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Luigi Thirty
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.09.09 18:30:00 -
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Supposedly it's pretty good. I like Warbirds III though.
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Ocwi
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Posted - 2006.09.09 18:30:00 -
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is it worth trying?
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Xeaon
Minmatar
A.W.M
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Posted - 2006.09.09 20:32:00 -
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It is good fun, if you can ignore the very outdated graphics and pretty harsh learning curve. Great community though once you're into it.
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Mirage Kisaragi
Gallente
Warrior Nation United
New Eve Order
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Posted - 2006.09.10 02:30:00 -
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Originally by: Xeaon
It is good fun, if you can ignore the very outdated graphics and pretty harsh learning curve. Great community though once you're into it.
Yup.
If only it had COD 2's graphics, or VOD at least, I would've subrscribed to it.
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Odeweaver
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.09.10 02:41:00 -
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I've seen flash games with better graphics. The gameplay also seemed to be extremely outdated and there was very few people to shoot at, even in large battles there seemed to be only be one or two people in the town and three planes.
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Saeris Tal'Urduar
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.09.10 05:49:00 -
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Originally by: Luigi Thirty
Supposedly it's pretty good. I like Warbirds III though.
I played the first incarnation of it. Up to version 1.2 I think.
I was there when they brought the real Tuskegee airmen on to play, I'm sure they tweeked the damage of the 'stangs .50 cals for them though. Messed up my 'spit real good.
Man but I miss playing that game. I think it only sees about 20 or so people on a night doesnt it?
But I still remember a few of my nemesis from that game. dkfi in his goldie 'dora and webs in his ant 'spit, mili in his goldie p38, and I cant remember the name of my run'stang nemisis, he was a frog though. Course I flew barney. I've wanted to go back, but it would have to see more people on-line.
Hmmm, I wonder if you remember RedBaron online? **** that was a loooong time ago.
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Ozawi
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.09.10 17:34:00 -
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Played it for two and a half years.
Great game.
I think a lot of the EVE crowd would appreciate the intricacies of it.
No you can't jump 20' high and do silly things that you can in most war-themed FPS games. It's more about being true to life. There's a physics engine that uses real ballistcs predictions for weapons fired - ie: a rifle bullet won't go in a perfectly straight line forever. It has a trajectory, it will fall off, and you need to adjust your aiming sights to compensate for range.
It's a "slow burner" (someone used that term in General EVE forum, I like it - will give credit when I remember who it was) game. It's not a spawn in arena-style slugfest.
Depending on your play style, you can take an hour to get into a good battle, but the time you took to scout around, set up in a proper place, coordinate combined arms to hold an objective, etc - can make it very worth it.
Fewer "gamer" types and more ex-military types play that game. I helped form one of the larger squads that's in existence - and most of the guys there are ex-military or currently police officers. I guess it's testament to the "realism" (in regards to the equipment and how it performs, anyway) that goes into the game.
Sure the graphics are a bit dated, but if pretty shiny things are your main thing - WW2OL isn't the game you want. It's a HUUUUGE persistent battlefield covering a large chunk of western Europe, to scale, so there's so much data going around that prettying things up too much would just not be feasible.
For me, anyway, that game's great fun.
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Digitalfox
Central Defiance
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Posted - 2006.09.10 18:26:00 -
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I played WWIIO for almost 3 years now though I just dont play as much anymore, they made a few tweeks I didnt care much for (mobile spawns) and the player base kinda droped off in number so good fight where hard to find. But it was by far one of the best games I have played.
One of the selling points was its reality factor, unlike Battlefield and those types of games this is a on going map that takes months to play out where armies battle over towns and atempt to compleat reaserch and development cycles to get better tanks and planes and ships. You could to Strat bombing runs on thier factorys to reduce enemy R&D cycles.
Another thing I loved was that tanks, ships, and planes where modeled with out Hit points. The where modeled very acuratly so if you wanted to kill a tank you had to hit it in the right spots to either kill its crew or to cause its ammo or fuel to cook off.
You would spend hours driving tanks just to resupply front line towns . . . alas I could go on for hours about the "good ol' days" but I'll stop and say when I stoped playing it was still an excelent game . . . with bad graphics, but graphics dont make the game.
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Nir
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Posted - 2006.09.11 00:51:00 -
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I played it for a few months after the re-launch last year. Sadly the game suffers from chronic server related lag which pretty much spells doom for a first person shooter orientated game. However it has a small, mature and above all loyal following.
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Mirral
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Posted - 2006.09.11 02:14:00 -
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I played it from June 21 01 to this January..
never again will CRS get my money. They ruined the game and the community was the only thing holding me there for 2+ years.
You can blame my squad for ruining it. Dertiger 501!
Mirral
a.k.a Giebby
Dertiger 501st
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Spenz
Gallente
Empire POS Experiment
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Posted - 2006.09.12 06:04:00 -
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haha Mirral is mad probably because they added weather into the mix. no longer are the skies owned by endless waves of planes.
On topic, WW2OL has some of the most intense PVP around (mainly because it is 99% PVP, run by commanders who affect production and TO&E's, instead of AI). There is some AI, most notably some automated defenses and the AAA defense at all the production factories, but the rest of it is pvp.
The realism is beyond any online game Ive ever played (and Ive played Aces high and Warbirds). Sure you have the inertia and bullet trajectory and ther weight of the projectile, but the muzzle velocity, the type of round, the composition of the round, the type of armor your firing at, the angle of the armor, the thickness of the armor, the internal components in the tanks, trucks, airplanes, and ships, spall, cookoffs, shrapnel, buildings collapsing on you, and many many other details that make the game extremely dynamic.
Good example is when I was in an M4A2 Sherman tank attacking a german-held town. I was going in with around 20 other tanks of various types when one of them had their turret blown off right in front of me. I look through my binoculars to see a pair of Tiger tanks at the top of the hill. Of course I immediately pull my commander into the tank and drive as fast as I can into the bushes and hedgerows. I make it to a berm and take a peek over the ridgeline. *CLANG* I hear a round penetrate the tank, but I see no smoke. My crew is ok, none of my tracks are hit, and my engine is running. So I put her into reverse gear and gun it......nothing..... Put it into forward...still nothing. Turns out one of the tigers put a shell right through the transmission. I couldnt move. He promptly put a shell into my ammunition and set the tank on fire.
Things like that make your palms sweat and your blood pump. Sure the graphics are utilitarian, but they are functional (and from the looks of it they are starting to surpass Aces High 2 and Warbirds 3).
Its worth a try, but be prepared to die....ALOT.
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Tar Ecthelion
Kryomek Industries
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Posted - 2006.09.12 10:38:00 -
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Played it for a while few years back. Remember a day where I just set up my Bren on the edge of a field and went afk, came back and there was a bunch of other squaddies around me chatting away watching the horizon. Sepnd a good 30 mins just chatting to each other listening to the fighting in the distance, then ... a squad of german troops came outa the hedgerow on the other side of the field. We promptly gunned them down quickish, i dont think they expected us to be there miles behind the front lines, must have been a shock. :)
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JafoPBCFR
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Posted - 2006.09.12 10:47:00 -
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Just started playing on the trial. Great Community. There are alot of players you just have to go to the rite town and take the rite missions.
All in all tryit. they have a free trial. so Why not.
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