Sixxkiller
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I WANT MY CORSAIR, too bad Lend/Lease didnt apply to the Japanese too!!!!!
-Ray
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Kuori, all wargamers eventually start complaining over even the most minute detail of wargames.
Hardest to please and by far the most difficult to satisfy, but when you do, they are the most loyal and apprecitive. I am even getting assimilated into this hole myself.With that being said, even though in the beginning of computer games, wargames were the king, but that isnt the case any longer. The entire library of battlefront wouldnt equal what say the sims games will sell on Christmas Eve.
So this is a niche market that as far as other genres go is small. Also the average age has to be quite a bit higher nowadays as the twitch skills go with some of you guys hair. And since the vast majority of gaming is still played offline, that leaves the pool of online wargamers frail at best.
So "bots" are majorly important to a game that is designed to be online, and adding more reasons to play against them is quite important. Limiting choices is never good, but Utopia isnt just found in playing humans as some people dont have time to hash out what planes they will use against someone when they have only a small amount of time.
Humans in general want convienence, and bots fill that in that wasting 5 minutes trying to set up a game with a human who doesnt want to risk his high level pilot when he discovers his pilot may die and those 10 hours on him he spent is down the drain.
And the campaign game works better because you face more realistic bot pilots who may be of all sorts of different qualities, not all the same. Thats why I think it would be better to set the online ladder up as a kind of campaign that is continuous until a set number of total missions, where planes you fly will only become available at certain dates instead of exp. But that would most likely be too much to recode. Maybe for DIF 2. Boy if I had a few million the ideas I have for this game......
-Ray
Originally posted by kuroi neko:I hope nobody got me wrong here. I dont want to give a poor impression of the game at all.
I'm just saying the most often voiced critics come from people playing often enough to push the game to the limits and encounter some limitations.
I think the next tweaks should rather aim at preventing players from wandering into currently reachable areas where the game system gets stretched too thin, and add more reasons even for "frequent flyers" to spend more time flying with middle-range pilots.
As Ray pointed out, the campaign games are a significantly different use of the game system (no career management for campaign pilots, but added strategic dimension). This is, I think, an illustration of the considerable potential of the core design.
Career and campaign modes have a significantly different feel and are blending together pretty well.
I'm sure these initial quirks in career mode can be corrected, and even more exciting additions can be made.
However, I am convinced that adding more reasons to fly against AI-controlled planes is not the way to improve the current design. On the contrary, the main strength of the game lies in player interaction. This is why, IMHO, the future additions should aim to promote player vs player interactions rather than give even more reasons to play alone.
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Haha Martin, you can send my payoff/bribe money to...
If you guys ever make a clunker you can expect the opposite. But everyone here knows you are a blind faith company: You can buy the game without even seeing it (as evidenced by so many pre-orders of your products) and it will be a good game.As for Midway I cannot wait. My favorite so far is by far Daylight 44 but carriers are my current inclination as in the last few weeks I have bought a few books and went to a Barnes and Noble and spent about 50 hours researching them.
-Ray
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Hyperstork,
The campaigns are fantastic. Realy the strongest part of game even though at this time, you can only play campaigns ONLINE. But see the beauty for you is when you get online to play no one will bother you. I have been online for hours and not seen anyone message at all. But the campaigns that are included are worth the price of this game. And I am sure they will add more in the future.
One more thing hyper, this game isnt full of bugs. The problem isnt a problem with how the game runs, its a design decision that works as intended. Just trying to get them to think of how to improve the game for those of us attached to our pilots. Still a damn fine game. Its a Battlefront game so quality isnt the question.
-Ray
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Dan if you paint it pink I will still want to shoot it down.
-Ray
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Very nice work. Any plans to do the Ki-44III "Tojo"? Since it was HIJAAF only interceptor I think it would make a great addition.
And did you finish the redoing of the Spit yet?-Ray
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Well then Pierre, it seems you are damned if you do or damned if you dont....
And if you hadnt noticed, bots kill more than humans do, so they must not suck as bad as everyone suggests. In fact a human has never killed me, not once. I mean the bots are all aggressive because there is no penalty for being greedy.
But I think no one understands my point. I am not saying bots SHOULDNT be uber or fly Raidens. I am suggesting sometimes you SHOULD fly against more common planes like the Fw-190 or a Zero for that matter. And just randomizing the pilots isnt too much to ask IMHO. If the pilots in WWII had flown only against the cream of the crop all the time, no one would have come home alive. Its just common sense guys....
-Ray
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Ok that makes sense. I wasnt bothered by it, just interesting though.
-Ray
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I am sure the guy you have working on it is smart. Just he may be making your eyes bleed from the internal emails.
I am not saying we shouldnt face stacked pilots, but just not every game. Andeven bots who have similar skills are still dangerous i would think. The AI really isnt that stupid except in its order of playing Ace cards when it could have played a lesser card or just taken the 1 hit or become disadvantaged. In an escort mission earlier I actually saw some excellent moves where they gang raped me leapfrog style.
I am playing all pre-14 point pilots since thats all I have now.
-Ray
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Is it supposed to be able to shoot OTS1:2's from disadvantaged or tailed position? Kind of odd unless the gunner is also a champion of an Unreal Tournament game.
-Ray
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Moon, play more humans players eh? Well hmm get online at 3am and see what ya got to pick from. Its usually the afk's or the ones that ask to play a game without firing so as to regen ed card. So maybe I should do that and never worry about losing a pilot to target pilot again. And I know you could figure out those players. Just look for high level players who lose ed and the next couple of games they dont shoot or get damaged until they get ed again.
But alas I dont need to cheat. And I dont think I am the only one thats asked for some variety in planes faced. I mean maybe I just suck, but if you ask around you may find out from the people I have played that maybe I dont. Maybe I am just unlucky IDK.
But dont get me wrong I love this game. But I do think that maybe it can be improved in this aspect. Just my opinion thats maybe shared by others.
As far as human play above a certain level... that would be great if you could kindly persuade the non nightowls to lose some sleep.
Oh god look at me, 4 paragraphs in a post??? I'm Kuroi Woods!!!!
-Ray
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You have to do something about facing bots that are so far advanced and have target pilot. I mean its understandable that sometimes you would face pilots that are better, but everygame isnt realistic nor is it balanced or fun for that matter. And at lower lvls none of these planes should have target pilot as bots. Not much of an RPG if all you face is bots that make up for lower iq with extra draws and 200 more in exp point skills (target pilot, teamwork, markman, etc...) to your zoom climb.
Hope you can understand that a simulation isnt really a simulation if it goes past the paramaters of logic in an attempt to replicate serious combat.
Really hope something is done to randomize and lvl the playing field.
-Ray
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Hehe ya. Forgot the smiley face. However I did mean the get used to chutes part. :mad:
-Ray
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Ok got it now bro. Looks great. I just had popups blocked.
-Ray
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Welcome aboard new meat. Better get used to that chute! You aint in Kansas anymore.
-Ray
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Hmm it doesnt come up for me. Do you have a bandwith limit?
-Ray
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Oh be quiet and create another screen name so Moon yells at you again.
Hehe though I am finding that campaign not only fun, but since its my first campaign I have played, rather more difficult than your cake walk. I actually think that the campaign system will eventually be the best part of the game.
-Ray
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This error happens to me all the time. Usually after the game I need to restart the game though. Doesnt seem to affect anything other than that.
-Ray
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And I wanted the Swept Wing Version! I want my money back!!!!!!!
-Ray
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Most soldiers use as much non issued acceptable gear they can get away with as some army gear isnt all that great. I actually spent about $1800 on a boron carbide insert plate which is not heavy and rated to be able to stop penetration from an AK-47 at even close range. Thank God I havent had it tested by catching one there. There was this Navy Corpsman on one op around Qalat who took a round center mass and suffered through the worst brusing I have ever seen. He actually blacked out for a while but he lived...
In todays Army protection and mobility go hand in hand and since my load out is usually around anywhere from 98-107 lbs, a few extrapounds of armor doesnt matter all that much to mobility.
And I challenge any of you to strap even 50 lbs on your back and go hiking let alone climb anything and see how you can be combat mobile. Now do it while trying to avoid ambushes on limited sleep for 3 or 4 days.
-Ray
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CM: Shoot Haji
CM: Supreme Firepower
CM: Debbie Does Damascus
CM: Thats My Purse, I Dont Know You
CM: World War Two Is Boring, Get Over It
CM: You Buy Anything We Make Anyway
CM: Sold to Army
CM: We Quit
CM: Steve Killed Charles That Bastard
CM: Matt Jumped Over Moon
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Dont all Scots want to be Irish????? Braveheart my arse.....
-Ray
PS And all those Scots who are gonna come looking for some Italian to payback, I am locked and loaded and I just lost my best pilot tonight... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Dont understand why you need 2 logins. You are too excessive for me, Stalin O' Mike. Sounds like some Irish thing.
-Ray
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Ok I got the game today. Very very nice, especially the manual which if you use Abobe Acrobat you can have it read to you (in a computer voice that is a mix of Donald Sutherland meets Steven Hawking
) I also like the view aircraft statistics from the help menu.I have to say that I actually enjoy flying the Gladiator though. I love the agility feature and the animations look kick ass for it. I dont know why people hate it so much....
New Bf-109B Animations are ready
in Down In Flames
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Ya much nicer looking than before. Not flying them anymore but well that will just take a few missions
-Ray