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previously posted by oboe
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I should warn you, but you will soon find out the AH community can be defensive almost to the point of viciousness. At the very least I can predict dozens of "good riddance" responses to your post. Apologies for those ahead of time.
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Thank you oboe, having previously perused the other posts on this board I half suspected that some of the lower lying pondscum would slither in here sooner or later.
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Some of the items in your post indicate you might not be aware of all the features in AH - for example, it isn't necessary to fly with the map up all the time - it is removable.
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Yes I realise this but once removed you are unabled to keep a situational track on bandits. In RL you would be able to obtain updates via the radio and thru wingmen.
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the BF109 is not constantly defeated by the LAGG fighters. Flying the 109 successfully is difficult, but not impossible. I suggest you try to hook up with a trainer if you want to fly the 109 with success.
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Being an experienced virtual fighter pilot (almost exclusively AXIS fighters) I can tell very quickly whether a particular FM is modeled correctly. I can assure you the AXIS planes are undermodeled whilst the Allied planes seem to be triple water injected, TnB demons.
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The sounds ARE customizable, and the addon soundpacks available from the download page
are very well done.
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Apologies for this one. I have only just obtained the online documentation.
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Graphics are subjective, but for the most part I find AH superior to FA and WB 2.77.
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I must disagree with you here, while AW and WB graphics are similiar to AH, AH takes a huge FPS hit. Almost to the point of unplayability.
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Gameplay is up to you - joining an organized squad is often the best way, however flying in scenarios also offers you a way to participate in an environment where the strategy is more tightly controlled. You weren't specific as to what you thought was missing, so I'm guessing here.
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As far as I can tell there is no information on Scenario's available to date, so I can't comment. I may however join a squad and experiment with that for awhile. Thank you for the tip.
As far as whats missing:
1) There are no missions available at all. When I insisted that my country start a mission I was made fun of and generally told to shut up.
2) Bombers are useless. I flew almost 1 1/2 hours, obtained a altitude of 35000 ft and dropped a stick of 14 bombs on a base. When I returned later the base was fully repaired. In addition to this bombers seem to be killed extremely easily.
3)There seems to be no organization at all, everybody fly's around firing stupidly without any sort of strategic objective.
4) There doesn't seem to be any sort of forward bullet deflection which was used to great success any other great online flight sims. This makes front quarter attacks more frequent and probably even encourages them.
