"I am a farmer"

[Marta]

Actually I am not, I am a flight simmer.

I never liked shooters like Quake and Doom aso. But I like playing war games in the 1st person perspective.

I am a combat flight sim guy and the first game that got me grounded was Panzer Elite.

Then in 2006 I came across Red Orchestra Ostfront.
This was the first First Person Shooter I purchased in my life and I remember very well the first time I spawned into the game at Stalingrad Kessel.

It just felt right. I really was afraid.

It was true immersion.

I am no gun collector. I am no point whore. I am no FPS counter. And frankly I am disgusted with competition fetishist.

I am a F .. errr flight simmer and I appreciate war games which are made with dedication to "realism", historical research, ralistic gameplay mechanics beautiful enviroments (red october factory is a piece of art) and I just want to say thank you TWI for Heroes of Stalingrad which with all it`s teething problems is and will be a milestone.

At the moment both of my favorite games, "Rise of Flight" and "Red Orchestra" are games which were put up by gaming community guys that took the effort to "do something unreal". (but awsome)

I am really looking forward to how this game will develop with community maps and mods.

 

[Overholt]

Same here, I own flight sims such as IL-2 Sturmovik and Rise of Flight, until I came across this I got both RO:OST and RO:HOS

 

[luciferintears]

I'm a hardcore flight simmer as well.

IL2, DCS Blackshark and Warthog, FSX with PMDG's addons.

Never tried Rise of Flight though, looks pretty fun though...

 

[CaptRio]

Nice one.

Flight simmer here aswell, since the release of the original IL2. So bugged when released that makes me wanna laugh with all the crybabies in this forum.

 

[Hillstorm]

I'm a tank simmer. Was a fanatic of SSI's "Panzer Commander" back in the day.

The tank warfare in RO1 is what really grabbed me. It actually plays really well as a sim, in terms of vehicle modeling, ballistics, look and feel, etc. So fun.

Never was into fps at all, but I took baby steps into the infantry arena in RO1 and now I enjoy it. Will always love tanking, but I can tell that it is very different in RO2 (and I'm not so into the tank-only map).. Also there are only two vehicles right now. I'm sure mods will open all that up a bit.

So in the meantime, I continue to try to get better as a foot soldier and I'm glad I was forced to try something new.

 

[MadTommy]

DCS BlackShark & A10c Warthog, Rise of Flight, IL2 Cliffs of Dover, Arma2, RO2:HoS...all i need now is a WWI realism game!

All awesome... not enough time..

 

[Hillstorm]

DCS BlackShark & A10c Warthog, Rise of Flight, IL2 Cliffs of Dover, Arma2, RO2:HoS...all i need now is a WWI realism game!

All awesome... not enough time..

Wow, a WWI sim.. I've never thought of that. Interesting! I've seen flight sims from WWI, but can't think of any shooters...

 

[The Beast (nl)]

DCS BlackShark & A10c Warthog, Rise of Flight, IL2 Cliffs of Dover, Arma2, RO2:HoS...all i need now is a WWI realism game!

All awesome... not enough time..

I have the same games as you.

 

[Samwolf]

I'm a tank simmer. Was a fanatic of SSI's "Panzer Commander" back in the day.

The tank warfare in RO1 is what really grabbed me. It actually plays really well as a sim, in terms of vehicle modeling, ballistics, look and feel, etc. So fun.

Never was into fps at all, but I took baby steps into the infantry arena in RO1 and now I enjoy it. Will always love tanking, but I can tell that it is very different in RO2 (and I'm not so into the tank-only map).. Also there are only two vehicles right now. I'm sure mods will open all that up a bit.

So in the meantime, I continue to try to get better as a foot soldier and I'm glad I was forced to try something new.

Panzer Commander and Panzer Elite ! There's a blast from the past with a lot of fond memories.

 

[NinetyNine]

There are no good WWII tank sims these days. Why is that?

 

[MadTommy]

I have the same games as you.

That is because you have fine taste Sir

 

[Hillstorm]

There are no good WWII tank sims these days. Why is that?

It's a niche market. Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 looks awesome, but it's only single player! Amazing.

T34 vs. Tiger has multiplayer and looks nice as well (though its been out three years now, I think). I've often thought about grabbing it, but those are the only two playable tanks, which is kind of a bummer.

Someday.. Someone will create the definitive WWII tank sim.

Been in some RO1 tank battles that have been epic, though. First time I was in a 40 player tank-only battle almost blew me away

 

[SunKing]

Air Warrior AOL. and Aces High 2 for the longest time.

 

[Marta]

@ Lucifer Crying:
You can check out Rise of Flight for free and purchase additional content if you like it:
http://riseofflight.com/tryrof/en

 

[cromelex]

Interesting, it seems that all the flight simmers around here like Red Orchestra 2

So do I (guess what, flight-simmer, IL2 and Rise of Flight mostly, and a lot of the original ROOST).

 

[luciferintears]

@ Lucifer Crying:
You can check out Rise of Flight for free and purchase additional content if you like it:
[url]http://riseofflight.com/tryrof/en[/URL]

thank you.

is it any good? Does it have a singleplayer campaign?

 

[Qweets]

i too started out as a ww2 flight simmer.. I'm surprised no one has mentioned World War 2 Online... That game is STILL an amazing flight/infantry/tank/anti air/anti tank MMO simulator.. The battles in that game can be truly epic at times with hundreds of people on each side fighting each other.. Good times.

Also love me some IL2, haven't tried the new one yet though, cliffs of dover. Heard it has tons of issues.

 

[Homuth]

Flying in Flight Sims since day one, well not really but longer then I can remember at least.

Black Shark, Warthog, IL2 series ( and CoD ) Rise of Flight ( Now free!! Try it or you miss a huge part of the flight sim world!! ), all other DCS series and the only FPS shooter I play is RO1 and now RO2.

 

[Shadrach]

Great post Marta, and hope to see more of your posts on these forums.

Fellow IL2-player myself, although it's been ages. And like you, RO was the first online shooter I played, previously only having played Quake, Action HL, and Duke over lan. Found RO randomly when turning on Steam one day and that was it - sold.

So I have no history with the Cods, BFs and the Mohs of this world, and frankly I couldn't really give a donkey's a*se about any of them anyway

Grognards unite! Cheers!