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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #240 on: October 10, 2013, 07:00:32 PM »
did have that many here at one time...you ran them off.  :neener:

They probably got tired of his incessant whining or crying "cheat!" every time he got shot down.

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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #241 on: October 11, 2013, 01:42:38 AM »
Dyhran we still love you in a manly way only :)

I would own you in a Sopwith Camel by the way :)
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #242 on: October 11, 2013, 02:35:08 AM »
If all the WT player videos are close to what your real visual experience is in that game. Then the flight modeling doesn't matter and never will to WT's fan base.

Have any of you watched a CGI movie you wished you could saddle up and be in the movie rather than watching? A good example of that kind of urge is portrayed in the animated series "Sword Art Online". And maybe in the next 20 years we will don a helmet with a neuro net interface and play AH in our minds. Then gray matter will count.

WT is a CGI like live action movie you can hop into and immerse yourself knowingly in to a virtual digital world with the ability to make independent actions creating unexpected outcomes.

Aces High is a reality simulator, and like military simulators, where everything is directly about your participation to achieve outcomes.

WT is simulated role playing in airplanes. AH is simulated combat with airplanes.

More people in the world like to role play with all of the eye candy glitter and glitz. Then want to go for it one on one to see what they are made of in a physics faithful simulated combat environment. WT is easy which is attractive to a broader spectrum of potential players. Neither group of people will ever understand the other. And while the role players are a much larger part of the market, War Thunder will get in the news because more eyes pass through there right now. It certainly is a great platform to make beautiful ww2 CGI like movies from. And to a role player that's like waving raw meat under a lion's nose.

 
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #243 on: October 11, 2013, 04:39:26 AM »
AcesHigh isn't a reality simulator.

Just sayin'.
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #244 on: October 11, 2013, 07:25:20 AM »
AcesHigh isn't a reality simulator.

Just sayin'.

And who wants that (I'm thinking that may have been a wrong turn of phrase on Bustr's part but I do think I can relate to what he's trying to say)? But it is the best flight model in the genre.

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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #245 on: October 11, 2013, 10:14:24 AM »
AcesHigh isn't a reality simulator.

Just sayin'.
more of a simulator than anything else in the mmog realm...and most of the console dweeb/retail box realm too.
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #246 on: October 11, 2013, 02:24:12 PM »
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #247 on: October 11, 2013, 08:22:04 PM »
more of a simulator than anything else in the mmog realm...and most of the console dweeb/retail box realm too.

I think this is the heart of the matter.

More people on the Internet looking for fun appreciate being in a beautifully presented, almost CGI like movie set. While shooting at things. Then like having to work their kesters off at managing their outcome in a our simulator and it's greater focus on the physics than being a CGI like movie environment.

The two sides will relate to each other much like atheists and Christians. Some will be friends and agree to disagree and live amiable along side each other. Even sharing in some of the same activities. Like some cross over playing our two games. The rest will do everything they can to prove the other is the downfall of their shared universe by existing.

Ergo the results of this POST.
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #248 on: October 11, 2013, 08:53:48 PM »
Dhyran....you need to report back for duty.

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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #249 on: October 12, 2013, 10:43:56 AM »
Dhyran, do you still play WT?



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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #250 on: October 12, 2013, 06:38:36 PM »
Dhyran, do you still play WT?

yes, only the Events in FRB mode, a daily event, based on the real planessection, like Bob or iwo jima, or battle of bulge, and i start Fm building again. but i preorderd IL:Bos becasue since Flight on my old Apple II i nearly bought all flight sim dogfighting games. If AH3 will come out, i sign up again to test it for sure
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #251 on: October 13, 2013, 02:50:26 AM »
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #252 on: October 13, 2013, 01:23:09 PM »
yes, only the Events in FRB mode, a daily event, based on the real planessection, like Bob or iwo jima, or battle of bulge, and i start Fm building again. but i preorderd IL:Bos becasue since Flight on my old Apple II i nearly bought all flight sim dogfighting games. If!! AH3 will come out, i sign up again to test it for sure

Thats a big if!  :rofl
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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #253 on: October 15, 2013, 05:02:48 PM »
If War Thunder brings more players to AH, then I'm all for it.  If it doesn't add or take away, then I am neutral on it.  If it takes players away from AH, then I am against it.  :aok

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Re: War Thunder
« Reply #254 on: October 15, 2013, 05:05:08 PM »
By the way, you guys are all off base -- the best flight modeling ever was in Battlefield 1942.  ;)