JediMaster

Well, there may be a randomization thing in there ie ejections fail to save you a certain amount of the time even if you do it in time due to seat failure or something.

Nothing like the airspeed reading 400kts and the GPS telling you you're going backwards.

TM went downhill after it was sold to Guillemot. In the old Hoffman/Church days the place was tops. I had several FCS, a pro FCS, the T1 wheel, and the complete FLCS/TQS/RCS combo. Now I have the Cougar. I must say I had almost zero issues until my first FLCS was a few years old, in the late 90s. I sent it back to TM for repair/replacement like 5 times in a 2 year period for things like the keyboard part failing or wild spiking or so on. Bob's SWF22 digital chips fixed most of that and I was fat and happy until gameports became obsolete.

That's a new definition of the term "aggressor."

ArmA/OFP supports multiple players in one helo. Whether flying an attack helo like the AH-1 or just being the gunner in a UH-60 it's a fun thing to do.

Sweet!

The Tomcats were old and cost too much to maintain in comparison. The Hornets offered 85% capability for 50% of the cost or so.

The old B-17 sims from MPS had missions that were hours long. You could time compress, of course. Take off from England, circle while your squadron forms up, fly out, over the Channel/North Sea, into enemy airspace...braving flak and/or fighters until your IP, line up with the Norden, drop, turn for home and back all the way to England...hoping your gear still works, you're in one piece, and you don't crash.

MP works, it's just limited in scope.

Oh man, I LOVED Descent. I had the BEST time playing DM in that game at a LAN meet I used to frequent. First D1, then D2, and then D3. Not a true space sim, though. Rebel Assault was just meh. Starfleet Academy was ok, but I cared more about the FMV with Takei and the Shatner cameo. The best in that genre was Klingon Academy (Christopher Plummer returns as Kang! David Warner as Gorkon! Brilliantly done!) and Bridge Commander.

I'm worried about that show. It may not deliver what we're expecting.

Any attention is better than none!

That's the way I felt when I upgraded my PC a couple of years back and couldn't use my gameport-equipped SWF22 FLCS/TQS/RCS anymore. The gameport on my Audigy worked fine, but when I got an X Fi which had none I found the gameport on my motherboard was crap. Spiking, jittering... So, I have a Cougar now and the fact that it's not modded means I have to deal with things I never had problems with on my old setup. Can't feel the detent on the ANT wheel, stick centering too loose (so the stick actually "leans" in 2 positions, and one of them actually causes a tiny input)... I wish there was a USB version of my SWF22 instead, it was superior to the Cougar despite being all plastic instead of metal.

Are you talking about the later Elite RCS or the old gold anodized RCS?

No, EE limits you to one player per helo.

Once the mod and its planes are out, anyone will be free to create their own MiG campaign for it.

The company also changed its name to MIG at some point.

"Stay on target..."

It's got LANTIRN and 2 bombs under the fuselage...ie a Bombcat.

This will indeed be a nice plane to add.

USAFMTL: There will be most of the major planes and squadrons in theater, along with detailed campaign scenarios and single missions and a revised terrain. It will be released as soon as a couple of issues are worked out. Gerald14: So you guys are working on a DS mod then? USAFMTL: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

I yearn for the day they make another game like Wing Cmdr/X-Wing with current graphics but a slightly more open style of gameplay. Good as the old ones were, the replayability wasn't that high.

Weird. I wonder if your having a non-English version of Windows is causing that. You might check the sim-outhouse forums where OFF support is. All the devs hang out there, not here unfortunately.

Um...that, too.

Yeah, resembles the Predator A although I'm not sure of the weight class. This may be lighter or heavier.