It's already Nov 25th, still see nothing about MOTY news on ModDB website.

FH2 rocks! Although one mod cannot win MOTY continuously.


*Updated thread title* - Thorondor

Currently we have two dedicated servers set up for FH2 in China. One of them has quite low computer configuration thus if there're more than 40 people joined, it causes Lag. The other server has pretty high configuration (2.7GHzX4 processor, 4GB ram, 100M network bandwidth) but we find there's still severe lag even with only 10 or 20 players joined. Those players' ping is not high, most of which maintain less than 50. Someone explained it's due to "packet loss", which is a technical term in the field of network, while I don't quite understand its meaning.

The lag make us hardly possible to run, to shoot ,or even to aim, resulting to more and more players having to quit the game.

Could anyone offer some help? It will be much appreciated.

FH2 had a very nice and realistic cockpit models, I think it's without doubt to enhance the realism when pilots are flying. However i feel that the cockpit views are still lacking something, my opinions are as follows.

1. I have drawn an illustration, comparing the cockpit views between the pilots in FH2 and those in real life. I have also found a sceenshot of cockpit view in the game “Battlestations: Pacific” as a contrast to FH2’s. Despite the arcade flight controls of “Batttlestations: Pacific”, the maps in it are big enough to allow long range flights and long viewdistance, which is perhaps closer to the real case, that’s why I am trying to compare the two very different game.




2. Due to the restrictions in view distance, the successful pilots in FH2 have to use the minimap, to locate himself in the map, and dive to attack when they find themselves arrived in the position. Do you ever think this is realistic? No! The pilots in WWII don’t really got those magical minimaps to aid them in flight and attack.

3. Now we want our planes to be as realistic as possible of course, so we are going to look into the predator of planes—the AA guns. The AA guns in FH2 are merely controled by some mouse movements, those guns are rotated agilely and easily aim at where you want to fire. However the AA guns in real life not only needs someone as a spotter, they also need to rotate those handles like mad to point the barrel at desired position. This is certainly not easy compare to the ease of maneuvering a plane instead, that’s why the AA guns in real life don’t hit planes like that in FH2 so easily and instead have to spray hell lots of shells with a lot of guns to hope for chances to hit a plane.
Why should we make planes so “realistic” like that in FH2 when AA guns are so deviated from real-life controls? It’s not rare in the game to see a lone stuka flying towards an AA gun position and get shot in no time without any hope, because it’s possibly a bit too easy to use those AA guns.

4. I am not asking for the return of nose cam to FH2, as that wouldn’t show the difference between the different cockpit each plane had, and the feeling of flying is certainly lost. But I think that it’s not necessary to block the vision of pilots with so many useless cockpit instruments. Perhaps like that in Bf1943 where you only got a part of the nose of plane in front of pilots.


OK, those in illustration,

a. in real life, you got enough view distance to prepare for any sort of ground attacks.

b. In FH2, you only have a very short view distance and probably those cockpit instruments don't allow you to see anything that a pilot should see before his attack but a bunch of fog and his those metres there...


PS: Thanks a lot to my friend "General Henry" for translating this thread for me, though this thread doesn't reflects his personal opinions. If I write it by myself, you guys must be quite confused with what on earth I'm talking about,

I bought bf2 complete collection yesterday but I get the warning screen when I run FH2.exe on the desktop.

EA sucks!