04/11 - Skirmish DLC pack and title update announcement

[Helios]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAtAio1ytE

We are happy to announce that the first Operation Flashpoint®: Dragon Rising downloadable content – the ‘Skirmish’ pack – will be available for PC tomorrow, November 5th, bundled with a title update patch.

Title Updates for the console editions of the game will arrive prior to the launch of the ‘Skirmish’ DLC pack on Xbox LIVE and PSN. The Title Update for the Xbox 360 will be available tomorrow, November 5th, with the Title Update for the PS3 to follow shortly.

The ‘Skirmish’ video, available to view above showcases some of the new content available. Players are shown going head to head in attack helicopters, deploying tanks and APCs and engaging in ranged and close quarters combat in the wide ranging new maps and missions featured in the downloadable content.

The ‘Skirmish’ DLC features four new multiplayer maps and two new Fire Team Engagement (FTE) missions featuring both solo and four player co-operative play. Hunt down SAM launchers hidden in the sprawling complex of ‘Lumberyard’ and assault dug in PLA forces and fight room to room in ‘White Fang’, two tense new ‘Infiltration’ multiplayer maps. ‘Annihilation’ multiplayer maps pitch armour and infantry against each other in rolling battles across a valley in ‘Stomping Grounds’ and in ‘Force Dispersal’ military bases separated by a strategic hill become a close-quarters killing ground.

New FTE missions include ‘All Round Defence’, which places gamers in control of air support and attack helicopters as they defend a fortified complex against relentless waves of PLA. In ‘Uphill Struggle’ players must capture a bunker under heavy fire from hillside reinforcements. Gamers can also recon the entire 220 km² island of Skira alone or co-operatively in a range of vehicles at day or night in ‘Island Tour.’

Tomorrow’s title update/patch will include a range of updates and improvements for the multiplayer and single player modes of the game.

The ‘Skirmish’ pack will also be available on Xbox Live Marketplace (400 Microsoft Points) and the PlayStation Network (£3.19 / $4.99 / €3.99) shortly.

[Makadon]

What will the Patch fix, can we have a fix list ?

[AussieSausage]

what do you meen ps3 will follow shortly? hours? or we talking a week?

just read the other sticky. nice work helios/dev team!

[Jacobjac]

Good work, thanks Ian.

[Mawey]

£3.19

Nice Price for PS3

[AussieSausage]

how long does the ps3 have to wait helios?

[LmTz]

Good to hear.

[Cykelpumpen]

Are you seriously charging us extra money for letting us fly the cobra helicopter that is ALREADY in the game?

The PC users will get it for free because they pay less for their game?

(I will never ever purchase another codemasters product and I will refer my friends from doing so aswell.)

[Shadow Pariax]

awesome cheapness......but wut happened to free :/

[Shaz73]

Good news Ian. Thanks