Just want to say that I have been a fan of TWI since the day ROOST came out. If anyone remembers, it was a very buggy release but there was something about the game and TWI supported the game from the beginning.
I guess I am writing this out of frustration. At its core, Heroes of Stalingrad has the potential to be a great game. I say potential because right now the game is kinda' stuck in some sort of nowhere land.
First off, I understand there are quite alot of people who have a hard time playing the game because of performance issues or other bugs. Many of these people Want to play, but either can't or its so frustrating its not really worth it (not me, my 4 year old cpu actually is fine with this game). Others may have a hard time just finding a game because of browser issues. This I know from personal experience. Having to wait for the game browser to refresh the server list or having to restart the game to get the list to show up has gotten to be annoying to no end. I know for a fact that I would be playing at least a few more hours a week if it weren't for this issue and I suspect there are alot of other players like me as well. I suspect there are alot of people who are not playing the game at all right now who really want to but are waiting for these issues to be fixed and know that TWI will eventually take care of them. Worse though are the loads of players who for one reason or another can't or don't want to wait and have quit all together. This all leads to much lower numbers of players in the games and on servers. I don't care how you spin it or if there are other contributing factors that help lower the numbers, but it amounts to bad word of mouth and less sales which in itself keeps the player numbers low.
The next and biggest issue has to do with the availability of a proper Realism mode and not how it is now; Relaxed Realism with less HUD. This is what really really gets to me and I suspect alot of ROOST Vets and some newcomers who expected more out of the game. TWI stated that they wanted to appeal to a larger group of gamers and I, we get that. A big part of that amounted to making the game more accessable to newcomers with an easier learning curve and not the clunky (yet lovable) type control we all saw in ROOST. We got better animations, weapon handling, movement etc and for the most part I think TWI did a very good job with this, I must give credit where credit is due. However we got all kinds of extras thrown in with this such as the obvious excessive hero weapons, semi-autos and smgs, stats and unlocks. We also got some of the less obvious things that individually would not be so bad (such as lack of proper stamina/weapon sway effects), but just add up with the other features such as Lockdown to become more annoying, rushed faster paced game than it should be.
Alot of these things are fine for your Firefight mode and Relaxed Realism mode. Afterall, weren't these designed to draw in more players from other games who would be interested in trying out Red Orchestra for one reason or another? Yes for those modes, but they do not belong in the Realism Mode! By default most of these extras should be off or limited in Realism mode, which I will say, should be more like a classic ROOST mode. I know now that servers have the options to limit these things to an extent, but in Realism mode they should be already off or limited to begin with!
Now I do believe that TWI will work on the game and try to fix what it can with regards to optimization and bug fixes even if that does take time. They do have a track record that supports that. Maybe we will also get lucky and get DX11 support for better gpu/cpu utilization and maybe non-cpu sound support as well. Hopefully that is more than just wishful thinking.
But Realism mode, please TWI give us a proper Realism mode by default and not just the option to tweak server settings. That whole method to tweak settings in Realism mode to get it to be like a proper Realism mode is just impractical when it should be the other way around to begin with. I also think that the great majority of players who want a proper Realism mode (or classic mode or Ostfront mode whatever you call it) would prefer it that way.
We are your core audience, the ones who supported you thru the years, the ones who helped spread the word about ROHOS, the ones who preordered the game, the ones who would still (mostly) be playing the game despite the release of other AAA titles, the ones who will stick with you despite the game bugs and optimization problems because we know you will fix those to the best of your ability. We are the ones who would be filling the ROHOS servers and attracting new players if only you would just give us a proper and realistic Realism mode and we are Not the .0001% !!!
I guess I am writing this out of frustration. At its core, Heroes of Stalingrad has the potential to be a great game. I say potential because right now the game is kinda' stuck in some sort of nowhere land.
First off, I understand there are quite alot of people who have a hard time playing the game because of performance issues or other bugs. Many of these people Want to play, but either can't or its so frustrating its not really worth it (not me, my 4 year old cpu actually is fine with this game). Others may have a hard time just finding a game because of browser issues. This I know from personal experience. Having to wait for the game browser to refresh the server list or having to restart the game to get the list to show up has gotten to be annoying to no end. I know for a fact that I would be playing at least a few more hours a week if it weren't for this issue and I suspect there are alot of other players like me as well. I suspect there are alot of people who are not playing the game at all right now who really want to but are waiting for these issues to be fixed and know that TWI will eventually take care of them. Worse though are the loads of players who for one reason or another can't or don't want to wait and have quit all together. This all leads to much lower numbers of players in the games and on servers. I don't care how you spin it or if there are other contributing factors that help lower the numbers, but it amounts to bad word of mouth and less sales which in itself keeps the player numbers low.
The next and biggest issue has to do with the availability of a proper Realism mode and not how it is now; Relaxed Realism with less HUD. This is what really really gets to me and I suspect alot of ROOST Vets and some newcomers who expected more out of the game. TWI stated that they wanted to appeal to a larger group of gamers and I, we get that. A big part of that amounted to making the game more accessable to newcomers with an easier learning curve and not the clunky (yet lovable) type control we all saw in ROOST. We got better animations, weapon handling, movement etc and for the most part I think TWI did a very good job with this, I must give credit where credit is due. However we got all kinds of extras thrown in with this such as the obvious excessive hero weapons, semi-autos and smgs, stats and unlocks. We also got some of the less obvious things that individually would not be so bad (such as lack of proper stamina/weapon sway effects), but just add up with the other features such as Lockdown to become more annoying, rushed faster paced game than it should be.
Alot of these things are fine for your Firefight mode and Relaxed Realism mode. Afterall, weren't these designed to draw in more players from other games who would be interested in trying out Red Orchestra for one reason or another? Yes for those modes, but they do not belong in the Realism Mode! By default most of these extras should be off or limited in Realism mode, which I will say, should be more like a classic ROOST mode. I know now that servers have the options to limit these things to an extent, but in Realism mode they should be already off or limited to begin with!
Now I do believe that TWI will work on the game and try to fix what it can with regards to optimization and bug fixes even if that does take time. They do have a track record that supports that. Maybe we will also get lucky and get DX11 support for better gpu/cpu utilization and maybe non-cpu sound support as well. Hopefully that is more than just wishful thinking.
But Realism mode, please TWI give us a proper Realism mode by default and not just the option to tweak server settings. That whole method to tweak settings in Realism mode to get it to be like a proper Realism mode is just impractical when it should be the other way around to begin with. I also think that the great majority of players who want a proper Realism mode (or classic mode or Ostfront mode whatever you call it) would prefer it that way.
We are your core audience, the ones who supported you thru the years, the ones who helped spread the word about ROHOS, the ones who preordered the game, the ones who would still (mostly) be playing the game despite the release of other AAA titles, the ones who will stick with you despite the game bugs and optimization problems because we know you will fix those to the best of your ability. We are the ones who would be filling the ROHOS servers and attracting new players if only you would just give us a proper and realistic Realism mode and we are Not the .0001% !!!
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