AH or WB3?

[Vulcan]

You guys forgot the most important difference.

Those amazinhunks at IEN (or whatever they call themselves now) vs the great team at AH.

I left WB from playing since the ck beta days because of the crap service, their servers falling over, and crap connects.

Never looked back.

[-lynx-]

... WB also has a working off-line combat training with rather smart (albeit predictable) enemy moves. It's certainly helps to work out gunnery/ACM aspects of the game in your own time without going on-line. AH needs it too but I guess it's not at the top of the priority list.

I still have a WB account (el cheapo)

I wonder how many of us still do... and why? I need to cancel the blasted thing, it's 120 bucks/year for nothng I'm paying...

[narsus]

Have accounts in AH and WB

Adv. WB
-Better Graphic IMO
-RPS
-Early War Rides (AH getting better)
-Get much more feedback recently over there than here in terms of whats going on.
-Player Development Corps doing Planes, Skins, some engineering IEN doing rest
-Scenerios (Need a big one soon )
-no more bobn

Adv. AH
-1 to 1 Bullet Modelling (WB implementing)
-Clouds
-More people in MA
-Lots of Late war rides
-no more MG

Non-factors
-FM who knows I never flew WW2 aircraft (FM are getting closer between both sims on many planes)
-community (same type of people both places they just dont know it yet)
-Combat itself honestly I think planes are a bit too easy to kill in AH, I just dont have the 5 minutes sweaty hand fights I have in WB here (although when I tag someone good it's nice for them to fall out of the sky)

Try both, I like both, although I play WB a bit more due to squad and 3 models of the A6M. I will continue having accounts in both until something better comes along.

[Daff]

" I don't think there is RPS in WBIII either. "

WBIII has an RPS..I don't quite understand it the release dates, but there is one .


Daff

[airspro]

AH's best point for me is the view system - no other sim gets close - I find it immensely irritating now flying sims where you can't move your head from side to side. Another good thing about AH's graphics are they appear to be a proper size; all the other sims -even il2 which is damn fine-looking in all other respects - feel somehow like you're flying a model - 1/72 or 1/35 scale

U hit the nail on the head with that one . I measure all sims by this measure .

[Gadfly]

IL2's weak point is definitely the range at which dots reslove to cruciform, as well as the icon/inflight radar link.

I was joking above, IL2 is a different game altogether.  The only difference between WB and AH will boil down to personal preference-try them both.

[Maniac]

Why not djust download them and try them both out?, are you expecting an non biased answer here?

Regards.

[VWE001]

"Both Communities are some ugly drunk mothers. I've been to the Cons, trust me. "

 ROFLMAO!!! Oh man... I cannot agree any more with you on that!  

[Spitboy]

That's a pretty darn good summary funked.

Stop making sense, man. That's simply not allowed!

[dcat]

I have DL'ed both WB3 and AH and have been flying around off-line for a bit.

I appriciate the feed back everyone is giving me. It seems that only item I am concerned with AH is the rubber band effect. I still don't see it myself, but I will look out for it while I strole around in the air.

WB3 on the other hand, has price problem.

I would like to know how well/often they update the sim, and how well they support it.

Any comment on those?

[Ripsnort]

Constant updates and user feedback is one of the major reasons I came to AH from WB's.  The crew that is running, creating AH is the one that originally created WB's...gotta stay with the best!

[Udie at Work]

Originally posted by dcat
I have DL'ed both WB3 and AH and have been flying around off-line for a bit.

I appriciate the feed back everyone is giving me. It seems that only item I am concerned with AH is the rubber band effect. I still don't see it myself, but I will look out for it while I strole around in the air.

WB3 on the other hand, has price problem.

I would like to know how well/often they update the sim, and how well they support it.

Any comment on those?

 Personaly I think the rubber band thing is related to bad stick setups or just bad joysticks.  I used to get it bad, but with my new saitek x45 it's gone.

 As for updates AH has 2 to 3 major updates a year with several smaller patches in between the big updates. (I think this is been the average though I could be off a bit)  WB had no updates for a LONG time, now I think they get them more often for WB3.0, but they still have a 2.7 arena up and that's almost 3 years old now.

 Personaly I think as far as the whole package goes you'll get a much better deal from AH.   The community aspects from both sims are virtualy identical.  But in my biased opinion HTC is the better of the 2 companies.  They are beholden to no one and are responsible for the 2 most popular online ww2 sims.  He's been at it for over 10 years and it is his passion as well as those who work for the company.   Plus I need new targets so get ur butt over here and wait on the runway for my vulchin 190

[Karaya]

just based on the community alone, i would favor ah.
hitech listens to the player community. ive seen wb's ignore their players much too often.

if i was a betting man, i'd go with ah for the long haul.

you do owe it to yourself to try both.

[Gadfly]

I think Pyro listens to his customers when they say what he wants to hear, just like any self respecting developer would.

edit-that doesn't sound right.  Lemme take a mulligan and try again-

I think that when the community and Pyro share a view, changes are made.