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good game?
Thegreatkhan
Member Posts: 33
Just wondering if this was a good game, i really love WW2 RTS, and first person shooters.
Do many people play it?, does it have good graphics?
Do many people play it?, does it have good graphics?
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The numbers are not huge but adequate to have loads of fun.
The graphics are dated but not outdated. The fact that you are playing on the largest map by far (half scale map of the low countries, parts of France and Germany) makes it very interesting.
This is the only game that you can play infantry, armor, airforce, naval in first person shooter and then become a member of the command structure and get into strategy and operational level planning.
Here is a link to a 2 week free try out...
http://www.wwiionline.com/scripts/wwiionline/be_info.jsp;jsessionid=141C65F88C965C2805BD311D69C52126.1
Check it out. There is also a wiki started that explaines the game in much greater detail.
http://wiki.wwiionline.com/index.php/Main_Page
Make no bones about it. This game is hard to learn and master but very fun to try. Join a squad and they will help you to progress in rank. You have to have certain rank before you can acess some of the more cooler vehicles, planes and ships but it does'nt take long with squadies taking care of you.
It's a blast as long as you're willing to take the time to climb a steep learning curve and don't mind dying a lot.
I've got dying down to an artform.
Oh btw, bring a big honking video card with you.
Oh, and a high-powered dual core CPU if you want decent framerates.
I tried this game when it first came out, and quite frankly it was hideous. Have they patched it were it's atleast playable now?
Uuranor
It's just not an install and have a "win button" type game.
You've prolly tried it by now, so this won't matter much. I've only played this game for 2 days now doing the 30-day trial, and recognize that in games such as this it is patience and determination to learn that set the learning curve for each person.
First off, it takes only 30-40 minutes to download and install the game with a decent cable connection (if u dont have cable u wouldn;t be on this site), but it took me 2 hrs just to figure out how to join the actual game. There are guides on the game, but I found most of them to be unclear on many details, but u can always go to the boards. Well after u figure out what to do with the world map and what all of the symbols and acronyms mean (which i havnt yet), there is the thing i dread the most about this game - running for 20-40 minutes at best to get near to the scene of battle. This is the things i found ppl complain the most about, as u often get killed as soon as u made it to the fight and have to start runnin again or wait until a spawnable base is captured in the city. I guess this is done for realism, but I don't think the cities in Europe were so segregated and secluded from each other with nothing but massive empty flatlands in between and a single road connecting them. I found no noticeable hills/mountains/valleys in the game yet. I said "running" before because i dont have a joystick (like many other PC gamers i hope) and mapping the keys to every authentic-looking type of vehicle available is a pain in the S. Maybe its bc i dont drive stick, but between the left and right clutches, left, right and center brake, different in-vehicle positions and weapons controls, after a day of offline training for keymapping, my tanks still spin in one place and my cars go 5 km/hr tops.
This is a complicated game, no doubt about it, and i like complicated games, unfortunately less technologically endowed and older such games tend to be un-user-friendly in my experience and the community is not as friendly to the noobies as i found in some other mmo's (maybe its bc its rly hard to explain everything in chat window)
The graphics aren't good by today's paid-game standards, but the ambition of gameplay (i havnt experienced the full extent of the actual intended gameplay to discuss it yet).is supposed to make up for it. Indeed, I had a lot of fun even the first day: i was defending a town and coming from a online multi-player shooter background (CS, Americas Army - great game, Battlefield 1947, B2), i was killing as many as 6 people per life (which in this game is a lot for a noobie). However, if you're not going to master all of the vehicle types, you will get bored fast - not much a rifleman can do against heavy armor.
So, in conclusion, everyone with a mature attitude towards MMO games and war games should try it out, my only beef with this game is the "un-user-friendliness" of it, but that could be overcome with some patience. I wish the developers would add some content in between towns, but in situations like this, requesting such content is usually pushing it.
ANYWAY, THIS IS A NOOB'S IMPRESSION OF THIS GAME, SO DON'T BE BARKING AT ME
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"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
That's a pretty good run down.
You can get into the fighting almost instantly however by looking for a "mobile spawn point" or msp. When you choose a brigade that is fighting look for a little truck symbol next to the missions. A mission with a little truck symbol is an msp. They are usually set up quite close to the action by the players.
They are working on an even easier way to join the action in the future.
Try being a sapper or Brit grenadier if you want to get back at armor as well as other inf. The sapper can kill every tank in game much to the dismay of all tankers and the Brit grenadier can kill all but the Tiger. You can track the Tiger. Nothing gives you a better feeling than stranding a perfectly good Tiger out in the middle of nowhere. They hate that. lol
If you want hills you have to go south and play French or as far south as you can get playing Brit. There are some great hills and cliffs down there. The tanks have a hard time crawling up em.
There is an in game help chanel that is manned all the time or you should join a squad. They will help you out a bunch. I belong to 333rd British Knights at www.333rd.org . Check us out.
As a new player go and help defend cities under attack! Its the easiest way to get into the action without the need to run or drive somewhere to!
Press M for map and look for cities with green blinking city names...these are cities currently being attacked by the enemy. Go with the mouse cursor over the flag on that city to see which brigade is located there. Then join that brigade, select a mission, select a weapon and off You go!
There is a help chat, marked as "help", default is F6 to talk on it! Don't hesistate to ask in chat..most players are friendly to noobs! Because we need every man we can get for our side to win the war!
Expect to get killed often..just respawn and come back! To try out flying just practise offline or on the training server because online every vehicle is limited and gone for 4 hours when it gets destroyed.
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Life is too short to play bad games.
good training stuff here
www.snoopstuff.com
but it is dated material showing the old GUI
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/