[Zeke]

Yippee-ki-ay and YEEHAH! This here is the ole space cowboy Zeke, lettin' yall know the 20th Anniversary edition of FS2 just came to my door and I gonna be SPARKIN' WITH `LECTRICICAL NOW FER SURE WOOHOO! I can't wait to play this thang and to get my X45 HOTAS profiled up good and do that there open source razzle-dazzle with it to make it all purtah and mebbe even do away with disk-swapping, from what I hear... Ya hear that Kara and the rest of yas? It's HERE!!! I sure hope flying the ships and whompin' the bad guys ain't the ***-buster B5:IFH turned out to be. Ouch! I done gave up on my hiney survivin' that thang.

[Bobboau]

ummm..... yeah

[aldo_14]

Jolly good, carry on.

[Janos]

what

[ionia23]

Originally posted by Zeke
Yippee-ki-ay and YEEHAH! This here is the ole space cowboy Zeke, lettin' yall know the 20th Anniversary edition of FS2 just came to my door and I gonna be SPARKIN' WITH `LECTRICICAL NOW FER SURE WOOHOO! I can't wait to play this thang and to get my X45 HOTAS profiled up good and do that there open source razzle-dazzle with it to make it all purtah and mebbe even do away with disk-swapping, from what I hear... Ya hear that Kara and the rest of yas? It's HERE!!! I sure hope flying the ships and whompin' the bad guys ain't the ***-buster B5:IFH turned out to be. Ouch! I done gave up on my hiney survivin' that thang.

Hey, what number did you get ?

[Lightspeed]

ohh believe me, ship control + flight fun = unrivaled in FS2.

Never seen any other space game with a flight feeling like this.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

I hope you enjoy the game! I know I did (and still do).

[kasperl]

uhm, what is exactly in the package?

(manual, nice cd-case covers, extra's different from what was already available on HOTU/VWBB/Here.)

[castor]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Never seen any other space game with a flight feeling like this.

..not to mention the fight feeling -- intensity is everything! :devil:

[Hippo]

was that english?

[Zeke]

I got no. 40 of 2000. And it says on the box "Includes over 20 additional missions" WOOT! Dunno if they're mission from FSO or what tho. I gonna install it in a couple mins here and poot around a few mins before I begin in earnest with the FSO install. I hope I get all the latest versions right, as per the sticky thread/WIKI page so I don't get all hosed up. Anyway-

Here's what it came with- 3 CDs in paper covers, full-size 76 page B/W manual, 3 section foldout B/W keyboard reference chart, and other vital... juices that I found out later came from me when I opened the box.

OK- I go install now! Talk to yoos later woot!

[ChronoReverse]

Tell, us what the 20 extra missions are when you get to them =)

[Antares]

I hate to be a spoilsport, but those "extra missions" are merely the standalone single and multiplayer missions included with the Sci-Fi Sim of the Year Edition (sometimes referred to as the "X" missions).  Interplay's blurb at their online store states that this is just a re-release of the SFSOTY.

[Solatar]

Yep, nothing new, just installed. Only thing that's new is no cardboard CD sleave, and a little bit of differentation on the CD art.

[Zeke]

Ahhh I see. Well I just completed the first mission and am sure loving this game already. I set it to very easy for awhile to get the hang of it without getting clobbered too badly heh. But dig- I DON'T EVEN NEED MY SAITEK PROFILER TO USE ALL THE STUFF ON MY X45 RIG YAAAAY! I found I was able to setup -everything- on it within the game. WOW! Rotaries, throttle, all hats and buttons. WOOT! Heh. Well, I dunno about the mode switch and auxilary, havent tried them yet. But if it's more stable and use less memory, I'll settle for in-game config and keyboard augment. If I can just remember it all now, the x45 settings. I wish I could print the settings out, or at least take a screenshot of them. Can I do screenshots? But I think I got a handle on it all, and will do better as I use them more. I did try to view the pilot file in notepad but its binary and dont show me anything.

[Unknown Target]

Yes, you can take screenshots I believe it's the Print Screen key.

[Zeke]

Oh. Haha.  Sometimes the most obvious solution actually works huh? Got a solution just as easy to print out all the control configs? And stop laffing.

[Setekh]

Glad you're having fun. Have you completed the main campaign yet?

[Janos]

QUICK! Let's post pictures of "Their Finest Hour" here!

[Zeke]

LOL ur so sillay. I only had it less than a day and had to sleep right after it got delivered, then i RTFM and setup my controls awhile, so only played the first few missions so far. I just now found, BTW, a walkthrough on gamespot that has all the controls in a text file, so I can print it out and pencil in my X45 HOTAS additions for reference in game. Stop laffing! Ok I go play now. Or mebbe go ahead with the FSO procedures, if I can do it without hosing the whole game. I not real big on the hoop-jumping and tweedling anymore nowadays.