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Offline Charge

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« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2006, 02:37:51 AM »
Well I started playing WW2OL soon after starting AH and the game has developed a lot since then. There are some issues which are still in the game but I guess the concept of that game is such that those are hard to improve.

I unsubbed for awhile but I'm playing it again now. Not sure for how long, though.

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PS. "Gave heavily favors axis" :rofl  BS, messing with the equipment because of playbalance is killing the fun already...
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Offline Billiken

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« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2006, 08:18:36 AM »
Honestly, I wasn't even sure if it was still around.

I just remember thinking (on more than one occasion), "I've never been in a tank, but I'd think it should be more difficult to spot infantry crawling on their bellies at 6k than this...."
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Offline Sres

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« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2006, 09:42:58 AM »
It's been 5 years since that launch, some folks need to forget about it ;)

I'll be trying AH2 tonight see what all the hype is ;)
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« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2006, 10:33:37 AM »
I'll tell you what you'll find Sres. I played AH from it's inception for 4 years. Went to WWIIO and have been there for 4 years (give or take). AH is the best WWII combat flightsim, bar none. WWIIO is the best WWII sim.

I've said it for a long time, if HiTech and Killer had come together versus splitting off, there would be one helluva war sim out there.
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Offline Sres

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« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2006, 10:39:08 AM »
I don't know much about AH tbh, I joined wwiiol back in '03 and have had great fun on and off since then.  This was linked from the wwiiol site from someone who's had trouble with the game + I'm going through try other games for a while phase so we shall see how it goes.

fwiw wwiiol has a 14 day trial ;)  it's a different beast from 5 years ago, some like, lots don't but that's the vision I guess.
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« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2006, 05:08:46 PM »
I found it after recommended by a player from another WWII game "Chain of Command"  when they had to close their doors (anyone remember that one -- I was SgtSchultz:cool: )  My machine back then was POS (nothin a whole lot different today :confused: )  

I remember the infantry aspect -- was about all my POS could handle.   I was told about AHI on forum there and been stuck ever since.   The greatest draw from me was the air combat aspect and their loving care of my POS (works great here :aok )

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« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2006, 07:31:01 PM »
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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... awesome.


Same here. I used to love to fly close airsupport in a Ju-87.
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« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2006, 09:40:58 PM »
I enjoy WWIIOL, but I play Aces High about 100 times more often.  Aces High is much better for air-to-air combat.
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Offline Charge

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« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2006, 04:58:00 AM »
And WW2OL requires a lot from hardware to run decently, although they try to make the code better optimized all the time. But the game is constantly mocked because of crude graphics and they have to try to stay in competition by introducing more detailed textures and terrain to satisfy the player base (and to get decent evaluations from reviewers), and at the same time making the people with older machines to update their hardware. If your machine runs WW2OL well it sure can run any game well... ;)

I have to concur with what Apache said.

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« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2006, 05:08:18 AM »
wwiiol does require hardware that is up there in the Gods and the graphics are frankly last decade no argument there.  However you have to agree that it has come a long way visually since it's inception.





Anyway, took AH2 for a spin last night on the offline training, pretty good, planes stress out which was a cool bit, got to fly the mosquito which I love, rocketed the tiger (crap shot).

I love the fact that TrackIR hooked up instantly, damn that's the best £122 I've ever spent, just wish wwiiol took into account TrackIR4 stuff.

Might see if I can find an 8 player game tonight after the football of course ;)
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Offline Schatzi

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« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2006, 05:39:24 AM »
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Might see if I can find an 8 player game tonight after the football of course ;)



You are aware that you have a 2 week trial period for online play - free?


Oh, and welcome to your new addiction ;).
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Offline Sres

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« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2006, 06:05:56 AM »
No I didn't realise that, I really should pay attention when signing my life away to things :O

I'll take a look tonight then, I could have sworn it was 8-player games only :)

Thanks for the heads up.
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Offline Charge

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« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2006, 08:00:43 AM »
"I love the fact that TrackIR hooked up instantly, damn that's the best £122 I've ever spent"

I works great here doesn't it.

I once recommended on WW2OL boards for people to try AH just to see how well the TrackIR works if its supported to the full and Doc chimed in to say that in time WW2OL will support the more dynamic views, too. It remains to be seen if they are ever introduced in WW2OL. :D

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« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2006, 09:04:14 AM »
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...signing my life away to things  




Good description :).


In the long run only H2H is free, but as i said, you get two weeks free to check out online play.


Use them to take a look at all the different arenas.

Main for the big brawl, Axis vs Allied and Special Events for historical matchups and terrains, Training to get some hint , tips and practice.


http://www.netaces.org is a good place to look for answers if you got a question. Or come back here and ask away :).
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« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2006, 09:12:04 AM »
I remeber the day that game went live. What a hassle.  My buddy and I were so excited and pumped up by the prerealse hype. What a let down. I do remeber when seeing my 1st enemy tank column roll by and thinking "this game could be so great". Here we are years later saying the samething.
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