Author Topic: ww2offline email free week (Read 631 times)

T0J0 · « **on:** December 29, 2005, 01:04:24 PM »

Hard to get excited about a free week of abuse... I should get a free year for all the grief I went thru opening week... The sounds in game though are fantastic and the night battles are if amped up enough very surreal with the lights off and head phones on...

TJ

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Hawklore · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2005, 06:10:54 AM »

6days..

Since when was WW2Online 7 day adventists?

HugeHead · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2005, 08:10:58 AM »

I'm not even sure I could find a battle in only 6 days;).

Regards,
HH

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2005, 08:16:10 AM »

Suckers I mean people still play that game?
-SW

Tac · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2005, 09:25:42 AM »

I used to play WW2OL 2 years ago and ive returned to the game just last month.

Air combat is still an arcadish joke, but then again, that game is no flight sim but it does 'alright' imo.

Ground combat has been MASSIVELY improved. And I mean massively.

-Infantry now has plentiful visual cover (used to be a huge issue).

-Armor is no longer the dominant force in the battlefield. Before it used to be mechwarrior 1940 but now with the visual cover tanks are AT gun and sapper bait if they are not supported by infantry.

-Infantry has smoke grenades now. The benefits of this is tremendous.

-Snipers added in a way that does not make the game into a sniperfest. Its really the same old rifleman except the iron sights are replaced with a crosshair view.. zoom is slightly better but thats about it. I actually snipe better with the iron sights rifle. Snipers are very good however at shooting people who are behind hard-to-hit cover.

-New Brigade system. Now every side has a limited number of brigades. Each brigade is moved by high command to its area of operations/city.

Only towns with a brigade on it can launch missions/spawn players.

Brigades can be destroyed if the town they are in is taken before the brigade pulls out. Destroyed brigades are out of the game for about 12 hours.

This causes a huge change in the way the game is played. The side that loses brigades loses the ability to defend. The map has actually moved back and forth 10000X faster with this new system than with the old system that had people killing each other until the spawn list of the target town ran out. Now attacks are coordinated and designed to push the other side into pulling OUT of the town less the brigade is lost.

The system can be improved a bit but its a great step in the right direction.

- Night operations are adrenalin charged. I cant tell you how many times a group of 50 people in 4 or 6 C-47's paradrop into a town and into the roads around it and we just HOLD the town until regular forces arrive. Heck, we've destroyed 2 axis brigades just by paradrop taking the town behind them and holding that town while regular forces kill off the brigade in the town thats cut off.

- Improvements to command and control : players can put contact reports on the map and the officers can approve them. Excellent for air support and for coordinating armor-infantry advances.

scout infantry sneaking up to an enemy armor defensive position, marking it on the map and calling for air support..then when air is near smoking the place and air support just carpet bombing the smoked area= JOYGASM.

- Mobile Spawn Points - Players now can take a truck, deploy it near an enemy town and it acts as an infantry spawn point. No more walk-for-30-minutes BS.

all in all I give ww2ol a 9/10 for fun.

would be 10/10 if they fixed the arcade flight system.

Meatwad · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2005, 09:59:56 AM »

I used to play but quit. Too laggy and the game greatly is in favor of the german side. Too many cheats going on

T0J0 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2005, 10:06:02 AM »

TAC
If they had put your post verbage in the email notification I would have logged in the first night! You describe all the issues being fixed I quit the game for...
The paratroop drop scenario sounds very cool you described!

TJ

Furball · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2005, 10:41:53 AM »

it is fun when you find a decent fight.

air war is a joke. a hilarious joke aimed at those wanting to fly.

i am fine flying around, but as soon as i go within any range of a town with a fight i go to 1-4 fps and usually auger because of it.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2005, 02:23:21 PM »

I quit playing because loading times became insanly long and lag was a killer. But I had tons of fun with the Bristish MG parking in a hill in a feild and leveling attacking troops. I remember seeing Wax pawn a few tanks in game.

Vulcan · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2005, 02:49:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
it is fun when you find a decent fight.

air war is a joke. a hilarious joke aimed at those wanting to fly.

i am fine flying around, but as soon as i go within any range of a town with a fight i go to 1-4 fps and usually auger because of it.

Furball right click on the icon and the exe files in the crs directory and change them to run in Compatibility Mode for Windows NT. Its a problem thats been there for since like forever.

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2005, 04:24:53 PM »

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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
Suckers I mean people still play that game?
-SW

yup, but i'm not a 24/7 player, i play 1-2 hours a week maximum,
there are other hobbys out there too! ;)
but ww2ol is the only war-sim where i sometimes play for 1 or 2 hours
and have intense action without to shot even 1 bullet! its all about
organize & planing (ie: using the enviroment, the night-time), hide & seek and survive.
I disagree on the cheat thing Meatwad, the game is still very hard to play, remember, even a General can be killed by a newbie with a single pistol shot, there are no energy pills or similar help.
I think many newbies and even some older players are frustrated because
of this, its nothing for Rambo players.
But thats just my expirience.

Furball · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2005, 05:27:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
Furball right click on the icon and the exe files in the crs directory and change them to run in Compatibility Mode for Windows NT. Its a problem thats been there for since like forever.

thanks man, will try that

Booz · « **Reply #12 on:** December 30, 2005, 05:31:47 PM »

My boy loves it. Even though I dislike the flight portion, the ground war is actually pretty good, squad level tactics work very well. He's gotten good at it, I haven't spent enough time, but it's fascinating watching him play. Learning curve is also large there. I think supressive fire definately needs to have a bigger impact. It even started him watching the military channel. lol.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** December 30, 2005, 05:50:18 PM »

Speaking of going back to old games,

I started playing America's Army 2.5 again. It's gotten a ton better as far as the cheating goes. You can find some pretty good servers to play on that offer free Team Speak and good admins that boot people for cheating exploiting and bunny hopping ect. I'm actually trying to join a clan now that has their own 26 person server.

Booz · « **Reply #14 on:** December 30, 2005, 11:25:44 PM »

Don't EVER join a clan, they make you wear tights.