Should I join WWII Online?

[Chemical Ollie]

OK, I could have asked in the WWII Online forum, but that would be like asking the chorus boys if I should join the church. Or asking at Apolyton if I should buy CIV 3.

I would like to become a Stuka pilot and deliver the good news to those little Frogs hiding in the dirt. But I haven't used a joystick since I sold my Amiga 500 twelve years ago. And the controls seem quite advanced and hard to learn compared to, say Call of Duty or Ghost Recon.

And the cost is 20 dollars per month. Is anyone here a member? Is it worth it?

[Zero]

last time i checked, crappy graphics, glitches, broken gameplay and just down right bad....


they might have patched it by now, who knows. I liked the concept of the game though...

[General Ludd]

Great game.

They often have free trial deals... there was one a weak or two ago, it might still be going if you're lucky.


You will need a good joystick if you want to fly, though, and you'll need some patience to learn the game. It's not your average fragfest - you can spend half an hour driving in a tank collumn only to be killed in the blink of an eye before you even see your enemy. You need to learn how to work with other players, and for the best experience get involved in a squad.

[Chemical Ollie]

I joined and I liked it very much!

What's really good is the atmosphere, like the nervous feeling of dipping your face into the mud while sneaking up on an enemy tank to put a sticky bomb to the tracks. I have not yet made it, but I eventually will!

At least I scored my first kill before I scored my first death. I drove around in a German scouting vehicle, when a German infantryman said he had been hit by a sniper. I happened to be close to him and drove there to have a look. I saw a Brittish soldier crawling in an open field, but the range was to long for me to hit him, so I drove closer. By then the Brit was hiding in a hedgerow just 20 meters from my armored car, but I was prepared and fired some 20 mm HE rounds into his torso and saw the sprays of blood fly all over the bushes.

Last night, I had a 3-hour tank deployment, where 2 hours was spent hiding in a forest while waiting for friendly infantry to show up in enough numbers before attacking a town. When we finally attacked, I scored 11 kills before I died. A new record.

[alva]

20$ a mont!?! It sounds like a good fun game, but that is too much.

[Chemical Ollie]

Actually I think it's only 13 $ a month. If you play on an average of 2 hours per day, it's extremely cheap. If you play an average of 2 hours per week, it's quite expensive. But I mean, you can pay 50 € for a game that you get tired of within a week, and then that money is wasted. With this game, you pay 20 $ for the first month, then you decide if you like it enough to continue or not. In the long run I think WW2OL is cheaper than the average game, (as long as you don't play cracks). My ADSL connection is 4 times as expensive.

[Space05us]

I miss playing WWIIOnline. I had to quit for two reasons
A) I had no job at the time, and therefore no money to blow
B) the game has developed far enough in the past few years to where Id need a new computer (more likely just a newer graphics card) and a faster internet connection to play and be able to enjoy myself.


I miss WWIIOL so much....

[DrSpike]

These games are not really expensive if you play a lot.

[Dry]

I tried last month. I stopped because my computer seems too crappy (512 Mb, 1.3 GH). I get 40 fps offline, 15 online when there is no enemy, drops to 5 when action start.
I'll give another try later with a newer computer.

As Belgian, I wanted to visit/defend/conquer my - virtual - home town.
They have done a not-so-bad job. You can recognize the general pattern of the RL cities, but it is highly simplified and there are some inaccuracies. Like railwaystations that do not exist, having rotated the north/south axis (Liege), or the main/historical part of the city being in fact on the other river bank (Huy).
I haven't really checked, but I think the woods are not put at their real historical places either.
But that's not THAT important in the game.