Red Orchestra

[Winston]

Originally Posted by Archangel

Thats interesting.
I am actually still on the fence since I have read that many people are not happy about it.

Though they mainly complain about bad FPS and poor graphics.

Would you mind posting a screen along with your specs ?

This was something I was expecting to be honest. Though out it’s development run it was touted as a realistic shooter with no crosshairs etc… and yet there are quite a few people comparing it to games like battlefield 2 and asking where the crosshairs are, or why you don’t have a outside tank view to make it easier to drive.* So the end result of there lack of research is there are some who feel jilted and need to bash a game that was never aimed at them in the first place. As for the graphics, no they are not as good as games such as Day of Defeat: Source, however they are still good. A lot of the flack about the graphics came from the ‘HDR bloom’ effect in the game as it made it look a tad blurry. This can be turned off in the options. Here are some screen shots from my game…


Drivers seat in the tiger tank


German sniper checks out Stalingrad, note the safety set to the on position on the Kar98.** Anyway, this picture shows the bloom effect though not very well. Here it looks much reduced due to the image re-sizing. It almost makes it seem like the player is short sighted.


Picture with the bloom effect turned off.

All these were taken with max settings and x4 AA and x8 AF. I get around 30 to 50 fps with these settings. My basic stats are as follows.

AMD 1.6Ghz 64bit cpu
1 Gig of ram
Radion 9800XT

Anyway Archangel, I’m not sure what your taste in games might be. If however you are looking for a World War II fps that’s more realistic, where running and gunning gets you killed then you might want to look in to this. For my part I played the mod version that was out for UT2004 and before that UT2003. Spent money on those games just to play RO. I consider it worth it as the mod gave me many hours of gaming joy.

* Both the driver and the tank commander have access to hatches so they are able to pop there heads out to get a better view. The danger is they might be shot but it gives much better battlefield perception.

** More trivia really but the model is wrong. The safety latch should be turned 180 to the left in order to allow the gun to fire or re-chamber a round.