Author Topic: Your opinion about Warbirds III (Read 973 times)

poopster · « **Reply #30 on:** July 11, 2002, 08:21:13 PM »

ik come borrow my computer

There is a built in lag in control response in WBIII. In other words, a four point roll is very difficult because when you center the stick to stop the roll, the plane continues to roll....not just alittle. With any movement of the stick there is a lag or "mush" time before the plane reacts to stick imput. Every plane feels like a B17 to a certain extent ( bad analogy )

While a small amount of "mush" actually takes the feeling away of "flying on rails" which would be a good addition here, the amount added there was waaaaay overboard.

-ammo- · « **Reply #31 on:** July 11, 2002, 08:49:38 PM »

I watch all manner of AC fly around the pattern at the AFB's I have been assigned too over the years. when an F-15 rolls 90 degrees, the AC rolls extremely fast to that point and stops when the pilot relaxes the stick. T-34's, F-16's, all the same. I dont see alot of inertia that the keeps the AC rolling like WB's does. The rol direction of the AC is controlled by the ron's completely in those AC. I can only believe that most WW2 fighters behaved the same way.

Tumor · « **Reply #32 on:** July 11, 2002, 09:09:34 PM »

It's all that with no bag of chips.

Turbot · « **Reply #33 on:** July 11, 2002, 09:58:29 PM »

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Originally posted by -ammo-
I watch all manner of AC fly around the pattern at the AFB's I have been assigned too over the years. when an F-15 rolls 90 degrees, the AC rolls extremely fast to that point and stops when the pilot relaxes the stick. T-34's, F-16's, all the same. I dont see alot of inertia that the keeps the AC rolling like WB's does. The rol direction of the AC is controlled by the ron's completely in those AC. I can only believe that most WW2 fighters behaved the same way.

Just have to ask, how do you know from ground when the pilot relaxed stick?

-ik- · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2002, 02:13:43 AM »

lol ammo, I didn't know they had fbw control systems in ww2 aircraft, let alone hydraulic assistance.

Packy · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2002, 10:25:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Packy, heres an analysis of WBIII by none other than the users themselves:
http://agw.warbirdsiii.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8141

Ripsnort,

Thanks for the link! It has some good info from the actual users of WBIII.

btw..this is a general discussion about AH; I'm curious to get opinions from AH players regarding other online sims...so chill, whiners, and go get that guy who posted the thread about his baby being born in this general discussion forum! lol

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #36 on:** July 12, 2002, 12:21:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
I have never played it, but I am 101% sure that it is a horrible game that in no way compares to Aces High, and will suffer a horrible demise. Just like it happened to IL-2 Sturmovik!

Spoken like a typical whiner.

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HitechCreations OWNS the flightsim genre!

You are 100% correct

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and if you dont agree, AKDejaVu will quote every one of your paragraphs with witty brutal remarks until you die of shame!

OK? ok.

Damn straight you pathetic little papa's boy.

AKDejaVu

Mushkin1uk · « **Reply #37 on:** July 12, 2002, 02:09:13 PM »

Always wanted to try WBIII but cant be F**KED to download 130 Meg on a 56k dialup, And after reading this thread I definatly wont bother;)

Hristo · « **Reply #38 on:** July 12, 2002, 04:28:07 PM »

and don't...it will be a week until another 50 MB patch is out. That game is in sad condition - only the graphics stand out.

-ammo- · « **Reply #39 on:** July 12, 2002, 05:14:08 PM »

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Originally posted by -ik-
lol ammo, I didn't know they had fbw control systems in ww2 aircraft, let alone hydraulic assistance.

Well of coarse not. But I don't think that the inertia of a roll in realtime is nearly as exagerated as it was when I flew in WB's.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #40 on:** July 12, 2002, 06:32:29 PM »

Its free 3 day weekend to fly warbirds 3 if you all want to try it and see for yourselves.

I myself find the planes mushy , and dont seam to have as much in motion feel as AH does.
Some of the grafics are better in places but worse in others .

As for terrain grafics ... AH can have the very best if they want to (i have over 150 terrains made by the likes of Nuttz, Pokie,HtHide, ect..) some of there stuff is unbelivable .

But they arnt using this quality in the main arena because they cause more of a hit on your frame rates !!!
>>insert frame rate whine here >>>

I myself will stay here and continue adding to HTC's allowance

gatt · « **Reply #41 on:** July 13, 2002, 01:43:15 AM »

Nice graphics, I like very much all those dedicated skins, good offline training against drones .... well, I must admit ... WB3's offline drones are better than our human Rooks

Revvin · « **Reply #42 on:** July 13, 2002, 05:54:26 AM »

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WB3's offline drones are better than our human Rooks

They certainly put up a better fight!

Hajo · « **Reply #43 on:** July 13, 2002, 06:18:15 AM »

went online warbirds last nite. In the Main there were a whopping 45 peeps. FM crafts respond slower to stick input. Cockpit art is very good, aircraft art good, clouds......dunno if I can call them that, more fog then cloud. Terrain from alt when weather is clear appears hazed. Dar is different which means one has to search and watch text buffer for fights. And RPS. Don't really apppreciate that at all.

Revvin · « **Reply #44 on:** July 13, 2002, 06:51:19 AM »

Generally the cockpits are very nice although better ones have come from the community itself as has skins. The stock ones can be awful sometimes such as the Spit's with their purple roundels

The models are nice and have more poly's than AH it seems but then their tech is newer than AH and needs a higher spec system to run it. The terrain while having nice undulations the textures used look awful and the BoB map they use currently is often referred to as the green jello map (although the current AH pizza map is not to my liking either) The cloud is rediculous, it's just a blanket with holes in every now and then and bombers have to stay below 10K which makes them easy meat for fighters. One thing I really like there is the WW2A arena with it's Axis vs Allies setup and an RPS which is fun but unfortunately numbers in the arena's there are so low they have resorted to upping whole formations of AI planes to try and make it fun in there.