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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: humble on May 29, 2009, 09:42:03 AM
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I know an awful lot of time and work goes into every update. As a result a lot of stuff is leaked out to keep interest up and "frustration" down. One thing I do miss is the lack of unexpected surprises in the recent updates. Way back when we always got a plane (or Vehicle) we were expecting...but also something we didn't anticipate. Hopefully we'll get back to having an unexpected toy under the tree in each update :aok :salute
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I like......turtles. :noid
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I would think actually receiving an update should be surprise enough
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I would think actually receiving an update should be surprise enough
:pray
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In 2 weeks
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Hmm June 6th would be appropriate.
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I know an awful lot of time and work goes into every update.
One thing I do miss is the lack of unexpected surprises in the recent updates. :aok :salute
In this up coming update, I'd love to find:
The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too...
The Game clock to resemble any American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)
The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once entering the lobby
An extra text buffer choice for PM's or other ( I use squad, country, room, 200 and vox)
Zoom settings to remember like our standard set views do
For all 50 cals to shoot the same
Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look
Three uncapturable bases in TT FT ( place the red square on them)
Squelch on/off choices for range
Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord
Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour
Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them
To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the time
Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open.
A message to new players that asks them if they want to visit the TA for training before entering the main....or something on those lines to help them.
I'm sure I can come up with a few other small easy you would think to fix things like adding links to the helpful thinks section, but I'm tired......OMG the useful link section is up. when did that happen, gave up on checking a couple months back..humm
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A message to new players that asks them if they want to visit the TA for training before entering the main....or something on those lines to help them.
Better make certain there is a Trainer in the TA at all times before you do that. It would be better to suggest that they visit the Training Web Site. Then on that site, put the Training schedule and Trainer contact info on the front page, big bold and obvious. Simply sending them to the TA would be sending them to an empty arena much of the time.
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For all 50 cals to shoot the same
Not sure what your getting at here, but this has been discussed before and I have asked the question personally at a previous con.
1) .50 cal guns are a single "object" and it's definition is constant.
2) They can assign an "object" to a plane.
3) When they assign the .50 cal "object" to a plane ... it's characteristics are exactly they same for all planes that they assign it to.
The .50 cal that is mounted on a Mustang is the exact same .50 cal mounted on an F6F/FM2/F4U/Spit16/P-47/P-38/etc.
There are actually two types of .50s found on U.S. fighters. One is for a normal installation and one is for a synchronized installation. The P-40B uses a synchronized installation which has a lower rate of fire than the normal version. They are still the same in a bullet per bullet comparison.
As for them using different characteristics, that's not how the system works. Lethality, rate of fire, muzzle velocity, armor penetration, etc, is not set on a plane by plane basis. There's a weapon file that is set up with all that information. None of that info is defined in any of the plane files, it just says go use this weapon for this hardpoint. These planes(with the exception of the P-40B) are all set to the same weapon.
Now this is not to say that your perception is wrong. It's just that what you attribute as the cause of your perception may be what's wrong. For example, compare the FM2 versus the P-51B. They have identical guns(I did verify all of these). Yet you note that one is much more effective than the other. What other differences are involved that may account for the disparity? Is it really that you are using different weapons or is it that you are using the same weapons in a different way or against different things?
I would like to see that when one assigns "tower" views ... they remain constant for ALL towers on ALL maps ... just like they are constant for planes.
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DUKW!!!
(http://www.dukws.co.uk/dukw%2029.JPG)
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DUKW!!!
(http://www.dukws.co.uk/dukw%2029.JPG)
HAHA we could get to shore and unload a jeep..............
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Not sure what your getting at here,
The .50 cal that is mounted on a Mustang is the exact same .50 cal mounted on an F6F/FM2/F4U/Spit16/P-47/P-38/etc.
The .50 cal that is mounted on a Mustang does not shoot like the FM2 or others at all. Any back pressure on the stick makes it shoot low instantly. Try it.
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That's the plane. The stick doesn't do anything to the gun except from pulling the trigger.
Slap - I think the problem is that the towers keep your head positions but don't rotate them to match the airfields' rotation relative to the map.
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In this up coming update, I'd love to find
Three uncapturable bases in TT FT ( place the red square on them)
Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour
A message to new players that asks them if they want to visit the TA for training before entering the main....or something on those lines to help them.
these are 3 very excellent ideas...and i wonder if they should mayhaps be transferred to the wishlist?
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The .50 cal that is mounted on a Mustang does not shoot like the FM2 or others at all. Any back pressure on the stick makes it shoot low instantly. Try it.
i'm confused? backpressure would pitch the nose up? so if anything, they should go high?
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they should mayhaps be transferred to the wishlist?
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Slap - I think the problem is that the towers keep your head positions but don't rotate them to match the airfields' rotation relative to the map.
:cry
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i'm confused? backpressure would pitch the nose up? so if anything, they should go high?
Back pressure would imply positive Gs ... your nose is higher (in an instant) than when you pulled the trigger which would then make it look like you are shooting lower.
The more Gs you pull trying to get "lead" means more "lead" on the target.
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Back pressure would imply positive Gs ... your nose is higher (in an instant) than when you pulled the trigger which would then make it look like you are shooting lower.
The more Gs you pull trying to get "lead" means more "lead" on the target.
ok....now i got it.....although you would actually be shooting higher, it would appear lower......i'll go grab something to drink.......maybe i'll think straighter then. :noid
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ok....now i got it.....although you would actually be shooting higher, it would appear lower......i'll go grab something to drink.......maybe i'll think straighter then. :noid
yes .... it "appears" because it is true, your are truly shooting lower until your nose can equal the true lead of your target and the offset of the Gs you are pulling.
Think of this ...
You got the garden hose in hand and there is a squirrel at the bottom of a very tall tree.
As the squirrel scrambles up the tree you shoot where he was and adjust upward to his position as he moves up the tree ... the water will always appear (and is) shooting lower on the tree, relative to the squirrel, than where the nozzle is pointed. This will be true until you get the nozzle pointed higher than where the squirrel is traveling on the tree (true lead).
Now throw in a situation where both you and the squirrel are moving ... :rolleyes:
Whatever your drinking ... I'll have one.
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(http://www.kilroywashere.org/09-Images/Woody/BristolBeaufighter.jpg)
Or a perk Jeep!
(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jeep_Man/NA2.jpg)
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What is sitting on that jeep ? :O
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeep_man/sasjeep.htm
The jeeps were heavily armed with combinations of both Browning and Vickers K machine guns. The ex-aircraft Vickers weapons were generally mounted in pairs and a total of up to five machine guns were carried on some vehicles. The effectiveness of this armament firing a mix of ball, armour-piercing and tracer shells can be judged from one assault on an airfield where 12 aircraft were destroyed in a five minute raid. With all guns blazing a single SAS jeep could deliver an impressive 5000 rounds per minute! The net result was that over 400 aircraft had been destroyed on the ground by November 1942. Stirling was finally captured in 1943 but escaped four times before being sent to Colditz where he spent the rest of the war.
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeep_man/sasjeep.htm
Wow ... the original desert "Rat Patrol" !!!
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I haven't seen the rat patrol in over 30 years, is it still out there somewhere?
(http://epguides.com/RatPatrol/cast.jpg)
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I haven't seen the rat patrol in over 30 years, is it still out there somewhere?
You're in the early stages of dementia. Otherwise you would be happy NOT to know how to find old episodes of that dreadful series.
- oldman
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You know what a great surprise would be?
The patch being released before I get bored and unsubscribe.
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I like surprises. But if I don't get a surprise at least twice a year, I throw a hissy fit :D
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For all 50 cals to shoot the same
All American .50 cals shoot the same... it's all a matter of mounting and perception.
Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them
They are...
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That my friend is a M-2 Browning .50cal. Nice sights on it to.
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I would like troops whose legs move, instead of being on invisible roller blades. :)
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I would like troops whose legs move, instead of being on invisible roller blades. :)
:lol
and when you shoot them, they don't just vanish, but have some sort of animated fall to the ground.
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DUKW!!!
(http://www.dukws.co.uk/dukw%2029.JPG)
Better yet. LST's
Perhaps by way of mission requirement from a CV or PT spawns
Meaning they can only be used during a "mission" to bring tanks ashore.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/LST_Sicily.jpg/250px-LST_Sicily.jpg)
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I would like troops whose legs move, instead of being on invisible roller blades. :)
:aok
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I want the troops to scream when they die.
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I want the troops to scream when they die.
Pilots who scream when their planes on fire.
Would give added incentive to not keep fighting from a flying torch
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Pilots who scream when their planes on fire.
Would give added incentive to not keep fighting from a flying torch
So would low voltage shocks delivered through the joy stick. :eek:
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- In this up coming update, I'd love to find:
The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too...
The Game clock to resemble any American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)
The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once entering the lobby
An extra text buffer choice for PM's or other ( I use squad, country, room, 200 and vox)
Zoom settings to remember like our standard set views do
For all 50 cals to all shoot the same
Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look
Three uncapturable bases in TT FT ( place the red square on them)
Squelch on/off choices for range
Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord
Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour
Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them
To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the time
Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open.
A message to new players that asks them if they want to visit the TA for training before entering the main....or something on those lines to help them.
Forgot about REDOUTS when on fire. Many of these are easy fixes I would think. Not sure about that one though. Hard or easy add-on do you think?
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I would think actually receiving an update should be surprise enough
LOL +1 :aok
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"...receiving an update should be surprise enough"
LOL +2!!
That TRULY would be the biggest, stunning surprise of all.
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repeat
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considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III
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"considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III"
...and you know all that is going into the next update (beyond Tiffie art, terrain and possibly
water updates because... wait! Don't tell me. You are a bonified member of the secret inner
circle!
lol
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pilots scream loud enough when they catch fire on channel 200.
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"considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III"
...and you know all that is going into the next update (beyond Tiffie art, terrain and possibly
water updates because... wait! Don't tell me. You are a bonified member of the secret inner
circle!
lol
HTC has already let out that the new terrain, new water, new lighting system, and redone Typhoon are near ready for release. With all that (well mainly the first three) I have to agree with Wingnut.
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"considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III"
...and you know all that is going into the next update (beyond Tiffie art, terrain and possibly
water updates because... wait! Don't tell me. You are a bonified member of the secret inner
circle!
lol
Even if it were just the water and land... hell that's the whole "world" we play in.. that in and of itself would warrant 3.0.
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Yowsa. I've seen folks with low expecations before but man.. Raise the bar a LITTLE
bit. heheheheh.
On the other hand given the pace of development here (let's not even bother to talk
about news releases. unless you think server outages is news) over the past few years
that I can understand how you two would think those few things would be a big deal.
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They completely redid the way the game looks... that's a low bar? :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UR9MvyoBig
And we still don't know what else is coming!
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It's just a graphics update. No gameplay changes. Even considering just the graphics, the game's still the same: water's still solid 2D, clouds are the same, sun is the same so far, still no weather, etc.
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ooooohhhh booo hooooo
it looks awesome to me
I cannie wait...
"slaps arm" need my hit
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Cool video. Seen it. Didn't give me a woody. It's eye candy.
Can't add to the solid points that moot brought up before I have to leave
for the day.
Registered 2007? Says a lot :)
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It's just a graphics update. No gameplay changes. Even considering just the graphics, the game's still the same: water's still solid 2D, clouds are the same, sun is the same so far, still no weather, etc.
Do you feel the game play needs changing?
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Do you feel the game play needs changing?
I take it you don't frequent the wishlist forum? :D
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I take it you don't frequent the wishlist forum? :D
I do, and keep bumping the artillary thread. :t
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Do you feel the game play needs changing?
Can you go straight to the point?
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I did. It seemed like you didn't think much of this update because: "It's just a graphics update. No gameplay changes."
I just wondered if you thing the game play needs changing?
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I did. It seemed like you didn't think much of this update because: "It's just a graphics update. No gameplay changes."
I just wondered if you thing the game play needs changing?
Follow the thread:
considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III
"considering all that is going into the next update, it might aswell be called Aces High III"
...and you know all that is going into the next update (beyond Tiffie art, terrain and possibly
water updates because... wait! Don't tell me. You are a bonified member of the secret inner
circle!
HTC has already let out that the new terrain, new water, new lighting system, and redone Typhoon are near ready for release. With all that (well mainly the first three) I have to agree with Wingnut.
Even if it were just the water and land... hell that's the whole "world" we play in.. that in and of itself would warrant 3.0.
Yowsa. I've seen folks with low expecations before but man.. Raise the bar a LITTLE
bit. heheheheh.
On the other hand given the pace of development here (let's not even bother to talk
about news releases. unless you think server outages is news) over the past few years
that I can understand how you two would think those few things would be a big deal.
They completely redid the way the game looks... that's a low bar? :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UR9MvyoBig
And we still don't know what else is coming!
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I agree with them; it's a major update on par with the AHI to AHII update.
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I would be tickled pink if they would just fix my pet bug ! ;)
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I would be tickled pink if they would just fix my pet bug ! ;)
what kind of bug is it? what is wrong with it? wanna buy a used Dung Beetle?
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What if we had radio hits.
Flying along communicating with the squad and all of a sudden your radio gets hit....that would suck.......I'd almost trade that to just be able to see behind my F6.
I'm sure I'd change my mind about that quick tho :lol