[poll] Who else plays "Vietcong" or the addon "Vietcong - Fist Alpha"?

[Pvt. Pirate]

I'm playing Vietcong - Fist Alpha for some years now.

The game is settled during vietnam conflict and got quite a few awards for its great atmosphere.
It features a singleplayer campaign with a great story and a multiplayer with coop, ctf, dm and tdm.
It also has directional ingamevoice, which means you hear the person from that direction where he/she is standing in game and also it gets more silent when more distant.
Many custom missions have been built for coop-mode.
on difficulty "vietnam" its comparable with BF2:PR as its quite realistic.

I've been in a few communities "6ths-sense.com" "teamrespawn.com" and lately "teamplay-community.de".
We play coop on hardest difficulty, sometimes with roleplay and always with tactics and a teamleader.
We used to have "specials" : playing a campaign with roleplay in coop. those were the highlights where everyone acted a real soldier in vietnam.

I hope some of you come play with us and get addicted to that kind of teamplay :)
Also I hope some of the members of teamplay-community.de start playing BF2:PR too :)

[=VG= Outlanders]

I think i might try it again.

[=VG= kiwirambob]

I have it... i,ll have to blow the dust off but...

[=VG= SemlerPDX]

Sounds cool. I'll have to try this one some time.

[Pvt. Pirate]

:D when i opened this thread today, i had to laugh.
someone really voted for "I dont play such games, as they're violent ;D"

i'll put in some videos about the game today for those who want to know what its like ;)

[Pvt. Pirate]

this trailer is about the singleplayer, it also contains some scenes from PvP matches.




a trailer about the mission "hamburger hill" in coop mode. too bad you cant hear them using ingamevoice.

i was searching for a complete video review, but didnt find any good one.

the game's system requirements are quitelow,as its from 2003/2004 and it even runs smooth on older machines.
the game itself doesnt support FSAA but itspossible to download a tool called "VCstarter" which is capable of additional graphic options and is needed to run it on win vista or 7.

[ConfusedMaster]

hey bro, thanks for posting this.

ive been playing Vietcong since 2006 and never actually stopped because of the great cooprounds you can have with the people and for sure because of the unique atmosphere this game offers.
about the ingamevoice : when you take the game real serious you dont even use teamspeak because its much more fun to use the positional ingamevoice and that feature even makes it easier for you to figure out who is talking because you recognize what the soldier looks like (you have free choice of character and hat/helmet), where he is (direction and distance) and what his voice sounds like.

to motivate you getting this game i wanna show you how cheap it is ;) http://www.amazon.com/GATHERING-OF-DEVELOPERS-Vietcong-Windows-Pc/dp/B0006LPCG0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1332683632&sr=8-4
and that is already the complete package containing Vietcong plus the addon Fist Alpha which is required for a bunch of maps.

as Pirate already said the tool VCStarter provides compatibility with Windows 7 and Vista but to correct him it doesnt get you the option to enable Anti Aliasing but Anisotropic filtering which i think makes the game look much better and thats why i am also using that tool though i got windows xp. (btw the game wont reject it if you force anti aliasing by driver)

and here goes another trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPu45uPoxUA

and a few more useful links:
this website is cool to see what servers are up and whos playing http://www.vietcong1.cz/
here are the two best sources for getting maps http://vietcong-customs.com/ http://www.vietcong-coop.net/
and this is a regular international community about the game http://www.vietcong.info/

[=VG= Outlanders]

Nice to know that people are still playing in that game.

[=VG= tankmaster58]

Yes I have all of them there alright to play some times

[=VG= 1Sg.Morrison]

I love that game !

[=VG= Outlanders]

Couple songs. Such a great music. Such a great game.

[Pvt. Pirate]

yes, the music really adds to the feeling and after playing the singleplayer campaign, you really got the feeling like "platoon", "full metal jacket" and "apocalypse now" :)

[=VG= kiwirambob]

Got it.. But not loaded up on my system " Vietcong " and addon " fist Alpha " .... Dam thats a long time ago for that game..

[Pvt. Pirate]

I talked to Semler and he told me, he would see what he can do to get a vietcong server up on the VG server :)
i bet it won't take long to be bursting full of players :)

[=VG= 1Sg.Morrison]

@ Semler, Solar and Savage
Is our Server able to run that game ?
i would love to have that game running on our Server, im sure it dont need much resources, of curse i will take care after sombody install it for me.
Can we have a Vietcong server ?

[chrisi123]

would be cool to play a campaign with you guys. long time ago for me, too...

[Pvt. Pirate]

we recently had some nice missions again, but the number of active players has decreased quite much.
one reason is that there arent many servers up which are dedicated to (realistic) teamplay on hardest difficulty.
most servers are either just funplay or are only up whenever some of the admins wants to play - so there's no place to call home - where you can join and everyone knows that this will be teamplay with nice people and maybe some roleplaying.
i hope we can get a Veterans-Gaming-Vietcong-server.