WWII Online

[Mickey1992]

The first time a 12-year-old L33T Sn1p3R  shoots down my aircraft I quit!  

"I watched as the Stuka bombed an A-13 and made several strafing passes on a Bedford until it was also a smoking ruin. I was a gallant French Trooper at the time and could only return fire with my single shot, bolt action rifle. The overconfident Stuka Pilot began to strafe me! I stood my ground and calmly returned fire, growing nervous as the tracers moved rapidly toward me and dust and debris obscured my view. Suddenly it was over; the Stuka extended and climbed for altitude preparing for another strafing pass. Again I held my ground and fire; again I saw the tracers, the dirt, the smoke. I felt fear as the bullets got closer, should I run or stand? I fired and suddenly he had gone overhead again, we had both missed. I watched again as he extended and turned back toward Spontin, again I held my ground and my fire, I aimed calmly, waiting for the Stuka to fill my gun site. I watched the muzzle flashes of the two machine guns on the Stuka. I could hear the tpwip-thwup, thwip-thwup, thwip-thwup of the bullets tearing up the earth around my feet! I stayed calm, aimed calm, waited, then I squeezed the trigger! I saw a sprite appear on the canopy of the Stuka, suddenly it pulled up sharply, it began to roll, the plane flew about 300 yards beyond me, nose up violently and stalled, then it slipped backward into the ground and exploded! I had Sn1p3r3d a Stuka! I was so geeked! I got on the text radio, and asked "did everyone see that, did anyone one else think they hit it?" A few minutes later Bmbm came on as allied and asked who the French Trooper in Spontin was. He congratulated me on that shot. Later I checked my log files and confirmed it. My one bullet went through the propeller of his Stuka, though the pilots arm and imbedded in his torso! I was the L33T3ST Sn1p3R!"
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Mickey
3./JG2 "BigJoe's Bastards"

[Dinger]

Yup, kinda like HO passes.  If you're not afraid of dying, you can do all kinds of things.

[Degas]

 

Originally posted by MrSiD:
'The average guy who's never flown a flightsim needs to be able to fly the planes in this game without spending months just learning to take off'

Erm.. show me a newbie who has to do that with Aces High..

The current FM is really not THAT hard..
Aces High is still a very simplified approach to sim flying.

Heh...

Flying is easy.  Living through it is hard  

Oh, yeah.  A couple of new points about WWIIOL:

In the FM, you are not going to have a 6 view.  There is going to be a roughly 45 degree "blind spot" at your six in all AC.  This is modelled this way to better reflect real life (i.e., no one can swivel their head 180 degrees backward in real life).

Also, the first 30 days (subscription) are going to be free.  You'll have to give them your credit card info to fly, but will not be charged for the first month.  If you combine this with a purchase of the boxed game from a retailer with a 30-day return policy, you have the ability to try the game at no financial risk.

I'm not here pimping for WWIIOL.  I am certain that I will have accounts with both HTC and Playnet.  This is a win/win situation for all of us  



[This message has been edited by Degas (edited 05-15-2001).]

[MrSiD]

Eh.. 30 day free account for paying the boxed set? What else can anyone do with the boxed set except play online?

Money back guarantee is valid only for unopened or totally unoperative products.

So, if you manage to get online with the product and the game sucks, no money back.

I will wait and see some first hand reports about the game untill I spend a dime on it..
And that 'free trial' with creditcard info leads me to think a forced payment after the 'free' period. I'm not very trusting when it comes to today's cc payments over the internet..

To say it short: I'll let the others be the guinea pigs.

[AG Sachsenberg]

 

Originally posted by MrSiD:

Money back guarantee is valid only for unopened or totally unoperative products.

Sorry to bust your bubble but if you buy it at Electronic Boutique you can try it for 7 days and if you don't like it return it and get your money back.  I have done that with quite a few games that have sucked.  

So yes you can try it.  And yes you can return it.  

[easymo]

  "In the FM, you are not going to have a 6 view. "

  You arrive at the base in a car with a rear view mirror.  You know that your life depends on watching your 6. It never occurs to you to put a mirror on your plane? Sorry! I just cant buy that.

 With the lack screen space, and the tech requirements of inserting a "mirror" in a sim cockpit. What AH has done, is hands down,the best approache to simulating a 6 view. The no 6 view approach is just a cheat that gives the B n Z boys an edge over turn fighters.

[AcId]

And why not just fly Wonder Womans' invisible jet?


mmmmmm.....Linda Carter

[MrSiD]

Heh, so electronic boutique is in effect warez boutique. Try for 7 minutes in cd-burner LOL.

[AG Sachsenberg]

 

Originally posted by MrSiD:
Heh, so electronic boutique is in effect warez boutique. Try for 7 minutes in cd-burner LOL.

Your catching on quick MrSid Ob1 has taught you well.  But I don't condone the use of pirated materials for the well being of our driven down economy slowly inflated with high cost of commercial non organic products.

[Dowding]

Some of the battle sequence AARs sound good and the films show some action.

But there also descriptions of 109s and spits engaged in 'endless cricles'. But I guess this is beta and there is still a long way to. Perhaps it will be 'Jack of all trades, master of none'?

It will never live up to its hype, but I'm looking forward to checking it out. It's a great idea.

I'm assuming there will be a downloadable open beta? Which is free of charge? Otherwise, I'm not sure if I'm prepared to shell out 30 quid for the game and then have a monthly subscription for the priviledge of being a beta tester.

[Mickey1992]

Although I am excited about this product too, I would not hold my breath for an open beta.

If the Rats to not push back their 2001.06.05 ship date, that gives them 21 days from now.  As developers, would you rather continue to test the product with the couple of hundred closed beta testers that you have now, or would you open up a 7-14 day open beta?

The Rats have already stated that there will be no open beta "sandbox" after the release.  So why bother with the hastle of an open beta and the download servers and the bandwidth needs for 2-3 thousand users that come with it?  The final product will not be downloadable.  Why bother?  The media propaganda has already been shipped.

I would think that they would be able to do heavy load testing without an open beta, wouldn't they?

[This message has been edited by Mickey1992 (edited 05-15-2001).]

[Staga]

AH made it with Open-Beta and look what happened  

[Degas]

Since I live in Bumf*k, the only dedicated software store here is Software, Etc.

Generally, boxed games cost around 5 bucks more than they are priced on the internet.

However, I have taken many games back for either credit or refund, with no problems, sometimes up to 30 days after the original purchase (the last one was B17 Flying Fortress II, released without multiplayer and never patched).

For me, at least, a 30 day free trial of WWIIOL is no problem.

[Dawvgrid]

I`ll check it out,,,if i like it maybe,but I
have some serious doubts about it.
And then i kinda like the people in here,,,
if i couldt i wouldt give you all a big hug
,,,,ehhh manstyle,dont get me wrong  

[Fury]

 

Originally posted by Degas:
......Also, the first 30 days (subscription) are going to be free.  You'll have to give them your credit card info to fly, but will not be charged for the first month....

Huh?  Where did you hear this from?

Fury