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Bottom post of the previous page:

oh the beta still has half an hour to it's up

I have a spare beta code if anyone wants it.

The voices are better, and there's some cursing now, but some of it still feels stale. Other than that this game is ready for launch.

Why do commanders suffer a 20 second spawn delay because dumb cunts run to play with the puffy clouds?

To prevent griefing as Commander. Use your mic beforehand.

Also, anyone can get in the beta now so it's retard heaven. I love seeing all these level 1's sitting behind a tree for 10 minutes.

>playing beta with friends
>having a lot of fun and getting into it
>see friend get shot in front of my face
>the GI is in a trench
>hold down mic button to call it out
>begin shouting "WAR IS HELL" over and over
>I have no idea why
>mfw I'm having an actual PTSD attack in a video game

>see gook
>I have a shotgun
>sneak up behind him and point blank headshot
>his head explodes in a gory mist

Also this gem

>playing commander on the front line
>trying to get a radioman
>one finally gets to me, we lay down and I'm getting ready to call in things
>hear a grenade tic somewhere nearby
>whatever
>boom
>I'm alive
>wonder why I can't call things in
>close menu, radioman gone
>where the fuck
>see his body next to me, no limbs on it
>the grenade had rolled under him and his body took the explosion, saving me

The PTSD is strong. It's the first scene in the vid I'm uploading. Was gonna be 1080p but fuck uploading for 17 hours.

1080p version going up.

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>grenade sounds a bit too loud, like they over-emphasized the sound in case people didn't hear them but now it's just confusing trying to balance grenade noises with everything else.
>voice acting honestly still subpar, they've got decades worth of movies to draw lines from. Vietnam announcer needs to inject some enthusiasm into his voice.

It was fun though. I like how they made some maps non-linear. There's less cover and bushes to hide in than I'd expected compared to RS1 but maybe this stops people camping in bushes with automatic weapons, which is a good thing. Still plenty of places to hide in though.

Ausops, I can't tell if your avatar is supposed to be a kor slime or a nik brain.

niks brain would be better represented by the lighter shade of purple in microsoft paint, experts say

you're too light for kor
and too dark for nik

imblyings wrote:>grenade sounds a bit too loud, like they over-emphasized the sound in case people didn't hear them but now it's just confusing trying to balance grenade noises with everything else.
>voice acting honestly still subpar, they've got decades worth of movies to draw lines from. Vietnam announcer needs to inject some enthusiasm into his voice.

It was fun though. I like how they made some maps non-linear. There's less cover and bushes to hide in than I'd expected compared to RS1 but maybe this stops people camping in bushes with automatic weapons, which is a good thing. Still plenty of places to hide in though.

pretty much

grenade impacts outright don't seem to have a distance modifier - you either hear it (RIGHT NEXT TO YOU OH SHIT) or hear nothing. I expect this to be fixed for release though

also even looking past the lack of "gook" it's still really wimpy voice acting (and the VC announcer is... well, shit, let's just say I thought my friends' vietnamese impression was gonna be racist, but he's got nothing on that)

Grenade sounds are bugged this wave is why.

Found actual RS2 gameplay.

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played some more

Attack helicopters seem completely useless, I haven't been killed by one yet. I guess in time people will git gud but until then. Being able to hide from recon is a nifty feature. The US also seem overpowered. The game is also much better with the ingame music turned off. It's not appropriately thematical at some times, hue city? in particular.

I also really wish people practiced more barrel awareness.

>holding an angle out from inside a window to the side, backed up at a safe distance as well
>some guy walks right up to it and blocks my LOS

I've only seen 2 actually good pilots, one from ARMA and another from Project Reality. One of them was a transport driver and another in the attack chopper. He was blasting gooks with a buddy for a long time, ended up getting 91 kills.

US isn't overpowered, really. They just have a more head on approach where they can bomb the fuck out of things. If the Vietcong have a competent commander he will save the SAM's for whenever they call in an AC-130, completely shutting that down. US arty is weaker than their Asian counterpart, and napalm is hit-or-miss. Plus, US has to have competent squad leaders who don't die to keep up frontline spawns, whereas the Viet's can just place a tunnel somewhere and forget about it. I honestly prefer Vietnamese guns. They get the AKM, which holds more ammo and has better sights than the US rifles, a bunch of traps (which when placed correctly are hellish to deal with), and the PPSH, the submachine gun from god.

I've started pretty much just playing as a Vietnamese Commander because I love their call-in's. You can turn on rapid respawn, turn on anti-air to blow the fuck out of the AC-130 and incompetent helicopter pilots, willy pete/explosive artillery mix all in one, and the ability to spawn every single dead person on you. Want to capture a point stealthily? Sneak into it alone as commander, activate instaspawn, and boom, your team is all around you.

>literally vietcong terminator squad

muh realism

oh yeah, the vietnam ambush ability is one I haven't seen and I realllly wouldn't like to see if I was on the receiving end, sadly the servers I play on aren't that coordinated to pull something like that off. As for US squad leaders needing to be competent it's a 50/50, it's pretty much the same system they had in RO2 and I've played it the same way with decent results.

I also wish they toned down the SFX you get when you headshot someone. Instant gratification is nice but I don't have to clearly hear a helmet and skull being penetrated over a 100m away.

>have me and 3 other people playing rs2
>shaps is in the voice channel with us
>he buys it solely because the rest of us have it
>spend like a solid 4 hours shooting GIs/VCs

this game is fucking great

Maybe it is more fun with more organized people but it just felt like a clunkier battlefield to me. Was okay for an hour and a half but not exciting enough to stop me refunding it.

>comparing RS2 to Battlefield

go home normie

what did he mean by this



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GI LEAVE VIETNAM, GI GO HOME
LEAVE PEACEFUL PEOPLE OF VIETNAM ALONE

That moment when you're running across a bridge with a sqauddie then another fellow US infantryman pokes out of the bush from the other side and guns down your buddy and starts lining you up to shoot next, forcing the dilemma of shooting your fellow countryman to survive or dying in a horrifying friendly fire accident. War truly is hell.

>say np when people tk me accidentally
>say sorry when I tk people accidentally, they say they it's ok and that they understand but they don't type np

ah

AHH

AHHHHH

Never say np

sportsmanship has to come from somewhere

i actually didn't even realise typing np did anything

DrPillzRedux wrote:>comparing RS2 to Battlefield

go home normie

It's an unorganized mass of players running at each other shooting to try and take the points how is that not like battlefield

It literally is just Battlefield Vietnam without the vehicles and the commander from 2142 and no IT AIN'T ME

Also my steam name is not Kor

Shaps-cloud wrote:It literally is just Battlefield Vietnam without the vehicles and the commander from 2142 and no IT AIN'T ME

ehh I'd disagree, it's a little less arcadey

I like it a lot though, it just DESPERATELY needs local positional VOIP - it's genuinely impossible to communicate with anyone not in your squad other than for big macro planning, and the fact that names don't display until you're super close compounds the issue

they either need to display names from farther away or add positional VOIP

>display names from farther away

Wrong game, fam. Babyfield is the other way.

Kor wrote:It's an unorganized mass of players running at each other shooting to try and take the points how is that not like battlefield

Well shit, I guess every multiplayer FPS game in recent memory is Babyfield then. That includes Day of Infamy, Call of Duty, etc.

Planetside 2 was defo mmo-bf

My influence on this game has been supreme. They made the M14 sights better after I PM'd a dev about it last beta, and now they're considering redoing the clothing unlock order because of me.

DrPillzRedux wrote:My influence on this game has been supreme. They made the M14 sights better after I PM'd a dev about it last beta, and now they're considering redoing the clothing unlock order because of me.

Assuming direct control

Just wait for it and eventually Pillz will have them add tokays.

DrPillzRedux wrote:My influence on this game has been supreme. They made the M14 sights better after I PM'd a dev about it last beta, and now they're considering redoing the clothing unlock order because of me.

Finally your shilling has paid off

DrPillzRedux wrote:>display names from farther away

Wrong game, fam. Babyfield is the other way.

it's outright ridiculous that I can't communicate with people because there's no positional VOIP or names viewable from a distance - you need one or the other if you want your game to be remotely encouraging to communication, and you can post about how i'm le ebin casul gamer all you like, it's a serious design flaw

I can't warn the GI 5 feet away from me about there being 3 VCs and a tripwire through that door without positional VOIP or being able to see their name

They already said they're looking into prox chat and have been since last year. It's not likely because of the engine and how much cpu useage it would take, as they're already at max pretty much.

I was referring to people who whine about teamkilling people because names aren't shown until you look at them directly to ID them

Well, by the time I get home tomorrow the beta will be over. Much better than the previous waves. 100+ FPS on Hue City now instead of 30. Grenade sound was the only gamebreaking bug I got.

At least my final match was gunning through the city with an emu.

DrPillzRedux wrote:I was referring to people who whine about teamkilling people because names aren't shown until you look at them directly to ID them

that's fair but when you say

Qbopper wrote:Wrong game, fam. Babyfield is the other way.

in response to my post you can't really use that defense

RIP the beta, looking forward to the full release

That's not a defense, it's a clarification.

I enjoyed the beta, the asymmetrical gameplay is nice to experience, and the new class/roles system is phenomenal

tedward1337 wrote:I enjoyed the beta, the asymmetrical gameplay is nice to experience, and the new class/roles system is phenomenal

yeah it's not perfect but I really really liked Americans and Vietnamese having different elements

In one game quanti and I were in, song be I think, we fought gooks in the forest for like 10 minutes since they kept spawning. It was fucking horrifying. You could hear the little bastards scurrying around.

So we can all agree the M14 is superior to the M16 right?

>penetrates walls like butter
>kills in one shot
>starts full unlike the M16
>can be topped off with stripper clips

Just so you know what I'm talking about, the M16 only has 18/20 bullets loaded because of the "muh 20 round load jams it".

M14 is a monster of a weapon. By far my favourite top 3 in the beta

PPSH > M14 > Stakeout > M16

I love semi auto rifles but there's something alluring about the shitty M16

Everyone who played the beta should do the survey. They actually read them and make changes based on them.

http://rs2vietnam.com/survey/

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