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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Chairboy on April 01, 2003, 10:37:57 AM
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Howdy,
Pyro is going to release some official screenshots later today, but I wanna beat him to the punch, so I thought I'd share some impressions about Aces High 2.
MISSILES AWAY!
It rocks! There are a couple of tiny graphics glitches, but the new game is absolutely incredible! They've added air-to-air missiles (both radar and infrared) and those are going to totally change the flavor of the game.
Here's a screenshot from the F-86:
(http://www.hallert.net/images/ah2pic.jpg)
First of all, this plane is definately my new favorite. This thing can BOOK across the skys, and with the new perked JATO option, you can be at 20k in less then a minute now.
I wasn't sure about the air-to-air missiles, but Hitech told me that the Germans had developed some thing that even though they didn't make it into wide production, did exist in 1945, so the luftwaffe planes have this sort of german sidewinder (the Superkarateaffe-Todesauto) that's really a pain in the ass, pardon the pun. If you're on a bomber, you can buy perked air to air missiles that can be fired from the gunners position too, so bye bye intercepts, hello Berlin!
I really like the new planes. I already mentioned the F-86, but there's also the Mig-15, the Super Me-262 (it's an Me-262 with afterburners, yee haw!) and the Gotha Ho-229 flying wing.
Here I am about to shoot down one of the other testers in my Gotha:
(http://hallert.net/images/ah2pic2.jpg)
The atom bomb is definately going to be tricky for gameplay, and I'm not sure I agree with the decision to make it free, but boy howdy, you'd better be far away when that baby goes off. I flattened both an airbase AND its city with one bomb, boo-ya!
Here's the new Sanger Silverbird. It's the german sub-orbital bomber that can deliver a Heisenberg Special to any base on the map in less then 5 minutes:
(http://hallert.net/images/ah2pic3.jpg)
I know i'll probably get in trouble for spilling the beans, but I can't help it. Aces High 2 is going to kick butt. There's nothing quite like the re-assuring growl tone in your headset of getting a missile lock on of a B-17, then plastering him from 10 miles away. And when cruising at 150k feet with a Sanger Silverbird, you can drop your atomic warhead and be fifty miles away before it goes off, and that, my friends, is cool.
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10/10 V Good. ;)
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LOL! That's hilarious! Definitely a post for the ages. The quote attributed to HiTech is a dead-ringer. ;)
April Fools Day joke. I think someone hit the .exe file for CFS2 and had some fun in Photoshop.
edit: by the way, that can't be an F-86. The Sabres are single engined jets and that cockpit has dual read-outs and twin throttles. I'm guessing it is the F-15 from "Jane's F-15E". The 2nd shot is from CFS2. I don't know where the 3rd one is from.
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lol Pyro and HT arent even on the roster :D
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LMAO! :D
He's even got HT's spelling!
bravo chairboy hehehe
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:D
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LOL
-Sik
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Outstanding
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Quick request, please don't tell Hitech or anyone else at HTC. This can be our little secret.
If they find out, they may take me off the beta team!
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Oppertunity to try the new built-in remote software disable system option.
Too bad,...he showed promise.
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Nooooooooooooooooo!
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Awesome! :D
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Lmao, bravo!
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ROFLMAO...best bit of editing for ages...to bad that aint real...
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ROFL Chairboy! Good Edit ;)
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WTG Chairboy cool one :D
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:D
Regards Blitz
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good stuff.. great detail. HiTech even mis-spelled in the buffer..
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Another problem...Chairboy, Pyro and HT are all knights! Killshooter off right? :D :)
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...but I recognise that menubar...
X-Plane is it? (http://www.x-plane.org)
:)
Damphyno
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Good eye, DamPhino!
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LOL Classic Chairboy! Funny chit!
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Good preview, Charboy! ;)
I'm very interested in new weaponry: do you know if HT will add Heisemberg compensation shields to defend airfields? And what about transporter system? Will we be able to fly new Federation shuttles?
Please, let me know!
:D :D :D
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they finished modeling the klingon bird of prey yet???
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And Borg cube? And Jem Hadar fighters?:cool: (I do love Klingons too!!!)
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Originally posted by Octavius
LMAO! :D
He's even got HT's spelling!
bravo chairboy hehehe
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ROFL, I love that signature!
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Awesome.
Well done sir.
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A must have nomination for the AH BBS Hall Of Lame err Fame. Great stuff!
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lol, if the Germans have the sub-orbital bomber, you can bet the Allies have Star Wars. :D
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Absolutely excellent! :-)
heck, never mind sub-orbital bombers, I'd settle for either a Ju290 or Ju390. One of those flew from a base in France to just a few kilometres off the coast of New York and back during the war... - just imagine if the LW had been given a fleet of strategic bombers in the 1930s (first plane fitted with a Norden bomb sight was a Ju89, predecessor of the Ju90, 290 and 390) Thank God the German hierarchy all but killed long-range bomber development until it was too late, because they felt that all that was neded was tactical air support for the German Army, eh?!
Esme (happily contemplating the thought of 20 hour transoceanic bombing missions in 1:1 AH terrains... 8-} - bet we'd only get 0.6 perk points for success, too!)
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Shot #1 is the combat version of X-Plane
Shot #2 is from Combat Flight Simulator 3
Shot #3 is from the space game Orbiter
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Shot #1 is the combat version of X-Plane
Shot #2 is from Combat Flight Simulator 3
Shot #3 is from the space game Orbiter
Close, but not quite.
#1 is X-Plane, but not the combat one.
#2 is CFS
#3 is X-Plane again. external view of a Sanger Silverbird I made for version 5.0.
Here's the page for it on X-plane.org:
http://www.x-plane.org/Detailed/1038.shtml
I also made a Soyuz and a Werner Von Braun Ferry Rocket.
http://www.x-plane.org/Detailed/1053.shtml
http://www.x-plane.org/Detailed/1069.shtml