Any AH'ers here?

[Guest ruhzyo]

http://www2.hitechcreations.com/frindex.html

[+streakeagle 871]

I have been playing AH since version 1.03.

I am presently a subscriber, but rarely play.

My skills are not what they once were, so the little time I try to fly online, I get my butt handed to me.

On a good night, I re-up over and over at a base under heavy attack and have fun trying to get up enough speed and alt to fight before someone can vulch me.

As I always fly alone, when I try to take off from a safe distance and come in at a decent altitude, I usually get intercepted by 2 or more enemies with equal or better aircraft who then promptly bleed my E and kill me.

Sometimes, I get lucky and get into a 1 v 1 duel and have a blast.

I can only get online late, can't get online with any regular schedule and can't make any noise (sleeping 2 year old), so it is no fun for me to try to enjoy flying in a squad.

 

Back in 2000-2002, I flew a lot when they had free 8 player head-to-head.

I got really good and had tons of fun.

By the time I could afford to subscribe, I was married and working a lot.

Now I have a kid too.

I still subscribe because I want to contribute to further development and to thank HiTech for the 3 years of free head-to-head.

 

Now there are offline missions.

Not quite as fun as flying with people, but pretty darn good.

So now there is a good way to practice offline or play for free.

 

I wish LAN play had not been disabled.

This was a great game to introduce friends to flight simming since it has auto trim and stall limiters for begginers.

At one point, I had my dad and three other friends playing this game with me on my LAN.

Then we started playing Operation Flashpoint, and no one wanted to play Aces High any more.

No one could learn to fly well enough to beat me in Aces High no matter what airplane I flew, whereas we could play co-op in Flashpoint where everyone could win and play missions with respawning to allow less skilled players to continue playing.

 

I think Aces High has one of the most realistic flight models and gunnery models ever made.

Aside from Third Wire sims, it is my favorite.

Maybe as my son gets older, we will get to play it together.

[Echarlie 0]

Just finished my 2 week trail last weekend and subscribed.

I used to play AirWarrior and then moved to Warbirds some years ago but had not played for a long time.

 

I started out wanting to play Warbirds again but the price has gone up and so I checed out AH.

Frankly for about half the price Aces High seems to be just as good if not better then WB as far as I can tell.

 

I usually fly alone and used to take a P-51D and fly towards a furball. But something about the gunnery model just doesnt

work well for me (I cant seem to put enough lead into the target to kill it) and I always ended up blowing my E and stall fighting just to try to get guns on the target and my K/D ratio has reflected that fact.

So Friday night I started flying the Dora9 and my K/D has gone up dramatically. With those cannons, a couple of hits is all it takes wich is good for me cuz my gunnery sucks lately. (too many hours flyin an F-4C missle fighter in WO*)

[scouserlad13 0]

Yeah i used to play this. Screen name was Para14 mainly because of the fact that i was the one with the para's in the back haha. Always loved dropping the troops then bailing out with em. Loved the game, just a darn shame they got rid of the free 8-player mode. Me being 16 i don't have any money so i cant subscribe. But yeah, brilliant game, i loved it.

[+ST0RM 145]

Got turned onto this over the weekend. A friend up on KC has it installed at his business and he and his employees all play at lunch. I'm on my free 2 week trial and will subscribe.

 

I also played hours on Air Warrior when it was free on AOL. Tried playing it payware for about a year after it went that direction, but the BS factor got too high, so I dropped it.

 

I'm currently using ST0RM135 in AH.

Edited March 26, 2009 by ST0RM