arthur666

Some ingame testing, in a 1975 environment before the 4th gens arrived you can feel pretty confident on the battlefield flying this bad boy. The ability to accelerate to supersonic and climb away from anything makes up for it's lack of maneuverability, and the ECM makes a BVR  joust very much in your favor. 

Looking forward to it!  Always liked flying the Lightning for the same reason.  Who'ld have thought running away could be satisfying?  :)

arthur66:

 

Nope.

 

Eric Howes

Ok.  Nice pack to have regardless.

Something's holding me back.  Can't even get close to Mach 2 in the P or the PU (haven't tried others yet).  Tried altitudes 15,000ft, 25,000ft, 35,000ft and 45,000ft.  Any insights into this issue?

Won it twice in the Tomcat, but I usually take extra wingmen on intercepts and select the maximum load of AiM-54s.

that's the way to do it.  Tomcats and Phoenix missiles below the deck are pretty worthless when there are vampires inbound.

Won my modded 1969 campaign in a Skyhawk.  No Tomcats, but no Tu-22M either.  Campaign structure was basically the same as stock.

Due to hardware problems, and an insanely busy winter, I haven't played with SF2 since December.  My machine is almost 5 years old, and I'm getting lock-ups and re-starts in all programs.  Plus, some of my favorite campaigns' missions were just  too burdensome for my computer, and I was getting a lot of slideshows.  As far as gaming, I have been driving Assetto Corsa a bit, playing Terraria and KSP with my little boy.  I plan to upgrade my computer as part of spring cleaning with new mobo, CPU, more RAM, and some of them new-fangled hybrid and SSD hard drives.  My mod folders are already backed up and waiting.  Looking forward to checking out some of the great new mods yall have been working on.  

Keep up the good work!

Arthur

Hey Emp_P , and thanks.

Here is Wrench's famous post on making AI planes flyable: http://combatace.com/topic/20789-how-to-make-ai-planes-flyable/

Everything is ready to go in the campaign, so adding cockpits should make the planes show up as flyable.  Try the MiG-19 and MiG-21MF.  There are pits available in the SF2 and SF1 download sections.

 I believe the Foxbat didn't enter Libyan service until 1980 or later, or I would have included it.

My computer with SF2 on it has not been online in over a month (we moved), but I will get 1.1 up soon as I can with a few minor changes regarding Libyan MiG-17 etc. and an extra surprise ;)

Question:  Would there have been F-5's flying in Libya during this time period?

Iranian F-14's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJ1cdMHzKM

Some amazing first-hand accounts.  Just ignore the cheesy CGI that shows a MiG-31 instead of a MiG-25.

...but even the AIM-9B has a PK of 98% on ios...

I don't think the mobile crowd would tolerate realistic missile reliability.  One set of two misses with 2 missiles would cause most "reasonable" people to never play again, I suspect.

Frustration is part of the fun?  We are a twisted bunch.  ;)

Thanks for the links, Paulo!  I will tweak it some more and do ver. 1.1 , but for now my computer is going into storage.  We're moving , and I wanted to go ahead and get this campaign out there. 

Wikipedia had the MiG-17 listed in service with Libya at some point, but we all know that Wikipedia's accuracy is dubious at best.  As for the MiG-19, well, I often work on these things late at night, and late at night I also spend some quality time with the gentleman pictured in my little icon over there on the left.        http://www.northcoastbrewing.com/beer-rasputin.htm

Holidays is time for relaxing with friends and fam.  Sittin' and lookin' at colored lights, pumpkin pie in the oven.  Hope yall's are excellent.

For the Floggers, i could give you a surprise soon Mono27, is all i could say :D

If you think about it the Su-27 is a better fighter than the F-22. Pit them against each other with only bullets, who do you think will win ... my guess is the Sukhoi...

Who knows?  But it would be a very lucky Flanker pilot who would ever get close enough to try out his gun on a F-22.  Not having the most maneuverable dogfighter was a liability in the late 60's (although one that was overcome with tactics).   But back then, AtoA missiles were of limited use.  The latest AMRAAM is insanely deadly and versatile.  AMRAAMs + AWACS + stealth + supersonic cruising speed = ?

I can't speak for the Russians, but the rear turret on a B-52 was extremely accurate. Anybody dumb enough to get within a mile of your wing-line was dead.

AI in SF2 has proven that it is indeed dumber than dumb enough.

Flies like you imagine it would, in the SF2 Universe, at least.   Rolls fast and a bit unstable, pitch is noticeably weak.  Lots of thrust helps it accelerate well, like the Harrier.  I did pull the data.ini and increase the lift-jet engines' thrust (someone recommended that long before we got this pit, can't remember who...).  It does not want to get off of the Kiev with full tanks and 4 lil' ol'  R60 missiles.

A real challenge to fly in a late '70s environment with Phantoms and Tomcats clouding the skies.   I think I'll stay within missile range of friendly cruisers.  

I think I remember buying WOE, noticing that the MiG-23/27 was listed as flyable.  Oh the disappointment of seeing that A-4 pit when i fired it up... 

So that's what you been cooking up.

Very very nice.

Oh when oh when!!??

(Rhetorical question, no answer needed)

Looks great.

I'll say that the cockpits are higher def than any TW pits.  Un-tweaked stock, they have a few problems.  SupGen has made the F-102 pit work great with his Ultimate Razbam pack.  The A-6 pit looks very pretty, but some gauges don't work.

I love the way the RAZBAM pit looks.  I use it with the TW models.  Only problem it doesn't have a distance to waypoint readout.  If anyone ever gets that working, please let me know.

At a glance, I don't see anything wrong there.  Show me the first 3 paragraphs of your CAMPAIGN_DATA.INI 

Died in hospital from wounds sustained during mission.  War's a bitch.

I believe that SupGen did some research and discovered that the AIM-4 was not inherently inaccurate, but rather was unreliable being used by F-4's in Vietnam when it was originally designed to be used by the different fire-control system of the F-102/106.  I downloaded his latest F-102 pack and use it over the RAZBAM plane, and the missiles in that pack work satisfactorily against large targets when using good launch parameters.

I have to doubt that if they were indeed that unreliable, the USAF would have kept them in service well into the '80s.

hey baffmeister,

Thanks for the data.  I tried some very similar numbers, and it works pretty good.  In a perfect world, I'ld see my wingmen doing high speed angled attacks, but at least this keeps them from getting slaughtered.  I was just getting sick of missions where my 4-ship formation took on as many bombers, and only I and (2 enemy bombers) lived to tell about.