JediMaster

If you lost a $20 bill, would you be upset? If yes, think about the things Helmut mentioned and look at the screenshots. It's still the same game as FE Gold, just improved in those areas. If no, just buy it already because there are far worse things to blow $20 on that will give you a lot less enjoyment, like buying tickets to see a bad movie.

To be or not to be, that is the question now facing my people, Captain Kirk. @Falcon: Once the avalanche begins, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

I don't recall LOMAC being on Steam, but I could have missed it. LOMAC didn't have Starforce, the original Flaming Cliffs addon did. If you only need LOMAC installed, and not FC, to install FC2 (I can't say as I had both installed when I installed FC2) than you don't need to worry.

Yes, scripted linked missions. A dynamic campaign was talked about for LOMAC since before its release in 2002 or 3 or whenever it was. However, Il-2 does have dynamic campaigns, they're just...not that dynamic and I find them tedious. If LOMAC had an engine like that, I wouldn't be happy with it either. That said, there are some great 3rd party campaigns you can DL out there for LOMAC.

Several of them are inside the engine and/or intake. Unless those are just helmeted heads carried in the rear...

What if you wake up speaking Klingon??!

F-107 FTW!

Next up...astronaut marathons in space suits!

The only winners in these incidents are the guys who make and sell the flags. You could open a flammable US flag store in the Middle East and retire from all the sales you'd get. No excuse for that in the west.

Alcoholism?

Imbecile extraordinaire

Frank! Frank, Frank, bo-bank, banana-fana, fo-fank, fee fi mo mank. Frank!

Too bad you never had CFS3 because there was a Med Air War mod for it that was quite good.

88 was probably used because if the texture got flipped it would still look the same.

In "real life" runways are oriented based on geography and/or prevailing wind patterns, so they can be facing any direction. For instance, I believe our runway is 20/200 and the Skid Strip at CCAFS is 130/210. Games of course will just have the programmers make things easier on themselves by making them N/S or E/W. I think the reason for saying "36" is just that it's easier to make out on a radio than saying "00" or "double 0."

The US has been involved in no other 8 year war unless you mean the Cold War, and that did indeed have fewer direct casualties. For other countries, exact figures will be harder to come by. I don't recall how many died in the Iran-Iraq war, or the USSR's Afghan enterprise. As mentioned, going back more than 100 yrs leads you to times of poor medicine and tech to save lives, so what would today be a wounded soldier that never returns to the battlefield would be a KIA back then. Another unknown barometer is relative losses--how many were lost compared to the enemy? If you lost half as much as the enemy that's far different than if you lose only 10% of theirs. That again requires good numbers from all sides, and those are just hard to get other than estimates. However, the conflicts we're involved in now differ greatly from many other recent conflicts other than really the USSR in Afghanistan in the 80s and perhaps the US in Vietnam. Pretty much everything else has been fast and/or high-intensity vs standard state-controlled forces with front lines far more clearly defined. Low-intensity ones historically last far longer because of the low attrition which lets each side sustain the fight. I guess what I'm getting at is drawing any general conclusions will be hard to justify, only specific ones compared to Vietnam and 80s Afghanistan.

It's also the tire design. I bet if I'd run over that bolt in my 4Runner it wouldn't have even dented the tire because I don't have a wide, flat tread. It would most likely have been kicked out instead. Sports car tires seem to enjoy finding pointy things to puncture them.

Only in theory. In practice at least one bird will be down for maintenance/overhaul. That's enough for one continuous orbit or 2 that don't have to run 24/7.

Well, you know the 120C has smaller fins, so it has to be 10x better. They must be basing it on some "120C has far better ECCM vs 120B against Russian ECM and chaff" document somewhere and they pulled this performance out of thin air (since of course real numbers would be classified). Personally, I don't like that there are like 5 different 120C models in service concurrent with the B because I can't remember them all! They should've just given them all new letters!

Did Bjork have Mexican food last night?

I don't remember when George Peppard died, but that probably limited the chance of making an A Team movie with the original cast! However, as has been mentioned, I don't think anyone really "loved" the original series like others such as Star Trek were. It was IMO not even as good as Knight Rider, and watching old reruns of that (or rather attempting to but being unable to actually sit thru it) has led me to believe it's not even as silly as I remember but far worse! In short, this movie will likely go nowhere, but whether it adheres strictly to the source material or not likely will have zero bearing on it.

It's a bump-mapped life for us, it's a bump-mapped life for us No cares for you a bit, if all you do is count rivets It's a bump-mapped life!

It's NOT Mr T! The character was NEVER Mr T, that was the actor's name. The character was BA Baracus. When they redid Star Trek, no one said "the new Shatner" or "the new Nimoy." It was Kirk and Spock.

Yeah, C3PO, that was the one that apparently left without saying anything. Personally, I think they made a big mistake. They could've simply made a new 3D model of a plane already in the game, enlisted someone like Aeyes to make a new cockpit, and released an addon/standalone expansion within 2 years of the release easily. Those 2 terrains were sufficient, the ability to fly the F-15E or F/A-18 would've greatly expanded the sim. I've no idea what their plans are, but I can only surmise it's a next-gen title based on the campaign engine and FM stuff from F4. Compared to things like DCS and Wings of Prey, F4:AF is now horribly outdated graphically (even Il-2 looked better, and it came out several years earlier) so they have to redo that side.

For a budget of about $20bn/yr, we could have gone back there in 10 years. Instead, we needed to give $80bn to AIG and billions more to stupid corporations for literally NO return. NASA will get $18bn/yr and lose the ability to send humans into space, instead holding a ticket to get on the Hogwarts Express from Pad 9 3/4 to the ISS whenever one of these commercial companies actually gets a rocket up, let alone a capsule to carry people. It's disgusting.