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#3168107 - 12/29/10 06:47 PM Best WW2 Sim ?
fearlessldsctr Junior Member Registered: 01/29/10 Posts: 5	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..
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#3168127 - 12/29/10 07:29 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Magnum Land & Armor Combat Editor XBL: Magnum SimHQ Lifer Registered: 01/27/03 Posts: 23287 Loc: Naples, Florida	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 _________________________ Magnum SimHQ Intel i7-2600K processor Cooler Master Hyper N 520 CPU fan Asus ROG Maximus IV Gene-Z mobo 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 RAM Asus ENGTX570 DCII GeForce 570 video card Western Digital 640GB 7200 w/32MB cache HDD Corsair TX750M power supply Corsair Carbide Series 500R black case LG CD/DVD optical drive Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
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#3168163 - 12/29/10 09:13 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Brit44 'Aldo' Every Human is Unique Member Registered: 01/26/06 Posts: 601	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. _________________________ TPA who TWI
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#3169597 - 01/01/11 09:41 AM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
HansLudwig45 Junior Member Registered: 12/28/10 Posts: 11	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.
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#3171299 - 01/03/11 10:14 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Brit44 'Aldo' Every Human is Unique Member Registered: 01/26/06 Posts: 601	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. _________________________ TPA who TWI
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#3171308 - 01/03/11 10:41 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Brit44 'Aldo' Every Human is Unique Member Registered: 01/26/06 Posts: 601	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. _________________________ TPA who TWI
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#3180692 - 01/15/11 09:36 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: HansLudwig45]
madmarv Junior Member Registered: 06/28/10 Posts: 1 Loc: Southern Connecticut, USA	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
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#3184142 - 01/20/11 08:35 AM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Wodin Member Registered: 04/22/04 Posts: 703 Loc: Liverpool	Red Orchestra (and hopefully Red Orchestra 2 due out this year)...best First Person SIM Ive played.
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#3190428 - 01/27/11 07:51 AM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: Magnum]
Itkovian Member Registered: 10/12/07 Posts: 223	Originally Posted By: Magnum 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 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
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#3190559 - 01/27/11 10:02 AM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Chucky Member Registered: 04/06/08 Posts: 2352 Loc: UK Midlands	Here.... http://www.direct2drive.com/Search.aspx?SearchTerm=steel%20fury Edited by Chucky (01/27/11 10:02 AM) _________________________ I borrowed a book on surgical procedures from my local library today. Apparently someone's removed the appendix.
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#3206908 - 02/13/11 12:22 PM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: fearlessldsctr]
Ssnake51 Junior Member Registered: 01/04/09 Posts: 45	It is also available for download at amazon.com _________________________ Asus P6T-Deluxe \| i7 940 \| 6GB DDR3 \| EVGA GTX 580 \| Dell U3011 2560 x 1600 \|Benchmark DAC 1 USB \| dynaudio MKII Studio Monitors \| TM Cougar HOTAS \| Simped Rudder Pedals\| CH HOTAS
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#3292057 - 05/11/11 04:29 AM Re: Best WW2 Sim ? [Re: Magnum]
Ziggy Sawdust Junior Member Registered: 06/04/07 Posts: 58	What Magnum said, bang on sir! Don't forget the latest Steel Panzers mod w/ all the trimmings. My current favourite sim. The only thing missing for me is a desert Afrika Korps campaign. Also agree that ArmA 2 w/ Invasion '44 mod is just as excellent too; I get my Fallshirmjager fix there. Youtube gameplay videos are your friend I just wanted to add a wildcard suggestion to the usual suspects... I'm currently playing a certain WWII game right now... and I'm stunned at how utterly brilliant it still plays after all these years: Hidden & Dangerous 2 (with Sabre Squadron expansion). Probably, the greatest WWII tactical sim ever made? If you haven't ever played it, trust me, you must. It's like a potent mixture of Sniper Elite, Death to Spies, Hitman and oldskool Rainbow Six (when PC games used to be great). The thing I love about it is in the SP Campaign, the designers made various ways of completing the missions. You're free to do them as you see fit. Even the musical soundtrack is akin to an old classic war film score by Gerry Goldsmith or Ron Goodwin. I was also happily surprised it plays perfectly in Windows 7 x64. Mission 1 Spolier... Click to reveal.. Currently finishing up the first arctic mission in the SP campaign... and what a mission it is! Parachuted in with my team undercover of darkness.. a light snow is falling... met the Norwegian contact, approached the base, cut the fence w/ wirecutters... took out the guard dog (no choice, unfortunately)... retreated to the woods to take out the guards w/ sniper + sten + bren gun... inserted back via additional wirecut hole... infiltrated the underground base... took photographs of prototype Me262 intel... stole a German mountain/artcic uniform (including one of those nice "Steiner" M43 field caps)... went on a "Hitman" stealth-style killing spree w/ my Fairbairn-Sykes... blew up the base w/ timed explosives... split team into two groups, sniper and MG42 guarding the remains of the base, bren gun guy and me back to rendezvous w/ our contact and rescue the Spitfire pilot... picked up scoped K98 from dead German sniper and slaughtered the rest of the enemies patrolling the woods. While all this is going on, a truckload of stormtroopers has just turned up at the base so I switch to my MG42 guy and then my sniper in the tower to mop up the rest. Things got a little too hot for the MG42 guy so I retreated him to the tower and now both guys are up there, MG42 now switched to Sten gun, which works wonders on one of the stormtroopers (stupidly) scaling the ladder up to the tower, although I could've just as easily dropped a captured stick grenade on his head. Currently escorting the pilot (gave him a German helmet and K98 to boost the party) back to the base and the docks and hopefully no more nasty surprises (but I love those surprises, the game was designed beautifully). I have to say, this first mission has a definite "Where Eagles Dare" vibe about it. The tension is palpable.. so atmospheric, I can't rate it highly enough. 11/10!
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