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Offline IceFire

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on: May 08, 2004, 03:52:24 pm
The Corsair and a full flight deck have never looked so good before:


Pacific Fighters...a game in development primarily done by a third party and supported by Maddox games...the guys who did IL2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles.
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Reply #1 on: May 08, 2004, 04:01:20 pm
HOT DAMN!

I was hoping not to have to buy a new video card for a while longer, but I think when that hits, I'm buying it. :D

As soon as I get a job, I'm buying Forgotten Battles Gold and LOMAC and not leaving my HOTAS alone except to sleep, make love or go to work. Work might be optional.
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Reply #2 on: May 08, 2004, 04:05:09 pm
Clouds look a lot like LOMAC's... wonder if its the same engine... wouldn't be suprised. Ubisoft makes some damn nice sims. Although they do hang towards to russian side of things. IL-2 definately shows that :)

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Reply #3 on: May 08, 2004, 04:15:31 pm
Apparently the LOMAC and Il2/FB engines are separate but both Eagle Dynamics and Maddox games are Russian based and I have no idea if they have a working relationship...there may have been some sharing of ideas.

LOMAC's engine is definately more advanced than IL2/FB/or Pacific Fighters but its also more of a hog and its definately a newer engine.

Even so...FB is my latest computer game love...I think I'm hooked and I will be for a while with all of these new games coming out.  My first real flight sim was Aces of the Pacific.  So its sort of a circular thing for me :D
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Reply #4 on: May 08, 2004, 04:25:07 pm
My first flight sim was Jane's AH64D Longbow.

I almost gave up sims entirely after that. It wasn't because the game was bad, it was because its bloody damned hard to fly a combat helicopter without real training! That game is really at the core of what drove me to HOTAS gear in the first place.

And the funny thing? I've not touched a helo sim since.
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Reply #5 on: May 08, 2004, 04:33:11 pm
Yeah I gave up sims for quite a while.  Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe and then Strike Eagle III and then I sort of stopped.  Everything got too complicated for me to really enjoy...so I stayed away.

Then something got me interested in CFS3 and WWII air combat again so I watched that game get developed.  Turned out it was a bomb so I avoided it and broke down and bought Forgotten Battles instead (the old IL2 demo was a blast!).  Its still somewhat complicated but there are no fire modes, radar mode types, setting silly little nitpick things....you have a crosshair, an engine, and a trigger and when you shoot things blow up good :)

Its obviously more subtle than that but I've managed to slowly work my way up using more complex engine settings (and really its not THAT much more complex) and things are good!
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Reply #6 on: May 08, 2004, 05:13:40 pm
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My first flight sim was Jane's AH64D Longbow.


My first one was Gunship2000 :D

DC: well, that's not a pb to me, since everybody else is making US planes fight sims. That said, Ubi could make a Rafale flight sim, some patriotism wouldn't hurt :p
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Reply #7 on: May 08, 2004, 05:53:26 pm
My first real sim was Jane's F-15. Best one ever, still, nothin's been able to touch it, or my awesome back-seater :D
And that engine looks like FBs. Can't wait to get this.
 

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Reply #8 on: May 08, 2004, 06:04:16 pm
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My first one was Gunship2000 :D

DC: well, that's not a pb to me, since everybody else is making US planes fight sims. That said, Ubi could make a Rafale flight sim, some patriotism wouldn't hurt :p


Mine was F/A-18 Flight simulator on the Amiga and I think I was all of 9 years old. I remember all I used to do was shoot down the friendly air traffic. Gunship 2000 was one of the best helo sims I'd played all the way up to Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc, loved that game even though it kicks my ass to a stupid degree.
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Reply #9 on: May 08, 2004, 06:30:26 pm
Only other helo game I ever played was Comanche VS Werewolf, hardly what you'd call a simulator, but it was hella fun :D
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Reply #10 on: May 08, 2004, 06:42:15 pm
I played the Commanche/Hokum demo, awesome game :)
 

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Reply #11 on: May 08, 2004, 10:01:12 pm
Comanche v. Hokum... I think I saw that on the budget rack at the local game shop. I might pick that up. I haven't played a helo sim since AH64D and it would be nice to play one a bit more... oh... forgiving...
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Reply #12 on: May 08, 2004, 10:26:12 pm
What a nice picture of me and my buddies! ;)
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Reply #13 on: May 09, 2004, 04:52:14 am
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Comanche v. Hokum... I think I saw that on the budget rack at the local game shop. I might pick that up. I haven't played a helo sim since AH64D and it would be nice to play one a bit more... oh... forgiving...


Don't. Unless you have some way to slow your PC down, that is :)
I seem to recal trying the demo on my athlon 900, and it suffered from the Screamer syndrom: it's not smoother, it's faster. Way, way faster. Something like flying a X15 at 30 meters above the ground trying to dodge laser shots :p
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Reply #14 on: May 09, 2004, 08:00:55 am
Hind is a decent enough game as far as I can remember, cant beat the old lhx attack chopper though
 

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Reply #15 on: May 09, 2004, 09:45:02 am
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cant beat the old lhx attack chopper though


Lol, you could find even older if you search well :p
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Reply #16 on: May 09, 2004, 10:46:14 am
I do have stuff to slow my processor down--and more importantly, I have some old processors and motherboards laying around. :D
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Reply #17 on: May 09, 2004, 10:52:45 am
aye but its the first one I played, quite good too. Still have it lying about somewhere on 5ΒΌ floppys, along with starglider, nother classic.
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