Eastern Front News #13.02.2009

[Apex]

Soviet Union Infantry:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front/videos
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[TheAllMihtyOne]

Amazing!!!      realy like it, fun to see that some of it was things not nounced before so it was  fun supprise to hear about the comand squad. though the muzzleflash cloud from the svt-40 was a bit to big IMO.

[Flippis]

Gotta love em.

[vengefulnoob]

YouTube pl0x!!!

[BurroDiablo]

Why can't you watch it on Moddb?

Nice vid btw Apex. It's cool to see the new headers being used

[vengefulnoob]

I use itouch to see forums: it has YouTube but not flash player...

[Brewsky]

:O Apex and the team. You guys NEVER cease to amaze me



Ahm. Yeah. My bad.

[BurroDiablo]

You guys cease to amaze me

Oh, sorry to hear that...

...

I'm guessing you mean NEVER cease to amaze you

[UeArtemis]

Well, as who born in the USSR, I say: It is horrible.
I thing that in the EF mod  must have Assault-Engineer troops, Strelki, some officers and etc., but not commissars, conscripts and other the Red Alert style units.

[221]

I agree very much with Artemis. I was wondering if ever one of the USSR/Russian people who was here at the beginning would come back.

Then when I saw this vid. I didnt think they would. Because Artemis is right, the units are much to "red alert", and much is inspired from american movies.

[TheAllMihtyOne]

meybe you shuld get inspiration for infantery from komunist propaganda posters, those soldiers allways look so happy and just shine of awsomeness 

[Apex]

I never played Red Alert. And I think your pride blinds you.

[UeArtemis]

Why your Guards have body armour? Assault engineers have body armour and flame-throwers in real.
When you make mod, please, read something historical.
For example, after the OF, I read in Internet that Canadian Priests have a different guns than models of the USA. And in the game we can see English guns on Priests.

[BurroDiablo]

I played most of the RA games, but I haven't watched any American movies about the Soviets during WW2.

I have to say, this is nothing like Red Alert. Considering Red Alert is set in an alternate reality and feeds on vastly exaggerated sterotypes, I find it hard to believe somebody could make such a comparison. We're still to give our Buildings Orthodox domes.

You have to accept however, that conscription most certainly did happen during the GPW and it was forced on all able bodied men. To think otherwise is incredibly ignorant of history, it is not some "Hollywood Conspiracy" to demean Russia.

As for your other question... this is a G A M E... we need to keep things balanced. We already have a force of 4 Sappers that can take down the Pion's with ease, why the heck would we make them any stronger? And what do you mean "Read something historical"... we have been doing since this mod started. What, you think we're wandering blindly into some realm of the unknown? Maybe thats why the T-34 looks like a flying saucer.

[Apex]

When you criticize a mod, keep in mind that there is something called gameplay. These are all gameplay design & balance decisions.
Historical accuracy is important, but gameplay is always more important.