Red Orchestra 2?

[blitze]

Yoshi, a word on the DirectX 10 comments, how about utilising OpenGL which will give all the features that DirectX 10 has and will run on XP and can be ported easily to Linux/Mac OS-X?

Great thing about Unreal Engined stuff is tha OpenGL support built in and it would be great to see some decent cross platform material come out utilising Open and cross platform SDK's.

Now, UE3 will of course bring us destructable environs which will be a blessing for tankers as no longer will those peskie wodern fences hold us up, or any building in the village.
MG taking out your troops, wheel the main gun around to the building it's in and blow the fn floor out of it. I can't wait. Tanking in UE3 based material will be great fun if destructive environments are implemented. No more restrictions on destruction.

 

[Warlord]

Tanking in UE3 based material will be great fun if destructive environments are implemented. No more restrictions on destruction.

Seconded. Material penetration physics would add to the realism & fun factor as well.

 

[Tomcat_ha]

But blowing stuff up also creates cover. The things that you shoot at dont dissapear they just get rearranged

 

[Madeyes]

Yoshi, a word on the DirectX 10 comments,

Yoshi is no longer workig for TW.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Yoshi is no longer workig for TW.

??

 

[blitze]

Trust me, always late to the party. Oh well, whomever is in his stead. OpenGL is the way to go with 3D graphics especially with a slow but surely shifting computing base migrating from Win ? to a variety of platforms.

Program once and then release client executables compiled for different OS's for maximum effect.

 

[Madeyes]

Have a search for trailers for Battlefield Bad company, S.T.A.L.K.E.R & Crisis & see what the new generation of games can do. RO would be soooo good in these engines. The only problem may be a game so unbalanced towards tanks as they can blow up all the buldings that the gameplay suffers.

 

[blitze]

Game play could also be enhanced and infantry might support tanks and visa versa tanks cover inf. Also it is more a case of cat and mouse with urban environs and with tanks especially as you can still take them out with satchels or Panzer fausts.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

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Man you really need to dust that room.

 

[kapulA]

What Tomcat said.
You blow up a building,you create a huge maze of rubble,debris and craters.
I'd prefer a crater than a building for cover tbh.

 

[Madeyes]

Man you really need to dust that room.

Lol i live in Cyprus. It'ss VERY dusty & because of the heat the doors & windows are open all the time. You have to dust twice a week.

 

[NoxNoctum]

Two reasons I can see for wanting an RO2 to come out (in a few years):

1) It'll increase the size of the community drastically: Sure, we'll lose some who have ancient hardware and want to stick to the original, but whenever a new game comes out, it attracts a sizeable community, and RO2 will have the advantage of starting as a retail product, not a mod. Think about it, Operation Flashpoint sold well over 1 million copies worldwide (maybe 2 million?), even though it was an ultra-realistic "tactical shooter" and somewhat rough around the edges (at least initially).

Can you imagine the size of the multiplayer community if a potential RO2 sold even a fraction of that? Since it's an "online-focused" game (ala BF series), a good portion of the people who bought it would be playing online regularly (unlike OFP).

2) Better physics, GFX, effects, and, as a result, realism. Sure, RO's the most realistic shooter out there right now, but can you imagine how awesome it would be if we had destructible buildings/terrain and could shoot through walls and such (and tanks would no longer get stuck on tree branches )? It'd boost the intensity of RO to an all new level. Think about it, it would add an all new level of replayability to maps as the carnage resulted in the creation of different cover every time! One game that building in the middle might the get its side blown off, creating an ad hoc "cement sandbag", the other game, a tank might simply roll through it and leave nothing standing. It'd be ridiculously awesome. AND we would also get better animations, which, while not critical to good gameplay, certainly helps with immersion.

 

[BuddyLee]

"In a few years" is a few years too late.

People with old PC's could still play old RO. But the rest of us who are "BigPimpin' can enjoy a GOOD Next Gen Game. Because there are none out at the moment I would consider dropping more than $10 on.

 

[bloodypotato]

*snip* the rest of us who are "BigPimpin' *snip*

I wouldn't mind waiting a couple of years, as long as the product that they do deliver is as good or better than the original game. I see no problem with having a bit of patience. Oh yeah, lol at the quote above .

 

[Tomcat_ha]

What Tomcat said.
You blow up a building,you create a huge maze of rubble,debris and craters.
I'd prefer a crater than a building for cover tbh.

It would take allot of shells to blow up a building though and even then there will still be large pieces standing.

 

[horendus]

lol you could imagine how map designers would have to look at desinging maps on ultra destructable engines in a complelty new way.

Mappers design maps very precisly, deliberatly creating all those awsum choke points and fire fight areas.

If a tank had the power to flattern the landscape in a game (and im sure they would, hek id be firing at building while online to watch them crumble) then the mapper essentialy no longer can have controll over the maps design.

HOWEVER

If the engine is good enough destroyed building would still be a playground of rubble to have fire fights in creating almost unlimited variation in how a map plays out....which is cant see ANY problem with

I want a all outdoor maps to be rendered on a pysics controlled "sandbox", so when arty hits the dirt, it flys up and lays on things until it falls off, not to mention the hole it has left

Also this means heavy vehicels will manipulate the map, moving dirt around and creating ultra realistic traks in the physics calculated sanbox. Hell even a highly driven area could get muddy, chruned up dirt adding to the bog. Endless possibilites

Hell prone soldiers will even leave there mark!

We can only imagine

 

[Tomcat_ha]

You cant just blow up a building anyway. It takes quite allot of shelling to do so. The only buildings which have a decent chance of being blown up are those like the farm in ogledow.

 

[Madeyes]

Imagine what would be left of a building after you call an arty strike on it??
I WANT THIS ALL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[[5.SS] Herr Hut]

Are you imagining the server it would take to run this... not going to happen for a few years (at least)

 

[Tomcat_ha]

Imagine what would be left of a building after you call an arty strike on it??
I WANT THIS ALL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite allot actually.