God dammit, why the hell can't I get into Red Orchestra?

[blackguy32]

People keep telling me that its a decent game. And it may be when I can actually kill something. 9 times out of ten I will go out run behind some cover, try to shoot someone and miss horribly, since im essentially aiming at a dot on the horizon and need to account for bullet drop and bullet travel time, only to be killed by someone else.

I just suck at the game, and maybe its time to hang it up. >:(

[PoolShark]

Man I played it way back... I thought it was cool because no one else played it and therefore I was on the forefront of something cool, thereby making me cool...

Turns out it was just a really nerdy ass game. It was good for a while, but I don't think I could ever be entertained with it anymore. Back then I had entire summers to play games and countless hours to master some shitty slow paced game. Now I work all day come home tired and if I feel up to it play an hour or two of CoD4 or Halo 3 because the speed works into my time budget.

[Fenris Wolf]

You know, I play it off and on, and sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not. I can't really get in to it either, but I've definitely had some enjoyable times at it.

[Dr. Crawford]

it has its fun moments for sure, but i don't really play it

[Penguin]

Red Orchestra reminds me of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's song, "Every OS Sucks." Specifically the part about Linux.

However you say it, it's getting great press,
though how it survives is anyone's guess,
If you ask me, it's a great big mess,
for elitist, nerdy shmucks.

"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run,
the Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!"
Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done,
the Linux OS SUCKS.
(I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)

[AFG]

I hate tank maps

[Koobazaur]

I hate tank maps

QFT

[MeleeMe?]

People keep telling me that its a decent game. And it may be when I can actually kill something. 9 times out of ten I will go out run behind some cover, try to shoot someone and miss horribly, since im essentially aiming at a dot on the horizon and need to account for bullet drop and bullet travel time, only to be killed by someone else.

I just suck at the game, and maybe its time to hang it up. >:(

I had the same problem and never really got into like I have other games but it was much more playable for me when I started playing the city maps and then once I got used to it a bit THEN go for the bigger open maps.

Try danzig, that was always fun for me.

[SWK]

As someone who actually enjoys playing RO, the main appeal for me is how it is a demanding game but it is also immensely rewarding. Maneuvering and positioning can be just as important skills as aiming, and being observant is probably even more important than anything. Though nailing some poor bastard from halfway across the map with a single well-aimed shot is a great feeling.

[Pinecone]

Try danzig, that was always fun for me.

ugh, danzig is so overplayed

[Penguin]

RO is an example of trying for too much realism, IMO. Basically at this point, either I can fire up RO and go through the clunky "press a billion buttons to go prone, aim and fire" process, or I can grab a paintball gun and have all the challenges of slow-moving, inaccurate, "trajectory like a custard pie" projectile ballistics with a far more intuitive interface and an overall more rewarding experience.

[AFG]

In Soviet Russia, Red Orchestra gets you.

[Rob]

Back then I had entire summers to play games and countless hours to master some shitty slow paced game. Now I work all day come home tired and if I feel up to it play an hour or two of CoD4 or Halo 3 because the speed works into my time budget.
I think this accurately describes virtually the entire online-FPS player base

[SimonS]

itt we play project reality

[blackguy32]

Well the problem I have with it, is that Im supposed to attack attack and attack with my bolt action rifle. And then when I attack, the people on defense already have the advantage. Plus the deployment system feels pretty clunky to me.

[Cheeto]

People always tell me "STALKER is soooooo awesome! It's realistic, but fun! It's got great graphics but it'll run on anything! It's a shooter and RPG like Deus Ex!"

Wrong on all counts, fuckers. Guns don't really wear out as fast as they do in the game, nor do they have such shit-tastic accuracy and damage. 4 rounds into a guy's HEAD at close range, 2 missed, the other 2 didn't kill him. But you bet his fucking single pistol shot ended me. The graphics look like HL2 (good, not great) but minus a lot of the hard core lighting effect details that HL2 has, and it runs like shit anyway. Probably to do with the fact it's been in development hell for 5 years or so. It's the slowest shooter and the most brain dead 'rpg' I've ever played and anyone trying to link it to Deus Ex's majesty should be shot with a flamethrower and have their stiffened corpse thrown off the remnants of the statue of liberty and stomped by a patrolling security bot.

[Penguin]

People always tell me "STALKER is soooooo awesome! It's realistic, but fun! It's got great graphics but it'll run on anything! It's a shooter and RPG like Deus Ex!"

Wrong on all counts, fuckers. Guns don't really wear out as fast as they do in the game, nor do they have such shit-tastic accuracy and damage. 4 rounds into a guy's HEAD at close range, 2 missed, the other 2 didn't kill him. But you bet his fucking single pistol shot ended me. The graphics look like HL2 (good, not great) but minus a lot of the hard core lighting effect details that HL2 has, and it runs like shit anyway. Probably to do with the fact it's been in development hell for 5 years or so. It's the slowest shooter and the most brain dead 'rpg' I've ever played and anyone trying to link it to Deus Ex's majesty should be shot with a flamethrower and have their stiffened corpse thrown off the remnants of the statue of liberty and stomped by a patrolling security bot.

This was pretty much exactly my experience, except that if I attempted to run it on graphics settings even approaching HL2's, my computer would choke like an inexperienced whore.

A friend of mine who loves STALKER to no end insisted that his weapons worked just fine and it ran great with the settings cranked, and insisted that my problems were probably OS rot, and the fact that you might actually need to MANUALLY SET IT TO RUN ON DX9. WTF.

Now that I have a new HDD, it will get one and ONLY one chance to redeem itself.