There are two proper air war maps in FH2, namely, CMP Battle of Britain and CMP Bombing the Reich. By that I mean they are completely centred around aerial warfare where one side's planes come to bomb the enemy's targets, and the enemy fighters get off the airfields to challenge them, and face the escort fighters, and that's all accompanied by the tracer rounds from the ground (and even sea-based!) anti-air guns!

Why are such maps so rare and seemingly unpopular? Do people hate flying? Does it become boring too fast? Are they imbalanced in favour of some particular side?

After all, I can't even name a computer game that captures this fantasy! The closest is War Thunder, but it can't be compared with its pitiful 24 or 32 player maps! And with its disgusting 3d person view. FH2 is 1st person and it can support 80, 90, even 100 people on the server! It's incontestable, yet these maps barely see play! Why?

Some epic moments from BoB and BtR (FH1). And the tracer rounds going into the night sky!

Ah, that clarifies it a bit, thanks!

By the way, the title of this thread reminds me of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Coincidence?

I'd like to inform y'all that I'm currently not banned (still can't register on 762, however). But my joke was so good, it was worth to comment just to commemorate it in the cyberspace of this forum.

Another story from my exciting online gaming life. I log in (to test if I still can't), I succeed (not in life, lul), I see a player with the name "Removal_of_kebab", I report, I log off.

Just a public service to the community, I don't want it to consist of racist sexist Islamophobic Pepe-worshipers, thank you very much.

Afaik someone has to personally activate your account. It might take a while for your forum account to become active.

Thanks for the info! But I doubt that's the case. The whole 762 website doesn't want to register me, it says "The email address you entered is not allowed to be used." There is nothing I can do. And it's the same message for all the e-mails I've tried.

I'm not sure what the whole story is, but Boo is no longer an admin. Were you kicked for the comment or killing him after he landed? (that sounds like a teamkill to me) But I'm sure there's more to the story.

Yeah, I know that. He was on the opposite team, and landed his bomber, and I killed him for some reason. So, I broke the ABC rule, but it wasn't intentional, I was just "confused". I never saw somebody landing in front of me.

Then again, maybe, it's just a weird coincidence, and I was neither kicked not banned. It's just it now pops up that my CD-key is not valid, but hey, that happened to me, too.

My game crashed on that very map after all, before both stories, however.

By the way, I crash far more often when flying planes. Is it just by pure chance?

There is a lot of competition these days.

Seriously? I don't see any competition to FH2. There is not a single game on the market that is close to FH2. The only vaguely similar one is Heroes & Generals, but the business model is ridiculous, and the maps are generic lazy Western front forest trash.

There is absolutely no competition. There is no other game that puts 100 players on a huge realistic map with tanks and planes, and which is casual enough. FH2 just doesn't have enough advertisement, that's it.

They decided to create Aberdeen and Ramelle-Neuville. One is arguably a movie set, and the other is just a random ground to put rarely used vehicle into play. One got removed the other stay.

Do people hate Ramelle-Neuville? It's one of my favourite ones, an utter bloodbath, the closest we have to Stalingrad.

Yes, it has few vehicles, but it has still twice as many players in a match as Red Orchestra 2.

On the topic.

I've learned to play desert maps, but the Italian ones are still garbage, imo. I love to see them receiving a bit of hate here ^^

I mostly hate CMP maps, but there are at least 7 that I enjoy (Orscholz Switch, Operation Nordwind, Sidi Rezegh, Argentan, Brecourt Manor, Vosges Mountains, Westwall).

And the air maps are absolutely astonishing (Bombing the Reich and Battle of Britain)

Overall, I'd like to see a more meaningful rotation, especially on weekends when it matters most. It's a pity to see the server's strength sucked off by unexpected Operation Supercharge.

I doubt it's that hard to plan a few generally good maps for when the server is alive.

Seelow > Operation Totalize > El Alamein > Arad > Operation Goodwood > Bombing the Reich would be the dream.

One community - two servers. That historical moment when we speak the same language and have the same DNA, yet are tragically divided.

Currently, the Longues-sur-Mer is on the rotation of the coop server, yet I don't have it.

Update: I have run the Repair tool, the issue persists.

Update: And now it's gone. Fro some reason. Weird.