Author Topic: game play beginning to bite (Read 943 times)

bockko · « **on:** December 30, 2003, 06:04:51 PM »

I have been in here for several years, but lately I find fewer and fewer instances where I actually get to finish a fight without being destroyedby a pile of red icons. I notice huge dar bars near (both friendly and enemy) shredding a base; these base missions pork all surrounding fields, successfully ending defensive efforts. Our maps force us to fly long distances, often exacerbating the gang bang factor by forcing us to concentrate even more due to field spacing and locations. All in all, if you just want to fight a few dog fights, forget it. Heck, even the fester map has been tweeked, now the huge dar bars reign supreme on that map as well. Too many players? Too much focus on land grabbing? pilot burnout?

Am I alone in this?

Replicant · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2003, 06:39:29 PM »

On a slightly different note.... One thing that I have noticed is lack of etiquette. When I first started flying AH nearly 4 years if you saw a 1 vs 1 fight then you'd ask if they needed help. If they said no then you let them get on with it. Now days people just dive in and spoil a good fight. We may all be guilty of it now and again but the general politness of simply asking goes a long way in my book.

nopoop · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2003, 06:57:30 PM »

Try the CT for a break. The numbers are smaller, and no one avoids a good fight.

An alternative.

Replicant · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2003, 07:04:06 PM »

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Originally posted by nopoop
Try the CT for a break. The numbers are smaller, and no one avoids a good fight.

An alternative.

Yeah, Bockko, I'd agree with nopoop there too. If things are boring or night time, or you're being ganged then go in the CT. They've had some great setups recently and most people are more aware of trying to balance the sides up too. Give it a try!

lazs2 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2003, 08:10:00 AM »

fields need to be closer together.... festers map is perfect... and, most importantly... fuel should never go below 50%

lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #5 on:** December 31, 2003, 08:11:38 AM »

Nopoop is right.

Fly the CT.

I've been doing that a lot lately.

Had to fly a gawdawful zeke last night.

One ping and it falls to bits. So the guys in PT boats were firing up at me and I was getting my wing blown off from 1600 yards. Yeah, right.

But someone made the comment that the CT was becoming like the MA.

I think he had a point.

~~Nopoop~~

lazs2 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2003, 08:24:13 AM »

I have never been hit by a pt from more than 1200 yards... the zeke may catch fire but it burns for anothe 20 minutes while it chases you. if you can't beat a P40b with a zeke you have real problems.

Ct is getting like the MA... not as many people willing to fight as before. just the fact that beetle is there is proof.

Ct is a good break if there is a decent plane set but even the best plane set is allied planes being outclimbed by axis so... all the fights get to be the same in pretty short order.

lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2003, 08:38:44 AM »

Got plenty of P40 kills, but scored about 26 zeke deaths! Almost every time it was laser ack, or PTs. The PTs are difficult but not impossible to kill with those piddly 50Kg bombs. But they can ping a zeke at 1600 yards. The opposition kept the fights low near the manned acks - deadly.

I could show you the film, Lazs, but why bother. You are the one who can tell how a car is driven just by looking at the condition of the rear window.

lazs2 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2003, 08:59:33 AM »

stay away from pt boats and ack.... seems simple enough. lotta info in that particular back window.

lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2003, 11:39:33 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
stay away from pt boats and ack

Indeed. And stay at least 1600 yards away. Guess where the P40s were? You guessed it - within 1600 yards of the ack.

aztec · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2003, 11:59:04 AM »

I'm beginning to think you'd pick apart a blow job Beetle.

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 31, 2003, 11:59:54 AM »

beetle... they had no real choice... a p40b can't outclimb or outturn or even run away from a zeke unless it is at alt and at top speed allready...

in the CT you simply can't fight a p40 against a zeke unless you can run to the ack or have lots of people around you and everyone is spraying and praying at the zekies...

that is what is wrong with the CT... you learn the simplistic flight models of the enemy pretty quickly and all the fights are the same after that...

lazs

Toad · « **Reply #12 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:02:13 PM »

Aztec, that was both perceptive and hilariously funny! Thanks!

beet1e · « **Reply #13 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:32:32 PM »

Lazs, fair comment. The setup last night was not my favourite. I enjoyed the Okinawa F6F/F4U-1 v. N1K when I was flying Allied. As for all the fights being the same, it's no different from the MA in that respect, where 75% of your adversaries are likely to be P51/LA7/Spit ix etc. I like flying the midwar "not particularly über" planes. Another recent match in the CT was 109F/190A5 against P47D11/Hurr-2. I had a great time - skatsr/jr storch et al.

I have always wondered why blowjobs were called such, as the pricipal action would seem to be the opposite of blowing. As for it being a job, I suppose for some it is (oldest profession), but between mutually consenting adults one assumes it is for pleasure, not a job of work. Funny that this should arise (no pun intended) in a thread with BITE in the title...

aztec · « **Reply #14 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:35:43 PM »

Well in the unlikely event that you ever do get one, I'm sure your critique will make it here.