Does this bring back memories???????

[Ouch]

Originally posted by Shaky
So I guess the question here is, should I drop a couple of hundred to start flying here again...I need new sticks. The FLCS Pro I won at the '96 con still works fine, but there's no compatible rudder or throttle for the damn thing, and its awkward as hell for flying...too big and hard to reach the hats. I miss my FCS Pro with the super stiff springs.

Shaky Stick -=*TH*=-
Tail number #3278 [/B]

Shakey,

You can use a USB rudder pedal setup with an FLCS (That's what I'm using right now).  No problems.  

I actually prefer the size of the FLCS because I don't accidentally hit the buttons at the wrong time.  It's a little awkward, but with practice, it works.

Ouch  out

(oh yeah, thread relevance)  Started AW in 93, and got sucked almost immediately into the original "Confirmed Kill."  I still think that was my favorite iteration of HT flight sims.

[Yippee38]

http://www.classicgaming.com/amigareviews/airwarri.htm#airwarrioraj

That was before my time.  I started playing AW when it was free on AOHell also.

[Bullethead]

Brooke said:

Bullethead's post does bring back some thoughts for me.  I didn't see the AW community as being full of griefers the way people use the term.  There were strong rivalries and grudges, but also very strong commeraderie and a very strong community.  I must admit, though, it was nice to be able to hunt people down repeatedly.

Oh come on, we WERE griefers.  I mean, every night we did all we could to ruin the fun of our Hated Enemas.  You couldn't avoid it, even if you weren't out hunting somebody, because you knew everybody you shot down by his ID number (I still use mine here in AH), so you'd HAVE to make some snide remark to him.  And then the Hate would start flowing, and pretty soon things would get ugly, which is where the fun was .

But besides all that, we put a lot of imagination into thinking up new ways to piss people off.  Like taxiing planes across the bridges for several sectors behind nme lines, then suddenly popping up far in the rear and wreaking total havoc.  Or the old Blooddragon, or dogfighting in a fully-gunned B25.  Or landing a Vader just behind the only plane spawn point and hosing everybody that appeared.

And don't forget the hilarious fun we had by going into the halftime arena and totally griefing the dweebs there.  The all-time favorite was to get a bunch of them together for a mission, where you'd fly the buff, and when they'd start rolling down the runway, you'd drop your bombs and .EF out before they exploded.  Then you'd kill them all but be in HQ before they died, so you wouldn't go PNG, and you'd claim you'd been vulched, too.  So they'd all try again, and you'd bomb-frag them all again, and it was hilarious.  After a while, they'd catch on, and the HATE would REALLY flow, and they'd complain to Kesmai about you, and Kesmai would tell them to go **** themselves because Kesmai didn't care about HTdweebs, either .

[DrDea]

[BTW]

So basically what you're saying, is that was back when it was cool to be a troll

[Grits]

Bullethead has captured what I really miss about Air Warrior that AH does not have for various reasons. Half of the point of Air Warrior had nothing to do with air combat directly, it was just a mechanism to get your favorite victim cranked up. In AH the verbal conflicts are crude and unimaginative, very adolecent in nature, and possitively pale in comparison to what went on in AW.

Some of you might remember Toad (not the AH Toad), he always flew the P-47, and all he did was fly around at 40K, rarely even coming down to cherrypick. I dont remember what he did to draw my attention, but I clearly remember spending every hour online for about 8 weeks straight doing nothing but hunting him down. I'd fly around looking for the highest P-47 in the arena calling out "heeere Froggy, heeeeeere Froggy Froggy". I dogged him like a bloodhound after a runaway from a prison roadgang.

You could never do that in AH, although Ezeepkns is worthy of being hunted in that manner its nearly impossible because the maps are so large and the numbers in the arena are so high you could never be found if you didnt want to be. That doesnt make AH bad, its just different.

[Flossy]

Originally posted by Bullethead
But besides all that, we put a lot of imagination into thinking up new ways to piss people off.  Like taxiing planes across the bridges for several sectors behind nme lines, then suddenly popping up far in the rear and wreaking total havoc.  Or the old Blooddragon, or dogfighting in a fully-gunned B25.  Or landing a Vader just behind the only plane spawn point and hosing everybody that appeared.

Or landing a B17 on an enemy carrier facing the spawn point, with a gunner (me) in the chin....  

[AWRaid]

AirWarrior was the best game ever made.


I have to admit though, I played with cockpit art off:(. (grey boxes, great view)


AW4W on AOL was the only good thing about AOL, ever, period.




EDITs:

"Someone post a pic of the factory. I miss the 2 smokestack factory  

Bomb the spit factory"

Lol, bombing spit factory was great...you had to destroy the 2 stacks to close it down... 100,000 or so buff points for doing that and every spit driver complained.

My first flight sim if you could call it that was some really horrible game that I can't remember the name of, you had to bomb trains and stuff. My first 'real' flight sims were Red Baron/Aces over Pac/Euro etc and of course Air Warrior.

The graphics to me at the time were pretty good, not as good as some games but no where else could you fight people in online aerial combat.

I was like 15 or 16 when AW came out and I played it hours and hours a day. It almost ruined my highschool social life lol.

Those who say they wouldn't play it... if you had an interest in any type of aerial combat you would have played it and been addicted. It was perfect for me... I loved planes/ww2 and aerial combat when I found out about it I was amazed...didn't even know it was possible to do something like that on the net...this was back when chatrooms were like revolutionary.

I flew as a bomber for like 2 months straight because I couldn't figure out how to shoot people down as a fighter. The irony is... some of my most fun memories in AW was crewing a b17 with a 3 or 4 other people and bombing the spit factory. Massive a26 raids lol great times. I say massive... it was really 6 - 10 people but at that time that WAS massive.


As Brooke said, AH is a better game due to the evolutionary fact but AW was the most fun I had in a game of any sort. The game was simple yet complex enough...the flight model was great, especially for the time.

The first thing I did in air warrior was take off in a p51 and try to stallfight... don't tell me ALL of you didn't do the exact same thing.

[mussie]

Flossy Said

Or landing a Vader

What the hell is a Vader

[culero]

Originally posted by mussie
Flossy Said
 

What the hell is a Vader

A26 Invader. Think A20 on steroids.

culero

[Shaky]

Nope...haven't grabbed the client yet. Still thinking about it

Originally posted by BTW
>>Shaky Stick -=*TH*=-
Tail number #3278
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uhoh- have you tried the DA yet?

[Shaky]

LOL I aint used kb views since the very early days, and I regard rudder as an absolute necessity to be competative I was one of the first to get TM's set up back in the day, couldn't do without something simalar today.

Originally posted by Brooke
Absolutely.



First, you could go without pedals and stay with what you've got.  That's a lot better and more fun than not playing at all.  You can do OK without pedals (better with them, but OK without).  Second, you could buy USB pedals, and they should work with whatever else you've got -- shouldn't matter what it is as it is  a separate device.  Third, you don't even need hats or throttles (as long as you at least have a throttle wheel on the joystick).

[Shaky]

LOL! I remember that guy...hell, hunted him myself. Damn dweeb managed to stay JUST out of reach most of the time, then, if being chased and out of fuel, would lawndart from 30k+.

Originally posted by Grits


Some of you might remember Toad (not the AH Toad), he always flew the P-47, and all he did was fly around at 40K, rarely even coming down to cherrypick. I dont remember what he did to draw my attention, but I clearly remember spending every hour online for about 8 weeks straight doing nothing but hunting him down. I'd fly around looking for the highest P-47 in the arena calling out "heeere Froggy, heeeeeere Froggy Froggy". I dogged him like a bloodhound after a runaway from a prison roadgang.
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[Shaky]

Anyone remember the great Turkey Ham squad raid on C:1?

Rumor had it at the time, that the supposedly invulnerable strip at the X:1 fields could be closed if you hit it hard enough. We had 20+ B-17's dropping full loads on it from 30k. Hell, this might of been back in the halftime only days, even.

Thing is, it did,'t work, and Bluebaron finally told us we'd actually overloaded the bombing table and most hits didn;t register

[AWRaid]

I've never used a hat switch on any of my joysticks as a primary viewer.

KB is the way to go for me lol. I have pedals/throttle..etc just cannot stand hat switches.  Don't get me wrong.... ill use kb then if I need to hit throttle ill use hat for a sec to keep track of the bandit but nothing more than that.

I used to actually remap my hat switches for other uses.

Regardless Track IR is the way to go these days.