What is the best WW2 sim right now? Am back after being disappointed by reviews of Tiger vs T-34 after waiting for it to come out for 3 years..

Well if your talking armor... then the one and only recent armor sim is Steel Fury, if you can find it.

http://www.simhq.com/_land3/land_116a.html

Best... IMO

of course... this is coming soon... well one day...

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3067417/Steel_Armor_Blaze_of_War.html#Post3067417

in all honesty, the answer depends on what you want and what you are willing to put into it.

As technology advances and average user expectations increase, a nich market like armoured sims becomes a (hmm what to call it) more hard core market. Several attemts have been made at a best WW2 armoured sim, and most are ongoing projects. Each has there plus and minus.

If you have a now medium system and want single player, SF is best. If you have a high end system and want MP, I44 mod of Arma2 might be better fit you. The rest run the gambit.

TvT is an interesting history of fans, developers and hardware/OS development.

for clarity, I stayed out of TvT and I stay in the stone age of PE.

WWIIONLINE, minus the graphics and endless amounts of bushes, has the most realistic armor values and tank combat. If only DH/RO could merge with WWIIONLINE it would be the end to me ever having to buy another game.

WW2OL has always been a great massive multiplayer. Some of the best MP fun I have had was playing WW2OL. heck knows I pissed off a number of players driving a CharB onto a bridge to become a roadblock. Was it gammy? Heck no, I was alive in the disabled tank firing blindly at sappers aproaching me. The ingame chat and sounds let me know when to fire. I knew if I respawned, the bridge would be open. The crying from players that this type of "thing" was unrealistic and a "bug" tought me alot about gameplay vs realism and how you can never create a game that makes everyone happy

The Ratts did a great job of balencing such tactics.

Again, I say what you think is best will depend on your efforts with the game, and what you expect from it.

If it is the "end" for you to buy another game, where is the insentive to produce a better game? Will it be the outdating of your hardware becouse the makers decide there is no profit in supporting it?

The creators of these software/hardware are businesses. There goal is to create something new, something you wish to buy.

I was told in a product update seminar for a "product" that they could make one without the "issues" we were mentioning, but the end result would be that the company would be out of business, and so would those of 'us' who repair it.

who is the latest and greatest will always depend on the expectations of the end user and the profitability of the corporation.

A computer is not given electricty because the user or machine deserves it.
who is best always brings out the deap thoughts.

sorry to all that I waxed poetic in this post.

only problem with I have with it is: WHERE are the Americans?

I played the game for years and am still looking for em.

oh yea no russians either!

otherwise I haven't found a better game yet.

JOIN a Squad

Red Orchestra (and hopefully Red Orchestra 2 due out this year)...best First Person SIM Ive played.

Thank you for the info... but I was wondering: where exactly can Steel Fury be obtained in the US?

I assume it's digital distribution only, but finding a provider is a little hazy.

Itkovian

Here....

http://www.direct2drive.com/Search.aspx?SearchTerm=steel%20fury