Why are the ervers not full?

Will this post get any response?

To use a quote from a badly recieved Austrailian tourist campaign...

Where  the bloody hell are you?

Always though that campagin took more heat than was warented...

We had three players, and I got sucked in for 3 hours. I'd have stayed longer but I had to go to work. I wanted to stay longer. With 2 full squads on each side I might never leave or have to be pulled away from my computer by caring people. 

Even though this is in Alpha the game is quite stable. I did have to load twice once but no drop outs once logged in, (ah Task Manager...there you are). It looks good, sounds good. I spent the best part of 6 hours in game today and didn't get dropped once. Considering I'm on Austraiian internet the rest of you should be fine. It's stable. I do have to load twice some of the time but no drop outs once logged in. It looks good, sounds good and the game mechanic is solid.  Turn down your music to zero though. Being familiar with WWIIOL obviously will help but things are a little different. The amount of swearing your avatar makes while getting shot at means not having impressionable young children in the room unless you want them to an expanded vocabulary. It was pointed out there was a sliding scale I might have used to turn it down. I asked why on earth would I want to do THAT?

Combat sounds, equipment jangling, its all there pretty much. You can't drown in the river but sometimes you might think you've been under long enough to. Jumping works but there's an art form to it. Low stone walls no problem, wood fences not so much. The map seems small, (say about Zundert in size) but there are sneaky ways to flank and slink about even though it looks small. Again it's bigger than it looks.  I could expand on the mechanics but then I won't be able to lord over you my vast knowledge from 9 hours game play.

It's simple rifles for now no grenades, SMG's or working close combat which also means no Ramboes with LMG's. Rifles with pistols available for squad leaders, the Fireteam Leader also has a pistol. The Engineer does have a reason to use explosives (press 5 for boom blocks*) and  you can find out why. You can place your block of Explodium and it goes bang. Use it well though, you only get one block. That 88 won't blow itself up. The one charge you have will kill you if you stand next to it when it blows so follow that instinct as it runs away from the boom...try to keep up with it. This will allow an engineer to be used in new and explody ways elsewhere on the map.

Pro tip, if you can be a Squad Leader or Fireteam Leader as mentioned they have a pistol. There are places in the map where close quarters means pistol beats rifle. No ammo counts yet so blast away.

That said, two things it needs sorting soonest, first the key mapper does not save changes, so you'll have to adapt to what the keys are for now. Second, (as I once said about Alien: Fire Team Elite) this game needs on board voice communications the same way a newborn baby need's that first sweet, sweet breath of air. The text communications are also not yet working so get on Discord you luddite or learn how to communicate with interpretive dance.

The Bad...

Given it's in Alpha and the obvious things it needs it's pretty clear to the RATS where the development needs to go. I can't think of much anyone would obviously want in an infantry level game CRS haven't already started to figure out. That said it could really use: 

Voice comsText coms

Expansion of weapons

Close Combat needs to work, (give us a choice I'd say, punch, knife or Bayonets for rifles)

Bottom Line:

Is it worth a premium account?

Given the extra equipment you get in WWIIOL with a CP Key, yes, better still if the RATS keep the 2 game servers up.

*Boom Blocks is a Trade Marked saying by Rabitldr Industries and you guys have to give me 20 cents each time you use it unless you ask REALLY nicely.

However when I try to start Chokepoint (using either the Steam 'Play' button or the Windows Chokepoint icon) the game crashes before it starts. It does not present me with any information on why it crashes.

Any ideas?

Cavalier

To the Resistance & Liberation community joining us, I welcome you aboard with open arms. My name is Xoom and I'm the President of Playnet, Inc. / Cornered Rat Software. We are so excited about the future of the game!

Stefan is going to continue to be the project lead and he is our Wing 2 / Division lead on Chokepoint here at CRS. So you should expect the core of the game to remain the same, with the added support of being part of the WWII Online family.

Feel free to say hello, introduce yourselves and share with us your thoughts and experience with the RnL community / what you're hoping for here at Chokepoint.

For our existing WWII Onliner's, please welcome them aboard and feel free to ask questions as I know this is a lot to take in for you as well.

It's one of the games I'm actually excited. Since this game is designed for short games (at least I hope), that's gonna be so much better if you feel like you just wanna kill and the battle is short. It should make the game more competitive. Not like Hell Let Loose where you basically spend 40-45 mins (although it's a good game don't get me wrong... I just find it too boring when you have to play a match that normally lasts 45 mins, especially when there is nothing significant about it... No campaign, not like WWIIOL tbh). 

Share your thoughts because I'm actually hyped... Trying to find decent WW2 games, the only good games that I find are Red Orchestra 2, Darkest Hour, Post Scriptum but these games are pretty dead with only one server alive. 

C'mon, let's bring UE5 already! 

Regards...

Just tried to run Chokepoint for the first time. The game wouldn't run and an error message saying: 

Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering source. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory. Try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running.

My PC has 16GB RAM, video card is nvidia GTX 770 with 4GB RAM. I'm running under Linux (WWIIOL works flawlessly). Can this be a problem or is it that my video card really not sufficient?

TIA

Need a key?

@stefan @vanguardxe

Hello, I still can not get chokepoint to find games. Complete uninstall, deletion of previous game folders etc. Fresh download from steam, installs fine, loads fine, hear music, hit find games, it searches, then nothing happens. I do have game installed to D:/steamlibrary, if the matters. Thanks for helping me.
Btimber

Just wondering if anyone has played this, and if they had issues. For me, the keymap doesn't work (nothing gets saved and I keep dropping ammo lol)... but that's about the only feedback I have right now... well, oh and.. it makes me dizzy when I play lol.. I guess the graphics could be too good..