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Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad |OT| You're already dead... by friendly fire
- Thread starter demolitio
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I guess I wasted a lot of time preloading last night for no reason...I demand compensation for my energy bill! 
I guess I'll hopefully finish the preload by the time Sons of Anarchy ends tonight. So did the first preload actually count for anything or did they make people preload again and then a patch? I was asleep and missed part of it but I was getting conflicting info on the TW forums (shocker, lol). Sounds like there was just on big patch on top of the preload but the unlock time keeps getting pushed back?
I guess I'll hopefully finish the preload by the time Sons of Anarchy ends tonight. So did the first preload actually count for anything or did they make people preload again and then a patch? I was asleep and missed part of it but I was getting conflicting info on the TW forums (shocker, lol). Sounds like there was just on big patch on top of the preload but the unlock time keeps getting pushed back?
scorpscarx
Member
So I was just pinned down by like 5 Germans outside of those windows in Station, I decided to do a suicide sprint straight at them, managed to stab 2 of them with the bayonet before the MG'ers could reload to shoot me and then I escaped through the windows. So good lol.
Here's some Soviet (or is it anti-Soviet?) war-time music to help the wait. Shostakovich's 7th Symphony was dedicated to the city of Leningrad during its siege (wrong siege, I know!). This is what I listen to when I play RO2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdh8fUkA5uc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdh8fUkA5uc
Lazy Jones
Member
You sound like my type of player. I love playing on Spartnovka and finding the gaps in the enemy's line and then managing to sneak into their main building where there's always like 10 guys sitting up top looking out windows so I do a charge in there and kill as many as I can before I die. I shot 6 people with my bolt action before climbing through the window where I bayoneted two guys as their buddy kept trying to shoot me so I bolted upstairs and took another 2 with me before that guy caught up with me.scorpscarx said:
Now that's my gentle approach. When I know I'm sure to die as soon as I turn the corner and enter their hideout, I pull the pin on a grenade and just run in there and try to get both nades off before I die with the last one being in my hand as they kill me and try to loot my body. I know I'll die before my nade goes off so I want to take as many people with me as I can and it always ends in glory with the enemy's usually laughing their asses off while they wait to respawn. I usually play pretty smart but I'm still a rusher at heart and I love to do absurd shit no one sees coming so even in a slower game like this, I manage to pull of something you wouldn't expect to see in a more realistic shooter.
Pisuke1983
Member
Great! This guy really knows how to care about costumers.
Subterranean
Member
They really are busting their butts to the final hour it seems. My guess is we won't be playing until tonight around 9PM EST.
Mr. Luchador
Member
wow, what a horrible community manager!
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol same for meK.Sabot said:
Dakota47
Member
Llyranor said:Here's some Soviet (or is it anti-Soviet?) war-time music to help the wait. Shostakovich's 7th Symphony was dedicated to the city of Leningrad during its siege (wrong siege, I know!). This is what I listen to when I play RO2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdh8fUkA5uc
It is 'Soviet' music. Which isn't a bad thing entirely. Peter & the Wolf was composed by a 'Soviet' composer and that piece is the best way to get into classical music. This is a great version, narrated by David Bowie.
Also, Shostakovich' seventh wasn't really composed for the Leningrad siege. It had been announced even before the Germans had invaded the USSR and Shostakovich supposedly stated that isn't "only about fascism but about our country and generally about all tyranny and totalitarianism". Not that it really matters though. It is a beautiful symphony and the myth surrounding it only adds to its reputation.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Druz said:
Fuck all these entitled "gamers." You make me sick.
I want the game but could not care less about the launch time. I care more about the fact that they continue to wait until people find these things out for themselves and that's when they post a message about it instead of stopping the confusion early on and warning people that this was going to happen. Instead, people wake up or come home to find out that they're still downloading and that the unlock time keeps getting pushed back a few hours at a time. Then they act like we should have known this all along and are just being impatient when really it's confusion more than anything else.
I guess they didn't know when it'd be finished up and the time they'd release it, but I'm sure they knew ahead of time that the original unlock time and preload weren't going to work out. I'm not pissed at all although this should have been explained before people started questioning everything.
Let's just hope for a stable release more than anything else. The last beta patch wasn't too bad at all for me in terms of bugs popping up during gameplay.
Given how modern day reviewers are in terms of reviewing hardcore games that require a little time and effort...Probably not as good as it deserves. Look at every hard game in the past few years and how the mainstream reviewers treat them and you'll get an idea. Add in the fact that it's PC only and has a steep learning curve and I think the scores will be really SUBJECTIVE as to how each reviewer plays individually.
I guess they didn't know when it'd be finished up and the time they'd release it, but I'm sure they knew ahead of time that the original unlock time and preload weren't going to work out. I'm not pissed at all although this should have been explained before people started questioning everything.
Let's just hope for a stable release more than anything else. The last beta patch wasn't too bad at all for me in terms of bugs popping up during gameplay.
ACE 1991 said:
Given how modern day reviewers are in terms of reviewing hardcore games that require a little time and effort...Probably not as good as it deserves. Look at every hard game in the past few years and how the mainstream reviewers treat them and you'll get an idea. Add in the fact that it's PC only and has a steep learning curve and I think the scores will be really SUBJECTIVE as to how each reviewer plays individually.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Fair play to the guy for trying to keep a community informed on the status of the release. Only, he goes on to complain about trolls, to then troll part of the community for living in a different timezone? Well... he deserves all the aggro he gets after that. Not really going to diffuse anything there.
demolitio said:
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specs?ergo said:
Phife Dawg
Member
Pretty mediocre since you need time and skill to get good at it. This will just frustrate the hell out of the average reviewer who sucks at games and was brought up with the "modern" FPS mindset.ACE 1991 said:
DLing just fine here (Germany).Ikuu said:
scorpscarx
Member
R1CHO said:
Slander and lies, you know damn well you did it for the steampunk and more importantly, RO2 German and Russian skins, they are so sexy!
Anyway demolitio, this game definitely rewards risk correctly. IE you can survive gloriously by doing something awesome, rather than instantly get shot right after the fact ala COD.
I also truly enjoy the clean, sharp look of the architecture in this game, they also nailed the subtle coloring.
scorpscarx
Member
subversus said:
So did I, do it, you won't be disappointed.
IlludiumQ36
Member
My sentiments exactly.subversus said:
subversus said:
Same goes for this game. The feeling of putting that one perfect round into someone and just seeing that bleed out animation play, as he puts a hand to his stomach and just slowly crumbles and the uncertainty it gives you -- Is he dead, will he shoot back? Then you take another shot and he finally drops like a sack of potatoes.
Oh the feeling ...
That is where Tripwire is leagues above any other developer even with their extremely small dev team compared to most studios. The guns feel like really gun with some power to them and if you're right on sight of an enemy, you can count on that enemy to be dead or soon to be dead with glorious effects to let you know you shot them. The anti-tank rifle is the most fun I've ever had with a gun in a game because of how it penetrates damn near every wall in the game and it turns the enemy into a cloud of red mist.Sethos said:
That's another great thing about the game. The ballistic aren't faked and you really need to lead your target and know what size round you're firing so you know if you can kill that guy behind a brick wall or if it will just give your position away. So many games say they have bullet penetration when they only use it for fucking wood or sheet metal fences. There's nothing you can do when you know a guy is hiding inside a house in most games except for throwing a grenade. In this game, your rifle can go right through that wall and it leaves you with no feeling of safety no matter where you're at. And if you can't kill the guy because he's behind two walls and all you see is his gun, well then you get someone with an MG or anti-tank rifle and start shooting every inch of the wall until you hear the bastard scream.
So satisfying. Even being the commander and killing 10 guys with a mortar strike is extremely satisfying...
demolitio said:
Exactly. Everything they've done is just tweaked to perfection. From the sounds, the kick, the hit detection and even down to the gruesome animations of your kills. I can't believe games like this even exist - With all the shit being pumped out by major developers, I was starting to think these kind of games just weren't possible, something with this kind of gunplay and kill satisfaction.
What does bother me is the complains about the game, "Oh this is wrong, that bug is there, the UI, that animation is a bit iffy" fuck me, this is one of the least bugged games I've played in years. Major games seem to have 10x the bugs and roughness on release -- This is all based on playing the Beta! Perhaps that's just me but it does seem like they get no slack whatsoever for even the tiniest stuff when I've sat around in major AAA titles getting weapon abused, map glitched to hell and use of insane exploits and then people jump down the throat of this.
scorpscarx
Member
I'm with you Sethos, it really bothers me, I think that it all boils down to the effects of long term marketing on teenagers
Plus the fact that people tend to criticize unfamiliar things much harder than familiar ones.
Plus the fact that people tend to criticize unfamiliar things much harder than familiar ones.
HotHamWater
Member
So whats the deal with the download? I got about 50% done last night, and now I'm reading about needing to redownload it. Should I just let it finish, and I'll then have a further 2.6GB patch?