JediMaster

Except for the dew off of leaves and grubs from the ground bits...

The experience depends a lot on the mission designers/scripting. So far the campaign in OA is the best since the original OFP's (well, and its Resistance addon), but I'm still early in it.

The campaign in Arma1 was pretty lame, the Queen's Gambit addon campaigns being quite a bit better. Arma2's campaign was a little meandering, hurt by scripting issues/broken triggers that I understand may have been fixed in the 1.07 patch, but I've yet to try to finish it since I got stuck just past half way several months back.

MP is dedicated or local servers, whichever you'd prefer.

There is nothing like MP combined ops in Arma...inserting via UH-60s or CH-47s, watching AH-1s or AH-64s taking out tanks threatening you on the ground while YOU take out Shilkas and MANPADs threatening the helos, an A-10 making an occasional missile and/or strafing pass, then having your armor come over the ridge and start blasting away at the enemy infantry is just the ultimate thrill.

I can't make out a thing on this!

That's because it's the coffee machine, sir. THIS is the radar.

I know that! I always have coffee while I'm watching radar!

The Origin "Commander" series of games had you doing stuff like that between missions. In fact, Wing Commander had you on a carrier...in space, but a carrier! As for the FPS when not in the cockpit, JSF even gave you a pistol with a few rounds (DCS doesn't). I think the Battlecruiser 3000 series which has become Ultimate Combat or something now offered space ships and FPS as well?

Anyway, the best hope now is to mod a game like Arma into having more realistic flight stuff as there's no way to tack FPS onto a flight sim later.

Awesome but for the choice of song. I am so sick of her and her annoying voice! Argh!!

Only one man would dare give ME the rasberry!!

No, no, no! It's the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!

Only silly Earthlings would try and use something as weak as plutonium...

I play Arma2 and OA all the time MP. There are TONS of mods for it. OFP only had more because it was all we had for years and years. They finally got moving again and released Arma, Arma2, and now OA at a more regular pace.

Depends on what you're looking for. If you played/enjoyed OFP 1 or Arma 1/2, a definite YES. I leave out OFP 2 as that is more like GRAW than OFP/Arma.

The thermal sights are excellent. If it's a couple guys sitting in a stationary vehicle, they're bright and the vehicle is black. If the thing starts moving, you'll see the engine area glow as well as the crew, but the rest is dark. After it's been going awhile, the whole thing will show up bright.

All in all, it's an incremental improvement on the series, but it IS an improvement. Only the framerates are worse, and after a patch or two I'm sure they'll have those going better.

FWIW, BB.com lists the first RoF release only, not ICE, and it's listed as "online only" anyway, so they don't stock it on the sheves there.

Well, when inexperienced riders are on the horse you ALWAYS tell them to use both hands.

I also think there's a difference because the Western saddle was designed for long-term occupation while the English one was more short-term, hence its usage in competitions and running and so on.

That saddle horn also makes a convenient place to anchor your rope when hog-tying.

I first saw Troops years ago and thought it was just brilliant. I think the one guy who did a trooper voice was also the voice of one of the Warner Bros in Animaniacs?

Oh, now I see it has a movable-LERX like the Sukhoi Pak-FA instead of a separate canard. You can definitely tell the landing gear is bigger, like when the YF-17 became the F/A-18.

No folding wings? Is the span that short, like an A-4? I know the carrier isn't all that big, but the LCA is a lot smaller than the Flanker which it could hold when folded.

Did you check Gogamer, Falcon? I'm pretty sure they always have it.

I only have FE 1 and 2 right now, and they're perfect for my needs...short and sweet with a variety of planes! I just don't have the time to devote to a more in-depth sim like OFF unfortunately.

OpenAL is a 3rd party sound API, like OpenGL is for graphics. I didn't know EECH used it now, but maybe you might need to find an installer?

Having only ridden saddles over here, I can't comment on the differences between them.

I will say, though, that as comfortable as you are in the saddle, all that changes when you get OFF after an hour or two!

He should be scared, you're shooting lefty!! *shudder*

Awesome!

Will the single seater have the drooping nose as well, or just the trainer?

Odd I can never remember your b-day...

Thanks, guys! It's been a rollercoaster of a year, and I'm sure the next won't be much different.

I also got the best present of all...some "us" time with the wife.

If you have Windows Vista or 7 they have a built-in backup tool, granted that its abilities are limited.

I found another one for an Audioquest K2 cable on Amazon. These are LOL funny.

I would LOVE a new X Wing or TIE Fighter sim. Just give me the old game with modern graphics and sound, actually, as the missions and voices were well done and the AI was good enough.