stupid opinion poll: good and bad of AH

[Citabria]

what do you like about it most?
what do you not like?


I'll give my stupid opinion first since i started this thread:      

I love HTC and their support of AH. best ever seen in this industry bar none.

the planes, flight models, virtual cockpits w movable head positions very intuitive, superfly and natedogs attention to detail in the 3d models, hitechs working 7 days a week for the past 2 years on AH      , I love ronni and yankee   , the AH community and challenge of flying against the really good flyers, and bouncing newbies is great too.
  I love vulching, wild wed, TOD, main arena furballing and trying to rack up kill streaks and beat fishu's silly streak record      


don't like:
wind layers
AI 88mm and 5" flak aiming ability
lack of tower only radar option
night
storm front graphics
non-working, unfun Historical arena (CT)

[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: Citabria ]

[Seeker]

I find trying to find anything like a fair fight frustrating. It's not just a ganging whine, as I find it equally frustrating if half a dozen of my own side jump in.

I guess that's a cultural thing tho' and I've no idea what to do about it.

[Kieran]

Good: Smooth gameplay, plenty of opponents, growing planeset, expanded play, I can squelch the moron who goes off nightly on common channel.

Bad: I don't have enough time to play as much as I'd like, wish we had a few more early war rides, I can't squelch the moron who goes off nightly on country channel.

[Duckwing6]

What i like:
What Citabria said! This is 100% the best on-line sim i've ever played!!

What i don't like:

• No streak counter (unless you never die   )
• That there's not 3x as many folks working at HTC with the same dedication to their vision than the current folks so we can have any new A/C and idea done in 1 week :P
• incentive to attack strat targets is not high enough.. i.e kill an airplane factory and a certain type is getting less available for exampl or depots/stations/convoys should have more direct influence (i.e if a conyoy doesn't get thru the fields consumables are doen to 90% (fuel, ammo) if a 2nd one is stopped 80% etc.
• not enough strat targets
• would like to have more clouds like we had

that's all
Cheers
DW6

[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: Duckwing6 ]

[Dawvgrid]

It will be easyer to mention what i dont like
dont like:stormfront and night,not that i want them removed,i just hate them   .
Thats all im easy  

[K West]

Pros: Too much to list imo but here are just a few on my "highly notable" list; TRAINS! The innovative and revolutionary view system, ability to effect settings in flight, the FM(!), damned good ballistics, very nice damage model, clouds (swoons), commandable navy, mannable ack-ack, nice variety of gv's, no MG, amphibious operartions, shore batteries, etc etc


 Cons:  lack of perma-squelch list, auto retracting flaps, huge number of insta-deaths on spawning lately, in-flight radar (colored bars ok). some aircraft views, lack of rear view mirrors (ties in with some aircraft that have too liberal of a view).


Westy

 

[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: O'Westy ]

[Ripsnort]

Love:
~Graphics
~nighttime
~gameplay overall
~events
~community.

~Dislike:
~No perk vehicles
~Bar radar under 500 feet.
~CV's allowed to Waypoint offmap
~Ability of high ranking enemy to change country for 12 hours and turn CV's back over to their host country.

[SOB]

Like:
-Being an FDB
-Excellent community...mostly  
-Lovely sheep
-Chute strafing
-HiTech Creations, the whole company

Dislike:
-The next patch ain't out yet (it ain't workin' on my puter at the moment)
-Anyone who whines about the game on Ch 1
-Ripsnort's BMW and him talking about it all the time
-Dorks who need to whine or go on a tirade about dying on Ch1


SOB

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by SOB:

-Ripsnort's BMW and him talking about it all the time


SOB

Only because Hajo brings up the topic all the time! (Hajo's Bimmer is garaged for winter  )

[AN]

Citabria:
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what do you like about it most?
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Scenarios, TODs, and other special events!

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what do you not like?
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Too few early and mid war planes.  

anRky

[mosca]

Here's the likes and dislikes of a newbie.

Likes:

1)The community. Whether I've flown with them in other sims, or just met them for the first time, I haven't found anyone in the arena that I haven't enjoyed flying with or against.
2)The planes. No special reason, but they are what drew me to WW2 based FPS flight sims in the first place. If WW2 era planes weren't my fascination, I wouldn't be here. There's a nice variation of types.
3)The look. It's a nice looking game. That adds to the feeling of immersion. In this age of graphics memory 1000x bigger than hard drives of 10 years ago, processor speeds pushing 2k, and bus speeds 100x processor speeds of 5 years ago, and with no end in sight, there's no reason to not have both a game that plays well and a game that looks good. One of AW's failures was its outdated look that kept players from finding out about its outstanding game play.
4)Access to the setup menu while in flight. That's very important to a new player who is still setting up stick- & key-mapping and joystick scaling.

Dislikes:
1)First and foremost is the cumbersome and unintuitive interface, the clipboard. Unfortunately I don't have any answer other than learning how to use it so that it's intuitive and uncumbersome. The reason that it's the way it is is most likely because it's also a very powerful and useful tool.
2)Nose bounce. It's pretty much gone, but imo it should never have been there.
3)Until recently, lousy instructions. The new help file is awesome, I haven't had a chance to read all 173 pages yet however. Is there a way for squads to congregate & plan missions, ala AW? I suppose I have some reading to do.

That's all I can think of for now,

Mosca

[LePaul]

What I like/love:

~Fantastic look and feel of the various aircraft, each is unique.  Not like other games where its the same flight model with a different cockpit.

~Scenarios/TODs

~The quality of players/pilots the game attracts.  (We got tired of dying to 9-year olds who rolled out F-22s vertical, launched 6 missiles, augered in and repeated this process.  Then, these same morons would claim skill if they shot you down...nevermind you dodged 5 of their 6 missiles)

~Newbies can see and play the real thing for 2 weeks.

Dislikes:

~Bugs.  I'd say more but don't want the flames.

~Maps.  Need more.  We've had the same basic 3/4 for a year.

~Pilot Wounded on bombers, where you have multiple pilots, gunners, etc.

~Incredible AI ack that can't hit a slow moving aircraft over the CV/base but CAN ping something going real fast over it.  Huh?

~Lack of alternating weather/wind levels.

~ No bullet holes in cockpit, wings, etc

[Kratzer]

dislikes:
Only one.  That whoopee ND Isles map!   (Am I even in contention Rude?)

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Citabria:
[QB]what do you like about it most?

Shooting people down.

what do you not like?

People shooting me down.

eskimo

[Steven]

Good:  Looks sharp and has a very well rounded gameplay.

Bad:  Though I say it is very well rounded, the game misses entirely the flavor of early-war aircraft.