• Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Starlingrad out now

    Published on 14-09-11 at 10:39 AM AEST by
    rec
    Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, "the leading tactical multiplayer WWII shooter", is now out - ready for download and play on Steam. We've seen mixed opinions from GU readers about the quality of the game during its beta period, mostly negative. But I'm sure we'll see many of you online shooting face this evening anyway!

    "Experience the brutal Battle of Stalingrad and the surrounding operations from the quick, vicious firefights to more intricate and challenging tactical missions. With inventive features and streamlined realism Red Orchestra 2 delivers unrivalled accuracy and attention to detail, along with gritty, vicious combat in multiplayer and single-player modes."

    Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad [Steampowered.com]
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    1. SHP's Avatar
      SHP - 14-09-11, 03:23 PM
      "mostly negative"-? Seriously? Could you elaborate a little bit? It's not really fair to the game and the developers to just lob that grenade without any explanation. I was in the beta for two weeks and now the game itself, and I think it's incredible. Great gameplay feel, immersive, smooth graphics.. And a realistic approach to WWII warfare (at least so far as I can guess!). I wish a gaming site like yours would give a little deeper look, jmho.
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 14-09-11, 03:28 PM
      The negative opinions are those of forum goers and Steam group chatters, who posted statements such as:

      "man they have a LOT of work to do before this game drops... some really stupid crap in it. Like giving players on your team both red AND green names (apparently this is a feature? not like BF2's red name bug). also one of the worst cover systems i've ever tried."


      We'll certainly give it a good look. I'll be playing it thoroughly and writing up a review shortly.
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 14-09-11, 03:54 PM
      yeah, SHP, i was in the beta too, and i didn't try the last part of the beta because I was fairly unhappy with the initial beta. I *will* be trying the game itself when I get a chance though - we all know betas aren't a good indicator. I felt there was probably a good game there somewhere, but I couldn't find it in that initial play.

      My BETA impressions were that it felt very clunky - like I was controlling my character with a radio control while watching him through a CCTV system. Lag was a pretty big issue (often is here though due to our telecoms believing the city i'm in is a suburb of a city 2,500+ kms away). The cover system was dismal, and i frequently found myself trapped on geometry - particularly when trying to disengage from cover. Weird things where some cover items SHOULD protect you but don't and others where an item looks like it should expose most of you but provides full protection.

      I was happy to note that while others were experiencing CTDs, I didn't.

      the graphics have been talked about elsewhere, and while they SHOULD be (and clearly are) secondary to gameplay, it's still a bit of a disappointment to see a game released this decade that looks like it borrowed all of its visual resources from Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001).

      audio stuff was cool, tho i can't comment on overall sound quality (i'm just not that sort of guy), I liked the little touches like team mates saying they're scared or man down when they see a downed comrade etc.

      the weapons felt like utter crap - but beta so yeah, that shit can be tuned and lag may've been part of the issue.

      the odd thing with different coloured names got me - and that may just be the newbie in me - but it's fucking stupid to go against established norms of "enemies have red names, my team has coloured names" - mixing colours in the same team is dumb unless they're shades of the same colour, or evoke the same effect (see Battlefield Bad Company 2 squads vs teammates colouring for how this SHOULD be done if it must be). red vs green on same team - not smart.
    1. Joshuayu101's Avatar
      Joshuayu101 - 14-09-11, 03:54 PM
      Well mostly performance issues at the moment. Servers crash and lag- could be server hardware.

      The cover system is clunky and the god dam keybindings gahhhh
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 14-09-11, 05:24 PM
      Downloading now - will be playing this evening after Scotland play Georgia.
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