JediMaster

Wraith, eh? No Charlie Sheen pilot model??

Watch out for anyone named Largo...

I can't think of "Spectre" without thinking "Blofeld."

I just got it myself on Friday but I've not had a chance to try it out as I've been busy flying instead!

However, I plan on giving it a thorough shakedown this week.

LOMAC is for people who want to fly the planes included in that game, not others. Best sim of an Su-25 ever, plus the A-10 and MiG-29 and Su-27. The F-15 is ok.

Falcon is for people who want the best F-16 sim ever.

WoX is for people who want to fly EVERYTHING and get to blow it up, unlike MSFS where you can fly but not fight.

IIRC, one of the things the USN loves about the Super Bug vs the old Hornet is the bring back payload. The legacy bird had such a low payload bring back margin that yes, they generally had to dump any unused bombs before landing. The Super Bug can bring them back to use another day.

Hurt was from "The Downward Spiral," an album that came out over 10 yrs ago now.

It's not unusual for a cover of a song to be more popular than the original, though. Just look at Whitney Houston's cover of that Dolly Parton song for "The Bodyguard." I didn't think they'd ever stop playing it!!

He's my favorite Mawg.

Yet somehow the next 2 in the series were 10x worse.

As soon as you have people standing up in cockpit to fire a rocket out the back, you've REALLY jumped the shark.

I don't know about that, but I do take issue with the back-flipping the 190s and P-47s do in Il-2. Doesn't matter how gently you pull back on the stick, they do it once the angle of attack exceeds far too small a value. You can watch combat footage of them strafing and pulling out, but don't try it in Il-2 or you'll wind up inverted and hitting dirt.

Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question, Ted. Skip it.

How many Su-25Ts were there? Less than a dozen, and they're out of production.

The Ka-50 is upcoming, so the logic there matches the wave of F-22 sims we saw in the late 90s.

I love helos but have had nothing but EECH to fly in the 21st century. I remember Rick Hawley had started on an AH-64 sim a few years back, but that just disappeared.

I fondly remember the infantry charges in RB.

Another thing to consider is the speed with which you initiate the turn. Pull it back too abruptly and the rapid onset creates a huge amount of drag. A more measured pull back will keep the speed from bleeding off as fast.

Well, Russia has had serious funding trouble and India hasn't been making very fast progress with their plane developments. How many years now? Maybe, just maybe, the two working together will be the impetus to get one made in a timely fashion.

Sighting a fan of John Tesh is one of the signs of the apocalypse.

It's not really an option here, but in Il-2 I perfected the "meat grinder" method of chopping off a tail with my prop.

Looks like I picked the wrong thread to quit taking amphetamines!

The F-14's wing sweep IS automatic and in only 3 positions...I don't get it.

Yeah, I also noted the demo was pretty short.

The amazing thing to me was it didn't look anything like the previous CoD games...yet you could instantly tell it was CoD when you played it!

Indeed! Don't make my MP44 or shotgun weak just because it "unbalances" the game. If that's the case, restrict the ammo available as at least THAT is a realistic issue. However, don't make the gun work at half power!!

I know many people that are happy with the Saitek Evo, if not exactly happy with its looks.

Looking at the shots you can tell this isn't a "new" engine. It's the same one, but it's been modified to the extent that it's no longer backwards-compatible.

For those who remember, this is exactly what happened between Il-2 and Il-2:FB, which was planned as the first add on. Another one like this is Company of Heroes:OF, which will actually uninstall the first game and then simply unlock the stuff from the first game in the new one. If you only buy the new one, that stuff stays locked.

As for promises, I'm sure the dual-edged sword of original intent and Ubi's strings necessitated the change that they apparently didn't plan on from the start. The broken relationship with Ubi certainly affected this, and we should be glad they're now free of that, even if it means we don't get our cake as we wanted.

I've never done it, but I recall it merely replaces an existing plane with the 3D model of the replacement but leaves cockpit and FM and such the same...which is why I never bothered.

That's a long road traveled.