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Red Orchestra 2
Anyone else planning on getting this? I just pre-ordered on the cheap from Steam because I have the original (and I loved it). Tripwire is very PC friendly and this is going to enjoy some really nice mod support.
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I SERIOUSLY hope that is a server option...
Again, perhaps when clans start to become more entrenched, players will be forced to be better teammates to prevent horrible curbstomping.
Does it still have limited slots per role? Can you steady your rifle on sandbags and things like that, still?
You guys are faulting the game for what is really, at it's core, an issue with an expanding playerbase. RO2 has brought in a lot of new blood and they are struggling to learn how to play this game differently from CoD and BF. Give it some time. They will either adapt or go back to those games. Besides, this is just the beta. People are still learning the mechanics of the game.
Seriously, don't believe what I'm saying here, start a new soldier, so you're forced to do without all the fancy kit and perks - first thing I suggest you do, is get used to dying far more than you're used to. If you're lucky, you have the SA kits, and it's not quite as bad, but still pretty fucked up.
And even though this is the Red Orchestra thread, I'll say this about Battlefield BC2 unlocks: The starting recon rifle is better than the final unlock, the best engineer unlock happens at like level 5, the best assault rife is the first unlock, the unbuffed medkit range is so big that within 15 seconds of holding a place you can lay down 10 meters of coverage, and the only good unlocks that you have to really wait for are the magnum ammo (level 15 or 16) and the red-dot medic machinegun. All your other success will be determined by how well you know the maps, how often you pick a squad that doesn't all go recon and hide in the mountains, and how much your team is willing to use the spot key.
I'm downloading the beta now. Anyone want to game on this slightly overcast Labor Day?
UPDATE: Nevermind. The beta is way too buggy to play.
The unbuffed medkit range is nowhere near ten meters, that's complete bollocks - it's 3.5M unbuffed, and 7M buffed. Considering the recharge time, in 15 seconds, you can have 7 M if you're quick, but more likely 3.5M. The MG36 LMG is not the best medic gun, merely one of the two more accurate ones, and even then, it's not great without the unlock for improved accuracy. The Ankban and the AUG are both better at what the XM8 does, than the XM8 is. You may get the repair gun at about level four or five(I assume you're mis-remembering, since the unlocks around level five are not terribly impressive or useful), but the much better unlocks come later on, in the form of far more powerful SMGs, and the Charlie G/AT4 rocket launchers. I know the maps like the backs of my hands - I should, I've gone and died on every inch of them - if my squad is going all recon, I'll abandon them instantly for another squad, and I will spot goddamn everything I see, and encourage my teammates to do the same (usually, "You get points for unlocks if you spot people, and someone kills them" works very well). I do literally every single possible thing - other than just pouring hundreds of hours into BFBC2 - that I can do to gain an advantage, and it means literally nothing. And of course, I provide the anecdotal evidence that every time I pick up a higher-level kit, I'm suddenly 60% more effective - as to the previous example, going from being able to do nothing more than harass and slow the advance of three higher level troops, picking up one of their kits, and then suddenly being rapidly able to push them all the way back to the area they were meant to be defending?
I'd credit them with a baited ambush, but BFBC2 players...not that clever. You can barely get it into people's heads that it might be slightly more effective to take off with more than one person in the vehicle, or sticking together with your squad after you use them as a convenient spawning point, let alone crediting them with even a semblance of basic strategy or tactics.
It's so frustrating that if there was some way to just PAY for all the unlocks, have them immediately, and be able to just get on with the game, I'd buy it, even if it was five bucks - and considering that I won't even spend the 49 cents it would cost me to get TF2 premium, and I'm absolutely against spending a single cent in pretty much every other micro-transaction game, that's definitely something.
Barracks can just be a meat grinder.