does WWII online support Vista yet?? i really want to get back into it after looking at these pics!
The correct question should be: Does Vista Support Games?.
Vista sucks as gaming platform... the fault is in the side of Vista mainly, because Mr. Gates has the source code of Windows XP available, and is his fault the lack of backwards compatibility of Vista.
There are many games that don't even start in Vista, and the ones that run... lose about a 33% of performance in Vista.
Vista is a software for games coming in the next 2 years, but today, the best thing to use a computer as gaming platform, is to make a partition, with Windows XP, to install any game on it... lot's of games will run without problems in your WinXP and more smoothly.
Some computer vendors, give you the chance to get a licensed copy of WindowsXP in exchange of your Vista (a great trade by the way). You will have time to return to vista in two years... o much better, you can bypass Vista, and wait for the next operating system that will follow to Vista in relatively few years (2 or 3)... surely they will have enough time then, to repair his crappy Vista, and sell it as a new product, enough tested, and working better (backwards compatibility is a must, not only in games, but for enterprises, that have software that doesn't run actually in Vista).
Most people who have problems in Vista either haven't installed drivers that they need to do or the games they wish to play are badly written or from the DOS world. Vista is a great opperating system, with many improvements over XP however it's not worth it to upgrade from XP to Vista and Vista gives a slight performance hit which is probbably the worst thing about it.
As said World war 2 online works, since it's a game written for windows, perfectly in Vista.
It's not however supported, so if you run into issues you should not mail the official support (but most issues are resolved in the community support forums anyway, so that's a no issue).
So 1.27 has been out for about 5 days now. Even though it has been in "intermission", the battles that I have been in have been epic. Lots of people, lots of equipment, lots of death and destruction. I have even started to do fire suppression (hang back with LMG or tank and fire into the enemy position with all my ammo). Supprisingly I've killed and wounded a lot of enemy this way.
With 1.27, field resupply is possible for all infantry , armor, or field guns. I think that alone makes fire suppression possible.
Well enough of this, here is another mortar shot (taken from another screen shot thread)
So a month later after 1.27 was introduced, it seems that TOE's work. (at least for the allies)
This campaign there have been some really interesting pincing moves and slugfests on the global scale.
The above is a screeshot of the map back at the end of Sept.
Below was Oct 8th Sunday night at 12:30am PST. Notice the big hole in the german lines?
And supprisingly there were many people on that late. Seems more people have come back to look at the goodies
This pic was from Sunday night too. It was the response to a renegade german division (2 brigades+HQbrigade) running behind the allied lines. They were cutoff but were trying to move through cities in the rear near signy/launois causing havoc. The Allied HC called out for paratroops to drop in the divisions intended path to slow them up so 2 allied brigades can catch up and hit them. The end result, the whole division was routed from the field.
While this isn't a pic, it is a link to a youtube movie showing what happens to a large axis bombing mission at 18,000ft when several hurricanes come down from 24,000 ft.
Seems there were 20 HE111s with 20 bf110s heading to the french factories just earlier today. I like this movie because it has the voice from teamspeak included too.
After we (Axis) had defend this little CP for days were we attriated down to our underwears. Just after we manage to push out the last M.3 Stuart and Panhard Scoutcars from the town did they show up. It was a breathtaking sight, and with the new sounds since v1.28 does it really make you understand how fearsome such an experience must have been for the unlucky who experienced it. Belive me!
Just over the treetops did we see a massive Air raid with some 20 Havoc Bombers flying in on some 300 meters altitude. All the heIl broke lose within a few seconds. Those that didn't manage to take covered was killed on the spot. I was lucky to be inside a Depot taking cover and screaming for mammy.
What is kind of scaring is that you can see every single bomb flying over your head. So you can see well head if that bomb will get you or not.
Then just after we managed to scrap together the defenders again did a second even greater wave came in.
Man, there are no words for it. It has to be experienced first hand.
All I can say is that there are no other game out there that gives you such a magnificant experience. And you know that it is other players up there in those bombers making life on ground a living heIl. Not a silly Bot driven happening that starts a new map for you.
You just never know when the enemy comes to bombing the living shit out from you.
I enjoy reading post from someone who gets it:-) There is just no end to experiences. I have played since the first iteration of beta and I still find new things that happen.
Vista isn't supported yet, even though many plays on Vista. From next patch (v1.29) will Vista be supported.
Next patch will be a big one since it involves major contract with a partner in China. Next patch will not only include Vista support, it will also include a whole new training feature, all crews (AA-guns, AT-guns, vehicles and boat) will be updated at least to the granny standard the latest added AT-guns have.
Hopefully will CRS also be able to complete the new graphical engine Unity II with this release. If so is it said that next patch will take some six month before it is released.
For more details on next patch (v1.29) check this link.
Regarding cheating is CRS very firm. Cheating is not allowed and will end with a permanent ban. No exuses is accepted.
I've played WWIIOL since 2002 and I have never heard about any "god powers" being missused. Only the Rats has such powers.
Speedhackers have been an issue, but that was some years now. Also have there been issues with invisible players, which was a bug I think. This is also taken care of. There are always a few Game Masters online that is very quick to respond to any issues. And if a town is switching side (or not switching side) due to any cheat will the GM and the two HC normally fix this manually regardless of any cheaters pathetic behaviour.
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does WWII online support Vista yet?? i really want to get back into it after looking at these pics!
gamertag - Swaffle House
Screw this I can't get the picture to work.
That the picture you wanted up?
Heh thanks.
The correct question should be: Does Vista Support Games?.
Vista sucks as gaming platform... the fault is in the side of Vista mainly, because Mr. Gates has the source code of Windows XP available, and is his fault the lack of backwards compatibility of Vista.
There are many games that don't even start in Vista, and the ones that run... lose about a 33% of performance in Vista.
Vista is a software for games coming in the next 2 years, but today, the best thing to use a computer as gaming platform, is to make a partition, with Windows XP, to install any game on it... lot's of games will run without problems in your WinXP and more smoothly.
Some computer vendors, give you the chance to get a licensed copy of WindowsXP in exchange of your Vista (a great trade by the way). You will have time to return to vista in two years... o much better, you can bypass Vista, and wait for the next operating system that will follow to Vista in relatively few years (2 or 3)... surely they will have enough time then, to repair his crappy Vista, and sell it as a new product, enough tested, and working better (backwards compatibility is a must, not only in games, but for enterprises, that have software that doesn't run actually in Vista).
Most people who have problems in Vista either haven't installed drivers that they need to do or the games they wish to play are badly written or from the DOS world. Vista is a great opperating system, with many improvements over XP however it's not worth it to upgrade from XP to Vista and Vista gives a slight performance hit which is probbably the worst thing about it.
As said World war 2 online works, since it's a game written for windows, perfectly in Vista.
It's not however supported, so if you run into issues you should not mail the official support (but most issues are resolved in the community support forums anyway, so that's a no issue).
So 1.27 has been out for about 5 days now. Even though it has been in "intermission", the battles that I have been in have been epic. Lots of people, lots of equipment, lots of death and destruction. I have even started to do fire suppression (hang back with LMG or tank and fire into the enemy position with all my ammo). Supprisingly I've killed and wounded a lot of enemy this way.
With 1.27, field resupply is possible for all infantry , armor, or field guns. I think that alone makes fire suppression possible.
Well enough of this, here is another mortar shot (taken from another screen shot thread)
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
So a month later after 1.27 was introduced, it seems that TOE's work. (at least for the allies)
This campaign there have been some really interesting pincing moves and slugfests on the global scale.
The above is a screeshot of the map back at the end of Sept.
Below was Oct 8th Sunday night at 12:30am PST. Notice the big hole in the german lines?
And supprisingly there were many people on that late. Seems more people have come back to look at the goodies
This pic was from Sunday night too. It was the response to a renegade german division (2 brigades+HQbrigade) running behind the allied lines. They were cutoff but were trying to move through cities in the rear near signy/launois causing havoc. The Allied HC called out for paratroops to drop in the divisions intended path to slow them up so 2 allied brigades can catch up and hit them. The end result, the whole division was routed from the field.
Later all
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
While this isn't a pic, it is a link to a youtube movie showing what happens to a large axis bombing mission at 18,000ft when several hurricanes come down from 24,000 ft.
www.youtube.com/watch
Seems there were 20 HE111s with 20 bf110s heading to the french factories just earlier today. I like this movie because it has the voice from teamspeak included too.
I wish I was included in this, but I missed it.
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
bump with a cool town pic.
O and I thought this looked cool too.
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
Latest patch rocks. Love the new sounds.
Here is a pic from a huge battle. Love that the germans couldn't get across the bridge from mortar/mg fire.
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
Here are a few more from the ground looking up at a massive HE111 raid from 2 perspectives.
In this pic, you can just see one of the HE111's getting hit by flak and exploding.
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
I had a similar experience yesterday at Longwy.
After we (Axis) had defend this little CP for days were we attriated down to our underwears. Just after we manage to push out the last M.3 Stuart and Panhard Scoutcars from the town did they show up. It was a breathtaking sight, and with the new sounds since v1.28 does it really make you understand how fearsome such an experience must have been for the unlucky who experienced it. Belive me!
Just over the treetops did we see a massive Air raid with some 20 Havoc Bombers flying in on some 300 meters altitude. All the heIl broke lose within a few seconds. Those that didn't manage to take covered was killed on the spot. I was lucky to be inside a Depot taking cover and screaming for mammy.
What is kind of scaring is that you can see every single bomb flying over your head. So you can see well head if that bomb will get you or not.
Then just after we managed to scrap together the defenders again did a second even greater wave came in.
Man, there are no words for it. It has to be experienced first hand.
All I can say is that there are no other game out there that gives you such a magnificant experience. And you know that it is other players up there in those bombers making life on ground a living heIl. Not a silly Bot driven happening that starts a new map for you.
You just never know when the enemy comes to bombing the living shit out from you.
I enjoy reading post from someone who gets it:-) There is just no end to experiences. I have played since the first iteration of beta and I still find new things that happen.
Those screens give me a boner for the game all over again...
I just built a new pc
went from
oldpc
dell 8200
xp home 32 bit
p4 2.56 32 bit
512 rambus ram
bfg 6800 oc 128
250 watt ps
to new pc
Vista home prem 64 bit
q6600 quadcore 2.4 64bit
evga 680i (A1)
4mb x2 twin CA
8800 gts (sc)
1200 watt PS
9 hundred case
So id imagine i could turn everything up
How does the game handle 64 bit vista? how about quadcores?
Has the newer changes addressed the security issues with people turning on god mode and going under the map etc?
Have they added mouse support
Im going to move these questions to the question forum post since that would be more appropriate for a responce.
FoE Fist of the Empire
Vista isn't supported yet, even though many plays on Vista. From next patch (v1.29) will Vista be supported.
Next patch will be a big one since it involves major contract with a partner in China. Next patch will not only include Vista support, it will also include a whole new training feature, all crews (AA-guns, AT-guns, vehicles and boat) will be updated at least to the granny standard the latest added AT-guns have.
Hopefully will CRS also be able to complete the new graphical engine Unity II with this release. If so is it said that next patch will take some six month before it is released.
For more details on next patch (v1.29) check this link.
Regarding cheating is CRS very firm. Cheating is not allowed and will end with a permanent ban. No exuses is accepted.
I've played WWIIOL since 2002 and I have never heard about any "god powers" being missused. Only the Rats has such powers.
Speedhackers have been an issue, but that was some years now. Also have there been issues with invisible players, which was a bug I think. This is also taken care of. There are always a few Game Masters online that is very quick to respond to any issues. And if a town is switching side (or not switching side) due to any cheat will the GM and the two HC normally fix this manually regardless of any cheaters pathetic behaviour.
Yea ill be subbing back again tonight i think, well just as soon as i find out, if i can play with a 360 XBox controller.
Im listening to the audio version of the patch info located on the main site to get up to par with the goings on with the game.
FoE Fist of the Empire
hey guys, less talky talky and more screenshots....
This one looked cool from Timmy41
Here's one from sirkkeli
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbTNsIHSZc
I screenshot still F9 ?
the screenshot from slamen there has the post render filter on, makes for a good quality picture,looks like he has fairly high res too. looks good
I don't know what is the default key for the Windows client.
say, did i mention how much i like the feature of dead bodies being left after battles....
or how I like mortars...
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
it's an ok game, to big of learning curve though