World War II Online

Says it all. Are you having a good time. Are any problems that have not been addressed with your accounts etc. Highly recommend that you join a squad to help with the learning curve. Welcome aboard and hope you are enjoying the war:-)

I am not exactly a freebie player or anything.
I tried WWII Online twice and both times I had a bad experience due to huge lag and to really bad community.
Please allow me to elaborate on those two points.
On the official website, the requirements for PC show

Windows XP
1.2 GHz CPU (2 GHz Recommended)
512 MB of RAM (1GB Recommended)
128 MB 3d Video Card (OpenGL v1.2 compliant)
DirectSound-compatibile Audio Card
32X CD-ROM (installation only)
56K Modem or with Internet connection (broadband internet connection recommended)
1GB free hard disc space
DirectX 9.0 or higher
USB joystick highly recommended

Well,I meet those requirements well above and still lag like crazy.Even Eve Online is not lagging as much.

As far as community,both times I tried it,the community was less than helpful,expecting me to know everything and rarely answering questions.
To make matter worse,people were recommending I join a squad and when I said I would rather wait to do that,there was no more talking to me and such.

So you know,two times bad experience.

Personally if I was the devs,I would pull out the game and fix the lag issues.Then I would make sure that any player that logs in is always welcome by dedicated help players.Maybe the devs should hire players to help newcomers

There was a loading lag from flying that was fixed a couple of updates ago. You told the minimum but not what your machine is. You hve to have the latest updates for motherboard video and sound and btw those minimums have changed some time ago. I am surprised at your expericence with the community. I have always found them more than helpful to the new guys. Post your system specs and maybe get a key here and try again. If I rremember corectly EVE does lag in big fights and I never saw 128 players in view at one time. There are a lot of settings chenges necessary to play ww2ol if you dont have a top of the line system. Even the minimap is a FPS hog and can drop your FPS more than 15%.

Hardcase, the other poster didnt need to post his exact specs.    I run a VERY over the min spec system and still get some pretty stupid low frame rates.    I can run CoD4, Fallout3, GTR:Evolution, and BF2142 at max settings without frame rate hits as bad as some of the ones I suffered in WWIIOL.   And I played WWIIOL for 7 years...   The frame rates have steadily dropped over the years even though  I have gone from a stripped down celeron 600 to a rig that is almost 4 times as fast.    

I was and still am in a squad, and I see it all the time, new players or trial players given the short end of the stick.   I am guilty of it myself.   I often thought of them as cannon fodder,  I would yell at them or tell them flat out to figure it out offline or on the training server.     I have also tried to help out a few, but they often are short on attention and only want to learn how to kill something...  So I get fustrated with them and leave them to their fates.    

Sometimes even the devs themselves are less than helpful to newbs on the forums.   I have rarely seen a responce to any tech help questions to a noob on the forums unless by a player who happened to see the question.   It is not uncommon to find DOC, a lead developer for the game, belittling the playerbase in the forums with snyde or offcolor comments.    

So I think his assesment is correct about the game. 

I must be missing the lags then. My 8400 is OC to 3.6 runing at 1920x1080 and infantry is always 50+ and flying alone is 265:-) Why not wait and see what Unity 2 will do. I believe a lot of that fix is coming in 1.29. We all did lag in 1.27 I think it was when flying was almost impossible and rats put some of unity 2 in 1.28. CRS is first to admit that their video core is so out of date that they can no longer put fixes on it. But you know, lastest drivers, vertical sycing and runahead off, minimap off, and if you machine is not top of the line you can drop the players in view and drop your sound voices to the number that your sound card can run in hardware to help with fps and lags I have found many players with onboard sound trying to run 128 voices and losing a lot of cpu cycles to that high sound. Lot of things that can be done to enhance midlevel systems. The number of lag complaints has dropped dramatically since 1.28 was loaded. I can fly over towns and keep my fps near 80. Looking forward to 1.29 and 1.30.

I am a long time vet (7 years). With my new comp I have zero lag and run about 80-110 FPS all the time no matter what I am doing.

BUT there are other issues effecting whether or not these playwers stay.

The ranking system is arcaic. I have recruited MANY players over the years and 98% of them leave after a week of game play. Do you know why? I do, playing as a riflemen is not fun. Trying to get rank as a new player is just not fun. Getting killed by the rank 9 guys that can use any weapon and see you with thier inf binoculars and then kill you without you ever knowing what shot you is annouying.

New players should start out at rank three minimum! Being able to use the better weapons right off the bat might letr them see and experience more of the game and want to stay.

Cali, is right,  the biggest problem besides some of the balancing issues, both ways.

Is the rank system and equipment usage.   It should never be rank 5 gets EVERYTHING.    I think that you should have to unlock certain things.   If I dont want to EVER use a Tiger, why should I try and get it.   But if all I want is to play infantry, then I should just have a infantry persona, there should also be JUST a tanker persona.   Same for fighter pilots and bomber pilots.    

I never quite understood the rank system in WWIIOL it never really made any difference in the game, not like anyone listens to anyone of a higher rank anyway. 

They STILL don't give binos to the newbies?  I remember some big arguments in the kiddie forums about that, it's still my opinion that it's the number one dumbest thing about the rank.  Not only does it put the newb rifleman at a huge disadvantage, he can't even just park his butt somewhere safe and watch a battle with the binos.  Learn about cover (hard VS soft), the units, see the attacking lanes + MSPs etc. but instead he gets running around in town with a rifle VS SMGs (pwned) or going outside with rifle VS rifle+bino (pwned). Man, give him the binos and the 10 minute defense mission back to build up rank while he learns.  It's a big curve to begin with.

But to be honest, other than basic game mechanics don't know how much good info you'll get from a squad, depends on which I guess.  Last time I was playing a tanker defending Ciney kept driving past friendly ATGs and going over the ridge to get blown up... all the while reporting to the squad what he was doing.  Three tanks later he reports they are out of tanks.  Man years back if I had done that.... been torn a new one from my squad (or strongly instructed not to do that if I was a newb). ;).  So much of just driving tanks to meet tanks head on, become much more instant action and less patience.

Waiting for Unity 2 and another freebie.  Love the zoom back on the clm38 also, loved shooting planes and being able to see the bits come off due to the zoom.

T.

if the minimum requirements have changed,that means that the devs are really lazy,because when something as important as specs changes,that should be the first thing to be changed on the website and on any other website carrying or promoting the game.

By the way,I would be interested in seeing a dev response to this thread

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Originally posted by hardcase
There was a loading lag from flying that was fixed a couple of updates ago. You told the minimum but not what your machine is. You hve to have the latest updates for motherboard video and sound and btw those minimums have changed some time ago. I am surprised at your expericence with the community. I have always found them more than helpful to the new guys. Post your system specs and maybe get a key here and try again. If I rremember corectly EVE does lag in big fights and I never saw 128 players in view at one time. There are a lot of settings chenges necessary to play ww2ol if you dont have a top of the line system. Even the minimap is a FPS hog and can drop your FPS more than 15%.

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