Author Topic: Interview with HT on future of AH (Read 791 times)

Toad · « **Reply #15 on:** November 03, 2001, 10:48:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Seeker:
Great read.

Your starter for $5....

What will be the first U-boat whine?

That the German U-boats are undermodelled, of course.

Too easy.

Just send the $5 to HTC for the office beer fund.

funkedup · « **Reply #16 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:03:00 AM »

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It’s late in the evening…it’s a lot of fun, so I’m doing well.

Is this code for "I'm drunk"?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:05:00 AM »

Read more from Sabre/Rojo on AH gameplay in the BB, General Discussion:

"What to do with alll those targ...I mean trains and trucks"

eskimo43

funkedup · « **Reply #18 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:10:00 AM »

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Well of course, every customer in the world is glad we let them pay less. But you don’t have to. You’re more than welcome to send us $30 a month even though we’re only charging you $15.

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For the next four months, I would wake up at three in the morning, sit down at my computer, nobody around, and work until two in the afternoon. And then I’d go watch the Clinton impeachment hearings.

ROFL

Oh Gawd there are a lot of gems in there. WTG HTC and Sabre. I'm thinking about sending in $30.

LePaul · « **Reply #19 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:28:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Kieran:
Boys, let's stay on target here...

Subs?
Infantry?
Massive bomber formations? (realize if you can get 10 guys to buff that is 40 bombers on target!)
Bunker warfare?

This looks pretty tasty from most viewpoints.

Hmm, help? Cooperation? In buffs? Surely you do not fly with the Knights

What's 'cooperation' ? Or 'escort' ?

Did you see the author's credentials? Degree in Stealth technology? Where the hell you get one of those? ITT? One of those Sally Struthers degree-by-mail catalogs? Perhaps they phased out the *gun repair* course?

Mitsu · « **Reply #20 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:29:00 AM »

I have got exclusive submarine screen shot from HT!
http://www.ah.wakwak.com/~mitsu/244sentai/shots/submarine.jpg

Mitsu

Kieran · « **Reply #21 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:42:00 AM »

'Fraid I missed the point there. I simply mean there will be clouds of bombers if you can get 10 guys at a time to buff. This makes formulating bomber squads more attractive. We also get to see bomb dispersion in the same fell swoop, so there is something for everyone here.

More germaine to the discussion is how the 3 ghost ships will be gunned. Will they be slaved or AI? Either way it will be harder to get in and attack a mass of bombers. This (along with bomb dispersion) will encourage bomber pilots to use more historical altitudes.

Cooperation can come or not come- that is the point I think HT was trying to make when he said "Each of the four parts doesn't want to fight the other parts." The bombers will be far more effective even without cooperation through sheer force of numbers, which btw is more accurate historically anyway.

Manedew · « **Reply #22 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:44:00 AM »

YeeHaww!

Rojo · « **Reply #23 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:47:00 AM »

LePaul: The actual degree title is "Low Observables Technology," and the only place in the world to get one is the Air Force Institute of Technology, at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

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Glad everyone's injoying the article. There was a bit more to HT's "late in the evening remark, but you had to be at the Con to appreciate them; so I left them out

. The interview is pretty much word-for-word otherwise.

As regards HiTech's remarks about buffs not wanting to fight fighters, I believe that was a generalization. Obviously there is meant to be some interaction between different aspects, but his goal as I understand it it to make each fun and purposeful in their own right. Yes, there are buff pilots that can't waite to see a fighter or two come into range of his turrets, but for most that's not why they're airborne. They fly bombers to destroy things on the ground.

HTC's genious is that they're not designing the game...only the engine. You and I, the player community, have by and large channeled gameplay in the direction we as a community would like it to go. That's why AH is successful, and why WarBirds is struggling to find itself.

Kieran · « **Reply #24 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:54:00 AM »

I agree Rojo. When I am in a buff I try to avoid the fighters, but there are those that seek fighter interception as a challenge. Still, the point of being a buff is to destroy resources for the most part, and I think most would enjoy going about their business largely unimpeded.

oboe · « **Reply #25 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:57:00 AM »

Could be interesting, but the flight sim purist in me says "uh-oh".

I could care less about FPS - if I wanted to do that I could find a Counterstrike game somewhere. I'm in it for air combat sister, pure and simple. It does mean development time taken away from introducing more aircraft types, and I find that disappointing. I'd rather have 100 different A/C than the FPS element.

Maybe you just can't ignore the success of WWIIOnline.

Sunchaser · « **Reply #26 on:** November 03, 2001, 11:57:00 AM »

I like the bomber stuff. (surprize!)

BUT, I really hope the bombsight, dispersion and blast radius is addressed and I am sure that no matter how HTC does it there will be at least ONE complaint.

Subs, ground troops fighting it out....
Sounds like HTC is taking the slow and deliberate road to WWII Online and that is good.

mason22 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 03, 2001, 12:16:00 PM »

Excellent!!

if you newbies want to know what AH is all about, this is a must read!

Good Stuff HT!! Love it.

Keez · « **Reply #28 on:** November 03, 2001, 12:18:00 PM »

Hey HT said that 1.09 would mainly improve the buff systems... Would we finally get multiple crew?

Hornet · « **Reply #29 on:** November 03, 2001, 01:05:00 PM »

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Could be interesting, but the flight sim purist in me says "uh-oh".

I agree with you oboe, but I find HT's outlook to be positive as far as keeping the quality of the air war intact.

You're right, I don't think AH can ignore the success of ww2ol, but I think that they will learn from its mistakes.

By introducing FPS as bunker-warfare I think you protect the heart of the sim. It sounds like it will be a seperate system - no interaction between A/C and troopers. This is good because there will be no cries of "someone shot down my tempest with a pistol", no necessity for adding ground cover for troopers which tanks the framerate for aircraft etc.

I think HiTech's comment on the 4 different systems rings true. Troopers only want to fight other troopers. I'd say that simple rule is what's causing a majority of the headaches for CRS in ww2ol.