Apache Air Assualt 11-16-2010
 

Just saw that this game is coming out on November the 9th.

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And this was found by buggins confirmed choppers.

http://www.destructoid.com/preview-a...t-184473.phtml

bad link trk29

Fixed, thanks.

Sweet its a 360 game! Im deffo buying it now, I was on the fence before if it was a PC title. Before someone says it, I have a gaming PC and prefer it over a console. However I prefer my 360 for online play as there is nowhere near as many hackers on LIVE as a whole compared to the average PC game.


So expect to see little old me playing it, especially if its got a MP mode.

In the UK that date reads as 11th September. I got very excited for a moment thinking this was out next week. Never mind I look forward to November for this

So expect to see little old me playing it, especially if its got a MP mode.[/QUOTE]

It does !
It should be really good as you can fly the chopper and invite your friend to sit in the gunners seat :)

I wanna fly backseat with you so looking forward to it too..

My £5's looking pretty safe too :)

Yeah the co-op on this is going to be mint.

It's a long way to go yet for that fiver. Now we have offloaded the lazy Brazilian it's all go from now on

I absolutely LOVE flying the apache in Bad Company 2 with a friend as a gunner. Between us we can cause alot of damage and we do it properly...

This game will get rid of the arcade style of BC2 and will offer so much more...

I cannot wait for this!! Release date is set as the same as Black Ops though... wont stop me buying it :P

Cheers for the link Trk, kudos to you sir :D

Coming out the same week as Black Ops. Even if it's a budget title that still seems like a bad idea.

Which one is Black Ops? The modern warfare one is not by the same team and the Call Of Duty one has a bounty on it's head from the defence secretary. Either way they both look more of the same that Bad Company does better anyway.

I will be blasting in my chopper that week

To me it looks like a PC mod of MW2 but I'm sure it will still sell millions. I think less people will be willing to buy two games and the lesser known title will suffer. Maybe some good gameplay trailers the week before release will get the word out to the masses that a helicopter gunship game is coming out on consoles... might work wonders.

Black Ops will suck and suck badly. As far as I am aware its made by Treyarch, who make the crap CoD games.

I think you mean good.

Cant wait for this, though :D

Well if internet chatter is anything to go by, it looks like Apache may see some strong sales. Ive seen a number of sites where people are more interested in it than the other big name flight games, like HAWX2 or the new AC. If even a few of those people follow through it could be the sleeper hit of the year. There is ALWAYS room in a game collection for a damn good chopper game, as many gamers would agree. So if Anton and the boys have done a good job, we could be looking at a big boost to the devs kudos and recognition.

On a more personal level, Ive already noted to a few friends that the game is from the makers of BoP and they are very interested in the product. However like me, they want to play a demo first to get a feel for the way the game plays and its learning curve. Thats a good thing though as they did the same with BoP and were hooked.

It better have cockpits! :grin:

You know, im not going to lie, BLACK OPS, if it has ZOMBIES i will buy. They already confirmed some sort of unrealistic, hand held mini-gun thing. So nothing will satisfy me more then mowing down a bunch of ZOMBIES with a MINI-GUN. I would also like to fly APACHES too, but you know, i would like to see ratings and gameplay first. This game seems a little too unannounced.

They should put a zombie mode in Apache Assault. Maybe some strimming action like in 28 Weeks Later

Yeah I agree Zatoichi but at the same time I'm not sure the COD crowd is going to be interested in a chopper game?? Flight jocks will be all over this before COD.............well heres hoping! :grin:

I gave up on COD after COD4. I'm yet to play COD WAW, COD MW2, and black ops looks like the same crap as all the others so it's not getting my coin. Apache all the way - brings back memories of desert strike on the mega drive or genesis depending where you come from.

But wasn't Desert Strike massive back then? Almost everyone I knew who had a megadrive got it.

I'm part of that COD crowd (i love it) and i can assure you that a fair few will be buying this game, if anything you can thank the "chopper gunner" kill streak for it haha. It lets their imaginations go wild.

Whether or not they like it.... thats another story.

As for the mega drive, it brings back good memories!! Desert strike was a great game. Then onto the PS1 with soviet strike and nuclear strike.

You guys know you can still play Desert Strike now right? There an emulator called "Gens" that works perfectly and allows you to play old megadrive/genesis roms.

I still play Nuclear Strike on my PS1. Great game, last couple of missions are damn difficult though and I hate the actor who plays the villan.

Ah nuclear strike!!

I used to love flying the squadron of Hueys

I just looked at those new screens and spotted the Hind. Any news on if that's flyable? This and Ace Combat I am dying to play.

I'm sure the developers will compelled be to make the Hind flyable, it will no doubt be twice as powerful, 3 times more manouverable and 6 times more deadly than the Apache. The German Eurocopter Tiger will also be flyable in the game but will have no cockpit ;)

Hind owns all.
http://i53.tinypic.com/ngvoew.jpg

Apache Air Assault Thread
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hck6RL_Asn0

Looks friggin amazing. Love that cockpit.

that's why i pre-ordered... think its going to be a freakin blast!

I like the look of this.. Can't wait to get some online co-op going.

Destructable buildings, Black Hawks, Reaper UAVs, Daisy Cutters...that video made my day.

I can't wait for this. My most anticipated game of the year

This title is looking fantastic, can't wait to see how it handles with my Ace Edge HOTAS.

Cockpits and FLIR! :grin:

http://i55.tinypic.com/5bnqj7.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/141wfk.jpg

Though this shot looks too good to be true:
http://i51.tinypic.com/jra0k3.jpg

wow, those 2 top shots look like ones i have seen at work from real combat footage. looks like that part is as realistic as they can make it.

Surprised nobody else spotted the gap in the Market for a helicopter game. It's been a long time since Thunderhawk, Thunderblade and Gunship on console. Only Gunship was a serious Copter game at that.
Regardless of Call Of Duty I think this will do very well. BOP came on the tail of Blazing Angels 1 and 2 and even though we know BOP is vastly superior the general public had a choice of WW2 air combat.

Good spot.. I didn't notice the debris coming through the windscreen.

now ive seen the trailer i will probably buy it as it doesnt look to arcadey. but not untill i know it is a fully completed game or i will still be flying a spit

:shock: :o ......and now I pre-order!

Confirmed choppers in Apache Air Assault
 

Thought I'd keep posting info here due to there being no other suitable forum on the net. Confirmed choppers include the Apache AH-64D Longbow, Apache AH-1, Apache AH-64X Experimental Prototype, MQ-8B Fire Scout, and Mi-35 Hind. This is a direct quote from the article, I'm hoping he got his facts wrong and means the Ah-1 Cobra rather than the AgustaWestland Apache AH mk1. But a flyable Hind? Excellent news.

http://www.destructoid.com/preview-a...t-184473.phtml

Please keep all topics about this game in one thread.

New video Gamescom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCIQ2TnBu4

Well I know I am going to get it but i have a bad feeling that the multiplayer is going to be hum a bit dry on the vs side:confused:.

trk29, we will. but after it's ( apache air assault) is released it will need a forum of its own...there will be a lot of BoP players there for awhile. then WE, the faithful, will come back here cos helos are helos but REAL men fly those glorious fixed wing fighters.. BoP will always be the home for those soles who have the deepest reverence OUR past. Honestly, this a game that shall prevail..until a suitable and more noble predecessor unseats it from it's throne .. and we the faithful, the virtual "Few"...patiently wait.

Who are you to say real men only fly fixed wings? I mean forward flight is great and all, but it takes a man to fly 360 degree's. XD

I'm guessing Activision will dedicate a forum. Has anyone checked if it is on yuplay?

its a joke goalie.... when he's not playing in the sandbox i work with an apache pilot ( and when he's home i bust his stones saying the same thing). hence, why i was impressed with the night vision camera clips above. they are eerily spot on to the clips he has shown us. i am interested in his take on this game but i havent seen him in weeks. in real life helos are extremely difficult to fly...you have a whole other dimension to deal with. and no trk i havent seen anything on activision, yuplay, or anywhere else...which is interesting.

I wonder if this game will finish what Red Dead started and kill BoP online. Last few times I have been on it's been pretty dead. I hope not because I see this as a different beast altogether

Ground Attack, Capture the LZ, and Ground Strike will be where it's at. Team Death Match with gunships wouldn't be my cup of tea.

The Co-op in the press release is described as "a local co-op campaign mode". Does that exclude online Co-Op? I guess we have to wait for more details.

Been away from gaming news for a while....hope this game is good. By the way anyone else excited for BFBC2 Vietnam....Vietnam was the best battlefield on PC. Pumped for it.

Damn college and not enough money for games! :evil:

ya know dk, i wonder how many got their appetites wetted with BoP and have since made the move to pc play instead,,,wings of prey and 1946. if i had the right machine i would be tempted.

Yeah know what you mean Bobby. I tried WoP but couldn't get into it like console version. PC take too much effort to get everthing running and online. I prefer my gaming from my couch.

Did anyone watch the interview on the vid posted earlier. The guy mentioned the countries are fictitious. I hated that in Ace Combat series and disappointed this followed that route. I know it avoids controversy but everyone knows it's meant to be Somalia and Afganistan so why bother

I really hope he's wrong. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5_DqNWmr8

hey dk, if you can, i will be on xbox noonish my time, 5ish yours. its my day off so i wake up at like the crack of noon. on your way home from work buy a six pack ( ok that is a yank term)....get a couple of pints to go. you can kick a mere mortal's "behind" and we will laugh our "behinds" off and you smoke me relentlessly. if today isnt good for you then friday or saturday...i am off all 3 this week. anyone else want in on this?? feel free to join. i do not honestly care if i win or lose....i just love flying...and i know there are more players like me... & THAT, my friends, is why this game will honestly never drift into obscurity. let me know......

More apache details here

Not sure this guy knows much about helicopters:
"The helicopters themselves are all Apache brand choppers: the Apache AH-64D Longbow, Apache AH-1, Apache AH-64X Experimental Prototype, MQ-8B Fire Scout, and Mi-35 Hind"

Bobby, I had to unhook my Xbox at the weekend but I will rig it back up tomorrow and try catch you online for a few flights. I hasn't seen any forum regulars on XBL when I have been on. Must be wrong time of day

I noticed.. And the 'helicopters have a wider turning circle than fixed wing' statement is also a bit of a give away.

$50 is £29.99. That's what I paid for BoP on release date and it deffo didn't suck. It's cheaper because it's a nich title and the release window is packed with other games.

Yeah Winny I had some fun reading that article. When he started talking about Apaches going nearly upside down I had a chuckle. Apart from that there is confirmation about the same difficulty settings as BoP which is great. Lots of scope to work through them all.
Glad there is a Hind in the game but I would swap that UAV fire scout for a little bird or Cobra in a heartbeat. I doubt very much that will be flyable in multiplayer

Umm.. I already posted this here:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=16408&page=4

trk29, is it really necessary to join these threads? Not exactly a thriving forum is it? The destructoid article had heaps of news and could have warranted its own thread. Just saying..

That kind of puts everything in the review into question. Can we really fly the Hind, Cobra etc. or was he just flying a different Apache and mixed up the names.

It's cheaper because it's part of the Activision Minneapolis series of budget titles which have a tendency to reflect their cheapness in game quality. BoP was by no means a budget title.

I joined them here into one thread to keep everything about this game in one thread. I just don't want everyone creating a new thread about this game everytime news comes out about it. So yes it was necessary.

Doing this will makes things easier when someone wants to find information out about it.

I put the link you provided into the first post of this thread.

Or if you like I could just move every thread to "other topics" like I am supposed to do since it doesn't pertain to BOP. Just saying...

can i use my thrustmaster hotas x? or am i going to get thrusted when i pop in the game and go wtf no flight stick support?

My first guess would be since it is Gaijin that is making the game I would say they will give us flight stick support. But since we know nothing about the game and there is no website or dedicated forum its hard to say for sure. I am curious to know if it runs off of the same engine as BOP and maybe they have put some of the features in that we asked for in BOP (crossing fingers).

What is weird is none of that has been done yet and the game is coming out in under two months.

This is offtopic but I was looking around and noticed 1C published a game called "Whirlwind of Vietnam" Developer is G5 Software and there isn't a forum for this game but just thought I would let you guys know this incase you wanted to try a helicopter sim out that I didn't know was out there.

Whirlwind of Vietnam


This is a few years old. PC only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvhk...eature=related

I know we know nothing about this game coming out. But I do remember Anton saying that in the sequal to BOP that they were going to look at different things, and one of them was using the playstation eye for headtracking, since we don't even know if they are making a console sequal lets hope that they have implemented this feature into Apache Air Assault.

Would be killer to track targets on the ground using your head like a real apache would.

The world needs Mi-24 Hind: Birds of Prey.

Hind is not as good as you think. It needs a runway to take off most of the time.

I used to drop from them in Afghanistan, not very comfortable in those chairs. The way the Mi-24 is, is like a flying BMP-3. They are old, but I hope they are replaced by the Ka-50.

Yes, good choppers, overall its historical importance is great, but it lack in performance in terms of being a helicopter. Nothing a squad of blackhawks and apaches cant do better.

All russian stuff is really made uncomfertable. But it works, it works well. THats all that really matters.

It's faster than a Blackhawk and an Apache. You'd need a Blackhawk and an Apache just to do the job of one Hind.

You were (are?) Russian airborne? Wow, never know who you might meet on the internet. My uncle was US 101st airborne and would drop from Hueys in Vietnam. You guys have way more guts than I do, glad you're still in one piece.

I've been in the Afghanistan war, the first and second Chechen war, and the South Ossetia war. I'm in the Special Forces, so I've dropped out of the Mi-24 quite a few times.

Far Out. Like I said, never know who you'll meet on the internet. I've flown some interesting birds in my time, but never been shot at. Strictly civillian aviation for me. Stay low and zig-zaggin Korsakov.

So I emailed Activision and asked them since this game is so close to release why they don't have a website or forum up yet and if they planned on doing either, here is their response.

So I went to this link and I couldn't even find anything about the game in question. It's weird to me that they haven't even started to advertise this game yet unless they know it is a niche game and won't even sell that much anyway. Thought I would just let you guys know.

Thanks for trying Trk. It really is odd how they arn't even doing a small advertisment scheeme. I would have thought this game would be very marketable to especialy the American gamers who have enjoyed the US helicopters in the Modern Warefare's and Bad Company's and want more helo action. Activison obviously has had to pay next to nothing to get the game made (as the developers Daijin only had to modify the BoP game engine and we know how good that is) if they spent some money advertising it as a big game they would no doubt be raking in the $$$.

As it is now, the mass of gamers won't even know about this title let alone buy it, leading to another 505 style let down by Activision.

guess that means no xbox patch again!!!

i posted a couple times on yu-play about the absense of a forum and am pretty much drawing the same conclusion about it being a niche game. not to throw even a few $$ into ads?? i expected more from activision. oh well, i will still have some fun with it if....hopefully.

I just can't understand it, I mean are Activision that dumb?
IL-2 BoP is in a niche subject, WW2 fighters are for the majority of gamers (young Americans) uninteresting. Apache helicopters on the other hand isn't a niche subject, gamers interest in military helicopters is probably at an all time high thanks to other recent games. Activison could so easily tap into this interest and get waaaay more sales than BoP managed but apparently they are blind to this and see it as a budget knock off game. :confused::confused::confused:

I'm with you, pope. it actually boggles the mind. with all the modern warfare games being pretty popular and this one with potentially a great engine and graphics behind it...to play it off like this i cant fathom. if its worth putting out, its worth throwing a few $ behind it to make it big. unless they put out the initial PR and were guaging the potential sales by the response they got. maybe we will all be surprised and they will have some kick off campaign when its released but i'm not holding my breath. :confused:

I know exactly what you guys mean. Modern Warfare is where the money has been the past few years and this game is modern so, maybe thats why they are publishing it. I still don't see why there isn't a website or something out there that shows this games existence. I really don't think it will even have a chance because of COD,MOH, and GT5 coming out not a very good month to release it in, and to top it off they don't even let a interested group of people know anything about what I asked.

I said in my e-mail that a bunch of us on this forum have been waiting for news.

http://tgs.gamespot.com/video/6276268/

Looks okay....think I'll be sticking to MOH or Black Ops, most likely Black Ops since no EA game works with my dorm internet.

Heads up: Apache is not being released in Australia or New Zealand. I've ordered mine from ebay.

@TRK29. It's spelt 'warfare'.

Here is a good preview: http://www.destructoid.com/preview-a...t-184473.phtml

For me there was lots of new information of this game. Sounds good, and there is a veteran difficulty.

Thanks. Just a little typo.:-P


Hey it's been a while. Thanks buddy. But that is in the first post, found by Buggins.

Looks like there's a press event in the UK on Monday where the game will be shown. Hopefully we'll get more news then.

Yes for me too. I'm looking forward to the co-op stuff, something BoP really missed.

There is an opportunity to attend a press event on October 11th here if anyone in or near London. You would need to write an article about if for that site though! Looks like a great opportunity though. Devs and a real Apache pilot will be there:

http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread.php?t=105993

Boxart:
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...t_uk_large.jpg

That big press event happened today in London so expect a lot more coverage and details in the next few days

Sweet like the box art.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/weefz/5...n/photostream/

Well the game was there but I can't find anything except this photo. It looks like they had a playable demo there for Xbox.

Great boxart! Looking forward!

MAC

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Wow those screens are looking quite good. That first one of the Flir pic looks good as well.

I'm hoping the first is DTV because, at least from that distance, it doesn't look like any of the vehicles are giving off a heat signature.

Still, they're remarkably close to the real thing:
DTV
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...snap-57770.jpg
FLIR in daylight
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...snap-58902.jpg

Holy Smokes, man...that is pretty darn realisitc. compare those game shots to these real vids. ***warning contains real humans being shot**

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3w...-takedown_news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQmBo...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNNYf...eature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmQP...eature=related

Another French preview. (Either they're fast or there's some country-based media embargo?)

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was looking for more news reports or articles about apache air assult and ran across this game coming out. Homefront. looks more like a CoD type game but from what i read it sounds like you will be able to fly an apache ( or an osprey..or drive a tank) in some of the campaigns or multiplayer. the premise and trailer look interesting....something to keep an eye on.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/acti...&mode=previews

Well it should look slighty different anyway
The Apache in the screen shot has M-TADS (Modernised Target Aquisition and Designation Sight) , The real pictures are of the old outdated TADS system used by the AH64A-D pre 2005. You can tell the difference by the reticle. The MTADS has little bars at the edge of the + and also has an x when the laser designator is active, the old TADS hud has neither of these and has a I shaped thing with a secondary + in dots. You can compare the videos on this thread too, the 'gun cam 7' is TADS and the 'Apache kills insurgence' is MTADS.

hey guys,

first post on here, but been playing the il-2 games including BOP for a long while now and was glad to hear this game is being released, looks like that preview over on destructoid gave away the list of flyable aircraft except the person who wrote it knows nothing about aircraft and referred to them as variants of the ah-64. this is what they said "Apache AH-64D Longbow, Apache AH-1, Apache AH-64X Experimental Prototype, MQ-8B Fire Scout, and Mi-35 Hind" as flyable aircraft. and judging by one of those screenshots with the Mi-24 looking aircraft (see Mi-35), i'd say that the list could reasonably reflect whats to be expected. Oh and the firescout UAV? maybe some SAWX 2 style missions? (hope not). I can't believe its not being released in Australia, that really sucks.

These new screens confirmed for me that this game has the best environmental graphics in a flight sim. The trees and scrubs look fantastic. I really can't wait for this to come out for the single player campaign. I am looking forward to hearing about multiplayer options. Strike or CTA would work well with choppers but not sure about dogfighting with them unless you can set up a match without missiles. Guns only would be great. In fact guns only, sim mode with no target indicators and some tall buildings would mean a great cat and mouse match. Hovering down low in a street waiting for opponent to fly past then hit them with the cannon

i'm one of those unlucky people who lives in rural australia and unfortunatly has a horrible internet connection, practically meaning that any kind of air combat, or for that matter, any game is practically unplayable online due to lag issues or being dropped from a game, so i'm hoping the single player really offers a diverse and flexible set of missions, ie, i will be able to select the aircrafts war load, and infact, what aircraft i would like to pilot for a particullar mission.