2001 V 2022 Arma Graphics Comparison

[@steve_i400]

I lived on Krk and never realised there was an ARMA map on it haha, very cool. Im gonna need to find my house ingame

[@GaiusCaligula234]

Nice surname btw

[@reddeimon475]

Otw to your irl house now

[@_Tengri]

Геральт, ты, как бы помягче сказать, пиздишь

[@simonf3919]

@@GaiusCaligula234 lmao

[@marko_turkalj00]

Love your Surname bro

[@mrCeal]

7:56 The water in the shade actually dries much slower than in the sun. That kinda blew my mind

[@imir_]

No comments ? Imma fix that

[@Kiwoeoe]

holy shit yeah daaaaaaaaamn

[@MrRichieHK]

Hello Phillip. Me, as young 31yo kid from Czech republic is also so nostalgic about OPF, extra bonus because it was Czech game, with Czech voices and Czech names of pubs etc. Superb music, super gameplay where you are the soldier, scale of battlefield, open world... im super happy that someone is also weird as me. I had flashpoint nonoriginal... after 20 years I still remember CD key. Now im thinking that my 1070 needs update.

[@BorderKeeper]

@@huleyn135 I feel like every house is my grandmas old home. It is scary how close it is to central European architecture from the birds chirping, through the forests and farm layouts, to how the villages are laid out. The interior is also eerily similar to a lot of places I visited. It's approaching dejavu territory in some places compared to Chernarus which just looks more Eastern European.

[@MrRichieHK]

bohemia = czech republic.. in this case at least. I loved czech voiceover - it felt so natural. Especially when i was 9 years old and my english was bad. Another point is, that it was made differently, so much people didnt like it because it was nonforgiving, one hit - dead. You got hit to legs, gl with crawling to the end. If i remember, no difficulty settings. Just "hi soldier, peace time is over". Gosh... and the music, it makes 70% of nostalgia in me 😀

[@AlienKidAnimations]

1070 is fine, it's even on the recommended

[@Hazardous-Sheep]

Arma reforger runs at about 60-70 FPS on my 1070 on high with full draw distance. Though maybe the bigger maps in arma 4 might need a better card but thats years away

[@beProsto]

@@huleyn135 are you.. suggesting Bohemia isn't Czech?

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

I remember getting lost in the map in OFP for 3 hours, yet somehow completing the mission anyway. Fun times

[@joloplayer8431]

the escape mission as the pilot, perhaps?

[@elbasado8292]

@@joloplayer8431 most likely, only thing you had was compass and that your base was somewhere in north.

[@Execue]

@@elbasado8292 you didnt had a compass in that mission. You only had a clock and the nightsky with stars. That was insane

[@SSchithFoo]

@@Execue You can steal the helicopter and wreck havoc or just fly north

[@Execue]

@@SSchithFoo ahhh yeah I remember. You needed to rush to the hind before getting killed

[@AlwarrenSidh]

I remember playing the Operation Flashpoint demo, and when my team leader said "take a right" I intentionally drove left and marvelled at the fact that I could just drive everywhere I wanted without hitting an invisible border, or someone yelling "get back to the battlefield".

[@yous2244]

My favourite Arma, definitely because of reminiscence and my fond memories of it, as Arma 2 and 3 are definitely better. So I was extremely ecstatic when I found out it was in the FlashPoint map.

[@kikk0r]

Wellll I believe the screen eventually did fade to black if you disobeyed the order and took a left at the intersection in Lolisse. Or you got court-martialed or something, lol. It wasn't totally unrestricted. I think it was in the demo version of 'Ambush' anyway and they didn't want you to explore the unfinished map of Malden. It was even more fun to zoom right past Bravo squad that was waiting up the road, disregard the 'hang a left and try to avoid the trees' remark, and just drive straight into Houdan, with the officer yelling at you to stop, 'the enemy is over that hill!!1!' or something. I think the BMP always got you with one fatal Sabot round. You'd eventually bump into the waiting T-72s towards Dourdan anyway.

[@doltBmB]

There's probably a special ending for doing so as well. That campaign is special.

[@KBKriechbaum]

@@kikk0r good old times, but bmp 1 doesn't shoot sabot, but effectively rockets.

[@Shnap1337]

Dude, you just captured my exact amazement of OFP as a 6 year old. Also, replaying the full version of that mission as an adult and realizing the demo is straight up a different canon timeline for Armstrong where the US gets smoked.

[@jonhatton-brown]

I'm 35 next week and have many memories of playing flashpoint. Great to see how much has changed and thanks the the cave insight. I'll never be able to un-see that now.

[@mauromerconchini]

I'm so glad that you're making more videos about OFP and Arma. Specifically because you're the only person on KZbin who makes content about these games that actually reflects how I myself play them. Most other KZbinrs focus on large, complex multiplayer scenarios with super dedicated squads of real people, but I've always enjoyed the process of tinkering in single-player and playing custom scenarios with bots. I look forward to more Arma Reforger coverage, and even more so when Arma 4 comes out. A sequel or spiritual successor to "How Will He Die?" would be awesome!

[@Luminalmvm]

These side-by-sides are a joy to watch

[@TopHatHat]

The rain graphics really made me wow. I'm usually very "meh" about graphics, I think its because they are just stationary scenes that I'm running through with a gun at 100mph. ArmA is the one game series where I end up holing up in some random civvies living room for 10 minutes, or resting by a lakeside scene, or sitting under a bus stop to get out of the rain. I just love having to slow down, look carefully at the graphics, but also react to the weather and go into random ditches in a massive map. I probably won't buy the game but this fills me with great joy for Arma 4. Thanks!

[@Retro-Calico]

I love the way that Phillip looks at the technology of old games, rather than just a side-by-side review / comparison. Although I never grew up with Operation Flashpoint (I grew up with Arma 2 instead) and although clunky, it was technically mind blowing for me. (and my computers components!)

[@InfinityMW2]

Yeah Im with you on this, grew up with first playing ARMA 2 and was blown away by the forest and terrain generation. The game had a remarkable atmospheric feel to it.

[@sprucemaroose]

I remember Op Flashpoint coming out... the seemingly endless island plus gunplay/squad dynamics were all incredible. Spending hours walking through a forest to flank a position because most of your squad died....Good times

[@mikewright7964]

This was a real fun game for me as a kid. I'm also pretty surprised of myself how much I managed to learn in the map editor, as a non-English speaking kid back then just by testing out everything. The third option in this thing that begins with a T does that etc. All on memory. Of course if I was born in the mid 2000s I would know English by that age. Eh I'm happy I was in the last generation not completely born into the digital age with the internet. As a millennial I spent most of my childhood outside with friends having fun with no constant electronics in my face and where my only type of video gaming with friends was having fun next to them as we played splitscreen.

[@taylorhair4213]

Lucky to love in this era, 1998 I was born, and feel lucky to not be brain blasted like my young siblings are now

[@quarreneverett4767]

:)

[@OutlawMaxV]

Well said my dude

[@TheRadioSquare]

Seeing Operation Flashpoint makes me miss the amount of free time I used to have as a kid. It was probably cause I sucked at the game but I remember some of the missions taking me almost an hour or more. Sometimes I'd spent a whole day doing only a few missions or just one in the case of Guardian (truck escort). Such a unique game even to this day.

[@NavidIsANoob]

I remember being really bad at the game too. Half the time I couldn't even figure out what the mission goal was. But due to the nature of OFP, I could just shoot the shit and have fun.

[@p4nnus]

Some of the missions were brutally hard. It was sometimes about luck if the enemy AI did silly things and friendly didnt dictating whether you would beat the mission or not.

[@reav3rtm]

Guardian was long mission? Remember two spec ops missions on Kolgujev? Crawling at night for hours?

[@HulluJanne]

@@reav3rtm The one that started on a hill, where you should destroy the incoming convoy of tanks was cool. One time I managed to set charges to so much stuff, I had to screenshot the results. Also shot a bunch of enemies. The amount of damage I caused felt absurd. Don't know If I still have the screenshot in some old hard drive...

[@reav3rtm]

@@HulluJanne Can't remember the mission. Was it primary game or Resistance add-on?

[@GHOST07071]

I never thought I'd (almost) cry because of a video game, but today I was watching the trailers of reforger again, and the bit with the st piere valley with the castle ruins up top really brought me to tears. Saying goodbye to Resistance friends was one of (if not the most) the saddest memories

[@skeeyee5477]

If they plan on adding more vehicles (tanks, helicopters and planes, support for AI's using them and generally polish up the game a bit, then it'll very quickly end up toppling ARMA 3 for my "Bot War" needs :)

[@rustypickle1156]

Those are absolutely coming, given that this is a testing place for the next full ArmA game, would be strange to not flex what they can do with those in the new engine

[@fiend265x]

I love it how Philip enjoys the content he's doing here, nostalgy is such a cool feeling when it hits right

[@jaeslow6347]

I’m loving these OFP videos man, such a nostalgia trip, I remember the resistance campaign being the hardest and most memorable campaign I have ever played. I spent years on that editor, I can even remember all the AI waypoint and trigger commands, good times.

[@bartoszbielecki1722]

Yep.. Nothing is better than making a ambush for russian tanks with mines and LAWs 😍

[@ursa_margo]

Operation Flashpoint footage evoked some scarring childhood memories of hunting that one chopper with an RPG I found in the field. Loved that mission, though, I never felt so alone and miserable in a video game since.

[@shardell]

That rain forming puddles and then drying up is insane. Absolutely mind blowing, and the fact that the rain in the shade dried up slower! It’s those little details that really immerse you

[@monolitwoods]

I'm only 20, but for as long as I can remember OFP has been apart of my growing up since I could speak. Watched my brother play it before I got my hands on the editor and spawned in 20 T-80s against 20 tractors. It been installed on every laptop and desktop I have ever owned and the amount of hours I played is unimaginable, so seeing everon come back with US and Soviet soldiers gunning in thick forests really does hit a warm note in my heart.

[@Execue]

THANK YOU! Thank you for bringing me back to all these special places from ofp and how they look now in reforger. I got a bit sentimental...

[@richardchantlerrico]

I remember playing OFP back in 2001 then later getting my own copy when I saw it for sale in the Gold Edition pack including the expansions. So many hours spent designing and playing missions and the single player campaign was amazing - none of the ArmA sequals ever reproduced the campaign quality as well.

[@danyoutube7491]

I enjoyed quite a lot of Arma 1 and 2's campaigns, but for me there was far too much solo/tiny squad stuff in Arma 3. The larger squads and multiple squad action that OPFlash introduced is one of the biggest strengths of the series in my opinion.

[@gurntsaltta7421]

God i genuinely hope for Arma 4 they'll bring back Livonia and Tanoa, imagine these two beautiful maps being even more awesome in the Enfusion engine, i think it'd also be cool to see the rest of Operation Flashpoint maps in Arma Reforger like Malden and such, though not so sure about that, it seems like it'd require a lot of work

[@hotdogvan3399]

If Bohemia doesn't, the modders definitely will.

[@samuelsulavik6526]

I never thought how popular OFP was. IT was the first game i've ever played when i was like 3 years old and loved every second of it. The nostalgia is really strong on this one

[@blackhawk65589]

It's just amazing how well BI was so far ahead of everyone in OFP and now in Reforger, is jaw dropping. Nice video, was waiting for someone to make a comparison video

[@Saitanen]

I love the enthusiasm that you display for the OFP and Arma Reforger. It's great to see someone on KZbin who admires the sheer qualities of OFP back in the [good] old days of 2001+. I've got the game accidentally in 2003 when my father bought it from a general store (it was in russian, published by Buka entertainment). Well, OFP had me learn russian alphabet because I had no internet back then and I had to play this game comfortably somehow. At that time, it was a dream come true, with the mission editor allowing to create your own stuff, from missions to campaigns... and getting the more complicated stuff from files of other missions when opening them up in a text editor (Notepad or Notepad++), scanning through thousands of lines of the mission config code. As an example - that's how I found how to lit a bonfire at the initialization of the mission :)) this inflame true!

[@JirkashunterCz]

I'm 22 now. Playing it as a 5-year-old seems crazy today when I think about it, knowing how hard the game is and how easy today's games are for children. Nogova was my childhood second home knowing every place making missions in the editor like around Petrovice, etc was the best experience I had, the feeling of freedom and choice doing all kinds of events and experiments. The game as a whole influenced what videogames I play today. Thank you for all these videos revisiting old places from ancient times :)

[@rustypickle1156]

It’s crazy how much of a step up this is from ArmA 3 alone Very excited for the future of ArmA

[@endcredits998]

OFP was probably the first game I played on our family's PC. I still remember not being able to finish that mission where you're in the woods filled with spetsnaz soldiers because I was so scared of coming across one and possibly dying right away haha! No modern military game has given me that feeling of fear, but that may just be because I've grown up since. Either way, OFP has a special place in my childhood. Anyways, was waiting for a comparison video like this. Really brings back the nostalgia. Good job, Philip!

[@danyoutube7491]

I was in my early twenties when I first played Operation Flashpoint and I too felt very nervous and tense on some missions, so I don't think it was just your youth that made you afraid! It was a superb game.

[@petrblasko9575]

If you ever visit the countryside of the Czech Republic (the country where developers are from), look around🔍... You realize that you feel just like in Arma Reforger or OF. The interior of houses looks exactly the same as my grandma's house😆. Even road signs and forests are the same!

[@danyoutube7491]

I hope she had more furniture than one typically saw in Operation Flashpoint, lol.

[@williamlydon2554]

Been waiting on a comparison of both game’s maps. Crazy the difference 22 years makes in detail and scale.

[@darbyshiredanny97]

There’s something that’s got to be said for just exploring maps - flying around and just looking at stuff. This really captures that feeling for me. On a smaller scale when I was but a younger console peasant, I used to fly around on forge mode on games like halo - reach in particular had a fantastic forge map which you could get lost in.

[@VinylSnapz]

I was a console Lad my whole life growing up, atari into ps1, then to the ps2, cheeky pit stop at the psp, into the xbox 360, mainly because i didn't like how the ps3 was heading. but i couldn't bring myself to move to the ps4 or xbox one, youtube videos from He who shall not be named about the arma 2 series won me over and i spent my first paycheck at work on a cheap little PC to play arma 1 and 2. but I do get a lot of second hand nostalgia from your operation flashpoint videos because going back to worlds explored and scoured when they are remade is such a joy. Maybe One day I'll find some friends who wanna do some big battles together on OF. Big ups kliksman

[@sometimesidreamaboutcheese]

OFP was so extremely incredible game at that time. I grew up with original OFP, me and my friend had CDs of that. I returned to these areas and atmosphere from time to time of my life. I even remember online servers around 7-10 years ago with a lot of good and kind, friendly people. You just can stuck in a one mission for several hours and keep talking with people, good friends while playing objectives. ALSO, OFP had EXTREMELY large amount of extremely nice modifications for online gaming - it expanded whole enjoyment almost boundlessly. Ahh.. so sweet times back then, I really miss that now sometimes.

[@kopa_music]

The best pronunciation of Krk I've ever heard. Croatian approves!

[@_gamma.]

This is SUCH a difference, I love the comparisons. Thanks for making the video! Hilarious too, wasn’t expecting that

[@B.D.E.]

Yes, for example OFP had an excellent range of content. Reforger has none.

[@jachymcerny9944]

Fun fact: The landscape of the map might be based on Krk, but every house in the game is based on Czech/Bohemian architecture and so is nature. Even the signs are in Czech (7:29).

[@elise3455]

Such a nostalgia trip! Turning 30, and yet my best gaming memories are still from OFP (the campaign was so immersive and I had 100s of hours in the editor with virtually all kinds of mods you could think of; zombies, Warhammer, Independence day, etc.). So glad that ArmA 4 is going back to its origins!

[@ChaplainDMK]

Note on the islands in OFP, they are all based on real islands, but they are placed in the North Atlantic - I dont remember if the base game had it, or it was added later in the expansion packs or the OFP Elite XBOX port, but the game had a proper star layout, so you could actually navigate by stars. People used this to figure out the exact coordinates of the islands as far as I remember.

[@WekBenHelix]

Operation Flashpoint was my late childhood. I love that someone else remembers the feeling/detail of the old maps down to 'how the mountains look'--cheers to that. Great vid!

[@WekBenHelix]

@@2kliksphilip Reminds me of MechWarrior and the original Total War games (Shogun 1 and Medieval 1, but even Rome 1 to an extent). They were truly barren in battle, but for the time they felt totally interactive and beautiful. A Medieval 1 TW forest was just a little copy/paste cluster of tree sprites on a curved green plane of terrain, but at the same time it was a rich and dense wood full of singing birds, hidden secrets, and it was an absolute lifeline or a curse in a tense battle as you guided armies through those old massive maps.

[@5.45x39_]

For it’s time, OFP was unbelievable. I remember replaying the campaigns over and over again as a kid, teen and adult. A true classic

[@chrisr8996]

For nearly 21 years OFP and ARMA 2 have found their way onto every new system install I've done on any my computers and laptops over those two decades. It sure looks dated by today's standards but it just needed gets old due to the sheer freedom of gameplay it offers

[@nathanwailes]

OFP is my favorite game of all time (I started playing when the demo came out in April 2001 and had an original Czech game box signed by all the original devs at one point). I haven't played any of the later Arma games, so I could be way off here about the state of things right now, but below are the problems with OFP that made me "fall out of love" with it for a long time after being obsessed with it for years, and which I've been waiting since ~2005 for the devs to fix: - I would summarize it like this: the way the game is constructed makes it play more like a shooting gallery. - The AI. The AI in OFP don't take cover and are far too fast at spotting you and hitting you with their first or second shot. The accuracy issue was fixed somewhat by a mod that created inaccurate versions of the guns for the AI to use, but that was a band-aid. The AI also don't communicate with each other in a realistic way (across squads). If I could only fix one thing in OFP, it would be the AI. - The game doesn't model fear. It isn't possible to suppress/pin/scare soldiers (both AI and human) in a realistic way, like you'll see in tactical games like Combat Mission, and which is necessary to see tactics like the "Four Fs" actually work ("Find, Fix, Flank, Finish"). This also incentivizes human players to go out on their own to try to catch their opponents from an unexpected angle rather than sticking together with a group. Again, in R/L there are *some* soldiers who will be able to do that, but *most* soldiers will need to be kept in teams/squads to keep them from hiding in a ditch the entire time. - Even if the game *did* model fear, the game world often doesn't have the same level of detail (in terms of micro-terrain) of the corresponding real world locations which would allow people to take effective cover. So a lot of the time I felt like I was having a gunfight in a sparsely-filled parking lot. This might be a lot better in the later games. - Philip already mentioned this in another video, but the game does a terrible job of modeling stamina. Soldiers can run everywhere. This incentivizes unrealistic tactics and causes things on the battlefield to change a lot faster than they should, leading to a more deathmatchy feel than when you play a game like Combat Mission. - The devs didn't give modders the necessary API access that would let them fix core issues themselves, especially regarding the AI (maybe because the things the modders wanted access to wouldn't be possible to give access to because of the way they're tied in with the rest of the code; I'm not sure). I really wish there was a game that gave me the tactical satisfaction of Combat Mission but with the immersion of OFP/Arma.

[@mandaloin]

I came in at Arma 2 and shared the same complaints. But Arma 3, especially with mods, fixes everything you listed. Also, a signed box of OFP is a really cool thing to have.

[@nathanwailes]

@@mandaloin which Arma 3 mods do you recommend? I'm getting a new gaming PC soon.

[@mandaloin]

@@nathanwailes In my opinion there's a lot to fix up the gameplay. Reply to me in a month, I'll be back to my PC and can check my modlist that I use.

[@gargean1671]

Fun unrelated thing about rain and stuff: in Far Cry 2 vehicles, specifically their tires, got dirty when driving. In common weather they got dusty and stayed dusty. In rainy weather they got dirt sprinkes which after slowly cleared up under the rain. I wonder if anyone else ever noticed that?..

[@NavidIsANoob]

I was actually born before this millennium, and I have great memories of OFP. I really sucked at it because I was a snotty kid with a poor tactical sense, but I could play it hours on end. My dad used to play it as well! Good memories.

[@blackhawk65589]

I remember playing OFP as a kid and now playing it as an adult today is night and day. I'm sorry, but OFP is still prettt good, even 20 years ago

[@Bebeu4300]

I'm seriously impressed by the attention to detail the developers have. Everything from creating assets for and populating the interiors of buildings to the rain that gets obstructed and the puddles that gradually get larger or smaller. It's something I feel you rarely see nowadays.

[@siimp1359]

10:08 the adoring fan flashing got me

[@CMDRSweeper]

You really gave me a lovely nostalgia trip with this one. And now I KNOW I have to visit and see the real island and see if I can find Montignac, or as close to it as you can get.

[@Gepedrglass]

Philip thank you so much. i feel like i share your excitement despite the fact i didnt grow up with OFP. You have always been a master of nostalgia, and although you dont delve heavily into it here, i can feel it.

[@aaronwlkr]

Operation Flashpoint was amazing for it's time. That game allowed you to do so much, and free roam, in a time when every other game, just funneled your movement from point a to b.

[@NolDragon]

I spent sooooo many hours on Everon back then It remains my favorite island

[@terry2295]

the old graphics have some type of charm though I don't know what it is but I still like them to this day

[@chrisca]

I still remember that forest mission where you were supposed to escape the russian patrols and tanks and reach the EZ Absolutely tense

[@V.Paulus]

Right. That was also of one my fondest gaming moment I had with any game. And OFP is, by far, the game that I had more of those. I just wish they could do a reamke of the all game with both expansions.

[@micb3rd]

Great memories... I have never forgotten this level....and going prone and crawling slowly though a massive the forest.

[@danyoutube7491]

"Anyone left on Everon?" :) Yes, that mission hugely impressed me at the time, but also made me feel very alone. I think up until that point in the game you'd always had squadmates around you, but suddenly you were all alone and the island was totally under enemy control. I had to reload saved games a lot on that mission. It took me a heck of a lot of tries just to get out of the forest!

[@johannlabertaler6095]

Oh yeah the rain got me as well... Streamed the game in Discord and two of my friends had to endure myself obsessing about rain just raining into a window and nowhere else. It's always nice to see you're not alone.

[@MichalKottman]

I have fond memories of one of my friends getting OFp, and three of us standing around the computer screaming at him as he was crouching clueless in the middle of a fight "the bullets are coming in from the right! not left!", oh fun times...

[@1337Dennis]

Launching boats off a mountain should be a game mode, would be sick

[@addithehun4044]

OFP tought me as a kid how to read a map, use stars for navigation and how to send the reds back to Moscow

[@addithehun4044]

@@2kliksphilip yeah you actually can! Its also a part of the campaigns later half. when you get shot down as that pilot and captured by the russians, u dont have a map, all you have is the pilots notes at the start of the mission, it says which star is the north star and that the big dipper points to it, accompanied by a diagram the pilot has drawn. Its allways stuck with me ever since i played that level as a kid; figgured it would be useful for when the russians or Chinese capture once i join the airforce and i need to make my escape haha

[@jonessii]

These patchnotes for Operation Flashpoint are incredible!

[@lbpdluis]

operation flashpoint was my childhood game, i played with the mission editor every day and downloaded an insane amount of mods

[@FullOilBarrel]

Such a great video. This kind of in depth game engine and graphical knowledge is hard to find anywhere else on KZbin. Also really approachable

[@exanimo8554]

I love sandbox games. After I watched your first video about arma reforger a few days ago I got the game and it really is a lot of fun. Can’t wait to get my hands on modding. Thanks for introducing the arma series to us!

[@BallinLikeMike23]

My favorite digital landscape has to be Forge World in Halo Reach. I spent so much time creating crazy maps with my friends in custom games.

[@crashmit9832]

I love your videos. They live from your pure curiousity and fascination, which I adore! I remember just flying around ArmA 3s jungle map (forgot what it's called) more than actually playing on it, just wanting to see what the environment team has achieved. Mixed with your subtle humour I just enjoy your videos so much!

[@gideonunger7284]

I have been to Krk so many times as a kid. living in the south of austria it was just the go to place for vacations.

[@toeddie3270]

Was a OFP player once i was a teenager . i am so glad to see it remake again in 2022 . The campagin missions is epic . i failed so many times after montignac must fall. i can't wait to see modders create OFP missions mod in Reforger .

[@curly3632]

I'm alot younger (almost 20 now) but i had a very similar childhood to you with arma 2, every day after school 10 year old me would boot up the test maps and just crash helicopters into things, and play around with snipers in the hills shooting friendlies, thanks for the video :)

[@Daimo83]

As an ex soldier who has slept in forests all over the country let me say it's not unusual to find rows of trees. They actually plant them like that. Part of the charm of OFP for me is the villages look similar to training villages like Copehill Down. It's realistic in it's own way.

[@afistfullofmustard3006]

To me when they released the base layer scale it was incredible. I loved the change as it suddenly allowed me to cover in small dips and mounds. i distinctly remembering loving the change in tactics it allowed. simpler times haha!

[@FatSacks]

Your mountain tangent made me think of the caves in Dear Esther. I replayed it recently with the dev commentary and in it they said how they feels like Skyrim in a way because Skyrim marked the new way of doing mountains in games and their game did the same thing with caves. And yeah the caves in Dear Esther were pretty good as long as you ignored all the mushrooms being sprites.

[@-neurasthenie-]

I'm getting second hand enthusiasm and being all giddy with this Reforger content lately :D

[@heramann6916]

7:46 as a huge Jurassic Park/Trespasser fan, I wasn't expecting that mention

[@DEEZ_N4T]

The detail in 7:18 can also be noticed in Arma 3, whenever you place an object like a tent or house it will protect you from the rain however some communities usually turn off its dynamic simulation to save CPU for the 60 player operation, this will then make the object semi-invisible for the player they can still do the basic functions of the object like open doors and use it as cover from bullets however, the game will not cast a shadow nor protect you from the rain since you disabled simulation, some objects also make the AI phase through them like it’s nothing

[@BBTV56k]

They done an outstanding job with the map and the new engine, as a long time die-hard and someone who bought the box version of flashpoint as a 17 year old back in 2001 i can't wait to see what the future holds for the series now!

[@ofpWolf]

This game taught me how to read a map :) I remember long nights in 2005-6-7-8, playing CTI Everon with my squadmates on our server. Nostalgia kicks in...

[@Someloke8895]

Malden was my favourite Flashpoint map. Many an hour was spent on the hills overlooking the airfield, watching T-72s explode from A-10s. And all of Footmunch's fantastic aircraft mods.

[@NicksNameGoesHere]

I love that a decade ago, your brother 3kliks taught me about props and displacements in the Source engine, because I can apply that relatively simple knowledge to all game engines now and it translates pretty well.

[@PhilosopHistory]

my life right now is all about waiting for 2kliksphilip to upload an arma video. Its fun

[@armand631]

"The last time I had this much fun was when I was watching paint dry" 😆 It is really cool though. I've never seen a mechanic like that. It's a shame they weren't able / willing to fix the water transitions, which seems like a larger oversight

[@rich8436]

Don't forget mate that Reforger is really only a tech demo for ArmA 4, they may well fix and and add much more to the game.

[@Ostsol]

The base layer is the heightmap mesh. Normal meshes can be irregular, with vertices potentially at any position relative to each other. A heightmap mesh's vertices are arranged in a regular 2D grid, with only their heights varying. This means that one can't have 90° sheer drops or overhangs. Not only that, the steeper the slope, the most stretched textures are. The main advantage is that they are very efficient to render and there are also some very powerful optimisations to collision detection with them. All this is why rock models are necessary to provide many terrain details and also why heightmaps typically don't have caves.

[@asafoulke4936]

Fantastic video! I always love to hear your nostalgia trips!!

[@deloox7369]

It's really interesting thinking about this, flying over an island where your favourite game is straight up based on. For me, the closest such thing would be literally living in an area where Livonia in Contact is based on, although I don't even have that DLC :D

[@nathanielshelnutt4321]

One thing I took in when first exploring Everon was just how gorgeous it truly looks

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

I recently started playing operation Flashpoint, and have been enjoying it a lot! It is a rather difficult game at times, but I love how open ended and realistic it is.

[@jimmycombs8159]

Ngl the bit of you going into the water with the ofp theme and getting out and it shutting off sent me into a laughing fit lmao

[@davixx1995]

The talk about rivers and different water meshes colliding made me think of l4d2 and its swamp levels. It used some custom houdini magic that no other valve game ever used again to import a very smooth looking rendition of water flow across the level, i wonder if that workflow could prove useful as a basis for more realistic open world water flows, even though it's two completely different scales. You should look that up, i found it very interesting myself.

[@pabl014_]

At first I really thought that you compare operation flashpoint to real life places, not new Arma. That looks stunning.

[@KiLDELTA]

Love the Christmas easter egg on OFP, where there are Christmas trees with small gifts on them.

[@raw1175]

One thing that actually effect game play quite a bit now is how far shadows are drawn and how they are with forests so now forests actually provide concealment

[@N1ghtR1der666]

its actually a little shocking and eye opening, never remebered the graphics really getting much better as the series went on but I guess it goes to show how small changes over time add up. OFP will always hold a spetial place in my heart though

[@arlamdae2551]

I loved this video. I loved how you compared the games of each generation to be fair with OFP and also according to the graphics technology used.

[@RobiePAX]

Damn it I never knew Philip did videos aside of CS:GO. He doesn't advertise it much. I guess I got a backlog to watch now.

[@AJVenom123]

I never played arma and the only knowledge I have is from your videos. I love watching these old/new graphical comparisons, I was so excited to see this pop up. keep posting videos that you are passionate about, I found 3kliks from CSGO and I'm subscribed to like 5 of your channels now. thanks for a lot of great consistent content through the years!

[@runelauridsen7390]

Many forests actually have trees in the pattern that you see in operation flashpoint, due to them being planted by humans. Only natural forests will have semi random tree formations.

[@BlueMK12]

I've got OFP 20 years ago, and it was such a blast for me back then, spent A LOT of hours in the campaigns and the editor. I return to the game in a frequent basis and with ARMA Reforger I think the series will revive the nostalgia of the original game. Of course I play a lot of the three ArmA's and even downloaded the recreated campaings from OFP, but this is going to be something big! And watching St. Pierre in the Reforger, made me think of the 4th mission of the Red Hammer campaign where you have to destroy a pair of Chinook's coming... would love to see that mission again in Reforger.

[@gweril816]

Ive actually been on a vacation at Lemnos back in 2013 when there was the faux pa around bohemia interactive taking photos of the local military airfield.

[@Aaron-sz8po]

im 21 and i remember playing this on my dads laptop in like 2008 a while after it was realised i know but its still a core memory i only saw my dad once or twice a year as he was in the army so it is really good memories for me and probably why i love games and everything to do with pc now

[@chrisr8996]

Good memories! This game was as much responsible for bad grades in school as for voluntarily learning two years of Russian in school and choosing a career path as a helicopter jock. Truly formative experience and core memory of my early youth

[@CoolStoryBro455]

8:51 That sweet scream!

[@hookiebookie1]

Edit: 10:09 I saw that you cheeky chappy you With my job I fly over it very frequently! That area is such a beautiful part of the world, I love passing over.

[@suugoi]

Will there be remake of campaign? I have so much fond memories of it. I remember in some extraction mission, spending time in forests avoiding enemies, getting shot in the legs and crawling to extraction point, hiding in bushes whilee BMP's are driving few meters away, even with speeding up game that took hours of real time. Or breaking demo version of the game, killing every last one of the enemies that were supposed to overrun island when you had nothing on you, before credits started to roll. Oh, Arma and rest of the bunch never gave me that feeling I had playing OF or it's addons. What was it last mission in of them? Driving, or flying half the world to visit a bar in city you fought? I barely remember anything, but what I do feels so right.

[@sometimesidreamaboutcheese]

@@2kliksphilip "to stop scuds on kulgujev" damn, that hit me with nostalgia and memory of that area, atmosphere and times

[@frezzyk1ng172]

He definitely wasn't joking when he said he was having fun watching paint dry