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Russian hero uniforms on winter maps

Axis can blend into all dark area which gives a big advantage while ally only blend into certains brown areas. There is ofcause way more dark areas then anything else and that brown uniforum really sticks out compaired to a shadow across the field. Slightly unfair but what to do about it? Make a map where it's offspring and all the leafs are brown and covering the groun.
 
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Deal with it and just be grateful your team are not Red Coats. See here if you are not familiar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(British_army" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(British_army)
The weapons they had back then didn't really require a lot of blending in since their weapons didn't have any real accuracy and it was a different time. There should still be maps where the allies had more advantage. I'm not saying the uniform color should be changed since it was that color but maybe a map.
 
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Deal with it and just be grateful your team are not Red Coats. See here if you are not familiar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(British_army" target="_blank">[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(British_army[/URL])

I'm dealing with it, it's not really an issue that's bothering me too much, but I just wanted to ask everyone's opinion.

BTW, are you the Cat in da Hat that hosts the Aussie/NZ RO2 server? Thanks for getting players to gather around on your server, bots get a bit boring (and sometimes annoying with their bolt-action hipfire shot to the head antics).
 
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Anyone else think they should be changed? The bright green shade is way too visible and it's just an invitation to get shot.

:rolleyes:

Here we go.

The hero uniform should be as close as can be determined to be prototypical for that period. Color hue, dirt and all. It may need adjustment. This is Heroes of Stalingrad, NOT Heroes of whatever is convenient from my point of view. I don't care if the dang thing had a rotating amber light on the helmet.
 
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:rolleyes:

Here we go.

The hero uniform should be as close as can be determined to be prototypical for that period. Color hue, dirt and all. It may need adjustment. This is Heroes of Stalingrad, NOT Heroes of whatever is convenient from my point of view. I don't care if the dang thing had a rotating amber light on the helmet.

So Russian heroes crawled through thousands of sewers without changing uniform to achieve the ugly green colour? Why isn't this the same for heroes on summer maps, or Germans on both?
 
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The problem with winter hero's is that they have an inferior uniform compared to the regular infantry. The Regular Russians get white, the hero gets green. It makes no sense at all, you'd think the Hero would go out of his way to get fresh whites.

Oh and the German hero on the winter map gets white unform, a step up from the grey the regular German soldier must wear. So in summary, German hero gets advantage over regular Germans, Russian hero gets disadvantaged over regular russians.
 
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I agree. The telogreika is too dark. This is how it should be:
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And I think the telogreika shouldn't be a hero uniform, but a regular uniform that would appear randomly and be as common as the greatcoat, giving a plastch palatka or a winter camouflage instead as a hero uniform.
 
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So Russian heroes crawled through thousands of sewers without changing uniform to achieve the ugly green colour? Why isn't this the same for heroes on summer maps, or Germans on both?


I make no assertions about what Russian heroes did or did not do.

Again: the color, hue, design, and dirt should to the greatest degree reflect what photos and descriptions tell us what was typical during that period. And the "too much or too little" should be based on that alone. If the current model is not correct, then yes, it should be changed.

I'm a purist. Can ya tell? :)
 
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Spoiler!

The hero in this picture is different from what it looks in the game, and that's how it should have been. The greatcoats are too white in the pic, but in the game they are pretty good, but the Red Army used to have a lot of variation on their uniforms, so some greatcoats should be dark brown, white other light brown as in the game.
 
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Yes but the reason for the red coats is that its harder to count large groups of men in a line dressed in red.So there is a tactical reason for it.
This was also before the use of camo was learnt nor needed.

While camo wasn't used, cover was absolutely used during the Revolutionary War. American guerrillas used cover for surprise attacks and to make up for their smaller numbers.
 
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