I bought the Strike fighters 2 complete edition about a week ago.
I even installed Windows 10 on my computer for it. Everything else I do, is on Linux.
I wanted the game because I desired a flight sim that let me bomb things and was in the sweet spot between an arcade game and a full-on sim like DCS.
I chose SF2 because I had heard it was easily, and completely, moddable. I am really bad at games and view this sort of software as I would a model railroad; fun to play with but even more fun to build for.
I have some experience with modelling in Blender, mostly designing military minis for 3dprints at 1/285 scale for wargames. I now want to bring some of my models into this game to play with and blow up.
Here is a WIP of some AVF's from China. This is a procedural texture as a start before finishing painting and baking it to a lower poly model.
( that's a zsu-57, not a Type 80 SPAAG; wrong chassis)
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Single player suits me perfectly as I can play how I like without lil' kids bitching about me on-line because I'm not very good at video games.
Having fooled around with YSFlight, the game looks great, or at least, more than good enough for me.
I wish it would run on linux or WINE or the like.
I wish I were allowed to look at the LOD files I've purchased so I have a benchmark as to what quality work the designer expects by default; polycounts for the different lod distances, texture sizes, animation set-ups, etc., but it is what it is. It's enough to make me think that I should have bought IL-2 instead.
No matter.... SF2 is a wonderful game.
Too bad it seems mostly abandoned.