To TWI from a Ost Vet

[Destraex]

I try to move around the battlefield without getting naild.
And i dont care about my kills as long as my team wins, so no. im not a "camper"
I dont just crawl around neither
We setup a strongpoint, and a group moves up with cover from the rear, we run when we can. but try to stay as low as possible.

I dont mean all players should do this. but i want them to be able to do that if they want to.
RO2 lockdown wont allow this.

I only play military sims, so my standards may be a bit high... BUT RO OST let us advance as a unit, at our own pace.
Thats why i love RO OST.

And by sims i mean Arma 2 CA and Battleground europe.
Allso got BF3. and we use the same tactis there. and it works like a charm.

no problems Saeth.

I have no problems with your tactics. But do you think your commander would be happy to let you dig in before reaching your main objective? Unless things are going so badly you are forced to?

I have played the ARMA series since the first operation flashpoint and love it.
Tried Battlefround Europe but not enough people in my region played it when I tried it.

 

[v4zcent]

I will say the lockdown is somewhat frustrating. At times I do feel like, well guys we're screwed unless we miraculously sprint through enemy fire reach the cap zone and pop a few enemies in the process. However, I don't think the game should be a matter of crawling across the map to the objectives.

Let's face it, the real battles didn't occur in 15 minute periods with specified cap zones you had to enter. I wish I could propose an ingenious solution, but I really don't have one myself.

 

[Razvanss]

The man is right!

 

[The Beast (nl)]

The man has right but in ROost you had also run and gun maps.
For example Danzig.

And in this game wasn`t teamwork neither.

That`s all i want to say.

 

[Six_Ten]

Lockdown can be solved in custom maps by setting the time limit to equal the map length time limit. I did it in the new Ogledow, and will in any future maps I make. Lockdown ruins the RO game. You want a fast map, to get it over with? Go play Entweichen

 

[Holy.Death]

Yesterday I played on Soviet side on the Commisar's House. The Axis ran out of reinforcements (we had something like 30-40 tickets left), but they won the round because lockdown timer didn't reset after taking objectives (we had a hard time to push through C and D) and we ran out of lockdown time while the match still had something like 4-6 minutes left. Sometimes you can play until the round ends. Sometimes you have only so much times as lockdown allows you...

Lockdown in its current state needs to be removed or changed. Idea was good, but implementation produces strange results - it was designed to prevent stalemates, but more often than not it occurs when the attacking team finally is taking the objectives.

 

[Apos]

(...)

WHY do you make us RUN?? (...)

TWI designer team wanted to make game fast paced, "fun" for
non-existence players from casual console run'n'gun games.

RO:O wasn't perfect, it needed improvements, but was so much better than HoS.

 

[Snuffeldjuret]

... Gotta admit, sometimes it's nice to not have to wait 15 minutes for a failure of a team to fail

FOr this reason I like lockdown. I understand though that those who don't care about round win don't care about lockdown.

 

[Poerisija]

I would love for you to be the point man on any real life mission, just to see you poop your pants and cry for mommy. We'll see who is crawling and sneaking around then internet badass!

And you're implying you've been on real-life missions.

Internet badass.

 

[Poerisija]

TWI designer team wanted to make game fast paced, "fun" for
non-existence players from casual console run'n'gun games.

RO:O wasn't perfect, it needed improvements, but was so much better than HoS.

You know the RO:O forums are ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that way.

 

[Spindle]

You know the RO:O forums are ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that way.

 

[MtTriglav]

Watch the way this attack goes in.
Stalingrad movie - Storming the Factory - YouTube

You see how those brave men (notice how I am not claiming to hold a candle to the real life soldiers) move at a good pace and use running when between longer stretches of cover. Some men cover while some men move forward.

Always loved that movie. But see how stupidly they mill about there and get killed by those heavy MG's? When they should just have an MP40 snipe the machinegunner and a hipfiring MG34 rush inside and RNG them all before they knew what hit them? And what's with their silly waepons loadout? Where are the MKB's and G41s? It's all Kar98's and MP40's and round mag PPsH's. Silly.