Author Topic: AcesHigh2 How many of you will play? (Read 1412 times)

GtoRA2 · « **on:** May 17, 2004, 11:36:09 PM »

I just started AH1 again a few weeks back and see very few of you online.

How many of you are going to come back for AH2?

It is fairly different from the original, gunnery seems harder, I have not had one HO tonight.

They may set fuel consumtion higher to force engine managment.

The flight model feels much better, and landing and taking of is harder.

So sound off if you
A: Play now

B: Are coming back when AH2 goes full.

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:37:34 PM »

Coming back when AH2 goes full...

Chairboy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:41:22 PM »

Ditto

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:41:31 PM »

I play now, it's a lot of fun and I'm not going to be going back to AH1.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:41:55 PM »

Have you guys tried the beta at all?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:44:40 PM »

Schadenfreude
I thought AH1 was gone as of release of 2?

I am thinking about sticking with the Beta only for now.

I think going back to AH1 will prevent you from getting fully used to AH2 as quick.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2004, 11:51:49 PM »

It's still in beta Gto but there are enough people online - 68 is the highest I've seen over the weekend - to make it a lot worth while.

I tried it for an hour and am hooked, flight model, gunnery are a whole new ball game. I far prefer Ah2 to Ah1 and since the Beta is about to end as per Pyro's post I've decided to only play Ah2 from now on.

Very few HO's, got to get close to hit anything - like 250 yds close, lots of stalls, higher fuel burn - seemed like the Niks have been defanged, not sure about spits - it's a lot of fun.

StabbyTheIcePic · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:00:33 AM »

I don't know. It will be hard to choose between duke nukem forever half life 2 or ah2.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:01:34 AM »

Schaden,
I agree, the flight model seems more, "right", but I can not put my finger on just one thing.

Gunnery is harder, but not Hugely so, but no HO seem way to have gone away.

I am having trouble getting kills, do to the gunnery, but I am also jumping around and their seem to be FEW easy kills (IE someone in a furball not watching) so the few I got were all real ACM kills.

The higher fuel consumption is going to send planes like the LA7 packin.

The ground model is brutal, taking some of the planes like the Mark 14 spit off is hard! lol

I like that engine managment will now be a factor, though I did this sometimes in the MA, if I needed to go somewere else if a fight evaperated.

It is pretty and runs better then AH1 on my system for some reason.

I am pretty excited, the only low for me is I do not like the current map much.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:02:30 AM »

Stabby, that was not funny the first time you used it.

You need new material.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:04:05 AM »

Are they going ahead with all the mission-based stuff in the arena? I will definitely give it a whirl when they put that stuff in.

Nash · « **Reply #11 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:05:55 AM »

FPS literally make me nausious.

Racing games... well... I can't seem to avoid crashing into other cars.

That leaves flight sims. But that's okay... Other than for work, it's been about the only reason I've ever bought computers. I was hooked the first time I flew a white dot over a grid.

That being said, what beats AH for flight sims? Nothin'. (F4 and IL2 are great, but I need online).

Fer sure I'll be flying AH2.

Octavius · « **Reply #12 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:07:06 AM »

Dont quote me on this, but I think the beta arena is open to everyone now; not just subscribers... I can't tell as I'm still subscribed.

I'm having a great time in the beta right now, and like Schaden, last night I actually didn't enjoy AH1 - AH2 is the way to go

SOB · « **Reply #13 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:33:23 AM »

If there's #s in the arena, I only fly AHII now...15 or so is sufficient. I'm still trying to tweak around my video settings to find the happy medium between performance and quality. This last build has introduced some studdering on my FE, but I've got some more investigating to do before reporting it. I definitely like it. The flight model is different...I don't know if it's better or worse, but I like it just fine. Pulling out of a dive is definitely different, and there are plenty of craters with my name on them to prove it. I really like the look of it.

They have the old-style easy cheesey bomb site enabled in the AHII arena to help bomb testing. I've been playing around with it, and I've gotta say, I miss it and like it a lot better than the new way.

Octavius · « **Reply #14 on:** May 18, 2004, 12:45:44 AM »

SOB the studdering is happening to a lot of us. There are two threads in the AHII Bug forum on it - many reporting the same thing across a variety of systems.

ditto on the bombsight. If it were to remain enabled (the former easy mode), maybe it would cut back on some of hte suicide dive bombing lanc dweebery?