Battleground Europe (WWIIOL) worth it? - Page 13

Dowly · 07-02-10, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBrauerHour

Best advice I can now give is to find a squad.

Hint hint.

Pictures from 251 hot drop at Vianden:

Thiiirtyyy seeecoooonnnds!!

"Dont die first, dont die first, dont die first"

This allied soldier gave us a greeting with his tommygun... don't think he knew that the 251 was packed with soldiers

Ouch, our 251 needs some paint

You really need a bigger gun than that!

Megatron (TheBrauerHour) wasn't pleased and started to swing fists at the poor, clearly mentally ill allied soldier. Axis soldier tries to keep the two from ripping each other up.

They talked it thru and we left them to cuddle

Soldier dies right in front of me, lucky it wasn't an MG spraying that road.

Krhkmies from Lagus serving justice with his MP40

Was fun.

Biggles · 07-02-10, 08:19 AM

S! ?

Dowly · 07-02-10, 08:22 AM

Salute!

We WWIIOL people are lazy in everything, dead is ded etc.

Biggles · 07-02-10, 09:00 AM

aaah, good to know :P

Unfortunately, I'm stuck in teh tutorial

I'm on step 4 now, using the chat and such, and I'm suppose to "tune" one of the chats...but I dunno how! >.<

It says: "To tune a radio, click on the radio header you want to tune. Use (left Alt) to bring up the mouse if you are spawned in. A list of available will be shown and you can click the channel you want that radio to be tuned to. Click on the F3 radio header and select the side channel."

I'm guessing that I'm suppose to press left Alt but nothing happens...any ideas?

Dowly · 07-02-10, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Biggles

aaah, good to know :P

Unfortunately, I'm stuck in teh tutorial

I'm on step 4 now, using the chat and such, and I'm suppose to "tune" one of the chats...but I dunno how! >.<

It says: "To tune a radio, click on the radio header you want to tune. Use (left Alt) to bring up the mouse if you are spawned in. A list of available will be shown and you can click the channel you want that radio to be tuned to. Click on the F3 radio header and select the side channel."

I'm guessing that I'm suppose to press left Alt but nothing happens...any ideas?

Hold left ALT and the mouse cursor should pop up.

Anywho, you can complete the training by typing .graduate true into the chat.

Biggles · 07-02-10, 09:16 AM

Ach never mind I got it sorted out!

Biggles · 07-02-10, 10:08 AM

Went through my first battle just now. Confusing, scary and unforgiving. Just as a war should be!

even got my first kill!

Frying Tiger · 07-02-10, 10:50 AM

I'm really happy to see people having fun with WWIIOL, I was the original Art Director and one of the designers. Plus, I built a bunch of the planes! (I love popping up the pilot's seat in the HE-111 for landing)

TheBrauerHour · 07-03-10, 06:19 PM

Oh dowly you caught me and a Frenchie having a moment! lol.

Well, I am now in OCS, and hope to be appointed to the 33rd Infantrie 2nd Kampfgruppe.

Should take about 3 weeks for me to graduate.

Oh, and here is the aftermath of a mortar barrage on the offline practice. Fun with clones!

Biggles · 07-04-10, 04:21 PM

Wow, what a blast! First I supported the (failed) German attack on Spa, deployed a Bofors 40mm behind the front and sprayed the skies with shots. Never seen so many planes at the same time....most of them were british

But I managed to down one of them!

After heavy fighting the boys upstairs decided that the attack was futile and called it off. Everyone retreated back to Verviers but to my horror the British decided to follow us and they took the initiative at once, taking the airfield and pressing into the town itself. Didn't look too good for us, but we managed to kick them out of town. When I left for some rest the Germans were deploying what forces they still had to retake the airfield.

Never seen anything like it. This is war!

Dowly · 07-05-10, 09:05 AM

Glad to hear you're having a blast.

Eightbit · 07-07-10, 08:56 AM

You guys are making me wanna re-sub. It's been years since I played. Think the last time I played was just prior to the pak38 coming out.

Just too damn lazy.

TheBrauerHour · 07-07-10, 05:29 PM

It is a completely different game now.

A peek into one of the battles we just had:

Dowly · 07-08-10, 08:52 AM

Part 2 with some commentary:

tater · 07-08-10, 10:28 AM

I was looking for a ww2ol thread. I've been playing again since the patch after a hiatus (been active since pre-day one, mind you, with a few breaks in play, not subscription). The game has been GREAT since the patch. I've only played inf, but have really enjoyed it for the first time in a while.

All ww2ol needs to be my idea game is more AI.

I know, I'm a heretic, but I've thought this since closed beta. I don't want a box game, I don't want the crappy AI ww2ol has now, I want limited, player controlled AI infantry. What I'd dearly love to see is for each infantry player to control 3-4 men. Whatever one the player is "in" at the moment is the leader, and the other guys just "follow the leader." Think games like ghost recon as an example. They'd only shoot as AI under very limited conditions based on player controlled orders. Like defensive fire within some short, point blank range so you could emplace your LMG, and point some AI guys to cover your flank and rear, and they'd shoot if EI came within 5 meters or some other short value. Suppressing fire is another AI fire mode you could have. Player selects each inf in turn and points them roughly (say each at a different window of a building). Then grabs the last guy, and orders suppressing fire, and the 2-3 remaining AI guys fire where aimed by the player (within some dispersion cone set by the game). Player then assaults with the guy he controls.

Such a system would NOT make ww2ol be a non-PVP, IMO, but instead would leverage infantry, and we'd instantly see 3-4 times as many inf around. Also, since any given player alone could set up a sort of protected zone of control, assaults would be far more fun, and the game less porous to infantry.

07-02-10, 08:19 AM	#182
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	S! ? __________________

07-02-10, 09:00 AM	#184
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	aaah, good to know :P Unfortunately, I'm stuck in teh tutorial I'm on step 4 now, using the chat and such, and I'm suppose to "tune" one of the chats...but I dunno how! >.< It says: "To tune a radio, click on the radio header you want to tune. Use (left Alt) to bring up the mouse if you are spawned in. A list of available will be shown and you can click the channel you want that radio to be tuned to. Click on the F3 radio header and select the side channel." I'm guessing that I'm suppose to press left Alt but nothing happens...any ideas? __________________

07-02-10, 09:16 AM	#186
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Ach never mind I got it sorted out! __________________

07-02-10, 10:08 AM	#187
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Went through my first battle just now. Confusing, scary and unforgiving. Just as a war should be! even got my first kill! __________________

07-02-10, 10:50 AM	#188
Frying Tiger Sonalysts Man Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Waterford, CT Posts: 113 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm really happy to see people having fun with WWIIOL, I was the original Art Director and one of the designers. Plus, I built a bunch of the planes! (I love popping up the pilot's seat in the HE-111 for landing) __________________ *Roger "Frying Tiger"* Long** Art Lead Sonalysts Combat Simulations "the atom-powered submarine: Her engines were to be a miracle of speed and power, her sides strong enough to withstand any blow... The mind of man had thought of everything - except that which was beyond his comprehension!"

07-02-10, 08:22 AM	#183
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Salute! We WWIIOL people are lazy in everything, dead is ded etc.

07-03-10, 06:19 PM	#189
TheBrauerHour Mr. Eastwood Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 364 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Oh dowly you caught me and a Frenchie having a moment! lol. Well, I am now in OCS, and hope to be appointed to the 33rd Infantrie 2nd Kampfgruppe. Should take about 3 weeks for me to graduate. Oh, and here is the aftermath of a mortar barrage on the offline practice. Fun with clones!

07-04-10, 04:21 PM	#190
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Wow, what a blast! First I supported the (failed) German attack on Spa, deployed a Bofors 40mm behind the front and sprayed the skies with shots. Never seen so many planes at the same time....most of them were british But I managed to down one of them! After heavy fighting the boys upstairs decided that the attack was futile and called it off. Everyone retreated back to Verviers but to my horror the British decided to follow us and they took the initiative at once, taking the airfield and pressing into the town itself. Didn't look too good for us, but we managed to kick them out of town. When I left for some rest the Germans were deploying what forces they still had to retake the airfield. Never seen anything like it. This is war! __________________

07-05-10, 09:05 AM	#191
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Glad to hear you're having a blast.

07-07-10, 08:56 AM	#192
Eightbit Seaman Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 35 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	You guys are making me wanna re-sub. It's been years since I played. Think the last time I played was just prior to the pak38 coming out. Just too damn lazy.

07-07-10, 05:29 PM	#193
TheBrauerHour Mr. Eastwood Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 364 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	It is a completely different game now. A peek into one of the battles we just had:

07-08-10, 08:52 AM	#194
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Part 2 with some commentary:

07-08-10, 10:28 AM	#195
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	I was looking for a ww2ol thread. I've been playing again since the patch after a hiatus (been active since pre-day one, mind you, with a few breaks in play, not subscription). The game has been GREAT since the patch. I've only played inf, but have really enjoyed it for the first time in a while. All ww2ol needs to be my idea game is more AI. I know, I'm a heretic, but I've thought this since closed beta. I don't want a box game, I don't want the crappy AI ww2ol has now, I want limited, player controlled AI infantry. What I'd dearly love to see is for each infantry player to control 3-4 men. Whatever one the player is "in" at the moment is the leader, and the other guys just "follow the leader." Think games like ghost recon as an example. They'd only shoot as AI under very limited conditions based on player controlled orders. Like defensive fire within some short, point blank range so you could emplace your LMG, and point some AI guys to cover your flank and rear, and they'd shoot if EI came within 5 meters or some other short value. Suppressing fire is another AI fire mode you could have. Player selects each inf in turn and points them roughly (say each at a different window of a building). Then grabs the last guy, and orders suppressing fire, and the 2-3 remaining AI guys fire where aimed by the player (within some dispersion cone set by the game). Player then assaults with the guy he controls. Such a system would NOT make ww2ol be a non-PVP, IMO, but instead would leverage infantry, and we'd instantly see 3-4 times as many inf around. Also, since any given player alone could set up a sort of protected zone of control, assaults would be far more fun, and the game less porous to infantry. Last edited by tater; 07-11-10 at 11:53 PM.