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Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis

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Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis is a 2001 shooter game developed by Bohemia Interactive and published by Codemasters.

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About Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (Czech: Operace Flashpoint) is a 2001 tactical shooter simulation video game developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio and published by Codemasters. Set during the Cold War in 1985, the game follows United States Armed Forces personnel in various combined arms roles as they combat a rogue Soviet Armed Forces field army invading the fictional island countries of Everon and Malden.

Operation Flashpoint was released on June 22, 2001 in Europe and August 30, 2001 in North America to positive reviews from critics, who praised its realistic gameplay and depiction of modern warfare. The game was ported to the Xbox in October 2005 as Operation Flashpoint: Elite. Two expansion packs, Operation Flashpoint: Red Hammer and Operation Flashpoint: Resistance, were released in February and June 2002 respectively and follow differing perspectives surrounding the conflict on Malden and others on nearby islands.

Operation Flashpoint is set in 1985 on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean consisting of four major islands: Everon, a microstate that houses a NATO training camp but otherwise tries to remain neutral in the Cold War; Malden, a neighboring microstate housing a NATO garrison; Kolgujev (Not to be confused with the real life Kolguyev Island), a barren island part of Russia where Soviet military units are regularly stationed; and Nogova, a country near Everon and Malden that is invaded by Soviet forces in 1982 in a political crisis mirroring the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The game's story is told through three campaigns: Cold War Crisis, Red Hammer, and Resistance. The events of Cold War Crisis and Resistance are considered canon in both the Operation Flashpoint and Arma series, but the events of Red Hammer are not considered canon in the Arma series due to Bohemia lacking legal rights to the expansion's assets.

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32 thoughts on “Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis”

  1. 0
    So i’m still getting the Bad Serial Number
    All i have done so far was download the preinstalled zip
    Extracted it and then went to the “Key” file inside the miscfiles
    It already had the right thing in there but still refused to work, Am i suppose to put the Key file somewhere else or something i’m confused
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  2. 0
    Serial Number Error
    For those who suffer from this problem, the first thing you should do is go to Operation_Flashpoint_Cold_War_Crisis_Win_Preinstalled_ENGame FilesOperation Flashpointmiscfiles
    Right click and edit the file called “Key”. Place the following:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint]
    “MAIN”=”C:\\Program files\\Codemasters\\Operation Flashpoint”
    “KEY”=hex:4e,7b,fe,cb,61,c1,e7,a3,b8,d5,7d,92,80,b7,52
    It should work without any problem

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  3. 0
    Wow
    I love this game … Everything about it no bigs when playing on my laptop
    But please I’d there a way to play on mobile phone as my laptop is having issues
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  4. 0
    Followed instructions and get a message stating ‘Bad Serial Number given in Setup’.
    Tried the fix posted below and still no joy.
    Pretty bummed.
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  5. 0
    On 28 May 2021
    I succesfully downloaded and played with no issue.

    Also to those who don’t know, this download contains
    Operation Flashpoint Resistance
    Operation Flashpoint Cold War
    Operation Flashpoint I forgot

    But all in all thank you mate for bringing back my childhood memory. Love ya

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  6. 0
    FIX for “bad serial number”:

    For windows 10: Go to Operation_Flashpoint_Cold_War_Crisis_Win_Preinstalled_ENGame FilesOperation Flashpointmiscfiles
    There you should have a file named “Key”, right click, Edit. You have to change the file to this:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeCodemastersOperation Flashpoint]
    “MAIN”=”C:\Program files\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint”
    “KEY”=hex:4e,7b,fe,cb,61,c1,e7,a3,b8,d5,7d,92,80,b7,52

    I added Wow6432Node, save the file and then double click it.

    If you have windows xp just doble click de Key file.

    Then run the game from the .exe file as normal.

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