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Flannelette posted:I thought S&D was a mode made by some modders for unranked servers and tripwire are only making it "official" since some people like it. That's a pretty succinct summary. There was an interest from some of the competitive clans to make the mod official. It's getting some bug fixes, maps and admin support.
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I'll play before i'll knock it further but i don't understand how RO can fit a S&D mode, with all the one hit kills and easiness to conceal yourself.
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Mar 13, 2014 21:21
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I'm still haunted by Grandpa's stories about defending the bomb against a bunch of scrubs on a public server during the Big One. This game may have just gotten a bit too real for me.
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Mar 14, 2014 02:50
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moths posted:I'm still haunted by Grandpa's stories about defending the bomb against a bunch of scrubs on a public server during the Big One. This game may have just gotten a bit too real for me. "Son, do you know what the German word for "human being" is? I do, and I'll tell you, I know it well"
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Mar 14, 2014 05:41
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I can't stop laughing at the fact that they even bothered to release transports in the beta just now. RO2 released on September 13th, 2011. It has taken 2.5 years for them to add the APCs promised for release.
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Mar 14, 2014 06:39
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Alain Perdrix posted:I can't stop laughing at the fact that they even bothered to release transports in the beta just now. RO2 released on September 13th, 2011. What's even the point? The maps are small enough that the APCs would trundle over all of forty feet before reaching the next objective. There are some user-made maps that they could work on, but even then they're just huge targets.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:27
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It's astounding that you still can't climb onto the tanks and ride them.
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Mar 14, 2014 17:07
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Transports are in and I guess some other crap, the update is like 8 gigs and I'm not downloading that poo poo right now, gently caress it.
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Apr 22, 2014 00:06
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Haha good effort Tripwire, had you done it when people actually had faith in you you'd probably still have some credibility instead of a 8 gig patch no one will download.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:07
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Played on a map with a transport on it, spent my time watching it spazz out into a building.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:17
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The new maps are fun, and thankfully there's still 4-6 full 64-players servers a night in Europe. Transports are only implemented into three maps, only one of which is actually fun (Rakowice).
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Apr 22, 2014 11:42
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Infantry transports are awful anyway because more often than not the application of them is just some tard hopping in and driving off. Maps that have made them a central focus suffer when people are waiting on transports to get them in to battle. The one thing I had hoped to do was make transports mobile spawn points like the squad leader is. I haven't played the game in a long time but I hardly imagine that the maps really are all that great with transports (kind of how most of the combined arms maps are infantry maps that had tanks added so they could claim that they had combined arms maps). [insert years of "wasted potential" discussion]
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Apr 22, 2014 17:55
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I find myself enjoying HoS as long as I'm not playing on one of the launch maps. Seeing the loading screen for 64 player Apartments prompts an immediate reflexive alt+f4.
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Apr 22, 2014 20:01
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The problem is a server is going to be playing Apartments a lot because for some loving reason, Pubbies love the poo poo out of Apartments. Also the Red Orchestra thread is leaking into the Rising Storm thread.
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Apr 23, 2014 03:30
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It's sad looking at the Tripwire facebook since everyone there is just on their knees for them rather than saying "You assholes hosed up and only care about your stupid zombie game."
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Apr 23, 2014 03:32
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So the new Rising Storm maps fun? Been enjoying it more than the base game since the Japanese side is still very fun to play. I'll probably have to play American soon since I maxed out the rifles for the Axis side.
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Apr 23, 2014 04:07
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Tracula posted:It's sad looking at the Tripwire facebook since everyone there is just on their knees for them rather than saying "You assholes hosed up and only care about your stupid zombie game." They don't. They released two weak updates since the summer with little to no effort in an attempt at grabbing that sweet DLC money and then forgot about the game. KF is really dead atm too.
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Apr 23, 2014 04:11
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Mans posted:They don't. They released two weak updates since the summer with little to no effort in an attempt at grabbing that sweet DLC money and then forgot about the game. KF is really dead atm too. That's still considerably more updates than RO2 or RS have gotten 
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Apr 23, 2014 04:21
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Vahakyla posted:So what are they doing? I figure the reason we're not seeing any updates is that both Tripwire and the RS guys laid off 80-90% of their staff following release. Or the core team never numbered over 10-15 people, who are probably working second jobs most of the time. If you picture Tripwire as a rag-tag mod team (which they started out as), the lack of updates sadly make more sense.
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Apr 23, 2014 14:54
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Man Whore posted:The problem is a server is going to be playing Apartments a lot because for some loving reason, Pubbies love the poo poo out of Apartments. Lots of bottlenecks for easy kills. Germans have a machine gun nest that can basically lock down the entire left side of the map (for a moron pubbie team) after the first two points are taken.
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Apr 23, 2014 15:31
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Tracula posted:It's sad looking at the Tripwire facebook since everyone there is just on their knees for them rather than saying "You assholes hosed up and only care about your stupid zombie game." RS and RO2 have gotten a lot more attention than Killing Floor these past two years. We've been waiting on KF2 and haven't heard anything about it, really. edit: Also Killing Floor owns and is a much better game
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Apr 23, 2014 15:47
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http://www.pcgamesn.com/red-orchestra-2-will-be-free-forever-steam-so-long-you-click-button-tomorrow Free Red Orchestra to anyone who gives a toss about clicking a button.
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Apr 23, 2014 16:56
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There's some kind of giveaway going on on FB too for 5 days. https://www.facebook.com/pcgamermagazine?sk=app_1388059771476168
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Apr 23, 2014 17:11
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Anyone not owning either, be reminded that getting the free Red Orchestra from Steam now will also enable you to play rifleman class in Rising Storm maps which is a great leeway. In addition, while only limited to one class, you can pick up any weapon you want.
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Apr 23, 2014 19:03
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Also for any new players to this game please think before you fire, shooting your teammates in the back just because you thought they were the bad guys isn't very nice. The trick to avoid unnecessary team kills is allies sprint with both hands on their guns while axis only have one hand and germans/americans have green uniforms while soviets/japanese have brownish uniforms.
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Apr 23, 2014 19:23
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The german rifle carry is historically accurate also and very distinct from russian drills. http://www.dererstezug.com/HandletheRifle.htm
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Apr 23, 2014 19:28
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Wouldn't carrying with both arms be less tiring in the long run?
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I don't know how obvious this is but I've sure run into people that do not know this. Another way to separate friends from foes is looking at where they are(and how they are acting). Players naturally take cover from their enemies, or in general the enemy side of the map. If someone is taking cover behind a wall, but is not covered from YOU, he is probably a friendly. One moment comes to mind from back in RO2. I had thrown smoke to conceal an approach to an enemy point. I was ducking behind a wall and was waiting for the smoke to take effect. A teammate, a rifleman with a bolt action rifle, came around the corner from spawn and saw me covering about 15m away. He shot once at me missing me completely. I didn't make the connection that he was shooting at me as I was looking another way. He shot again and hit me non-fatally. I looked over at him as I bandaged and after I finished, as I was typing about him being too dumb to play this game, he shot and killed me. Not only wouldn't I be sitting there if I was the enemy, I could have shot him 10 times over as he was killing me.
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Mans posted:Wouldn't carrying with both arms be less tiring in the long run? Not really. I've had to carry Mosins/K98s through the woods for hours before and it's not really an issue. I'm not trained or anything, they just aren't that heavy. Only feel like they're about 10lbs.
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Mans posted:Wouldn't carrying with both arms be less tiring in the long run? It looks like they are just letting it hang as dead weight rather than really supporting it, so.it is less stress.would be doubly so.if you used both hands
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Just played a few rounds on some new maps for RS, which both reminded me of the Darkest Hour-type linear progression maps. There are tons of players on at the moment, 30+ full servers an hour or so ago. Looks like the game has sprung back to life, atleast for a little bit! If you get a chance, try out OtoriShima and PhosphatePlant for RS if you haven't already. Great fun!
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Does it make me a bad person that some of the most fun I've had in the game is seeing how many bots I can kill with the Nagant Revolver? It seems to me the game is filled with either tryhard types that know every nook and cranny to shoot from or braindead pubbies, so I figured I'd cut to the chase and have my own fun instead of trying to work with either assholes or morons.
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May 10, 2014 13:10
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I have also played that game, the muffled siren's call of sweet sweet silencer.
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May 10, 2014 13:15
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gently caress, the game isn't saving my progress. I'm trying to grind for the Nagant Revolver silencer, but it always rolls back to level 2 when I start a new botmatch. 
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closeted republican posted:gently caress, the game isn't saving my progress. I'm trying to grind for the Nagant Revolver silencer, but it always rolls back to level 2 when I start a new botmatch. Bot matches don't count.  Or at least they're not supposed to, god only knows when Tripwire's servers are functioning properly.
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Orv posted:Bot matches don't count. loving assholes. I thought you could grind weapon levels in botmatches, but I guess not. I even killed a few human opponents online, but the level-up I got with the Nagant Revolver didn't count. gently caress off Tripwire.
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May 10, 2014 14:26
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You have to look for a rated game with zero players and many bots.
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moths posted:You have to look for a rated game with zero players and many bots. Is there a way to set up something like a listen server to bypass it? Seriously, the weapon unlock system in this game is so dumb I feel zero guilt cheating it.
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In the server browser, you can toggle filters to only show RO games and then sort by number of players. The unlock system is complete garbage. There were also some modes that give more XP but that may not actually be true.
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