Guess What I'm Giving Away?
TychoCelchuuu
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Red Orchestra Guest Passes!</div>I've got a couple of new, fresh off the grill, red hot guest passes for <a href="http://www.redorchestragame.com/" target="_blank">Red Orchestra</a>, the most visceral, realistic, used-to-be-a-mod shooter this side of Armed Assault. The passes are valid until June 30th but there's a discount on the game until June 11th so ideally I'd like to get rid of them before them.
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Red Orchestra is a realistic, squad based first person shooter. It's set on the Eastern Front of World War II, and it pits the Nazis (boo) against the Soviets (yay) who are later going to be dirty Communists (boo). In addition to intense, nail-biting, high-stakes infantry squad-level combat, there are also realistic tank battles, both in cities with infantry support and in towns/open ground where many tanks face off against each other over huge distances.
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I've been a big fan of this ever since I pre-ordered it off Steam. It's packed full of teamwork, bolt-action rifles, gigantic artillery barrages, dismembered people, bayonet stabbings, last minute charges at well-entrenched enemy positions, Russian curse words, and everything else you could want from a realistic World War II shooter aside from British, American, or Japanese people.
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Gameplay is theoretically slower than your average run and gun FPS but in reality it's often just as adrenaline fueled. You don't bounce around like a madman or circle strafe people, but when you're advancing through the burning rubble of a city under heavy enemy fire, you don't notice that your bolt action rifle isn't exactly a missile launcher.
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Realistic ballistics, true-to-life damage modelling, well-made maps, strong teamwork, funny Russian army hats, the ability to rest your gun on any surface to steady your aim, no crosshairs, and brutal machinegun and sniper fire blah blah blah. I think you get it. Who wants guest passes?
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Like I said, I've got two, and I'd prefer to give them to someone who's actually going to end up buying the game (20 bucks off Steam, but if you buy before June 11th it's 20% off which is a crazy good deal). Requirements: You must like realistic first person shooters, not be burned out on WW2 (this is Eastern Front so it's not a bunch of Thompsons and Garands all over again, at least) and at least be willing to possibly sometime in the future perhaps consider buying the game. The RO team is spectacular; they release tons of updates, all for free, in a day and age where people are looking over at Gears of War and realizing they could probably charge money for bugfixes. This is just the latest release in a long line of many.
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/20-07-06/full/pic5.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
So if you think you're interested, reply to this thread and ask for a guest pass. I've got 2 and all. You should all totally buy the game if it sounds like your thing. It's totally awesome.
Oh yeah and there's totally a trailer. Frankly some parts of it aren't so great (everyone running together looks a little weird and that part where he massacares the Germans without using iron sights never happens) but I guess it's still cool:
<a href="http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=961" target="_blank">OLO CLICK TEH TRAILER</a>
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/17-12-05/full/kp1.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
Red Orchestra is a realistic, squad based first person shooter. It's set on the Eastern Front of World War II, and it pits the Nazis (boo) against the Soviets (yay) who are later going to be dirty Communists (boo). In addition to intense, nail-biting, high-stakes infantry squad-level combat, there are also realistic tank battles, both in cities with infantry support and in towns/open ground where many tanks face off against each other over huge distances.
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/17-01-06/full/T60_2full.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
I've been a big fan of this ever since I pre-ordered it off Steam. It's packed full of teamwork, bolt-action rifles, gigantic artillery barrages, dismembered people, bayonet stabbings, last minute charges at well-entrenched enemy positions, Russian curse words, and everything else you could want from a realistic World War II shooter aside from British, American, or Japanese people.
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/08-02-06/full/shot0292.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
Gameplay is theoretically slower than your average run and gun FPS but in reality it's often just as adrenaline fueled. You don't bounce around like a madman or circle strafe people, but when you're advancing through the burning rubble of a city under heavy enemy fire, you don't notice that your bolt action rifle isn't exactly a missile launcher.
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/08-02-06/full/shot0107.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
Realistic ballistics, true-to-life damage modelling, well-made maps, strong teamwork, funny Russian army hats, the ability to rest your gun on any surface to steady your aim, no crosshairs, and brutal machinegun and sniper fire blah blah blah. I think you get it. Who wants guest passes?
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/08-02-06/full/shot0334.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
Like I said, I've got two, and I'd prefer to give them to someone who's actually going to end up buying the game (20 bucks off Steam, but if you buy before June 11th it's 20% off which is a crazy good deal). Requirements: You must like realistic first person shooters, not be burned out on WW2 (this is Eastern Front so it's not a bunch of Thompsons and Garands all over again, at least) and at least be willing to possibly sometime in the future perhaps consider buying the game. The RO team is spectacular; they release tons of updates, all for free, in a day and age where people are looking over at Gears of War and realizing they could probably charge money for bugfixes. This is just the latest release in a long line of many.
<div align="center"><img src="http://www.redorchestragame.com/images/20-07-06/full/pic5.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></div>
So if you think you're interested, reply to this thread and ask for a guest pass. I've got 2 and all. You should all totally buy the game if it sounds like your thing. It's totally awesome.
Oh yeah and there's totally a trailer. Frankly some parts of it aren't so great (everyone running together looks a little weird and that part where he massacares the Germans without using iron sights never happens) but I guess it's still cool:
<a href="http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=961" target="_blank">OLO CLICK TEH TRAILER</a>
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PM me if you are interested.
Hmm. it seems like I have two guest passes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
Anyway PM me with your steam account name or email registered to that steam account, so I can add you to my friends and sent you a pass.
Edit:
Both passes are spent.
Rover and 6john got them.
Send a PM or reply here.
Viewdistance is 4km. This is used mainly on tank-maps, resulting in long distance tank battles.
Tanks are controlled by 3 people. (commander who also controls the main turret, driver, machine gunner)
There are also APCs and artillery available.
People inside the same vehicle automatically share a voice channel.
There are pure tank maps (only tank crew members and commanders available).
Mixed maps (tanks with infantry support and also infantry with tank support)
Pure infantry maps.
There is a classlimit set by the mapmakers.
There are no crosshairs!
Weapons (especially rifles) are accurate.
Grenades are deadly. Really, really deadly!
You really really want to be cautious.
This is not UT. Charing ahead will just get you killed.
Most people will try to hog the sniper, because it is easy to kill with the sniper rifles, but fortunately this game cannot be won by a sniper sitting safe in his building sniping rifleman.
If the germans have the stg44 available, then take it. It's the best all around weapon in the game.
Rifles have attachable bajonets.
Every weapon has a meele attack.
You can prone, duck, walk, run, sneak and lean.
When you align your rifle properly you can press it against a a surface in order to improve stability. (its automatically and you will get teh hang of it rather quickly)
When you are holding up your ironsight too long the weapon will start to sway. This depends on your weapon, position and also wether you have setup a firing position.
Binoculars are great for spying out enemy positions (4km viewdistance hooray).
When firing a bolt action rifle you need to press once to fire and after that you press again to bolt.
Try to count your bullets, cause there is no ammo indicator.
Bullets are affected by gravity and have travel time!
More to come <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Looks like DOD to me... *shrugs* <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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Blasphemer!
Looks like DOD to me... *shrugs* <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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You know how when you're trying to make up your mind about something, like maybe which apartment you want to move in to, then the price goes down on one? And then you find rats in the other? And then the landlord trys to pass the rats off as nothing, but the roof is also leaking and someone throws a brick through the window? The accumulation of evidence makes it really REALLY obvious what your decision ought to be.
This is a lot like my opinion of Depot and his decision making process. I mean, at first, it's like "maybe he's rational and maybe he isn't" but then I see him post some crazy thing about the only way to be a man is to join the army, and then I see him wondering why there aren't more surveillance cameras in people's bathrooms, and finally he decides that Red Orchestra is like Day of Defeat. That makes it CRAZY easy to decide whether or not he's bonkers.
(He is.)
I can't promise I'll buy the game though.
If you can't get the sniper rifle, use the normal rifles, they're kinda like "sniper lite." Let the SMG users (a.k.a. "suckers" or "people with a death wish") take the point - better to let them be riddled with holes than you. Try to flank, too, it increases your life expectancy markedly.
If all else fails, and the map lends itself to it, go Axis and get the Panzerfaust. Kill###### tanks. Since tank crews are generally as coordinated as a frat boy after forty beers, you'll be unlucky if they're as much as pointing the front of the tank towards you. If they actually shoot at you, you may be the unluckiest man on the planet.
If you can't do that either, go Engineer and throw satchel charges on enemy tanks. It's riskier, but only marginally so, since tank crews are largely oblivious to the outside world since their view of it is restricted to tiny slits.
In the same vein, don't jump in a tank if you can avoid it. If you're the driver, your gunner will either be looking in the wrong direction all the time, miss all the time, or jump from the tank and sprint for cover the instant he spots an enemy. If you're the gunner, your driver will do his best to drive when you need to shoot (causing your view and crosshair to shake like Los Angeles in 1933), then stop while you're reloading so the enemy can get a nice, clean shot in. In this case, your best option is to jump from the tank and sprint for cover the instant you spot an enemy.
Don't be fooled by the vehicle's voice channel, it's purely decorative and nobody uses it.
In fact, you're probably better off driving a tank alone. Switch to the gunner position as soon as you spot an enemy vehicle and start shooting. Hope and pray if you have gods to pray to. Pray to Adeus if you're an atheist.
You know how when you're trying to make up your mind about something, like maybe which apartment you want to move in to, then the price goes down on one? And then you find rats in the other? And then the landlord trys to pass the rats off as nothing, but the roof is also leaking and someone throws a brick through the window? The accumulation of evidence makes it really REALLY obvious what your decision ought to be.
This is a lot like my opinion of Depot and his decision making process. I mean, at first, it's like "maybe he's rational and maybe he isn't" but then I see him post some crazy thing about the only way to be a man is to join the army, and then I see him wondering why there aren't more surveillance cameras in people's bathrooms, and finally he decides that Red Orchestra is like Day of Defeat. That makes it CRAZY easy to decide whether or not he's bonkers.
(He is.)
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Then you're saying you've never played Day of Defeat? I have, and I've even converted several DOD maps to NS classic too. The screenshots you posted could pass for retouched DOD ones... Lord only knows how many of <b>THEM</b> I've poured over (in addition to demos).
Sorry, I just don't see the appeal - it still looks like a slightly modified DOD to me. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
And while I'm on a roll, why must you take <b>EVERY</b>thing I say out of context? Did I say you had to join the Army to be a man? Uhm, no... - I said joining the Army would make a man out of you. Did I say bathrooms need surveilance cameras? Uhm, no... I suggested cameras guarding a $1,000,000 gold bathtub while customers were NOT using it.
It has "evil Nazi symbols" in it, and that law is bull. This comes from a german, and you may quote me on this. Seriously, nobody gives a ######, so just don't go yelling in the street "I am playing a game full of Nazi symbols, please fine me and confiscate my computer" (or whatever they actually do to people who break that "law") and you'll be fine.
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Hm I haven't noticed any swastikas, but they're probably there, since the game's real big on realism.
I think you just have to give someone your Steam account name or whatever and they add you to the friends list. That makes 4 people who want guest passes and I've only got 2; how are we gonna divide this up?
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Start from the top for both? As in, the first 2 to respond get their passes from the first person offering, the next 2 from the second person offering, etc?
edit: typo
Rover and 6john6doe6, contact Faskalia via the normal methods or via a pentagram of blood from a sacrificial lamb.
UltimateGecko, contact Lonyo.
Everyone got that? Alright then, TO ARMS!
I'll take one.
I've got 2 guest passes, pm me your email. Oh and depot, if you're just going to pass judgment instantly on screenshots and a gameplay video that looks nothing like DoD, don't bother posting at all.
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Another oppinion from one who's never played DOD perhaps? Aldaris actually hit the nail on the head...
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Does it look like DoD? Yes. Does it play like DoD? No way in hell, and that's the appeal Depot.
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You're probably correct. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
That being said, this does look really good. From what's been posted it sounds like the most realistic WW2 game yet. Doesn't sound too much like DoD to me (3 person tanks??).