I also started OFP in the early days. Got a hacked copy of CWC 1.20 and ran it on a low end PC. The graphics looked bad at 640x480 in 16 colors but I saw OFP had good potential. The free roaming feature I think is what hooked me the most. I was impressed enough to go out and buy a copy of Cold War Crisis. I played through the entire campaign and wanted more. I then bought the resistance pack as addons comming out required it. BAS, FDF, SwissMod, SFP, BWMOD were all highly impressive. I kept upgrading PC's, getting better graphics and performance.
I finally felt I was ready for some MP play. The first server I played on, like Slash was LOL Funhose. I also moved around to Vet Squad, Recon, and others. One day I thought I would give a Finmod server a try. I can't remember if it was Karhokpola or CIA. I saw MR. Whoope playing there who I knew from LOL server so I thought I would give it a try, but the game lagged so much I had to quit it. Another day I tried again and I came back off and on over several years. I got on to Pulverizers EWE FDF/WGL servers here and there. I liked CIA's approach of following the group leader instead of running around like chickens with their heads cut off ( as Overlord likes to say). This style was similar to the way Shack Tactical played WGL. Now that CIA has added WGL to the server I continue to return for good coop play with good soldiers.
I finally felt I was ready for some MP play. The first server I played on, like Slash was LOL Funhose. I also moved around to Vet Squad, Recon, and others. One day I thought I would give a Finmod server a try. I can't remember if it was Karhokpola or CIA. I saw MR. Whoope playing there who I knew from LOL server so I thought I would give it a try, but the game lagged so much I had to quit it. Another day I tried again and I came back off and on over several years. I got on to Pulverizers EWE FDF/WGL servers here and there. I liked CIA's approach of following the group leader instead of running around like chickens with their heads cut off ( as Overlord likes to say). This style was similar to the way Shack Tactical played WGL. Now that CIA has added WGL to the server I continue to return for good coop play with good soldiers.