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I'm working on three Top Gun campaigns for my Southwest US terrain.  It's all close to completion, I just haven't been able to touch it since Christmas, due to some personal crap.  I'm back at it, and hope to have them done in a few weeks.

 

Top Gun '70

  • F-4B
  • F-4J

Top Gun '74

  • F-4N
  • F-4J_74

Top Gun '78

  • F-14A

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Is there a word nicer than nice to describe how nice that is looking?

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Cool lineup, it would be cool to have a later campaign including F-4S and maybe even Kfirs.

 

BTW,Not trying to be an smartass, but that campaign loading screen features an F-4S for 1970. 

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Awesome! I had the exact same idea to do this actually when I made the aggressor F-5E skins, this is gonna be way better though! What will the Redfor/Aggressors be flying? If there is any particular camo scheme for the F-5E you would like me to make I would be more than glad to help you!

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BTW,Not trying to be an smartass, but that campaign loading screen features an F-4S for 1970. 

 

I know the S doesn't fit the timeframe, but finding decent quality images of the hangar has been surprisingly hard.

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When will coming ? .... You have a GREAT idea .... can you make a skins pack for TW F-14A(77) Tomcat ?

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Brian

 

Check your PM please. 

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Thanks cangas.  I still lack a good one with a '78-ish Tomcat, if anyone has one.

 

Centurion, I just have the aggressors flying a couple of flavors of A-4's.  I don't think they used the F-5's until after '78.

 

Swordsman, I'll send you a PM.

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I know the S doesn't fit the timeframe, but finding decent quality images of the hangar has been surprisingly hard.

 

What? I´m sure i just saw some recently, before Linebacker, will search and bring you some

 

 

BTW, Crusaders should be in too? i don´t know how much did they participate, with the program starting to roll and the saders service life nearing its premature end...

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Brian if we get some Cat's skinned up we could drag this out to say 1986 with the F-21's and the F-5's. Or I could just make a modified campaign when you release it. I was thinking like you said 78-79 and 1985-1986. Thoughts?

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If you do plan to make any post-78 Top Gun campaigns and need any specific kind of aggressor F-5Es, just say the word.

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Will the planes HIT explode? or is possible to simulate a kill somehow?

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Keeping close to reality, I woul PREFER to have no kill but some verbal (or written) announcement of a kill instead - but I can imagine that this might be complicated to replicate... :blink:

But getting Top Gun will be cool even with "hot" kills!

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Brian if we get some Cat's skinned up we could drag this out to say 1986 with the F-21's and the F-5's. Or I could just make a modified campaign when you release it. I was thinking like you said 78-79 and 1985-1986. Thoughts?

 

I'll try and send you something to play with by the end of Sunday.  I'm all for an '86 campaign as well. 

 

We can look at package size, 3rd-party & DLC requirements, etc.  Maybe it'll make more sense to upload the four campaigns seperately.

Stratos and Stingray,

 

There will be hot kills.  It's an air combat simulator, not a simulated air combat simulator.

 

How would you: tally kills, tell the AI he's dead, measure campaign win/loss conditions?  Feel free to tackle those items after this is released.

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JSF,

 

I did a skin pack called "The Gulls" which covers F-14's from between 1974 and ~1978.  While the bureau numbers are from each squadron's first cruise, some of the skins would still be valid from an appearance standpoint into 1978.  

 

These were the squadrons:

VF-1 Wolf Pack 1974-1978
VF-2 Bounty Hunters 1974-1978
VF-14 Tophatters 1974-1978
VF-32 Swordsmen 1974-1978
VF-41 Black Aces 1976-1978
VF-84 Jolly Rogers 1976-1980
VF-114 Aardvarks 1976-1979
VF-213 Black Lions 1976-1979
 
I've also completed VF-24, but the G**DAMNED NOSE STRIPES on VF-211 are still giving me problems.  If you want to use any of those, feel free.

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Don't mean to derail this thread, but do you guys remember Topgun: Fire at Will from '96 by Spectrum Holobyte? I loved that game, my first air combat game for my first own PC that my dad bought for me in a fit of generosity. I really liked that and I have been toying with the idea to create a campaign series for SF2 that would follow the events of the campaigns there roughly, starting out with Topgun. Looks like I won't have to do the first bit really  :biggrin:

 

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(IMHO, this game did a very good job of injecting story and characters into the otherwise very sterile air combat/sim genre. I'm a PC man so can't comment on the various Ace Combats tho, but they are quite arcade)

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The last of the F-4 skins, these are the two F-4J's from the '70 campaign.

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Very very nice. 

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I'm no help with this sort of stuff, but wanted to pop in and say how AWESOME this looks. This is what makes SF2 a permanent placeholder on my computer. Thanks for doing what you do! Looking good!

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Now that I see those Phantoms. Were the USN and USMC F4's ever cleared to carry a gun pod in central station? I think the pods were not used in combat, but those Phantoms gunpod capable? If yes, which versions?

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