posted 05-13- 01:49 AM               

I loaded up EAW, along with all of the terrains, skins, STAB, etc. etc. I then took my P-38 for some very nice flights.

To make a long story short, in playing EAW again, I realized just how much SDOE sucked. I'm surprised I wasted more time than I did with it...twice.

--scharmers

posted 05-13- 02:13 AM               

If we are so much below you lofty notice, why come back again?

posted 05-13- 05:57 AM               

Oh, you thought I was gonna post a reply to the first message... naaaww.. not worth my time..

posted 05-13- 06:21 AM               

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Cheers
Kat out

posted 05-13- 07:58 AM               

I own EAW, WWII and SDOE.

I liked EAW. The software just feels like a finished, complete, well thought out and executed product. I also liked the feel of being part of a big war in a big environment feel to the game.

My problem with EAW was that I found the A2A AI boring?!! So far, I've completed the BoB campaign on the British side. While flying that campaign I found that even with all difficulty settings maxed I was bringing home 2 to 4 kills per mission and rarely taking a ping from enemy fighters. Now the bombers butchered me several times!

I found the enemy fighter AI very much lacking. Several times I'd catch an enemy fighter in position were they could have done some serious damage to me and they seem to just ignore that my aircraft was in thier sky!

Have you found some way to have the enemy AI be more agressive? This issue made the game down right boring for me. For that reason EAW is sitting on my shelf and not on my hard drive.

posted 05-13- 12:09 PM               

The crowd stands and cheers - another successful troll!

Will we never learn! LOL

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posted 05-13- 10:47 PM               

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the best defence is offense

Best regards to each one of you :)

Ranker...out!!!

posted 05-14- 10:24 AM               

I had been meaning to e-mail you for several weeks, and post a message to the group about this, but time, work, and an aging memory have all been working against me.

A friend bought a copy of FS in the discount bin knowing I have it and like it, and while having a "wives take the night out - guys have to watch kids but fight back by barbequing T-Bones and drinking beer" deal, between bouts of succumbing to demands made by various children, I loaded FS onto his machine and began the ardous task of finding and installing all appropriate patches and stuff. He had heard me speak of the task being akin to the search for the Holy Grail, and had requested my assitance.

To make a long story short, I downloaded the 1.5, the 5.3, the "a," and all that. This was even before the "b."

After all the downloading and installing, it still flew like the 5.2 or before. Possibly even like the original version. The Mustang flew around omnipotent, and I don't think it had any of the FM characteristics that the new versions have.

I can't remember if it said 5.3a or not, actually we didn't go online. That's right. Should have checked it out further, but the kids were yelling, the steaks were burning, and the beer seemed to taste better and better.

The important thing was that I had loaded all the stuff correctly, in the right order, and for some reason, I don't think it altered the FM's at all.

I don't know what glitch it could be, but it might explain why our friend Mr. Scharmers goes to all the trouble to load all this stuff, and then can't seem to see what we're talking about.

If I had loaded all the stuff and it flew like it did for me at my friend's house, I'd probably be saying the same thing. Probably not in the same taunting, abrasive manner, but the basic content would be similar.

Anyway, just wanted to throw this out there for folks. I know most of us have been doing this stuff slowly, building up our installs, and didn't know if someone starting from scratch, through some glitch, might not be getting the benefit of all the FM work due to some weirdness while installing.

I know others have deleted and reinstalled OK, so we don't need a lot of, "Well, I don't know what your problem is, but I did it, and it worked fine for me!" posts, because we already know it has worked for some on clean installs, but from my experience and Scharmer's more detailed descriptions of how the planes flew after installing all the stuff in some of his more constructive posts in the past, obviously sometimes there is a glitch that is causing the patches and stuff not to work.

posted 05-14- 10:35 AM               

Well I guess the only way to TRULY test your install is to go online and try some online flying. If you don't get mismatches then your all cool right.

posted 05-14- 10:37 AM               

Oh just admit it... you're addicted to this forum just like everyone else!