Arma: Cold War Assault - a standalone updated version

[Pave Low]

As originally posted by Sgt. Atoa

Apparently a new name and patch coming up for this great game

ARMA Cold War Assault??????

and here the details

INTRODUCING - ARMA: Cold War Assault: Update 1.99

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, we're delighted to reawaken a sleeping giant, updated in a new coat! The official announcement is due for tomorrow but we wanted to introduce this to our community first.

Arma: Cold War Assault 1.99 is an update to the original Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis* as developed by us 10 long years ago.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: This game was originally sold and known as:


Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis,
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance or
Operation Flashpoint: Game of the Year Edition.

Users of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and Operation Flashpoint: GOTY are allowed to freely update to Arma: Cold War Assault as long as they agree with the end user license as in the manual and shown during the setup.

This update is for your original installation of Operation Flashpoint which will be updated to version 1.99

for more information and further download mirrors please read its wiki page

to discuss this update please go to this forum thread.

Version 1.99 Change Log

- Improved: Default gamma and brightness settings

- Fixed: Two cursors appeared in some configurations

- Fixed: Login hack prevention.

- Improved: cheat / spam protection.

- Changed: "missionName" function now returns user friendly name

- Fixed: Preprocessor bugs and crashes

- Changed: createMarker function now works only local

- Added: isServer function

- Fixed: missionStart function on dedicated server

- Added: disableAI option for disable automatic animation selection

- Added: User defined maps in missions

- Added: function: array find item

- Added: function getWorld

- Added: functions getPosASL, setPosASL

- Added: Event handler AnimChanged

- Added: function getMove

Download Mirrors (v3): (size: 540MB)

http://www.multiupload.com/T2EC5DLQV0

http://fs.dao.nu/ArmA/CWA.zip

ftp://ftp.ofpr.info/ofpd/patches/CWA.zip

http://kamran.cc/ARMA2/CWA.zip

http://213.239.206.79/cwa/CWA.zip (100mbit in germany, server by TeamSPAFF - Sekra - Red Hammer Studios)

Edited June 26, 2011 by Pave Low
updated with new v3 full download links

[2nd Ranger]

Huh. When I saw this I thought maybe they'd updated some of the models or something, like Valve did with their High-Definition pack for Half-Life.

[Pave Low]

haha, what a great way to get around the legalese of Codies owning the Flashpoint name

So BIS can now update or add content to it, I do hope this is only the first of several more updates

I for one am going to patch to the "new" game

OFP:CWC is dead, long live "Arma: Cold War Assault"

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Resistance, GOTY were developed by Bohemia Interactive studio and were published by the Codemasters software company limited.

The title “Operation Flashpoint” is a registered trademark of Codemasters.

[Sgt. Atoa]

Not so fast Pave Low,, people are reporting bugs already lol

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?p=1962727#post1962727

[Pave Low]

Meh, guess I'll just have to enjoy CWC a little while longer then

BIS seem to be already on the case and now they can fix them (and other things)

Yeah, it is a pity they didn't catch these before release as the seem pretty obvious ones

but even these cant spoil the day OFP was reborn

The updated splash + menu screens (posted on the BIS forum)

http://i53.tinypic.com/erxvzk.gif

[twcrash]

cool deal installing now

[Sgt. Atoa]

Update!!

The download is actually a stand alone folder installation and will not affect your current OFP CWC folder at all

When you click on the file for the first time the installation program is going to ask for your OFP CD key so have that one in hand

but if you have OFP CWC installed already the installer is going to look for it @ your OFP CWC installation.

In other words you can have both versions at the same time

[Pave Low]

Yes, it installs as a separate standalone "new game" rather than just a patch to the existing install

This is so it now uses a Bohemia folder structure instead of the default Codemasters one giving complete separation of the two

although you can just copy any mods etc from OFP install to the new folder structure

It doesn’t include the Red-Hammer campaign for legal reasons (as that was Codemasters product)

*But it does include the Resistance expansion

[Pave Low]

They have fixed the radio bug + the handgun bug and had updated the download file (#2) and issued Hotfix v1 last-night

however there did remain an issue with animations (Weapon reload Etc)

This was fixed this morning and they have issued Hotfix v2, but just want to triple check for any remaining bugs before they replace the full update.

ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/bi/CWA_hotfix2.7z

The hotfix is only 115 Kb and contains 2 file CONFIG.bin + RESOURCE.bin which you just use to manually replace the files currently in the "BIN" folder

Edit: The updated (v3) full installers have been released - see the first post for links

[Sgt. Atoa]

Yeah all the core bugs are apparently fixed

But I played the first few missions and found some bugs in there

This one is annoying:

Campaing Mission Flashpoint: B squad helicopter crash 70% of the time in the woods in front of the landing site killing everybody