First mission...spawned a British rifle guy. Ran around trying to find a ride. Finally hopped on a truck and played "Hitchhiking Online" for 15 minutes before I got close to a fight. I hit the dirt, and look for my next cover. I take about 3 steps and get whacked by something I never saw....AI I'm assuming. Nothing like spending 20 minutes doing nothing to get whacked in 5 seconds by an AI.
So what were you expecting? Did you think you were going to run in all Rambo style and take out guys while doing flips and cutting their heads off with your katana?
Your first mistake was that you didn't communicate with anyone. You can spawn as a rifleman and run to a contested down and get whacked over and over. Or you can communicate and get dropped into a meaningful battlezone with 20 like-minded infantry.
It's not easy playing infantry. There are no medpacks lying around or glowing armor of invulnerability. If the enemy has a sniper in the bushes and you don't see him. He'll kill you. If you try it again. He'll kill you again.
Second mission...decide to try the tanks. I grab an R35 and head at top speed of about 5 mph toward the fight. I go to commanders view and see a French guy with a walker pass me on the right. Anyhow....I get about 500 yards from the FB and notice a German crawling around in a patch of bulletproof shrubbery. I hose some MG rounds at him and load HE into my cannon. I can see his feet sticking out from behind the tree ala Charlie Brown, so I start hurling HE right beside them. Every so often I stop to look around and make sure no one is sneaking up on me. All of a sudden I start hearing pings, and my crew is dead. I despawn to see what killed me. There are about 5 Germans crawling all over my tank like cockroaches with their pistols drawn! LOL Must be superior German metallurgy!
Again, I don't see what the problem is. Do you want the R35 to go warp speed and get l33t air off of the secret ramps around chockpoints? Or do you want it to travel at its historical speed?
If you didn't see the infantry sneaking up on you, that's your own problem. Do you think your crew would survive if someone with a pistol started firing in the view slats?
Third mission...I take out one of those French armored car thingies. I figure if I'm going to go get killed ridiculously, I might as well get there fast and get it over with. I take my time moving from cover to cover, scanning from each spot with my binoculars. I get within sight of the target town and spot a nice place to pull into some trees and scope the town out. I careully pull between two trees and get viciously attacked by an obviously Teutonic Oak that flips my armored vehicle onto its back like a wimpy tortoise. I had no idea that the Belgian foliage was so dangerous.
You think THOSE trees are dangerous... hit a tree going .2 mph in AH and you'll explode! So yeah, I don't know how we managed to win WWII with trees everywhere.
You're frustrated with WWIIOL because you suck at it. I don't know what you were expecting in each of your missions. You obviously just want to spawn and run off to the battle without thinking twice about what you're going to do when you get there.
Large battles take massive team efforts to win. No matter what vehicle you choose, you'll be destroyed with little trouble if you just make a b-line to the battlefield.
You need patience and cooperation to succeed in WWIIOL. I love the huge land battles. I respect the fact that I can't drive a single tank into the middle of a battlefield and expect to live. I like the coordination of flanking, ambushes... etc.
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