Advice needed...

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Return of an old combatsim head... (confession follows.)

I spent the vast majority of my sim time from 1992 to 2002 with combat
sims. However, after Falcon 4.0, I pretty much (slowly) coverted to
flying Flightsim 2002 and then FS2004. I beta tested both and really
like the detail of real world flying. After about 1900 logged hours
between the two, I am thinking of getting back into Combatsims. its
time to crawl back into the cockpit and get my arse kicked or vice versa!

However...Im way behind the times on whats the best sim available. Im
interested in only two kinds. 1. A WW2 era sim. (theatre not important)
2. A modern era sim...multi task or A2G preferred over A2A only.

Caveat on both is I run an AMD Athlon XP CPU with 2200 Mhz real
bandwidth, which I know is behind the times. But I do have a gig of
3200 SDRAM and plenty of HD space. Machine is meticulously kept, but
nevertheless, not a "front line fighter".

Given this info, what should I go for simwise? I cant believe Im
this out of touch!

Help an old man get hooked up again!

Eric

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In article <4_Cce.140519$vK6.109703@bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
ejoiner2@bellsouth.net (Eric Joiner) wrote:

> Given this info

Hi Eric, you might want to tell us what vid card you've got as well,
though CPU power remains as important as ever for sims. Of course if
you're running FS2004 you probably have something fairly capable.

Anyway, personally I find it hard to wrap my head round more than one
sim at a time these days. And I honestly think that with LOMAC 1.1 ED
are finally beginning to show us some of the potential they always had.
It helps that they're still working, which is something of a novelty in
this genre :-)

There are still plenty of frustrations in LOMAC, but the Su25T is a
*great* A2G platform and has a top notch flight model you'll appreciate
now you're used to FS2004 modelling. And the Su-27 is still as beautiful
as ever, even if it hasn't yet had the updated flight model added.

Of course at the moment 1.1 isn't available to buy, but LOMAC's dirt
cheap and patched to 1.02 for free gives you a lot of sim bang for buck.

I guess the only other modern military sim that seems to get talked
about much is something called Falcon4. You may be familiar with it.
That's even cheaper because you already own it :-) The hard part is
working out which (huge!) user-made update to add to it... then trying
to work out how to start the engines.

As for WW2, IL2 in all its incarnations is a good sim even if, like
LOMAC, it's not got particularly involving longterm gameplay. But I
bought the last version, Pacific Fighters, purely to fly touch & goes
off the pitching carriers. Great fun.

Oh, and if you can find the heli-sim, EECH (Enemy Engaged:Comanche v
Hokum) from Razorworks, that's a few years old now but it has a good
balance between gameplay and realism and had people from DI's
Tornado/Hind era working on it. It's no LB2, but the team had a damned
good try at making a great game, and there are some nice user-mods to
add since the source code was released. I'm not sure you can actually
buy it anywhere these days though.
http://www.razorworks.com/enemyengaged/index.html

Andrew McP

BTW, isn't it about time you updated the Flanker FAQ? All the versions I
can find online are *way* out of date ;-)

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In article <4_Cce.140519$vK6.109703@bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
ejoiner2@bellsouth.net says...
> Return of an old combatsim head... (confession follows.)
>
> However...Im way behind the times on whats the best sim available. Im
> interested in only two kinds. 1. A WW2 era sim. (theatre not important)
> 2. A modern era sim...multi task or A2G preferred over A2A only.
>
> Given this info, what should I go for simwise? I cant believe Im
> this out of touch!
> Eric
>
Microprose European Air War - with user mods. Check out
http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/b [...] forum;f=41
and http://groups.msn.com/THEEAWLAUNCHPAD/
These people are breathing life into this old sim. It has great online
play, is easy on the old equipment (plays well on a PIII-550, even ok on
a PII-333). Modders have improved flight models, graphics, sound, made
new theatres, plane models. Graphics nowhere near IL2/PF but gameplay
more engaging with a full gameworld - hundreds of planes in combat. The
community is very friendly.

For single player - there is Battle of Britain II - Wings of Victory -
out any day soon http://www.shockwaveproductions.net/default.htm .I have
the original Rowan game but my PC isn't fast enough.

Aces High by Hitech Creations is good for massive multiplayer and free
for offline or 8-player H2H http://www.hitechcreations.com/ .It also
supports toebrakes and trimming so is fun for touch-and-goes and carrier
landings.
--
Mark Lee