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Missions Depot => Mission Discussion => Topic started by: Wadmann on 01 Aug 2003, 22:18:55
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This is not an idea for a specific mission but a request for more missions on some of the better islands out there.
I just downloaded Sarugao last night and after a quick recon with a littlebird I was impressed with the layout of the island. Today I was looking for some missions to play on this great island and found only a few! What a shame that more of the quality mission makers (which excludes me ;)) are not using some of the great islands that are currently available. Some of my personnel favorites are Trinity, Kinmen and now Sarugao. The terrain of these islands can lend itself to multiple combat scenarios yet few missions exist. I am tempted to cut and paste some of the better missions out there onto some of the above mentioned islands and tweak them enough to make them playable in order to enjoy these fine maps. I hope to see more missions on these islands in the near future.
If mission makers take my request to heart and start pumping out missions on these islands, they may be hard to find them based on the current format of many sites. When looking for missions, not enough sites allow you to search and only a couple that I have seen will allow you to search by island name (OFPEC not being one of them). In order for missions on other islands to be more popular, I feel that the site operators would need to make it easier for players to find missions based on island names,not just most recent, most popular or by mission name.
Enough of my request, it is time for the community to take these words to heart and check into the other islands out there and start making mission for them or I will just have to make my own (half a**ed) missions and try to enjoy them as much as possible. ;D
Wadmann
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Yes, I have also noticed this. I downloaded an island a long time ago, (Marshalls) and thought it was great, but I couldn't find one mission for it. The reason, or so I think, is that people don't want to have to download a lot of addons to play a mission, even more so for the 56ker's like me.
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yeah i lke marshals too, well uild, im trying to make a mission on it, which unfortunately does involve some addons, mainly big robot killing machines, sorry gotta love those mechs :D
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How do we remedy this problem?
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remedy what problem
lack of missions, make some lol
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Good point, maybe ask some skilled mission maker to consider making their next mission on a good, user made island.
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my friend downloaded saragau and made some missions for it mostly Battlefield and RTS....even a nam rts it isnt bad unless you sapwn too far from at least 1 point....then they can cap everything and you time out
id like to see some wake island or meekong missions
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Yeah, there's really just a shortage of missions in general kinda...
I love Sarugao to! Here's a couple missions I know of that use this wonderful Island:
Chemical Warfare:
http://www.ofpec.com/missions_depot/index.php?ID=711
Lebrija Landing:
http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=23;action=display;threadid=4989;start=30
Look at reply #37 ;)
I know Wolf made a couple of them on Sarugao also, but I looked on his site and couldn't see them there.. You could ask him about them I'm sure, they were great fun! (assault missions)
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That's all I can really think of... :-\
Asmo
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If it's a U.S. island I'd be glad to do something involving a stolen space shuttle or something. Like that one island that is real that came out that is a real U.S. island. I also like Chechen Lahta. I plan on doing mission for both and am currently involved in Chechen Lahta. It's just so neat.
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hmm a stolen space shuttle that would be interesting but how do they steal it?
that thing is huge
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Spies on the shuttle to redirect the landing, misleading re-entry coordinates or something like that and then meet up with that thing in the sky with some fighter jets and escort it down.
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Sarugao is indeed an amazing island - i particularly love the base in the middle of the forest - makes for some great spec ops missions...
as soon as i'm done with my current mission.... i'll consider the island.
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I'd like to go and do the bosnian serb vs. croat conflict where the bosnian serbs slaughtered the innocent croats. Human rights violation.
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one thing with the islands is there aren't "inhabitants" to fight...other words enemy forces...it gets kinda old laying the smackdown on russians all the time but their the only opfor that is DONE..other units like the taliban addon and MAL are decent but are still beta or not full armys(MAL is just soldier models, no tanks, apc's, etc) I'd love to make more missions but I'm sick of US vs Soviets or Resistance missions
P.S. there are really good NVA/VC units out with the nampack 2 but ia drang has been all but been used to death too
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The North Korea addon is a full on army. You can find it at johnny lump's militaria. I'd like to explore human rights violations even more on chechnia in relation to the chechen vs. russia war going on now. The Russians claim they are hunting terrorists so they're attacking entire villages with missiles n junk to weed the terrorists out. We clearly do things a little differently here in America. They got refugees n junk that aren't allowed to leave and their homes are being blasted with missiles to find terrorists. There's nowhere for them to go so they want to leave the country but aren't allowed. Some of them are being refused to get into the safety of a refugee camp. For some of them death is the only option. Some have already died. Rebel groups are getting help from terrorists to back off the Russians but thats a bad move. Rebel groups don't like the terrorists, just dont' like the Russians even more for bombing their friggin villages just to find single people. It's a hard time for the people of Chechnia. Human rights violation all over man. It's a slaughter. U.S. I don't think is involved right now but I'd like to explore if we were in a "what i would do" sort of way.
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We clearly do things a little differently here in America.
yeah you fire off the faulty missles and let them take out the civies by accident lol joking of course, then again im a brit......and well, we prefer not to use long range missles most of the time, only when absoloutley nessesary.
anyway, im goin 2 play on the latest panzerfaust island, hmm a place called goth-somethingorother, hehehe i like it :D
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*senses POLWAR reprisal*
keep it clean lads... don't want a nice interesting thread being locked by America vs The World flame wars ;)
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As I stated in my initial post, I have modified one mission (been busy getting ready for a honeymoon in Hawaii so forgive my pace ;)) but I am awaiting the original author's permission to re-release it. If he agrees, I will modify a few of his missions that I have enjoyed playing and are suitable for use on some of my favorite islands. If/when he agrees, I will need someone to host them in order to beta test. If they are good enough after testing, perhaps I/he will submit them here at OFPEC.
I am happy to see a good bit of traffic on this thread and the positive responses that it has received.
@Asmodeus - Thanks for the links! When time permits, I will check these out.
It appears that some of the replies kinda bleed over into another current thread about unofficial addons. I personally love having the ability to use different units, weapons, and features that are not BIS standards, but I think that even playing a well done mission with standard BIS units on a different island seems to make it a whole new mission!
Keep up the ideas and posts and if I am unable to reply in the next few days, it may be weeks until I get back to the forums but I will ASAP (not really sure how I am going to handle being away from OFP for a couple of weeks but I should be able find a few ways to occupy myself in a tropical paradise with my new bride ;D).
Wadmann