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Come back to WWIIOL?
Eva-01
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Well i have been thinking of coming back to ww2ol for a lill while..but dont know really if its worth it, but i seems as tho the game has been shaping up from when i last played it...right now im playing WoW...im kinda loosing interest in that....mainly cuz of the servers....
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How long since you played WW2OL?
It's a VASTLY different game than it was even 6 months ago, let alone at the time of initial release.
Well worth a second, third or even fourth look.
I just came back myself after about a 6 month layoff. You will find the biggest changes in regards to the AO setup. Basically you can only capture towns that have been specifically targeted by your HC. You can still attack any town you want, but radios will not be up for you to capture facilities if you're not attacking a pre-determined target town.
The radio interface has changed quite a bit also. The plus side to this is that you no longer need to fidget with your mouse to change channels. The function keys are now used to specify which channel you want to talk on, so you just hit those each time you want to chat. You now also have the ability to talk to someone locally without having to tune to a similar channel, simply by hitting Enter you can talk to anyone near you. Beware however, as your enemy will know you're near when you do this, although they can't understand what you're saying.
Paratroopers are now in the game as well. I've done a few drops and I must say it is a great addition. It adds a whole new element to the game. Infantry can now be brought to the battle enmasse and behind the lines, to places that aren't easy to get to on the ground. A good example might be doing a paradrop on an Army Base to finish off a town. Mobile Spawning is also in the game now, another method of getting infantry to the battle quickly (which is something they've tried to do for some time now, i.e. spawnable depots for attackers). Basically any truck (Laffly, Bedford or Opel) can become a spawn point for infantry. So you can set up multiple spawn points around a town and basically attack from all sides, rather than loading up one truck, hoping you make it to the town, and hoping you don't all die in 10 seconds once you get there, and then having to do it all over again.
The one negative that I'm having an issue with is Lag. It might just be my system, I don't know. I'm not all that computer savvy so I don't know if more RAM solves lag issues or not. I'm currently on a 2.26 with 512 RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I would recommend having 1 gig of RAM to play this game from here on out. Anyhow, I'm constantly lagging from the moment I spawn in. It takes me a good 30 seconds to even be able to start moving, and then when I get into combat my screen will start freezing, which of course makes me entirely inefficient when a split second is the difference between living or dying.
Sign up for a month and give it a shot. See you on the Allied side. =P
Deuce6
Deuce,
For your lag issue, try the following.
Find the WW2.exe file in the CRS/WWIIOL folder. Right click on the WW2.exe file and go to properties.
Click on the Compatability tab, then set it to run in WinNT4.0 mode.
Tell me if that fixes the super lag issues.
Good luck
http://www.wwiiol-pilots-manual.com/
I come and go time to time. But this time, I am waiting for the next patch to reactivate my account again and i think you should too......
I'm also looking into this and a former WoW player - it's fun for a good 3-5 months I'd say. Is there lvl'n in this game? Do your combat skills improve over time?
ww2online is a war simulation not a levelling grind, so your combat skills are improving with learning by doing.
cause of the steeper learning curve the game holds many people longer than only 3-5 months, its just fun to learn how to fly with ww2 planes, tanks, ships, guns, flaks, paks ....
but you can gain rank in ww2online with your characters to use more/better equipment.
In WWIIOL, your skills are your skills. The only way to be a superior-accuracy gunner or rifleman or bombardier is to learn how to be accurate with your chosen weapon within the game's complex, realistic physics model.
You get nothing skill-wise in WWIIOL merely because you've played the game for X period of time, or participated in Y base captures, or destroyed Z enemy tanks or trucks or ships or planes...other than whatever skills you've acquired through your experiences.