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Offline scottydawg

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« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2007, 05:47:22 AM »
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are you trying to tell me my 486 25 mhz was not fast? I paid like 2700.00 for that thing, I could of swore I was smokin fast!!!

it blew my 286 or my 8088 out of the water it was so fast, and when I went from 900 baud to 1200 then 2400, I was chithot smokin :aok



The good news is that I don't feel so old anymore. ;)
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Offline doc1kelley

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« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2007, 12:35:31 PM »
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Our fights in AW were a lot of fun Doc, can never forget those. It's funny how you remember things from a POS game that was so long ago lol.

The learning curve wasnt as steep in AW because of the RR, so it kept people attention a lot more. Especially since it didn't take a super fast computer to run it.


Do you remember when I used to tell ya that the 109 was just a mini-38?  Man you could do awesome stuff with those flaps.  You are right about the learning curve but the interaction was the main thing for me in AW.  Gawd how I miss those deathstars and Vaders!  :(

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« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2007, 12:46:41 PM »
RR noobs.

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« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2007, 01:51:42 PM »
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As the person who did 95% of the missions / campaigns in AWII and AWIII thanks for the compliments!

I liked the VF-10 campaign, the "save the US" mission, the shoot down of Yammamoto, and of course the VF-17 campaign best myself.  Oh and of course the 4th FG one.
Dang!  You been around longer than me!
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All I did was pester the snots out of him with volumes of data and phone calls about the P-38 and how to make it right in AW-1   Geeze-uhssss that goes way back!
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« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2007, 12:51:08 AM »
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AW was better outside of the game than inside. The community was 10x what this community is, not only because it was smaller, but because people actually took the time out to learn, teach, and make friends. We have that here in AH, but no where near like in AW. It was nothing to sit in the OC with 10-15 people and just BS the night away, and sometimes that was more fun that flying. I do salute those are have tried and are trying to bring that to AH.

Now the game itself.. definitely AH over AW. Graphics, plane selection, flight model. However AW didn't have HO'n dweebs (because of the infamous "hit bubble", rams, and AW did have a LOT better fights for the most part :)
Absofreakinlutely. The community was very tight in AW. I regret not going to the convention in Addison.
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« Reply #35 on: November 09, 2007, 04:11:44 AM »
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Dang!  You been around longer than me!
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All I did was pester the snots out of him with volumes of data and phone calls about the P-38 and how to make it right in AW-1   Geeze-uhssss that goes way back!


Yep since January of 1990 after seeing a small column in computer gaming worldl in December of 1989.
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« Reply #36 on: November 09, 2007, 05:10:23 AM »
I never got to play AW but I'd love to give it a go. I'd be interested in an iso, rar, zip whatever!:aok
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« Reply #37 on: November 09, 2007, 09:48:58 AM »
Well said PK1.
Nobody denies the technical 'improvements' of AH and ...what would I do without AH ? :) I'd probably be vastly more insane than I am today..... BUT the satisfaction gained from an hour of AW is quite unreachable here. It used to be a constant laughing. When I got shot down I used to laugh. It's not just me. Today every1 is pissed, no1 talks friendly. We're all pissed off and I think it's because of the perks and ranking. If AH took that crap away it would be a HUGE improvement.
So what if a stuka could kick a spit's arse? What if a goon was impossible to kill if you were triying to dogfight it instead of BNZ it? I made friends over AW and I go to their weddings. Here people don't even chat. Too serious.
AH could be just as much fun if the testosterone was taken out of the equation.
We had the best time with a 110 that turned better than a PJ. It was an absoulte ball.
I used to pair with any newbie, me in a goon he in a fitter. I'd make the nme think they could kill my goon but drain all their E then the newbie would come in and get kill after kill. I nevew laughed that much in this game.
Another blast was a stuka duel. It would go for 30 mins. Those bb guns would take forever to kill any1 and in the mean time youd make really tight turns at 2 mph :)
To me THAT was fun. The only complaint i used to have was about the friggin discos!!!
I think this game could be made just as fun.
EA killed Kesmai.
Ranking and scoring kills AH....
Actually now that i think about it. H2H was closer to the AW fun than the MA. Why not reinstate H2H only for paying customers?

Fiat ( in Aw also Pazzo, Tuffo )

BTW, the above screenshots are from the early era. The last versions of AW were much better.
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« Reply #38 on: November 09, 2007, 10:10:51 AM »
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Ranking and scoring kills AH....


Without question, scoring/ranking has changed the game for the worse far more than anything else.

In the old days we just had fun - the dueling ladder was there for those who wanted to prove who was better (and did).

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« Reply #39 on: November 09, 2007, 10:12:52 AM »
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Without question, scoring/ranking has changed the game for the worse far more than anything else.

Agreed.

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« Reply #40 on: November 09, 2007, 10:46:42 AM »
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If they are out of business cant that be freely downloaded say if a kind soul would post it somewhere as a rar file?


As much as some would like it, EA hasn't gone out of business yet.



The best offline flight sim is still European Air War though.
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Offline Bingolong

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« Reply #41 on: November 09, 2007, 12:05:33 PM »
Ahhh... the things we forget.
 I just took a flight on the historic europe map :) went across the channel in my jug in aw 3. I can get classic going just have to change 256 colors.
The interface with AW is better then AH. setup sound joystick and such same stuff we have, just point and click. Remember the guy in the setup hanger. The co-pilot in the buffs. The adjustible piper gunsight, had to reset it to "red dot, yellow tracers" as Big T would say :) Everything worked accept the full screen view and 3d really did not look that bad :) even the calibration of my joysticks. Remember the white cliffs of dover? :) remember how the guns buffeted? they was no alt x feature you had to know the speed of your plane and best climb and so on. remember the {ESC} key commands esc:sd or sg for the dive bomb sight esc;a arm bomb the fire bomb button is the same so it worked on my setup {what}. I think I will go make a run to the spitter in a 17 ;) take a look through the norden.

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« Reply #42 on: November 09, 2007, 12:22:21 PM »
I sort of agree scoring and ranks hurt AH but I think it's also the mindset of the players nowdays, especially the ones that have played games with so called 'cheats' to improve their performance. They don't have any in AH so they game the game and still try to get the 'cheats' to make them look better. They do not want to waste the time to actually improve their skill with a little work and most likely some suffereing a death or a few hundred deaths.
They want to be better NOW and take the shortest cut they can find to get there.

Disclaimer- Cheat, as I used it, is in no way intended to mean hacking the game.
We all know a 16 ton weight falls from the top of this food chain and deals with anyone who does or mentions that.
It is more intended to apply to other games where certain key combinations or secreet things you find can improve your playing performance.
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« Reply #43 on: November 09, 2007, 02:00:53 PM »
Funy AH had a developing community in the works, seem to remember that being pretty much subsumed and consumed by the influx  from the death of AW.
Good business opportunity for HTC though.
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« Reply #44 on: November 09, 2007, 02:35:06 PM »
There were plenty of score monkeys in AW. Anyone here besides Fencer remember ELO?

Hey Roberto...

Remember Carlos and his bunch, conquering the arena every day before any Bz or Cz logged in?

Not really anything that new in AH, when it comes to how people play.
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