Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Jesse L says:

I just bought Red Orchestra for $2 over the weekend and was pleased to see it still has a community at all. And they seemed nice enough while playing. I shot several of my own teammates (kind of inevitable) and no one called me names. An administrator came on voice chat at one point to tell one player that his friend had just been banned for using racial slurs, so in case the banned guy wanted to know, that’s why. Seems like a polite way to ban a jerk – so that’s top marks all around.

So: I would advise anyone who, like me, hasn’t played the first RO but is very excited about the sequel because of the enthusiasm of, among others, the RPS staff, to try RO. It only costs two units of your currency (whatever that may be) on GetGamesGo, and probably other places, and like others have said, several RO servers are still full all the time. My review: it’s fun! Even though I die ten times every round without shooting a single enemy. My continuing interest will be determined by my ability to change that ratio.

In one match I finally lucked into a class with an automatic weapon (I can’t hit anything with the rifle yet – mortal fear degrades my aim). I died three times without seeing my attacker. I respawned, walked around a corner, and plop there was Gerry. He had a rifle, I think, because he just stood there, probably reloading, while I unleashed a hellish fusillade of 50 rounds or so just to either side of his ears – crazy recoil on those old guns; lots of bullets in a clip, too! Slowly I advanced, firing, ever firing. I would have been able to see the whites of his eyes had they not been obscured by the bucking barrel of mine own weapon. If he ever fired, I didn’t see it. Finally I ended the standoff by remembering, not to aim low and fire in bursts, but to hit the crouch button, bringing my lethal cone of fire onto a devastatingly effective slightly lower plane. Of course I didn’t realize it HAD been effective until several seconds later, when my clip ran out.

That was exciting. Less exciting were my dozen deaths that round, which were not exactly long-drawn-out games of cat-and-mouse, to say the least. And yet I’m looking forward to playing again when I get home from work. So it’s going well so far.

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