Recent content by Biggus Dickus

Yoshiro said:

It is has been an exciting few weeks at AMG and TW.  Many placeholders are in the process of being updated and iterated on and things are changing daily.  Today I want to show fans some of those items (Remember that everything you are about to see is a Work In Progress and may contain placeholder elements) - menus.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam’s main menu.  The goal of this landing page for all players is to both inform them about things and activities that may be going on related to the game as well as provide them easy access to joining into the fray, taking a few moments to brush up on gameplay or editing their personalized controls to their liking.  While similar to fans of the series it has a new updated look and accommodates a news/community section. 
(see if you can find my bad MS Paint skills in the next two photos)

http://media.tripwirecdn.com/040116/mainmenu.png

As players hop into a server they will be presented with the faction selection and role menus.  After choosing between the North and the South faction available on the map players will have to select their class, loadout and squad. 

http://media.tripwirecdn.com/040116/roleselection.png

We’ve talked about collapsible stocks and today I have a new .webm that shows off how that is currently working. 


http://media.tripwirecdn.com/040116/mat49.webm


The weapons team has also asked me to pass along some new weapon renders showcasing the M60 and the Baikal shotgun (have we mentioned that one yet?)

http://media.tripwirecdn.com/040116/m60.png
http://media.tripwirecdn.com/040116/baikal.png


To finish things off today I have a few more items to discuss:

We will be at PAX East with an early build of Vietnam! Fans will want to drop by our booth and give us feedback!  Come and talk with our lead designer Adam, myself as well as Sturt, the lead programmer from AMG - we are friendly!

And you can now find our new dedicated Twitter account for Vietnam here at @rs2vietnam

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Hello everyone and welcome back. Today I want talk about refinement. One of the questions we have seen come up in the community is “What systems are shared between RO2/RS and RS 2?”. Previously, we’ve talked about new core mechanics and systems, so today I want to take a look at some of those that are similar to our past titles and how we are bringing them forward.

While the complete list is much larger (obviously), I’ll just focus on spawn protection and HUD elements in this bulletin. Spawn protection is always a tricky subject as you want to reward players for doing well, pushing forward and taking the fight to the enemy, but not at a cost of spawn-killing. Nor do you want players having to be “red-screened” to death when spawns move up. In Rising Storm 2 we’ve been experimenting with a new type of spawn protection that does not kill off the player (or even tint their screen). Instead it will lower the player's weapon into a non fireable state until they leave the spawn protection or out of bounds zone. We are continuing to look at refinements to this system as we playtest in different types of maps and modes but overall our goal is to make this less frustrating and obtrusive to players who find themselves in it, especially if it has recently moved.

Another point where we’ve been making changes to improve the experience is in the HUD. Players can now customize their hud in terms of opacity and scale to find their own optimal client settings. Along with those changes we have been iterating on tactical view with icons that scale with distance and fade when iron sighting to make sure that it isn’t obtrusive to the player while continuing to provide useful information at a glance.

And to finish things off today I have something new to show! As always keep in mind what you are about to see are Works In Progress and may contain placeholders and may not always be fully representative of the final product. With that in mind I would like to introduce you to another of the primary weapons of Vietnam the Type56:

http://media.tripwirecdn.com/021816/type56.webm

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Today we want to give you a look at one of the core game mechanics we have been talking about as well as introduce you to another one. As always keep in mind these are works in progress and subject to change as we iterate with the systems and find out more about what works and what doesn’t.

With that in mind, here are some additional warnings on the topic: In the following WebM you will see a snapshot of a development build with non-final numbers and settings, showcased on an early block-out map that has little-to-no art (and any art you see is most likely placeholder).

http://media.tripwirecdn.com/020516/m16.webm

What you’ve just seen here are changes we have been experimenting with on how weapons handle with full-auto This includes ironsight misalignment and how the ironsights and weapon behave during recoil which are different from past RO/RS titles. To reiterate: The goal of these systems and experiments is to make sure weapons still feel good in the hands of the player, but behave and encourage a more authentic engagement between sides in a firefight. You may also have seen some other additions we feel fans of the franchise will enjoy.

Another core design goal of the game we’ve been working on can be summed up as:

One mode of play
An authentic, immersive tactical shooter
One game with some server and client settings - the game should always play the same across servers
The majority of which we are currently looking at being visual aids
We feel this will help newer players without diluting the core gameplay experience or jar them from one mode to the next


We are looking to show more details and examples on other core systems as they come online. Right now there is a major focus on UI and Menu work heavily underway.

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Captured Joe said:

but why isn't this named "Red Orchestra 3" instead?

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F.F.C._fritz said:

Actually it must have been a couple of months ago, in the 29th inf. server.

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