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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Russian on November 27, 2007, 10:00:59 PM
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I got to test my new video card with this lovely demo. It seems a new king of WW2 tank combat is about to be released.
Screenshots were taken on medium setting and resized to 800x600
(http://xd9.xanga.com/08dc3bf006532159897192/w120218212.jpg)
Infantry and tanks rush forward
(http://x74.xanga.com/d18c04f006733159897203/w120218221.jpg)
For a better view to spot targets, my crew pops out out of T-34/76
(http://xf7.xanga.com/001c36fb06033159897222/b120218237.jpg)
Infantry actually stays near tank for protection.
(http://xef.xanga.com/a02c23f406d32159897243/b120218255.jpg)
Shells explode around damaged tank. Few seconds later it caught on fire.
(http://xa5.xanga.com/1f8c24f407535159897254/b120218264.jpg)
As we pushed through village, Germans counter attacked with tanks and infantry. This Pnz got 3-4 shells into turret. No one escaped.
(http://x2c.xanga.com/ff3c50fb07435159897265/b120218274.jpg)
I parked my tank in hall-down position and popped tanks as they drove by. One tank received a shell and played 'dead'. Majority of tank's crew bailed out after first hit.
(http://xb9.xanga.com/e63c73f333c37159897279/b120218288.jpg)
Large portion of infantry managed to enter village. One Stug tried to sneak on to my 6 as I was running out of AP shells. Crew bailed but was mowed down by MG.
(http://x90.xanga.com/1e4c24f342535159897171/w120218199.jpg)
I advanced to village only to get whacked by PzrIII that was playing dead.
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I hope the gameplay makes up for those graphics. How would you rate the realism with regards to the tanks and tank systems such as gunnery?
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looks good is it multi-player or just single player mission type stuff? I'd love a tank sim that worked like AH2 on the multi-player end but had much better graphics.
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Play Red Orchestra
Tronsky
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Hell I think the graphics aren't bad for what appears to be a gunsight picture on the tank. Looks like one that I am going to see about grabbing myself to get back into some sims for a bit.
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Nice pictures. It will be interesting to see how it plays. It's a shame they didn't use the "flight of geese" tank sight.
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Can you play as germans and is the Zeiss sight modelled properly? If not, nevermind.
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As much as I don't like GVing in Aces High, I still loooveeee tanks.
Is this anything like the old... um... crap... what were they called... THAT'S IT!
The Close Combat Series?
When I get my new computer set up I might just take a whack at this, depends though, does it have the SU-100, or the ones that came before it? Gotta love those Tank Destroyers.
Also, that T-34 is mighty nice looking... Always did like Russian Armor more than US. Never have figured out why...
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Play Red Orchestra
Tronsky
'tis a good game, but has its drawbacks. For a large scale multiplayer tank battle sim, its very good. Its drawbacks are infantry and lack of decent maps (since the last time I played). The controls are terrible for movement and controls of infantry. Gameplay wasn't bad, didn't really care for waiting for a tank to spawn and having 5 guys try to get in it.
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As far as I know, the team that is working on this, is maintaining maximum realism including ballistics, armor and driving. There will be three tanks; Matilda, T34/76 and PzrIII(?). All of those vehicles are rendered inside and out including crew, sight and whatnot. Red Orchestra is more of a infantry simulator then tank sim (tanks = arcade). I'm not even going to talk about AH....
There is a demo available to anyone who has enough computer power. With my 3200+ / 1G ram / 7800GTOC demo run fine on medium settings.
http://steelfury.info/index2.html
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Originally posted by Russian
As far as I know, the team that is working on this, is maintaining maximum realism including ballistics, armor and driving. There will be three tanks; Matilda, T34/76 and PzrIII(?). All of those vehicles are rendered inside and out including crew, sight and whatnot. Red Orchestra is more of a infantry simulator then tank sim (tanks = arcade). I'm not even going to talk about AH....
There is a demo available to anyone who has enough computer power. With my 3200+ / 1G ram / 7800GTOC demo run fine on medium settings.
http://steelfury.info/index2.html
I think it looks pretty good, the demo is a bit confusing but looks good. When is it due out?
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Looks good, screenshots look ok to me, remind me of ww2ol. IMO those guys could have made a bit of money by making a ww2 tank sim on the side.
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This game was brought to my attention about a year a go. I downloaded it but could not get it running. Possible because at the time I was running 64 bit Xp. The person who told me about it was really pumped about the graphics. He posted alot of pics that looked impressive.
The makers of the game are russian.
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Hmm...Looks like it might be pretty good. Hopefully, better than iPanzer'44.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
I think it looks pretty good, the demo is a bit confusing but looks good. When is it due out?
Think the Russian version due out this week.
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I wish that they could get the lighting right in games. Why is it always such a dark side of the moon event when looking at something?
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Play Red Orchestra
Tronsky
End of thread.
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i just downloaded the english version....it gives me a setup.exe file but when i open it nothing happens....
any ideas?
edit: i use a nvidia geforce 6200a, i geuss thats the problem.. :(
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Pictures of aftermath.
(http://x52.xanga.com/d50c334455233160168308/b120452899.jpg)
(http://xc0.xanga.com/c8fc064445d30160168318/b120452908.jpg)
(http://x93.xanga.com/15dc0b4446533160168329/b120452917.jpg)
(http://x52.xanga.com/03ac1b57c9630160168336/b120452923.jpg)
(http://xc4.xanga.com/273c1157c8231160168303/b120452896.jpg)
(http://x51.xanga.com/782c0053c9230160168391/b120452974.jpg)
(http://x3f.xanga.com/99dc0b4526733160168348/b120452934.jpg)
(http://x30.xanga.com/729c0251c9230160168372/b120452955.jpg)
(http://xc9.xanga.com/ebec364526133160168359/b120452943.jpg)
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That looks pretty damn good.
how would you rate the realism and playability?
I am still just figuring out the controls lol
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I hate to say it, but it looks like a 2004 version of Panzer Commander... I'm not a graphics guy, but they could of updated the graphics alot more than they did.
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Personally, I think it looks pretty damn good.
Sys reqs?
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Originally posted by Delirium
I hate to say it, but it looks like a 2004 version of Panzer Commander... I'm not a graphics guy, but they could of updated the graphics alot more than they did.
Yea true specially with what some of the newer DX10 games look like. For instance Farcry 2 or Crysis. Both of those games have killer looking terrains and would be awesome game engines to use for a tank sim.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
That looks pretty damn good.
how would you rate the realism and playability?
I am still just figuring out the controls lol
Realism is quite high IMHO. I've read quite a few memuars of tank veterans, especially from eastern front, and many things seems very right. Also, this is first proper tank WW2 'sim' that we had...ever? I'm not going to talk about Panzer Elite since that is a joke without user mods. The only game that resemble tank vs tank combat to SFK is WW2OL.
Playability wise, it's very hard. It's more of a study sim. Learn keys....very important.
About 'prettiness', my settings are on medium and images were resized (1280x1024 to 800x600). When game is in motion, it looks very nice. Obviously, our dear sims will never look like crysis, but i'd rather take a good game play that will last me years (IL2 is a good example) than a silly maze game with 10 hours of game play.
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(http://xad.xanga.com/c73822f600278160543320/w120774048.jpg)
With no AP ammo left and only few of next best thing, shrapnel shell, I manage to penetrate armor and injure driver. Few more shells damaged track of still Stug and crew bailed out.
(http://xda.xanga.com/10cc34e3d3533160543399/w120774117.jpg)
Work place of commander and gunner since in T34/76 those are the same person.
(http://xd1.xanga.com/c33c16e303631160543408/b120774123.jpg)
Loader is waiting my next command. My tank carries ~10 AP shells, ~10 Shrapnel and ~60 HE shells. Each shell can have different settings; I can set shrapnel to detonate with impact which can actually provide +/- 30mm of armor penetration or set it so shell detonates over infantry.
(http://xe5.xanga.com/bfac33e3d2d33160543388/b120774108.jpg)
Infantry charges forward. Without proper support, they are toast.
(http://xb9.xanga.com/852d8ae137c31160543461/b120774162.jpg)
This is the result what happens when infantry charges position without tanks / artillery. My HE shells plowed the ground around them.
(http://x7a.xanga.com/e77826f000c38160543422/b120774134.jpg)
With only HE shells left, I managed to knock out tracks of this Stug. Thinking that I knocked him out and crew bailed, I was stupid enough to driver right in front of him later on. He didn't miss and with with first shot my tank was knocked out.
(http://x91.xanga.com/a46c17e314731160543443/b120774149.jpg)
German units managed to retake village. I caught Stug moving away and shot a shrapnel shell into it's rear. No one jumped out as Stug stopped moving forever.
(http://xe1.xanga.com/e0ed8be435131160543351/b120774077.jpg)
One AP is enough to take out this Pnz at 850 meters.
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*DROOOOL*
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Did ever come out? All I can find is talk of the demo from last year.
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Also, that T-34 is mighty nice looking... Always did like Russian Armor more than US. Never have figured out why...
If I didnt know any better I would say those screenshots are from a game called "T-34 vs Tiger" or at least thats what it was called last year.
I have the demo loaded but I dont play it much.