TWI should contact the AirBuc developers, and publish their game (assuming there are no hard feelings).
Memories gone by
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Berlin and Koitos were my favorites from the Mod... had my favorite camping spots in each with the MG42.
I had a real throwback the other day as I was cleaning my office... I came across where I printed out my receipt for when I pre-ordered RO:OST, and also my CD-Key Receipt for when I got access to the RO:OST beta. I'm almost tempted to frame them.
Seeing the video's and the reactions I truly would like a remastered version to taste the game. Video's made it look awesome
Please Air Buccaneers 2
hockeywarrior
FNG / Fresh Meat
I think Air Buccaneers was innovative and polished enough that it would make a fantastic Indy Steam game release if it were ever polished up and released. It's based on such a creative concept that no one has attempted to do ever since.
Glad my memories have been well received.
Actually Jucha was a beautiful map and the gameplay was unlike any other maps at the time. The guy responsible made some other great maps not just for RO. Koitas as well was a favourite of mine; fighting through the houses. So thank you guys for reminding me of those maps.
Totally agree with Air Buccaneers - it just begs to me remade and polished - such a different style of play to the norm. Another mod I used to play a lot back then was Alien Swarm and look what happened to that ! I am hoping to pick up UTK4 in a daily sale and install Air Buccs and RO for old times sake.
May see you on the servers this weekend Snuffeldjuret, my wife is going away for the weekend so I am going to have a good session in the next couple of days.
Actually Jucha was a beautiful map and the gameplay was unlike any other maps at the time. The guy responsible made some other great maps not just for RO. Koitas as well was a favourite of mine; fighting through the houses. So thank you guys for reminding me of those maps.
Totally agree with Air Buccaneers - it just begs to me remade and polished - such a different style of play to the norm. Another mod I used to play a lot back then was Alien Swarm and look what happened to that ! I am hoping to pick up UTK4 in a daily sale and install Air Buccs and RO for old times sake.
May see you on the servers this weekend Snuffeldjuret, my wife is going away for the weekend so I am going to have a good session in the next couple of days.
What was that custom map with the frozen river, tanks, and a scripted Stuka bombing?
I think it was either made by Psycho Chicken or Wicked Penguin, or some type of disturbed bird.
I think it was either made by Psycho Chicken or Wicked Penguin, or some type of disturbed bird.
I believe it was Aksay by Wicked Penguin..
These are the maps he made
RO-Mga / RO-PartisanForest / RO-POW_Train_Escape / RO-KorsunAirfield / RO-Aksay / BS-FallenEmpire
..as a side note - Wicked Penguin was the very first person I met when playing Combined Arms for the first time. He was a really cool dude and he gave me a good first impression of the (very) small community at the time. I think this was around the end of the 2.0 period, cause it was shortly after I found RO that 3.0 came out. Man, it's been a long (and wonderful) ride
These are the maps he made
RO-Mga / RO-PartisanForest / RO-POW_Train_Escape / RO-KorsunAirfield / RO-Aksay / BS-FallenEmpire
..as a side note - Wicked Penguin was the very first person I met when playing Combined Arms for the first time. He was a really cool dude and he gave me a good first impression of the (very) small community at the time. I think this was around the end of the 2.0 period, cause it was shortly after I found RO that 3.0 came out. Man, it's been a long (and wonderful) ride
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Red Orchestra was first steam game I ever bought, also it was first game that I bought on money from my first work.
Kiev. Now that was a map that defined your manhood.
But my all-time favorite was Stanislolov (or something like that)
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Right on cue, the original developers of the UT2004 Air Bucs mod are using the UDK to make a 2012 version.
http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=13479
Nice read.
I remember a map from the mod that you had to capture some hills at night and there was a cavern with an easter egg. That map was very fun because despite being very open, it was hard to pixel hunt.
I remember a map from the mod that you had to capture some hills at night and there was a cavern with an easter egg. That map was very fun because despite being very open, it was hard to pixel hunt.
The first mod I ever played was for Quake I called "Killer Quake" which was basically the same as Quake MP, but piles of different weapons to choose from.
Then I moved into Half-Life and played piles of mods for that.... it was like buying one game and getting a dozen others.
Then after HL, I moved into UT2k4 after playing the free demo, and I was hooked. I loved the vehicles and Onslaught game mode..... and then the Unreal Contest came about and I heard a lot of hype about Red Orchestra: Combined Arms.... so I downloaded it and was hooked.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tQ0pxVALlc&feature=related" target="_blank">Red Orchestra - Ingame Koitos ( 3.3 ) - YouTube
^ Gameplay I found last night on the map Koitos 1944..... seems to have been recorded near the end of ROCA's prime, as there was only a couple of people playing..... I still remember full servers loaded with people and constant battling.... and I loved taking the radio house cap area, going prone on the bed on the bottom floor and having my MG setup on the doorway mowing down the enemy as they came along. Then they'd try and nade spam me, but due to the bed blocking much of the grenades, I'd barely get a scratch and then they'd rush in and get mowed down, followed by players complaining that I was hacking.
I wasn't hacking, I was just prone on a bed..... don't blame me for the map design
I probably played ROCA just about every single day right up until Ostfront came along and turned the mod into a ghost town.
It took me a while to get Ostfront because I didn't have a credit card and was dumb in not figuring out how to get my paypal to pay for it, until I realized Paypal didn't just take the money out of my account, I had to put it into Paypal and then pay on Steam..... duh.
But by that time, I missed the prime of RO1 and only pop on from time to time now.
There was just so much to ROCA, it was revolutionary at the time, where most other FPS's still relied on crosshairs or iron sights made out of 2D textures on the screen...... not the actual sights on the weapon in your hand..... vehicles didn't have health bars, you had to hit them in the right spot at the right time to get a one shot kill or simply have the rounds deflect off the sloped armour.... I was a master of angling my tank and most times the only way to take me out was if I was flanked by another tank or arty was dropped on me.
It was simply amazing.... in other games you'd have to hit another tank 3-4 times anywhere before they blew up..... so if they hit you first, you already knew you weren't going to survive unless they missed a shot..... with RO, you'd take some damage and say "Ok, not quite the right angle" rotate your body a bit more and then you were safe, while they just pointed straight at you without an angle, one shot, boom.
And the IS2 was fun as hell.... on Barashka I had so many people complain I was hacking when they couldn't do anything to my tank due to angling and I'd hold a cap zone all by myself.... and while they raged, the rest of my team were grateful I knew what I was doing so they could focus on other objectives.
And then there was Karlovka......
Good times.
I do remember Air Buc's.... but never got into it and only played it for a very short time before I went back to RO
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