This game is really amazing, the graphics are dated but it is the most realistic game out their. I expect many people here should like that-- WW2 Online

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Interesting looking game, do you play it? Any good?

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How does this game compare to BF 1942? Any better? Is there a large following playing online?

BF1942 is the reason i bought this game... played 1942 at a friends house and wanted to buy it... but they didn't have it on MAC at the time so i took a risk and bought WWIIOnline. I don't think i'll ever go back.

I love the fact that the game uses iron sights (BF1942 doesn't).

It has realistic damage models and ballistics for all planes and tanks... meaning if you do enough damage to someone's wing it will fall off... if you hit their fuel tank it will leak fuel and then catch fire... if you hit their ammo box they'll blow up... if you hit their pilot he'll die and the plane will plummet to its destruction. Same goes with tanks and boats. I'm pretty sure you won't find that in BF1942.

The following is decent. Definitely not WoW scale... in the middle of the day on a wednesday things might be a little slow... most weekends, especially during U.S. primteime, you're bound to find massive-scale attacks... from tank columns to para drops to bombing raids. The vast majority of the playerbase are really good people... almost no 12-year-old CS junkies insulting everyone.

I play the game. Haven't in a month or so but thats because of school work. Its ALOT better then BF in my opinion. If you wanted to, you could fly a plane from a German Air Base all the way to London. Not sure you would make it with all the Ack-Ack, but its possible!

A lot of players have been playing for years and are usually pretty helpful. It has a points system that rewards you for kills. The more you get (and return-to-base gets you full points for each kill, getting KIA or MIA - aka quitting without being near a base - only gets you half the points per kill) the more ranks you unlock. You can only be a rifle-man when you start out, but you gradually unlock Sapper, SMG, LMG, and Paratrooper. Snipers too, but they are few and far between.

Also the same with Vehicles. Higher the rank the better the veh's you can use. Tanks, armored cars/veh, AA and ATG, etc.

Heer, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine are all careers (along with British and French equivalents).

Things run on a supply system too, so a surrounded town will run out of resources. Only XX amount of troops allowed, so each death counts against that. Eventually people wont be able to respawn etc. Capture towns by capturing key points - some are barracks that allow reinforcements to spawn in. AB (armored bases) are always the last to fall as they allow Inf and Veh to spawn and have only 2 entrances, with a few crawl spaces in the wall.

Combined Arms is key. I once hoped on a Transport Plane that landed on a road with a few other squad mates, then landed behind enemy lines and snuck into a City, capturing a Spawnable point (i was the last to die and survived long enough to cap it and kill Enemy Inf) that led to capture of city.

I also performed a similar operation, this time traveling via the deck of a friendly Ship which landed us behind enemy lines but near a Forward Base. One idiot in our bunch stood up and got us spotted.

As far as ballistics etc goes, its pretty cool. Placing a Charge (as sapper) on enemy tank does not ensure a kill. Each tank has certain soft spots and it usually takes 2 - 3 charges (or maybe i just suck at it) to knock out a tank. Usually you'll kill a crew member.

Likewise, sappers are always targeted first. I saw a suicidal British sapper pop out of a bush and destroy the lead tank of a column (before being massacred by two tanks MGs and some supporting Inf rifle fire). Stalled the whole column and the attack.

On the same note, before i made Sapper, i was scouting out of town (night time) when two panzers drove up to my position. (playing as brits). I couldn't run (out in open) but the little ridge i was at hid me from them. I even crawled up and touched both, but then a third panzer came in and parked behind them. I nearly shat myself. I was dead meat if i gave away my position.

Unfortuneately, it was a pretty quiet night (at that point) and the tanks just shelled the town. Finally, the one Sapper arrived and killed the 3rd tank. In trying to get the other one (one left for some reason and didnt notice its dead friend) he somehow got run over.

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What happens if no one is playing..and it's just you? and maybe another dude? Who do you fight? Can you basically take a town by your self if there is no one to play against?

Also..can you join the Axis one night and then flip to the allies the other?

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No one going to answer me?

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Theres a time limit that you have to wait out before switching sides.

Theres always a bunch of people on though sometimes it can seem pretty lonely. You can only capture a city that has an AO (attack Order) on it.

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