average player would hate that shit.
@@olliesloane151 I only knew enough scripting to be able to read and change out the variables and targets in them. So I just jacked everyones scripts from everything and made missions for myself out of others mods.
When I was younger, I taught myself to fly the hind. This game has that special spot for me as my 1st real "I'm gonna learn this"
The game of my life. Sometimes the image of mission "after montignac" appears in my nightmares.
you just unlocked some memories i didn't know i had.....
I remember shitting my pants on one of the first missions where you have to run for your life in the woods to a LZ to be extracted. Amazing game that will always be remembered
I remember the fear when coming out of a forest i listened to an engine noise, laid down under a nearby bush, and suddenly 2 T-72 appeared coming toward me down the road, and suddenly one of them approaches me and starts moving all over the place near my bush, And there i was, cointaining my breath, while i was listening to the engine very close and that noise made by the tank threads "wikiii, wiiikiii, wiiikiiii", and after a couple of minutes it joined the other tank in the road and eventually left...
I suffered from PTSD for a while.
If that's the mission I'm thinking of, I remember stealing the Hind-D and blowing up a good chunk of the Soviet opposition before I was shot down and parachuted into a nearby lake and just barely made it out before my character drowned. There was a search team heading my way and I could barely walk and had to crawl until I found a medical tent, and even after I managed to fix my wounds, I still had a couple miles left to go before reaching safe territory. Those was the most intense hour of my life.
My favourite PC game. Playing it again after 22 years and is even better.
I used to play it all the time, but the game is so broken and unclear sometimes it's infuriating, for example, very start of the game, run to the truck and back, but when you go to stand in line, it doesn't wanna trigger, so you eventually fail, or right after that on the obstacle course, it usually just doesn't wanna work at all. I can't think of a game with more broken AI either. And the controls feel weird no matter what you change them to. I played it again not long ago though, and I still love it.
It's old man. This was state of the art back in the day. It's probably got some corrupted files since being copied and digitised over the years, maybe?
20 years old
@@hippocks146 It was always like this. I can't link it but there was/is a website where a bunch of people including the devs, were talking about the whole development of the game and what went right and wrong, why it's so broken, etc. Like I said, the game is still amazing but it's so broken and always was. I don't think you could ever get a glitchless playthrough.
@@paladro What I said above to a other person.
Simple newest version without the campaign adopted for it
Opflash was my first large scale tactical shooter. I'd played some of the Early Rainbow 6 and Ghost Recon. But man Opflash was amazing. Was playing a Coop scenario at a Lan party. We had to defend this small town from waves of Infantry and Tanks. Had like 10 minutes to prep. So i went and layed out Anti tank mines, claymores. C4 charges. Then got myself a sniper rifle and made it to a nice window with a view. Got a few hits before a armor column had made its way to the edge of town. I was 3 streetes in from the edge of the town. 1 of them set off a at mine that started a chain reaction of all the other mines, claymores, and c4 charges i had setup as a last line of defense. Ended up blowing up half the town along with me in it.
I remember placing a mixture of around 80 T55, T72 and T80s around a long stretch of road and then turning it to 0100 with visibility at almost 0 and storms on. Got in a Jeep with the lights off and invited my friend to join me, telling him I wanted to show him a base I made. So we drove for about five minutes and nothing was happening so I said out loud “I think I’ll turn my lights on” As soon as the word “on” left my mouth I turned them on and for a fraction of a second I saw we were surrounded by the tanks…and they all shot us at once. We got launched halfway across the map.. God I miss those days.
@@GodDragonLich Yeah we used to have Lan parties of Opflash and delta force, there was just something about them that modern games seem to be lacking. As bluedrake put it, complex but in a simple way. Opflash was where i got into playin around with vehicles , i remember playin the Apache pve scenario of blowin up a convoy. So simple but i enjoyed it so much. And that sparked my interest in flight sims. Like back in the early 2000's /late 90's there was WW2 online. Had all the vehicle workings similar to Opflash. Tank driving wasnt just the W key, it was by driving and breaking each tracks, It was a full open scale world of europe, no zoning or anything with tanks and planes and this was while most people were on dial up or if lucky cable / dsl. You had to spend lots of time driving to get up to the battlefront. But it gave better gravity to actual engagement, gave it importance.
i never managed to pass that mission, setting the "traps" at many different locations, but the mission was very intense. I always played it alone. I think it was called "lost squad".
When this game came out I didn't have a computer that could run it and I read everything I could about this game. Playthroughs, lan set-ups, etc. It's part of the need to watch, blue drake.
I am 55 and I've played some of Battlefield series, Call of duties and Armas. But this game has a special game engine or game logic that enchanted me. For example, if you save the game and reload it, the positions and conditions of you enemies are different from before of the saved game. This is not common in other games. I've kept CWC with most of its modes and maps in around 22 GB folder.
The game I can't get out of my head is NovaLogic's "Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising" (2004). 64-100 player servers, 6/2/1 hour games. Way ahead of its time.
and also its expansion "escalation". And lets not forget their previous title "Delta force. Black hawk down"/ and expansion "Team sabre". Amazing games too.
Also the fact that you could have rounds like that, or 50 players on an original xbox in Black Hawk Down, with ZERO lag. They had the holy grail of netcode sorcery.
Loved playing this game, and how you could just load a vehicle in a chopper and drive out of it mid flight
Playing co-op with 64 players was awesome
also probably the only game that features Indonesian Kopassus as a playable faction.
THQ Nordic owns the rights to joint ops nowadays, consider writing to them asking for a remaster.
Blue, you should try to organize some community play dates. With your viewership, you could easily bring some of these dead games back to life for a weekend at a time. You could do a video a week prior to tell us how to get any mods or patches that we'd need, and you could have some of the others in your community do a test run a few nights before the scheduled event to make sure everyone is running correctly and can connect. With a bit of organization, you could easily make this a successful thing. You could even have supporter events. If we knew that we'd have access to well supported and organized events in these games, many of us would very gladly throw you a few dollary-do's a month. I really wish you'd do this, it could be the start of something wonderful. If it picked up enough steam, you'd even get offers for sponsoring certain events, and getting access to more industry assets. Which for you would be great since you're trying to make the entire industry a better place. Do it Blue!
so true i am trying to bring it back too
God I wish Arma 3 had a good single player capture the island mode. Warlords doesn't cut it
Yeah, I remember playing CTI for OFP, and Arma 1. Good times.
Liberation
The Old man I would say is like capture the island and there is always that resistance mod
SOG Prairie fire has an excellent mode called Mike Force
The campaign is the most dynamic and immersive one they've ever done still, which is a shame. But if you've never experienced it, do it.
*ahem*
"MAN 200 METERS, FRONT"
*thank you for comming to my Ted talk*
operation flashpoint boys never said "front"
-"Five. 10 o'clock. Enemy. Man. 200 metres. Front.Engage at will"
-"Got. That sucker".
-"Five. Return to formation".
-"say it again"
-"Five. Return to formation"
-"Where are you?..."
(15 min later, 2 km away by walk)
..."where are you"...
12 o'clock, enemy man, 200
i've got him
damn 5 is down
8 rearm at 9 o'clock
This is the one that literally sunk it's teath into my kneck, sucked the soul right outta me, glad it did, it was well worth it!
Dude, I truly feel like we and many others of us here are cut from the same cloth.
Incredible! So happy you're sharing this stuff, reminiscing heavily here. Had loads of fun as a kid, playing as a tank commander or whatever. Just priceless! ❤️☮️
You are my brother . And my heart ❤️ . I love this game . Since 3 year no one talked about my emotions .but you did.
The memories! I remember having so much fun as a kid in the editor and just watching the ladas do multiple flips as I blew them up with my shilka. There was also a certain custom campaign mission which I tried again and again and never won. You would rush to like a stash point with some sandbags and stuff and then defend it from the approaching enemy. It was so cool seeing the enemy infantry try and flank through the woods and how much danger you felt in when the BMPs came plowing in and you eventually being the last man standing. Might have to actually install and play this game again seeing this and thinking about it.
As a kid i loved driving around from village to village using the road signs.
I remember feeling like my heart stopped when I heard the sound of the BMP advancing towards me
I remember when I was 8, in 2001 and just from seeing the box art on the shelf I pressured my mum to buy it for my birthday. Played it all the way up until 2009. Loved this game so much.
This was so big when it came out. I still remember the ingame music and all the details. And destroying everything with Shilka 😄
Joint Operations: Combined Arms was one of my favorite old shooters back during the era of 1942 and BF2, such a great game too. Wish the Joint Operations series had continued!
Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 overshadowed Joint Operations - it was basically the same thing.
I just love the control system in OFP - you don't have direct access to a movement, so you won't be able to do unrealistic moves with your character - it's just following a pointer as best as it can, and you can't do tricks. For me is a most realistic concept of a controll that a game can have - a separation between mouse, and actual movement.
I remember the excitement amongst a small group of us that all went to walmart and bought a copy of this when it came out. Even had to upgrade my PC to play it.
Still play it for the nostalgia from time to time, never played online just the gameplay. It was so hard untill I learned that you acctually could quick save.
"We don't know we create memory, At that time we were just having fun"
Remember playing this back in 2004 on Gamespy. Good old days. Was quite groundbreaking for its time; the map editor, the vehicles, the squad gameplay.
Had the retail copy of this and had forgotten all about this wonderful game. I will be buying this just for the nostalgia. Thank you for reminding me that this existed. Nowadays it seems that graphics come before gameplay.
I still have mine but no system to play it on. And I agree completely, it’s all about being flashy.
Is there single player or is it all multiplayer.
@@tnctbone there's three campaigns with multiple outcomes during the mission, many standalone missions, and a mission editor to make your own missions
please make this a series, I loved this game too.
Loved this game and played it for years. A game that no borders on the map and lots of custom game creating.
Omg this is my child hood game been playing this game a lot since I was a child in mid-late 2000's
The best memories from this game actually are from the multiplayer side of it. It was amazing to play in a clan versus other clans with a group of friends with mods and custom maps. Back then when everyone played counter-strike 20 years ago they did not understand this game. But some of us did.
A very nice tribute/memory of one of the best games from our developers. I also still play it from time to time... ❤️
Thanks for this video. Had so much fun with game back in 2001.
The best game of my childhood. I still get chills when I remember single player campaign mission when you get surrounded by Russians on Everon and you run for evac.
Operation Flashpoint the OG game? I loved playing that game in multiplayer with my dad in a clan. I KNEW it, just finished typing that the second you said it.
Dad and I loved it so much because you could build your own maps and for the time it was above everything else out there.
Eventually OP brought us Arma, DayZ Mod, and PUBG.
You’re right saying this game was complex but not TOO much. Pretty sure I was in middle school when this came out and even I could figure it out back then. I mean I joined a clan of adults and played the game with them. So much fun back then with PC gaming.
Loved that game. I remember seeing it before in some game magazine. And when it came out 20y ago and I brought it from a shop, there was no CD inside the hull :D
I have the same experience but for Arma but I totally understand what you love in this game.
My most traumatic game ever, I played it at 10 years old that day...
If only I was born when this was released... xD
Opflash was a ground breaking experience for me personally. Coming from m1 tank platoon and doom it introduced vast penetrable forests, the ability to mount and dismount vehicles, the ability to ambush and then loot the dead and aiming and breathing.
This game was so awesome. Especially the border patrol custom games lmao.
Bluedrake casually taking out red cross marked vehicles
The most favourite nostalgic game for me, hand down. I saved for ages to get this as a kid, and my specs were far off from optimal, but I enjoyed years of this game.
Now this is classic Bluedrake. Old games that are better than the modern releases.
Same for me, CTI is what kicked off my Arma series addiction!
The 3 sided Mountain Warfare mission in Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead is my unmatched all time favorite mission, the shear chaos that happens in these dynamic missions is amazing, it's like Planetside 2 but with AI 👌
I used to play this game as a kid, really good experience, but I always got stuck on "Montignac Must Fall". To my delight, I recently revisited the game and beat it without a hitch. I finally redeemed myself.
Flashpoint is what got me into tactics, what got me into co-op.
Before flashpoint, I'd played Soldier of Fortune, linear, guts and guns, Command & Conquer, Top down, basebuilding and war, and Quake, Fast paced FPS fragging... but Flashpoint, that's where I cut my teeth, that's where I grabbed my friends and we had real experiences...
We'd boot up the PC after school, usually after 6pm when internet was cheaper, and we'd hear the "welcome to gamespy" before joining our favourite server, and we'd spend countless hours and lives, running through it together.
Our team still lives on today, we were Roamers Recon, now just Roamers, We were first in last out, we'd tie in with the JFF clan, providing intel and positioning, And through Arma 2, Arma 3, Rust, Squad, Battlefield, COD, SCUM, Eve Online, Zomboid, there are a few of us who still tell the stories to the new guys of events that happened in Flashpoint.
Good memories.
I've played this game soooo much when a child. I didn't even speak english back in that time, but It was a pretty fun sandbox
You know tehre is perfect recreation of it for ARMA 3
I also miss the game a lot, I was part of a clan, it was a very good time.
Remember the race map in operation flashpoint. We did it at a lan and it was a surprising hit.
i remember getting this game when i was 8. always went to a video rental shop to pirate games with my dad and one day i picked this because i liked the screenshots on the back of the box. best random pick ever! played it every single day i could for more than 3 years straight!
@bluedrake42 I wonder if you can make this game 4gb aware, force it to use more system ram for better performance, like you can with fallout 3?
ahhhhh Operation flashpoint ... I also remember me just driving around in tanks shooting houses and other random stuff xD
The last time I played through this was 2010, back then the graphics weren't great but was still passable considering all the extra mods you could upgrade it with
ah yes , the prequel of arma
"where did it go ???, OH WAIT THATS A T80 THATS A T80!" best
Some games are unforgettable. I still play Hostile Waters, CoD, Delta Force Black Hawk Down...
Used to play this with my younger brother when we were little. We flew the AH-1 Cobra with, me the pilot and him the gunner. Playing with two potato PC's over LAN. Those were the days.
This game represents more child hood memories than Real life Events.
My favorite thing about this game is the sentence mix with voicelines
From this video's thumbnail, I thought Bluerake was going to introduce an Unreal Tournament 99 mod called Infiltration. I hope he does one day soon :)
Still got PTSD from the night escape mission. It was so ahead many games now are not even close.
or that other mission where you appear in the middle of a J-shaped forest at dusk, and at the bottom there is a base where you need to infiltrate and destroy 3 tanks with charges. You can see occasional foot patrols, inside and outside the base. Suddenly a car with a commander arrives and enters the base (if the memory does not fail me). Any approach via the main door triggered a loud Cold war-style alarm and suddenly both the base units and the 3 tanks start switching their lights on and searching all over the place. You there, hidden under a bush listening to the enemies footsteps searching next to you, noticing their shadows, listening to the tanks tracking you through the forest...
The only way i managed to destroy the tanks was killing the outer patrol using a supressed pistol, and entering the base via a small hole in one of the back walls.
PTSD guaranteed.
Oh yesssssss one of my favorite games ever. I grew up playing this game and yeah there is something special about this game...
Someone on steam actually completely remade the Cold War Crisis campaign in Arma 3, it is called Cold War Rearmed III, you should check it out.
I remember making my own maps to play on my dell pc my parents bought when i was 12
THE MISSION EDITOR
Don't forget the memorable campaigns.
Childhood right there LAN parties COOP..so good. Special memories...
How many nights awake back in the day!
Still playing it, LOVD IT, For real we need to have COLD WAR CRISIS on modern engines
We use this game paired with a laser rifle as a trainer in the army, at like 1:30 that village in the distance, I have on like a hundred occasions laid in a room with this SAW that has an air compressor hooked up to it for recoil and it points a laser at a huge projector while I just mindlessly shot at little arma characters through that town
The sound of mission completed god
Now I know where the DCS textures came from
This was among of top 10 games that changed gaming in PC especially for me
I remember playing this game when I was 10.didn't know what to do at all,lol
Damn this brings back memories! The mission editor was amazing, and the mods... oooh the MODS! Can't remember my favorite OPF mod side, all I remember it was a very simple and green(ish) website. Anyways, this game looked much better in graphics-wise back in the day.
I loved this game.
Spend most of my youth with it.
is the Operation Dragon Rising DLL still available to play online in 2023? I remember you worked with a mod person to created but cant find it. Thanks BLueDrake!
The granddaddy of arma, I never knew
I wonder if you can implement this R.T.S system in O.H.D ? so i can have this COMMAND AND CONQUER nostalgia back
Even just infantry combat patrols, with a group of players who know the game. Seeing them top-down move in column slowly along a riverbed for low profile, advancing on a position, spreading out to line formation, weapons ready. Not just constant Call of Duty action, but also everything leading up to and after it. Vibes like the Generation Kill hummvee raid on the airfield. Battlefield before Battlefield. And by god yeah the mods and mission/script editor. MilSim Morrowind.
Memories ah I love this game so much it’s aged horribly but nothing compares
loved it back then.. as a kid i couldnt finish the first mission lol.. damn shot in the leg, u cant run , shot in the arm , bye bye 2h weapons.. damn son thats been pretty sick back then
Found it in my collection as ARMA: Cold War Assault
"Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release."
I played the hell out of this. Friends would watch me play saying they look they are watching a movie lol
Does this game come with CTI or do you have to download a mod? Thank you for the video!
This game was my life back in the 2000's right until ArmA 2 came out.
I remember the AI being so advanced in Operation Flashpoint. Like the responsiveness of giving orders. and we're not just giving orders to 4 squad, we can give orders to more than 10 soldiers at a time & sometimes even 5 squad groups including tank and a helicopter. Which is pretty impressive to this day for an FPS game.
New games barely got the AI right at times. Sometimes in newer games we only get to give orders to 3 squad or just one (games like Army of Two, & Spec Ops the line). But anyways, it is still a cool game, and it feels like a semi real time tactics mixed with First person.
I'm proud to say I was there playing this game on xbox, wasting hours in the editor making all kinds of funky missions. We have come a long way... and I feel old...
Very cool, thanks for sharing!!!
Same for me and swat 4,even tho ready or not is playable and zero hour is here, i still go back to swat
I played this game as a kid, i always died but I still had fun. If I remember well there was a mission creator that was pretty good
I grow up playing this game in my teeangers years i spend so much time doing the mission and the editor i was to addicted been able to create my own battle and own fantasy this game rocked!! And now it is called old grandpa of Arma 3 :D
I knew this video was coming the moment I saw you trying to get CTI running. OFP was such an amazing foundational game and it's still enjoyable to this day.
Can we set up a Drakelings Community match??
Have you heard of Söldner Secret Wars? It kind of reminds me of Arma.