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Offline usa35

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Old school check-in
« on: November 23, 2008, 09:00:14 PM »
I used to play Warbirds somewhere around (damn) 10 years ago... and Aces High sometime around when it came out. Haven't played in years. It seemed like the online WWII flight simming was thriving then, and subsequently died off...

With the dearth of flight sim action (like there was in the late '90s), how has the Aces High community/in-game action been? always somebody to shoot at? How is Warbirds? That seemed to be going south years ago thanks to the company that owned WB... If I recall, that may be why/when AH did it's thing.

So, in general - for those who go back a decade, how are things compared to yesteryear? :-)

For what it's worth, this forum looks pretty healthy. ;-)

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2008, 09:09:37 PM »
Warbirds is dying a slow painful death
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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2008, 09:14:53 PM »
More dweebs and baby seals to clobber than ever.  Jump right in.
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Offline usa35

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2008, 09:30:12 PM »
Warbirds is dying a slow painful death

I figured as much... but damn, really slow. :-P

Good to hear about the baby seals. I'll have to re-up soon. :-)

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2008, 11:16:19 PM »
More dweebs and baby seals to clobber than ever.  Jump right in.

'zactly!!! If I can still find folks dumb enough to let me kill them.........anyone can!  :devil

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Offline Wyld45

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2008, 11:26:02 PM »

                                           Pleeeeze tell me,...it aint so!  :rolleyes:

                                             

                                             
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Offline save

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2008, 07:02:47 AM »
Warbirds in its reincarnated version version 3 - is still going strong on the scenario side, not so much in the arenas though. if HTC owned S3 scenarios noone would even bother
to go there.

Warbirds is also more expensive than AH.

Differences between the 2 are not that big except for gunnery : you get 2-3 times more kill for your ammo in Aces High compared with WB.
Played WB for 12 years, and still counting. AH since a year - same handle as always in both games : "save"


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Offline Ghosth

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2008, 07:20:16 AM »
AH water is fine, come on in bro.

Most of the AW and WB types all ended up here. Some have burned out and moved on.
But some of us are still here.

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2008, 07:25:57 AM »
hi,

alot of old warbirders joined AH during the last 2 Years, myself too. It was a great decision. Jump in and find out  :salute

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Offline Frodo

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2008, 08:57:21 AM »
Many ex-W/B people here, come on in. What was your W/B handle?

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2008, 09:01:48 AM »
Many ex-W/B people here, come on in. What was your W/B handle?

Frodo

I remember a "usa" from warbirds, maybe it's the same guy.  If you ever flew in the squadron select series in Warbirds you'll find our Friday Squad Ops match up pretty well.
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Offline Frodo

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2008, 09:14:27 AM »
Yea I was wondering too. Had a USA in our squad, The Red Falcons.

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Offline Rebel

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2008, 01:42:30 PM »
-rebel here from WB's.

WB's is almost painful to play and/or watch now.   I seriously do not know how anybody can continue playing that thing. 


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Offline phatzo

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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2008, 07:25:29 PM »
any old warbirds guys here post your wb handle if its different to your AH handle so we sorta know who we all are. phatzo in AH was addman in WB
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Re: Old school check-in
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2008, 07:30:36 PM »
and I have to agree with rebel it was getting extremly painful, sorry save but its just going down hill
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