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Offline trax1

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« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2007, 11:58:26 AM »
You forgot to mention the Axis vs. Allies arena, it's another waste of space arena like EW & MW.  Also you didn't mention the increased field & town ack, it's been upped to an insane level, theres atleast 2-3 times the ack guns on a field and in town then there use to be.
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2007, 12:05:47 PM »
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Also you didn't mention the increased field & town ack, it's been upped to an insane level, theres atleast 2-3 times the ack guns on a field and in town then there use to be.



But it only hits the pilots, and leaves the plane virtually untouched. The ack is very nasty. Bring bandaids, and guaze
Forgot who said this while trying to take a base, but the quote goes like this. "I cant help you with ack, Im not in attack mode" This is with only 2 ack up in the town while troops were there, waiting. The rest of the town was down.

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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2007, 12:12:26 PM »
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Also you didn't mention the increased field & town ack, it's been upped to an insane level, theres atleast 2-3 times the ack guns on a field and in town then there use to be.

THAT was supposed to be a surprise for him.

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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2007, 12:26:24 PM »
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But it only hits the pilots, and leaves the plane virtually untouched. The ack is very nasty. Bring bandaids, and guaze

What are you talking about "it only hits the pilot, and leaves the plane virtually untouched"?  I don't know what ack your flying over, but the ack from the towns and the field rip up your plane.
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2007, 01:56:03 PM »
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More like a fortnight.


No more 1 Main Arena.  Now 2 Late War Arenas with lower caps as to number of people in them. 1 Mid War Arena which allows lots of folks to join..... but usually only a dozen or three in it.  1 Early War Arena that allows lots of players, but usually only 1 to 3 dozen in there playing.  Most players in the 2 Late War Arenas.  Mostly milkrunners and shade accounts running up their scores in the EW and MW arena, but rumors of some good fights there sometimes.

Split was to try and curb a single chess-piece nation from hording over a low population chess-piece country.  Hordes still happen, but very large squads have trouble playing together when population caps kick in for a server.

New Terrain.  New textures.  New Skins.  Sherman Firefly Tank, Jeep, some plane updates, a couple planes and plane versions added.  No more puffy ack over bases and airfields.  Some changes to some weapon ballistics.  

Squeaker season is open.  HTC offers two week free trial and adverts on Military Channel, so most weekends you've got lot's of clueless noob players in the arenas.  Help channel has many questions like "how i fly?"  "what bestest plane?"  "how i go fast?"  ad nausium ad infinitum..... With school out, it will get worse.

About 1/2 the planes you will encounter are La-7, Pony-D, Spit-XVI, C-Hog, and Niki plus dive bombing B-24's and Lancs.  

Special Events Arena getting some use.  Snapshots.  Friday Night Squad Operations.  Sunday's events.  King of the Hill tournament.  Close Escorts.  Racing.  There be fun to be found there.

That's some of it.




Don,t forget the 109s------they are thick as flies in the lw arenas!!!!!




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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2007, 02:17:38 PM »
I forgot to mention "pit crews" at the hot pads and the winners circle for landing ace kills in one sortie.:noid

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« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2007, 02:40:50 PM »
109s are more popular since the airflow re-coding, but not as popular as Corsairs have become, I'd say.

Most 109s I see are K-4s (runners) and they're used because of their speed and climb. In an average sortie I might find 1-2 109s, but half a dozen or more F4us (and they're not running! Well... not always).

Strangely enough, I haven't seen an LA7 in a long time, but have seen a few LA5s in the past week. That is to say none that have gotten inside icon ID range have said LA7.

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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2007, 03:05:23 PM »
Yeh I've noticed the same thing lately, been seeing alot of La-5's and not many La-7's.
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2007, 05:27:22 PM »
You'll need to bring tissues too, you'll be handing them out left and right. A lot of whiners, as you can see from this thread. And this is nothing compared to the arena.
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2007, 05:56:55 PM »
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Strangely enough, I haven't seen an LA7 in a long time, but have seen a few LA5s in the past week. That is to say none that have gotten inside icon ID range have said LA7.

Maybe it's because La-7's are disabled on the BBS!:aok

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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2007, 06:22:33 PM »
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Maybe it's because La-7's are disabled on the BBS!:aok



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« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2007, 06:25:56 PM »
too much ack, too much eny, planes too weak, planes too strong, too many arena's....deep breath.....too many la7's, spits, ho'o'canes, runners, cherrypickers, and squeakers.  too few acks, too few people who listen to me, too few maps, too many times HTC doesn't listen to my great ideas (because it is obvious that i know more than anyone), too many mean people on the bbs.  pretty much the same, aside from the lazers and stuff......somehow some of us still manage to have fun....then again i'm sure others will tell you that my fun is not fun.

Game is a bit different, same concept, what's the worst that could happen...welcome back....they always come back:)  just one of those things, just have to see for yourself....though the core gameplay has not changed, some things have.
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« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2007, 06:53:45 PM »
All you need to know is...


SHEEP!


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« Reply #28 on: May 21, 2007, 08:00:00 PM »
Well, darn I think I better hurry up and get an account set up again, sounds like the ground attack field of endeavor is going to be interesting.

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