Need feedback from Red Orchectra (STOCK) players!

[Dowly]

How is the game nowadays, are there still players? If so, how many? Servers full, or half an hour looking for an server?

EDIT: Save me from the "Try this and this mod", I don't care, how is the stock game.

[Spike88]

How is the game nowadays, are there still players? If so, how many? Servers full, or half an hour looking for an server?

EDIT: Save me from the "Try this and this mod", I don't care, how is the stock game.


Steam automatically suggests you try the Darkest Hour mod which makes me wonder how the stock game is. :hmmm:

[Dowly]

I played stock RO 2 years or so ago and liked it, guess DH is just of an addon, if I have understood it correctly, DH models the western europe battles only, leavin eastern europe to RO.

Loved the custom maps, especially the Finns vs. Russians Continuation War maps, very VERY atmospheric wih russian armor running on the woody hills where the Finninsh trecnhes were and Russian infantry pouring into the trenches. Awesome stuff.

[Spike88]

According to the Steam forums:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=62
You can still find a couple servers with good activity.

If I wasn't $1 dollar short of the price, and if my Fiance wouldn't kill me for spending our last $9 dollars(yay for being poor college students). I think I'd give this a try.

[Dowly]

Better start saving then, SSC might have something in store for ye. :hmmm: (SSS FTW) :O:

[Spike88]

Better start saving then, SSC might have something in store for ye. :hmmm: (SSS FTW) :O:
Speed Skating Canada? :haha:

[Arclight]

We're on thin ice with the naming alright. :haha:

[Dowly]

Nonsense. :O:

[Oberon]

Was contemplating reinstalling RO the other day, got it on Steam. :yep:

[Dowly]

Re-installed it last night/this morning. Is nice for sniper duels. :yep:

[Gerald]

How is the game nowadays, are there still players? If so, how many? Servers full, or half an hour looking for an server?

EDIT: Save me from the "Try this and this mod", I don't care, how is the stock game. :hmmm:

[Dowly]

:hmmm:

http://www.redorchestragame.com/ :salute:

[Raptor1]

Think I'll reinstall RO as well...

[Gerald]

http://www.redorchestragame.com/ :salute: that kind of a tank sim, but some part I have tried,but not just this, is it related to online?

[Raptor1]

It's an FPS, not a tank sim (Though it has tanks too). There is multiplayer, and there's no real point playing singleplayer.

[Arclight]

It has single-player? :doh:

[Raptor1]

It has single-player? :doh:

Well, it has the standard bot-filled MP replacement, but the bots are so stupid it's not even worth mentioning them...

[Gerald]

It's an FPS, not a tank sim (Though it has tanks too). There is multiplayer, and there's no real point playing singleplayer. it is fully booked on services and how long you can hold on?

[Raptor1]

I am not quite certain I comprehend your meaning, sir.

[Gerald]

I am not quite certain I comprehend your meaning, sir. and how long do you play :hmm2:

[Raptor1]

Ah, good servers. I haven't played in a while, but there's usually at least a couple with a good amount of players most of the time.

As for how long you play, I assume you mean how long a round lasts, it varies a lot.

[Gerald]

Ah, good servers. I haven't played in a while, but there's usually at least a couple with a good amount of players most of the time.

As for how long you play, I assume you mean how long a round lasts, it varies a lot.
can it be?

[Dowly]

Round ends either by the other team capturing all the control points or when the time runs out. How the rounds work is very much like in Battlefield series, just without the tickets or lives.

[Gerald]

Round ends either by the other team capturing all the control points or when the time runs out. How the rounds work is very much like in Battlefield series, just without the tickets or lives. :roll:

[Dowly]

So what is the average survival? :roll:

Depends on the style you play. It's one of those games where you have to take your time and use cover, much like WWIIOL. One bullet can kill you if you're not careful.

[Gerald]

Depends on the style you play. It's one of those games where you have to take your time and use cover, much like WWIIOL. One bullet can kill you if you're not careful. a mentor for me to play at this game.....

[Dowly]

a mentor for me to play at this game.....

Play as if you'd only have one life. :up:

[Arclight]

Well if SSS/SSBN/SSP/etc takes off you should have several mentors. :yep:

[Gerald]

and the PC spec. is to recommend? and, finally, what money are we talking about? :hmmm:

[Dowly]

and the PC spec. is to recommend? and, finally, what money are we talking about? :hmmm:

If we go with the IL2 & ArmA time, it's 20:00 GMT, PC is game specific, RO is 9,99€ on Steam.

[Gerald]

If we go with the IL2 & ArmA time, it's 20:00 GMT, PC is game specific, RO is 9,99€ on Steam. it does not seem to be problems with PC,but I suppose that an account must be opened, which I did for a long time ago,the question is well if it is active,is only one way to find out this :yep:

[Spike88]

Well if SSS/SSBN/SSP/etc takes off you should have several mentors. :yep:


I take it SS is subsim, but what do all the other letters equate to? :hmmm:


Edit: Nevermind checked the other topic.

[Raptor1]

I take it SS is subsim, but what do all the other letters equate to? :hmmm:

You don't want to know... *shivers*

[Morts]

just without the tickets or lives.
not entirely true, when you're looking at your scores you can see "Reinforcement %", those act as tickets

[Raptor1]

not entirely true, when you're looking at your scores you can see "Reinforcement %", those act as tickets

But I don't think enemy control of the objectives reduces them like in BF.

[Arclight]

Tickets? Explain this concept. :hmmm:

[Raptor1]

Tickets? Explain this concept. :hmmm:

In Battlefield each team has tickets that basically act as collective lives. Every time someone respawns, the team loses a ticket, and they automatically decrease if the enemy team controls most of the capture points. Once a team is out of tickets, it loses.

[Dowly]

In Battlefield each team has tickets that basically act as collective lives. Every time someone respawns, the team loses a ticket, and they automatically decrease if the enemy team controls most of the capture points. Once a team is out of tickets, it loses.

This. Say, both teams controls the same amount of control points, none team loses tickets unless someone dies, which, like Raptor said, is one ticket. If one team has 3/4 of the control points, the enemy's tickets keep going down unless they take control point(s) and even the situation.

@Morts

Right you are, had forgotten the reinforcement thing.

[Arclight]

Oh, that's pretty good way of balacing unlimited respawns. Thanks for clearing that up.

[AngusJS]

EDIT: Save me from the "Try this and this mod", I don't care, how is the stock game.Try this mod called Darkest Hour. I know you don't care, but I think it really improves RO and is worth trying.

The tank combat is vastly improved - no more silly angling - and I think the ballistics are better too. I think the tank maps are more open and allow for more long range combat than RO's. Some tanks have smoke rounds, another feature I don't recall from RO. Also, mg fire can destroy jeeps and kubelwagens, which reduces the effectiveness of the clown cars.

The graphics are also less cartoonish than RO's.

I play on the Jolly Rodgers tank server, which is full or close to it on the weekends or evenings in Europe and NA. Most players are pretty good, and it can be a lot of fun when your side really employs teamwork.

The 29th Infantry Division server concentrates on infantry maps logically enough, and is also very active. Alas, most of the ~50 other servers are empty most of the time.

Anyway, it's been awhile since I've played RO. It's hard to go back to after Darkest Hour.

[Raptor1]

I don't like DH much, but that's mostly because I'm partial to the Eastern Front setting of the original RO.

[oche]

Darkest hour greatly improves gameplay on stock RO. Both versions are good, try them. Just one thing, don't expect you can rambo your way thru the maps like the Call of Duty games, you are gonna get bored with the combat realism effects.

[TheBrauerHour]

Darkest hour greatly improves gameplay on stock RO. Both versions are good, try them. Just one thing, don't expect you can rambo your way thru the maps like the Call of Duty games, you are gonna get bored with the combat realism effects.


He plays WWIIOL, so I am gonna bet he knows how to "Keep it tactical".


I fired up RO last night. I am so used to Darkest Hour now, I am having trouble adjusting back to RO.

[stabiz]

Red orchestra 2 is on the way as well, with single player.