Author Topic: WW2OL (warning, likely to set pom poms on fire) (Read 3075 times)

Gadfly · « **Reply #75 on:** August 03, 2001, 06:59:00 AM »

Look for the "fire" icons at the theatre screen, then double click that icon. broadcast on the radio, and someone will probably tell you where the action is. If you are axis, tune to channel 95, and listen for a minute or two, and you will know.

Tuomio · « **Reply #76 on:** August 03, 2001, 07:16:00 AM »

This is all for you "wwiionline is completely stable for most of us, we got what we was told to get".

Killer (dev team) posted this HIMSELF:

"We'll see what's up, testing last night from home and I had 20+ CTD's in under an hour, tried patch and could still reproduce em.

My home machine is coming in here tommorrow, I'll be on the top server most of the day, I'll be "SYSTEM" calling for as many people who are up to it to all come fight in one place and make me CTD every 10 seconds like I did last night until we trap it and can kill every CTD I can reproduce.

Be there or be square. As for releasing it for weekend, we'll decide that tommorrow."

So, if the devs get 20(!!!!!) CTD:s in hour, how the hell can you say this game is playable? Or do you prefer playing offline only? CTD is the most annoying thing to happen, since you dont have clue why did it happen to avoid it next time.

wwiionline is on ALPHA stage and while i see nothing wrong about that, they have sold the game as being complete. if 50% of the features PROMISED are missing, how can you say you havent been lied? I think 80% of who bought that game BELIEVED, that those features are in when they dare to write those on the BOX.

"Customer: Hey this wasnt Mercedes as you told me, this is Mercedes with Ladas interiors and engine!

Salesman: Oh im sorry about that, but i promise we upgrade those things later, SOON, as we prefer to say in games business.

Gadfly: Yes i believe him. He has lied only couple of times, so why would he do that now? Besides, i know Lada will go downhill as fast as Mercedes AND (with TV-shop voice) you can make-belief if you close your eyes really tight! Oh and Remember to breathe only trough your mouth!"

(I assume that the Alpha has turned open beta now, since they call people to test it with them..

)

Wwiionline isnt ready yet, they can sell it, but they should inform the customers BEFORE selling, that half of features arent in game yet.
Theres no way you could round that FACT.

Dawvgrid · « **Reply #77 on:** August 03, 2001, 07:29:00 AM »

Well what tuomio said,,,and Im sorry gadfly
,they shouldt have waited atleast 6 month to release it,maybe you`re satisfied,,,,,but I
am not,and that is that.
But when/if it´s gonna working proberly we can talk

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Gadfly · « **Reply #78 on:** August 03, 2001, 10:44:00 AM »

You guys read the whole thread, please, so I don't have to repeat myself so often.

Kieran · « **Reply #79 on:** August 03, 2001, 11:16:00 AM »

Last night I was trying to help take a FB. They were spawning tanks, so I decided to do the closest thing to truck driving I will do- I drove a Stuka to deliver bombs! The FB was only 3 minutes flight from the field, so it was a quick round-trip.

I was a bit worried about the enemy fighter base nearby, but "what the heck" I thought, and decided to surrender the virtual life if need be. Had I known then what I know now I wouldn't have worried at all.

In the course of making the round trips I eventually ran into the fighter opposition I knew would come. I bored in, dropped the load, then turned to face the fighters after me. "Might as well go out fighting" I thought.

To my horror I found that, not only could I maintain a sustained turn with the Spitfires, I could turn inside them. When the hapless Spit pilot realized he was losing angles he began to scissor. Yup, I could scissor with him, too. The boy was forced to drag me along the tank line he was trying to protect to peel me off. Eventually he tried to re-engage, and I shot him down.

Next came a Hurricane. These turn a bit better, so I thought I might have a problem. Nope. Worse than the Spitfire, the Hurricane cannot speed or climb away from the Stuka in time. By the time the Hurricane pilot realized his predicament it was far too late. I managed to auger this one, glued to his tail and him trying everything in his power to escape.

That is the way the rest of the night went. Bomb with impunity, dogfight when necessary. I managed more kills per hour than I ever did in any other available plane. No doubt about it, I will now take the Stuka anytime I go German. I am puzzled how such a wonder plane could have been decimated in and thus removed from Channel operations following the BoB.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #80 on:** August 03, 2001, 11:34:00 AM »

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After 1.2, I got in and although i never found a NME to shoot at, my FPS were way up to 40 sometimes, maybe cause I couldn't find a fight. So I drove my tank like I was in NASCAR 4 till i flipped it over, then when I hit escape, everything looked like a white snowscape, ironically equally as "frozen" in lock up, and I had to reboot. 2 more times just like that made me quit, but havn't played it since.

How do you find someone to shoot at there?

Are you sure you are on-line?

Had a problem for the first week where I couldn't get on line because I installed the game in the C:\Program Files directory (it didn't handle the "space" in the directory well. You see, I really screwed up by assuming that just because they asked me what directory I wanted the game to reside in, I could choose any directory. My bad.

If you are not selecting your battlefield from a globe/map then getting a list of missions... you may be off-line.

AKDejaVu

Eagler · « **Reply #81 on:** August 03, 2001, 11:57:00 AM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:

Are you sure you are on-line?

Had a problem for the first week where I couldn't get on line because I installed the game in the C:\Program Files directory (it didn't handle the "space" in the directory well. You see, I really screwed up by assuming that just because they asked me what directory I wanted the game to reside in, I could choose any directory. My bad.

If you are not selecting your battlefield from a globe/map then getting a list of missions... you may be off-line.

AKDejaVu

they way I could tell was all the idiotic chatter in the radio buffer

Kieran · « **Reply #82 on:** August 03, 2001, 12:22:00 PM »

CTHL- Crash To Hard Lock-up.
CTD- Crash To Desktop.

I see CTHL's all the time- at least once every hour of play or so, usually sooner. I also lock-up in certain types of vehicles more than others.

The CTD I haven't seen as much, though there are others that do.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #83 on:** August 03, 2001, 12:26:00 PM »

CTHL = Connection To Host Lost. The Rats have said that they need to fix how the program treats dropped packets. People with near-perfect broadband connections are getting dumped with CTHL errors.

Creamo · « **Reply #84 on:** August 03, 2001, 12:32:00 PM »

Nope, I was online. Some guy kept saying "Hello?" "Hello"?

It feels like your really locked in a tank which I think has it's realism points to it, not for me though.

I think I might enjoy the tank stuff but I can't get around or figure it out. The interface is screwy imo.

Gadfly · « **Reply #85 on:** August 03, 2001, 01:16:00 PM »

Here is another tip, and probably the reason that I do not have CTDs or CTHLs: Do Not go to or use the mission screen!

Click the icon of the city you want to spawn at, then click go through the personal data screen, the select your vehicle and click go.

Lance · « **Reply #86 on:** August 03, 2001, 01:47:00 PM »

That review was accurate. Scathing, but accurate. I don't see how anyone could think otherwise.

Any black eyes that CRS have suffered are solely self-inflicted.

Gordo

Kieran · « **Reply #87 on:** August 03, 2001, 01:50:00 PM »

Yikes! I better coin another one then- LTFU.

I get LTFU's a lot in the game, approximately every 20 min - 1 hour.

I don't use the mission screen either. I am not interested in the megalomaniacs' plans at the moment. Until I get steady game performance I would just as soon worry about my own little self.

Gadfly · « **Reply #88 on:** August 03, 2001, 01:55:00 PM »

CTHL is actually-Connection to Host Lost

715 · « **Reply #89 on:** August 03, 2001, 10:49:00 PM »

Not having bought or tried WWIIOL I have a question regarding FPS. Since, by definition, WWIIOL would have to show lots of detail (grunts are right there close to buildings etc and need detail to operate in) I presume WWIIOL must render at a high polygon count. My question: does WWIIOL's graphics engine make use of hardware accelerated 3D geometry transform and lighting available in GeForce and Radeon cards? (Examples: CFS and AH don't; WBIII, CFS2, and MS Train Sim do)

715