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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: SpyCat on December 15, 2006, 10:57:25 AM
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Hello everyone,
As the subject states I've been gone for over 4 years use to fly with "MOL", thinking of giving AH another try I am checking to see if anything has changed in the game.
1. Infantry available?
2. Any new Jets?
3. What is new in the game?
Best regards to all and happy holidays,
SpyCat
A shout out to all former and current MOL members "miss you guys"!
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Would it be accurate to state that you have been gone approximately 4.5 years?
answers to your questions:
1. Infantry available? No
2. Any new Jets? Depends..what was available 4.5 years ago?
currently we have Me163, Me262 and the Arado Bomber
3. What is new in the game? Lots of stuff :)
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Don't be discouraged about the hard times that we as an AH cummunity are currently experiencing..
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Do not be mislead, the game and the bulk of this community are in good health.
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Actually 4.5 years, 15 days, 14 hours and 29 minutes.
why no infantry?
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we have 10 man Special Forces squads that we can employ to attack and capture strategic interests. And and.......and we can actually bail out of our machines and attack on foot using our trusty sidearms.
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I must admit I am disappointed, AH appearers to have not made any significant strides in over 4 years (I'm sure better code).
Oh well.... :furious
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Try Call of Duty :aok
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Indeed. AH will never be a first-person-shooter. It just won't.
However, you will find that while there have been many planes added, the functionality of the game hasn't changed *that* much. The application of it has. There have been major major flight engine changes (which you might not notice, baving been gone so long).
Only recently has all the "experimental" arena settings been initiated by HTC. Doesn't seem like most like the changes. Well that's neither here nor there, but in reply to the "in good health" comment.
Gameplay is still there, but it's being hampered at times.
If you've been gone 4 and a half years, you'll need to re-learn how to fly and fight, because it's not at all like AH1 used to be.
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I was hoping after 4 years AH would have closed the gap then over taken WW2 online. I guess its not in their plans to move forward, more to maintain upon what they have in place. :O
Thank you for replying hope to see y'all in the online make-believe world some day.
:cry :cry
PS: Is AH compatible with Vista? I may give it a try I have next week off.:aok
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If your looking for a more realistic flight modeling you might try AH... if your looking for eye candy.... move along :lol
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WW2OL is a joke in almost every sense of the word when you consider the "flight" model it has. AH is light years past that level of simplicity. You want to fly? Play AH. You want to play soldier? Play HALO or HL2 or COD (I hated COD2, I'd not recommend it) or FEAR.
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I was into BF2 until the cheating got out of control.
How big is the playing community these days?
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Hiya Spycat! :) Has been a long time.
"I must admit I am disappointed, AH appearers to have not made any significant strides in over 4 years (I'm sure better code)."
Ditto. At the core there's not a lot of difference between AH and AH-II. Sure there's some improvement but the online game play got worse as the player base expanded.
AH-II was not a leap over the original AH which was a huge jump over (IMO of course) games/sims such as FA, WB 2 and AW III.
Perhaps HTC's "Combat Theater" will be.
Someday?
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Originally posted by SpyCat
How big is the playing community these days?
Several thousands. Hitech and staff have the numbers, but they aren't telling. I'm guessing 6-8k subscribers. :)
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Across the arenas, I've seen 600-700 during weekends, less during the week. Guessing 400-500 average during peak hours. About 400 on at the moment.
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Originally posted by Westy
AH-II was not a leap over the original AH which was a huge jump over (IMO of course) games/sims such as FA, WB 2 and AW III.
Coming from a terrain builder's point of view... AH2 is MUCH better than AH1. Everyone that only flies in the MAs will not see that... but we are able to do things now we could only dream of before. Hopefully you will look at the Pearl Harbor Terrain once it is completed to see what I mean.
Spycat here are some of the biggest changes:
- The graphics model was the first change
- Clutter Objects were removed and replaced with tile objects which means forests, farms, fields, etc.
- Community members have the ability to skin aircraft and use them in-game via skuzzy approval (max of 15 per plane)
- When you bail out you can shoot the .45 the pilot holds.
- Planes have been remodelled and new planes added. P38, b17, P51s, P47s, 109s, spits, 190s, and f4us have been remodelled to AH2 standards. Ki84, B24, T34, P38J, P38G, Spit8, Spit16, 109k4 replaced 109g10, 109g14, P47N, Jeep and F4U-1A have been added.
- Terrain Builders have the ability to build and import objects. For Ex: I built Tokyo and Nagasaki. Kantorri built Leningrad. Dux is finishing Pearl Harbor.
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Love it how when you old farts get schooled in an FPS you automatically assume that the game is riddled with cheaters... :lol
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I never got school in BF2 well maybe in the first 100 hours of play I did, once I reached 200 hours of play I was doing the schooling.
The cheating in BF2 has gotten out of hand but then again if a person thinks using auto aim, speed hack, distance hack, unlimited ammo or health is not cheating... more than likely you're using one or more of the above.
Westy: Good to see you're still in the game are any of the other MOL's still playing?
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BF2 takes about 1/4 the skill level. I played it for almost two years and its such a twitch game and spawn camping was out of controll. You could declare yourself a all out bad bellybutton in two weeks. WW2online is a joke and the flight models are something like the old red baron game.
If you like to learn new tactics play with other grown men, we do have a couple kids but we keep them in check. If your into graphics and bright flashes then Halo would be a good start.
Try it out but dont get frustrated because after two weeks you might have a addiction and no kills. Our you could try and beat shawk record of 181 kills and no deaths. That only took him 10 years to do but he was a very happy old fart when he broke the record.