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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: captain1ma on March 18, 2024, 10:49:59 AM
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with all the crap in this forum, lets see how fast people respond to this positive post!
greatest flight sim/shootem up game ever made, ill be here til they turn off the lights.
just wish hitech could do more updates to the game for us diehards!
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2nd this motion
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+ 50
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Ohhhh YES.
1. Best balance between accurate flight model and simulator limitations, for example: trim on every surface, auto-trim - because we can't have same feedback as pilot has with his butt and stick forces, while flight model is highly accurate. And I mean it, for example trying to land in IL2 on carrier I couldn't properly control decent with engine like I suppose in real life, but if I compare for example DCS P-51D the behavior was virtually identical to AH3. Accurate models and performance!
2. Same controls for multiple planes - I don't need to know order of switching fuel tanks, priming run full checks like in DCS... because I can't remember them all when I fly different planes, when to enable super-charger or open/close heat control flaps.
3. Excellent views model - hat switch works perfectly well unlike many other games, you don't really need Track IR or VR for AH3, it just works
4. No "no-icons" idi**y. Human vision isn't 1920x1080! It is way better I can easily recognize aircraft from several km away - good luck doing it on screen
5. Community build terrains - this is major enabler for historical setups
6. Special events. They are amazing. You feel BoB, you feel Midway. Nothing even remotely close I've seen in other games. Good balance between history and fun game play
I really admire the great balance between flight simulation, gaming and realism.
I wish HiTech had more resources to develop this game: move to Vulkan and mutiple-OS support, more planes (Beufighter, Yak-1, Pe-2 and more), more periods - including jet ara (Korean War, Six Day war etc)
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Same here! I've been here since tour 21 and I don't plan on leaving ever.
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Same here Jaeger, here till the lights go out. Planning a visit with Dale here in a few weeks. :rock
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Ohhhh YES.
1. Best balance between accurate flight model and simulator limitations, for example: trim on every surface, auto-trim - because we can't have same feedback as pilot has with his butt and stick forces, while flight model is highly accurate. And I mean it, for example trying to land in IL2 on carrier I couldn't properly control decent with engine like I suppose in real life, but if I compare for example DCS P-51D the behavior was virtually identical to AH3. Accurate models and performance!
2. Same controls for multiple planes - I don't need to know order of switching fuel tanks, priming run full checks like in DCS... because I can't remember them all when I fly different planes, when to enable super-charger or open/close heat control flaps.
3. Excellent views model - hat switch works perfectly well unlike many other games, you don't really need Track IR or VR for AH3, it just works
4. No "no-icons" idi**y. Human vision isn't 1920x1080! It is way better I can easily recognize aircraft from several km away - good luck doing it on screen
5. Community build terrains - this is major enabler for historical setups
6. Special events. They are amazing. You feel BoB, you feel Midway. Nothing even remotely close I've seen in other games. Good balance between history and fun game play
I really admire the great balance between flight simulation, gaming and realism.
I wish HiTech had more resources to develop this game: move to Vulkan and mutiple-OS support, more planes (Beufighter, Yak-1, Pe-2 and more), more periods - including jet ara (Korean War, Six Day war etc)
Well worded.
He has a supreme opportunity to crush the competition, they have peaked out. This is a much more solid sim/game. It always disappoints me when someone gives into defeat. He has free help offered to him. Delegate the small beans to other trust worthy people and jump back in the coding chair. He has a golden opportunity to get those players back. Despite the dunning-kruger effect bird in his ear with a negative agenda and motive.
He was working on Vulken when his troubles came knocking. Such a rotten shame on many levels.
I’m more than willing to work on FX for free. I’ll sign an NDA. <shrug>
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It’s a unicorn in the world for sure. Makes it tough to compare it to other things equally.
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The best flight simulator ever.... :salute
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with all the crap in this forum, lets see how fast people respond to this positive post!
greatest flight sim/shootem up game ever made, ill be here til they turn off the lights.
just wish hitech could do more updates to the game for us diehards!
Sounds like a troll by a MOD looking for more people to mute...
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I think VR is the best implementation I've seen. Nothing like that steam VR mess.
Runs good without high dollar hardware.
Community was bar none back in the day as was FSO.
Kinda reminds me of thinking back to the 80ies...
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Sounds like a troll by a MOD looking for more people to mute...
Seek help.
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Great game....so many fun and challenging aspects....well polished product that leaves you wanting more!
:aok :aok
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Sounds like a troll by a MOD looking for more people to mute...
LOL, you wouldn't know a MOD if he slapped you in the face Hazmat. Just sour grapes on your part, you were most likely muted by your country men. If enough people report you it is an automatic mute. Seen it happen many times. That being said, hope you and the family are doing better. Was glad to hear your wife was recovering and back home. <S>
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It is the best ever, but I stopped cheerleading for it a few years ago.
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Look forward to my daily hour dose of AH almost every night for decades...MNM tonight!
I cannot say that about any other game and I have tried them all
Having daily interaction with other AH addicts is also entertaining
Best $15 a month I have ever spent
Eagler
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It is the best ever, but I stopped cheerleading for it a few years ago.
You're too fat to be a cheerleader not to mention ugly
:cheers:
Eagler
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Sounds like a troll by a MOD looking for more people to mute...
not sure what that even means, but im not a mod whatever that is. i am, however, a loyal player and run monday night madness and anything else i can come up with. :rolleyes:
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not sure what that even means, but im not a mod whatever that is. i am, however, a loyal player and run monday night madness and anything else i can come up with. :rolleyes:
I didn't say you were. I just said what I thought it sounded like :)
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This will always be my favorite game. I hate that I spent so many years away, but I plan on staying until HT kicks me out!
AH has sentimental value to me. I played this game and made friends during a time when true friendship was hard to find. I still value those friendships and talk to several of them on a regular basis.
While there are turds that make some nights not as fun as others, there are still a lot of great members of this community that I enjoy bickering back and forth with.
<S>
Josh
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Best multiplayer flight sim I've seen. I've played all of them a bunch. AW, WB, FA and a few others that have fell through the cracks. Dale and team saw what worked, what didn't and added some amazing twists, outstanding features and came up with a superior product. He also realized there were communities at those dying places and built a good place for the refugees from those failed platforms to land. This forum for one and the communicative aspects in the game keep the social interactions and community feel at a high level. Voice and the radio functions are still better than most other sims and plenty of the games out there. It amazes me that that other gaming venues miss this aspect and rely on 3rd-party stuff for coms and good interaction. Such a basic and non-trivial thing to screw up.
The player base, albeit dwindling, really has some members who genuinely care for and infinitely add quality to the sim in ways beyond coding and technical advances. It's good to see and it's a mighty plus.
Yeah, it'd be great if building on the platform resumed, we all want that obviously. If it doesn't happen? Well, riding it off into the sunset will still be great.
Ever so worth more than the 15 to 30 dollars a month I spend on it.
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He has a supreme opportunity to crush the competition, they have peaked out. This is a much more solid sim/game.
It is amazing game but unfortunately I've seen way too many want "high-fidelity" stuff and start playing "pilots" with all the work they need to deal to (i.e. there is a reason most pilots fly one type of plane 99% of the time) - but that is what it is.
I think AH3 model and implementation is pure gold - but I understand when some what something different - ones who want to "play pilots" and play DCS, ones who just want FPS shooter with cool planes play WT - ones who are interested in history and want have fun - play AH3
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You're too fat to be a cheerleader not to mention ugly
:cheers:
Eagler
Now that's funny! LOL
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LOL, you wouldn't know a MOD if he slapped you in the face Hazmat. Just sour grapes on your part, you were most likely muted by your country men. If enough people report you it is an automatic mute. Seen it happen many times. That being said, hope you and the family are doing better. Was glad to hear your wife was recovering and back home. <S>
Thanks. I appreciate the thoughts. It's been a rough go for sure. :salute
Not sure how I was getting muted by countrymen as I was on side switcher. I guess it's possible.
Ya, it is sour grapes to me. I really enjoyed playing AH3 and for about 20 years I never had been muted so I took it personally when I started getting muted every time I logged on for everything I said. (which was the same stuff I'd said for the previous 20 years.) I think the last straw for me was when another player called on my behalf (I didn't plan on calling I was had decided I was done) and he said that HT told him there was no record of my being muted. So either the mute logs were wrong (which I doubt) or I got muted by aliens or something. Either way it really is sour grapes on my part.
One thing I don't understand is how some players get Frosty and release a stream of screaming profanities on range but they never seem to get muted. Oh well. The horse is dead Jim.
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You're too fat to be a cheerleader not to mention ugly
:cheers:
Eagler
Maybe a bud light drinking cheerleader named Dylan?
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Ever so worth more than the 15 to 30 dollars a month I spend on it.
Utoh. Is this gonna turn into a dumpster fire over you having multiple accounts? LOL
I got that thing you sent me today btw. Thanks again.
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It is amazing game but unfortunately I've seen way too many want "high-fidelity" stuff and start playing "pilots" with all the work they need to deal to (i.e. there is a reason most pilots fly one type of plane 99% of the time) - but that is what it is.
I haven't got into DCS much except to test out the free planes but there is a point there. Even in IL2 I notice that I can't switch from plane to plane like I could in AH3. Some planes are closer then others but you will surely get yourself kilt in a plane that you don't at least have some familiarity with it or you could be like me and burn up the engine on take off and have to glide back to the base you just took off from...
I think DCS and AH3 are too far to ever combine to make a good game. On the other hand I think the added complexity of the plane models in AH3 I think would make it more interesting.
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It is amazing game but unfortunately I've seen way too many want "high-fidelity" stuff and start playing "pilots" with all the work they need to deal to (i.e. there is a reason most pilots fly one type of plane 99% of the time) - but that is what it is.
I think AH3 model and implementation is pure gold - but I understand when some what something different - ones who want to "play pilots" and play DCS, ones who just want FPS shooter with cool planes play WT - ones who are interested in history and want have fun - play AH3
I don’t really think that much has to change. Maybe some new FXs, as the software to make them has made great advances. A few other changes. I’m not sure if upgrading those will work as designed in the current engine. I don’t get answers, and I’m not asking anymore.
If it were to go the Pretty Manakins route you’d limit some players machines and we don’t have a numbers buffer YET. I’ll bet 1000s want to see it progress s little more. That game is its own boring world, totally different beast,…of burden.
I left during AHII, so AH3 is an update for me.
Some noticeable tweaks, fx update, I’m good. Update 3d engine would be cool, but then I’m not sure what that would entail.
I’m not as dissatisfied as many, it’s just an update would absolutely draw more players back.
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Maybe a bud light drinking cheerleader named Dylan?
This is rude dude.
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Aces High scenarios are still my main hobby, and have been for two decades.
And I have gotten the following people into flying every scenario with me: my Dad, my two daughters, three nephews, two college buddies, one former co-worker, one former neighbor.
That's how much I love this game.
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Aces High scenarios are still my main hobby, and have been for two decades.
And I have gotten the following people into flying every scenario with me: my Dad, my two daughters, three nephews, two college buddies, one former co-worker, one former neighbor.
That's how much I love this game.
Brooke, you have been part of our world since early AW to now in AH. Your name was always there, along with others. IIRR, your name was in credits for AW?
I kept passing flight sim CDs in the store, not being able to decide which my 286 could run. None. Kept putting it off. After my new GF was killed in 87 I decided life was too short to not enjoy my interest that makes me happy. In 88 I went back to the store to pick out a sim. Grabbed AW, raced home, installed it. First run, when I saw other humans flying around in a 3D world was eye candy I almost wet my pants over. But I could only get 12 fps. For 2 yrs I tried every hot rod idea to get it to be playable. It wouldn’t so I sat and just watched. I got it up to 20 fps. Still no joy. So I built a 386 which was just enough, I was off and running in 92-ish. Built a 486 and never left the game. We know, later Vet got me interested in tech support, Vet Culero, Tequila Chaser (TV) and Mage brought me into tech support for Kesmia/AW, I got the key to the car and stayed until the last day at EA.com.
I took deep resentment with HT and Pyro (who ere players) skimming players for AH beta, while we struggled to keep AW alive. I choked on my tongue and beta tested anyway, might as well, I predicted AW’s end day. It was so raw , such an embryo and so much nose bounce I lost interest and buried AW. A lot if use was the second wave from AW to AH.
I thought, these guys are really going to do this. When I saw it was so much like AW I didn’t leave until 2010-ish, when I lost wife and son. I lost interest in everything. I shut down for years, but would still stop in now and then to see if it was still running. It was, but lightning hit my gaming rig and here I was again, trying to get a new rig. I was returning to AH for the same reason I picked up AW, life is too short to not.
Finally in 2020 I came back, after losing my brother and parents, but no time to play, work crushed that. Last yr I checked in, saw names like Brooke, TC and others from AW still here. Saw other names I recognized like Fugitive and others, I had to jump back in. So here I am, being hated for fighting the good fight. I’ll never get it, but here I am anyway. 4 mos ago my GF who I knew since 6 yrs old passed away from brain cancer. You”re all stuck with me.
Like AW, I’m confident we’ll be here to the games’s last day or ours. It really is like family and home here for me. 30+ years. Some will just have to forgive me if my passion is deeper. Intil someone is willing to volunteer for my place in my coffin, I’ll be who I am.
Brooke, always the quiet one.
What a strange trip its been.
We need should do diner sometime.
<S>
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I continue to pop in and out of AH- some months on, some months off, but overall I've been at this game since '04. My brother, Flayed1, got me hooked on it about the time of AH2's release. Hope this game sticks around for at least another 20 years or better..
EGG
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I continue to pop in and out of AH- some months on, some months off, but overall I've been at this game since '04. My brother, Flayed1, got me hooked on it about the time of AH2's release. Hope this game sticks around for at least another 20 years or better..
EGG
theres always monday night madness when you get bored!
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Animal, dude, I am so sorry to hear how many horrible things happened over the years. I wish for you years of peace and happiness from here on out.
If you are ever near Nashville, TN, I would love to take you out to lunch or dinner.
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Saw other names I recognized like Fugitive and others, I had to jump back in. So here I am, being hated for fighting the good fight. I’ll never get it, but here I am anyway. 4 mos ago my GF who I knew since 6 yrs old passed away from brain cancer. You”re all stuck with me.
Some will just have to forgive me if my passion is deeper. Intil someone is willing to volunteer for my place in my coffin, I’ll be who I am.
Animl-AW , :salute
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If you are ever near Nashville, TN, I would love to take you out to lunch or dinner.
I would be totally down for a mini AH gathering in Nashvegas one weekend! Dayton 2009 was the only gathering I was ever able to attend. And there were more players there than what's in the Main Arena during the morning hours.
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Very true, I love this game. It fueled an interest in aircraft, tactics, and technology that, so far, has lasted my whole life. Additionally, I really wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid, but I have red-green colorblindness, so this game was my outlet for my interest in flying.
Overall, I have learned so much from many fantastic people in this game. I came in as a squeaker, meeting cujo and joining the VMF-216 Bulldogs, and shortly after, meeting 800nate. We got along so well that he got me to join the TA’s Peacemakers, and many great days and nights of memories followed. From Latrobe teaching me how to fly the 109, higheye teaching me how to dogfight, and all the great laughs I had and tips I learned from everyone around me, I’m so thankful I have this game and its wonderful community. I also remember huge bomber raids with ET37, NOE missions in 110s, and messing around in custom arenas with friends. In all, this game is unlike anything else I’ve played.
I’m still playing now, about 12 years later—although I took a 2 year break. Now, I’m flying with the TA’s Aerofighters, and it’s so great to reconnect and play with the great people who helped shape the person, and virtual fighter pilot, I am now. I can’t wait to make more memories on this engaging and exciting mix of simulation and fun.
On another note, more than ever before, I feel the importance to bolster and support the small community that we have left. We must treat everyone with respect, give props when they’re due, and apologize when we’re wrong. While it’s not all the time, I sometimes hear and see people treating each other with genuine disrespect. If we are to gain any new members, we cannot harbor a community that is rude or condescending. I’m not saying people can’t have friendly trash-talk, but there is sometimes I do feel it crosses a line. We are adults—we do not need to tell people they suck at the game. I’m not perfect either, I have been salty on 200 chat, but I try to always remain respectful and salute whoever killed me. We must all remember our common ground, our love for WW2 history, fun battles, and the people we play with. Let’s keep this game going and keep on killing each other lol.
-Propilot/Aeroace
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I would be totally down for a mini AH gathering in Nashvegas one weekend! Dayton 2009 was the only gathering I was ever able to attend. And there were more players there than what's in the Main Arena during the morning hours.
We could swing that. :aok
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accidentally quoted sorry
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see above
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see above
Looks like you suck at the forums! :bolt:
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Looks like you suck at the forums! :bolt:
I don’t post much on here lol, you’re right
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I don’t post much on here lol, you’re right
I've done it too. Just goofing :)
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We all suck at forums lol
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We must all remember our common ground, our love for WW2 history, fun battles, and the people we play with. Let’s keep this game going and keep on killing each other lol.
-Propilot/Aeroace
AMEN ... Let's try to make this game a fun environment with respect and camaraderie. It's difficult to persuade a young person to fly old planes...
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AMEN ... Let's try to make this game a fun environment with respect and camaraderie. It's difficult to persuade a young person to fly old planes...
:salute
anyone who can kill my 51 in a Brewster has my respect. <S> that’s a class act.
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I would be totally down for a mini AH gathering in Nashvegas one weekend! Dayton 2009 was the only gathering I was ever able to attend. And there were more players there than what's in the Main Arena during the morning hours.
I would be up for this with advanced notice. Work is going to be batsht crazy with 2 huge historical national events you’ll all see, and others back to back until Nov. Pretty sure they’ll try to kill me off my last year, my last season. lol.
Would be nice if something came of it. Even if just a few. Just let me know well in advance.
Cool idea.