>build a forward spawn in a great spot
>teammates spawn on it
>engineers proceed to dig in a straight line from the forward spawn to the nearest objective
>enemy uses that trench to just push our forward spawn and delete it

>>2279630
>>engineers proceed to dig in a straight line
the bane of every trench digger

What is the best officer call in (besides flare)

>>2280468
Mortars. Cheap and effective. Can spam it all match.

>>2280712
>jumping one by one like lemmings to their death
kek

>watch some footage and it looks fun as hell to play
>get the game and try some instant action
>soldiers stops rendering when looking from a certain angle
>entire map goes pitch black and stays that way
what the fuck man

>>2281139
damn that sucks. game is forever stuck like that for you?

>>2281139
the map going dark happened once so far, but the soldiers disappearing happens all the time, so guess I'm waiting for a patch...

>>2279919
>see a digger digging a straight line by himself
>others join in
>eventually I falter and also join in
It just scratches my tism

>>2280863
love it when arcade games still manage to bring about realism

>>2281224
I haven't experience that and I play for 7 hours at this point. Are you sure it's not something like outdated drivers?

are any classes faster than others, or is the speed perk and officers charge the only way to gain speed? melee in trenches really only works if you haul ass or else you just get shot
also no friendly fire on official servers is gay, because in a trench the 5 guys behind the guy you are stabbing can just light up their teammate without isue

>>2278078
the game runs like shit for me :(

>>2282289
thats not u, it does run like shit when theres a lot of action happening. combination of unity plus just hard to optimise for 150+ characters doing shit, plus calculations for the bullets, explosions animations. game requires a really beefy processor.

>>2278078
So far I am having a blast and enjoying the game.

I only play in 1st person
I had some trouble at first, frames were low, my game sense was bad.
The starter rifle i feel like you need some skill as its innacurate and more for rapid pushing.
I bought the 3rd rifle for either infantry or engineer and its got way better accuracy.

Pickaxe is nice for digging twice as fast but lacks the 'add dirt / build up' that the shovel has (press X with shovel equipped)
Adding a dirt birm behind your trench makes it so your fat head isnt as easily skylined when you peak out. And if you build it big enough its just another piece of cover you can peak over or around from ground level and into your trench or across the field.

Flamethrowers seem hella OP, if you even touch the flame you are insta dead. Like jedi in battlefront except they explode and die easily still.

I already saw 2 people I knew from Foxhole.

Had a pretty fun match where we dug a zig zag set of trenches around the right flank, made a spawn, support fire from our flank at the middle defenders but then also we were charging up a hill to blow up fortifications, cut wire, and push into an enemy spawn. I blew it up with dynamite and it felt good. We lost because we then lost the first point but we never would have capped 1st and 2nd point if we didnt clear the spawn at the 2nd point.

Im also amazed some of the wire + wall player built shit they do to cut off all flanks from the edge of the map.

>>2281224
I think sometimes its just night time.
I had one night map and one snow map.
I had played the normal variant like 2 rounds before they gave us the snow version.

>>2282289
I have a 3080
Best I can get is 78 fps and it usually gets worse as the round goes on due to more structures. Dlss on doesnt help much, and makes it too hard to see so I just play at native res on low settings.

>>2282573
>having a blast

There are way too many engineers. And these retards just keep digging trenches fucking EVERYWHERE.
>defending
>oh is that a big open field the enemy has to cross to reach our objective?
>let's dig trenches straight to them even though we are defending
>enemy now has a trench to use instead of having to cross in the open

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>>2282594
its beyond night time when the map becomes completely black, and explosions and such doesn't even make a flash
but at least the new patch today fixed soldiers not rendering on my end

>>2282673
weird

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hint: you can pick up this cross and use it as a melee weapon; there is a rare achievement to kill someone with it

>>2279630
>>2282635
Oops it's my first day and I was doing this.

ok, so how do you build attacking trenches without it being one the enemy team can use?

>>2283330
Build a 1 or 2 straight sections, then add some cover closer to your side that faces down the trench. This way if the enemy tries to use it, your team can kill them easily. Also
>concrete wall
>barbed wire on enemy approach side
>planks on your side to form a ramp
Quick way to set up one way movement in a trench

>>2283412
Oh good idea. I was trying to figure out how planks work but I cant get it to go up/down, only rotate.
I saw someone build the most tortured looking scaffolding by placing 50 ramps to scale a cliff wall on that attack/defend map with the UFO shaped bunkers in the middle.

I kind of wish some maps gave more time for both sides to dig in on their half of the map instead of 1-2 minutes.

I usually just dig a simple trench in a hidden but close spot to a point or points and if its a good enough spawn it will skyrocket me to top 5, our team will cap it easily, and it really only needs just enough cover to not spawn wildly in the open. Ive noticed a lot of retards building forward spawns in fucking narnia

>>2283465
If you hold alt while using the scroll wheel, the planks go up and down. They rotate at the same time though so you need to re-adjust it once you get the height you want

>>2283534
I did that and the height didnt change, just the angle up or down.it literally gives you fake and gay tooltips.

Also the game is probably cooked now, due to hackers.

-was an engineer
-built fob
-built sandbags around it, conc walls to protect
-it explodes, no one is injured, all the sandbag walls die, it dies, and it looks like a bomb of small barbed wire is placed everywhere
Maybe a griefer who friendly fired it
-rebuilt it
-starting to build roof shield on it
-hear the fob being smacked like dug down with a shovel
-no one is on it but me
-tick tick tick fast rate, its being damaged
-i smack it to repair
-they outdamage me as if they are an invisible player with speedhacks swinging a shovel at it
-its not on fire and there is no fire around me

What the fuck is happening
It dies

>>2282594
wouldn't this game be more CPU intensive considering how much shit is going on constantly?

>>2283330
barbed wire to make it a pain for the enemy to go through from their side
don't just did one singular straight line, build chokepoints frequently

>>2284086
>wouldn't this game be more CPU intensive considering how much shit is going on constantly?
yes

>>2284093
Some asshole built one with a conc barrier, ramp, and camo netting. I turned the corner and did not even see him through the netting.

I would complain but it was actually a kino match on village, our team built so much crap I was out of build points constantly. I tried to set up barbed from like B farm near the map edge all the way to town at A. Attackers always rush farm. Attackers instantly rushed it and then dug a tunnel to get under it after the first wave died.
Tried to double line it so they couldnt just hop a single wire but many got through but we held awhile and got kills. I didnt have enough time at the start but I built a few strong barbed wires too which they just avoided.
Later, when they got btfo'd and switched to attack C, i ran into their attacking trenches and spammed a few annoying wire for them to walk in and blew up some of their sandbag nests with dynamite and their own ammo stations.

How do you achieve kino in this game? It feels like I always die to grenade spam or officer playing a point and click adventure game with the call ins. So I never have time to get into a real satisfying firefight.

>>2285369
a lot of it is luck but other than that, tips that work well in any hardcore shooter red orchestra type game. use cover, move with intent, use 3 person peeking to advantage.

>>2285475
There's actually a free cam button that most people are unaware about(the one on top of TAB), which mean you can play with a relatively low FOV to see further and use the free came to peak your surrounding. There's also further camera options in the setting that you can mess with. The bullet damage in this game is pretty lethal so if you use automatic weapons make sure to spray in the enemy direction and you'll be surprised by the amount of hits and kills you get that way. If you are down in a open field and nobody finish you off, take your full 1 minute before dying to mark enemies with Q. It will greatly help your team as well as giving you score points, moreso of your marked enemy get killed. Situational awareness is king in those kinds of games so sometimes you just need to lay low for a moment and let enemies run into you. It will always happen since its 100vs100

wherever i am i must also entrench
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNKnMwtDHU

>>2285496
The crosshair widening is basically a psyop. You can move and shoot with a stormtrooper SMG and its basically gonna hit center dot so if you are good at aiming its way more powerful than slow 1 shot rifles. Its very strong.

Q mark doesnt give spotting diamonds I dont think? It just pings the look here ! red triangle. Which is useful but i dont think gives points.

>>2285369
It depends on the round. Server i was on last basically everyone good stacks germans, and clueless noobs or people wanting to suffer go entante, and it was always a big skill differential.

Im having fun spamming dynamite as engi to break good enemy defenses. I build a little but cant do megabuilds cause friendlies cant cover shit. Sometimes ill go rifleman to spam frags.

Some matches you get these insanely fortified positions with barbed wire, sandbag pillboxes, multiple locations where you think the fob might be, and other games just open field with foxhole craters and insane trench mazes with 0 obstacles anywhere.

I would rather play a 1st person only server desu.

>>2285748
>Q mark doesnt give spotting diamonds I dont think? It just pings the look here ! red triangle. Which is useful but i dont think gives points
There's actually marking AND spotting
Q for spotting and mouse wheel for the triangle marking. And yes, you get a shit load of points by constantly spam spotting enemies.

>>2285748
I think it works like Q if you aim at the ground or wherever, but if you hit Q on a person or tank, then it makes the pip for your team to see.

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having a lot of fun killing those redditor huns
we 4channers only play france and the uk

>>2285781
I must have messed up my binds then and bound both to that action because m3 is identical to q for me. The only way I was getting spotting assists was placing down tripod binos. Thanks for letting me know

>>2285804
Oh maybe its that

I think the officer binoculars should automatically spot just like the tripod binoculars. I should not have to spam Q

>>2286534
Thatd be a great change, should suggest it on the discord.

I ended up buying Holdfast instead since it was cheaper and I have a hard-on for naval combat. It's fun but it's a lot more arcade-y than I was expecting.
How's this game in comparison? I'm worried that the gunplay looks really floaty.

>>2287195
it's by the same guys who made Napoleonic Wars for M&B Warband (that Holdfast copied), set in WW1, with deformable terrain, where trench digging and building cover is a big part
the gunplay is on the arcade-y side, weapons are snappy, there's vehicles and call-ins (airstrike, gas, mortar, etc), you die fast, but you respawn just a quick to continue goofing off, blasting bagpipes while someone plays one of Hitlers speeches over VOIP

>made arty damage allies
now they need to do the same with flame throwers

Friendly fire on gas, grenades, mortars, and officer call ins is great.
But
>- Tank hit damage now scales with player count.
What does this shit mean, tanks get more hp when there are more players?

>>2278078
i'm getting like a gorillion points from the trench binoculars but how useful are they actually? i never see anyone else using them

>played during the playtests
>had a jolly good fun time, anti tank rifle was stupidly OP because it oneshots infantry and has absolutely perfect accuracy, meanwhile the sniper rifles were literally broken and the shot didnt go anywhere near center
>everyone was screaming racial slurs at each other mid game
>full release
>buy it
>devs are in servers throwing a hissy fit in chat over people using slurs
>players just using digger as a general insult because it's funny, stupid smelly brown FUCKING DIGGERS
>devs forcibly filter it in chat
>refund game
a terrible shame

>>2285369
>use cover (obviously)
>relocate it people have zeroed you in, don't try to just trade fire, crouch do you cant be seen, move, pop up in a different spot
>learn when to stand still for a moment, it makes you harder to see since motion is very noticeable to human eyes, and makes it easier for you to see likewise hidden enemies

>>2288359
Precisely, it's so that tanks aren't absurdly strong against small amounts of antitank guys or absurdly weak against a tide of them

https://youtu.be/pfkHiJw0TXc?si=5tQXMCZ7_GGNYSjx

thoughtS?

>>2288811
>but how useful are they actually?
very useful, those pips are seen by your team and helps with officer call-ins, the plane dropping bombs and in general knowing where the enemy are to shoot them

>>2288913
so people just ignore the binoculars because they don't want to play support?

>>2288943
yeah, I mean who wants to stand all day looking at other people play the game through binoculars?

>>2289071
me

>>2289215
based

i play officer, sit somewhere safe but still kind of close to objective, and just sit there with my binoculars spotting people while the team spawns.

Anyone know what the wooden planks are for? The ones engineers can make. I feel like it is just for looks or crossing small gaps

>>2289664
You can climb over shit using it as a ramp

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Here is a decent example, the ramp majorly speeds up our advance into the objective. Otherwise people would be clumping up fucking up the jump over this trench wall. This way they just keep sprinting

Also mortars are fucking insane on this map.

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>>2282635

>>2278078
How is it compared to Holdfast?

Over The Top is like Red Orchestra (most guns are 1 hit kill) + some classes have skill call-ins like Star Wars Battlefront (devs responded to one review saying battlefront was one of main inspirations for them)

Holdfast's WW1 gunplay is much less modern, i.e. Mount & Blade jank. Holdfast's artillery is player manned where OTT's is a press of a button ability. I actually refunded OTT and bought Holdfast and I like Holdfast more.

>>2291109
holdfast has more melee combat, more player interactions (ie people screaming bloody murder on voice chat) if that matters, and overall the experience is much less jank.

OTT has better gunplay (which isnt saying much), the terrain deformation is fucking kino, it has the same campaign system as RO2 but with maps that keep the persistent terrain deformation between battles.

Melee combat in both is the shit as warband. I personally prefer OTT but they are similar enough to the point where I would say just get whichever one has a setting you like more. Holdfast just added the naval mode which is really fun and reminds me of the long dead Blackwake if you ever played that.

>>2291327
>more player interactions
true, I wish the combat was intentionally more janky like Foxhole or Holdfast so that player life would be longer. That way it'd make sense to talk to someone. Now they just die 5 seconds into the firefight so why bother. Imo there should be less grenades (or no guide arc) and call-ins should be more strategic like smoke etc. rather than push button to kill godmode

>>2290983
>>2290976
nice

so are entente players retarded or central powers players just better? Because every round I play sees germany just fucking raping entente

>be officers on central powers
>about 10 meters away from enemy trench
>dig myself a small foxhole and stay hidden
>engineers either place some hard cover or realize I am a mobile spawn and just leave me be

>be officers on entente
>about 10 meters away from enemy trench
>dig myself a small foxhole and stay hidden
>engineers and pretty much everyone with a shovel start digging a trench straight from me to the enemy trench

>>2291793
>so are entente players retarded or central powers players just better? Because every round I play sees germany just fucking raping entente
any games with "bad guys" has the most sweatiest players join. just how it is.

>>2291287
there are cannons are some maps and mortars too. but from my experience in HLL and their last game Battle Cry of Freedom, having arty would be 10x worse than player arty abilities. with player-manned arty theyre usually super devastating if they're allowed to be accurate. in BCoF, the regular cannons were not so bad, but the howitzer would just crush pubs because autists would do nothing but train on the howitzers all day and deliver raining hellfire with pinpoint accuracy. non-stop. really unfun because unlike cannons, you couldnt escape the howitzers/mortars.

isonzo is free on epic and I've been playing that a ton

>>2292502
Haven't been following, what is going to be new in Gallipoli? Any new mechanics or more of a new setting?

>>2292752
zero idea anon, I haven't really followed the dev team

100 matches win chievo achieved. Firefly - Owl City on constant vb cable. This game is kino.