What Happened?

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and leaving the city of killer frame rates behind..

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loads of mil mi 8's lined up - unfortunately they don't fly in the demo..

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Is that a mini hanger for an RC aircraft on the runway in that last pic?

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just spent 40 minutes flying an amazing CAS mission in the hills :)

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its amazing that u can b pulling less than 20fps in this sim, but it doesn't feel like it..

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some lighting effects.

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some more

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notice the cockpit lights up a bit more when the cannon is fired.

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little bit of heat effect

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there was wheel smoke in this one, but I snapped it to slowly.... my system has some probs (fps) with all the graphics turned on, but I'm sure it will get better with the newer versions.

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I've got the moon :D :D :D

 

I'm sure this'll be fixed too.

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Alright I got to play around in Sebastopol tonight, and I must say that the city is way better looking in comparison to FB. There are dry docks, monuments, buses driving around, smoke stacks, I shot down a radio tower (it didnt fall over it fell straight down> talk about modeling). Had some freaky things happen with the water (it went into like rainbow colors... didnt know APDU ammo did that to water :D ). I thought this was just gonna be another cheesy modeled sim with the environment, but no, I dropped 2 mk84's on the old Sebastopol fortress, and to my suprise... it blew up, and continued to burn. I got to knock out a couple dry docks, and got real close, and the lighting really kicks ass. Anyway heres a couple of screens for you guys that might be having probs with the demo, or dont have it yet.

 

Note: these screens are taken on medium settings.

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another

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and more

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tower almost down

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Quick save the children!

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Nice shot of the town.... even the soccer field is detailed down to the lines and the goals.

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yeah i'm v impressed by the level of detail in the cities - the football (sorry soccer for all the US ppl ;)) statiums are a nice touch :D

 

when you have friendlies in combat, i feel under an amazing amount of pressure, to turn and find my targets much quicker then if they were travelling down the road, the whole time i'm thinking Sh*t, Sh*t, Sh*t, Sh*t, gotta turn faster get back quick - you can't help but think about ur vehicles under attack the whole time your in the area.. a couple of times i didn't leave enough time to turn and had to make a dry pass.. and other times i thought i'll just pop over this hill, only to find i'd totally dissorientated myself and found that i was flying over the wrong town.. this gives people a totally new perspective on the workload that a Hog pilot puts themselves through everytime they fly CAS. @ 1 point i nearly shot my own tank..

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Are these shots from the demo?

you haven't DL it yet?

 

this is my first ride in the hog when i got the demo -

 

having not read the read me file, i couldn't figure out why my guns weren't firing - i read the keyboard commands doc. i'd armed my hog, and even pressed C for cannon (couldn't figure out why i had to do that bit, put it down to it being a beta) and nothing happend when i pulled the trigger.. had i read the read me file, i would have found out that i had to first press 7 to put me in A-G mode... DOH! ;)

 

 

pls note the un realistic loss of fuel from the wing - a) as there isn't even a fuel cell in that part of the wing and B) the wings are the first cells of fuel to b used as they aren't protected by the self-sealing cells like in the body of the aircraft, this is so they are dry when the pilot enters combat.. but hey, its beta buld 5 :)

Yes - I`ve DL`d it on the day it was "released". However I didn`t have much time

to screw around with it yet. Whenever I get a chance to fire up the demo, I just

jump into the Mig, get rid of the mirage and head for the hills at "signal buster".

Once I`m there, I get to 20, 30 m and fly around like a madman. The sensation

of speed is unbelievable! ( I set my view to 85 deg., scenes to "high" res. 1600x

1200). Then, pick an airfield and practice overheads at 400 m AGL, 600 km/h.

Need to get the basics before the sim comes out. BTW, maintaining the altitude

became much easier once I assigned the trim function to my Cougar`s hat switch!

Can`t wait for the final version of the FM though.

Oh, good point on your fuel tank observations. Well, it looks cool when something

is streaming out of the hole!

[Seawolf 0]

Damn! That vapor out of the hole in the fuel tank is awsome! I didn`t realize

the visual effects are that good in Lock-on. Are these shots from the demo?

That's fule and it is cool!

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i got shot in my wing and lost 10,000lb of fuel... not good

 

anyway more pics ;)

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shots just passing me as i jink away :)

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gonna try the mission in the rain next :)

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just thought i'd add this pic- my son 3 1/2 flying a hog - boy doesn't he like to watch the flares ...

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I don't blame him, all those pictures with flares look awesome, I can't wait to start popping them when the full game comes out, as mine now are only black :( :ph34r: