WW2OL

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Took a 14-day trial since it was offered at Apple downloads..

The game is a huge letdown. On a positive side, the macbook pro could run it fast enough even in flight but the game itself is smaller than AH now, around 200 players online. Another positive side, the player base was extremely friendly and helpful. I was constantly nursed by the squad CO and other players to get me aqcuainted in the game. And nursing I surely needed with the keymap being totally nonstandard even on the fps side - none of the usual keyfunctions worked outside of strafe and weaponselection. But the distinguishing thing was that there was absolutely NONE of the hostility towards noobs often found in AH community.

The game is extremely frustrating with starting without rank and not being able to get aircraft on the frontline. I waited 30 minutes to get airborne for nothing. Then I changed field and ended up flying another 20 minutes to the frontline/action. In flight the graphics are not good but not bad either. The flightmodel is 100% arcade.

As the flying part seemed to be a huge letdown I tried the rifleman next. Choose class, spawn.. Wtf? I felt like I was teleported to Doom I. Huge blocky texture wall all over. After turning around a couple times in confusion I started to distinguish some detail which looked something like stairs down.

I entered outside and the visuals were something of a 1998 fps game. Started running around, heard shots (most of which seemed to be friendlies shooting eachothers with lack of action) untill after a considerable time I ran into a halftrack which rode past me. I placed 3-4 headshots to the back of the head of the unbuttoned driver but they did nothing. Then someone from somewhere shot me.

I have 13 days left of my trial but the first impression is that the game is just a huge failure. I think I'll log on again to try and make something out of it but I have no high hopes of it. The graphics are set to best quality and it looks horrible and the mouse look lags in fast turns so much that you have to reset the mouse on the table several times before you can make a full turn even though small movements feel responsive.

Just my AAR for anyone interested.

[Furball]

It is massively frustrating for a noob, once you gain rank it becomes much better though.

Flying is a POS, i don't even bother trying it, a large proportion of the pilots there do not know what they are doing either.

The tanks in it are brilliant, i love the GV aspect.  Getting a kill there is so rewarding because it is so difficult in comparison to AH.  Once you get used to the tanks, get the rank and have the patience to set ambushes etc. you start having fun, it is a lot more tactical than AH.  Once you get the Tiger it is amazing, it really does dominate the battlefield like it did historically, it is satisfying when you start blowing off turrets and holding back attackers.

Infantry is not worth bothering with, your headshots would count if you were hitting him right, dont forget it is not insta death like AH tho - he could have carried on rolling for a long time.

I was a subscriber for 6 months or so, it doesnt grab me and make me want to spend hours online like AH does.  It is a good tank sim and thats about all i would recommend it for.

[Elfie]

In AH when you die, you can generally learn from mistakes you made, especially if you were filming. In WWIIOnline almost every time I died I had no idea where the shot came from that killed me. So no learning experience. I tried to join a unit, but something on the website wasn't working properly at the time and I just kinda gave up on the whole mess. Just didn't seem worth it to me.

[Tango]

I played it when it first came out until a couple of years ago. It is a pale shadow of what it once was. The Tanks are the best thing they have in there except that the infantry guys whined about how they couldn't kill them [never could understand why they didn't spawn an AT gun or tank]. So the Rats brought in the sappers with magnetic satchel charges. The infantry guys complained abit more and the Rats gave the sappers the ability to chase down tanks while sticking thier satchels on them. Pretty much killed off the big tank battles.

Then the infantry guys turned toward on the pilots in game, complaining about being straffed. Instead of grabbing an AA gun, they got the Rats to reduce visability in the air to the point that you lose the horizon when you get up to 3k feet. Needless to say it made difficult to see anything on the ground, while doing CAS, and was more like flying in a fish bowl.

I don't forsee WW2OL being up for more than a couple more years. Right now they are marketing the game in China. It got some of thier players all excited about getting more than the couple hundred players they have in game at prime time. However that bubble burst when they were told the Chinese market would be on a separate server.

[Yknurd]

The flightmodel is 100% arcade.

Did you ever see the film of the 110 heli-chopter?

Or the levitating C-47?

[Stott]

From what I understand, the chinese are getting a license to run WW2Online on their own servers, since China will not allow open access to the Net. Guess the only thing Cornered Rat Software will be seeing from it is money. I hope they made a contract based on per person and not a flat rate. There was a 45 miniute program on Giga Digital TV in Germany that has been bringing in players and I think there is going to be another program segment on it again. The program manager is a player.

I have a differenent experience playing, but to each his own. I never understood how anyone could game on a mac:-)

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have a differenent experience playing, but to each his own. I never understood how anyone could game on a mac:-)

The new Intel based macbook/imac runs games easily. Mine has a Geforce 8600M GT graphics, 4 gigs of ram and Intel 2.2 Ghz C2D CPU.

[Stott]

I use their help forum for my PC, they do have a Mac forum, maybe they can help you tweak it some. I had to do some things to my PC when I first started playing that got me a lot more FPS that when I started.