Cold War Rearmed

BI intends to start a collaborative effort to bring Cold War Crisis Campaign as well as related single missions into Armed Assault as a free addon.

The project should be followed by Resistance Rearmed.

Discussion

If you want to ask something about CWR, do that either on the talk page or in the BI forums.

Project Guidelines Proposal

The basis for this project are Operation Flashpoint: Elite data.

The project is collaborative, at the same time it is coordinated. The participants of the project agree to follow the project guidelines when submitting a content into the project repository.

The project repository will be on a central server (CVS or Subversion).

Project milestones

Preparation

• Gather a few people as "moderators" to manage the project as needed
• Start central repository
• Establish communication channels
• Establish in-game content packing pipeline (as result full properly packed addon should be created)
• Find a way to share BI tools with the Cold War Rearmed core development group
• Get Elite content from BI

Concept

Goal: demonstrate transferring content from Elite is possible and identify major areas which need to be covered when converting basic content types

What to do:

• Convert Desert island from OFP:Elite
• Convert T55 from OFP:Elite

Prototype

Goal: check transferring bigger and more complicated content

What to do:

• Convert Everon from OFP:Elite, cover it with satellite map and single surface layer
• Create basic soldier types (ordinary East/West rifleman) from ArmA or determine what it should be replaced by

As a result, a basic version of the Everon island can be used in the mission editor

Alpha

Goal: complete transfer of all Cold War Crisis content needed for the campaign

What to do:

• Convert Desert Island, Everon, Malden, Kolgujev, and cover them with surface layers
• Convert or replace all vehicles used by the campaign
• Convert or replace all solder types used by the campaign
• Convert Cold War Crisis campaing, fix any issues which make the campaign unplayable or not true to the original vision

Beta

Goal: complete transfer of all Cold War Crisis additional content

What to do:

• Fix any outstanding (non-critical) issues in the campaign
• Convert all single missions taking place on Everon, Malden, Kolgujev
• Convert any additional vehicles present in original CWC game
• Convert or replace any additional solder types present in original CWC game
• Convert all multiplayer missions taking place on Everon, Malden, Kolgujev

Gold

• Beta test and fix as much as possible'
• Release 1.00 version

After Release

• Design improvements going beyond the original game (improved missions, more units etc.) to fully utilize power of ArmA engine