Only 16 players inflight in the MA right now.

[Gemini]

It's kind of hard selling the game, in this day and age 2/19/14, when you show a new player the game and right off the bat he tells you the graphics are horrible and loses interest.. Like, lets be honest, thats the one thing that hurts this game the most. 

Agree

Aces High will attract more players once the new terrain engine is updated

Disagree

We'll see though I guess

[1stpar3]

I am new here,and love this game. I was stuck on cheesy video games on game platforms like play station. Never knew this game was out there. Saw an add on History channel during a war planes episode, so now I am here. My son loves this game when he is here visiting, but bought a new PS4 To play Call of Duty online with his friends. He has commented that he wished they had this game for PS like they do Call of Duty for Xbox as well. I know each of those are platform specific on line but was still a good thought, maybe? I would hate to try to write that code! I love this game!!!

[steely07]

Speaking as an Aussie (and only speaking for myself), I tend to go through periods of 6 months at a time where I fly every night (Sydney time, where the 16 players were mentioned by the OP), and 6 months where I only fly FSO.

Up until 8 or 9 months ago, the general numbers were 70/80 on from 7:30 Sydney time, and there was no problem finding a fight most of the time, and if not, it was easy to get 2 mates to up with you and attempt a base take, that would generally stir things up enough so some dogfighting could be done, in fact, the smaller numbers were somewhat of a good thing, as most people flying only wanted to fight, not horde or pick and run (IMHO of course).

I'm in the 6 months where I only fly FSO at the moment, so can't really comment on the current state of the off hours arena, but I also agree that something could be done to attract new players, the only problem being that it's not easy to do, I've shown maybe 35 people the game, and only ever "converted" one person, WW2 flight combat is inherently a niche market.

Personally, I'm here until the doors close, and I'm sure HT is listening to the small map rotation ideas, and probably has some of his own, wait and see is all I can advise.

Salute

Steely

[Sunka]

This is not an inviting community for new players,MA is like sparta with name calling.

 

[phatzo]

This is not an inviting community for new players,MA is like sparta with name calling.

 

ghey boy

[guncrasher]

Agree

Disagree

We'll see though I guess

would you care to post the specs for your computer so we know exactly why the game looks terrible to you?


semp

[BnZs]

Problem is not enough players. One can assume Hitech is working on that. In the meantime what can *we* do to help?

[Gemini]

would you care to post the specs for your computer so we know exactly why the game looks terrible to you?


semp

I didn't say the game looks horrible. I agreed with the other guys post, when he said it is hard to get other people interested in AH when they immediately say the graphics look horrible.

But just to placate you, I run maxed gfx settings for AH and every other game I play except BF4...3.4 ghz Sandy Bridge i7, GTX560 1GB video card, 16GB DDR RAM...

The graphics do look extremely dated...but that's not really important to me, otherwise I'd be playing War Thunder 

[BluBerry]

Maxed gfx settings for AH and every other game I play except BF4...3.4 ghz Sandy Bridge i7, GTX560 1GB video card, 16GB DDR RAM...

With Sandy Bridge, Intel has solidly maintained its historic lock on the worst graphics performance in the industry.

[Gemini]

With Sandy Bridge, Intel has solidly maintained its historic lock on the worst graphics performance in the industry.

That might be why I have to turn the graphics down a bit for BF4 then

Regardless, for AH I get a solid 60 FPS even while recording with FRAPS. Performance really isn't an issue for me. EDIT: EXCEPT FOR MY PLANE FLYING SKILL PERFORMANCE  lolol

The fact that AH is getting an upgrade to ~2008 era graphics is awesome, but sadly I don't think we'll suddenly see the in-game population rise as a result. Would be nice if that did happen though.

[guncrasher]

I didn't say the game looks horrible. I agreed with the other guys post, when he said it is hard to get other people interested in AH when they immediately say the graphics look horrible.

But just to placate you, I run maxed gfx settings for AH and every other game I play except BF4...3.4 ghz Sandy Bridge i7, GTX560 1GB video card, 16GB DDR RAM...

The graphics do look extremely dated...but that's not really important to me, otherwise I'd be playing War Thunder 

so you say you dont say the graphics look terrible but you do agree with others who say the graphics look terrible.  so which one is it?

and for the record I doubt you play with all the graphics maxed out.  on second thought which resolution are you using?



semp

[FLOOB]

Guncrasher he didn't say he agreed with people who say the graphics look horrible.

[guncrasher]

Guncrasher he didn't say he agreed with people who say the graphics look horrible.

so what did he agree with?


semp

[GScholz]

With Sandy Bridge, Intel has solidly maintained its historic lock on the worst graphics performance in the industry.

What?

[Rich46yo]

so what did he agree with?


semp

The fact that new players want to see better graphics is a no-brainer. The selling point of the game is the flight model and the team play. But that takes time to appreciate and 2 weeks goes by awfully fast. There is no doubt dated graphics is holding back this game.