Author Topic: Former WWII Onliners? (Read 2442 times)

Billiken · « **on:** June 17, 2006, 11:57:29 AM »

Hey there!

Did anyone play WWII Online? There are some eerie similarities in the ground game, in my opinon--anyone else notice that? (Not a complaint, btw...

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AH is all over it, though, otherwise.

I was Cors on WWII Online, what seems like a lifetime ago.

Kurt · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:07:21 PM »

I played it from release day for about 1 month... It was sooooo buggy in those days though..

The tank war was always good though. I wish we had the tank gunsights that they do in WWII online. I was very effective in a panzer and in the towed 88mm in that game.

That game depresses me... It was such a great concept it needed another year of development before it should have gone public. If they had done that it would have been the greatest war game ever... Instead they went live too soon and lost a HUGE number of players because the infrastructure couldn't handle the load.

They promised it would handle 100,000 players... They sold some 75000 boxes in the first three days. The servers died and so did the game...

Saddest chapter in the history of online war gaming.

Bingo73 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:12:14 PM »

Yup I did the WWIIOL thing. Stayed with it from day 1.
And as far as the release..they were pressured to release it..they wanted to delay it a couple more months but were given the " it goes out NOW or not at all" speech from what I understand. But that could just be rumor to defend CRS. I dunno.

Meatwad · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:57:01 PM »

I played and quit. That game suckes so bad it wasnt funny. Gave heavily favors axis

Curval · « **Reply #4 on:** June 17, 2006, 01:26:10 PM »

I too jumped in as soon as it was released.

It ran fine (relatively) on my computer but I tried to help a friend affected by the imfamous "head shaking bug" and spent hour upon hour trying to resolve it for him.

It was eventually resolved when a patch was released.

Of course I spent a month arguing with their tech guys and various "fanbois" on their BBS who insisted that it was the user's computer that was the problem and not their code.

But, I did play the game for a while after that and did have some fun..in tanks and 88s ironically. I hated the infantry model and hated the flying aspect of the game even more.

I found AH soon afterwards and never went back to WW2 Online.

Billiken · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2006, 02:03:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
I too jumped in as soon as it was released.

It ran fine (relatively) on my computer but I tried to help a friend affected by the imfamous "head shaking bug" and spent hour upon hour trying to resolve it for him.

It was eventually resolved when a patch was released.

Of course I spent a month arguing with their tech guys and various "fanbois" on their BBS who insisted that it was the user's computer that was the problem and not their code.

But, I did play the game for a while after that and did have some fun..in tanks and 88s ironically. I hated the infantry model and hated the flying aspect of the game even more.

I found AH soon afterwards and never went back to WW2 Online.

I got in just after the first big patch, so I was fortunate to miss out on most of the big bugs. I liked the concept, hated the implementation.

This feels much more solid, in my 5 days of experience, anyway.

daddog · « **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2006, 02:34:09 PM »

I played it for a year and enjoyed it. Dec 04 to Dec 05. Many of my squadies enjoyed it also. Two major problems for me was.
1 – Dial up. Needs a lot more band width than Aces High.
2- Was tired of getting killed and not knowing what got me or what I did wrong. Playing with squadies with vox is a must, but due to my limited band width I could not use vox with them.

Lots of improvements since I have played, but my number 1 above will always be the major factor. Ground war was excellent.

Zero/Zilch support. You have to depend on players to help you out. You can't even call and talk to anyone. Call HTC and someone picks up the phone. You can't beat that.

RTSigma · « **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2006, 08:33:08 PM »

Played it for a full month. I loved when there was actual heavy action going down. One of my fondest memories was sittin in a Puma laying down cover fire with a 20mm cannon and watching troops advance and trucks disembarck soldiers.

There were some parts that would kill it for me, mainly the lag, the dreariness of doing nothing when there was nothing to do and some very cheap kills. I think the final straw was that it was pitch black and I was a StugIII sitting in cover with a convoy of other tanks. Spitfire comes down and manages to disable my engine. Traveling for nearly 30mins as a group, taking cover in night and waiting patiently for a sunrise attack and then being disabled (I was the only one) made me curse and complain like none other.

Came back to AH2 as fast as I could. WWIIOL can't even hold a candle to it.

sharp8th · « **Reply #8 on:** June 17, 2006, 09:18:45 PM »

use to play it as a german name beforgot it and i didnt like shooting at moveing black pixle it was lame.

Kurt · « **Reply #9 on:** June 17, 2006, 11:56:03 PM »

Oh, if we're gonna get into fondest moments...

I was cruising along in the 109 looking for a fight. And I look down and I see this deuce and half truck working along a road between towns.. I roll in to strafe him and smack his radiator... Troops are bailing out all over the place, it looked like gun camera footage.

I rolled in again and caught about 3 of them running into the trees. Made another pass and hit a couple more... Finally I can barely see this guy prone in the grass in the ditch next to the road (every road in WWIIO has a ditch along side it) and got him.

It wasn't the most exciting fight, me being pretty much safe from 8 or 10 troops... But it looked the most like discovery channel footage that I ever saw in that game.

My second favorite was the first day I was able to get in game stable.. Probably about 4 days after release. And I was on foot and got stranded a few miles from town in a tank battle, yes, huge.. In the first few days, there were a lot of people on that game.. Probably 40 tanks and just as many troops. (I had been riding on a tank and he got engaged, so I jumped off to get clear) I ran to a damaged building and hid inside as this large tank battle unfolded outside... Several troops were accompaning them and I was able to snipe a few... I was so freaking scared to stick my head out, I stayed in there all night (game night) until sunrise before I started trying to get home... awesome.

38ruk · « **Reply #10 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:09:07 AM »

I too bought into the WWII online pre release hype , and was very disappointed at the start . It left such a bad impression that even after i heard many of the bugs were resolved , i never gave it a second look .

1epic1 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:45:55 AM »

still subscribed, most of the bugs have been worked out but theres a 64 player limit meaning only 64 players are visable at a time. SO half the time you have no clue how u died or who shot you. Also the Lag is really bad, i can live with the 64 limit but lag that puts the last nail in the coffin and seals the fate of WWII online right now.

eh · « **Reply #12 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:47:25 AM »

I bought the CD as soon as it came out and installed it. From the get-go it was unplayable for me... more bugs than a malarial swamp. So I made friends with the neighbour's retriever by using the WWII Online CD as a frisbee. That dog was more fun than WWII Online could ever be anyway.

FiLtH · « **Reply #13 on:** June 18, 2006, 01:50:44 AM »

I played for 3 yrs. I missed out on AW1 because of it. It was fun until they made the 109 so lousy. Patch 1.6 or 1.7 ish. I liked strafing the infantry alot too.

MajWoody · « **Reply #14 on:** June 18, 2006, 10:22:10 PM »

FiLtH,
I liked your old sig much better.