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Offline zroostr

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« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2003, 11:51:33 PM »
Seems fun. Seems huge. I spend a lot of time watching fuel.:eek: Ran out twice tryin to get to the only base close enough to hit. Maybe it's time to practice some flyin with drop tanks. I never used em before but it might be time to start.:)

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« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2003, 12:48:48 AM »
Well I can tell you I DONT LIKE IT.  No one in the damned squad likes this map, fields are too far apart, lending to porking of fuel and then no defense of the field.  This map will be liked by the bishops and rooks as they now always have the gang bang numbers, but when they are only fighting each other at one base and the rest of the 360 players are porking the knight fields then guys start logging off.

Now you can start yelling about the whine all you want but this map will do nothing for making Aces High go forward.

When Aces High started out it was a good flight sim game then came the vehicles for base defense and that was a good thing, now there are entirely too many vehicles in the game, it looks like everybody is wanting this game to be like WWII online, well I can tell you If I wanted to play WWII online I would subscribe to that game.

I know I am only one person but there are a lot of the people in the game that dont post on this board infact there are more people in the game that don't even come here and read this board let alone post here, and a vast majority of them on the country channel and on channel one are griping.

THE MAP SUCKS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !


now flame all you want I have got my opinion said.

Offline nopoop

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« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2003, 12:55:57 AM »
I just spent 3 plus hours of CV fighting the likes of which I've never seen here before.

First impressions ??

MUHAHAHAHAAA !!

What a blast.

One fight continued over the entire evening.

I'm spent..

LOL

But above all else, my hopes and prayers are with those brave  pilots still carrying on for the greater good of war effort
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It's ALL about the fight..

Offline trolla

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« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2003, 04:11:41 AM »
little buggy yet, but this map have potencial to be my favorite map. lots of cv fiting, gv fiting, air to air, a little for everyone and that is nice. And the colours is ok i can actually see the icons when the players are under me :D

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« Reply #19 on: June 21, 2003, 04:33:58 AM »
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Originally posted by zroostr
Seems fun. Seems huge. I spend a lot of time watching fuel.:eek: Ran out twice tryin to get to the only base close enough to hit. Maybe it's time to practice some flyin with drop tanks. I never used em before but it might be time to start.:)


You can cruise some territory using a F4u-1d with 2 DTs and 100% fuel. :)


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« Reply #20 on: June 21, 2003, 04:50:55 AM »
Haven't flown for quite a while, took a F4U-1 from a carrier deck but hit WEP too soon and torqued to death... next take up went smoothly but a girl on MSN asked for attention and if you guys knew how she looked you'd crah again too

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« Reply #21 on: June 21, 2003, 07:44:34 AM »
i think the nw position on the map is plum; can't wait 'till we have it:)

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« Reply #22 on: June 21, 2003, 10:22:52 AM »
Man it's a GREAT looking map.  In fact it's the most impressive map I've seen since Verm's North Africa terrain.


Soon as it's debugged I can't wait to get at it.


Offline JustJim

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« Reply #23 on: June 21, 2003, 03:11:15 PM »
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Originally posted by aac
This map will be liked by the bishops and rooks as they now always have the gang bang numbers, but when they are only fighting each other at one base and the rest of the 360 players are porking the knight fields then guys start logging off.  



Funny the last 3 days i have been playing this map Knights have been doing some serious damage.

Hell I dont even know if i remember what a Bishop looks like anymore.  (insert witty follow up about bish here)

Not gonna flame ya just sending a factual spark.


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BTW  love this frikken map,  cant wait till all the bugs are gone.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2003, 03:14:51 PM by JustJim »

Offline rod367th

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« Reply #24 on: June 21, 2003, 03:39:53 PM »
Newbie  those yellow dots aka maprooms alert you to cos off map they fask if cons near............

Offline SunKing

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« Reply #25 on: June 21, 2003, 04:04:11 PM »
So far I've been bored.  Looked for the those "awesome CV battles" but all Knight CV are suicided within minutes of enemy contact. Flew 15 mins to fight just to be ganged by 20k spits. Trinty curse all over again for me. I'm logging out more than flying.

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« Reply #26 on: June 21, 2003, 05:03:18 PM »
I played it some now. It sucks. Unless you like flying 4 sectors from an unporked field to pork a field.

BigIsles might be rather-good-looking, but for the MA it`s just boring. That`s B-O-R-I-N-G.

I fart in the general direction of BigIsles. Where's Trinity 2 ? That was a good map...

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« Reply #27 on: June 21, 2003, 05:56:07 PM »
Again, too early for a full assessment but what I've seen so far is good.  I'm pleased there aren't any huge mountains like Trinity... phew!  One thing I'm not too keen on is the terrain skin/tiles, they're okay but not awe inspiring like one of Nuttz's designs.
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« Reply #28 on: June 21, 2003, 06:29:06 PM »
I like the realistic altitudes of mountains and hills and that even the small ones have enough details like little valleys or 2 peaks etc which add to the low altitude dogfights by giving you places you can use to your advantage.

The distances of the bases varies just right i think meaning bombers are more suited to attack some bases than jabos and visa versa.We have plenty of fleets to fight from so fights can break out in some unusual places and so far these fights have been great.

Most distances favour those aircraft with a longer endurance drop tank so we have seen far fewer La7s AND THAT ALONE MAKES THIS MY FAVOURITE MAP SO FAR :)

kidding aside this map does seem to be throwing up plenty of fights and not just furballs but also some great energy fights at medium alts.I dont know why this is happening but Im actually enjoying myself again in the MA. I think it might be because people havent got used to the fuel loads they need to return to base and are not chasing madly just to get a kill but keeping an eye on their gauges maybe and picking their attacks.How long this will last i dont know but its a nice change. Today for instance i fought between 2 bases and had some great fights but when i dived out to low alt to escape I wasnt chased by 5 screaming la7s! instead they all seemed to jostle foe a position to make a pass if i decided to turn.As soon as 2 or 3 had broke off to climb i could turn and have a fight without feeling it was impossible to escape. You know FUN! not getting slaughtered by impossible odds!. Id forgotten how much fun AH used to be! :)

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« Reply #29 on: June 21, 2003, 06:30:53 PM »
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Originally posted by Replicant
Again, too early for a full assessment but what I've seen so far is good.  I'm pleased there aren't any huge mountains like Trinity... phew!  One thing I'm not too keen on is the terrain skin/tiles, they're okay but not awe inspiring like one of Nuttz's designs.


Heck, I was told this was Nuttz's map. :)  

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