New member - Intruder questions

[Kraszus 0]

Hi folks. I played Flight of the Intruder a looooong time ago on the Commodore Amiga. I'm so glad I found the Third Wire site and immediatley downloaded SF2 and SF2-Vietnam. I quickly download the Ground War expansion V2 Gold and installed that also (mainly for the A6 addon).

 

Anyway, i was wondering is there a manual for the A6 (FOTI edition) that comes along with this mod? If not, can anyone who flys the A6 in this mod give me some pointers as to how to use the radar / weapon systems? If I've missed the manual somewhere referring to A6 avionics or missed a link somewhere, can someone point me to it?

 

Would be much appreciated :)

[MigBuster 2,884]

Yeah I had that too - amazing at the time.

 

With SF2 you have a turned about situation - the graphics unlike FOTI are amazing, but the avionics are pretty simple - no mil settings or DIANE in this.

 

You switch on the radar, and can toggle through ground map or ground avoidance or change the range of the radar. Its the same keys for all the jets.

 

There is no DIANE in the game - the reason Thirdwire left a flyable A-6 out of SF2V (There was a pit in WOV) was because he didnt want it in without a DIANE - but no budget to implement it yet.

 

Bombing was manual in the stock WOV jet - in the one you have they might have stuck in a CCIP mod to let you level bomb - if not there is one for SF2 in the downloads

[+malibu43 142]

Unfortunately, there are no functioning A/G targeting systems in the A-6 (or the any aircraft in the series) with the exception of the reflective bomb sight in the cockpit. So your only option is to "bomb by hand". With some practice, you can get pretty good at using that sight, for dive bombing or level bombing at 250 ft.

 

Check out this tutorial for a place to start: http://www.simhq.com...r/air_055a.html

 

Good luck!

 

*edit* - MB beat me to it. And, FWIW, the A-6 included with the expansion pack does not have the CCIP mod installed. I always thought the CCIP in the A-6 looked funny.

Edited February 24, 2010 by malibu43

[Dogzero1 16]

I still have an Amiga version of Flight of the Intruder, complete with the book too. It used to be one of my favourite air combat sims.