RealRTCW

RealRTCW

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player
RaNgeR Jul 6, 2023 @ 3:46pm
Not the Best Experience
This is the first addon I tried for RealRtCW and right off the bat, I give my full appreciation for the amount of work done to make this happen. It gives a bit different single-player vibes for RtCW as you conduct missions along with friendly AI which is awesome.

But, I can't say I'm having a great gameplay experience, and honestly it is even more frustrating than the RtCW campaign. While posting this thread - I reached the Warbell 2 mission, playing on "I am Death incarnate!" difficulty.

Several examples I can share (some of which, if not all, are also in the RtCW campaign):
1. Enemies are coming in bulk. This can turn the firefight very irritating at times when you don't have friendly AI around to assist you. 5-6 or more enemies shooting at you at the same time, with the issue being that they have superhuman reaction and overpowered aimbot, especially from long ranges. Not to mention tough enemies like the Super Soldier with the Tesla gun... that thing can reach other planets and hit hundreds of targets simultaneously.

2. AI, in general, is rather bad. Sometimes they will spot each other (and you) through obstacles and shoot at them, sometimes they won't move to trigger whatever is necessary for the missions to continue. I had to several times load up saves (which I assume might cause glitches) just to "refresh" the mission, and in one rare case restart a mission entirely.

3. In addition to the AI; because the stealth system is pretty crap, imo, ever since the OG RtCW, the enemies either detect you through telepathy and sound the alarm out of the blue (they're not even switching the alarm on, it just goes off), or completely unaware you're there. There was one mission where I had to load a save game dozens of times to try and figure out how to avoid their detection, which I did by pulling the same move again and again until it worked because that was the only way.

4. Some missions are not really clear what you need to do or where you need to go. The voice acting is bad enough that you can't understand what your AI teammates are saying, especially in cases where there are loud firefights going on in the background. Also the subtitles are unreadable because of the chosen font, as well as there are many times the AI will overlap each other while communicating (and overlap the subtitles) and you still can't figure what's going on.

5. In addition to the missions; some of their layouts and designs are pretty unforgiving and not user-friendly enough that you can actually feel you may beat them. They throw you into too many situations you can't really figure out how to prepare for them, and just like that you fight through the enemies while trying not to die. Mind you, this is very frustrating, as I mentioned, playing on a high difficulty.

6. Other issues, glitches and stupid things happening here and there, like: attack dogs tougher than humans, for some reason; locker doors can kill you; first-person weapon models tend to flicker and stuck in animations; if load a save several times, texts on the screen can either stuck forever or not show up at all...

To finish off, the campaign overall is not boring, per se, but very repetitive. Most objectives are to go there, blow something with dynamite, and go there, defend that soldier/tank. In general, it feels pretty broken, rushed, inconsistent and glitchy at times.
Last edited by RaNgeR; Jul 6, 2023 @ 3:51pm