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Offline Packy

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Your opinion about Warbirds III
« on: July 10, 2002, 08:00:26 PM »
Combat.sim did an article gushing about Warbirds III.  Has anyone tried this online sim?  What is your opinion of Warbirds?

just curious to know....



HT, you should see about getting publicity at various sim sites with the new 1.10 upgrade!
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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2002, 08:17:20 PM »
"MushBirds" and "BlindBirds" describes it for me.

The flight feels very, very musshy and it seems as if there are huge gaps in the visual coverage out of the cockpit.  It also limits the zoom so that you are flying while legally blind.

Oh yeah, cockpit graphics are about the most hideous thing you can imagine. AH cockpit graphics my not be realistic 3D models of the interiors of these aircraft, but at least they aren't a blurry mess.
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Offline Imp

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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2002, 08:19:35 PM »
Warbirds is an unfinished buggy product (it used to be the most popular online flight sim (when HT and Pyro were there)).

Read the message boards there and see for yourself that Warbirds is just a shadow of its former self (oh glorious past where as thou gone!).
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Re: Your opinion about Warbirds III
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2002, 08:19:47 PM »
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Originally posted by Packy
Combat.sim did an article gushing about Warbirds III.  Has anyone tried this online sim?  What is your opinion of Warbirds?

just curious to know....



HT, you should see about getting publicity at various sim sites with the new 1.10 upgrade!


I did an Article for Combatsim for ver 1.09.

My ver1.10 should be ready for them by friday - If work does not keep interupting !

Mike "DmdJordi" Bowman
Sceanrio CM Staff
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Offline T0J0

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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2002, 08:46:30 PM »
My experience with WB3 wasn't a good one, though it does have some cool features, but not many.. 9 out of 10 flights I would get HO'd in the first few minutes of flight.. , Ground targets were very hard for me to see and adjust too, no matter what res. I would set it too. The maps were boring and the airfield numbering system ackward..  The ack was deadly beyond reality.
 I would sit down and login and log back out within 3 minutes, because I just felt it was a waste of time, to much effert for very little reward if any.. my other impression was that after the WW2online fiasco, and knowing that some of the developers from WB's helped with the WW2 flight model, those 2fps I would get made more sense after playing both sims...And the GV's in WB3 were pathetic.. I am a very patient person most of the time but some times free time is limited.. I can't be spending time and money on a MMOG that doesn't deliver much as far as fun.. kinda like Air warrior full reality... should have been renamed the retiree
mode..
So IMHO try the free trial period if you want cause its free but dont plan on spending more than 2 hours there!!!
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Offline 2Late4U

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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2002, 09:22:20 PM »
I dont like the flight model that feels just like grandmas old fassion pudding with a stick in it.  I think the AH model is a tad to resposive at very low speeds, but the WB model is way WAY WAY WAY too mushy.  

The real game killer for me however was the feeling of having almost no SA.  I couldnt tell what the hell I was shooting at, if there was something on the ground I have to scrape my belly on dirt to see it, and I overall just felt like I needed a 52" monitor cause I couldnt see crap.

Every once in a while I wander over to use a WB free weekend thingy, and I have yet to find anything that would make me leave AH (not even close).

Overall, Ive been happy with AH since the beta.
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Offline poopster

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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2002, 10:15:46 PM »
Pro's
  • Plane skins are awsome...really, nothing comes close
  • The S3
  • The sky, VERY well done
  • "some" of the cockpit art, 190 for example is very good
  • AH needs "alittle" mush, just alittle, WB is overboard
And beside that..

I'm really sorry to say after 5 years over there, nothing else..

Except the pilots, but that's not we're talking about.
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Offline SKurj

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« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2002, 10:41:12 PM »
HEY TAKE IT TO THE OFF TOPIC Forum would ya


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Offline poopster

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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2002, 11:09:31 PM »
Wow.

SK there's no reason to shout.

The gentlemen asked a question and some people have been kind enough to answer. No harm, no foul, looks pretty good from HT's end :) As it always will.

No reason to break out the board police. If it's not too much trouble could I see your official 6 foot stick with the STOP sign attached at a 45 degree angle so when presented your right arm is parallel to the ground ??

Oh and I see you have a bit of pizza on your collar.

;)

Politeness is a good thing :)

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Offline Sandman

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Re: Your opinion about Warbirds III
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2002, 11:22:18 PM »
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Originally posted by Packy
Combat.sim did an article gushing about Warbirds III.  Has anyone tried this online sim?  What is your opinion of Warbirds?

just curious to know....



HT, you should see about getting publicity at various sim sites with the new 1.10 upgrade!


My opinion? Ask this question in the O' Club.
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Offline poopster

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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2002, 11:42:07 PM »
Sandman

That works.
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Offline Hristo

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« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2002, 04:20:22 AM »
IMO, WBIII is nowhere. And I am quite sad about it, it was my first online sim.

good things:
cool plane graphics
gunnery in more historical limits than AH
plane skins


bad things:
FM - planes fly in jelly, not air
no advanced options like strat, voice, tracer configuration etc etc.
no separate fuel tanks
missing loadout options
no clouds, only fog layers
cockpits need work
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Offline Animal

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« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2002, 04:40:25 AM »
I have never played it, but I am 101% sure that it is a horrible game that in no way compares to Aces High, and will suffer a horrible demise. Just like it happened to IL-2 Sturmovik!

HitechCreations OWNS the flightsim genre! and if you dont agree, AKDejaVu will quote every one of your paragraphs with witty brutal remarks until you die of shame!

OK? ok.
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Offline SirLoin

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« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2002, 04:58:00 AM »
It's pretty good.Better than Fighter Ace.Mushy in resposnsivness and hardly anyone online.Way overpriced.

The best WW2 sim is still EAW..oops..err..I mean Aces high!

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Offline Hristo

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« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2002, 05:38:37 AM »
no, it is Il-2
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