Red Orchestra

[wodin]

Ive downloaded and payed. Only $24!

Release date.....................

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 available via Steam on March 14th

Well - most of you have waited patiently... some have waited impatiently But here it is - the formal announcement of the release date. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 will be available via Steam from 11am Pacific time (2pm Eastern, 7pm GMT, 8pm Central European) on Tuesday 14th March.

We'll be seeing you on the battlefields of the Ostfront next Tuesday!

[JudgeDredd]

What is it?

[CapnDarwin]

First person shooter built on the Unreal Engine. Won a contest for best mod and now is its own standalone game.

[Hertston]

Will there be any way of getting this other than via the atrocity that is Steam?

[CapnDarwin]

Should be going retail too.

[Zimmerit]

ORIGINAL: Capn Darwin

Should be going retail too.

The retail version of Half-life 2 also required a steam account btw.

[JudgeDredd]

So...is it online play only? If so, what's the difference (apart from vehicles) between that and DoD (Day of Defeat)?

[wodin]

RO is rated as THE realistic WW2 online shooter.

Its also purely focused on the East Front.

Iron sights, one shot one kill. Hit by arty and you vaproise into a mist of blood. Grenades can blow your arms/legs off etc etc.

Im looking forward to it.

[JudgeDredd]

Hey wodin...how's you?

What about map sizes? They any good? I always found Day of Defeat maps to be too small.Also, is there a demo? I hate buying online only games, only to find the community sucks (BF1942...BF:Vietnam...BF2) and are more about stat whoring than playing for the "mano a mano" experience!

[wodin]

big maps apparantly.

Tank engagements upto 800 metres.

[Oleg Mastruko]

Bigger maps than DOD:S. Online only. This should be better game than DODS by any measure - which is not hard since DODS is no masterpiece - but still very very specific and definitely not for everyone.

Hype on the RO boards is almost unbearable, as if this game is second coming of Jesus, while I personally remain sceptic. RO mod was nothing special: boring gameplay, bad player models and animations....

O.

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

RO mod was nothing special: boring gameplay, bad player models and animations....

I'd tend to agree, but in response to JudgeDredd's comments it does (or at least did) have one of the better communities for a shooter. Whether that will remain so with this release is uncertain, but I suspect it probably will. I can't see it attracting the BF2 crowd in their hordes.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: Hertston
I can't see it attracting the BF2 crowd in their hordes.

I am not sure whether this is meant as compliment for BF2 or not (probably not [:D])

I wanted so badly to love BF2, and it got shining stellar reviews, which in retrospect, puzzles me. Did EA pay all those reviewers? What did they see in this, at best, mediocre shooter?

For a FPS, which I associate with immediate fun and quick gratification, BF2 has absolutely atrocious "time spent on boring activities-to-time spent having fun" ratio. First you have enormous load times, then finding a server, organizing a team, yadda yadda, then also when you die you have to spend lots of time actually walking back to the battle etc. - all this may well take 5-10 minutes on a bad day, only to have like 30 seconds of fun before you die. I am thoroughly puzzled by the apparent enormous success of BF2 among FPS crowd.

I certainly hope RO is nothing like this (and from what I can see it won't be).

Then again, considering puzzling commercial success of that distinctly un-fun game that is BF2, perhaps RO devs would like to emulate BF? [:D]

O.

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

I am not sure whether this is meant as compliment for BF2 or not (probably not [:D])

Not [:D]

I've gritted my teeth and re-installed Steam in order to purchase RO, anyway. Steam has gone up a little in my estimation.. I see they are selling Darwinia online. That's a brilliant little game (a real "golden age of gaming" nostalgia piece) and deserves much wider exposure than it originally got.

[Oleg Mastruko]

Steam is OK, my biggest complaint is that it does not allow you to install stuff where you want it (I keep all my games on E partition for example, one directory per game, neat and clean).

[wodin]

Does for me. I just download steam to my games directory. Which is D drive.

[wodin]

No one can really complian as its only $24. Im not expecting cutting edge graphics at that price but the screenshots Ive seen and video is good enough for me.

Theyve rebuilt the engine from ground up so Im expecting a fair bit of online fun with this.

[Sarge]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Hit by arty and you vaproise into a mist of blood. Grenades can blow your arms/legs off etc etc.{snip}

Im looking forward to it.

LMAO [:D]

[David Heath]

I have to say that I am really looking forward to it. Then again I love all of the Call to Duty games as well.

David

[Sarge]

I can't say I will be purchasing RO,

but I do understand the therapeutic value FPS titles have to offer.