R.U.S.E. Open Beta NOW

[Die Happy]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/33310/  (requires steam)

since yesterday the open beta is live

the game is WWII set RTS game with less focus on  micromanagement but more focus on how you combine your forces and create a strong striking force.

there is only one resource which makes resource management easy

nations include, each has a certain strength and weaknesses:
germany (tech)
france (defense)
britain (air)
russia (mass)
italy (speed)
usa  (prodkution speed)

the game it NOT realistic (taking out king tigers with american 37mm pak is possible), simplified (no building trenches, no formations, no mines, no front/side/rear/ armor values)

forces a devided in
infantry (+ smaller infantry support tanks like sdkfz-222 etc)
tanks  (light medium heavy superheavy)
anti tank (pak guns and tank hunters like m10 wolverine, marder etc)
artillery & anti air ( small and big flak guns, + howitzer & self propelled guns)
air (recon, paratroops, fighter, fighter-bomber, bomber)
experimental (has MAUS , tortoise, puma, P24,   all the fun stuff )

the beta has 1on1, 2on2, 3on3, 2 on 2 on 2, and FFA game mode.
the maps range from rather small to very huge and look amazing. zooming in and out is awesome. same is the sound when  you are zoomed in at max on a sturmtiger and it fires its 380mm mortar the whole ground shakes.


beside your basic tactics you are able to use  so called RUSES
these include  concealing your units movement with "radio silence", revealing enemy units with "spy", increasing your units speed by 50% for s short time with "blitz", deploying a large force of dummy units as decoys, striking fear into the enemies units with propaganda "terror" to make them retreat earlier  and a few more

tactics are more viable then simply pumping out 20 tanks and trying to overrun the enemy.
concealed AT guns and infantry hidden in forests or cities will take down even the heaviest tanks in they get to close.


i highly recommend giving the beta a try, it looks great and plays good too. finding the right combination of forces to counter and overpower the enemy is nice.

again it has MAUS , churchill AVRE, IS-3 and other nice goodies, should be enough to make some people interested  

[Tedacious]

I think it sounds awesome x2

[ajappat]

Downloading

[THeTA0123]

again it has MAUS , churchill AVRE, IS-3 and other nice goodies, should be enough to make some people interested  

OMG!   OMG !!!!  AVRE! IS 3!  MAUS! *faints

[THeTA0123]

its quiet alright actually

[Moose]

The screenshots look orgasmic.

[ajappat]

YES. I just tried it out first time. First few games against bot and it was very nice. Then I went to multiplayer and played 2 vs 2 game and it was awesome.

Enemy supply lines were most of time completely cut off due to my hurribombers. Then they tried to send massive tank armee against my base and actually managed to destroy few buildings but my lancasters repelled their attack quite fast  . Round ended about 3400-850 for our victory.

Only thing that really bothered me was that I were only one trying to communicate with other players  . They never answered  

[THeTA0123]

After playing R.U.S.E for a while, i must say say that this is a pretty good game.

Theirs lots of neat stuff on all sides. And all play very well.
Skirmish against bots is fun. But can be challenging in the begin, even with the default "Easy" bot. Shame that their is only one map

It is on Multiplayer where this game truly stands out. Everything is important.Today i won a game by the use of artillery and defense with tanks. 3 vs 3 i sat in the middle. One of my teammate's went fully airforce, while my teammate on the right went Tech.

So their i stood in the middle. I constructed about 10 medium tanks, devided them in 2 groups, and let them sit on each side of a forest

Hidded Anti-aircraft guns in the forest, and more imporantly, behind this defense line, artillery, wich i used to pummel supply line's

Then they attacked with all of them on me, my teammate did great with airstikes with hurribombers. But every defense line falls in a while, and mine was about to. When i was saved by my other teammate, wich brought a gaint armada of T-95 jumbo tanks, Pershings, M19 Dusters and behind it a colom of 20 M40 SP artillery

R.U.S.E is a really good game.

[ajappat]

I just won battle by making airfield first and immidietly sending huge paratroopper force to enemy base. He had only AA&AT base and some supply depots. I captured his buildings within minutes and won battle in about 5 min  .

Altough, if my capture attempts would have failed, I would be in big trouble with no money and no supply depots.

[Torenico]

Woah

Awesome game so Far.

Im having fun sending in Amiots and MS406s to Engage Enemy units.

Right now the Americans launched a small group of M3 Lee, but im holding them up with a Fortification Called Maginot Something, that has 2 150mm Bateries i think

[ajappat]

Yay, I just made new personal record. I won battle in 3:21  .

[[11PzG]matyast]

I have been trying this out with friends...and so far it looks nice. I will however wait before buying the game, as I don't want to repeat the Empire Total War mistake.

[Smiles]

Well i downloaded it and it looks like a lot of fun but i have to set all on ultra low, and even than it browses trough the map very slowy, sometimes it freezes up and everything looks.. ugly. I dont understand why my PC is capable of running FH2 all high and maxed but has major problems with this game. Even on just low i cant zoom in without a delay of 1 minute lol. On MP i cant even zoom or browse at all.

Such a shame;(.

[Desertfox]

Well, FH2 is a mod for a game about 5 years old now. may dl it later

[ajappat]

Well i downloaded it and it looks like a lot of fun but i have to set all on ultra low, and even than it browses trough the map very slowy, sometimes it freezes up and everything looks.. ugly. I dont understand why my PC is capable of running FH2 all high and maxed but has major problems with this game. Even on just low i cant zoom in without a delay of 1 minute lol. On MP i cant even zoom or browse at all.

Such a shame;(.

huh? I have to play FH2 all on low, but ruse works fine without any lag with high settings.

Edit: Sometimes screen just moves really really slowly, restart game and it may fix it.