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the old Texas ASW from Wrench had some nice campaigns (including my favorite, confederacy 2010), I hope they someone could adapt that to the current Texas ASC.

ok i just found out the AI pilots aren't hampered by avionic limitation and are able to fully utilize the max range of their missile regardless of their aircraft's radar range. is this on the difficulty setting if not, is there any workaround for this? thanks in advance!

i if it was a balloon (if that is what you are referring to) with minimal thermal signature and not a high-performance combat jet with portable hell in its engine exhaust. i suppose it's excusable for the sidewinders to miss.

i have a strike fighters 2 modded modern-day install (i like to keep separate from the previous jet eras) but for some reason, the old base game cold war jets sometimes re-appear and i have to manually re-delete everything. it's happened quite a few times and honestly a bit annoying, is there a way to avoid this?

yes i notice this only happens when i am adding new planes or modifying stuff frequently, my nato fighters 5 install that i do not mod very much is still pretty much okay.

in this case, i guess it was my modded Tu-22M3 that messed the install up, as there is a TW Tu-22M3.

shooting F-4s and MiGs with 21st-century BVRAAMs feels awfully like shooting an old, senile person in a retirement home lol but yeah, kills are kills. all is fair in love and war.

that sounds clever as hell. you might've just saved me a lot of headache. thanks, wrench!

oh well, they happen rarely enough but when they do it's quite annoying. as long as the whole settings and stuff is largely untouched, i suppose i could live with it. thanks a lot Eric!

I vaguely remember the old modern warfare campaigns the AMRAAM seems to be the king of anti-air missiles, launching at 90 nautical miles with a guaranteed kill rate combined with the superlative F-22 Raptors made a very infuriating but interesting gameplay flying REDFOR Sukhois and MiGs. I recently made a new install incorporating Menrva's F-22A and for some reason, the AMRAAM that came with it feels somewhat like an upgraded Sparrow. Pitting F-22s against F-22s, the opposing Raptor seems to be able to dodge AMRAAMs (twice), unlike the guaranteed 100% kill rate it had before (the only effective countermeasure is to hide behind a physical barrier like a mountain). Perhaps it's just me or did the performance get downgraded?

oh my lord, what a beauty! such skilled craftsmanship. cheers!

idk if the pilot is skilled as hell (maybe even an old veteran) or just plain lucky.

give russian air forces some money so that they can catch up with their avionics technology for real

i'm sorry but i simply just find it hard to believe a mig-29 shooting down a Su-35 unless the sukhoi pilot is short of a drooling imbecile.

i think the kuznetsov does not appear until the 1990s. it will always me the kiev class carrier unless you edit kuznetsov's data.ini also you must make sure the map you are playing on is a naval map like Iceland NA

oooohhhweee! this'll help greatly! many thanks!

I'm doing a Pacific World War 2 install, and i kind of wanted to do it in the old school hard way (without HUDs). The instrument gauges are a bit problematic since some world war 2 cockpits have lower details in them so they are hard to spot but the even harder bit is actually locating the enemy aircraft since there are no search radars to compensate for the lack of HUDs. I always call the tactical air control center and ask then the location of nearby bandits every few dozen nautical miles but they just always give me the all-clear (even at the mission waypoint) so I try to manually locate enemies but still just spend minutes circling round and round without action. (having read a few books, i know this is actually quite realistic, world war 2 wise but meh ) I'm just curious how do you guys do it? am i missing something? please share some bits to me as I am a Sukhoi Flanker dude who's having way too much fun flying P-40s and Zeroes.

nah i was just wondering if there was any special technique veteran strike fighters use but if not, i might just switch back the hud haha!

how do I increase an aircraft's thrust and enable supercruise? I feel like the Su-35 included in the modern warfare mod packs is quite underwhelming. It is supposed to be the ultimate non-5th generation Russian fighter and I want to make it feel that way. To cause fear in me whenever I fly F-16s or any lesser allied fighters (I fly mostly Mirage 2000s, F-15Cs, and F-16Cs because, in my opinion, the F-22 is way too damn easy! lo). I sort of want to tweak the systems to make the Su-35 Flanker E somewhat better and give a better fighting chance against allied fighters, having managed to tweak the onboard radar to something powerful yet still balanced (just slightly below that of the top-of-the-line Western air superiority fighters.) now I'm having a problem with the engine. In my research, The Su-35 is supposed to have the supercruise ability, a crucial need for beyond visual range engagement, being able to close into radar lock range without expending much of the fuel reserve in case of dogfights, how do I do this? I have tweaked the engine, increased the thrust, modified the speeds (yet again, I take careful steps not to make the Su-35 overpowered, just enough to match that of the 4th+ gen enemy fighters) yet when I test-fly it, it seems that the gains are rather small and hardly noticeable. I'm not a modder and most of those changes are just done through blind luck and intuition, I need advice from actual modders here, thanks!