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Post by gunfreak on May 24, 2008 12:05:57 GMT -5
Darkest Hour is a mod for Red Orchestra, with the setting of D-day and the battle for normandie
all those who have RO should try this mod out
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Post by gunfreak on Jun 7, 2008 10:32:33 GMT -5
the mod is out now, and it's great,
there is one map based on Brecourt, and I had a perfect round on it, I was an american airborne engineer with a carbine and 20lbs of explosives.
the mission is like it was in real life and how you saw it on band of brothers the airborne have to navigate a trench system with 4 105's that needs to be captures and blown up. as an engineer my job was to blow them up. it was great everyhing worked, we made a base of fire with a .30cal and flanked the first gun, we tok and destroyed it, as we ran a german stuck he's head up and got a bullet from my carbine. we moved up and did the same with the second gun, killing any kraut we came over, grenades first them charge up the trench and take the gun, we got into a little prolonged firefight in the command bunker, and a few of us got killed by a MG when we came out of it, me included, but as the spawn moves i reapeard almost at the same place I died, we took the last 2 guns and I killed another german, after emptieing a mag at him, on the way back I got a burst om MG fire in the back, but again I started at almost the same spot I died, I got another german as I was runnig past the first guninplacement, we were chaced by the germans all the way back, and I was the first airborne to get to the fallback point and we won.
just simply a fantastic round, and one of my very best online game experiences
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Post by KRaddatz on Jun 7, 2008 11:00:29 GMT -5
From what ive played of the game is, its horrible, but ill give it a chance since its beta. Here are my problems. 1st 18 months, they had 18 months and still they have a beta game. the models for the players are really inaccurate and look bad. The models for the weapons look horrible in iron sights. and my biggest problem,
the audio, the worst weapon and play commands ive ever heard in a game let alone WWII game.
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Post by gunfreak on Jun 7, 2008 11:06:18 GMT -5
18months isn't particular long time for a mod this size.
simple mods are dime a doze, but true total conversjons are few and far between.
yes the sounds are bad, with the exception of Mg42 and Carbine, but all this is just iceing on the kake, it's the gameplay that counts, and it's realy good on this mod.
my biggest problems with the mod is that you have to little ammo, the BAR only had 4 mags instead of the 12+ it should, and the same with the Garand only 6 clips instead of 11+
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Post by Relish on Jun 7, 2008 12:07:34 GMT -5
DH has been in work for WAY longer, I used to play CoD1 with a guy on the dev team (sharpshooter).
Also, the 9th SS Red Orchestra unit helped test it, and I gotta say that DH isn't as good as Carpathian Crosses. Granted, the total Conversion of RO was a LOT more challenging than what was added in CC (Mortars, new Romanian soldiers, a few vehicles and maps, and a nifty little feature where your tanks sights can get damaged), if the DH guys had taken more time on it, it would have been a little bit better, IMO.
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Post by mauser98k on Jun 7, 2008 13:19:44 GMT -5
I don't think many of you realize it's still just a beta?
-Dakota
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Post by gunfreak on Jun 7, 2008 15:15:18 GMT -5
this is one of the best beta's i've seen and i've seen alot,
I was there when Dod beta 1 came out, they had worked on it for a long time, but was basicly just HL death mach with WW2 guns
the gameplay is what is importaint, so far this is the closest thing you get to real WW2 combat, short of WW2 online. you realy feel like just one guy in a big war.
there are lots and lots of great moments in the game and I've only played for 1 day I was playing the omaha map, which is great, and me and like 10 other guys were running together we were behind a stone wall and a bunch of germans came running across the steet, and we all fired of our guns, 1 BAR, 1 thompson, me on carbine and the rest with Garands, the scene looked like it was from reality, a bunch of guy just sending lead down the street, not realy super acurate fire, but just alot of lead going the germans way.
the mod is also alot better at team work then the original RO, in RO it's hard to find others to join up with, but there I find myself in a group all the time, giving cover fire ect. just great gameplay, the rest will come when it comes, but the gameplay is solid as hell
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Post by KRaddatz on Jun 7, 2008 15:43:46 GMT -5
i only get that feeling from stock RO.
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Post by Relish on Jun 7, 2008 18:33:39 GMT -5
Carpathian Crosses is still a beta, but its still that much better
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Post by schmitty on Jun 12, 2008 10:07:06 GMT -5
Couldn't get this to work in multiplayer. Runs fine in practice mode and looks great, but crashes when attempting to join multiplayer with a message saying there is a missing texture. Any suggestions?
Thanks Schmitty
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Post by gunfreak on Jun 12, 2008 11:40:30 GMT -5
there is a problem, that makes the game crash on maps, with US,
have you tried to join one of the maps with brits?
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Post by Obergefreiter Raimund on Jun 12, 2008 15:48:36 GMT -5
I'm going to download this tonight! I love RO. I'm sure this will be fun as well! It is only a beta guys... I would not judge the MOD based on the beta.
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Post by gunfreak on Jun 17, 2008 11:27:24 GMT -5
the crash bug has been fixed, I just played an hour lang game on omaha with 25 vs 25 players
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Post by Jager.Drü on Jul 2, 2008 22:24:14 GMT -5
I've been playing it too. I find it fun but it is still a beta. But I've only played as german so far, need to play on the Brit or US side for the full effect.
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Post by gunfreak on Jul 3, 2008 6:39:27 GMT -5
I love the brecourt map, running through the trenches with tracers flying over head, and bullets hitting the trench wall, very cool. throwing a grenade at the gun then rushing and just spraying with the thompson
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