To the ww2ol crowd

[AKWeav]

Played the game some 3-4 years ago, thought Id give it another shot, so signed up for the 30 day free trail. Lo and behold, the playnet host crashes on startup, and as usual, the cornerd rats are no where to be found for assistance. And with the trial account, I cant post on the forums there in hopes of help from the player base.

Dont seem much has changed since the last go round:rofl

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I signed in for the '30 day free trial sponsored by xyz' only to find out that after I gave e-mail etc. information I was directed to a credit card verification screen. Knowing the rats reputation I quickly declined the honor.

Luckily the info I gave them was fake and the e-mail my spam hotmail account. Somehow I could expect a scam.

[Pooh21]

I gave them a spam email account, and used my old prepaid credit card. So if they want to keep billing there isnt anything on there anyway. Their game sucks anyway. Kept crashing less then 30 seconds after I spawned, and the graphics were so bad it made my eyes hurt.

[Ripsnort]

Hi Weav!

[SunKing]

Originally posted by AKWeav
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Dont seem much has changed since the last go round:rofl

I too tried a month to see whats new.

There are a few new things.
New weapon models, some new buildings. 6 years later and they finally made grenades roll and not explode on impact. LMGS can now be deployed on surfaces other than the ground. Memory leaks. Same FPS hits.

In the end it's still a terd. A 1999 game that was limited to begin with.

Hopefully some investors come around and take the idea, create a modern gaming engine and make the game WW2OL was supposed to be.

The game concept is great. We can always dream. I wish it was better.

HTC's next project????

[AKWeav]

Hey Rip, been a while

[MotorOil1]

Anyone know how big their player base is?  I played 2-3 years ago as well and was a little less than impressed.

Anyone try Planetside?  Same thing just futuristic rather than historic.  I'm guessing they have more capital than WW2OL.

[Yknurd]

Originally posted by AKWeav
Played the game some 3-4 years ago, thought Id give it another shot, so signed up for the 30 day free trail. Lo and behold, the playnet host crashes on startup, and as usual, the cornerd rats are no where to be found for assistance. And with the trial account, I cant post on the forums there in hopes of help from the player base.

Dont seem much has changed since the last go round:rofl

Where's hardcase when you need him?

hardcase would have set you straight about how uberly, awesomely, fresh-out-of-the-oven-brownies-warm wwiiol is.

[SunKing]

Originally posted by Yknurd
Where's hardcase when you need him?

hardcase would have set you straight about how uberly, awesomely, fresh-out-of-the-oven-brownies-warm wwiiol is.

Funny I actually saw him in the game the other week. He'll be here soon.

[herrhav0k]

Well I just recently stopped playing WW2OL in favor of AH2. I have been playing WW2OL off and on since it came out about 7 years ago. It is an extremely realistic and unforgiving game. It has definitely improved a lot over the years and can be really fun, if you have a beefy computer.

The tank combat is still the best I have played in any game and the infantry play isn't too bad either once you get the hang of it, although the graphics are dated.

And while it is fun strafing a bunch of British troops in an open field in an Me-109, the flight models in the game are really awful. Unless you have a near top of the line computer, you are probably going to have severe FPS hits when flying over major combat and big cities. Add to that the horrible features/bugs, like if the person you just shot down de-spawns ("towers" in AH speak) before he hits the ground (10 second timer to de-spawn), you don't get a kill.

There are usually about 600-700 people on during peak hours IIRC.

[VermGhost]

Originally posted by MotorOil1
Anyone know how big their player base is?  I played 2-3 years ago as well and was a little less than impressed.

Anyone try Planetside?  Same thing just futuristic rather than historic.  I'm guessing they have more capital than WW2OL.

I used to play that game since it was release in may of 2003 around spring till summer  2005.  Sony implemented a lot of new things, but it is pretty much just CS on a larger scale.  Sony refuses to take the player base's suggestion of just upgrading the core game and fixing the existing bugs, adding new vehicles such as the BFR's (which ruined the game for me), they have yet to redesign base layouts like they said they would 2 years ago.  If they reverted the game back to the way it was at release or right after they release the low count empire variant vehicles I would return, but they have yet to take their heads out of their prettythang and be smart about their game.  Because of declining subcription numbers they have had to turn to in-game advertisments as well and I hear they are very annoying.

WW2OL I tried for a day on the free account, took about 2 weeks to get my account set up because I had to figure it out for myself, game sucked, took too long ot load seemed over complicated as well.

[Dos Equis]

Originally posted by SunKing
Funny I actually saw him in the game the other week. He'll be here soon.

I like your avatar. Bub from Day of the Dead. nice.

[Dos Equis]

Originally posted by VermGhost
I used to play that game since it was release in may of 2003 around spring till summer  2005.  Sony implemented a lot of new things, but it is pretty much just CS on a larger scale.  Sony refuses to take the player base's suggestion of just upgrading the core game and fixing the existing bugs, adding new vehicles such as the BFR's (which ruined the game for me), they have yet to redesign base layouts like they said they would 2 years ago.  If they reverted the game back to the way it was at release or right after they release the low count empire variant vehicles I would return, but they have yet to take their heads out of their prettythang and be smart about their game.  Because of declining subcription numbers they have had to turn to in-game advertisments as well and I hear they are very annoying.

WW2OL I tried for a day on the free account, took about 2 weeks to get my account set up because I had to figure it out for myself, game sucked, took too long ot load seemed over complicated as well.

I know some people who worked at SOE in San Diego. Let's just say that is a ship that is sinking - and fast. They all quit en masse and left for greener pastures. And they were all developers. They are bleeding cash from the utter and total fiasco that was Star Wars the MMORPG. Worst.... MMORPG....evar. That cost them bigtime.

HTC has it right. Keep it small, keep it moving - make the base game at its very core a fun thing to play. Take your time, get it right.

Blizzard hit it out of the park with WoW. 8 million subscribers two weeks ago. Do the math. That's a helluva of cash flow. That's a re-arrange the industry hit. Blizzard was a 3rd tier, maybe a 2nd tier house before WoW. Now they look down at just about anybody, EA and Sony included.

[Vulcan]

If you played recently it was probably the worst time to play. CRS rushed a patch out before Xmas that had more bugs in it than a starship troopers movie. End result game was crap for about 3-4 weeks (I think the finally fix for the xmas bugs is due next week).

I still play a lot. Mainly for the squad stuff though, I play with a squad called 3rd Panzer who are great bunch of guys (reminds me of my Mag-33 experiences with ripsnort). But their numbers online are low at the moment so I'm wavering towards the unsub button.

The airware blows, FMs, DMs, visibility, the 109s wobble... you name it. But the ground war can be loads of fun (no bunnyhopping!).

However as of late things in AH have me back here. This weekend I finally got my headset tweaked out, not only does the headtracking work nicely I managed to get 3D stereoscopic going as well... and AH looks beaultiful in it.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Vulcan
If you played recently it was probably the worst time to play. CRS rushed a patch out before Xmas that had more bugs in it than a starship troopers movie. End result game was crap for about 3-4 weeks (I think the finally fix for the xmas bugs is due next week).

I still play a lot. Mainly for the squad stuff though, I play with a squad called 3rd Panzer who are great bunch of guys (reminds me of my Mag-33 experiences with ripsnort). But their numbers online are low at the moment so I'm wavering towards the unsub button.

The airware blows, FMs, DMs, visibility, the 109s wobble... you name it. But the ground war can be loads of fun (no bunnyhopping!).

However as of late things in AH have me back here. This weekend I finally got my headset tweaked out, not only does the headtracking work nicely I managed to get 3D stereoscopic going as well... and AH looks beaultiful in it.

Damn, got a tear in my eye for a moment...I remember those Special Events...remember when you survived 4 guys jumping on you with Spits I believe? We were OTW and vulcan kept reporting...kilt them all. (Or at the very least, sent the last one running home...)