The Game's Name

[Bluehawk]

I've wondered for quite some time why the mod/game is named Red Orchestra.

I looked it up once upon a time and it was a phrase coined by the Gestapo to refer to a variety of Communist and anti-Hitler resistance groups in Germany and Eastern Europe with ties to the USSR and US. The Resistance group's radios were 'music boxes' thus making the entire network a 'orchestra' of sorts.

Obviously the Communist and/or anti-Nazi ideology ties in with the Eastern Front but the mod doesn't involve underground resistance groups or the Gestapo or anything like that so it seems inappropriate.

Is there a second meaning that I'm missing or is it named after the Red Army Orchestra? (for some reason lol)

 

[Felix Ostheim]

IIRC it used to be called 'The Third Reich' ? Maybe I'm wrong, but after the change it's stayed as Red Orchestra for a long time and despite the fact I'm not real fond of the name it is unlikley to change. Perhaps calling it Ostfront in the first place would have been better but it doesn't matter now

 

[vonRas]

IIRC it used to be called 'The Third Reich' ?

c'mon ost you know the third reich isnt dead, well, kinda... dead....

 

[Felix Ostheim]

Woops

 

[vonRas]

Woops

Yeah, very sad...

 

[Rilcon]

Originally the mod was for MoH:AA, and was supposed to depecit the player as a russian spy in a single player campaign. That never happened, outside of internal alphas and such.

 

[KapitanFelix]

IIRC it used to be called 'The Third Reich' ? Maybe I'm wrong, but after the change it's stayed as Red Orchestra for a long time and despite the fact I'm not real fond of the name it is unlikley to change. Perhaps calling it Ostfront in the first place would have been better but it doesn't matter now

i like Red Orchestra, sounds pretty bad ass to me plus its unique, and it sticks

 

[BicycleRepairMan]

It started out as a singleplayer game for Soldier Of Fortune involving the Red Orchestra spy network, moved to MOH:AA, became a MP game, moved to UT2003, was first released, moved to UT2004 and won the MSU

 

[[TW]schneidzekk]

Started out on MoH then moved to SoF2

 

[Anubis]

Didn't it almost got to Quake III at one point?

 

[Bluehawk]

Okay thanks, that makes sense