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Offline Changeup

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The Way the Game Was??
« on: August 13, 2010, 02:30:13 PM »
I am fairly new to this game compared to some...1.9 years in this game so I will never be able to say "how it was" or "how it used to be" but after reading a lot of the senior folks posts, I must admit I like what I have read.  If you've been playing for 6 years or more, please list the most FAVORITE thing about how it used to be in-game.  No rules...your comment can be the friendships and how they changed, the tactics, the maps, the respect for a 1 v 1 that is going on below you but players stayed out until it reached its own conclusion, the squeekers, etc. etc.  I would like a glimpse of what I missed...

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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2010, 02:34:42 PM »
It hasn't really changed in the 6 years or so I have been here.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2010, 02:35:24 PM »
Quote from: Changeup on August 13, 2010, 02:30:13 PM
I would like a glimpse of what I missed...
In essence, Nothing.  It is the same as it has always been except that the names have been changed to protect the guilty  :old:
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2010, 02:35:40 PM »
Maybe 8 years then....in the forums, there seems to be a time baseline of 6 - 8 years....
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2010, 02:36:27 PM »
Quote from: Yeager on August 13, 2010, 02:35:24 PM
In essence, Nothing.  It is the same as it has always been except that the names have been changed to protect the guilty  :old:

If there is nothing...then why the hell does everyone talk about the changes?
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2010, 02:37:51 PM »
Nothing has changed.  Lots of good people, still having fun.

The only time the game has ever changed for me, is when I start taking it too seriously.  Then somehow I can find things that are 'different'.

In the end it means I've changed at that point.  A couple of good augers and I'm right back on track :)
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2010, 02:39:46 PM »
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This game has become a shell of what it used to be. I have been flying this game since 2000, less and less often as time goes buy. It doesn't suprise me why those that leave do. What Happened? It has devolved into just one mass of planes flying into another. There are no tactics, strategy, no reason other than fly into one area of the map and hope you can get a kill or two before being raped.
You made the bases harder to capture and the planes easier to fly. There is no emmersion anymore. I feel like everytime I takeoff, I should put a quarter in my computer. Its gone from a combat flight sim and real time strategy to an arcade game.
I remember when I couldn't wait to get home and fly. I even went to a couple of cons to meet those who i flew against or with. Now it's just a facebook account to keep in touch with some of the older fliers. Even their numbers are starting to dwindle.
For now I continue to play, but not with the same enthusiasm as I had in the past. Not nearly the entusiasm as I had in the past.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2010, 02:41:01 PM »
2nd quote: (Fugitive)

For anyone who hasn't been playing this game for at least 7 years you just wouldn't understand.

I know, ya'll say I look at this game through a fogged memory, but it has changed a lot since the old days. Back then you could have an uneven numbered situation like 5 on 2, and 2 or 3 of the 5 would just circle and watch the fight and only join in if one of his teammates got shot down.

"Bingo" meant I'm out and the enemy gave you a salute and told you head see ya when you can back, instead of chasing you down with 12 of his closest friends just so one of you could have the kill.

You would spend hours fighting the same 10 guys over and over a gain and nobody would be PMing or swearing over 200. Even the good natured "ribbing" was done with a bunch of laughs.

The only frustration in the game was when you had to make a run to the bathroom because you just couldn't hold it any longer.

It is much harder to find a good fight these days and I really enjoy those that I find. My frustration level climbs quickly when those few fights are destroyed by some Ahole that just NEEDS the kill and has to pick, or HO. It seems to me that some of that has come back with the changes HTC has made. Is it better, yes, is it like it use to be, not even close, but I'll take what I can get and hope things continue to improve. Until then my wife likes having me hang around with her more than I fly.  
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2010, 02:44:50 PM »
OK one thing that changed, but it goes back to Airwarrior.  As soon as winning the war became an option, the game changed.  Air combat was no longer a mandatory part of the game as folks could find a way around it to feel "success".

Worst thing that could have happened in an air combat game.

That being said, I still have fun.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2010, 02:45:51 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on August 13, 2010, 02:44:50 PM
OK one thing that changed, but it goes back to Airwarrior.  As soon as winning the war became an option, the game changed.  Air combat was no longer a mandatory part of the game as folks could find a way around it to feel "success".

Worst thing that could have happened in an air combat game.

That being said, I still have fun.

<S> Sir and thanks...

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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2010, 02:48:11 PM »
Whats changed, hmmms.. well mostly just eye candy,and the recent Fm updates with the new damage systems.

New planes, new gv's "more" new ground land detail "redid a few times now" shaders/shadows.

That's about it.



The big thing tho, is aces high no longer looks like a cartoon.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2010, 02:54:24 PM »
The community is larger, the gene pool a bit more diluted, but overall not much has changed.

The things we complained and argued over 8+ years ago are the same things we complain and argue about now.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2010, 03:00:35 PM »
The whines are the same, the only thing that has changed are the years.


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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2010, 03:21:48 PM »
The terrain and planes looked good then. The "improvements" are taxing my system.

Less whiners back then.
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Re: The Way the Game Was??
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2010, 03:24:28 PM »
The price, in real terms, has decreased.  :aok
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