Betio and Multiplayer Campaign Changelog

[Yoshiro]

This is the near final changelog for the upcoming RO2/RS patch.

Content

• Multiplayer Campaign Mode made officially released and Pacific campaign added - Multiplayer Campaign Mode is an all new paradigm in multiplayer FPS games – more than just a game type, it ties the game types and individual matches together into a campaign that can last hours. This gives the multiplayer game more depth than ever before – individual matches now matter for the overall victory or loss in the MP campaign. Both sides battle it out to control territories on a large scale battle map, voting on which territories to attack, whether to attempt to take more territory, or to defend and try to grind down the enemies resources. We like to say it is like a “meta” game of Risk. MP Campaign was cut before the original launch of Red Orchestra 2 due to time constraints, but now returns with both a Stalingrad and Pacific theater campaign.
  
  
• All new level Betio. The tiny island of Betio was the scene of the heaviest fighting during the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943, the first major US amphibious offensive of the Pacific Theater. The map here recreates the push of the US 2nd Marine Division across the devastated island against their counterparts in the 6th Special Naval Landing Force (the Japanese 'Marines') as the US forces attempt to disable key tactical objectives such as naval guns and transmitter stations. The map favors desperate pitched defenses and assaults at all costs and features extensive use of destroyable objectives. So engineers get those satchel charges primed!
  
• New Russian weapon - PPS-42 SMG. Born out of desperation during the siege of Leningrad, the PPS-42 provides the Russian's with a powerful, lightweight SMG option.
  
• New Japanese weapon - Type 97 Sniper Rifle. More accurate, but less powerful than the existing Type 99 sniper rifle, this weapon gives the Japanese another way to reach out and touch their enemies.

Gameplay

• Refined prone system - Players will now be able to successfully prone in many more locations
  
• Crawling through tight spaces (e.g. trenches) is less restrictive
  
• Japanese Type 38 rifle now gets additional ammo clips at level 3
  
• Fixed being able to single fire a BAR with a burned-out barrel
  
• Removed plus-one reloading for the PPSH 41
  
• Dropping a primed grenade when killed can now award points for kills
  
• Fixed issue where Aerial recon planes were spawning at the wrong location when team roles were reversed.
  
• Refined Countdown game mode to prevent gameplay exploits where one team would suicide after capturing an objective to improve their chances of winning (* Special thanks to THOR's mod *)
  
• Removed spawn protection when spawning on squad leader
  
• Fixed being able to spawn on the other team’s MGer
  
• Fixed M1917 firing too high
  
• Disabled spawning on MGer when spawning on SL is disabled
  
• Fixed spawn delay after accepting battlefield commission after a round has begun

Level Design

Took a pass through many maps to improve gameplay balance including the following maps: Apartments, Barracks, Commissars House, Mamayev Kurgan, Pavlov’s House, Red October Factory, Station, Spartanovka, Hanto, Peleliu, and Guadalcanal.

Apartments:

• Changed allied reinforcements to 420 from 365
  
• Changed axis reinforcements from 325 to 280
  
• Allies respawn rate changed to 15 seconds from 25

Barracks:

• Moved Allies last spawns to be more in line with the routes needed to defend the last objectives.
  
• Reduced Allies respawn time by 5 seconds

Commissars House

• Most objective capture times have been slightly increased
  
• All objectives now lock after being captured

Mamayev Kurgan

• Reduced Axis artillery amounts
  
• Both team's respawn rate set to 20 seconds (Previously, Axis = 15 and Allies = 25)

Pavlov's House

• Balanced artillery amounts for both teams
  
• Decreased tank respawn rates
  
• Added infantry/tank cover around Jan 9th Square
  
• Added field locations for satchel charge pickups'
  
• Both teams now only have 1 tank

Red October Factory

• German spawns for the 1st objective now fall back after 3 minutes (similar to Kwajalien)
  
• All objectives lock after being captured
  
• All objectives capture times are slightly increased

Station

• Decreased allies respawn time from 25 seconds to 20
  
• Increased objective capture time gradually as the map progresses - final objective capture time has been doubled
  
• 1st objective now locks after being captured

Spartanovka

• Added more aggressive spawn protection for attackers and defenders

Hanto

• Reduced Axis reinforcements 550 to 450
  
• Reduced map time 25min to 20min

Peleliu

• Increased Allied respawn time 15sec to 20 sec
  
• Reduced Allied reinforcements 420 to 350
  
• Reduced Axis respawn time 25 sec to 20 sec

Guadalcanal

• Reduced Axis reinforcements 610 to 510
  
• Increased Allied reinforcements 530 to 550
  
• Increased Axis respawn timer 15 sec to 20 sec
  
• Decreased Allied spawn timer 25 sec to 20 sec

Classic Mode

• Changed Classic Mode weapons handling. Sway is significantly higher when you first go into ironsights, then ramps down shortly afterwards, then climbs back up a bit if you stay in iron sights (but not as high as when first going into iron sights)
  
• Added a new recoil modifier for weapon handling. Many weapons have more recoil with Classic mode weapon handling now.
  
• Many weapons have had their sway/jitter values tweaked for Classic weapons handling
  
• Increased base run speed of players in Classic mode. It now matches the realism default run speed
  
• In Classic Mode you can now use your iron sights key to stop sprinting and start a transition to ironsights. The transition to iron sights when coming out of sprint is now much longer than normal iron sights transitions however
  
• Sway will reset when transitioning to/from crouched so you get more sway when you have just changed stances.
  
• Fixed some Classic mode weapon handling properties not working online

User Interface

• Fixed satchel objective icons not being reset in the next round
  
• The unit select screen now remembers the previously selected weapon and weapon level
  
• Added a cancel reload hint
  
• Added “Enter” key input on spawn select screen
  
• Increased scroll speed in role selection squad view
  
• Fixed WebAdmin incorrectly stating that spawn on squad leader would un-rank your server
  
• Game will now alternate between RS menu music and RO 2 menu music

Other

• Eyefinity/nVidia Surround support in 3x1 Landscape and 5x1 Landscape (5x1 Portrait not currently supported). Menus and HUD correctly resize and relocate to the center monitor
  
• Various additions to WebAdmin
  
• Fixed a memory leak which was crashing/restarting servers
  
• Fixed kill messages not displaying for demorecs
  
• Fixed several game crashes and added additional logging for several others
  
• Implement extensive functionality to support the vehicle mod team’s work on adding new vehicles to the game including base transport functionality, and transport vehicle spawning functionality
  
• Added mutator hook for ROGameInfo::PreLogin

[Yoshiro]

You can read more about Multiplayer Campaign (and how to set it up) here: http://wiki.tripwireinteractive.com/index.php?title=RO2_Multiplayer_Campaign

[RedRoman]

Good stuff! Thanks, TWI. :)

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

as much as I like the update, this statement bothers me a bit: "Multiplayer Campaign Mode is an all new paradigm"

Wolfenstein ET had pretty much that and that game is from 2002(or 2003?) so it's not really "all new" imho.

[massai11]

It's all new for this game. Why drag a good thing down?

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

well I like the game mode, I just don't like it when someone tells you that he invented the wheel, even though it exists for quite a while already.

[Great General Of The Heavens]

so anyone know when the problem with realtek/punkbuster will be fixed?

[BroodjeParkiet]

good job tripwire it is a pitty that my laptop is broke,the redorchestra games are my favorite fps i ever played and multiplayer game

[The doctor is in]

thanks! very nice i love 1hr+ campaign like old bf42 where i would play for 1-2 hours the same campaign and i hate those 15 minute matches like in cod/bf3

[Freem0n]

A new sniper but no Japanese flamer? You are so close to accurately modeling the Japanese team if we nerf the SMG's.

Anyways, its nice to see that Hanto finally got balanced, but Saipan I think has the same problem as well. Maybe increase the reinforcements on the axis by 30-40?

Also, there was no need for gaudalcanal to be balanced in that manner, as its a slug fest for the Japanese only to end up losing at the last cap because theres no reinforcements left.

[swenor]

Origineel geplaatst door Captain Obvious:

so anyone know when the problem with realtek/punkbuster will be fixed?

Gamers don't use realtek sound chip. Buy a dedicated card just like you do for graphics.

[nevadi616]

yes

[Kyso4ek]

noo classic run speed :(. no reason to have classic now

[brandonapp]

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