Gaijin: Apache: Air Assault

[trk29]

Only bad thing I can think of so far is, it is supposed to come out this fall and we just found out about this game. Maybe they realize that it is such a niche market that advertising is not worth spending the money on. We knew about BOP well before release.

[winny]

Originally Posted by trk29

Only bad thing I can think of so far is, it is supposed to come out this fall and we just found out about this game. Maybe they realize that it is such a niche market that advertising is not worth spending the money on. We knew about BOP well before release.

I was thinking that this is a budget type game, big releases usually have a 5 month promotion leading to release, this has only 8-9 weeks, add to that the fact that Activision have already released a game with the same name previously and I come to the conclusion that this is a stop-gap release using some of the technology of the innevitable sequal TM maybe to test the waters with activision? I'm just guessing btw.

[trk29]

Originally Posted by winny

I was thinking that this is a budget type game, big releases usually have a 5 month promotion leading to release, this has only 8-9 weeks, add to that the fact that Activision have already released a game with the same name previously and I come to the conclusion that this is a stop-gap release using some of the technology of the innevitable sequal TM maybe to test the waters with activision? I'm just guessing btw.

I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully Activision has let Gaijin do what they want with this game and it will be a smash hit. And then hopefully Acitivsion will see their talent and fund a sequal to BOP, make right where 505 went wrong.

[Lexandro]

I wouldnt mind a good chopper game. I havent played one one in years, but it was helluva fun. The one I had was Apache vs Havok iirc. There was a campaign you could do and I remember one mission in particular.

I had to take out a tank coloumn moving west down a river valley. I flew to the target 5 feet off the surface of the water following the riverbeds contours. I got to 2 klicks away and went in to a hover. The tanks were around a corner in the river that was hidden behind the valley contour. So I very gently hovered over to just below the lip of the hillside. I then landed the Apache and rolled it forward on the deck so that the nose mounted sights were just able to target the tanks. I then locked up targets and proceded to fire mavs at them while still landed. Thanks to the angle of the slope I was on the mavs went up and came back down right on top of them smashing them to bits. I then cruised home for a debrief and a cuppa.

And that was all with atrocious DX8 graphics and physics. If this game has good graphics, good physics and a generous amount of flight characteristic settings then I will be one of those seriously considering buying the game. Full chopper flight controls really require a pedals setup as a twist grip stick really wont cut it in the long run. So I hope Gaijin take this in to account and give players fully customisable controls.

[olife]

maybe an eurocopter TIGER

[Soviet Ace]

It's another Russian game, so you know they're gonna have that hog of a Mi-24... hopefully the Mi-24D Hind-D variant (purest of all the gunship models put together.) Along with the Mi-24PTRK. (It's like a Hind-D but with some modifications to weapon systems and some weapons themselves. Maybe have a Hind-V variant...

Damn Soviet ingenuity and its beauty!

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

It's another Russian game, so you know they're gonna have that hog of a Mi-24... hopefully the Mi-24D Hind-D variant (purest of all the gunship models put together.) Along with the Mi-24PTRK. (It's like a Hind-D but with some modifications to weapon systems and some weapons themselves. Maybe have a Hind-V variant...

Damn Soviet ingenuity and its beauty!

F**K that!!! Get a good old Huey in their and were laughing!! Couple of rocket pods or side mounted miniguns... all you need!! The sound of those huge rotors to.... epic!!

Keep yer Hind, i'll take the Huey and we can re enact that scene from rambo

Edit - its not a hind in rambo is it?? its that other russian piece of crap haha. Ah well we'll make do with a Huey v Hind

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

F**K that!!! Get a good old Huey in their and were laughing!! Couple of rocket pods or side mounted miniguns... all you need!! The sound of those huge rotors to.... epic!!

Keep yer Hind, i'll take the Huey and we can re enact that scene from rambo

Edit - its not a hind in rambo is it?? its that other russian piece of crap haha. Ah well we'll make do with a Huey v Hind

Well it was meant to be a hind but it was just a Puma dolled up to look like one. Same truck was used in Rambo 3 but they also threw in a dolled up gazelle for a bit of spice.
It was always the same back in the 70s and 80s. I remember first time I saw a real Hind in a film in mid 90s it was a big event

[bobbysocks]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

It's another Russian game, so you know they're gonna have that hog of a Mi-24... hopefully the Mi-24D Hind-D variant (purest of all the gunship models put together.) Along with the Mi-24PTRK. (It's like a Hind-D but with some modifications to weapon systems and some weapons themselves. Maybe have a Hind-V variant...

Damn Soviet ingenuity and its beauty!

Hind? do i get to play the afghan mujahideen with the stinger that shot them down like clay pigeons??

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

F**K that!!! Get a good old Huey in their and were laughing!! Couple of rocket pods or side mounted miniguns... all you need!! The sound of those huge rotors to.... epic!!

Keep yer Hind, i'll take the Huey and we can re enact that scene from rambo

Edit - its not a hind in rambo is it?? its that other russian piece of crap haha. Ah well we'll make do with a Huey v Hind

I don't think there were actually any variants of a Huey with air-to-air missiles. (Yes, Soviets actually toyed and were partially successful with air-to-air missiles on their Hinds.) But I'm pretty sure with the Hind's side mounted guns (Hind-Ds had them for infantry support) along with their four rocket pods, twin 12.7mm guns in the nose (or later with the 30mm cannon), and their rocket pods would decimate any Huey you sent its way? And yes, it's a Hind in the Rambo movies.

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

Hind? do i get to play the afghan mujahideen with the stinger that shot them down like clay pigeons??

As for that, I'm not sure? Maybe ask Osama how it was using US Stingers. Or maybe how it was dealing with Hind's before the US had to stick their nose in Soviet business.