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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hess on June 07, 2001, 07:55:00 AM
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I downloaded the patch after three failed attempts! It did add more terrain but still looks poor compared to AH. The online play isn’t happening. A message from System just said that they are aware of the problems and are working on it... Hmmmm after 2 years! Anyway I feel as though I threw away 40 bucks. I'll give it a few days if no improvement back into the box and hopefully I can return it!
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Give it time, remember how rough around the edges AH was in its infancy?
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Buy it if you want to support an game with great potential and if dont want the same ol same ol...
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That's a good point, Rip. Some of us remember all the AH bashing that the Warbirds crowd did when AH was first released. I hope we can elevate ourselves to a higher standard and wish the Rats all the success in the world. In the long run, I'd like to see HTC, IEN and the Rats succeed.
Choice is good! :)
That being said, as a consumer, I'm not going to plunk down any money for an account until they fix some of the more glaring techincal problems.
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This morning I went to the beta page to check things out and it said 440 were online, so the online part is working. I plan on buying it today at lunch, even though I realy don't "have" to yet, but these guys deserve some financial support. They've been at this now for going on 2 years with NO income. I plan on giving them the 40 for the game :) And the graphix are good, just wait until you've been in it a while. There are all kinds of subtle nuances in there that just look fantastic.
It's amazing, the game hasn't been out for 24 hours yet and people are already doing everything they can to put it down. Give the Rat's a chance people!!!!!!!!!
Udie
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rgr that banana (all of it)
WW2O seems to be in the same shape as WB III was (is) when released. Difference is it costs $40 up front like it or not. With WB III I just deleted the directory until the day it is called "in production" or finished. With WW2O the CD rom makes a great coaster to set the drink on while downloading an 80mb update that will need to be burned onto yet another CD.
(I think the AH small download size has us all spoiled! <G> )
I'm more than happy to let folks like Maniac here subsidize the development to something that is finally worth buying.
-Westy
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A good quote used by Rip, and I value its use.
"I have a white horse, you have a brown horse, but we both like riding!".
We can all understand deep down that after its first day of release to the public they are going to experience some teething problems, but I feel after I logged off lastnight after 6 hours the server was just over 500 players, to me that is an amazing feat.
Only a few of us here would remember when Aces High went public for the first time and the rough edges it had when released, and sure enough over time those edges are still being trimmed and smoothed to until they are happy with what they have.
This will go for Warbirds 3 and IL2 when they goes public, we could go on to say that EVE Online, Horizons, X-Tension Online will all follow the same path as what Aces High have done 19 months previous.
Give it time to mature and hopefully we wont be deciding which horse we feel is the better one to ride. :)
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Heh, "Buy WWIIOnline! They need your money to finish the game!"
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What Maniac and Fatty said. :)
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Yup, AH was rough when it got out in open Beta (was there the first day, first hour). No smoke, no buff guns etc. It's improved ALOT over the past 2 years.
WW2OL is Eye candy for me, smokes from guns, different explosions depending on size of rounds and type of rounds etc etc.
It's a nice game but demanding, I can't play it on my computer. The online play is working fine, they just got their servers fludded with a couple of thousand players who are all eager to get started, tell me, what kind of a server would "like" this?
Like the rest said, give it time, the game has got alot of potential :)
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Ok, let's not forget something..
500 players online??
For crying out loud, they were bragging for months and months how there is a huge CB testing team (up to 5000 players online)
CRS was supposed to have 10 servers each capable of handling 10 000 players. :D
Where are the testers now?
They claim over 20k copies have been bought.
So why are only 2.2% of players playing? Is that the amount of people with high-end computers in the crowd?
I suspect that the final reason is the combination of both inadequate server resources and very heavy system requirements for the end users.
[ 06-07-2001: Message edited by: MrRiplEy ]
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Right now I think the server is capped at 500.
That's hearsay as I didn't go looking for the source document myself. However, I think it can be verified pretty easily.
Give them time. Hope that they succeed. Another WW2 game is a good thing.
It most definitely has issues at this point, however. Time will tell.
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http://sfi2.com/forum/ubb/Forum9/HTML/000165.html (http://sfi2.com/forum/ubb/Forum9/HTML/000165.html)
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Man, this is starting to look ugly for the CRS. People are getting seriously PO'd.
I hope they fix the probs soon.
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Toad its capped, last night users peaked at 500 and it stopped letting people in.
Lotsa pissed off people out there.
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Originally posted by Hess:
I downloaded the patch after three failed attempts! It did add more terrain but still looks poor compared to AH. The online play isn’t happening. A message from System just said that they are aware of the problems and are working on it... Hmmmm after 2 years! Anyway I feel as though I threw away 40 bucks. I'll give it a few days if no improvement back into the box and hopefully I can return it!
Very seriously doubt your retailer will take the game back from you considering it came with the unique registration key which you used to create your account. More than likely there's no way to re-activate the key, meaning what good is it gonna do your retailer to refund your money? They can't resell that game if the key isn't functional. Anyways, that's how it worked when I bought my UO copy a few years ago. The retailer told me that it had a monthly fee, and there was no chance of a refund.
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SORRY BUT,
Damn, why the hell did they realese it while still in BETA???
What for should I buy it anyway? to download more patches?? and if someone has 56k modem? who just spent 40$ on this game and than need to sit few HOURES to download the 60MB PATCHES! :mad:
I hope they will realese anpther cd or something, WHEN THE GAME WILL BE FINISHED,
good luck to them, but they started it on the wronge foot.
:rolleyes:
(sorry for my angry'nes)
Seahawk
[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: Seahawk ]
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the reason they released so soon was because the investors told them out the door by june 6th, or your out the door...
Pup out
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Originally posted by Seahawk:
SORRY BUT,
Damn, why the hell did they realese it while still in BETA???
You ever hear of Falcon 4.0? Now THERE'S a game that was released in Beta :)
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hur hur hur. tried to log into wwiionline last night, couldnt.....checked the forums.....no response.....checked playnet.com......no response......checked the offical chat room.......800 people in there complaining they cant get into the game! LMAO
The AH cheerleading team should spend all their time in the ww2ol chat room......HTC would see player base mushrooming. lol
(http://www.swoop.com/images/logo_small.jpg)
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hehe Swoop, i logged in yesterday night,
they had 6 servers up, each FULL to the Top,
and each with 1000 players, never seen
such before, it was crazy!! :D
Gh0stFT
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Yup Ghost .. I've just come out of there after 6 hours straight of mayhem :)
No doubt that the Rats are turning it around. There's a new War Stories forum up at the SF site, with lots of player comments. Glad to see they've at least got a heap of shards online and everyone appears to be having a ball.
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Was crazy with what Ghosth ?
people jumping around with 3-8 FPS ?
crazy with folks complaining that it takes 10 minutes to respawn ?
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New map out
http://sfi2.com/forum/ubb/Forum9/HTML/003114.html (http://sfi2.com/forum/ubb/Forum9/HTML/003114.html)
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Originally posted by JekyII :
You ever hear of Falcon 4.0? Now THERE'S a game that was released in Beta :)
Hehehe :) HELL yeah! LOL I was playing this game for some time a year or 2 ago hehe while still on my jet-sim-freaky-missile-no-guts-yes-glory kinda Sim stuff :) got tired after too many patches releasd, im with 56k modem and my nerves arent strong enuff for it :) moved to lighter sim, IAF, then USAF, some A/F18 flying hehe ;)
Seahawk
*oops, now I see I just carried TOO MUCH away from the topic :( :rolleyes: ;)
[ 06-10-2001: Message edited by: Seahawk ]
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Originally posted by Duckwing6:
Was crazy with what Ghosth ?
people jumping around with 3-8 FPS ?
crazy with folks complaining that it takes 10 minutes to respawn ?
Nah duck, crazy with this (http://sfi2.com/forum/cgi/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=World+War+II+Online+War+Stories&number=11&DaysPrune=20&LastLogin=)
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close Jekyll close but the right link is here (http://sfi2.com/forum/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000084.html) :D
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;) For a moment I thought Jekyll had bravely put up a link to the StratFirst general or wwii online forumns. When I saw it was the story forumn I had to laugh. Going there and taking that as any measure of WWII Online success is tantamount to passing by the unwashed masses surrounding the Caste Rat and saying let them eat cake. These few, good and embeliished reports aren't enough to tip the scale.
The only thing the majority of WWII Online customers posting over there want right now is CRS blood. Or a refund.
(which could change, if they now get the fps and other problems resolved. and quick.)
-Westy
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Yes and at least two of those servers had spawning issues.
<yawn> put down your Pom Poms guys.
Originally posted by Gh0stFT:
hehe Swoop, i logged in yesterday night,
they had 6 servers up, each FULL to the Top,
and each with 1000 players, never seen
such before, it was crazy!! :D
Gh0stFT
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somehow i like to share my expirience with others
my fault i tried it here ;)
Regards
Gh0stFT
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Originally posted by Hess:
I downloaded the patch after three failed attempts! It did add more terrain but still looks poor compared to AH. The online play isn’t happening. A message from System just said that they are aware of the problems and are working on it... Hmmmm after 2 years! Anyway I feel as though I threw away 40 bucks. I'll give it a few days if no improvement back into the box and hopefully I can return it!
It's terrain graphics are more than the AH has..
*real* roads, ditches, trees, bushes, towns.. now, what of these do we have in AH, making it better looking?
Like someone said:
"Screw the graphics, its the game that makes a difference"