The highs and lows of RO2

[Cwalk]

As an aside about the sound... I just wish that artillery strikes were more intense. Why are those explosions so quiet? And the Mosin Nagant sounds much more menacing in real life... at least from what I remember shooting with my friend's.

I don't want to derail this thread too badly, but if you go on the steam workshop for RO2, you should be able to find a mod called the Immersion Overhaul Mutator by Dibbler67. The forum thread for it is one of the most popular threads on this forum.

Anyway, it changes almost all the sounds in the game, as well as a bunch of other things, so I would recommend downloading it and trying it out against some bots. I think there's also some actual servers running it too, if you go into the unranked tab, but they're usually empty. Never hurts to just check to see if there's a few people in them though, and if so then hop in and see if you can get a proper game going with that fantastic mod.

 

[Kleist]

Like Cwalk said: Try the Immersion Overhaul Mutator!

Download the Immersion Overhaul Mutator

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=145520002&searchtext=



Join the Steamgroup "Dibbler

 

[The Beast (nl)]

Highs

textures
animations
sounds
gameplay

Lows
unrealistic
Adding vehicles is made very difficult / too long.

 

[Don Draper]

Highs:
moved away from the unrealistic sway of weapons
Blind firing (would have prefered it with out using cover sytem, like a combo, never use it, but i like it)
The thearter of war
Maps like red october factory
Visuals are much better
Inside tanks are great, detail is great, the tanks are really good in that sense.
Commander with arty.
Campaign mode (when it made it)

Lows:
only 2 tanks and no Vehicles for 2 years? what gives?
Cant get out of tank ( i loved that in RO)
locking into cover (good idea, but i never use it) i would have prefered a 4th stance to use between crouch and stand instead ).
Lack of maps.
Sniper rifle dosnt feel as effective due to the map sizes i think, and the added feature of Zoom in realism mode for the other weapons detracts from it, not that i am against Zoom per se.
Engineer class under utilised in most maps.
needs more blood, red mist, momma type deaths.

Best game of its kind out there, but needed polish. Hopefully the 3rd one if, there is one will be a charm.

 

[Seamie]

Best moment in RS for me was killing 5 Japanese trying to flank on the far right of B on Hanto with one 1903 clip at close range.

 

[norcalscot]

Best moment in RS for me was killing 5 Japanese trying to flank on the far right of B on Hanto with one 1903 clip at close range.

Getting multiple bolt action kills in a short space of time is more satisfying for me than spraying the enemy with an automatic weapon and getting the equivalent number of kills. Not really sure why, but it just feels more "intense"...

 

[Jpz38 Hetzer]

Getting multiple bolt action kills in a short space of time is more satisfying for me than spraying the enemy with an automatic weapon and getting the equivalent number of kills. Not really sure why, but it just feels more "intense"...

I completely agree, while automatics are also incredibly fun, there are fewer things better then storming a room with a bolt action rifle and your trusty bayonet when you run out of ammo

 

[Nikita]

Getting multiple bolt action kills in a short space of time is more satisfying for me than spraying the enemy with an automatic weapon and getting the equivalent number of kills. Not really sure why, but it just feels more "intense"...

Rakowice. Playing as a Russian defending (MP campaign) the bunker objective in front of the airfield against the oncoming germans.

German soldiers have just taken the bunker while I was running to reinforce it. I'm in the open ground, with no option to retreat. I elect instead to advance.

I shoot the first German that pokes his head out of the bunker door. Next, I lob my two grenades down the bunker's central hall. Four kills. Picking up the German's two M24 stick grenades, I toss those too, and more bodies fly. All I can hear is German--German orders, German screams, German chatter. I'm completely surrounded.

I charge into the building. A quick aimed shot kills the enemy commander as he steps around a corner. I hear panicked voices from the next room.

I enter through the doorway to find myself face-to-face with three more German soldiers. I shoot one from the hip, but there isn't time to rebolt my rifle. I bayonet the second German, and as I charge towards the third, he catches me with a spray of MP40 fire. As I bleed out, staggering, he moves to swing his weapon at me, but my bayonet thrust catches him in the belly.

"Before you die, kill a German soldier--with your teeth if necessary." I fulfilled that order eleven times over in that minute of life, ha.

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On the meta level, RO2 has always had its highs and its lows. I jump back in now and then, and sometimes the bugs (squad selection screen still shows incorrectly filled/unfilled slots, control scheme resets after every patch, tanks with dead crewmen still feel buggy as hell) make me regret booting up the game at all.

Other times, I find a good server with decent teamwork and players, and the nail-biting tension and lethal combat is like nothing other. Especially in a Classic server, sometimes the right music comes on, the right people are there, the right settings are set, and suddenly you feel like you're really an eighteen-year-old in the Wehrmacht or the Red Army, fighting to kill or be killed. No other WWII FPS game is so immersive.

It's always been a love/hate thing, haha.

 

[andyana]

Had one of those great defences last night on Saipan - A to E fell pretty fast, in something like 5 minutes, then we all banded together in F and held it until we were out of tickets, and even then there were only 0.42 seconds left. The Marines kept flinging smoke grenades into the front, so we rained grenades and automatic fire from the top floor into the smoke cloud and sold our lives dearly! It was one of those moments that RO/RS should really be about; winning or losing was irrelevant, all that mattered was having an awesome time and feeling like a real hero.

 

[Sulman]

Had one of those great defences last night on Saipan - A to E fell pretty fast, in something like 5 minutes, then we all banded together in F and held it until we were out of tickets, and even then there were only 0.42 seconds left. The Marines kept flinging smoke grenades into the front, so we rained grenades and automatic fire from the top floor into the smoke cloud and sold our lives dearly! It was one of those moments that RO/RS should really be about; winning or losing was irrelevant, all that mattered was having an awesome time and feeling like a real hero.

Matches like that are great, but always tinged with a little annoyance that your team waited so long to get it together. Often the case that I see a poor match one, then a much stronger match two.

 

[Walsh]

Getting multiple bolt action kills in a short space of time is more satisfying for me than spraying the enemy with an automatic weapon and getting the equivalent number of kills. Not really sure why, but it just feels more "intense"...

I once got 9 kills with one mag of the SVT, outside F on Winterwald. But the time I got 2 kills with one swing of the katana may be the best.

 

[Jank]

2 kills, 1 cut

 

[{1.SS}Faust]

The other night, I was playing a campaign map as the Americans. We were defending... Betio, I think it was. I don't know, I can never remember the names.

Anyway, I had my BAR set up on some of the sandbags in front of A and to my left a machinegunner was set up. The two of us held for the whole round, they never took the objective, though they did take B. A complete and utter thank you to the team for keeping us supplied with ammo and watching outside our fields of fire.

Oh, and a personal favourite that really hooked me on Red Orchestra. This is from the mod, mind you. Playing on Danzig, I have my C96 and MG42, I somehow got trapped behind the burnt out car just past the bridges. 10 kills with one clip of my C96. It was absolutely astounding. They rushed me, I threw grenades, unloaded my pistol and eventually a Russian got close enough for me to drop him and grab his PPsH-41 and bug out.

 

[apostalworker]

I just had both of these in one game. I was playing Axis commander on Iwo Jima, and after a spirited first round F defense, I took the reigns and we held A/B until the timer had gone down to around 9 minutes. Unfortunately for us, the Americans had captured B, but then I noticed that one of my squadleaders had left a mark on top of B...right where a large number of Americans sat, regrouping, no doubt to push on D!

I quickly called artillery down on them, and salvo after salvo flooded both mine and everyone else's killfeed with my wanton destruction of the advancing Americans...I gained an Honor level or two and upped my Commander level as well. As the salvo ended and calls came for me to drop artillery on E to save it from American capture, I turned to shoot at a flamethrower crawling up the hill behind my bunker...

then everything stopped. I couldn't fire or aim down my sights, reloading didn't work, everyone froze except one of my friends who defied the laws of physics and walked on air, and I could roam freely about the map. All with 5 minutes left on the clock. I assumed that I must have timed out or something similar, but all that progress...lost.

 

[kurt?]

Highs

franchise of respect (RO 41-45)

Lows

RS - destroyed the RO2
a major update to include new weapons / fix tanks / new units / new maps

Game stuck in time with only promises and promises. Player tired of play nothing new.

 

[DerRidda]

RS - destroyed the RO2

My BS sense is tingling: At any given time there are more RO2 servers filled to the brim than RS servers. We are talking about several times as many.
If anything RS has improved the health of RO2 as well as there are now more players on than before RS launched and I constantly see new players on the servers so there are more people picking the game up outside of hugely discounted sales.