>Is it worth the 40GB it'll take up?
I put like 200 hours into it.
PROS
>the shotguns are fucking awesome
>seriously, getting buckshot kills at 125 meters drives people mental and it's piss-easy
>the sound design is absolutely top-notch
>flying helicopters is really fun, they struck a good balance between muh realism and being approachable with mouse and keyboard
>bayonets baybee
>on almost every single good community server there's great Red Orchestra level RP banter going on, so people are calling each other filthy GI or kung-fu slantgooks or whatever
>anecdote: the first time I played Hue as the US, someone on the VC team was micspamming Public Voice with old radio broadcasts of Hanoi Hannah and it sounded so perfect, complete with echo and everything, that I thought it was built into the map
>some of the community maps are surprisingly good; Firebase Georgina is my personal favorite but there are a ton of them that are great
>the shooting feels pretty crisp for the most part
>the well-populated community servers are pretty much all really fun, lenient on no-fun-allowed thought policing, etc
>thematically it's just plain cool; throwing a signal grenade, calling for danger close napalm and seeing the world twenty meters away from you burst into flame just when things look lost, complete with the sounds of Vietnamese screaming, is genuinely special and takes a long time for the novelty to wear off
CONS
>I sure hope you like Hue
>seriously, every single map-voting server will run Hue at least 75% of the time and I am not exaggerating
>graphics are great, but both sides blend into foliage really well, which means that a lot of the time you're going to get rekt by someone who's just hiding and camping
>the "balance" is bizarre at best: any maps that allow the VC to build tunnels (which are squad spawn points) are pretty one-sided, and the maps where they're not allowed to build tunnels they get fucking steamrolled
>machine gun barrels heat up after like two seconds of fire
>suppression is still total dogshit
>the devs are complete fucking kikes for three reasons:
>1, the cosmetic/XP rank up rate is absolutely glacially slow
>2, you can buy all of the cosmetics (and several that are exclusive) for real money
>3, I don't have the screencap from what they did to RO2 but they're just complete fucking scumbags, to the point where I am 100% positive they rigged the community map contest (the map that won, Highway, is fucking dogshit even to this day, several months/a year after it was released)
>the hitcode is absolute garbage and if you end up in a melee-range panicked gunfight it's a coin flip to see who killed whom
>the percentage of the community that aren't cool are crybabies, discord cocksuckers or just plain faggots
Overall, I mean, you didn't pay for it, you might as well load it up. It's fun enough for awhile, especially if you find a server you really like I used to play on the Bloodbath custom map servers and really liked it there