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Hi chaps, Event Factory is happy to announce that after long time of waiting, the COOP campaign has finally been finished and is expected to be launched in March ! The launch date will be announced in upcoming weeks with full backstory and info for the first battle. Campaign will consist of modded PR maps with addition of old map-pack maps such as Street2 and Op Phoenix & Vanilla BF2 maps such as Clean Sweep, Kubra Dam, Road to Jalalabad and many more. Until then, please enjoy this little trailer put together and stay tuned for more info. Special Thanks to : @=VG= Double_13 & @=VG= PBAsydney for the campaign name ideas / Feedback & Support =VG= TED(F)

Battleplans : 1. Lashkar Phase one : a. Hater's & Cheeky-Breeky squad : Squad leader + 2 selected members will spawn in and board the chinook with me as quickly as possible. Rest of the squad members will hold spawn until rallies have been placed. b. Kavelenko's squad is to set up defensive perimeter towards NW - N - NE - E of british FOB and defend it until further notice. b.1 Defensive stance must be achieved as quickly as possible! Once you spawn in rush to your positions and fend off the first wave. c. The general idea is to get commander and small amount of troops out of the main base as quickly as possible to provide emergency team rally points in case of a loss of the chinook. d. Red area on the map is a NO FLY ZONE! Use the western part of the map for manouvers. Phase two : After Cheeky-Breeky and Hater's people have been successfully dropped off and rallies are down : a. Chinook is to drop 2 supply crates on west village flag, then RTB back to base using the same route as in phase one. Landing in FOB area must be done quickly to avoid any potential sneaky RPGs! Pilot is allowed to squash any people that are sitting on the helipad during landing. b. Cheeky-Breeky squad is to head South towards Compound flag and secure it. Set up defencive perimeter towards SW - S - SE - E. b.1 No supplies will be available once you have been dropped off. Make sure to have couple of rifleman with you as they may be your only ways of resupplying for a long period of time. c. Hater's squad will head North towards West Village and set up a FOB and defensive assets as they see fit. Set up perimeter towards SW - S - SE. Assign someone to patrol Eastern and North Eastern flanks in case of some sneaky bots. d. Kavelenko's squad is to remain defensive until further notice. Phase three : a. After the first wave of enemies has been held back and more squads have been formed, more people will be dropped off towards other flags. b. One "Volunteer" squad will be sent out to construct additional FOBs around the combat zone at marked locations. Once done, they are to be remain on standby for further orders. Additional info : 1. Once these phases have been completed and defensive perimeters have been established around Compound and West Village, more troops may be shipped out from the FOB to support defensive operations on other locations. Until then, all remaining people are to be dedicated on defending the FOB at all costs. 2. All supply / Transport requests most come through the Commander. Any other requests are to be ignored. 3. FOB is surrounded by Dome of Death (DoD) meaning that the only way out is by using the helicopter. 4. Chinook is not to be used as a CAS asset !!!!! 5. It is adviced to keep the chinook away from the FOB are when idling. Ramiel : Not going into much detail for this one. The plan is pretty simple : a. Inf squads are to regroup at the main base, they have around 5 minutes to get their people ready to move out. b. Once the green light is given, inf is to move up towards the first flag and scout out any ATGM launchers and spawn points. Once the flag area has been reached, inf is to set up defensive perimeter all around the flag (360). Once secure, supplies will be flown in by our BlackHawks. c. Once supplies have been dropped, one of the inf squads is to be tasked to construct defensive assets at commander marked locations. When done report to commander and resume overwatch. d. When the flag is secure, convoy is given a green light to move out from the main. The convoy will be composed as : Kawaii 1 ( Stryker 1) HMMWV Kawaii 2 ( Stryker 2) e. Depending on how many people remain, inf squad(s) will be tasked to provide additional security for the convoy as they proceed towards the flag. f. The route which the convoy has to take will be marked on the map by the Commander. g. Once flag is secure, repeat the proccess with other flags. Additional info : 1. Pilots are to remain in the airport until called in by the Commander. All other tranport / supply requests are to be ignored! 2. DO NOT REQUEST ANY HAT / ENGINEER KITS WITHOUT COMMANDER'S APPROVAL !!!!!!!!! THESE ARE TO BE USED ONLY ON EMERGENCY SITUATIONS BY THE VEHICLE CREWS. AT-4 WILL BE ENOUGH TO TAKE CARE OF THE ENEMY ASSETS. 3. Depending on how fast / slow the progress is, a YOLO command may be given, meaning that all safety measures will be thrown away and we will now turn into rush mode, trying to capture rest of the flags as quickly as possible so we could move on to the next map. Lashkar & Ramiel administrative notes : 1. If a person / group of people is responsible of getting one of our assets destroyed, that person / group will be immediately booted from the event and from VG COOP server for prolonged period of time. 2. Griefing will result in you getting immediately removed for the duration of these operations 3. Disobeying Commander's orders may result in you getting resigned or removed from the operation. 4. IF any of the squad leads wishes to get more info or full overview of the plans, then message me on TS / Forums and I'll send you more detailed plan. Those plans are to remain only between the Commander and Squad leaders to avoid certain someone doing any last minute changes to the maps that might compromise the strategy. 5. Any additional info will be added in yellow text.

I can take the Command over the Lashkar Op if no one else wants it.

Propably not going to be added until they are implemented into the main game instead of a separate download. Too much of an hassle to get everyone to download the maps and install them in correct folder. Don't worry, the work on old maps hasn't died out. Wrapping out some loose ends right now. If everything goes by the plan, the campaign should launch in late February / early March.

I'll post the battleplan for Ramiel tomorrow or day after. Basic idea is to have inf squads push up towards the flag, scout out any ATGMs and spawnpoints, set up 360 and then move in the vehicles to cap. Depending on how many people show up, we might try few cooler and more complicated manouvers like moving in a convoy with having inf covering the front and rear.

Suggest spreading people around in different squads rather than creating an elite one. Otherwise we'll be stuck on constant loop where the elite squad has to bounce back and forth between the flags since other's aren't able to hold / attack them. @Xenalite Everyone is welcomed to join. Just make sure you have the maps correctly installed by next friday .

US Army Ramiel Department (USRD) is now hiring new personnel to replace the officers lost due to extensive munching of melons. Current openings are : 1. Regular INF squad leader 2. Regular INF squad leader 3. 4 man logistical squad leader (2 inf personnel + 2 HMMWV crew members) 4. 3-4 man Special Forces squad leader Requierments for applicant : 1. Basic PR knowledge 2. Is teamplay oriented 3. Is able to follow orders without questioning them 4. Is able to keep other members of the squad in check, organized and ready at all times. 5* . For Special Forces Officer - Has superior knowledge of the word "Stealth" Bonus traits : 1. Has a working microphone 2. Uses the Working Microphone 3. Doesn't have game effect volume over 200% 4. Can be touched in account with our server rules. If You think that you have all the neccesary traits to be the officer in USRD, then sign up now by either applying on this forum post or sending me a message on either the forums or on TS. In other news - Also looking for an officer to stand up from the Pilot and APC crew. Full battle plan will be sent out to squad leaders and vehicle crews sometime next week.

Commandah on Ramiel and tigre pilot on Barra then

Commandah on 3 first ones and tigre pilot on barra plz

Using bot assets = Cheating, which is against the rules, as those vehicles have: unlimited ammo, are a lot easier to operate, don't require special kits. Melon and Double tried to remove the bot assets from the maps, but most of that work got undone with the latest update that reset all the map files again. All we can do atm is to wait for the Devs to fix the issue and send out the message for players not to use those assets for the time being. If anyone uses the bot asset don't hesitate to use the !kill command, if done again, feel free to swing the boot.

The new flag capture system requiers you to have twice as many people on the capzone as the enemy does in order to cap it. From what I have heard, there's already a patch planned for the currently broken things and should be released shortly

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The only ban I could find for the hash that goes with your username was from 2015, so it seems the list went wild again. The ban has been lifted and it should take effect on next server restart/crash.

I'd recommend to not add the maps and wait for the word to get out to the general population for the time being. From what I remember from previous mappacks, it will take at least 2 weeks for people to get their hands on the maps and get them correctly installed. After that I guess we could give it a try and put them on for a weekend with a few weeks ahead notice and then, depending on how it goes, we can add them to the main map rotation. Although it's quite enjoyable to fight off waves of bots with 16 people and trying to survive inside the bunkers while running around and looting enemy kits for ammo, it does get boring after a while. They have COOP layers. COOP mappack after all.

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I kind of disagree with this one. I personally think that it should be up to the Tank Commander (squad lead) to decide if he wants to have an extra gunner or not. Same as for the CAS huey. 5/7 times the extra gunner turns out to be a dude who just finished downloading the mod and has no clue of what's he's supposed to do, resulting in the annoyance of rest of the crew, slowing them down or worse case causing the crew to lose the vehicle due to the dude aggroing every single bot in the area by shooting randomly.

I was driving that tank, Sydney did the shooting. It really depends on pilot's flying stile and skill level. Slow and low flying jets are an easy target for armored vehicles who can take them down pretty quickly with their cannons. Inf equipment doesnt pack enough punch to take down a jet tho, unless you hit it with AT rockets.

Don't need any official patches. All that needs to be done is to upload the maps to dropbox or somewhere, people would have to download them and then drop them over to the levels folder. The same with TC admin. Just gonna upload the maps over there and done. Piece of cake. My idea was to have the mappack running on the server on every few weekends after the campaign, with a week ahead notice.

Actually thought of going the EA path with DLCs and season passes

Only 3 factions have the paratrooper options atm - US, Russia and Germany. I'm personally not in favour of having those factions on a normal map as it would be too easy to abuse by skipping enemy's defences by just flying over them. About testing : Testing will be done in a controlled enviornment (campaign) that shall be launched once the maps are ready. After that, a feedback section will be opened where people can post the bugs / issues they found with the maps and to add suggestions. Once those errors have been fixed, the pack shall be released.