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sudden strike

hidden stroke 2

>>14226137

>2001

fucking hell

Red Orchestra Ostfront did this extremely well, especially the city maps like Odessa. It gave me a sense of perspective on how much of a meatgrinder Stalingrad must have been.

>>14226162

thanks, this is exactly what i am looking for. anything in the vein of open world or is White Gold the only one (and its predecessor, Boiling Point) that did this?

was far cry 2 like this? where you have to fight hard for every inch? i can't remember.

>>14226153

not looking for RTS but these look cool anyway, thanks

>>14226179

oh never mind. i just glanced at it and assumed because of the isometric perspective. even better, then.

>>14226179

Sudden Strike is a RTS you cocksucking heeb.

>>14226169

Well, there's the modern spiritual successor to Operation Flashpoint, ArmA. ArmA 2 was probably the peak of the series in terms of cool mods and shit, but ArmA 3 is still quite popular and has plenty of regular players and nice mods.

>>14226202

Thanks, I was hoping Arma was like that! I have 2 and 3 and I have yet to sink my teeth into them.

So they feel like you fight for every inch sometimes, right? My autism exploded when I realized I might have to actually just get the very janky Xenus 2: White Gold from Steam to satisfy the weird combination of open world+actually well-made military bases/towers. Again, maybe there's Far Cry 2 but I can't remember.

>>14226227

The ArmA games feel like a modern version of Operation Flashpoint. You shouldn't have any problem getting used to it.

The king of the hill servers for ArmA capture that fighting for every inch feeling pretty decently, much like the Odessa video I posted. It all depends on the type of scenario you're playing. Most of the campaign missions feel more contained, where you fight a few squads of troops before completing the mission. But KOTH servers are very active indeed, where all the players converge on one city on the area map. There are also much more open world type scenarios, and even ones that use the whole island map to do a weird sort of roleplay thing, and everything inbetween.

>>14226162

>Rising Storm 2 is fucking shit like I expected

Good it was only 5 bucks at G2A

>>14226314

I played the beta/demo and wasn't too impressed. It was playable, but not particularly better than Insurgency, and of course the lack of vehicular combat is once again a tragedy as it is with Insurgency and Day of Infamy. Also, the aiming is janky as fuck and I commonly saw people pulling up their sights and spamming the trigger before their sights are even lined up, yet they still score hits. Whereas RO:O very accurately represented your weapon's point-of-aim on screen (that is, your bullet just about always went exactly where you were pointing; conversely this made recoil quite severe to handle with just your mouse). ArmA still retains this level of point-of-aim accuracy. In fact I'm fairly sure there isn't any difference between your first-person-view of your weapon and the world's rendering of your weapon position. That discrepancy is the norm in FPSes; usually the first-person-view will have a wholly separate rendering and animation set compared to what other players see when they look at you.

graw/2 360 version.

>>14226502

Yeah, I remember playing the game at launch and thinking "What the fuck is this? Why is this so good now when I couldn't even believe it was a feature in the first game and nobody used it?"

>>14226588

but its nothing compared to hidden stroke resource war

Are the Close Combat games something you'd be interested in, OP? They quite literally have a game mechanic where you fight for each inch of ground within the maps, push further into the map and you get to deploy within those grids the next deployment phase and the battles can last for days at a time with night mechanics and digging in with foxholes in the later titles.

My personal favorite of this series would be Close Combat 5 due to the variety of units/nations and the particular operation it covers (Operation Overlord)

I'd recommend Close combat 2 or 3 if you're more into a tougher AI/grind

There's also Combat Mission but that's a real-time turn-based (you plot out your moves then hit play and watch the turn play out) I can't recommend the latest iterations of that series, but I do highly recommend the older titles as they have infantry that's a bit more believable and overall the titles are much better in terms of scale and setting. Again if you play a large scenario the battles can last days across hundreds of kilometers and honestly some of those missions/"operations" overwhelmed me in my youth and I don't think in my older more mellowed age I'd fare much better. Losing units also really hurts in these game modes because if you lose a platoon of infantry or a single tank it can affect the rest of the entire battle.

My personal favorite for these was Barbarossa to Berlin, though the Overlord and Afrika titles were also very solid.

>>14227176

Thanks, yeah these look cool. I have one of the Combat Missions on GOG, still need to play it.

>>14226353

I played the first graw demo a little before it released 10 years ago, I keep forgetting about it but I'm glad you reminded me. Added.

Keep 'em coming, guys. Though it seems Arma is my best bet for what I'm looking for. I am looking for a tactical FPS more than anything but I welcome anything tactical, as has been recommended in this thread.

Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star & Mius Front. They are battalion level

>>14227367

graw and graw 2 were GOAT online. not sure about versus since i almost always stick to co-op. stopped playing a long time ago and idk if anyone is still online anymore.

EDIT didnt want to erase anything i wrote. went to ghostrecon.net and graw is as dead as the miiverse.

>>14227523

Is there some way to play the 360 version without me digging out my 360? My disc got fucked up so I was wondering how easy it would to pirate it, is it as simple as burning an iso to a disc?

>>14226137

Flashpoint was a great idea but the game series always has the same problem

>box art promises "This will be the closest you'll ever be to war"

>mission 1: roll out with your army

>they all die instantly and it's you VS a million russians on an island

Nice "war".

>>14226153

I have to second this. No other game makes fighting for progress so slow and costly as sudden strike.

>>14229169

Are there any FPSes you can think of that do this, though? The only ones really named so far were RO and GRAW.

>>14229269

I don't think there is a single game where you are actually part of a huge organized army offensive. Even the arma campaigns always stay at platoon size level.

>>14229169

The main issue with OPFOR as it is with ARMA series has always been the AI coupled with the clunky movement and controls. If they ever solve those problems it would be great

>>14229333

Tried this last year when some other anon recommended it.

>Start the game

>add for russian FHM magazine plays

>dialogue is bad Runglish

>there's some drunk guy who's crashed his car into a giant mutant spider within the first 2 minutes

>cocaine, cocaine everywhere

>you can kill your enemies by throwing jars of bees at them

Honestly fun

Try Brothers in Arms and Full Spectrum Warrior.

>>14226162

Reminder that Mare Nostrum > Darkest Hour.

>>14246034

Anything > darkest hour post 29th coup.

>>14246037

Any clan with 29th in the game is always cancer no matter the game.

>>14226502

>they haven't fixed that yet after all these years

It's a feature anon, how else are they going to become the CoD killer?

>>14227498

Based on the Steel Fury engine too so plenty of tank autism.

>>14226352

In Arma 3 the first person model is very close to the third person model, but it is slightly different, which becomes more noticeable when you ADS. The point of aim also does shift around the screen quite a bit due to weapon sway, and also from recoil. The hash marks if you're the kind of fag that uses them are a pretty accurate representation of the recoil spread. Always keep in mind though that almost every weapon in the game is more precise than you are accurate, at least out to about 500m or so.

>>14226227

It's going to be really hard to find a meat grinder like you want, most Arma 3 groups go for a modern combat feel, which is a lot more about maneuvering and small squad tactics than throwing bodies into the grinder. Look for groups using Iron Front and the various other WWII mods which are honestly pretty great, those tend to be a bit closer to what you're looking for.

I want sci-fi tacti/k/ool games to make a comeback.

>>14248756

Interstellar Marines will never be good

>>14248797

It won't We need more Republic Commando, and Aliens: Colonial Marines Overhaul

>>14248851

Republic Commando with BiA style suppression and cover would be nice.