I love OHD, the gunplay is great and I think the community development focus is really cool and will plant the seeds for lots of new games no one has even thought of yet!
I just tried out this game. 0 populated NA servers. I tried a few populated EU servers, but with 180+ ping, it was veryyyy difficult to land shots. And I’m not sure if it is the game design, or ping, but movement felt like I was the puck on an air-hockey table.
I mean, I regularly fly helis on european servers from us west coast, sometimes it is laggy but overall it works fine.
I am sorry you didn’t have a great first experience, it is a community project and there are definitely bugs, I didn’t mean to oversell how polished the game was, I just love it and am having such a blast with finally having an accessible, moddable spiritual successor to Project Reality.
I would say give it another shot on a lower ping serv, but I also don’t want to be pushy (or try a different mod like Casualfield, it has COD style hit reg indications if you think weird hit registering problems are happening that will clear it up whether shots are landing or not) movement is similar to other semi-realistic tactical shooters with a touch of inertia and a mantle obstacle button, it shouldn’t in my opinion feel like a puck on an airhockey table lol.
Regardless, whatever you do keep your eye on the project, I think it will be a platform for a lot of cool projects but you are seeing it an early stage.
For me, it is already a blast to fly attack runs in the apache, crew IFVs or play on infantry only servers, but I am sorry if it isn’t there yet for what you are looking for!
edit on the topic of hit registering/landing shots, bullets travel VERY fast in this game (translating to a minimal but real bullet drop) but it isn’t instantaneous (or hitscan). If you are used to games like battlefield especially in the context of sniping you are likely acting like it is way less point and click than it is (or maybe it seems hitscan when it isn’t and that is the basis for it feeling off?). They slow down bullets in more arcadey games like battlefield to make it more intuitive. Try putting the crosshair on the leading edge of your target and aiming for roughly chest level, you should generally be able to get rounds on target just doing that, otherwise maybe there is a netcode issue idk?
I’ll try it this weekend again, hopefully I’ll have better luck with servers when people have off from work.
I very much enjoy the hardcore milsim shooters, too. I used played a ton of Hell Let Loose, and even though it’s a bit more casual Rising Storm 2 Vietnam was always mega fun.
Also, don’t worry, you haven’t oversold the game or anything. Your posts have been extremely helpful, and really hyping me to see if I can get this game to work for me!
Of course, Rising Storm 2 is great it’s just I play on steam deck so ironsights don’t cut it for medium to long range on a small screen lol.
Also, OHD is only going to get better!
The main dev is a youtube creator/streamer named bluedrake, I know the kind of kneejerk response that sentence likely created in your head (I mean, same lol) but he isn’t another milquetoast fps streamer, listen to the way the dude talks about his project, I genuinely believe someone would have to encase that guy in stone to stop him from making the kind of game you and I want and blasting it out to the world for anyone to get their hands on and start building cool shit we can all play.
I mean he has been on an AI kick (to be fair he got sick of the state of battlefield-like industry and decided to go back to school to get a masters in data science so he could use the tools for good, a grift this ain’t), but he honestly seems genuinely interested in practical tools to empower small independent game developers, with tutorial videos to boot, maybe I will eat my words but I think his interest is totally genuine in spreading awareness about cool tools anyone can use to mod and make games like his.
idk like yeah he is hyping ai to help make models to import into blender, so shrugs I’m cool with it.
This video is definitely worth a watch, he is very thoughtful
Oh hell yes, Harsh Doorstep looks fantastic, thank you!
This is the current vehicle mod, though a new OHD update is coming out soon.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947290153
This is a guide for current vehicle mod.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3141572317
I love OHD, the gunplay is great and I think the community development focus is really cool and will plant the seeds for lots of new games no one has even thought of yet!
It is my pleasure to share !
I just tried out this game. 0 populated NA servers. I tried a few populated EU servers, but with 180+ ping, it was veryyyy difficult to land shots. And I’m not sure if it is the game design, or ping, but movement felt like I was the puck on an air-hockey table.
I mean, I regularly fly helis on european servers from us west coast, sometimes it is laggy but overall it works fine.
I am sorry you didn’t have a great first experience, it is a community project and there are definitely bugs, I didn’t mean to oversell how polished the game was, I just love it and am having such a blast with finally having an accessible, moddable spiritual successor to Project Reality.
I would say give it another shot on a lower ping serv, but I also don’t want to be pushy (or try a different mod like Casualfield, it has COD style hit reg indications if you think weird hit registering problems are happening that will clear it up whether shots are landing or not) movement is similar to other semi-realistic tactical shooters with a touch of inertia and a mantle obstacle button, it shouldn’t in my opinion feel like a puck on an airhockey table lol.
Regardless, whatever you do keep your eye on the project, I think it will be a platform for a lot of cool projects but you are seeing it an early stage.
For me, it is already a blast to fly attack runs in the apache, crew IFVs or play on infantry only servers, but I am sorry if it isn’t there yet for what you are looking for!
edit on the topic of hit registering/landing shots, bullets travel VERY fast in this game (translating to a minimal but real bullet drop) but it isn’t instantaneous (or hitscan). If you are used to games like battlefield especially in the context of sniping you are likely acting like it is way less point and click than it is (or maybe it seems hitscan when it isn’t and that is the basis for it feeling off?). They slow down bullets in more arcadey games like battlefield to make it more intuitive. Try putting the crosshair on the leading edge of your target and aiming for roughly chest level, you should generally be able to get rounds on target just doing that, otherwise maybe there is a netcode issue idk?
I’ll try it this weekend again, hopefully I’ll have better luck with servers when people have off from work.
I very much enjoy the hardcore milsim shooters, too. I used played a ton of Hell Let Loose, and even though it’s a bit more casual Rising Storm 2 Vietnam was always mega fun.
Also, don’t worry, you haven’t oversold the game or anything. Your posts have been extremely helpful, and really hyping me to see if I can get this game to work for me!
Of course, Rising Storm 2 is great it’s just I play on steam deck so ironsights don’t cut it for medium to long range on a small screen lol.
Also, OHD is only going to get better!
The main dev is a youtube creator/streamer named bluedrake, I know the kind of kneejerk response that sentence likely created in your head (I mean, same lol) but he isn’t another milquetoast fps streamer, listen to the way the dude talks about his project, I genuinely believe someone would have to encase that guy in stone to stop him from making the kind of game you and I want and blasting it out to the world for anyone to get their hands on and start building cool shit we can all play.
https://youtube.com/@bluedrake42
I mean he has been on an AI kick (to be fair he got sick of the state of battlefield-like industry and decided to go back to school to get a masters in data science so he could use the tools for good, a grift this ain’t), but he honestly seems genuinely interested in practical tools to empower small independent game developers, with tutorial videos to boot, maybe I will eat my words but I think his interest is totally genuine in spreading awareness about cool tools anyone can use to mod and make games like his.
idk like yeah he is hyping ai to help make models to import into blender, so shrugs I’m cool with it.
This video is definitely worth a watch, he is very thoughtful
https://youtu.be/IkJ9dtCbqOw