Seriously. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a buggy mess and almost unplayable. Avoid this game until it's either in the bargain bin or a major update is pushed out, it's that bad.
Here are some things you can expect to experience in online co-op if you eventually manage to get into a game. This is just what I remember from about two hours of playing last night (Xbox 360 version):
- Dead enemy soldiers never have weapons on them; just ammunition.
- Sometimes enemies act like bullet sponges and can soak up dozens of shots - other times they die in one or two shots.
- Sometimes grenades & smokes can be thrown, but never go off.
- Weapons picked up out of crates sometimes don't make any sounds when fired.
- You will get shot through concrete walls...but when you're trying to do something as simple as shoot from cover, there are serious clipping problems and your rounds will get "stuck."
- You will randomly die in co-op even though no shots have been fired.
- Turrets in the jeeps and hummers swivel so fast you can't aim them
- You will get stuck and be unable to move when there is nothing but grass around you.
- The A.I. is laughably bad. Prone enemies will stand up next to live grenades and wait for them to go off, your A.I. teammates will hang out in buildings with enemy soldiers in plain view, etc.
This should give you a good idea of what kind of game this is. It's almost like an alpha or beta version. I wonder if Codemasters accidentally pushed out the wrong code, but that couldn't happen...could it?
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