Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of StalingradRelease Date: Q1 2011

I have 3 passes as well. Let me know if you want to try it.

i have 3 passes for the ladies

3 passes here too. Is this game worth re-installing? Last time I played it was before the latest patch, and the community was dying a pretty horrible death.

3 passes here too. Is this game worth re-installing? Last time I played it was before the latest patch, and the community was dying a pretty horrible death.

3 passes here too. Is this game worth re-installing? Last time I played it was before the latest patch, and the community was dying a pretty horrible death.

Speaking to PCGamesN, Tripwire Vice President Alan Wilson said the exclusion of modding tools from accessible genres — most notably shooters — is a choice they “really can’t wrap our heads around.”

“Why would you stop people from modding your game?” he asked. “Why would you prevent people from being creative with your material? Just look what [DayZ has] done for everyone concerned, for example. Arma 2 has been on the top-ten sales charts on Steam for about the last four months solid because of what one of their employees did for fun in his spare time.”

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RO2
Killing floor + 11 DLC's

just pay more then the minimum price($2.90 at time of writing)

Here we are, the Monday after the weekend onslaught of Humble Bundles, Steam Sales, and a Free Weekend. As I write this RO 2 has over 5000 players and we are still heading towards prime play time for the game (around 3 PM EST). Another interesting stat: We've sold over 115000 Humble Weekly Sale Bundles with a day left (Not to mention Red Orchestra 2, the Digital Deluxe Upgrade for RO 2 and the Tripwire Bundle are also doing very well on Steam).

The influx of players we saw over the weekend helped bring down one of our servers (hosting our websites and an auth server), but at the same time set a new record for concurrent RO 2 players as well as large numbers for Killing Floor. It also highlighted several issues (such as players reporting issues with Nvidia 6 series cards, which we are looking into now) and crashes which happened with more frequency. Our tech director Dmitry is already tackling many of the crash reports that have come in and cleared away several. Related to that, many of the communities top bugs are in the pipeline to be fixed (with many already under the QA verification process). In the future I hope to be able to provide a detailed list of issues we've cleared away.

Coming up in the "nearish" future we are also working towards the release of another three map: Coldsteel, Bridges of Druzhina and Gumrak Station. You will be seeing me organize playtests of these maps in the RO 2 Official Game Group as we move to lock down gameplay and find bugs to be fixed. So stay tuned and play a part in improving the future of the game!

With all of these things going on, the next major game update is looking to be the release of Rising Storm (not including the maps). To prevent multiple gigabyte updates (as we have yet to solve the patching issue) we believe it will be best to just do the one update. To prepare for that, here at the office we are going through the process of merging Rising Storm and Red Orchestra 2 into the same build. What this means is that the two separate code and content bases are, for the first, time coming together. With all of the improvements from Rising Storm and all of the original content from Red Orchestra 2 our code team will be going mad over the next few days/weeks making sure all pieces get put in the right place.

For those of you who are Killing Floor fans, we have something special planned this year for your favorite game called Killing Floor, so keep an eye out. As we push forward, we'll also be talking more and more about Rising Storm, its features and content. Tripwire has been hiring (so we can stay on top of all the things we are up to!) and we are still looking for a few people to fill positions It is an exciting time for us here at Tripwire, and we are glad you here with us.

Earlier this month I visited Killing Floor and Red Orchestra 2 creator Tripwire Interactive to play Rising Storm, the upcoming standalone expansion to RO2 (look for a preview on Monday). After the demo, Tripwire President John Gibson and I got talking about the state of first-person shooters, and Gibson laid out a detailed criticism about the way Call of Duty “takes individual skill out of the equation.” Gibson also expressed frustration over how difficult it had been trying to design a mode for Red Orchestra 2 that appealed to Call of Duty players.

PCG: How do you feel about the state of FPSes?

John Gibson, President: I think that single-player shooters are getting better. I think they’re finally coming out from under the shadow of the Hollywood movie, overblown “I’m on a rail” linear shooter. I’m talking about Call of Duty-style shooters. In the late ‘90s, you had the original Deus Ex, which was an RPG-shooter. And those kind of games almost took an eight year hiatus. And I’m so excited to see them coming back with interesting gameplay. Like the Fallout games, even though their shooting mechanics could really use some improvement, just mixing a really cool story, but not a linear story, one that you create yourself. The melding of RPG elements and shooter elements has been great. I’ve seen this reflected in a lot of the reviews, it’s like, “Okay guys, we’re tired of this on-rails experience.”