Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 FREE 5 DAY trial

silversurfer said:
Its not too bad but DOD is better. I prefer the half life engine, this is a step backwards
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I actually prefer the graphics in RO to DOD personally. In DOD the characters look kind of cartoony to me. The physics are better though and everything looks a little sharper, but the atmosphere is better in RO. It grittier, more detailed and more realistic looking IMO.

That said, I'm not much of a graphics person myself. I've played games since Doom and I fealt those graphics were amazing at the time. I'm sure in a few years the graphics we have now will be laughable too, so why does anyone care about the way they look now. As each new graphical improvement comes along we tend to frown on all the old games like they must suck because of the graphics looking "bad". Good graphics aren't all about the engine, its about what you do with the engine, and I think the RO team have done pretty well with the UT2004 engine IMO. In a few years time if we were to look back and compare RO to DOD I think what would stand out is the more realistic look of RO compared to DOD, because of the attention to detail the RO guys have.

Regarding the DOD gameplay compared to RO gameplay, I think its down to personal preferance. DOD is faster paced and you will get action a lot faster than in RO (generally), but from my experience the action is a case of smg's spraying wildly at each other, the winner being the guy with the best luck because of the immence cone of fire you get. I don't think there's much skill in that game other than getting in close and spraying and praying. Thats for the SMG's anyway. The rifles are too weak IMO. Not accurate enough and when they DO hit they don't always kill in one shot. This IMO encourages people to just select the SMG class and do some spraying up close. RO is better IMO because it rewards skillful play. Its a case of the following really:

1 - Do you want quality or quantity? You get more action in DOD but its more random and skill is not as much of a requirement.

2 - Do you want a game that you can just pick up and have some mindless violence in or something you have to think about a bit more?
 
kdd said:
it will be nice to play the game on full servers rather than ones half populated by bots. the bots really are awful, i would rather play against 5 or so other players than 5 players and 10 bots.
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Just add a filter for only servers with no bots. There are plenty!
 
Semiskimmed said:
ffs, whats the deal with no crosshairs in games? thats why i dont touch goldeneye source tbh :rolleyes:
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What's the deal with cross hairs in games more like. :rolleyes: You wouldn't get a cross hair in real life so why do you want one in a game? ;)

Unless your aim isn't very good. :p
 
malc30 said:
Thank God for free trials as i would have been gutted if i had payed for that.
What a load of poop. To be honest i am gutted i even wasted the time downloading it.
It's the clunkiest current gamer ever in the history of man. The sighting is crap with stupid reloading and aiming.
The whole feel to the gme is just not fluid at all. It's like they tried there hardest to make an awkward game to play.
Out of a hundred i give it 1 point and that's because i didn't have to pay for it and it wasted an hour of a boring morning.
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I agree completely.
 
skullman said:
Its a good game, but I dunno if I can get used to the nasty graphics. Shame really. Even with AA&AF enabled its a blocky blurry mess. Its buggy too. I tried sneeking through some bushes and I dont think I was meant to go there because the entire screen turned white.
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They are some of the most detailed graphics i've seen and I don't see any blur. About 20 times more detailed than BF2 anyway with it's horrible blurry textures. :) RO has some of the best textures i've seen.
 
mks2005 said:
I know I wont like this game, since the reason I like DoD so much is it's non-stop action and fun.
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Fair enough. Some of us who've been around a while got sick of games like that filled with kids running around like headless chickens shooting things every second. :rolleyes:

A bit of patience, anticipation, stealth, teamwork and good tactics makes for far more rewarding game IMO.
 
BarryFell said:
They are some of the most detailed graphics i've seen and I don't see any blur. About 20 times more detailed than BF2 anyway with it's horrible blurry textures. :) RO has some of the best textures i've seen.
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Well like I said it looks a lot better since I disabled the HDR bloom as it was a crappy effect and made everything look blurry.
 
Loving this, played it for about 6 hours last night with a couple of mates, very rewarding and the level design is the best i've ever seen. :cool:
 
Scratch that. Not going to buy it purely because the tank maps are incredibly dull yet everybody seems to vote for them everytime.

It's a shame because the infantry side of it is very good. :/
 
Spunj99 said:
Scratch that. Not going to buy it purely because the tank maps are incredibly dull yet everybody seems to vote for them everytime.

It's a shame because the infantry side of it is very good. :/
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LOL this is so true.

People always vote Arad... That map bores the **** out of me.
 
Yeah arad is crappy alright, personaly I thnk the best tank map is the snowey one with two bridges, its got everything, infantry combat, arty combat, snipers everything!

personaly I like getting the German bolt action sniper rifle and camping on the big metal bridge walkway sniping there infantry as they run down the hill into the railway station area, got to be a good sniper to do that though :)
 
Spunj99 said:
Scratch that. Not going to buy it purely because the tank maps are incredibly dull yet everybody seems to vote for them everytime.

It's a shame because the infantry side of it is very good. :/
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Just play on the infantry only servers then. ;) I hate the tank maps as well but haven't had to play one in about 6 months.

The servers which are infantry/combined arms only usually say so in the server name so look out for that. Once you find servers which run the maps you like just add them to your favourites as well. :)
 
IMHO tanks detract from the core of the game which is infantry combat.

Arad is pretty dull thats for sure. I normally go Axis with a panzerfaust its far more entertaining than driving tanks.

You guys played a custom tank map called Orel? Thats a tank map, its HUGE, makes Arad look like a tank fight in a car park :P

In Orel it takes you 5mins to drive to the 1st objective! :eek:
 
There's plenty of good infantry only servers out there. And it helps to play on servers with voting disabled to prevent the dust/militia style voting. In RO's case though its usually Arad, StalingradKessel, Odessa and Basovka. If they have voting on its a good idea to play on a server that only lets you vote for maps that havn't been played in the last few games.

Splat is a pretty good server for team work (when the clan guys are on, but there's some good regulars too) and map variety (no voting and custom maps).
 
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awesome game, enjoyed the trial and I'm probably going to buy it. I liked tank maps actually, just requires the rest of the people in the tanks to know what they are doing. And if you do a bit of research you can learn where best to hit enemy tanks etc
 
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