BAS Tonal island + OPFOR

Finally it’s here; Ballistic Addon Studios released their Tonal Island (in fact 2 islands) with their OPFOR African units in a single 112 Mb file! As usual a very professional work, and it’s really outstanding…

OPFOR African units: it comes with 3 sides and includes for West side: Government, Militia Resistance (Male/female), Resistance civilians with rocks and for East side: Rebels, Militia (Male/female), East civilians with rocks. Third side being real civilians.

There is more than 170 (!) different soldiers unit classes, with 28 variants of vehicles (Bis rework or tweaking but also heavily modified vehicles).

The quality of the units and the compromise between “details/resources needed” is really excellent, Ebud’s work on textures is perfect as always, and they added interesting things like teenagers for example.

The Tonal map is made of 2 islands:

Tonal: WRP : 25kmx25km, Textures: 512x512 resolution ground textures, Objects: 130,000+ objects
1 Tonali 1: WRP : 12.5kmx12.5km, Textures: 512x512 resolution ground textures, Objects: 60,000+ objects
Tonal Isle is a large world map for Operation Flashpoint: Resistance.
Set on the south east coast Africa, and combined with BAS OPFOR, it offers a wide variety of environments and battlefields for OFP, and a scenario / theme to open up new missions in the Tonal world.
The Tonal project has taken a very long time make, with countless hours poured into it over this year (2003) and before. But it is not perfect, so future versions will finalize things like urban models and vegetation (see below).
Being larger than the standard BIS islands, the Tonal isle can be very demanding for a PC, so the more powerful machine the better, especially for mission editors. Use of fog in places like the jungle does make the lag much more playable, the jungle was always intended to be used with weather fog limiting the view distance.
The Tonali 1 isle is a extra bonus peripheral island, small and fairly rough, it is a lower-end isle for smoother editing and gameplay, a bonus for lower end PC players.
There is a lot of space on the Tonal isles, so explore ;)

The detail level and the immersion of the main island is again incredible, lot of new objects, sounds, etc, a great map, one of the best if not the best! And it’s not so laggy for all those visual effects and vegetation it features, it’s more or less like Ia Trang Nam island,depending of places.

The included campaign & missions are excellent, once more Nagual didn’t forget a single detail to bring immersive missions.

To conclude, there ‘d be a lot of more stuff to say on the units, map or missions! If you have at least an average computer (PIII 1Ghz + Geforce 3) and a fast connection you really must download it. And if you have a slower PC or a 56K modem… Err forget what I wrote, download it also! :)

DOWNLOAD BAS Tonal island + OPFOR [115 Mb] (Mirror #1)

Edit: Link 1 was down, now fixed, download version includes the 2 patches that have been released, so you won’t need to download those.

To play with it online join blackdog’s server at 64.246.44.68 port 2302 or BAS Server at 217.103.136.229 port 17479