Thread: FLight combat sims

Originally Posted by Fallen

the AI in IL-2 can be apdative but usually the single player missions are LONG. although i do have a coop mission i made that's pretty fun. and i'm wokring on my bomber intersecpt mission i used to have on here before i reformated. I think i place over 50 b-17's and your goal was to get them all before they bombed your base to the stone age. Although i did give you an edge like using the ME-262 and the glider interseptor.

Time compression to 8x anyone? Missions take about 30 minutes if you use it.

1946 version is that the full game or is it a Expansion.




Ever played a flight sim called Combat Flight Simulate 3 AI in that was pretty funny. 70% of your squad mates die from flight accidence's during missions , thayéd shot there wingmen down they fly into the ground. One time i had my wing Equipped with 2000 IB bombs. We where taking off and one of them Dropped it during take off Blow us all to fucking pieces.

Yes it funny now yes but not when it happened lol.

CFS 3 is a HORRIBLE game. If you want it to even be playable you need to buy the Firepower expansion from A2A Simulations. Even then the AI is still awful and the mission system is terrible. The graphics are pretty yucky looking as well and the flight modeling is just plain wrong in some cases. Stay away from CFS 3 and don't let it sway your opinion of Combat Flight Sims in general.

The 1946 box is actually two full games and the cool part is it has every single expansion for/and includes the original IL-2 Sturmovik game. The other "full" game is 1946 which was going to marketed stand alone but was instead bundled with IL-2 in the box. It pretty much acts as just another add-on. Good deal for the money. All of those expansions and games were worth about $100 separately.

Triming the Air craft whats that do? any way?.

Originally Posted by RHYS4190

Triming the Air craft whats that do? any way?.

Trim controls are little control surfaces on the actual control surface that essential will "hold" a certain configuration for the pilot. In terms of pilot input and not aerospace engineering trim "relieves control pressure." In other words, if you're holding back the stick in order to climb the aircraft you can add nose up trim until you don't have to hold back anymore and the airplane will climb as long as you don't make any other configuration changes (like banking, changing power, etc.). Its a pretty complicated subject that is best described by getting a in REAL aircraft and showing someone as opposed to flying in a flight sim where the effects can't be felt as readily only visually interpreted.

In the case of IL-2 though (and in real life as well) properly trimming out your aircraft can actually allow you to fly faster because you reduce the drag generated by the control surfaces. Unlike a human pilot, the computer pilot can completely minimize this drag constantly as he maneuvers which means he has a distinct advantage over a plane with similar performance characteristics.

Iv got IL-2 1946- very good i must say. still trying to find the safest joystick CH soulds pretty good.

I played a bit of LOMAC with a Saitek X45 (I think you have to have one of those zillion-button HOTAS setups to play these games they way they should be played). I'm not a hardcore sim-mer but I enjoyed the game and the graphics were much better than Falcon's. You also have the choice of 5 or 6 flyable aircraft as opposed to just one.

One thing I've never seen improved upon was Falcon's dynamic campaign system. That is astonishing. You can fly around and tune your radio to the frequencies of other strike packages and listen to them call out targets, request landing, etc. You can also completely deviate from your planned mission and go bomb whatever you want. When you get back to base, the results of your efforts on the overall war are displayed. LOMAC isn't nearly that detailed.

'Rabbit

how you suppose to get online with this game.

Originally Posted by RHYS4190

how you suppose to get online with this game.

Be more vague.

You know play online. join a server ext. do you have to join hyperloby to play online,?

Fucking stupid online service they provide fucking worse then Medieval 2.