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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: PAKFRONT on December 28, 2011, 08:26:23 PM
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This is kind of an "Add a Comment" post.. Being an Old/Newb just returning, I have really noticed how the game has changed over the years..
So this is sorta a New Years oriented Post.. I invite all to post about the old foibles of the game, remember where we came from, and appreciate where we are now! Please, one to a person, leave something for someone else.. Thanks HT and Crew, the mothership has flown a fair distance huh?
Do ya Remember when???
You could adjust your vid settings, so you had X ray vision, could see str8 through the mountains?
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get the church......
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Fightertown.
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The outrage over the b29 and meteor. :bolt:
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Night time buffs raids with gamma to the max so night time was eliminated :devil
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The remodeled B17- AH1 to AH2 standard. Beautiful bird.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg32/scaled.php?server=32&filename=ah1b172.jpg&res=medium)(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg707/scaled.php?server=707&filename=ahss21.jpg&res=medium)(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg690/scaled.php?server=690&filename=lilmsmischief.jpg&res=medium)
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Remember when the great swarms of Fireflys disappeared?
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The Squid!!!
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:noid :noid
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When you could shift a tank manually
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Do ya Remember when???
You could adjust your vid settings, so you had X ray vision, could see str8 through the mountains?
You can still see bases and the sun through mountains, clipboards, your airframe.
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H2H? :cry
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Puffy in every town
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You drive into those building and and you could shoot threw the walls and nobody from the outside could see you? That was great.
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Remember when opposing countries ( or opposing squads ) met each other at altitude and battled their way pushing forward or being pushed back with each side fighting for the others base, and the thought of a "horde" was committing a sin just thinking about it ( just kiddin )........ but no one avoided the fight from any country .......... you grabbed land but you fought for it and did not carefreely roll bases with gigantic horde swarms unopposed while another country did the same and the 3rd country did the same all 3 countries grabbing bases and not actually doing any fighting......... I have not seen that happen in awhile though so maybe we have moved beyond that little bump in time .... history is always repeating itself, so here is hopefully to history coming back to what it was before ....... things are looking better for Aces High with every new "frequent update" and semi frequent new version :aok
~S~
TC
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when we had sheep...
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The Squid!!!
(http://www.flos.clara.co.uk/storage/squid.jpg)
Screen shot by Flossy
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Rocks that made your vehicle explode if you hit one.
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How hard that first take off in the 51 was in the beta after coming over from AW FR on Gamestorm.
Walking out of the tower and out past the base.
Being impressed with the "big names" from sims past all united in one sim and one arena.
Pitch black night fights.
The donut map.
The fight.
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having to do as Scotch post and walk from the tower to the map room or from the map room to the hangar
instead of launching right on the runway. You had to taxi out from the "camaflouge net covered hangar area" (because we had no hangar buildings per say just a few upside down u shaped hangars) on the dirt taxi ways to the dirt runway to take off and there was no auto take off back in those days
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safe landings on enemy field
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sheep that could flip a 20 ton tank
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when you could hit 150mph in a down hill run with a panzer
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When the Vh's looked like square chickenwire buildings and you could sit beside them and kill a spawning tank by shooting through the wall?
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(http://www.flos.clara.co.uk/storage/squid.jpg)
Screen shot by Flossy
Love the squid! I remember one of the hangars had a pin-up inside... of a sheep! Not sure if its still there or not.
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Remembering when there were GV spawns to strats that were scattered about. You could spawn to an nme strat with an osti or an SDK and lay waste to it then wait for a train to come in a blow it up too. It was a victimless diversion just for the sheer joy of hearing things explode...
It was also fun to resupply a friendly one and get enough perks for a tiger :)
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AH1....... Id go back to that version and mentality over what we have any day of the week.
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Do ya Remember when???
You could adjust your vid settings, so you had X ray vision, could see str8 through the mountains?
Still can
:cheers: Oz
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Pizza.
Which IMO was the best map for combined GV and air attacks.
Some didnt like the color, Which could have been changed though I had no prob with it.
The only thing I didnt like about it was the way the countries were initially laid out
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dropping a goon full of troops on nme base, just behind the hangars, and admiring the auto-ack turn the base into a giant disco ball. Always made me laugh.
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the FREE online 8 mutli-player feature
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The beer bottle....... the volcano.............
Shuff's Paradise :)
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Tank town... :cry
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whirling wheel, vertigo inducing clouds of massive FPS hitting cloud fronts
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as has been mentioned, that dang Church!
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300 pmh belly landings that took the entire length of the runway to stop, but were fun as hell! :banana:
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Arena caps. :bolt:
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1 hr switch time. :aok
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Taking all the field ack down with two passes having no damage and lots of vulching ammo left! :t
I like this one ...
get the church......
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'I remember when...'
desert pizza map
manual bombing calibration
giant hit bubbles that meant killing someone at 1.2k was easy
flight model on rails before AH2 conversion
spitV with uber performance and double ammo
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Most of the aforementioned stuff, but I miss taking off of CV's in buffs and C47's the most. :devil
Train ack.
Dropping troops on the base for the take. :P
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The free side of AH.... :rock
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09/16/06... :noid
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Remember when (way back in 'Nam :noid) Tiger's were so terrifying, everyone would start screaming "TIGER, TIGER! HOLY JESUS, THERES A TIGER OUT HERE!!!!! EVERYBODY RUN!" and everyone not in a Tiger would either try and swarm it (almost always to no avail) or clear out?
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Remember when you could take any compressing plane, hit alt-x and
plane would come out of compression. :rofl
:cheers: Oz
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When you could get a jeep, drive inside a tank, and ping it to death....oh wait....
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You could spawn into the enemy's strats with a tank and farm for perks.
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Yeah you could farm GV perks at the Strats with a tank.. But better was the rockets from a 251.. Better yet, was the EXPERT Perk farming method! Take some heavy bonbers to the strat, drop your full load from High Alt, then tower, quickly roll a 251 to the same strat and start shootin rockets.. You got Mega Score in your GV from the Bombs coming down.. Another player told me about that, no names, lol! Never did it myself, not worth it to me.. To me, that wasn't farmin honest perks, that was grubbin in the dumpster!
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Yeah you could farm GV perks at the Strats with a tank.. But better was the rockets from a 251.. Better yet, was the EXPERT Perk farming method! Take some heavy bonbers to the strat, drop your full load from High Alt, then tower, quickly roll a 251 to the same strat and start shootin rockets.. You got Mega Score in your GV from the Bombs coming down.. Another player told me about that, no names, lol! Never did it myself, not worth it to me.. To me, that wasn't farmin honest perks, that was grubbin in the dumpster!
Actually, just upping a 251 would have sufficed :noid
To all who are now jumping into the arena for a try: That had been fixed long time ago - It's the reason why your ords/troops disappear instantly when you respawn too fast after being sent to tower.
And to put this back to topic: I do remember when this fix happened. As almost nobody ever reads the release notes, I saw quite a number of base captures failing when the running troops suddenly vanished without a trace :D
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Actually, just upping a 251 would have sufficed :noid
To all who are now jumping into the arena for a try: That had been fixed long time ago - It's the reason why your ords/troops disappear instantly when you respawn too fast after being sent to tower.
And to put this back to topic: I do remember when this fix happened. As almost nobody ever reads the release notes, I saw quite a number of base captures failing when the running troops suddenly vanished without a trace :D
Heya Snailman.
LOL, no way! Did someone really try it??? LOL!
Yeah I remember the drop troops and bail move.. Also PT's doing the launch and bail, one guy puttin 30 torpos in the water at once!
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Sadly .. The G-10... I miss her.. She was special... She was fast and smooth.. She was.. she was...
Salute
Gatr
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old towns, old ships, sheep, b25, intro of sherman firefly...
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old towns, old ships, sheep, b25, intro of sherman firefly...
(sniffle) :cry :cry memories :cry those were the good ol days
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when zero's would burn for 2 minutes on fire, frantically Hoing everyone in sight before their demise.
When tail hits popped off the whole elevator and people were sent backwards into the ground. Now they annoyingly carry on turning with half a tail when you've stopped shooting expected them to be dead. :)
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The WIND where is the WIND! AH Blows without WIND! End the droopy socks!
(http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad206/asdfghjkl11/DAILY%20TORTURE%20SYMPTOMS%20HOSPITALIZATIONS/windsockair.jpg)
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AH I, no trees, forests were just dark green areas on the ground and you could spot a GV from 10 miles away in a plane.
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AH I, no trees, forests were just dark green areas on the ground and you could spot a GV from 10 miles away in a plane.
Don't remember that, but sounds like one of the ritzier suburbs of hell.
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Don't remember that, but sounds like one of the ritzier suburbs of hell.
Talking 10 yrs back
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Alright, yeah. I missed it by 4 years.
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AH I, no trees, forests were just dark green areas on the ground and you could spot a GV from 10 miles away in a plane.
Don't remember that, but sounds like one of the ritzier suburbs of hell.
Add to that the fact that the only tank at the time, the Panzer IV H, could easily be killed by gunfire from Hispano Mk II armed aircraft....
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I started in 07....but the first thing I noticed that had changed after my year long hiatus...
Green
Purple
Orange
Blue
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Remember when..?
I remember my youngest son(now followed his brother in US Army and had killed more in one p-38 flite[8] than I have yet to) pointed out article in an on line magazine were reveiwer had upped B-17s and flown deep into enemy territory...only to be shot down by a lone 109...and dang if it wasn't me! As Groth..and than he noted I'd saluted him.....
LOOONG time ago.
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Do ya Remember when???
Il2+ F3 :furious
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Il2+ F3 :furious
Sorry GHI we wanted a fair chance :ahand
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I remember when the best Spitfire in Aces High was the Mk. IX and 7/10 aircraft in the skies were La7's.
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I remember when you could zoom while in any tank gun. Turning down graphics helped you out in spotting other GV's because they would be floating in mid air.
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Assasin Mission up join
Fester Mission up join
Fariz Mission up Join
ROCSTAR3 Mission up join
and from 2003 till 2008-2009
ghi mission up join
Whels shot me down at...
paccer shot me down at...
Arena will closed cause of update
Church up church up
little hut up
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THE INFAMOUS CALAMARI
(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6096/page24xn1.jpg)
With the Deadly acks
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Playing for 17 hours straight when WWI planes came out.
Batfink shooting me down around 300 times in that time span.
3 hour scenarios
6 hour TS meetings for scenarios
Late night FSO runs.
The constant arguements of AvA
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The Foo`s
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Bring back the sheeps....ore the F3 for il2s vote!
(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l168/rokman_2006/Sheep.jpg)
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Remember when opposing countries ( or opposing squads ) met each other at altitude and battled their way pushing forward or being pushed back with each side fighting for the others base, and the thought of a "horde" was committing a sin just thinking about it ( just kiddin )........ but no one avoided the fight from any country .......... you grabbed land but you fought for it and did not carefreely roll bases with gigantic horde swarms unopposed while another country did the same and the 3rd country did the same all 3 countries grabbing bases and not actually doing any fighting......... I have not seen that happen in awhile though so maybe we have moved beyond that little bump in time .... history is always repeating itself, so here is hopefully to history coming back to what it was before ....... things are looking better for Aces High with every new "frequent update" and semi frequent new version :aok
~S~
TC
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Remember when
.50 cals popped field ack as well as cannons.
LTAR was the last thing you wanted to see in the kill buffer if you were trying to capture a base.
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Another thing for the "they never fight each other" and "nothing but hording and ganging these days" guys...
Remember when the war victory requirement was getting ONE country down to 5 bases and holding more of that country than the 3rd country? Up to several resets in 24 hours by piling on one and the same underdog country with both "big ones" avoiding the battle between them on the way to reset...
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The AvA strife on when it was acceptable to actually do something in the arena...
Changing the town to a different layout and settings, you cant just roll two bombers side by side and erase the whole town...
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Rook Fighters escorting nit c47s in a combined assist on Tank Town Island...
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Il-2's without the 37mm :rock.
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Nostaligic, but not AH AW3, havent been playing AH long enough, but it's still on point for sim fans.
I remember King of the hill and winning too, (go me, YaY!) using the tactic of flying inside a volcano's caldera.
I also remember a fantistic tactic in AW3 was the double immelman
Stall fighting in an A26
I was awesome in a P40 (I suck hard here though :/)
The little lines our CO drew in the mission briefing for our route, which we almost never followed.
Upping a mission many many sectors away from the enemy base on the deck, because we knew the enemy would never look down, and it worked! (still showed dar)
The F4UD being the most similar aircraft to AW3 when I joined AH. I remember dogfighting Badz one on one alot in it. (and if he's no longer around, I always won :D)
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Another thing for the "they never fight each other" and "nothing but hording and ganging these days" guys...
Remember when the war victory requirement was getting ONE country down to 5 bases and holding more of that country than the 3rd country? Up to several resets in 24 hours by piling on one and the same underdog country with both "big ones" avoiding the battle between them on the way to reset...
I remember when there were not any "uncapturable" bases and winning the war was done by capturing all of one country's bases, while having more bases than the surviving third country. When a country got down to one base it was an epic dogpile and the losing country fighting to the last man to hold the base. Funny thing is, I don't recall guys coming in to drop all the hangers at teh last base and halt the fight in those situations, as is so common today. It was more fun for all to fight to the death over that last base.
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Pulling up on an enemy base in an Osti and "landing succesfully" with a crapload of kills when the VH popped.
FesterMA (my all time favorite map)
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This thread brought so many memories, i have to start playing again! :)
Also, remember spitfire Mk. V with 240 rounds of 20mm ammo ;)?
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When HiTech was NOT a Putz.........Oh Wait that never happened, My bad! :devil :devil
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I remember when there was no trees and Limbo0 and I would spawncamp gv spawns with B25H's n blast gvs who spawned in, also the gver's who died would cry " CHEATER!! HACK!! " lol :lol :lol hmmmm no wonder HT changed the terrain :huh
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The week the P47M came out and Runstangs were getting caught running like a criminal with baggy pants?
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Thick evergreen forests... I miss those days. :(
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The DA had Killshooter off and everyone would vulch one another LOL.
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7/10 aircraft in the skies were La7's.
It was the same way when the C-Hog was released, and lasted quite a while.
What about car bombing buffs? I think this was A/H 2?
In A/H at the start you had a giant pizza and bottle of Shiner Bock at one of the fields. The FDB used to defend that base with the tenacity of someone defending their own home! :rofl :cheers:
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Bottle of Jack under the seat of one of the F4U variants. :cheers:
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When we had the 109-G10
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Anyone mention the trains that shoot you down while your rtb?
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When we had the 109-G10
We never had a Bf109G-10. We had a Bf109K-4 that was labeled as a Bf109G-10 as an excuse to give it the 20mm motorkannon and 20mm gondola options. If it had actually been a Bf109G-10 it would have had a top speed of about 425mph instead of the Bf109K-4's 452mph.
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I think most are aware of that. But we still miss our "G10" all the same. And an actuall Bf109-G10 would still be nice. Give us something to fill the gap between the G6 and the G14.
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I think most are aware of that. But we still miss our "G10" all the same. And an actuall Bf109-G10 would still be nice. Give us something to fill the gap between the G6 and the G14.
No it wouldn't. The Bf109G-10 entered service in November 1944, well after both the Bf109G-6 and Bf109G-14. It was even later to service than the Bf109K-4 which entered service in October of 1944.
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Hmmm.... then what variant am I thinking of? Maybe I'm thinking of the 190's or something.
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Combat belly landings at 300 mph +
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The debate about which operating system would be better for playing AH: Windows 98 SE or XP, ME being the Vista of those days...
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Remember capturing a base by sliding in at 300 mph with a JU52? I think you had to slide up to a building, most of the time without wings. hahahaha
Bring back the JU52.
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Remember capturing a base by sliding in at 300 mph with a JU52? I think you had to slide up to a building, most of the time without wings. hahahaha
Bring back the JU52.
You remember a different game ;)
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donut
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Remember capturing a base by sliding in at 300 mph with a JU52? I think you had to slide up to a building, most of the time without wings. hahahaha
Bring back the JU52.
Warbirds?
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Yes he is remembering Warbirds. He is also :old: :devil
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Anyone remember back in 2008 a 5 hour or so fight over a Zone base? That was Epic!
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Remember that 7K base in the center of one of Festers maps? The fights that happened for that base were epic. The tank battles that ran up those valleys where there were 8 or so bases in a line. Again great fights up and down them. That was a fun map.
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Anyone else remember when the Firefly was introduced, and Tigers got shat on?
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First "con" mission I ever witnessed. Flying PT Boats. My brother Flayed1 found where HiTech's PT aerial spawn point was and orbited it with his B26's, the result of which Hitech was shot down (or sunk, if you prefer) five times.
(Flayed, correct my story if I'm wrong, but I think that's how it went.) ;)
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I remember Denholm airport map in H2H. Buzzing the tower and was like a lighter hearted version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
I remember epic custom maps, including 2 V-Bases joined by a huge bridge (looked like the Golden Gate), with shore batteries on both sides, epic tank battles in between.
I remember a map with volcanoes and of course, snow maps.
I remember the day the "endless bombs" hack was seen in H2H, and everyone went nuts.
I remember Skuzzy coming into a server (with text only), and asking what the hell was going on. When myself and a few other players told him what was happening, he didn't believe us, and kicked me out of the server (probably because I called him a dummy for not seeing this :o :lol).
I remember about two weeks later, H2H was shut down (indefinitely), and of course I was pissed and left the game, didn't come back until last year.
I remember a few old names, Denholm, Blue (not sure if that's his name, but he hosted a server with MA settings, and an excellent P38 pilot that taught me pretty much everything), and B2B (which I still see :aok), and a bunch of other that I've forgotten.
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First "con" mission I ever witnessed. Flying PT Boats. My brother Flayed1 found where HiTech's PT aerial spawn point was and orbited it with his B26's, the result of which Hitech was shot down (or sunk, if you prefer) five times.
(Flayed, correct my story if I'm wrong, but I think that's how it went.) ;)
Lol I remember that, Slash was driving the PT boat and I was gunning. That PT was wicked the way it moved. I almost puked a couple times. :lol
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I think the muppet's tried to put 2 missions together to face each other in the middle of an ocean.
Those 20+ vs 20+ was the only time a good ol' fashion air battle happened, I can't remember how long ago.
/90mph down hill race to slam into a sheep.
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Winter map with snow and ice, tanks sliding everywhere.
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The Kill Chat buffer. You know, back in 2000/2001 when every single kill was reported in bright grey letters in the channel 1 (the old 200) chat report buffer.
It was really cool seeing the results of verbal sparring on the ch1/200 result in the death of somebody pretty much in real time. It gave everyone a lot of laughs when you would see somebody beaking off and then being reported as a kill by the person they were just yapping at.
I wish they would bring it back as a tunable channel, like 201 or something, for those of us that wished to follow it. It also gave pilots a sense of accomplishment without having to "land" their kills to get their name in the lights.
Bring it back! Bring it back!
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The Kill Chat buffer. You know, back in 2000/2001 when every single kill was reported in bright grey letters in the channel 1 (the old 200) chat report buffer.
It was really cool seeing the results of verbal sparring on the ch1/200 result in the death of somebody pretty much in real time. It gave everyone a lot of laughs when you would see somebody beaking off and then being reported as a kill by the person they were just yapping at.
I wish they would bring it back as a tunable channel, like 201 or something, for those of us that wished to follow it. It also gave pilots a sense of accomplishment without having to "land" their kills to get their name in the lights.
Bring it back! Bring it back!
We used Macro's for that back in AW :aok