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Introduction
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission is a sci-fi game based on the original Carrier Command released in 1988. The game was developed by Bohemia Interactive and Black Element Software. The development of Carrier Command: Gaea Mission was delayed several times and even put in halt once. After several scheduled release dates were missed, the game was finally released in fall 2012 for PC and XBOX 360.
Play & Contribute
The game was made available pre-release in a Player & Contribute program. Players were able to obtain the game for a significantly lowered price and in exchange became part of the testing process.
Synopsis
The game’s story centers on a crew of a futuristic ship that struggles against an all-powerful enemy in their fight for 33 islands on a water moon Taurus.
Reception
The game was praised for staying true to the original 1988 game mechanics while bringing an updated look, detailed terrains, and stunning visual effects, including but not limited to the dynamic weather system. The campaign part, inspired by a book by P. D. Gilson, received mixed reactions from critics who generally felt the campaign doesn't bring much beyond easing the player into the gameplay mechanics. The vast majority of reviewers were unsatisfied with the quality and fluency of animations and voice-overs in cutscenes, noting that the campaign clearly fails in its attempt to offer the player an epic sci-fi story. Some being quick to add that these deficiencies are only underlined by the very well executed epic in-game orchestral music.
Features
- An updated look, detailed terrains and stunning visual effects
- Dynamic weather system
- In-game orchestral music
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The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive?
This is DayZ, this is your story
DayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, open-world sandbox online game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal - to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary. There are no superficial tips, waypoints, built-in tutorials or help given to you. Every decision matters - with no save games, and no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. If you fail, you lose everything and start over.
Scavenging for supplies and roaming the open world never feels safe in DayZ, as you never know what's behind the next corner. Hostile player interactions, or simply just struggling through severe weather can easily turn into intense, nerve-racking moments where you experience very real emotions. On the other hand, meeting with another friendly survivor in DayZ can lead to a true friendship that lasts a lifetime...
Your choices and your decisions create a gameplay experience that's completely unique and unequivocally personal - unmatched by any other multiplayer game out there. This is DayZ, this is your story.
Features
- Detailed, authentic backdrop of Chernarus, an open world terrain featuring 230 square kilometers of hand-crafted environment based on real-life locations.
- Real emotional experience driven by the emergent interactions of 60 players on the server, all fighting for survival by any means necessary.
- Wide variety of complex survival mechanics - from hunting and crafting, through sophisticated injury simulation, to transferable diseases.
- Persistent servers with complex loot economy, and the ability to build improvised bases.
- Environmental dangers including the infected, dynamic weather, and animal predators
- Visceral, authentic gunplay, and melee combat systems.
- Smooth and reactive character controller utilizing a detailed animation system.
- Rewarding and authentic experience of driving vehicles for travel and material transport.
- Robust technology platform featuring modules of Bohemia's new Enfusion Engine.
- Seamless network synchronization and significantly improved game performance.
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Welcome to the Ylands official Wiki, edited and curated by the Ylands team and the community. Ylands is a creativity platform, a sandbox and an exploration game all in one! Developed by Bohemia Interactive, it first became a part of the Bohemia Interactive Incubator on November 1st, 2016 and it entered Steam’s Early Access on December 6th, 2017 after a public Alpha. The full version 1.0 released on the 5th of December 2019.
Ylands is being continuously supported with regular updates. The current roadmap for 2020 can be found here: Roadmap
Features
- Your lands: Journey across a vast sandbox of procedurally-generated islands with biomes ranging from tropical rainforests to sandy deserts, arctic tundras, and more. These landscapes are populated with many different animal species and hold a wealth of natural resources such as plants, soils, minerals, fuel, and a new mysterious and exotic material to the world: ylandium. The open-world also features day-and-night cycles and changing weather conditions. For those brave enough, a new discovery is always on the horizon.
- Go explore: You find yourself stranded on a deserted island. What do you do? Mine the terrain, hunt animals, pick plants and figure out how to craft thousands of unique items that might be essential for your expeditions. Climb magnificent mountains, descend into hidden caves, and sail across uncharted waters. This is your opportunity to seek out Ylands’ many secrets and boldly go where no one has gone before.
- Build things: Break out your imagination and start building. From treehouses, beach mansions, castles, and bat caves, all the way up to ships, cars, and elaborate energy devices – if you can think of it, you can build it. There’s also a special Create mode that gives you unlimited access to a library of all the available game objects and special terraforming abilities. You’ll have everything you need to surprise even yourself.
- Play together: By yourself or with friends, live out your fantasies by combining your knowledge of survival, engineering, architecture, and science. Explore, create, or play one of the many custom games and seamlessly switch between singleplayer and multiplayer at any time. Plus, Ylands’ innovative Sharegames functionality enables you to save your multiplayer creations in the cloud. That means you can always pick up where you left off without needing to worry about server resets.
- Custom games: Take part in a growing number of official and user-generated free custom games. The Ylands workshop hosts nearly every video game genre, such as platforming, roleplaying, racing, and even simulation. Of course, you can also unleash your own inner game developer. Ylands’ powerful 3D editor and a massive library of content let you build anything from simple structures to sophisticated game modes, which you can then easily share with the rest of the community.
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Introduction
Arma 2 (Game 2) is a military simulation game for PC DVD-ROM and digital download from Bohemia Interactive. It takes place in the present day, in a fictional post soviet country called Chernarus. Players will be sent as members of a United States Marine Corps Force Recon squad to this country to prevent further civilian casualties and ensure ongoing stability there.
Features
- Large-scale game world
- Authentic and extremely detailed, modern units, weapons, vehicles and environments
- Challenging single-player
- Large array of multi-player content
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Arma (full title Arma: Combat Operations in North America and Arma: Armed Assault in rest of world), a new game from the developers of Operation Flashpoint, is a first person tactical military shooter with large elements of realism and simulation. Template:quote
Features
- Tactical military shooter
- Large elements of realism and simulation
- Swimming - The ability to swim is now available!
- Large number of troops possible
- Bullet deflection
- Dynamically simulated night sky (star constelations, moon phases)
- Destructible environments
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The brand new helicopter game from independent developers Bohemia Interactive – creators of the award-winning mil-sim series Arma 2. Built upon over 10 years of experience in cutting-edge simulator development, Take On Helicopters immerses players within rich, expansive landscapes and authentic flight dynamics.
Take your first steps towards mastering rotor-wing flight across a massive range of enjoyable challenges, or create your own missions using the powerful easy-to-use mission editor.
Take to the air above two beautifully rich and expansive environments, based upon real-world North American and South Asian terrain-data.
Take on cutting-edge technology, helicopters modelled in stunning detail, a large-scale, open-world sandbox and authentic flight dynamics…
Take On Helicopters!
Features
- High fidelity flight dynamics modelling
- Richly modelled helicopters & cockpits
- Expansive & detailed environments
- Powerful & intuitive mission editor
- Multiplayer – co-op & competitive scenarios
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Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint in the Green Sea region heats up and coalition forces led by the US Army are sent to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties. Set into the new, visually attractive environment of hilly central Asia, Operation Arrowhead offers a realistic combat simulation experience in a modern day setting with unprecedented freedom of movement, actions and tactics. Players will enlist into various roles within the US Army, from basic infantrymen, through special operatives, to pilots and tank crew in this new installment in the award winning line up of military simulators for PC from Bohemia Interactive.
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Take On Mars is a new title for the Take On series, developed by Bohemia Interactive. The player controls a rover or lander to explore Mars. The Mars vehicle can be equipped with scientific instruments by the player to study the Martian surface and complete objectives. There are 3 locations to explore on Mars accessed through the mission control map: Victoria, Kaiser and Gale craters. Each location is 4 by 4 km having an area of 16 km2 (9.94 mi2) to be explored; filled with various exploration targets.
Features
- Space Program: Explore Mars from the perspective of a science-driven Space Agency. Develop new technologies, vehicles and instruments to tackle the tasks ahead
- Scenarios: Head straight to the surface of Mars and complete individual missions centered around various Science Missions and objectives
- Editor: Create scenarios with complex missions, or just play around with whatever you wish in this limitless, free-form mode
- Dynamic destruction system: Break off cameras, robotic arms, even individual struts and wheels, all affecting the way the vehicle handles
- Economy: Send missions to Mars with the budget you have available, raised by completing mission and individual tasks
- Realistic Terrain: Explore the surface of Mars in locations based on actual satellite data from locations such as Victoria Crater
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Introduction
The world famous Operation Flashpoint (OFP) series of games began with Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis in 2001, produced by BI and published by Codemasters. Codemasters then produced and published an add-on campaign for the original title called Red Hammer. Then in 2002, BI produced another version of the game (as an expansion pack) called Operation Flashpoint: Resistance. Later, a "Game of the Year" (GOTY) edition was published by Codemasters, which included the two BIS games, plus the Red Hammer campaign.
Story & Content
The story is set in 1985 on a group of three islands - Kolgujev, Malden and Everon. The Soviet Union is in turmoil after Mikhail Gorbachev is designated General Secretary of the Communist Party. Not everyone is willing to accept his leadership, including General Ivan Vasilii Guba, leader of a well-equipped army based on Kolgujev. Guba attacks nearby Everon, an independant republic, sparking an international flashpoint. The NATO base on Malden is alerted and the plot progresses from there.
The player begins in the role of Private David Armstrong, fresh from training on Malden and under the supervision of his commanding officer Sergeant Arnold Berghoff. As the missions progress, depending on the player's performance, Armstrong is promoted and can command a squad of his own.
There are other characters which the player controls at various points through the story:
Robert Hammer, a novice tank driver Sam Nichols, a helicopter pilot James Gastovski, a retired special forces operative who is persuaded to join the conflict and settle an old score...
Cold War Crisis includes 41 missions contained in a file called 1985.pbo within the OperationFlashpoint\Campaigns directory.
Customising OFP
Operation Flashpoint can be adapted and customised in many ways. The highly versatile scripting engine can even be used for Stargate-scenarios. The only limit has been the sky - unfortunately you can't make missions in space!
Things that can be changed include available missions, custom vehicles, custom skies, custom special effects, custom GUI, AI, animations, and much more. Unless written otherwise in the readme, these features can be changed without losing single or multiplayer compatibility.
Custom modfolders can be created to house addons of a certain kind (like the Dutch Army, or Star Wars units), or to house new Data folders which change global parameters of the game.
Applicability
This Category is only for information on the original Operation Flashpoint (OFP) series for the PC, and not Operation Flashpoint: Elite (on XBox).
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Introduction
Operation Flashpoint: Elite was released on XBox in late 2005. A successor to the PC version, OFP: Elite retains all the depth and immense content of the original game and includes both the original Cold War Crisis campaign along with the Resistance campaign for single player action.
Multiplayer modes "XBox Live" and "System Link" include over 50 multiplayer missions.