SP - Operation Iron Fist series

[jasonnoguchi]

Foreword:
After learning from all the great missions out there, I am glad to announce the start of my very own series of anti-taliban themed missions called Operation Iron Fist. I am making them in series like what USRanger did for his "Bloodhound" series simply because producing an entire campaign with the scope and quality that I have in mind is nearly impossible for me at my stage due to my RL time committment. I hope you guys enjoy my missions.

WARNING! : Please don't play my missions if you have a less than 3ghz computer. It WILL bring your computer to its knees due to the immense number of units on the map. There is no way I can create the realism I am after using dynamically spawned enemies or friendlies and I really hate to see another frustrated player (which will of course give me low ratings) because their machine is not good enough to play these missions with good enough FPS.

I NEVER use my players as beta testers. All my releases are thoroughly beta tested and final.

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Operation Iron Fist - Part 1 : FOB Alamo
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TAGS: Grunt Combat, Large Scale Battle, Multiple Endings, Voice Overs

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Introduction:
In the Operation Iron Fist series of missions, you will be playing a lowly, often forgotten, grunt (AT soldier) in a 50 men USMC platoon assigned to Aiktalik. In the first mission, "Operation Iron Fist - FOB Alamo", the FOB comes under heavy attack from the taliban insurgents seeking to rid US presence. It is a dawn assault that took everyone by surprise. As a mere grunt in this chaos, what will you do to make a difference? Or will you simply hide and let the conflict sort itself out OR even go AWOL? You choose... I am making my missions non-linear in style. This means that there would not be any series of "tasks" to follow through in order to complete the mission. You need to try to understand the situation and then do whatever you want to do or you deem fit to do for the situation. You literally decide your own task, your own mission, your own destiny within the bigger picture that is happening around you. In fact, the mission could play out very differently each time you replay it or everytime you use a new AI mod. In fact, you might run into different people and different "tasking" everytime you restart. Like in all wars, your only job as a soldier is to live to see another day... The purpose of my missions is to allow players to experience the cruelty and harsh realities of war and not to glorify war and make heroes. You will experience panic, helplessness and chaos.. the reality of war.

Featuring 5 Possible Endings, including the possibility of going AWOL!

Required addons for Operation Iron Fist - FOB Alamo:
- Aiaktalik
- BlackOps and desert mercs
- Desert USMC Units
- Extra Units and Vehicles
- ACE, ACEX, CBA, ACEX_PLA (featuring PLA as part of coalition force... yeah, I know I know... screw RL. )

Featuring the voice acting talent of:
USRanger709 (maker of Operation Jackal's Hunt) as Officer in Command (OC)
Tonci as Razor Team Leader, Miles.
Beagle23 as Fire Team Leader
My Wife, Precious, as Captain Yang, liaison officer of the PLA
Archamedes (in the SAS Black Ops campaign) and myself as various marines
YOURSELF as the main character using "bardosy's Chesty Puller style" main character dialogues.
Also featuring custom music remixed from some of Hans Zimmer's classics and battle sounds to create the most immersive environment possible.

Recommended Settings:
:: Effects & Voice Volume 100% & Music Volume 50% (Some sounds are extremely bassy, bewarned)
:: Visual Distance 800m (yes, you don't need very long VD in this mission and you won't want to due to the huge number of AIs)
:: Friendly Accuracy 1.0, Enemy Accuracy 0.5 (those jihadists are just not that well trained and this setting gives the best balance for this mission)
The mission is extremely heavy even for my system, especially the beginning when a lot of animations need to be loaded, so I would advise a restart the moment the mission starts so that you can play with all animations already loaded into your ram without stuttering.

With Expert Advise From:
USRanger709, maker of Operation Jackal's Hunt | Bardosy, maker of Chesty Puller campaign

Hints:
Spoiler:

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1. There is no "briefing" screen. You are thrown into all out war right from the start with your leaders giving you instructions on the fly (whether you choose to obey or not, its up to you. ) Again, you are recommended to hit the ESC key and restart the mission the moment it starts so that the starting animations would be in your ram to avoid stuttering and missing animations.

2. It doesn't matter if someone you think is important dies or some "task" you take on fails. In RL battles, shit happens all the time too. Eventually, the battle ends one way or the other depending on what you do. The only way you really "lose" is by dying. Just like real life. As long as you stay alive, you live to tell the story. In fact, the only time you need to use the "revert" in this mission is if you DIE. There is no reason to reload if some "task" you give yourself fails. There's still plenty to do in the mission. Even if you are heavily injured and on the ground struggling, just wait a while and someone might just patch you up. You WILL be injured , perhaps many times, so please wait for first aid.

3. When you die, you can team switch to any of your surviving fire team mates. If you are wounded and your team mates are not coming, you can team switch to any of them and then come heal yourself. Remember to drag to safety first. Bullets do land on the same spot twice. To carry an injured (which is way faster than dragging), first select DRAG then go back into action menu and select CARRY.

4. Your team leader may behave differently everytime you replay. Sometimes he's all tactical and fast and sometimes, he's just stupid and inviting bullets, thats just the way it is.

5. MG Nests are referred to as "MG" ingame as well. If M2 MG positions are taken up, go for the M240 MG nests.

6. To enjoy the full intensity of the mission, make sure you deny yourself the save button. That way, you would really feel the emotions that are designed into the mission.

7. NEVER run in front of a firing friendly! Look around at where you are going before moving! (this is where trackir is VERY useful)

8. Take cover BEFORE reloading!!!!

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Operation Iron Fist - Part 2 : Chaos In The City
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TAGS: Grunt Combat, Quesh-Kibrul, Urban Combat

Coming Not-So-Soon In A Month Or Slightly More.....

Introduction:
After the defeat at the Alamo, US troops pulled back and garrisoned the nearby capital city. After your experience and survival at the Alamo, you have been field promoted to Fire Team Leader (after your fire team leader died). Life as garrison in the city was dry and boring with the daily dose of IED disposal and playing nanny to the delta force. One day, during a routine, boring, patrol, you received orders that taliban suicide bombers has threatened to bomb the city's market square as a retribution to the city for housing the Americans. You are ordered to capture or kill these infiltrated suicide bombers before they can pull their trick off... but there's one problem... there's like a hundred civilians around you everywhere and these people are so used to gun fire they don't even bother to run or take cover in a fire fight! Can you still do your job without the collateral damage that the suicide bomb would have caused anyways?

Featuring:
1. The most immersive city scene ever seen in ArmA2 so far.
2. Intro
3. Multiple endings and Outro for each ending
4. Full voice over

Required addons for Operation Iron Fist Part 2 - Chaos In The City:
- Quesh-Kibrul
- Desert USMC Units
- Extra Units and Vehicles
- NZX up-armored HMMWV
- FFAA Arab Civil
- FFAA Terrorists
- Faux News Reporters
- RH's Scars and Custom M4s
- ACE, ACEX, CBA


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[Soupdragon]

Sounds good mate. I know you have a lot of good ideas, I hope you can realise them in you missions. Looking forward to these.

SD

[jasonnoguchi]

SD, sigh... sadly, a lot of my ideas have not seen fruition since my coding skills are still somewhere next to zero...hahahaa I believe I will catch up quite quickly on that as well since the coding style is not very different from the php css and javascript scripting that I am used to.

[thales100]

Great, cant wait for your missions jason, as Soupdragon said you have many ideas, now time will give you the coding skills necessary to make nice missions.

[Njayjay]

This sounds pretty good, but where's the download link?

[TheRev709]

This sounds pretty good, but where's the download link?

its a WIP

[Tonci87]

Yeah, He makes a Mission himslef and its about Grunt combat. You had enough inspiration from CP and ST& campaigns, so I bet this will be great

[maj_woody]

sweet, thanks dude, will try this tonite...umm...er...or when its done!

[jasonnoguchi]

Thanks a lot guys for the attention!

OMG, you guys have encouraged me to raise the bar soooo much! Ok, I have a few more ideas up my sleeve which I am going to make happen in this mission so I am going to take a while longer on it. It is going to be a playing style and a "mission" type that you guys have never experienced before. Nothing like the conventional "give a task, complete a task" type of mission. I really throw you into an environment with a TON of things happening very quickly and you decide how you want to fit in.

Also, I am making 3 possible endings to this one mission, so no matter what you decide to do, even the most extreme case of going AWOL, the mission ends somewhat.

well, what's started as just a simple practise mission for me is now growing into something unique and I hope you guys would enjoy it when its completed.

Along with the new things I am adding to the mission, I would need 2 more voice actors, american accent of course, best if its african american accent.

[TheRev709]

3 endings!!! You are raising the bar!!! Giving me ideas for my next set of mission . . . hehe