@@maximilianoalcaraz7351 he's talking about the comms system in the game which compresses all sounds going through it making so no matter what mic you have it will still sound like a $2 mic.
I bought this mod after seeing you play it during the stream. Got absolutely gng banged by old heads who where playing this mod since the release and got ptsd by sitting in the trench, seeing my teammate die Infront of me cuz he peaked right into the Panther's machine gun fire. Started running away, nearly killed my own teammate cuz i got scared and eventually machine gun got me and i died. 10/10 game, no doubt.
Thank you so much for trying DH! All the devs are very passionate about the game and are still working hard to improve it and add more content. For example we are working hard to add Sicily 1943 to the game, with the Italians.
Passion is what separates good games from all-time classics. This isn't my kind of game, but even from an outsider perspective, I can tell there's love put into this.
Dude. Me and my friends have played darkest hour for almost a decade now. I did not expect big bro Broleg come and tell us about Darkest hour! Man we need more players man!
@@JohnDoe-uc5iu Around 7 to 8pm CET, a full 64 player server is to be expected. in week-ends you can expect to see the infantry and armored server somewhat full ( around 100 or more players) and the servers fill up sooner. See you on the battlefield.
D day will always be the same in every WW2 game but is especially painful in Darkest Hour... Was super fun reviving the game and community who played it
There's more servers than just that. I've never felt that needing to play in one server ever deterred from me playing. The 64 player server is full everyday at peak hours.
Accidentally stumbling unto Darkest Hour, not knowig what the hell I am doing but having a lot of fun, it was a great immersive experience. 260 hours later, I still don't know what I am doing most of the time and can't operate a mortar for the life of me, but the fun didn't go away. No cashshops, no grind, just shooting the bad man and enjoying the atmoshpere of 2005 graphics.
Darkest Hour was one of the few games pre-discord I joined an Org and was part of their companies, went through training, etc. Long before I was in the army. I was enthralled. I listened to orders, etc. Such good times..
1:44 Good choice. I barely played/watched a LP of Medal of Honor, but there is a game and a level I remember from watching my brother in my cousin's house that mansion level and its song but he didn't know how to jump to the car.
Man, I tried so hard to like Hell Let Loose and the game does do some stuff right, like it's sound design, but I agree that it's just no fun having to run a marathon for every respawn just to get my wig scalped by the player that I thought was a washed-out tree stump 150m out. Probably just a skill issue on my part, but it gets frustrating dealing with that while barely ever even getting to shoot my rifle at an enemy that I know is there. Might give this game a looksie, I've been missing old-old WW2 CoD games hard over the last couple years.
I have the same feelings as you OP. I want to like Hell Let Loose, but it feels inaccessible. I know in real life, battlefields spanned massive amounts of terrain, but they also had a proportional amount of manpower and coordinated tactics and movement. HLL doesn't have the ability to simulate that in the casual community, and like many other large scale games it falls into the problem of making you do a lot of running all over only to die from unseen shooters. I do better, with no training, in real life playing paintball or airsoft at a local field with friends than I do in games like this. I think some of this has to do with the game not properly penalizing getting shot(no game can), but if that's the case you have to build your systems around it, particularly getting the player back into the action. Fun is not running across a map for minutes only to die again and sit in the spawn for another 60 seconds (that feels like an eternity). Games from RO2 to Day of Defeat etc. understood this and didn't wait long for you to get a chance to try again.
You have to get past the clunk factor of DH, it feels clunky and a tad dated, but every other aspect i think surpasses HLL or Squad 44. Engagements are concentrated, tacticle and rewarding, huge variety of gameplay styles to choose from as well as a ton of maps, i think over 50 at this point.
You missed out by not playing Red Orchestra. Crazy fun game, and the realistic tank shells made for some hilarious ricochets on angled armor. I had a round-end shot bounce 90 degrees into the air off an enemy tank turret, which came back down and killed them after the end.
One of my favorite things about this game is watching the soldiers expressions as they ride in the vehicles, some are cheery and excited, others...not so much, vomitting, losing control of bowels etc. when i saw this, i knew that this was the game for me.
To add to cons of Hell Let Loose, it’s a grind fest to unlock new gear, developers are making DLC skins only for specific maps, allies have a 80% win rate so picking Germany will often end in a steamroll defeat and the shooting is terrible.
Although I agree that HLL isn't the best game, the con of "not being able to tell if something is an enemy or not" is quite literally the purpose of those uniforms
1:21 Not a worthy complaint, The MkIII was used at the start of the war by all of the Empire's Forces. Even in 1943, troops in Europe, Asia and The Pacific were using said gun.
Shame they never finished the bots… they work pretty well most of the time but they get stuck on terrain and tank your frame rate trying to figure out why they aren’t moving.
@@darealjoff19 Those bots you see in game servers now actually aren't even the vanilla finished bots, they're bots fixed by the mod community and they're still bad lmao
@@АндрійГрицей Black Orchestra aims to be 1935-1954 so it will be both pre world war 2 to korean war. Regardless, Talvisota died within like a week so I don't have high hopes for black orchestra even if it gets finished. It will be a very cool project but RS2's mod hosting is kind of shot so not very many servers will want to host it.
Been playing Darkest Hour for awhile now and I’m so happy that a TH-camr with over 100k subscribers is covering the game I can’t wait to see a few new names on the kill feed
And you know what makes this superior to HLL and other realistic WW2 shooters besides the urban maps? The game doesn't need a NASA supercomputer to run and only takes a relatively small space compared to more 'modern' games.
Ive never tried to melee anyone in HLL because literally every time someone has tried to theyve somehow missed and Ive like slowly turned around bewildered and shot them...
Another WW2 mod for bf2 is Forgotten Hope 2, it has almost, if not the same amount of content, and it has almost over 15 years of constant content nad updates, trust me broleg, its worth it.
@@Harith-le5iq Forgotten Hope 2 nowadays has a standalone installer where BF2 is no longer required, basically just google it and it will pop up within a couple search results.
I love the aesthetics of Darkest Hour, because it feels like the only actual bleak and gritty WW2 game, similar to WW1 games. WW2 games always feel too sunny and cartoony, while Darkest Hour actually makes you feel like it's the deadliest war in human history.
To be fair, it's kind of realistic that many buildings are "unenterable" in Hell Let Loose because, realistically, either there are civilians barricaded in them or debris is blocking the doors. But yeah, it's pretty sad to see what Team17 is doing with the game. But really, how can it be that hard to make a proper, realistic WWII shooter? For example, take the soldiers' equipment from Hell Let Loose, the weapon details from Helldivers 2, the vehicle details from War Thunder, and the destructible assets from Battlefield 5 (also i kinda like how trees are destructed in Star Wars Battlefront 1). Planes could come from War Thunder and Battlefield (I like being in a player-crewed vehicle). Proper voice acting should be similar (but more realistic) to Battlefield, Helldivers, and Red Dead Redemption. Character movement could be mixed from Ready or Not and Helldivers 2 (I like the leans from RoN and the dive from Hd2). I hate to say it, but to make it historically accurate, there can't be female soldiers. There should be limb-based damage, but with various sorts of being hit: the possibility to not notice if you got shot (checkable by patting down or having another player notice and tell you). If not noticed, after the adrenaline wears off, you go to one of the next stages depending on the hit: heavily wounded but still standing, unable to hold a two-handed weapon and slowed; downed but able to shoot with a one-handed weapon and drag your body with the other arm; downed but still able to drag yourself along the floor; downed and unable to crawl to safety with visible agony (like the previous two, so enemies and friends see that you're alive); knocked out; or dead. Additionally, you can break bones (for example by a bone hit), giving you an adrenaline push and weird controls, but if the adrenaline ends, you die. I mean, all this already exists in different games; you only have to put it together. Of course, it will take a lot of resources, but Rockstar is also able to make similar games, just not WWII-focused. If the main triple-A companies weren't so greedy and incredibly lazy, this would already be a thing. Feel free to add to the list or correct me if you think you have a better idea. I don't have much knowledge of other popular games.
The main issue with all of these things is 1. It takes effort, time, and patience (in short supply) 2. It takes money and resources (in shorter supply) 3. Combining all of these things will appeal to only a very niche audience (in the shortest supply) and 4. Oversaturation with the five hundred tac shooters and BF Clones that have released in recent history.
Played DH for quite a few good years excellent game even when you compare it to what similar newer games offer. Darkest Hour still stands up well against those games. Serious props to the developers of the game who do it for no money and rather to just keep a classic living.
Totally true! In this Red Orchestra game series what was my biggest positive surprise is the realism of how the weapons work! Even the trajectory of bullets seems legit!
YES DUDE!!! ive been playing RO1 since release..... and DH is AMAZING! . still wish people played the "old" maps more.... AKA OG RO1, instead of "SQUAD/project reality"
I'd argue Easy Red 2 is the best bang for your buck WW2 shooter. For 10 dollars, you get a TON of content from an indie developer who put a ton or work into improving the game. Each DLC also has a ton of content for just 6 USD. It's truly a throwback to old WW2 shooters like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield 1942. The only caveat is that you'll playing PvE and coop with friends, as I'm convinced 95% of the game's community is fatigued from PvP games so the server browser for multiplayer is often dead. For once, I'm playing a milsim game that isn't super clunky on my Xbox controller.
Me, literally already playing STALCRAFT and alt-tabbing to see new Br0leg video lmfao I just bought red orchestra and when you buy it it auto-downloads DH :)
10:40 LMAOOOOOOOOOOO I usually don't watch these videos (for some reason got it recommended) but this was genuinely entertaining and hilarious as hell like 90% of the time, one of the best that i've ever watched.
I bought this game a couple years ago, tried Darkest Hour too, unluckily most of the servers or at least those near me was dead. I loved Red Orchestra 2 though.
I LOVE urban maps that allow many different tanks to be used. I don’t know why, it if you are in the streets, you will dbe killed by a tank, but if you get to a 3rd story floor with a big bomb, you can kill that tank. It makes it so you have to GIT GUD and BE SMORT when playing and countering tanks and I love it. Clearing rooms is very fun for me too. My favorite tactic is waiting for my bois to arrive, everyone throws a grenade into the room, and everyone starts magdumping into a single guy.
on the discord the community is pretty active, currently working on releasing italy update with new maps weapons vehicles and factions. so its still going strong by an old but still great community
Ive been playing this mod for close to ten fucking years and it thrills me its getting some recognition. Do not judge gameplay under graphics! Especially for all you ps2 fans.
The SMLE MK3* being standard issue for bits in he’ll let loose is actually fairly accurate. The No.4 was adopted in like 1943 I believe and didn’t get to most of the troops until even later in the war. The SMLE did a L O T of work for the Brits up to and beyond the end of the war
I remember picking up Darkest Hour a few years ago, played on a really dark, grey map as the US forces, ended up bagging like 20 germans with my M1 garand within 1 life, then the game ended. 10/10 mod.
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Don't take this as a negative thing but 20:19 thats a Tiger II H and either way that PTRD wouldn't have saved you either im also suprised the transmission was able to make it to you before killing itself and as always amazing video Br0leg
RO2 players here,the game had so much potential... It remained infantry focus for competitiveness. Wished darkest hour elements were there too. We have Pacific Stuff half assed sadly.
I did play red orchestra 2 back in the day but i have not played the first or heard of this mod. I don't think i've found, heard about, bought and downloaded a game so quickly before.
that somewhat reminds me of that overhaul mod for battlefield 1942 Forgotten Hope Secret Weapons that thing has so many different maps and factions it's insane it would be cool if you could cover that mod too :3
RO1 was the first non-Valve game I ever bought on Steam and is one of my favorite FPS games of all time. Unfortunately by the time DH came out had gotten out of PC gaming, and by the time I got back in most people had moved on to RO2. I had no idea people still played this, much less that it still got updates! Might have to give it a download
Used to play DH allot from 2013 to 2018, even joined a realism unit that is still around (29th Infantry Division) but now in Arma 3, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Squad.
Ive only played the old ww2 single player games like cod classic on the psp when it comes to the FPS genre, seeing those old nostalgia become this active in multiplayer is amazing to me.
I Saw Gameplay Of This A While Back, Now You're Giving A Full Explanation Of What It Is, Coincidentally As I Remembered About OG Hoi Darkest Hour. I Think The Algorithm Is Trying To Tell Me Something...
Great video, had no idea a gem like this mod exists. Got the game and I'm having a blast. Think I even saw you today playing (or rather just the name when you left the server haha)
Does Darkest Hour have more concurrent players than RS1/RO2? Whenever I try looking for a match on Red Orchestra, the best there usually is, is a single half-full server, and Rising Storm servers usually only have player counts ranging in the single digits.
Darkest hour fans when Brightest minute players walk in 🫣😱
Lol
what about dimmest zeptosecond?
@@major_chunks luminescent second
Blinding Day players have entered the chat.
Everyone gangsta until gray seconds grinders shows up
Me trying to play realistic FPS games: Dying is fun
Holy shit you are here!!!
Not if you actually play it slow
But the Main objective is actually killing
And it's funnier if they're pow or civilians
@@wheat4415 nggas want rush on everything, play tatical shotter like fkng warzone
You can die I M M E R S I V E L Y
The low quality voice chat feels even more nostalgic than the visuals, I fucking love it.
what do you mean nostalgic? It's 2024 and I still hear walmart $2 mic on 90% of the players in any war mp shooter game lol
@@maximilianoalcaraz7351 he's talking about the comms system in the game which compresses all sounds going through it making so no matter what mic you have it will still sound like a $2 mic.
I bought this mod after seeing you play it during the stream. Got absolutely gng banged by old heads who where playing this mod since the release and got ptsd by sitting in the trench, seeing my teammate die Infront of me cuz he peaked right into the Panther's machine gun fire. Started running away, nearly killed my own teammate cuz i got scared and eventually machine gun got me and i died. 10/10 game, no doubt.
OG RO1 was and still is the only game that made me actually take cover / dive prone when shot at......
I play this one since i guess like...2014?
Is no when talking about why they're SpongeBob
2:42 not writing cumplay insted of gunplay must been really hard, good for you.
Thank you so much for trying DH! All the devs are very passionate about the game and are still working hard to improve it and add more content. For example we are working hard to add Sicily 1943 to the game, with the Italians.
Passion is what separates good games from all-time classics. This isn't my kind of game, but even from an outsider perspective, I can tell there's love put into this.
Dude. Me and my friends have played darkest hour for almost a decade now. I did not expect big bro Broleg come and tell us about Darkest hour! Man we need more players man!
what is the population like? im playing RS2 all the time, ro2 is pretty dead nowadays
@@JohnDoe-uc5iuyou just join the official sever and it fills up pretty quick :)
@@Br0leg so a fullish(64) server? what times because i work at night so i always playing past midnight
@@JohnDoe-uc5iu I honestly don’t know, but most of the time I check the server has between 32-64 people on it xd
@@JohnDoe-uc5iu Around 7 to 8pm CET, a full 64 player server is to be expected. in week-ends you can expect to see the infantry and armored server somewhat full ( around 100 or more players) and the servers fill up sooner. See you on the battlefield.
D day will always be the same in every WW2 game but is especially painful in Darkest Hour... Was super fun reviving the game and community who played it
D Day players when they encounter N Night players
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@@BazinGarreyD Day players when they encounter T-twenty-four-hour period players
It’s not in call of duty waw, which is quite shocking.
@@2025fahaddensejePeleliu landing exist which is only for coop players if they wanna do it together
Ok you calling HOI Autism has me rolling because almost every autistic guy I’ve met has played that.
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As someone who used to play Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and other old titles, I'm glad you guys visited this!
I love how RO1 has been incorporated into DH with all the up-to-date features
I like how darkest hour videos get five million views on youtube yet the game perpetually will always have about 30 players online
There's more servers than just that. I've never felt that needing to play in one server ever deterred from me playing. The 64 player server is full everyday at peak hours.
Accidentally stumbling unto Darkest Hour, not knowig what the hell I am doing but having a lot of fun, it was a great immersive experience.
260 hours later, I still don't know what I am doing most of the time and can't operate a mortar for the life of me, but the fun didn't go away. No cashshops, no grind, just shooting the bad man and enjoying the atmoshpere of 2005 graphics.
>all the good players were on the german side
What did the Darkest Hour veteran community mean by this?
I remember there being only 1 German player who was really good, forgot his name though
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More like 200,000
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Grand strategy -> Autism
So true
Darkest Hour was one of the few games pre-discord I joined an Org and was part of their companies, went through training, etc. Long before I was in the army. I was enthralled. I listened to orders, etc.
Such good times..
1:44 Good choice. I barely played/watched a LP of Medal of Honor, but there is a game and a level I remember from watching my brother in my cousin's house that mansion level and its song but he didn't know how to jump to the car.
lol even before this vid started i was already resinstalling red orchestra 2 after not playing for 5 years
20:20 IT´S A FUCKING PHANTER!!!!!! (literally Tiger II) RUNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, I tried so hard to like Hell Let Loose and the game does do some stuff right, like it's sound design, but I agree that it's just no fun having to run a marathon for every respawn just to get my wig scalped by the player that I thought was a washed-out tree stump 150m out. Probably just a skill issue on my part, but it gets frustrating dealing with that while barely ever even getting to shoot my rifle at an enemy that I know is there.
Might give this game a looksie, I've been missing old-old WW2 CoD games hard over the last couple years.
Pls try DH bro, just trust me!
I have the same feelings as you OP. I want to like Hell Let Loose, but it feels inaccessible. I know in real life, battlefields spanned massive amounts of terrain, but they also had a proportional amount of manpower and coordinated tactics and movement. HLL doesn't have the ability to simulate that in the casual community, and like many other large scale games it falls into the problem of making you do a lot of running all over only to die from unseen shooters. I do better, with no training, in real life playing paintball or airsoft at a local field with friends than I do in games like this.
I think some of this has to do with the game not properly penalizing getting shot(no game can), but if that's the case you have to build your systems around it, particularly getting the player back into the action. Fun is not running across a map for minutes only to die again and sit in the spawn for another 60 seconds (that feels like an eternity). Games from RO2 to Day of Defeat etc. understood this and didn't wait long for you to get a chance to try again.
You have to get past the clunk factor of DH, it feels clunky and a tad dated, but every other aspect i think surpasses HLL or Squad 44. Engagements are concentrated, tacticle and rewarding, huge variety of gameplay styles to choose from as well as a ton of maps, i think over 50 at this point.
they need to add a notification when you kill an enemy
You missed out by not playing Red Orchestra. Crazy fun game, and the realistic tank shells made for some hilarious ricochets on angled armor. I had a round-end shot bounce 90 degrees into the air off an enemy tank turret, which came back down and killed them after the end.
All that stuff and more is in Darkest Hour, there are a lot of dedicated tank maps, super fun
Just RO things, goddamn, the game is too legendary.
One of my favorite things about this game is watching the soldiers expressions as they ride in the vehicles, some are cheery and excited, others...not so much, vomitting, losing control of bowels etc. when i saw this, i knew that this was the game for me.
To add to cons of Hell Let Loose, it’s a grind fest to unlock new gear, developers are making DLC skins only for specific maps, allies have a 80% win rate so picking Germany will often end in a steamroll defeat and the shooting is terrible.
I did mention that, grind fest is insane 1:23
Although I agree that HLL isn't the best game, the con of "not being able to tell if something is an enemy or not" is quite literally the purpose of those uniforms
1:21 Not a worthy complaint, The MkIII was used at the start of the war by all of the Empire's Forces. Even in 1943, troops in Europe, Asia and The Pacific were using said gun.
This makes me wish RS2 wasn't abandoned. Vietnam is my favorite war and back in it's day, RS2 was peak.
Shame they never finished the bots… they work pretty well most of the time but they get stuck on terrain and tank your frame rate trying to figure out why they aren’t moving.
@@darealjoff19 Those bots you see in game servers now actually aren't even the vanilla finished bots, they're bots fixed by the mod community and they're still bad lmao
@@queuedjar4578 I was talking about bots on a local game, enabled by GOM 4.0 (but you can spawn them in the console in vanilla)
There is a ww2 mod called Black Orchestra being developed for RS2
@@АндрійГрицей Black Orchestra aims to be 1935-1954 so it will be both pre world war 2 to korean war. Regardless, Talvisota died within like a week so I don't have high hopes for black orchestra even if it gets finished. It will be a very cool project but RS2's mod hosting is kind of shot so not very many servers will want to host it.
Been playing Darkest Hour for awhile now and I’m so happy that a TH-camr with over 100k subscribers is covering the game
I can’t wait to see a few new names on the kill feed
hell yeah, been playing darkest hour for almost a decade glad to see this
This was a hidden gem of a mod that I am happy to see some exposure in this era of gaming
And you know what makes this superior to HLL and other realistic WW2 shooters besides the urban maps?
The game doesn't need a NASA supercomputer to run and only takes a relatively small space compared to more 'modern' games.
a new darkest hour video bringing in new players always deserves an upvote, iam glad you even interacted on the discord, welcome to the community :)
I got this in my library of games but never played it. But after your video, I expect more players, so maybe I'll try it.
Ive never tried to melee anyone in HLL because literally every time someone has tried to theyve somehow missed and Ive like slowly turned around bewildered and shot them...
16:00 I remember that day, someone was using the anti tank rifle as a sniper.
battlefield players be like:
has you are suppossed to do
Another WW2 mod for bf2 is Forgotten Hope 2, it has almost, if not the same amount of content, and it has almost over 15 years of constant content nad updates, trust me broleg, its worth it.
Wait really? How do we download it? Same as this vid or?
@@Harith-le5iq Forgotten Hope 2 nowadays has a standalone installer where BF2 is no longer required, basically just google it and it will pop up within a couple search results.
@@Harith-le5iqjust google forgotten hope 2
Finally WW2 game that's not gonna blow up my potatoe PC
Bro it’s legit crazy to hear about Darkest Hour when I was playing that game at 16.
Edit: I miss Red Orchestra.
I wish that I had known about this game earlier. Its so good.
Discovered the game about a year ago, been loving it ever since.
0:19 somehow someway, he knew what he was cooking with that
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS GAME FOR AGES!
thank you good sir
I love the aesthetics of Darkest Hour, because it feels like the only actual bleak and gritty WW2 game, similar to WW1 games. WW2 games always feel too sunny and cartoony, while Darkest Hour actually makes you feel like it's the deadliest war in human history.
It's an impressive thing to make WW2 seem like an enjoyable experiance. That's gotta count for something. Congrats to the developers.
To be fair, it's kind of realistic that many buildings are "unenterable" in Hell Let Loose because, realistically, either there are civilians barricaded in them or debris is blocking the doors. But yeah, it's pretty sad to see what Team17 is doing with the game.
But really, how can it be that hard to make a proper, realistic WWII shooter? For example, take the soldiers' equipment from Hell Let Loose, the weapon details from Helldivers 2, the vehicle details from War Thunder, and the destructible assets from Battlefield 5 (also i kinda like how trees are destructed in Star Wars Battlefront 1). Planes could come from War Thunder and Battlefield (I like being in a player-crewed vehicle). Proper voice acting should be similar (but more realistic) to Battlefield, Helldivers, and Red Dead Redemption. Character movement could be mixed from Ready or Not and Helldivers 2 (I like the leans from RoN and the dive from Hd2). I hate to say it, but to make it historically accurate, there can't be female soldiers.
There should be limb-based damage, but with various sorts of being hit: the possibility to not notice if you got shot (checkable by patting down or having another player notice and tell you). If not noticed, after the adrenaline wears off, you go to one of the next stages depending on the hit: heavily wounded but still standing, unable to hold a two-handed weapon and slowed; downed but able to shoot with a one-handed weapon and drag your body with the other arm; downed but still able to drag yourself along the floor; downed and unable to crawl to safety with visible agony (like the previous two, so enemies and friends see that you're alive); knocked out; or dead. Additionally, you can break bones (for example by a bone hit), giving you an adrenaline push and weird controls, but if the adrenaline ends, you die.
I mean, all this already exists in different games; you only have to put it together. Of course, it will take a lot of resources, but Rockstar is also able to make similar games, just not WWII-focused. If the main triple-A companies weren't so greedy and incredibly lazy, this would already be a thing.
Feel free to add to the list or correct me if you think you have a better idea. I don't have much knowledge of other popular games.
The main issue with all of these things is 1. It takes effort, time, and patience (in short supply) 2. It takes money and resources (in shorter supply) 3. Combining all of these things will appeal to only a very niche audience (in the shortest supply) and 4. Oversaturation with the five hundred tac shooters and BF Clones that have released in recent history.
All of that only to defend scam let loose
Played DH for quite a few good years excellent game even when you compare it to what similar newer games offer. Darkest Hour still stands up well against those games. Serious props to the developers of the game who do it for no money and rather to just keep a classic living.
Totally true! In this Red Orchestra game series what was my biggest positive surprise is the realism of how the weapons work! Even the trajectory of bullets seems legit!
YES DUDE!!!
ive been playing RO1 since release..... and DH is AMAZING!
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still wish people played the "old" maps more.... AKA OG RO1, instead of "SQUAD/project reality"
I'd argue Easy Red 2 is the best bang for your buck WW2 shooter. For 10 dollars, you get a TON of content from an indie developer who put a ton or work into improving the game. Each DLC also has a ton of content for just 6 USD. It's truly a throwback to old WW2 shooters like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield 1942. The only caveat is that you'll playing PvE and coop with friends, as I'm convinced 95% of the game's community is fatigued from PvP games so the server browser for multiplayer is often dead. For once, I'm playing a milsim game that isn't super clunky on my Xbox controller.
Interesting, I was looking at Easy Red 2 yesterday. Any idea what the EU player base is like?
Me, literally already playing STALCRAFT and alt-tabbing to see new Br0leg video lmfao
I just bought red orchestra and when you buy it it auto-downloads DH :)
You have reminded me that this mod exists and you're now making me want to redownload it and give it another try. Thank you, Br0leg.
absolute chad using Medal of Honor Underground ost, good memories
9:23 "a sober person would throw it"
10:40 LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
I usually don't watch these videos (for some reason got it recommended) but this was genuinely entertaining and hilarious as hell like 90% of the time, one of the best that i've ever watched.
I bought this game a couple years ago, tried Darkest Hour too, unluckily most of the servers or at least those near me was dead. I loved Red Orchestra 2 though.
I LOVE urban maps that allow many different tanks to be used. I don’t know why, it if you are in the streets, you will dbe killed by a tank, but if you get to a 3rd story floor with a big bomb, you can kill that tank. It makes it so you have to GIT GUD and BE SMORT when playing and countering tanks and I love it.
Clearing rooms is very fun for me too. My favorite tactic is waiting for my bois to arrive, everyone throws a grenade into the room, and everyone starts magdumping into a single guy.
i haven't played this game in so long, i didn't know people still play this game. happy to see people still playing it
on the discord the community is pretty active, currently working on releasing italy update with new maps weapons vehicles and factions. so its still going strong by an old but still great community
Lets play @tacoman473!!
The editing made me edge! Great job on the video, Oleg!! Also, I'm def using ur code for Stalcraft! Was meaning to play it :D
Its so great we went from dozens of WW2 masterpieces a year to absolutely nothing for years and years and years. Insane.
Ive been playing this mod for close to ten fucking years and it thrills me its getting some recognition. Do not judge gameplay under graphics! Especially for all you ps2 fans.
The SMLE MK3* being standard issue for bits in he’ll let loose is actually fairly accurate. The No.4 was adopted in like 1943 I believe and didn’t get to most of the troops until even later in the war. The SMLE did a L O T of work for the Brits up to and beyond the end of the war
I hope this video blow up and we have more new players
Make Darkest Hour great again!
The map variety seen here is insane! Buying Ostfront now to see more!
I remember picking up Darkest Hour a few years ago, played on a really dark, grey map as the US forces, ended up bagging like 20 germans with my M1 garand within 1 life, then the game ended.
10/10 mod.
Darkest hour is an absolute blast, hope you play again soon!!
Remember playing this game back in 2019 with my friends since I had a shitty PC such a good game need to play it again
I used to play this and it was dead for a while. I’m glad it has been given some light by you brother
*NO-HIGHLIGHTS*
>0:15 Gæming Industry Elon Musk.
>1:38 ''Now, light our Darkest Hour.''
>2:18 Tallest Basket Dwarf Players.
>3:19 +100 Maps, Less 5% Played.
>4:25 What if Minecraft.. But S.T.A.L.K.E.R?
*HIGHLIGHTS*
>8:35 CS Players Sex Life Be Like:
>9:02 Romantic Lit. In A Nutshell.
>10:04 Straight Demoman Fanart.
>10:41 Skibidi Toilet Master Race.
*>**13:31** The Only Thing I Know For Real.*
>14:26 MF Thinks He's On ''Fury''.
>16:24 Canon Accurate Outcume.
>17:28 TF2 Engie Basic Strategy.
>18:43 PIAT: Projector, Infantry, Anti Trooper.
>19:20 So Far; Most Stable Build.
>20:06 Armored Hunter Br0leg / Kikou Ryouhei Br0leg.
Awesome montage
10:28 That Darkest Dungeon's stress icon 🤣Nice one!
Don't take this as a negative thing but 20:19 thats a Tiger II H and either way that PTRD wouldn't have saved you either
im also suprised the transmission was able to make it to you before killing itself
and as always amazing video Br0leg
DUUUDE IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COVER IT. BEST SHOOTER OF THE YEAR
RO2 players here,the game had so much potential... It remained infantry focus for competitiveness. Wished darkest hour elements were there too. We have Pacific Stuff half assed sadly.
I did play red orchestra 2 back in the day but i have not played the first or heard of this mod. I don't think i've found, heard about, bought and downloaded a game so quickly before.
THANK YOU OLEG FOR SHOWING THE WORLD THIS GAME
that somewhat reminds me of that overhaul mod for battlefield 1942
Forgotten Hope Secret Weapons
that thing has so many different maps and factions it's insane
it would be cool if you could cover that mod too :3
its so different to how it was in 2009-2012, loved it back then though.
13:32
I love how that guy just starts freaking out and screaming over the mic when he got into that melee combat with that German.
00:24 "Commandos: Strike Force" there!!
Please make a review of that one. Such a nostalgic underrated game that was :D :D
Fighting in Berlin in darkest hour is one of my favorite memories.
Red orchestra 2 was the golden time.
Then again DH and RO1 were and are fantastic.
Enlisted captures the essence of these games imo.
I highly recommend Enlisted, its the most fun I have had since Battlefield 1
I wish there was a new WW2 shooter with mid 2000s style of graphics, its brings so much nostalgia back
RO1 was the first non-Valve game I ever bought on Steam and is one of my favorite FPS games of all time. Unfortunately by the time DH came out had gotten out of PC gaming, and by the time I got back in most people had moved on to RO2. I had no idea people still played this, much less that it still got updates! Might have to give it a download
Used to play DH allot from 2013 to 2018, even joined a realism unit that is still around (29th Infantry Division) but now in Arma 3, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Squad.
I will always recognize medal of honor airborne music
Ive only played the old ww2 single player games like cod classic on the psp when it comes to the FPS genre, seeing those old nostalgia become this active in multiplayer is amazing to me.
I Saw Gameplay Of This A While Back, Now You're Giving A Full Explanation Of What It Is, Coincidentally As I Remembered About OG Hoi Darkest Hour.
I Think The Algorithm Is Trying To Tell Me Something...
as always the death animations in red orchestra are superb
Great video, had no idea a gem like this mod exists. Got the game and I'm having a blast. Think I even saw you today playing (or rather just the name when you left the server haha)
@@bigboss9544 I was ;)
@@Br0leg I feel starstruck now haha
Does Darkest Hour have more concurrent players than RS1/RO2?
Whenever I try looking for a match on Red Orchestra, the best there usually is, is a single half-full server, and Rising Storm servers usually only have player counts ranging in the single digits.
Red Orchestra 3 needs to happen
7:30
"Ammo Mellish gdamnit!"
I would say considering older ones Hidden and Dangerous 2 is awesome, and new ones Easy Red 2 is really unique.
Actually it's crazy that there are maps from old BiA game that I immediately recognized when I loaded up
Played this game for years and it's yet to be outshone. Even graphically it has a charm
Glad to se Darkest Hour get some love, they walked so HLL and PS could run AND they still update the game.
fastest impluse buy ive ever had, ive been needing a good ww2 shooter that isnt HLL, BFV, or CoD 2
I always say Hell Let Loose is basically modern Day of Defeat...
I like the Medal of Honor: Airborne music on the backgroud. I still remember those guys with gasmasks and MG42's. My first ever PTSD.
They need to do WW2 Tarkov. Only game to simulate fear for me.
The actual greatest WWII game that you can play right now.
Dino D-day is peak Ww2 games.
I was relieved when you said you were joking about hell let loose lol