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[FiLtH]

The thing I hate most about ww2ol is I feel so disconnected while playing.  No way to talk ingame. Best to use TS with a bud I guess.

   My PC is doggy in there too. Plus it seems like a constant elipse is going on as its so dark. But its kinda fun at times.

[Reynolds]

I play the original Call of Duty for the PC, and although there alot of arcadish-childish-bull****ers, while he is jumping up and down with a thompson, I like to walk up and hit him in the head with '98 rifle. Its funny to watch him die from blunt-force-trauma (Yes, you really can do that)

[BlueJ1]

Originally posted by FiLtH
The thing I hate most about ww2ol is I feel so disconnected while playing.  No way to talk ingame. Best to use TS with a bud I guess.

   My PC is doggy in there too. Plus it seems like a constant elipse is going on as its so dark. But its kinda fun at times.

Did you see how they added that blue tint to everything at night. I dont like it much. And you have to live like a mole closing all the shades so you can see when its dark.

[Charon]

Red Orchgestra is great as a realistic infantry sim.

The tanks give a great feeling of immersion until you actually shoot at something, then the gross limitations of the penetration and damage models become apparent. Still, pretty fun though in an arcade sort of way.

The practice bot AI is super weak. Not smart to the point of having enemies run by you without shooting at the easy levels but over compensated with super accuracy at the harder levels. A guy running with a SMG at 200 yards firing from the hip and scoring hits. There are ways to adjust the settings to make it more enjoyable while you learn the maps and weapons, but I don't have them handy at the moment. I believe I removed "adjust to skill level" and left it at a middle setting and it worked pretty well.

Charon

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by 68Dougal
I play Red Orchestra, too. Been playing since it came out in October 2003 for UT2k3. In fact, I think I heard about it first on this forum (been lurking here a lot longer than I've been registered).

Anyway, the retail release, Ostfront, is incredible,  

I googed for that, http://www.ostfront.com sells old WWII posters that are pretty neat.

This is the game, I assume, best to wait for September update or does it matter?
http://www.redorchestragame.com/

[68Dougal]

Yeah, sorry about that. The complete title is "Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45". Just a bit of a mouthful, so I only wrote Ostfront. The link you posted to the game is indeed the correct one.

The next update is adding a new weapon, some cosmetic changes and some minor bugfixes. It should be out any day now. It's not like Battlefield where you need the patch just to have a working game. The game is completely playable right now, so really there's no sense in waiting for the update, unless you just want to update the game all at once instead of having to install and update, and then update again a few days later.

Just be warned that it's a completely different experience than most other FPS's. Many people hated it for the first few hours they played and complained on the boards. Then once they got used to it they came back and posted that it's one of the best games they ever played. So, you might have to give it time before it grows on you.

Sorry again about the confusion with the name, but that site you found is pretty cool, so it wasn't a completely bad thing.

EDIT: Typos