JediMaster

Some people don't understand violence and think you should never respond with violence, even if it's in response to violence upon yourself. That's a nice theory. However, that's not the world we live in.

If you don't respond, you are weak and invite more attacks. If you do respond, you are suddenly the violent aggressor because the first attack with violence can always be rationalized as the "only" method of retaliation for some other type of attack. It's all reprisals and retributions going back thousands of years and no one cares who started it anymore.

Not a surprising idea, other than it's being done by Borat.

Il-2:46 has some early guided missiles in it. I forget which one it is, it's an AAM though. However, I've never used it so I don't know how it works in game.

Actually, I think it's more that since those arcade games are about the visuals over the fidelity so they have the manpower to devote to it. The masses want it to look pretty, they don't care about climb rates.

It's the MiG-29K, I believe it was in the late stages of development (Carrier suitability testing) when the USSR dissolved itself.

 

If you want to fly one on your PC, for now you can have the IRIS FS9 version, which is very nice

India will be getting several soon, along with a new (formerly Russian) carrier.

"Today's word is SCUMBUCKET. My landlord is a SCUMBUCKET. Can you say SCUMBUCKET boys and girls?"

Also, consider this. WWII was the first war using radar. It was used from the beginning, in the BoB and onward. Planes began carrying it and being able to detect it by mid-war. Yet not ONE WWII sim I've ever played had planes with radar in it.

Why?

Because I'm sure they didn't want to be bothered, that's why. Nothing classified about it, nothing hard to find out about it, they just thought it would be too much effort for too little return.

That one ship looks like a B-2 with warp engines! Is that a Klingon ship too?

Always loved the D-7 in all its variants.

I still need to try the demo for this.

Is there MP support for AI? rFactor has this, but GTL and GTR2 don't and is one of their biggest shortcomings for me.

All of those look pretty good except the Civic. There's a car that cures insomnia!

Um...Maybe he meant WWIII?

Perhaps they lived shorter because of disease? As War of the Worlds mentions, we've spent millions of years adapting to the viruses and bacterias that live here. Maybe those dinos just didn't have immune systems quite as strong and they died from injuries or illness far more often than old age.

I just looked, and I'm right out of parrots.

I see. I see. I get the picture.

I've got a slug.

Does it talk?

Not really.

Then it's hardly a replacement then.

Look, if you go down to my brother's store in Bolton, he's got one and he'll be happy to replace it.

Bolton, eh? Very well.

*goes to Bolton*

This is Bolton, is it?

(with a fake mustache) No, it's Ipswitch.

That's inter-city rail for you.

*returns*

I understand this IS Bolton.

(still with the fake mustache) Yes?

You told me it was Ipswitch!

It was a pun.

A PUN?!?

No, no...not a pun...What's that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards?

A palindrome...?

Yeah, that's it!

It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of "Bolton" would be "Notlob"!! It don't work!!

Well, what do you want?

I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any longer as I think this is getting too silly!

Classic scissors!

The tricky part was you had to open the bay doors to take the pictures, but it made you VERY visible on radar when you did. It was all about timing it just right between radar sweeps. Also, no hard turns or they'd get a big return off your top or belly!

I'm going to try it this weekend, haven't installed it yet.

There are also the "illegal" kills that took place across a border that shouldn't have been crossed. I once knew a guy online who'd killed a MiG...but it wasn't NVAF or over Vietnam, so he didn't get official credit since no one wanted to antagonize China too much and make a repeat of the Korean War.

Besides, everyone knows it's Utahraptor that's like the big, scary ones seen in the film, not velociraptors.

You stunned 'im just as 'e was wakin up!

Those recon missions in F-19 were the best EVER. In Cold War mode, with not only no fighting but no sightings allowed!

I've not seen that. It may depend what model you're using, but I flew some missions with AIM-7E's the other night and on average I was getting 1-2 missiles out of 4 to hit. Usually 2 would fail to track, with 1 kill and the other one sometimes getting a kill and others just missing.

Yeah, I saw that in PC Gamer myself and stopped for a second. Hornet!! I almost thought it was a combat add-on before I realized it was just planes and missions with carrier ops.

At this point, I'd pay for FSX and then the addon to get a CFS4! Too bad.

Ironically, it should be easier to model the modern fighters than the ones from the 80s and 90s. After realizing there was serious pilot workload overload, planes like the F-22 and F-35 are being designed to be more like the sims we played in the 90s with "god's eye radar" turned on.

You designate the target, choose the weapon (maybe that is even done for you based on range to target), give the authorization to fire and the weapon goes when the time is right. No worries about slewing this or activating that or remembering the right sequence. Point, click, and shoot.

I think TK could do that easy right now with his engine. The targeting boxes could simply be on your HMD. The only real change is the new jets can do AA and AG at the same time without changing radar modes.

The rivet counters are immaterial, anyway. Give me a sim where it FEELS real, where real tactics work and the enemies act real, and that's enough. Sure if I can't break Mach 1 in an F-15 I'll be annoyed, but whether you're going Mach 2 or 2.5 in 5 mins or 8 doesn't really matter to how you fly and fight, the whinerealism people to the contrary.

cool, but what is the Guindance?

The Force?

Right, Colonel should be the last one, although on occasion generals will fly for a specific purpose. Never in combat, though.