Realistic/Survival; What is it?

[puddlejumper]

Have you ever wondered why people play Realistic/Survival? It's so hard to aim, so easy to die, it seems like it would be impossible to play.

You've probably passed through a server now and again, mistakenly putting yourself into the grips of Realism, just to get fed up with constant death and waiting to leave. Well, here are some good reasons to why us R/Sers play it regularly;

More Damage

The more damage you receive, the harder it is to stay alive. Your self preservation mechanism will go crazy!

Falling

In real life, it's likely that you get injured when falling too fast. But thankfully in Soldat, your legs won't be shattered.

One Life

Survival mode only grants you one life per round. That means that you only get one chance to kill the other team or capture the flag before they kill you. Good luck!!

FriendlyFire

Don't you hate turning your annoying team mate into Swiss Cheese just to have him walk right out as if nothing happened? Doesn't happen here. Oh, you can kill non-annoying team mates too. So... careful.


As you can see, Realistic/Survival is more in depth than you'd think. Once you adjust, Soldat takes on a whole new life!

Come visit the R/S Community! Can you survive?

http://www.soldatrs.com/

[-Major-]

not to make you fail your try to get more players to R/S. but if you try regular mode... you'll understand why you should play regular instead.

also there's more mechanics in regular soldat.

but sure, give it a try!

[echo_trail]

Actually, playing regular every once in a while only convinces me even more why it is I love realisticmode in the first place. IMO it has so much more to offer.

[puddlejumper]

I do play regular once in a while, but I still play R/S regularly.

[Bolt]

I love R/S and hate regular, here are the reasons:

No spawn camping, you can't just respawn at the doom of your opponents unless the spawns are directly beside each other

2 second temporarily invisible at the start, gives time to hide, escape, plan a route or enter their base.

USUALLY NOT SPRAY. Regular mode is all spray and snipers. No planning, just who has the lower ping, who can get more spray shots on target

R/S uses more tactics and tricking your opponents into thinking you're somewhere you're not, whereas in regular they can see you in an unrealistic manner.

The fall damage gives more reason to think over your moves. Prone rushing through the air has consequences, unlike in regular where you'd just thump to the ground.

Grenade shock kills you into the ground. In regular mode you'd merely shrug it off. This is a good tactic in R/S

Stealth kills are easier.

You can't just M79 over a hill because you can't see someone over there. Someone actually has to check or see a response to know someone is there.


Like puddlejumper, I play regular every now and then but I hate it mostly because of those reasons. I'm pretty sure you agree with me on these reasons puddle :]

[The Philanthropist]

The people are awesome too, when you buy them a beer.

[Thinkto urself]

I never play regular for these reasons: It takes forever to kill someone, the public servers are riddled with idiots, everybody's so predictable because you can see what they do before they even start doing it, and medkits and spawn campers just don't mix. mostofthecommunty'sapieceofpooanyways.

Realistic always has the sense of awareness, and you can't take 20 shots to the face and live. Eventually, you're going to have to turn around and make sure you're not getting followed, campers also have less of an advantage because they won't really be able to predict where possible prey is coming from and prepare to ambush them more affectively, and eventually everybody gets to know eachother in some way or another.

Then again, realistic barely has any players nowadays because most of them are laying around in heavily scripted servers and that thing they call C/S which is just a normal mode server with R/S enabled. Eventually I took the easy way out.

/ragequit

Edit: Nowadays I only go on soldat to piss people off in public servers, it's like punching a ragdoll, but it fights back 

[The Philanthropist]

that thing they call C/S which is just a normal mode server with R/S enabled.

No.... It's the maps that make it shitty, not anything else.

[Madchal]

I like R more than R/S. Wanna check it out? Come to #soldat.realistic @ quakenet and try out our gather to get a taste! We've already gotten over some of you normalmoders to "the dark side". For example: the whole clan of 2wai.

if you are a normalmoder and like the idea of killing faster, having to fight recoil and not being able to see through walls nor behind you, but you feel that R/S is just too slow and boring with the campers and sprayers and the low amount of rushing. R just may be the gamemode for you!

/advertise

[The Philanthropist]

I like R more than R/S. Wanna check it out? Come to #soldat.realistic @ quakenet and try out our gather to get a taste! We've already gotten over some of you normalmoders to "the dark side". For example: the whole clan of 2wai.

if you are a normalmoder and like the idea of killing faster, having to fight recoil and not being able to see through walls nor behind you, but you feel that R/S is just too slow and boring with the campers and sprayers and the low amount of rushing. R just may be the gamemode for you!

/advertise

Hey, hey, go make your own shameless plug thread somewhere else D:

but you feel that R/S is just too slow and boring with the campers and sprayers and the low amount of rushing.

I'm thinking you haven't played enough...

[Madchal]

hey, just trying to make the activity in R better :p


nah I've played plenty of R/S. usually with different nicknames. I enjoy it from time to time but overall I find it to be too slow because of the low amount of rushing. It's just a matter of taste.

[puddlejumper]

In pubs yes, there is a ton of camping. However, in Clanwars and Scrimmages, rushing is pretty much the entire game. The match mostly consists of ten 15 second rounds. It's like visiting a country and knowing the culture vs. living in it.

[Chariot]

The match mostly consists of ten 15 second rounds. It's like visiting a country and knowing the culture vs. living in it.

Not very often does a match end at 10-0. And in clanwars, yes rushing is more frequent, but when it comes down to 1v1 moments, I've seen rounds last 5+ minutes. It's fucking boring. It also gives the multitudes of idiots to show their true colors.

I'm thinking you haven't played enough...

Well I have and that sounds about right.

[KYnetiK]

Personally I love both modes for their own reasons.

I love R/S because it gets you in the zone. Self preservation teaches you to analyse your surroundings better, be aware of whats behind you, and to make every single shot count. Everything about this mode teaches you how to survive.

I love bringing these skills into regular pubs. Its the only way to stay in that small patch of sky that doesnt have a bullet in it.

[-Major-]

, I played R/S at quite a high level... I never used sounds, and when you've played for awhile you just know where everyone is.

the thing is, R/S got lots of asses in their community. and it's not as "competitive" as the regular part of soldat.

[echo_trail]

Well, not nearly as many people play it as they do Normal mode. Obviously that's tough on the competitive scene. but it's really not so bad.. you should try joining the realistic channel on mIRC, people are wired!

The match mostly consists of ten 15 second rounds. It's like visiting a country and knowing the culture vs. living in it.

Not very often does a match end at 10-0. And in clanwars, yes rushing is more frequent, but when it comes down to 1v1 moments, I've seen rounds last 5+ minutes. It's fecking boring. It also gives the multitudes of idiots to show their true colors.

I think that in cases like this, the general R/S community is pretty good at doing something about it, such as kickin the guy or whatever is needed. See, what I like about Realistic as a whole is the code that seems to exist, a certain way of behaving. Sometimes, needless to say, some people will come around that stray from this code, and that, I reckon, marks the difference between private servers and publics. though it seems to be less of a problem these days.

[iDante]

Interjection!

I play normal mode simply because I like fast-paced games that are a huge conglomeration of speed, tactics, strategy, reflexes, and skill. R/S tends to be about survival (hence the 'S' part), and for me that just makes the game boring. The reason I play soldat is so that I can get into the heat of a game less than a minute after turning on my computer, not so that I can wait around and watch people hopping around on opposite sides of the map shooting at barrels 'n stuff.

I have played R/S back in the day, and the only fun part about it was the realistic part (and the spraying with the minimi... good times...). Then I switched to playing Leo's Realistic because I liked the ruger a lot. Then I switched to normal (about 3 years ago) and have been playing that ever since.

Oh and I also play normal because the community is much larger, and I know the people better.

[echo_trail]

IMO, R/S has nothing to do with survival as you put it. In most games, you'll never ifnd people just sitting back by the spawnpoint, waiting for people to come for them. I find it that most players rush ahead, possibly taking defensive positions, but advanced ones at that. Frankly, I think the scene has changed since you played.

Again, may I underline the difference between private and public servers?

[Mikeman]

I have played only realistic and RS modes since real mode was new addition to Soldat. RS is sure awezum

[iDante]

Frankly, I think the scene has changed since you played.

Very probably true. And on top of that, I never played in private servers.

/me exits the conversation quietly and without fuss...