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I say plane packs aswell...

What can I say...the most anticipated sim release ever for me and thats after 28 years gaming. No other can come close.

another tune...sorry I broke the rule..this is as modern as I get

All music thats come out in the last 20 years is just old stuff rehashed and isn't as good....the originals are always the best.... Olham can't believe they censored The Flamingoes... try this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm38r1wPYOA&feature=related

I love sixties psych and garage.....though this song has to be my all time favourite

Been getting into some more modern combat sims....SF2V with the gold mod is great fun...really enjoy it.... I remember F22 total air war and before that F117 by microprose and before that Falcon by spectrum holobyte and finally Gunship....all these old games I really enjoyed....I could actually get somewhere and could spend awhile on a mission getting immersed... Now Lock on Flaming Cliffs 2 is a lesson in frustration....I take off....I fly my Navs...I turn on radar I go to BVR...I fiddle with radar until I finally get a blip...I desperately try to lock on..I lock on...I wait for range to decrease...I hear a message that the other plane has already fired his missile...I fire mine....my missiles are made by imbeciles...his are made by deathstar industries...I try and do evasive manuovers...hit the flare and chaff key as often as possible...then whack...either dead or need to eject..so I go to enemy view and he is still happily flying around...I re spawn...I turn on my radar I hear he has fired a missile...I'm dead again....over and over again....the actual combat last a couple of minutes...so I try heat seekrs only mission...before I get the shoot message the Mig has fired off one already so it's repeat and rinse... All this is I'm sure realistic....but where is the fun?? My aim120's dont seem to be fire and forget...more like fire and they forget.....older sims you fired a couple of those and 9 times out of 10 the enemy was down and out...also I get a lock on...I fire my aim120....but I can't unlock to lock up another as I know you can lock multiple air targets...I hit the unlock key to no avail... All in all this is why I prefer WW1 and WW2...up close and personnel...and it's about flying skill...rather than some kind of tech wizard....the older modern sims where fun...as they hwere a little more simplistic....I know FC2 isn't anything like DCS but I can't get to grips in how I'm supposed to be flying in combat at BVR....to get my missiles to actauly work...

Well...I gave up on LOck On FC2.....instead I downloaded FreeFalcon 5.....lots of stability issues but there are work arounds...though more complicated you do actaully get to fly around and kill things...excellent free game....

I have it...all my old mates live in Exeter in Devon so it's great to be in touch...I hate phones aswell so FB is a god send.

I love the Vietnam era jets....fire off those dodgey missiles and then get into a high speed dogfight...no fire and forget here....it's WW2 on steroids....hope a Korea game or mod will happen for some early sabre vs mig action... Love the F8 crusader....some A2A and A2G action with this beauty...

Just wondering if anyone knew what is definately planned for the future? I hear talk of a F14 and revamped terrian...is this in the pipeline? Thanks

I'm not knocking the sim...RoF does what it does and does it well....however the hype around the campaign all from RoF devotees is going into the stratosphere.....777 release a good list of what the campaign will be like which to me strikes me as standard issue in a campaign system that would be expected these days...I applaud what they are trying to do but flying RoF for awhile brings it home the restrictions of the engine they have developed and trying to make it do something that it so obviously was never designed to do deserves credit....the whole engine would require a d drastic overhaul in so many areas for a campaign to live up to the hype the RoF fans are generating...I've seen on a few forums now about is this going to be the OFF or RB3D killer....I very much doubt it... Also if it does become revolutionary don't be surprised if it requires a fee due to the amount of work they have to put into it....I don't expect to see it until the end of the year at least. By then I hope P4 is out.... All said though I am very happy that the future looks good for RoF and it will always shine in the areas of FM and plane graphics....the rest needs, in my opinion scrapping and the whole thing redesigned and then we would have a classic on our hands...

I'd love to own them...however I don't think they have widescreen support so they will look bad on my 19 inch 16:10....I did have them all once only to loose them in a move.... I'm sure you will find them a good home....

OFF phase 3 won't be touched and Phase 4 comes out at some point...RoF is restricted by the engine...the lack of ground units...the bizarre terrain and front line...god knows how long it will take to get enough planes to make the campaign play reasonably historically.....is not optimised and thus a system hog with a few planes in the air, again the plane models are great so is the FM but I haven't seen anything to make me think "oh thats why it is a system hog"...OFF can have 100...I've seen 40+ dogfighting no problems...Jason from 777 telling us all to lower our expectations as it's not going to be RB3D.... For shear immersion their will have to be a shear miracle in my opinion for RoF to get the same level of immersion as OFF....and with OFF 4 out soon then RoF best stick with MP.... Oh I think a particular person from 777 goes about customer relations all wrong and can wind people up...I also think it has it's fair share of fanboys that really get on my nerves... I read nothing in the rundown that shouldn't be standard in a campaign anyway....though it's good to see the SP get improved.... Still I wouldn't put money on it being mind blowing and taking out all compition....it would require in my eyes a major overhaul....and so many new units that in the end you'd get a frame a minute... I reckon that 777 weren't going to do this much...only the hype about it going to be a RB3D killer and the fanboys baning on about how 777 can do no wrong and despite 777 telling them to lower their expectations they have had to do a re think which is why it's been delayed and probably wont be out till the end of the year...if were lucky...by then hopefully we would have a decent amount of planes.... Though P4 will be out and thats where I reckon I will still be flying more than RoF...

This is a Sim Lite...and does exactly what is said on the tin...as they say....it is FUN and thats it's biggest selling point for me.

Not had a CTD yet to be honest...

Looking forward to this mod and would have posted in the sticky but it is locked...does this mean the mod is canceled?

I have looked in the campaign ini's just to check that I have a B52 ai squadron which I do have (just one though, think it was in the linebacker 1 campaign) however I still haven't see the squadron on the map nor have I ever had the chance to escort the B52's on a raid....I always thought there would have been a few B52 squadrons during Vietnam especially during the Linbacker raids... So is it rare to get an escort mission in which your escorting the B52's? Also are there any Aces on either side in any of the campiagns? Thanks

I looked through the ini and I came across one B52 squadron can't remember the campaign....can anyone suggest a squadron that gets tasked with escorting them and the camapign etc etc.... Thanks for the reply...

I wonder how the Rising Sun mod will recreate the sea battles then....

Someone mentioned RoF terrain....well I think the terrain and the clouds are sub par...they don't look realistic and do have a cartoon quality...even dated sims like OFF Phase 3 have better terrain than RoF...plus RoF is a system hog beyond belief....the FM and planes are top notch and these on their own shouldn't cause the system hog...so you add in the terrain which is mediocre so why does it require such a powerful system for it to run well with a few planes in the air? Most likely due to poor code that needs to be optimised...though say that to 777 and you get put in place...

Just wondered if anyone knew why the F4 didn't have internal guns? Seems odd for them to have been left out when they where designing that plane...

Not sure socialism has ever really happened in any country....any that has taken that route have been really dictatorships...

@Tamper to stop the cloud effect cutting off on either side of the screen disable in cloud effect....

Hat switch for me...one day I'd love to have TrackIR...not sure why your hat switch isn't looking up or down.....I have it to snap view aswell...that was the default.... I don't know how to map the joystick in OFF so someone will be able to help...again not sure why your stick hasn't used the default snap view settings...

@mdatelmi...is that screenshot a plane hitting the sound barrier? If so how do you get that effect?