To the Future Community of Aces High

[Morpheus]

Just a quick question...

Why is it that more players aren't playing AH2 on line?

I check often in to see if there is anyone in there and maybe find 2-3 players.

For those who think its just going to be like jumping into the same old game with more eye candy think again.

A lot has changed from AHI to AHII.

AHI won't be here forever, and AHII is going to mean curtians for all those yank and bankers.

Just ask SlapShot. He and I were augering left and right trying turn our spit5's:D

So common guys! Get in there and mix it up wouldya!:D

[Zaphod]

I for one can't really run AH2....or I would be there .  

Zaphod

[Cooley]

Oz has better graphics  

[DREDIOCK]

SHHHHHHHHhhhhh dont tell em that! I wanna watch and get my many many giggles seeing the many many  spit  augers and their drivers reactions (read whines) when they find out the training wheels have been taken off and they cant fly in relaxed realism anymore.

The spit flies fine in AHII just like in AHI which is alot like they flew in AW3

Trust me. the spit flies just fine

Originally posted by MoRphEuS
Just a quick question...

Why is it that more players aren't playing AH2 on line?

I check often in to see if there is anyone in there and maybe find 2-3 players.

For those who think its just going to be like jumping into the same old game with more eye candy think again.

A lot has changed from AHI to AHII.

AHI won't be here forever, and AHII is going to mean curtians for all those yank and bankers.

Just ask SlapShot. He and I were augering left and right trying turn our spit5's:D

So common guys! Get in there and mix it up wouldya!:D

[Morpheus]

My main focus was in no way on the Spit it self. Although it may have appeard that way.

Regardless of what people may say, AHII is an entirely different world.

Although, Dred does have a point.

It will be fun to watch people smackin the ground, listening to the whines ect ect.

[_Schadenfreude_]

we should start a pool on how many "If you don't change it back to the AH1 flight model I'm leaving right!!" now posts there will be..

[Arlo]

[Flossy]

Arlo, have you tried posting your System specs in the Tech help forum?  Maybe Skuzzy can help you sort out the problem.  Good Luck, mate, hope you get it sorted.....

[Innominate]

I suspect it has to do with the rather low percentage of AH players who actually know these forums exist.

[Kweassa]

Actually, we need a smaller beta terrain for test purposes.

 I've seen as many people as 10~15 people online for AH2, even so, the beta arena map was a humongous one - FesterMA - which is a noticeabley hasty 'conversion' into an AH2 terrain from the original AH1 terrain.

 The map's so frickin' large for just 10 people, that nobody gets any fun and action around. Everybody's thinly spread apart into the gigantic terrain, and most of the times the people who aren't familiar with the new system seem to be perplexed or dazed, flying alone in some obscure corner of the map for a couple of minutes, and then logging out.

 If a small and  compact beta map is built, with only a few bases for the three sides and GV spawns that spawn into one collective area, I think people will get to see AH2 action much quicker, and feel intrigued enough to try it again the next day.

[Replicant]

I rarely play AH as it is without spending too much time in AH2.  However, as Kweassa mentioned, if the terrain was smaller and perhaps not so dark it would be more beneficial to us all.

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Flossy
Arlo, have you tried posting your System specs in the Tech help forum?  Maybe Skuzzy can help you sort out the problem.  Good Luck, mate, hope you get it sorted.....

Si, senora. System specs were posted. It's a mee-stery my see-stem it no wanna play witha thees toy.

[lazs2]

So the planes can't turn in AH2?   The only planes that will fight now are the Spits... take that away and you will have a game where no one fights... everyone is in late war planes hiding from each other on large maps...

Doesn't sound like much fun to me.

lazs

[Arlo]

During the small window that I got to see of it ... the planes turned. I turned and killed the bad guy. If you mean the planes don't turn as well as you would like them to ... well it's all relative, I suppose. They won't turn as well as the other guy turning with you likes, either, I reckon. That is, until everyone gets used to how the new version works. Then someone'll reload the old version a couple of years down the line and post about how they can't believe how EASY it was to turn in EVERY single plane in the game back then!

[Morpheus]

So the planes can't turn in AH2? The only planes that will fight now are the Spits... take that away and you will have a game where no one fights... everyone is in late war planes hiding from each other on large maps...

heh...
Its funny what people can gather on a whole from a topic from reading one sentence and taking the rest as if it were all based on it.

Never saying the planes couldnt turn, rather saying its different than AHI would IMO be too general.

One could mention icons are differnt too. But why bother. Also the fact that planes in AH2 need to actually be taken taken off unlike in AHI where you can simply grab the stick as the wheels life off. That is unless you use auto-takoff...

The spit5 in its current form is in no way identical to the spit5 in AHI. Being an avid spit5 flyer in AHI, you come to know everything there is to know about it, the same with anyone else who flys a plane long enough.

For lack of a better term, the spit5 (AND ALSO JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THE MANY DIFFERENCES IN AHII) just plain old has more balls behind it. To turn it and turn it hard requires more throttling or adjustment there of. The WEP is also more compareable to that of a G10 in AHI it seems.

Again, there are many differences in AH2. After all its a different game. Don't take a simple sentence and turn it into, "the spit5 can't turn now". Because it can. In regards to this it has nothing to do with the bigger picture to which I was attempting to paint.

Edit: If you want real proof that the FM is different among many other things... Take for instance a Hog up... Stall it out bad and then try and recover from it;)