Poopster – Happy New Year!
I’ve only just joined this thread. I’d been away from AH gameplay for weeks, and had been looking forward to the Mission Arena, but that’s deferred to a future release. I was crushed about that.
It seems that more and more people are finding that the AH gameplay has become tedious, what with all the gangbangs and suiciders. Ripsnort is right – the vox channel is changing. I myself have been known to call out from a PT Boat –
”Suicide P38 overhead!”. And after he’s dead,
”That suicide P38 should be back in 10-12 minutes!”.
I don’t so much *like* the pizza map, but it did address the problem of overcrowding. It also addressed the problem of LA7 cherry pickers – on two counts. 1, fields too far apart for opportunist LA7 cherry picking. 2, High altitude sometimes not conducive to LA7 flight.
Poop, try different things – you’re working through the planes – have you got to B? Bf109 – a lot of fun. I’m a bit of a lone wolf and need a fast plane, but also one that’s a challenge. The 109G10 is currently the one. All deaths compression crashes – lol.
Lazs! I thought you might be in here.
Now lazs is an old WB friend of mine from about 1998, and whether you agree with him or not, he is usually very consistent. But it seems that even Lazs is changing his views on AH suicides/gangbangery. About a year ago, I voiced concern that I was finding it hard to locate likeminded players who would be prepared to form up into a co-ordinated attack, lack of 6 calls etc. and voiced my opinion on how AH “should be played”. Bad mistake! And Lazs was quick to register a certain amount of disdain, and asked me to please point out how I think the MA “should be”. He finished by saying
What should the MA be? I personally like to see a lot of guys having fun and HTC making money.
Fair enough, I learned a lot from that thread, and acted accordingly. But Lazs’s point was that the situation I described was “a lot of guys having fun”. Please explain the difference between that, and what is now the subject of complaint – gangbanging hordes. To me, a gangbanging horde looks like....... dare I say it ...... a lot of guys having fun. Too bad if you’re not one of them, because then it might not be much fun for you at all. Now, it seems that even Lazs has changed his point of view. Further up THIS thread he said
yep... anyplace where a decent even fight between two reasonably close fields is ruined by the no talent suicide runs on fuel or FH. I don't want the suiciders to get better at it I want it to be very difficult to do. It is ruining the kind of gameplay I like (aircombat) and I don't see what is the point of the gameplay it causes.
Oh! What do you mean, Lazs? AH not being played as it “should” be played?
I personally get a lot of enjoyment out of jabo missions. It is NOT all about shooting inanimate objects. I’ve even landed 6 kills in a P47D30 in the pizza map! OK, 2 of those were newly spawned GVs that died when I blew up the VH, but the others were planes... But now, Lazs wants to restrict/control my fun –
I think perking 1000 and even 500 lb bombs would be a start.. and make 1000 and 500 lb bombs a perk issue
Really, Lazs. I am shocked! You want to take away my unrestricted freedom to carry bombs! Not only is this a move towards controlling AH gameplay so that AH becomes how you think it "should be" played, it does rather fly in the face of....... naah, never mind.
The good news is that good things seem to be in the works- new maps, mission arena. I have to agree that gameplay in the MA on a small map with 500 people on does not interest me. Euro morning hours are much better, with the arena made up of many kiwis and ozzies – and lazy gits like me who have just crawled out of bed – lol.
Snapshot of Lazs quote from Feb-2002 in .ZIP
