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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Tango on March 31, 2007, 11:10:33 AM
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Just wondering how many like the blue sky in here. :)
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LOL!!
You mean the L.A. smog didnt appeal to anyone? :P
That crew at ww2ol was arrogant and wouldnt listen to anyone. They knew it all. Talk about groundhog day!
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SURE THEY listened. They listened to the ground pounders complain about how planes shouldn't be able to bomb and straff them.
But I'm just curious about how many WW2OL'ers are over here.
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As a pilot only, and as much as I loved the "war" part of it from a pilot's perspective, after a year and a half of mostly not playing as I did the "maybe the next release will be playable " thing, I eventually grew weary to death of the 2 1/2 mile visibility through constant smog - and the single digit framerates whenever I was engaged.
I wish them nothing but the best, and some day, when (if) it's every actually "fl-ightable" I may try again.
But until then ...
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I used to play until they implemented the perma-fog, the fog that defied the laws of physics by still existing 10K+ in altitude. Tired of not being able to find anyone to fight... or even fly with... I came here.
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I still play 50/50 both. AH for flying, ww2ol for ground pounding.
BTW, in WW2OLers reading this please make sure you get involved in AHs special events (like FSO), you'll love it, guaranteed.
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I bought a yearly subscription over there a while ago so Im still suscribed. I look at the forums maybe once a week but I tried to install a new patch recently and it gave me an I/O error.
To get around it would have required a download and install of the full game and that made me realize that,,,, quite frankly I have no desire to play it, at all. All tracers of the game save my config file has been wiped off my computer and I have zero intention of playing it ever again unless there are some huge massive and sweeping changes over there in regards to the airwar.
After flying in here for a couple weeks and trying to take off into that soupy shat they call a sky.
No thanks. Even seeing that last crappy art render of the new P.40 didn't do a thing for me.
I'm fully converted to AH2.
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I play ww2ol but not much any more.
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I play 80% AH 20% WW2OL.
-C+
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a little ground in WW2ol, but all big buffs in AH2, hate flying over there.
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I used to play wwiionline as McCudden.
As far as ground war is concerned, it blows AH away - it is really very good. I loved the satisfaction of killing something in WWIIonline. Popping tanks and making turrets blow.
Air war is pathetic. Abysmal. Not even worth trying.
Why i am here and not there :)
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Well I did not start in WWIIOL and come over hear. Have always been in AH.
I played WWIIOL for a year. Had a lot of fun with it. Ground war is a blast. Was a nice change from AH when I was in the mood. At one point we had about a dozen squadies playing it and had a Saturday night squad night going on.
My point of frustration was not knowing how or why I was killed at times. Just suddenly dead. Hard to learn from some mistakes.
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I used to play. Brigade spawning ruined it for me. It took the squad out of it almost completely.
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I played it from day one up until December.....
I like some things...
Hate others....
The damage model is great... and some engine management stuff....
THe lack of vis SUCKS...
My squad went over there when HT put in the ENY thing...
I told them not to but oHH WELLL....
IT IS complealy different from here
finding s fight sux BIGTIME....
:furious
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Yup, Brigade spawning, AOs, and Mobile spawning, ruined the ground war. The first 2 or 3 years was the peak.
They did have a good flight sim but listened more to the infantry whinners more thanh the pilots. If they had simply given the bombers a strat system I don't think they would have gone the route they have.
Pretty much glad I'm over here now. ALOT more planes to choose and a REAL strat sytem.
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When I left the bombs wouldnt hit the ground if you were too high. Version 1.5 was its peak for me. That and when more than a certain number were in the same area, you couldnt see them, but they may see you and so basically you get killed by an invisible man.
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Played from 2001 up untill about 9months ago. Flight opps were unplayable, and the groundwar (including tanks) is a joke when compared to Red Orchestra imho. Add in AO's & brigade crap and its a recipe for frustration. Its the only game I've ever seen where a dialup has a distinct advantage over someone on highspeed. Maybe someday I'll go back if they ever dump thier 90's game engine. The concept is good, it just needs to be brought into this century.
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I really liked the idea of being a part of a bigger "war", and I hope Combat Tour brings that to AH. It's too bad that their original code was so bad that they've never been able to recover from it. The game is dying a slow death.
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Originally posted by Gatr
I played it from day one up until December.....
I like some things...
Hate others....
The damage model is great... and some engine management stuff....
THe lack of vis SUCKS...
My squad went over there when HT put in the ENY thing...
I told them not to but oHH WELLL....
IT IS complealy different from here
finding s fight sux BIGTIME....
:furious
Gatr, you are definitely the wise one of your squad. They got frustrated by ENY limiting so moved to WWIIOL. WWIIOL has about 2 fighters and 1 bomber to choose from until you improve in rank (which takes forever because you start out flying the crappiest planes, have very few planes to shoot at, and can't see them to shoot them even when you find someone).
It's like saying, "It's too hot in California, so I'm moving to Venus."
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I have enjoyed WWIIOL in the past, but it is a much different game than AH. AH is a much better flight environment. Part of the reason AH is much better for flying than WWIIOL is the visibility -- not just the murky skies in WWIIOL but the whole view system in WWIIOL, which sucks. The visibility is always poor, you can't see behind you, but worst of all is that your icon indication of an enemy goes away once you shift you view. So, once you do aquire a target, if you shift your view to keep him in sight, you lose the icon on him, which makes it extremely hard to track anyone through the murk.
Another big difference is that a big furball in WWIIOL seems to involve about 5 planes, and there are times when you can fly around for an hour and end up finding maybe one enemy to fight.
At least that's how it was -- it's probably been about 6-12 months since I last played it.
It does have some interesting features. The planes do seem to have interesting damage models. The scenery looks good. Overall, though, AH is just in a totally different (and much better) league for flying.
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Absolutely. Enjoy WW2online very much from time to time. Not so much the airwar though. Enjoy AH too but not so much the ground vehicles. Like the plane physics and cockpits better in TW though. As a matter of fact, I have great memories from all the sims I frequent.
RASTER
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Just a FYI... IIRC...
WWII Online was taken over by Matrix Games a while back and was released under A different title. Check their site out.:cool:
http://www.matrixgames.com/
Check them out, I think that is what happened to it.
Later,
KayBay
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I played right up until the Xmas Patch. That blew it for me. Never did the airwar part of it after my first time up. Totally un-realistic and I couldn't stand it. The ground war was great but they porked it when they came out with the Xmas patch. I think they lost anywhere from 30 to 50% of their player bas on that one.
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Bought it when it came out...installed it...patched it....played it a bit.
I bought a new comuter last year and it is a BAD mammajamma...and WW2OL STILL SUCKS.....
Sorry I ever tried it to begin with and will NEVER play it again.
Promises of this being fixed...that being fixed.....frame rates in the single digits....FM's that are terrible at best.....Spawn camping worst than in AH....No thanks. A user interface that is just stupid.
AH is it for me as far as a flying sim goes. Ground war doesn't interest me all that much.
Only thing I do other than Flying is Racing.
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The tanks in WW2OL are done really well. If HT could get thier models done like them we could see ALOT of players coming over here.
When they brought in the Olympic Sappers [that could chase down tanks and put a charge on them] it pretty much killed the ground war for me.
AH is farther along toward a combined arms war game than the Rats will ever be.
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here :)
ww2online is technically crap