Alpha keys go out every Tuesday and play sessions are now scheduled for specific dates which you can find out via the News blog on the game's main site here.

A lot of your questions can be answered by taking a look at some archives of the News blog and by visiting the forums. It's a cool environment and the devs are very active since their development model is all about feedback from the players.

There are plenty of guys on the Allied side (myself included) but quite honestly factions are not completely set in stone as of yet because we're still in early Alpha, so no worries. You can change sides during a play session if you want to test out both factions.

Quote from: Krätzer on 13-12-2011, 03:12:22

Play RO2 it has what you want =D

naah... not for me... battlefield is my game, It allows me to focus on the things I think is fun instead of messing around with arbitrary mechanics.

If we made a cool map around this fountain from enemy at the gates, we'd definitely need static dead bodies though.. to prone behind and take cover at. But we'd also need that epic train yard from the end of the movie 

Actually that statue/fountain from the film you speak about is inspired from it's real life counterpart the Barmaley Fountain. This fountain is actually not that far from a key railroad station in Stalingrad at the time.




As you can see it is just several yards away from the back of the railway station.



Knowing the larger maps FH2 is associated with, they can easily include both features and if they'd wish they can even make it historically accurate if they please (sans some design elements for game play if desired of course).

Personally I'd love to see FH2 game play on maps based on Leningrad and Seelow Heights.

Of course, my first message on the thread (OP) was about a reply on a FH2 thread in the PR forums.

Uh... yeah, about the theory of teamwork not which mod is better than the other.

Like I said, a good portion of this thread is pointless ad hominem with strong underlying themes about mod y being better than mod x.

But hey, whatever... continue at your leisure.

Adding a training server (not co-op with bots) and making some updated videos discussing game elements and Infantry/Vehicle basics would help immensely.

Most new folks are intimidated to play a mod that is a few years old with an already hardened experienced community that knows the ins and outs of the game. Doing what I suggested along with the ad campaign you guys are on would go a long way.

Now these are war numbers...

I understand people's defensive take here but I'll honestly say with my short time with FH2 so far - I rarely ever hear any on VOIP. That to me is a deal breaker of sorts, because while yes - there can be randoms directing randoms through commo-rose it doesn't always yield fruitful results.

One example of many might I add is a recent match I had in Vossenack. The Allies where filtering out into Crossroads and no body was there to defend it at all. I told my squad members on VOIP that it needs to be defended or they're going to flank us. I also used the commo-rose to convey this message, I also wrote it down in Team chat as well - several times.

Nothing. Very few people heeded the call for defense even though I'm sure they can see Team chat, here me shouting "Follow Me", and in the case of my squad telling them multiple times via VOIP. It ended up with maybe me and another guy who weren't even in my squad mind you to defend it on our own against a Sherman and crap load of Aliied Infantry. It turned out half my squad had VOIP but they just didn't care, it seems that mentality is popular from most of the gamers I've played with on FH2 which is quite unfortunate. So VOIP or not its more of a question about team play, which I scarcely seen on FH2 from my short experience so far.

Point is - Is FH2 successful? Yes. It's great.

Can FH2 benefit from a more team orientated community? Yes.

Well screw you Kaizer does the question above there means there is no team work from us, the community? No. Your taking something on the Internet a little too personal and misunderstood the point.

The reason why some are turned away from FH2 is because your not always going to get what the game can ultimately deliver if you are used to a heavy VOIP presence in your games. I am one of those folks who favor VOIP, especially in games like this where like it or not coordination is needed to attain victory. This is why I immediately signed up for WAW, because I want to play this wonderful mod to it's fullest potential - I can't do that in pubs unfortunately because there isn't many players communicating at all in FH2 (on a number of servers).

I had one match the other day with a team using full VOIP (Ironically full of PR players) and it was the best game I've had so far in FH2. Because the coordination and communication was there. Team work was prevalent and because of that we did the best and won.

Is VOIP necessary for team play? No.

Does it make a team better? No.

But it makes players who feel that presence a little better knowing its there. If VOIP was used more often in FH2 it would attract more players, most of those newly attracted players would most likely be team orientated players.

Installing now... see you guys on the battlefield. I'll be the newbie dying a ridiculous amount of times. 

Nice. Cheers for the revise.