I just went and signed up with Warbirds, finally. I logged in and found myself flying a P51. I was duly impressed by the graphics and realism. Here I was finally flying against other real people in some of my favourite historical aircraft over realistic scenery produceed with state of the art graphics. This is the future
...............in 2001.
Then I realised that this was not 2001 and I was not playing on my brother's Gateway 486 or was it a 386? Do they still exist? It's 2010 and the world has moved on. I can only wonder what today's generation experienced with Playstation and Xbox graphic heavy games would make of it all. Cartoon like graphics, weird engine sounds. Even a Cessna 150 sounds more fighter like. Scenery is poor and cartoon like.
I actually thought you guys were exaggerating. It really couldn't be that bad? But it is. Now I know AH2 is not state of the art graphically. It can't be given the variety of PC it's customers use. But it always had an immersive quality. I am a pilot in real life too and sometimes AH2 feels like real flying and sometimes real flying reminds me of AH2. Sometime I even do stuff in real life that I previously attempted in AH2
That could never happen with warbirds. It's a gamey experience, arcadey in fact.
One of the most unsurprising aspects was the lack of people there. 49 tonight. When you are used to hundreds in the AH main arena. This is shocking.
But the really unfortunate aspect is the fact that at the moment. I'm out of AH2 due to an unfortunate credit card malfunction. They unreasonably expect you to pay them occasionally. Bankers eh? One rule for them, another for the rest of us. So I am busy flying the real thing in order to pay my bills so I can fly online again and get shot down by all those new FA guys.
So my only outlet is the two month freebie on Warbirds