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Originally Posted by Avimimus
It seems that people tend to gravitate towards a few high-performing late-war mounts online. I never did like the high speed, high firepower combat that predominated in 43'-45'.
You don't see your opponent up close, there isn't much manoeuvring and the first person to get a good run gets a kill. I much prefer the chivalry of being in a Mig-3 where it takes four-five runs to down an enemy (and a single 20mm round can still ignite your fuel tank).
Similarly, the psychology of flying a Hurricane or a Zeke is completely different where the turning combat means that thinking three moves ahead is more valuable than reflexes. Unfortunately, the online world doesn't seem to agree.
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The problem is the sort of person who likes to fly online dogfights and play then as a 3D version of Halo/Quake also has a massive ego and is very loud and outspoken in forums. I suspect this gives an unusually warped impression of the real interest of the majority of players. If you listened to the online crowd we really only needed maybe 5 or 6 planes in the sim all of them post 1943/1944
Personally I would have loved to have seen the game progress backwards to cover more of the Spanish Civil War and some of the more interesting South American squabbles in the 1930's
That's unlikely but I am very happy with the direction TD have taken.
06-10-2010, 12:32 AM
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