I have an opposite testament to the quality of this game: When I played other WWII fps games like COD, I was a bolt-only adherent, because I hated how easy it was to run and gun with the smg classes and I felt more challenged and rewarded by the bolt-action rifles. It makes you feel like Robert Deniro in The Deerhunter.
With RO, however, I use a lot of variety. Bolt is still a lot of fun, but this game makes every weapon fun, challenging, and rewarding to use. Now I use bolt probably only 1/3 of the time, often when I have to because I missed out on the other classes (but I am never disappointed by this) Before RO I always turned my nose up at all the SMG-carrying rabble. Not any more.
Many people complain about the recoil on the SMGs. I don't understand this. Have these people watched the training videos? The SMG in the training video has virtually no recoil...why? because the demonstrator is dragging back on the mouse as he fires, and the video teaches us so. This simulates the trained muscular steadying of the weapon IRL, and is part of the game version of the weapon's design, so that the use of the SMGs in the game requires some learning of a skill to use adequately. I have no hands-on familiarity with any of the weapons in this game. But what I do know is that excessive recoil, unless it is related to a bug that needs fixing (we have already seen one recoil bug-fix), is not an inexorable reality; all you have to do to "fix" the recoil is learn the mousing skill that goes along with the weapon you have chosen. Is this too much to ask in a game like RO, that people have to do a little more to use a weapon effectively? At risk of being attacked for saying so, to complain about non-bug-related recoil on the SMGs in this game is a little like complaining about the lack of crosshairs. It's just part of the game design to add a little more finesse to the use of the weapon.
