Yes it was filled with teleporting players. Happens a lot, but that doesn't bother me as much as the app crashes.. which I seem to be getting again
I know, it's really really strange isn't it? And about those planes, why on earth are they letting it stand as is with the zero III being so dominant? I remember when the Corsair was actually a good plane! I like how the zero III speeds up the tempo of the game, but I am really beginning to wish they had never made the thing. It was fun picking different planes and getting used to the subtle differences between them. All of that is pointless now, and I am starting to have serious regrets in buying all the planes now. At this point I am starting to have some serious doubts if they are ever going to balance things out, either by making the existing planes better, or creating another round of better planes. All the server and app crashing issues are completly inexcusable. Nothing about the game has changed really except for the DTB games and the ability to see your ranking. I don't see how it is possible for these two changes to have screwed things up like this. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Honestly I think the only changes I would care to see in the future are the addition of new planes. Any other changes I am afraid would just create more issues.
GG keebler. You are this good, you don't even need to kill me, lol.... The second time limited room that made crash the app since the new update. A pity. It's hard to meet good players nowadays. I hope next time we meet I fly at least with the MustangII. I started to fly p40 again. Because it's not fun to kill noobs in a BF
Well I just played FFA game to frag limit (15 mins) and it crashed!!! The only thing I might try, and suggest, is to delete the app from the phone/touch and reinstall.
Nothing whatsoever has changed(for me anyway). SGN is sucessfully ruining this game. I would give up what money I've spent if they would just make it like it was before the first update. I'm tired of playing 7 noobs in the p40 every single game
That never seems to help. I have done this quite a few times before this update... and that never helps, it will always revert back to crashing in a short amount of time. Whats weird though is the app never crashes when I play in offline mode. I don't see how, but something with multiplayer mode makes it crash. It has to be something to do with the servers somehow, as much as that makes absolutely makes no sense. Are you familiar with free ram XP pro? It basically clears out the ram on a PC, and I use it on older machines. I wonder if there is an ipod app equivalent to that program. Clearing out some system resources before starting SoG would probably help if there was a way to do that.
I do think they are trying to fix things, hence the servers being down over the weekend and the new update. The game does seem to me to be as smooth as version 1, but obviously they don't seem able to figure out whats causing these crashes. If I am having problems on a 3G ipod touch over wifi. I can't imaging how crappy this game must be for people with older iphones like NeLge. I'm starting to agree with Hazard, can we just go back to version 1 again???? Just give us the new planes that came with version 2, but I'm ready to go back to version 1 if that will fix everything.
I just took up the p40 I because I too am sick of killing noobs and want a challenge... then HE shows up in a Zero III in a TP game and starts to stick it too me.... then all my teammates leave. I still had one more kill though than he did at the end of the game though Yeah I think the p40 I will be taken out of the hangar more often.
I was just dreaming about going back to version 1.0 last night. They screwed up not giving the Zero-III decent competition and now if you do fly a Zero-III you can't find other players from here in a room to keep the game interesting. So far I've only seen Hazard in an FFA room and [SAB]Swiss earlier this morning in a TP room but we were on the same team. I got bored in about a minute and left. This room issue has been going on for a while now and I've noticed my kdr skyrocket from 4.5:1 to 6.5:1 in about a week. It's gone from 6.02:1 to 6.55:1 since Sunday night! The only reason for that is that I can't find real competition when I only have one room option. And I can't stand those stupid DTB games. What a complete waste of time. It's ruined the "Quickmatch" feature too, though I stopped using that once guys started making "P-40's Only" or "Rockets Only" rooms. I'm willing to go back to version 1.0 AND give up the new planes. I was doing just fine in my Corsair thank you very much. I think when you have players with kdr's consistently above 4:1 it's because something in the game is not balanced, not because there are so many good new players.
When I first played in my new iPhone, I played using P40. It's more fun and satisfying hitting noobs using P40. But there will always be Z3 vets and aces joining the room and I became like a noob. Once I was in a room filled with Z3 and I was the only P40. I had more than 10 deaths to zero kill. Then my kdr had became less than 3:1. Then I stop on P40 and just switch to Z3. Now my kdr is nearly 6:1.
In the beginning, there are 4 top dogfighter planes to choose from: Corsair, White Zero, Red Spitfire and BF109. Each of this has their own strength and weakness and none is clearly the dominant one. Then they add 2 top planes into the list: white hien and mustang-II. Great! They are 6 good planes to choose from. Then they add 1 top plane: FW-II. It seems to be the best but somehow it's just slighly better than the rest. And it still feels like there are now 7 good planes to choose from. Then they add 4 new top planes: Z3, Yak3, P38 and Mosquito. These 4 planes are better than all the previous planes. Looking at the stats, it seems there are 4 top planes to choose from. But the actual program code is making the Z3 the best plane. So there's only 1 top plane to choose now...dang!
GG Shern. Sorry I had to leave - personal training in 45 mins so I have to go, plus OMG! - that game was lagging big time. right before I left, you got me again and I WOW'd - that WOW was because I had snuck up on you again right after I got you and I was nailing your plane as you were sneaking up on that other plane. I was hammering with cannons and I thought for sure you were gone....then you warped out of nowhere and all of a sudden, my plane did the 'bail out' sign and I was dead. That was serious lagging issues. Prior to that, every other plane was lagging so that's why I went after you...then you lagged as described and I decided that was enough. doh! Mosquito - sorry about earlier - 2 times you were right in front of me and I "just" had to go after you I did leave you alone a few other times. I'm just excited b/c next week, it's turkey hunting season and we just set up our ground blinds yesterday afternoon so it gives the turkeys a week to get used to the blinds before we go hunting gobble gobble bang bang! and I agree with everyone - way too many noob games. Does anyone else wonder if the noobs are computer generated like the offline skirmishes? Just seems to be alot although SOG is ranked high in the free apps list so that could easily explain the new players. Version 1.0 with the pre-Z3 planes was fun indeed. I would take the stability back in lieu of having this plane (although i still say a z3 vs a decent piloted P38 is a great scrap!). Well off to PT. might not be out until much later tonight. cheerios, keebler
No it's not balanced at all, and there refusal to make the firepower on the Yak and Mosquito to help balance things out a bit is completely mind boggling. That has me thinking they are going to implement the Heavy MG's as they wouldn't want these planes to be too powerful as they might compete with the sell of the Heavy MG's. Really though it does seem to me that they would make more money in the long run if they just added new planes and had them pretty well balanced in the different category's... All planes in the dogfighter class.. Corsair, Hein, FW, BF, Zero, Mustang, Spitfire, Yak were competitive to one an other, and the Mosquito, p-38, tempest in the heavy cannon, heavy armor category, all evenly matched but with different handling characteristics... special "quirks" to each plane that make them unique. Also they really should do away with "good version" "bad version". They need to fix the bugs and restore balance to the game somehow... or like Razvan was thinking make the planes more historically accurate. The way things are now, blasting p-40s in a zero III is just awful! But at least the game isn't as bad as FAST, and I do think they are trying to make the game the best it can be, I just get the feeling they are having all kinds of technical issues (which is forgivable as long as they are trying to fix them) and for whatever reasons, they have decided to bury their heads in the sand over the issues that introducing a "super plane" has created.
Keebler, there's no lag. What happened was this: I saw in the market that sell ghost plane for $2.99. What it does is that it will detect your attacker. Then it will teleport u behind your attacker and create a ghost plane in place of your original position. So your attacker will think he's still attacking u whil u attack him from behind. Really cool stuff. But I just check the market. It's gone now.
Since I'm ranting and raving today, here's another thing that bothers me: How is it that when I eat cream style corn and go to shat it out, it comes out whole kernal? Could someone please explain this.....
Just changed my name back to Chonch and took out the Hien-II like back in the good ol' days. Still the same story. Entered a TP room (only non-DTB option) with a P-38 and two P-40's and after a quick 10 minutes or so it was 38-0. I did die once from crashing into a player because I was using yaw to follow his turn and his plane bounced to the right and we crashed but that was my fault I guess. I think one of the biggest issues with poor competition is also the easiest to fix: BAN ROCKETS IN FFA AND TP ROOMS. SGN should just prevent it in the coding. It's so easy to avoid a rocketeer in h2h's and then these noobs are essentially defenseless in the fur ball because they have single pee-shooter MG's. Forcing everyone to use MG's would cause more collateral damage and more kills for everyone, essentially leveling the playing field. Good players would still be dominant but it would prevent shutouts in dogfights and make the experience better for everyone. We won't get annoyed from deaths by rockets and new players won't start their multiplayer careers handicapped by minimal firepower. BTW: My last name was "Mr. Gekko" if Hazard or anyone else was confused when I mentioned playing any games with them.
GG! GG Shern-O-Matic-Super-3G-Snowhawk-Super-G!!! That was me as Six Pack. I borrowed Hazard's idea last night and created rooms like Free Beer, and Joes Pub. wouldn't you know it? There's a six pack inside!!!
