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Some developer tidbits about OFP2

11 Comments August 13, 2009 – 3:11 pm | Permalink |  Print This Post |

All of the following facts about the upcoming OFP2 Dragon Rising was gleaned from dev commentary on a forum I frequent…

• Mission editor is PC only, and will not be available on consoles.
• Co-op mode on the 360 will be 4 player. Co-op will also be available on the PS3 and PC.
• The entire island is rendered all the time and streamed as you traverse it.
• Each mission restricts the player to a given square ‘zone’ of operations outside of which there is no mission content. These zones are large enough that it’s rare to reach the edge of one unless the player is trying to do so. On the PC version people could probably make missions that encomapass the whole island if they wanted to.
• There are several large areas that the campaign missions never go.
• It is estimated if you walked in straight line across the length it would take you about 4-6 hours of real time, though the map is a lot longer than it is wide.
• There are save check points on the lower difficulty levels.
• There are objectives at certain points on the map, but you can attack them from whatever direction you feel is best unless the terrain would naturally get in the way.
• There are no artificial cliff walls making you follow corridors, as in Far Cry 2 for instance.
• The fog visible in previous videos is pretty much just for atmosphere and to give a better sense of distance, the engine can render the entire island just with the lod system. It varies based on the time of day and the weather conditions setup for the mission.
• There is no leaning for the players on consoles and it has not yet been decided if this feature will be included for PC although the animations are there as your AI team mates and opposition can lean.
• It will likely not support Track IR to the same extent as Arma2 in that the game has no support for separate head and hand movement, its traditional FPS style in that respect.
• The editor uses lua scripting for the more complex things, but you can drag a bunch of soldiers and vehicles into an area on the 2D map and just start playing. Its easy to set general variables like the time of day but more tricky if you want to way point a bunch of trucks to drive in a convoy.
• Will not support LAN multiplayer (more info here) (EDIT: Now with clarification here)
• No bunny hopping.