Players take heavy damage from weapons as the game is intended to be realistic a few rounds to the chest by an assault rifle and a player will be critically injured. A person may choose to expend ammunition in the middle of conflict to shed weight, positively affecting their movement speed. These weights affect the movement speed, with Light class players being noticeably faster than more heavily loaded counterparts.

Player loadouts are rated through 3 weight classes, Light, Medium, or Heavy, depending on the weapons chosen and the amount of ammunition carried. Some weapons such as the MP5 and L115A1 are shared by both teams, mainly for balance reasons. Joint Operations forces weapons are all modern infantry weapons such as the M4 or SR25, whereas the Rebels may select from a number of Warsaw Pact weapons such as the AK-47 or SVD. Players can choose a loadout of a primary weapon, secondary weapon, grenades, and accessory. Servers officially leased from NovaLogic can support up to 150 players (75 per team) at once, much larger than the common 32 and 64 player limits of other games. Players can choose from a number of classes: Rifleman, Gunner, Sniper, Engineer, or Medic, each with their own specialty. GameplayThe game contains a number of game modes, the most popular being Advance and Secure, as well as Team Deathmatch, Team King of the Hill, and Cooperative. The game has a full day-night cycle integrated, which can turn a brightly lit jungle forest into a dark and foreboding stand of shadows if the game goes on long enough. The polycount for individual objects is noticeably low, but due to the vast expanses and view distance of up to slightly more than a kilometer, the total polycount is rather high. Typically the area intended for play is well covered with tropical foliage, something NovaLogic referred to as 'superfoliation,' as well as structures and control points. Maps are for the most part unlimited in size the engine uses a single section of terrain which was then tesselated. Joint Operations lacks a single-player storyline mode, the only available single-player content being training missions. In Joint Operations NovaLogic decided to focus on bringing massive multiplayer battles on expansive maps, a natural progression of the larger player limits available in multiplayer of Delta Force: Land Warrior, which could support 64 players in an era of dial-up Internet connections. OverviewJoint Operations: Typhoon Rising is a class-based tactical and strategic multiplayer shooter and a successor to NovaLogic's Delta Force line of games.

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