JediMaster

Considering how many older planes I have in my old SFP1 install with the 06 patch, I'm never dumping that! I doubt half of those planes will ever get updated and I'm no good at doing it myself!

You could DL someone else's mission that starts on the runway and edit it to take out the stuff you don't want like enemy AC and ground targets that shoot back. There are lots of those floating around the net.

Some things look better than others. The F-16s should look very good, although without fancy shaders for lighting and such we're used to now. The F-4Es I recall look particularly poor. Vehicles however shouldn't be just blocks, although they're not that far removed really. One thing the game DOES do, though, is take its time drawing an object. If you lock onto a SAM for instance, then switch to an external view of the SAM looking at you, it will first draw it like a block then slowly increase the detail as you wait.

Yes, it's a press-and-hold button, not a toggle "on/off" like a parking brake.

I still have the manual to Tornado. It rocks!

Actually, it's also in the NATO Fighters 4 mod.

Italian fence? Is that a fence with breading, cheese, and tomato sauce??

"I found out long ago It's a long way down the holiday road Holiday ro-o-o-o-o-o-oad, holiday ro-o-o-o-o-oad..."

I think I'd actually prefer paying by-the-hour to a per-month deal. I rarely put more than 100 hrs into any game, online or off, so if they reduce the upfront price of the game but then charge like $.10 an hour to play, I'm fine with that. I don't like paying "per month" because I may only play a game for 2-3 hours in any given month, so spending $15 for that is way off base.

Word, yo! People are willing to pay TK for versions of planes they can get for free here, but they're not willing to pay to help keep the free ones available?? Personally, I'll go for "packs" of planes, like say an F-14 pack which includes all 3 models or a MiG-23 pack with all its variants to a high level of detail, for no more than $10. However, the blunt truth is that TK's planes are (as mentioned elsewhere) missing several crucial features of the real planes notably in the ground attack avionics and as such are limited in how good they can be. This is the engine's limitation, not that of any plane, and it needs to be fixed there. I can't see going for an individual plane unless there was something extraordinary about it, and I can't imagine what that could be. Unless these planes are priced under $5 each, then maybe, but I doubt he'll go that low. Right now, each new SF2 release is a new (updated) terrain plus a handful of planes (if you're merging them with previous releases all the planes included aren't new) for $20. That's a good model as terrains are the hardest to do and we have the smallest selection of those available, so you're basically paying for the terrain and some new planes that are appropriate to it. Take out the terrain and I think the value is cut in half. Lower the number of planes even more and the value drops too.

What it means is you can put it in there and it will likely work fine in most ways. However, thorough testing was not done and there might be some things wrong which the creators of the mod aren't going to take the time to fix. You may be able to correct some of them yourself with some .ini edits. TK's models for SF2 are built 100% on the new process and just can't go backwards.

When's the DS9 version coming out?

Actually, I had to install 1.12b on my XP box because stupid SF wouldn't work with my new DVD drive with 1.12a!

Heroes of the 357th was lame. F-15SE 1 was old even THEN. Never played any Falcon before 3.0, but I played a lot of 3 and 4. Had all the others there and played a LOT of them. B-17 had the longest missions of any flight sim I've ever played.

I'm sick of these companies deciding they want people to pay per hour for gaming instead of one up-front payment that lets you play as much as you want. Of course, I never played much on public servers even with BF42 and BFV and I totally skipped BF2 thanks to the crap with coop on its release.

Thanks largely to TS Overlay!

I just noticed the pilot and GIB have different helmets...is that new to SF2 or has been it around longer??

I'm guessing by the lack of year or anything that is exactly what it will be. BF1942, 1943, and Vietnam all told you exactly what they were, but BF2 didn't.

The airshow in 03 or 04 (i can't remember which) was a big one as the Blue Angles AND the T-birds showed up. I missed the show (I'm not big on the massive crowd thing) but the day before a lot of the planes arrived and it was great watching them land. The best part was at lunch time the 2 solo BA's practiced over the river for over an hour! Me and 2 other guys just stood over by the Honor Guard building and watched them for maybe 70 mins ... no crowd!!

TS2 is so old it's almost comical.

I'd almost agree 100%...except the Germans were actually in France, not Germany, so it's harder to say "defending their country." However, I'm sure there were many that didn't want to be there. I'm also sure there were many that did.

I've been to the Grand Canyon twice, although the 2nd time was just a brief helo tour, and I'd go there again! If it's summer, go to the NORTH rim. You won't care too much for the south rim in the heat!

NF1-4 require WOE, though.

If you have up-to-date video drivers you shouldn't be seeing that. Is the game patched? I don't know if you have Flaming Cliffs/LOMAC Gold or just regular LOMAC. FC is at ver 1.12, while LOMAC only went to 1.02. Make sure you're at one of those.

May you have many dsafahjklfjklah days in the future!