homepage Forums SimHQ Community Community Hall New to playing online question.

I was wondering how to go about playing online? I have not done it in over a decade and would like to give it a try. I am not interested in any of that MMO stuff just co-op, team vs team and other such modes in a mission by mission format. Also being new to online play I would like to be able to play in a constructive environment. I am sort of afraid of being dumped into a "Kill the n00b!" type situation.

I would appreciation any advice and assistance that the SimHQ community would be willing to offered.

I would suggest playing in one of the SimHQ gaming nights as long as you have the corresponding game. Everyone will be willing to help and offer advice and you won't get a load of whiney kids calling you 'dude'

The main thing is practice, if people have been playing a game for long enough its going to take a while to catch up with their skill level. In Battlefield 1942 and mods I once went on a streak of 105 games without being out of the top 3 on the server, but in Tf2 I'm pretty useless. Its just a factor of how much time you put into a game and whether or not you are there from the beginning.

Not sure what kind of games you're interested in, but if you enjoy tactical-level land combat sims you'd probably have a lot of fun with ArmA2 and SimHQ's Military Monday. Every Monday evening we get together in ArmA2 to play squad-based co-op missions. We usually play 4-5 missions each Monday, with different players taking turns leading the team. Missions range from small stealth raids to larger combined arms operations with air and armour support.

Info here: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3061688/SimHQ_ArmA_2_OA_Multiplayer_In.html#Post3061688

Well I don't have ArmA 2, just the demo for it. I do have Rise of Flight, LOMAC Platinum, IL-2 1946,Freespace 2, and a number of the Tom Clancy titles. I really need to put together a compressive list of what I have to play. I think it could be fun to play against an with other people. Also I was thinking the if I could work with some more experienced players it might help with the learning curve on some of the flight sims, some of them have really poor training systems.

I do have TeamSpeak 2 as I planed on playing Freespace 2 online once but never got around to it due to real life issues that cropped up.