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Just had a map for the first time with two opposing fleets of battleships just passing each other without firing. 
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 03:30 |
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| # ? May 23, 2013 07:03 |
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Is that map Twin Cities or something along those lines? Its a cool map but the ships not fighting. 
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 04:28 |
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BillyJoeBob posted:Is that map Twin Cities or something along those lines? Its a cool map but the ships not fighting. Yeah I think it was called that, maybe Two Cities. Only seen it once though and I've played 101 missions. It looked pretty silly but I guess they havn't coded in anything but AA-guns for the ships yet.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 04:59 |
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So what is controlling the carriers or warships like? Is it any fun? Will they ever add player controlled tanks or ground AA?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 05:01 |
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hayden. posted:So what is controlling the carriers or warships like? Is it any fun? Will they ever add player controlled tanks or ground AA? You can only control planes at the moment. The ships are all AI-controlled.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 05:01 |
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hayden. posted:So what is controlling the carriers or warships like? Is it any fun? Will they ever add player controlled tanks or ground AA? They WILL be player controlled eventually. The notes I've seen on it read a lot like they were sitting in a meeting one day and had a moment of "Hot drat, we can actually DO THIS, guise!" SO they are! (eventually) Also, I bombed a plane out of the sky! (It was a friendly. -7000 Skybucks  )
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 05:28 |
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All three will be player-controlled eventually (hence why you have the Air, Army, and Naval tabs under your hangers as well).
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 05:44 |
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They say the next thing we're getting is tanks when open beta officially hits. They haven't given any dates yet but still. I want to be a jerk to low flying planes with a Wirbelwind 
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 05:49 |
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BillyJoeBob posted:They say the next thing we're getting is tanks when open beta officially hits. They haven't given any dates yet but still. I want to be a jerk to low flying planes with a Wirbelwind Yeah, I will imagine they might need to raise the starting altitude by a thousand or so.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 06:25 |
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BillyJoeBob posted:They say the next thing we're getting is tanks when open beta officially hits. They haven't given any dates yet but still. I want to be a jerk to low flying planes with a Wirbelwind I thought boats were next and tanks were last. Any idea if they changed that or if they'll have all three out by open beta?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 06:28 |
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I've played World of Warplanes for awhile now and its been pretty enjoyable, how does this game matchup compared to it? Loving the way it looks, at least in the videos.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 06:38 |
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Xii posted:I've played World of Warplanes for awhile now and its been pretty enjoyable, how does this game matchup compared to it? General consensus is that War Thunder is significantly better. It looks nicer, the game runs more smoothly, lag is less of an issue, and the game plays better. I don't think anyone has said that WoWP has any advantages over War Thunder. Squadrons should be in this week (in theory), so that will make the game way more entertaining.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 06:50 |
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Lee Outrageous posted:By the way I am playing as Pvt_Public Sorry about your Dora¹. ¹ No I'm not.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 06:57 |
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Wow, I just got into a non-starter plane, the F2-A Buffalo and I went 5 kills and 0 deaths for 20k experience on my first sortie with it.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 07:03 |
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Xii posted:I've played World of Warplanes for awhile now and its been pretty enjoyable, how does this game matchup compared to it? So far, this way better, in almost every way.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 07:17 |
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Kenny Rogers posted:On that naval map we were both just on? Curse you and your British bullet hose.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 07:20 |
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Lee Outrageous posted:Curse you and your British bullet hose. P.S. Get in Mumble. It's midnight on a Wednesday, and there are 6 of us in the channel.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 07:23 |
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Holy poo poo everybody play historical battles. I just blew up like 15 ground targets in my Me-410B-1, the one with a pair of 500kg bombs and I made 67,000 exp with premium.  That is a new record for me. A single AAA gun is worth 800 exp. I blew up some dinky rear end Matildas that counted as light tanks for 3010 exp each.Edit: Added a note to the OP to check out the CTS mumble. The Yak-3, La-5N are ridiculous and I don't think the I-185 is in the release tree. BillyJoeBob fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2012 around 08:17 |
| # ? Dec 13, 2012 07:35 |
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Finally decided to check this out, after two friends hassled me about it. WoWP was a fairly big letdown for me so far but this looks like it'll fill that gap. I see Gaijin reused a bunch of their Birds of Prey/Wings of Prey models for it  IL-2 PLAYER PRO TIP: Get the Yak-3, La-5FN and I-185. You want them. Soviet fighters are nuts. I really hope they haven't hosed them up in this game.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 08:14 |
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Playing as Kaddion. Feel free to yell at me if I unload upon you with the 12 machine guns the Hurricane 2 has.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 09:33 |
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Kaddion posted:Playing as Kaddion. Feel free to yell at me if I unload upon you with the 12 machine guns the Hurricane 2 has. What the poo poo, I have 6 guns and everything is turned into paper mache the second I lock on and pull the trigger, how the hell is 12 necessary you disgusting monster. I cannot wait to get that plane. Kittyhawk fo' lief.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 09:48 |
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Kaddion posted:Playing as Kaddion. Feel free to yell at me if I unload upon you with the 12 machine guns the Hurricane 2 has. I'm a bigger fan of the Hurricane 1. "Only" 8 guns, but it feels much more agile.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 10:11 |
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Pladdicus posted:What the poo poo, I have 6 guns and everything is turned into paper mache the second I lock on and pull the trigger, how the hell is 12 necessary you disgusting monster. Even 8 .303s failed to reliably bring down anything much larger than a heavy fighter without several Spits or Hurricanes expending their ammunition into it. The fact that RAF pilots were terrible shots early in the war didn't help.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 10:13 |
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Just started to play this in any effect, and with goons, and it's a fun game. The most popular mode is a mix of Il-2 and Ace Combat.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 11:12 |
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Does anyone with a Radeon 6 series play this game? I want to but I have a weird graphical error where all menus flash on and off randomly and the screen rolls. Support said Radeon 6 series and NVidia 7 series cards were not supported yet  , but those two lines are pretty popular.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 11:48 |
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For anyone on the side bench, here, this is how pretty the game looks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph9adicaJiE
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 13:16 |
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Jesus.. Bombers on arcade mode rule. Baaaaaaaahhhh
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 13:35 |
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Urby posted:For anyone on the side bench, here, this is how pretty the game looks. To play devil's advocate, you have to play a while until you can get a plane with reflector's sights since the game is simultaneously realistic (with early planes and their tech) and fanciful outside of un-finished modes (any plane can fight, I saw a Mitsubishi Ki-200).
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 13:40 |
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Yeah, starting off in the American tree is rough. The Peashooter is basically hurling tiny stones at the other aircraft. I really want the B-17 and B-29 though. Also, I think the only thing that World of Warplanes does better is matchmaking. The tiered system makes battles more even. WoWP is also a little more polished, in that you can easily tell at the start of the mission what planes are fighters, attackers, and bombers.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 14:10 |
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Xii posted:I've played World of Warplanes for awhile now and its been pretty enjoyable, how does this game matchup compared to it? It looks better than WoWP, and there are a lot more planes to choose from so far. The pilot skills and such are a bit more complex and some of it you'll have to figure out as you go. Planes handle roughly the same, though my joystick doesn't play well with this game at all. (may just need a ton of tweaking of dead zones and the like) Mouse/keyboard does pretty well though once you get the hang of it. Right now you can't pick/choose which level of planes/pilots you'll be up against in your noob plane, which is pretty loving annoying to be going up against jets in your biplane. But since you get 3 lives it's not too bad. One more upside...they're not planning on doing a wipe before they go live, so feel free to buy some gold and have at it. (if they do wipe, they'll refund the gold you've spent)
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 14:14 |
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Are you all playing Arcade mode or realistic?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 14:21 |
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Bolow posted:Are you all playing Arcade mode or realistic? Mouse aim mode for life.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 15:48 |
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Estraysian posted:Yeah I think it was called that, maybe Two Cities. Only seen it once though and I've played 101 missions. It looked pretty silly but I guess they havn't coded in anything but AA-guns for the ships yet.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 15:52 |
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SquadronROE posted:Yeah, starting off in the American tree is rough. The Peashooter is basically hurling tiny stones at the other aircraft. I really want the B-17 and B-29 though. Set the convergence to .3 or .2 and then try to stay that distance away from them, then aim a bit ahead of them and go for the cockpick, or aim where the wings meet the fuselage.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 16:07 |
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I can't hit a loving thing with bombs, but flying in a huge rear end boat is so much fun. Wish there were less boat haters though, and that I had the b17 already. Also does training up more gunners seriously cost 120 skill points? I have 4 gunners, this is going to be horrible.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 18:34 |
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I have a question regarding experienced gunners. My bomber has one experienced gunner, but two gunners total, which means I take a penalty to crew skills. Will the second gunner become experienced over time or do I need to save up 240 crew points to increase the number of experienced gunners I have? E: ^^ Screw you, now my post is pointless.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 18:35 |
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Zylen posted:I have a question regarding experienced gunners. My bomber has one experienced gunner, but two gunners total, which means I take a penalty to crew skills. Will the second gunner become experienced over time or do I need to save up 240 crew points to increase the number of experienced gunners I have? As far as I can tell, you have to pay the points. I really hope I'm wrong, though, because I'm not even done saving up for my first non-free gunner yet...
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 18:38 |
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Do the bombs/torps for other countries have sensible names? For all my jap bombs I have to Wikipedia each one because who knows the difference in a 1000kg type 99 mod 5 vs a 1000kg mod 6 version 3 mark 12. One naval plane has 7 options of various torpedoes all of the same payload. I assume some are AP for busting ship decks and the other is HE for bombing ground forces.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 18:53 |
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As far as I've seen, my PBY-5 is level 60-80 and hasn't gained a free experienced gunner yet. On top of that, it's not 120 crew xp but 240 for the second gunner, and 350 for the third. So yeah, getting experienced gunners sucks.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2012 18:54 |
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Captain Beans posted:Do the bombs/torps for other countries have sensible names? I think they may be identical. In most cases, the only thing that counts, I think, is the weight of the bomb.
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