Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

For all the Eastern Front history buffs here I'm surprised this hasn't gotten a thread.

Has anybody played the game yet? Supposedly it has a German SP campaign. Impossible! :P

it is not a real campaign
it is few loosely connected missions with bots instead of players
as usual they promised too much :D

Have only played a couple of hours on the SP so far as I've been busy, but I've quite liked it. Very intense experience and interesting gunplay - don't like the way it forces you to have your class picked randomly every time you die though...kept getting anti-tank class on an infantry map  :P

The campaign is supposed to teach you the basics, not really tell a story.

IMO its just awesome, I just hate that if your team sucks you are quite fucked.

neosdark wrote:
I just hate that if your team sucks you are quite fucked.

LOL the basis of every FPS game ;D

I've got this game, I've played the Beta version.
I'm waiting this game fro about 2 years.  :)

ME WANT NOW!  >:(

Soon my Clan will buy a server, feel free to join.  ;)

With gusto mate, what Clan is that anyhow.

NB: It's not a spot, just for answer at Neos  ;)

http://clanitak.altervista.org/

Thats pretty cool, I was thinking of starting up my own clan just for BF 3 and Red Orchestra 2

Apparently your German Commander (or at least the anouncer) is Voss, or his twin brother.

They have the same exact voice actor. When he first spoke I exclaimed, "Hey! It's that guy!" :P

yup they prolly casted him cause he sounds so "german military"
i think he fits alright

HyperSniper999 wrote:They have the same exact voice actor. When he first spoke I exclaimed, "Hey! It's that guy!" :P

+1 I thought the same thing.  :D

i like how the guns feel ingame
really gritty, my great grandfather would problably dive for cover if he heard the sounds  ;)

Last edited September 16, 2011 at 10:54 AM by Pauly3

Has anyone more information on the SP/campaign?
Not that I really count on something groundbreaking... ::)

The MP looks like a lot of fun, but am I the only one that thinks those animations when you see the Bots/Players running look shitty?

Thinking about buying it tomorrow. Played the first one pretty much like 2 years ago but it bugged me so much that the infantry closecombat were so.. clumsy and slow?

Heh, I am only buying it for the mkb42h rifle ;P

were would they sell it in U.S.

So I bought it from the local game store. Hurray I thought. But now when Iam trying to install it. Well I get this.





Serious cat!? A YEAR!? And this is from the disk!? Whata hell is going on!? Iam desperate. Iam trying to install it from the disk, AND downloading it at the same time! Plz help me?

It aint the firewall I checked that. And I put down my Norton temporialy. Iam having Windows 7 btw!

(I hate steam! Its more trouble than good!)

Help ;<

Did you buy the special edtion or the regular one?
If special you will have the first game too with it and it will install that too i think or it is just a patch

Owh, explains alot. Thank you! Its on 4 % now Yeah <3 Thanks man! :D

Got it yesterday and it is just great but the stats is not working for me. ;D

Ryxxen wrote:
Got it yesterday and it is just great but the stats is not working for me. ;D

Stats are bugged now. Don't consider it FTM.

FTM  ???

for the moment I guess :P.

blackbishop wrote:
for the moment I guess :P.

This  :P

I've played few hours and I'm rather dissapointed. The entire 'RO2 will be thiiiiis awesome' campaign was false. It's like normal, maybe a little hardcore fps. Forgotten Hope 2 seems more challenging that this game. The only thing I liked much was tripod-mounted MG34 and shooting to advancing ruskies.

RO2 (like the first one) it's totally based on the multiplayer experience.
The SP campaign it's only a surplus that Devs has implemented in the game, and it's only for learn to use the weapons and the squad Leader/Commander orders.

All the resources of the Devs, at 99.9% will be used for Multi, so don't excpect great things from SP.

Desert_Fox wrote:
All the resources of the Devs, at 99.9% will be used for Multi, so don't excpect great things from SP.

Just like COH: Tales Of Valor ;D

My profile name is FOXYJAGER same as in easternfront.plz add me if u play RO2 and i would like to join desertfoxs clan i just dont know how.but i should warn u COD has made me very nooby. ;D

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o and wat the hell is wrong with the stats. i was lev 8 and at the end of the game i was lev 90?? wats wrong the game it has so many bugs

Last edited October 1, 2011 at 1:29 AM by FOXYJAGER

Stats are bugged.

Anyway, our server is up, feel free to join: [IP address redacted]:9277

It will be fixed soon enough, my only real problem with the game is that you can't de-attach the bayonet of a rifle, or deploy a MkB42 without a scope once you have unlocked it.

Does every weapon lvl do something? I level¨d up my ppsh-41 yesterday and I didnt know if the weapon had any changes or anything XD Didnt see any differant?

Sommarkatze wrote:
Does every weapon lvl do something? I level¨d up my ppsh-41 yesterday and I didnt know if the weapon had any changes or anything XD Didnt see any differant?

PPsh will has the drum magazine instead the small one.

MKB 42 will has bayonet and a little scope.

Last edited October 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM by Desert_Fox

ROHOS is really a realistic game but sp has sooo many bugs and its sucks a litlle.
But MP is fantastic!

Hmm. Strange. I didnt get the drum mag ;S Do I have to get a special amount of lvls to get the upgrade maybe?

I have to say Iam a little disapointed. The first RO were really focusing on realism. They had many guns. Mostly because they existed . Some of them sucked just like IRL.

cough*!G41 *cough!*

That was sweet.
In RO2 there are some guns missing. Like the ppd40. I liked that one :o
Kind of sad ;/

Sommarkatze wrote:
Does every weapon lvl do something? I level¨d up my ppsh-41 yesterday and I didnt know if the weapon had any changes or anything XD Didnt see any differant?

You gain a new thing (usually) at level 25 and then at level 35 IIRC.  The DP-28 doesn't even get any upgrades (THE HELL MAN, GIVE IT SOME KIND OF INCREASED FIRE RATE OR SOMETHING). I would love to see a Bazooka for the AT specialist, as Lend-Lease provided plenty of those things. It would be nice to see a PPS-42 later on, even if it is one of the more prototype variants.

The PPD-40 was pretty much phased out of service by Stalingrad, and most of the men equipped with those things were the NKVD Border Troops not regular Infantry formations

There will be only weapons used in Stalingrad, not any later models.

desertfox i dont know how to join a server that isnt listed plz tell me.and everytime i click on something else than the sever list like freinds,LAN or recently played the servers just disapper

Try to reset filters if you have activated it.

LAN is not a frequently way to play so it's easy find i empty.

Desert_Fox wrote:
There will be only weapons used in Stalingrad, not any later models.

Right and they have 100% percent proof that the MkB42 (H) was in Stalingrad. And the Battle of Stalingrad raged between 1942-43, they could have G43s their near the end

Were you ironic there Neosdark or not? (You never know on the internet XD) because I see people who claims it did see action in Stalingrad and those who says the opposite :o

Well the ppd40 maybe its okey. But what about an GERMAN anti tank rifles. Does existed for the time being ( dont remember the name sadly.) or the mp41 ( We had them in the first game <3) or hell, the ptrd 41 anti tank rifle?

Kind of bad of Tripwire. Why take away something good from the first game and dont have it in the sequel? ;C

I wasn't being ironic, I was being serious.

The MP-41 is nothing other than a MP40 with a wooden stock.

German AT rifles were all single round weapons, so a capture Soviet PTRS makes sense. However, the German Panzerbusche 39 and the PTRD would have been better choices, especially considering the PTRD was Vasily Zaytsev's weapon of choice (he had a Scope mounted on his PTRD) and both of these weapons were much more reliable than the PTRS.

As for the MkB42, I believe it served there because I love experimental weaponry, and the Germans believed in thorough field testing, which would lead me to believe that there were at least a few of them at Stalingrad. I just don't like the scope attachment to it, that's plain unrealistic. The MP43 had scope brackets, but the StG44 and MkB42 (H) (nor the MkB42 (W) for that matter) didn't not have them.

Then again they could (and probably will) add them at a later date.

i still dont know wat u mean desertfox

neosdark wrote:
However, the German Panzerbusche 39 and the PTRD would have been better choices, especially considering the PTRD was Vasily Zaytsev's weapon of choice (he had a Scope mounted on his PTRD)

I thought he used a Mosin Nagant Rifle with a scope ???. Or maybe that was just the movie ;D

Fishhunterx wrote:

neosdark wrote:
However, the German Panzerbusche 39 and the PTRD would have been better choices, especially considering the PTRD was Vasily Zaytsev's weapon of choice (he had a Scope mounted on his PTRD)

I thought he used a Mosin Nagant Rifle with a scope ???. Or maybe that was just the movie ;D

He did indeed, but for wall penetration, particularly in Stalingrad, he employed a Scoped PTRD and a pair of Binocs

neosdark wrote:
He did indeed, but for wall penetration, particularly in Stalingrad, he employed a Scoped PTRD and a pair of Binocs

Just like .50 caliber rounds used today ;D. Or the new exploding rounds they're working on :P

Ya indeed, and the new exploding rounds? This intrigues me.

neosdark wrote:
Ya indeed, and the new exploding rounds? This intrigues me.

Yeah. IDK how they work but they either stay in the wall and burst in the other direction of the shooter (so it kills the target) or they explode once on the other side :P. It was on the History channel(cause I somehow always catch the military programs ;D) but its only experimental for now :P. I think it will be employed soon ???

Nice...another useless weapon to blow apart children financed by your tax dollars