MadJeff

I think there will be some limited modding, such as support for skins. Take a look at this thread: http://forum.biohazcentral.com/viewtopic.php?t=1877 You can see that there's been some skin tweaking goin' on there. :D As for mods making or breaking a sim, as we've seen from recent events, moddability does not a sim make. 8) To be honest, while I love to be able to tweak skins, add aircraft, etc, I don't want it at the expense of an unstable or incomplete package. Worse yet, I don't want to see UFO's when I MP either. There has got to be some good middle ground.

Matt and the gang came through with some new pics and a vid to kickoff E3. This new video shows the first look at the new missile trails and explosions for air-to-air weapons. Object self-shadowing and engine heat blur effects are shown in this series. Grab the new 7.6Mb video here.

Haven't waded through their forum in a week or so, looks like there's some more great shots: Thread here: http://forum.lockon.ru/viewtopic.php?t=140

Picked this up on the Russion forums this morning, a few new shots: Formation flying with a cruise missile... Evidence of skins support?? :D If you read Russion you can see the threads here: http://forum.lockon.ru/viewtopic.php?t=149 http://forum.lockon.ru/viewtopic.php?t=150

Shacknews has a great review with pics of the upcoming HL2 FPS. They are looking sweeetttt! Best of all, they are actually talking about a released date of around 2 months from now. I'll believe it when I see it on my desk... Half-Life 2 Preview at ShackNews

Found the thread, it's here: http://forum.biohazcentral.com/viewtopic.php?t=1234 Looks like Jag won the auction. Jag, am a little embarrassed to ask, but I never did get a check from you, did I send you my address? It's been so long since then I don't remember.

I'll post the details this week, but you can follow the link on my first post to get the skinny as well.

What's the URL? =)

damn, now it's working. Weird...

They have posted their new web layout and are working on stuff, so they'll be up and down for the next few days I assume.

I've been trying to hit the site the last week from work and it keeps failing, has anyone else been on it? I know they were having money/bandwidth problems and were looking for some emergency cash to pay the bills, but I was hopeful Frugal would stay afloat. Anyone know what's going on?

I just received the WW2F Add-On CD and it is nothing short of astounding! I will be one of the delivery boys for this CD, so stay tuned for info. The CD is free, just $4.00 for shipping and the cost of the blank CD. Here's a shot of the front-end interface: This CD is absolutely packed with all the best mods and utils for WW2F, including a ton of new skins and models. For an example, here's a side-by-side shot of the stock P-51 model and Rammjager's awesome P-51 mod: This CD is full of these kinds of skins/mods. If you haven't played this one in awhile, I highly recommend dusting it off and taking it out for a spin with this new add-on cd. :D Base Mods CD Contents: ALL 3D mods released until Febuary 2003, with their default skins This includes aircraft, vehicles and structure.s All missions and campaigns released until Febuary 2003, Offline and Online. Complete Flight Model packs up to v5.11 13 pre-installed terrain sets. Loads of utilities. All official and unoffical game patches ( v1.08, No CD..). Comprehensive Documentation on all subjects. All soundsmods, including Allied and Axis Radio Chatter packs, released until Febuary 2003. Partially installed version of MIKH's "Russian Front" v1.1. All templates released to date ( Feb. 2003). Many Skin Making aids ( Damage templates, Noseart...). Custom made 3D aircraft models include : Bombers ALan Grey's C-47 Ar 234B Ar 234C Ar 234C SWOTL Cant z1007b Do17z He111H Il-4 Ju188A Li-2 Nose Art B17 Nose Turret B17 Rammjager's B17 Fighters Hammerd's Fw190 A Fw190 D-9 Fw190 D-11 Fw190 D-13 Macchi MC202 Me109E Me109F Me109K Me109 Tropical Me161A-1a P38 New Glory P47D Razorback P47M Fireball Non mirrored P51 P51-B Rammjager's P51-D Rammjager's P51-D Cockpit Clipped Spit IX Unmirrored Spit IX Spit Mk.V Desert Spit Mk.Vb Spit F.IX Spit FR.XIV Spit FR.XIV Clipped Spit F.XIV Yak 9D Yak 9T The terrain sets included are : Cold Snow Fluke Snow Soft Snow Original snow Desert Desert 2 Grassy Desert Early Fall Jungle Mediterranean Spring Spring Rain Summer

I haven't heard of any similar reports in the past, sounds like a glitch. Did you try removing the offending files and try again?

You can also attach it to this message with the attach file option while posting a message. Try it! ;)

Ok Everyone....2 weeks in the making and we've got another round of screens and the biggest video yet of the SU-25 Frogfoot. Be sure to grab the new 18.4Mb video here.

I'm just unplugging my computer for my move today, but will take a look at it as soon as I can, which will probably by Tuesday. =) Sorry for the inconvienence.

Not that I'm aware of, I have both here and have no problems running it at full detail.

I recently reinstalled this sim and have been messing with some of the great new mods that have come out recently, and I must say this sim has really aged well. It's still IMHO one of the prettiest WWII sims and just flat out fun to fly, although the fragile damage model always bugged me. :D If you're like me and are just getting back into the WW2F scene, a great website to check out the latest WW2F mods and skins is over at WWIIFighters.net. Tell me this doesn't look as good as FB... The WW2F community has also just released a new Addon CD that includes all of the best mods and skins on 2 CD's with an awesome front-end interface for one-click installs. You can check it out here: http://home.arcor.de/swiper/addon/addon_eng.htm

It will be here, they've spent way too much time on it not to. Of course, Janes killed A-10 with a month or so to go... ;)

They are skipping this week (again) due to Matt being in Moscow working with the team, but Cartrix has promised another longer-format vid next week to make up for it.

Has anyone else been following this promising new FPS? It looks like it'g going to be hella cool! :shock: http://soldner.jowood.com/ Helo drop... Armor... Parachuting in...

Weas, I tried AA the first two weeks it was out and the server situation was so bad it soured me on the game. I really need to get back on and try it out again. Well, it looks like the voting is already skewing heavily into the Yes vote already, so I guess the next step is to get a list of Combat FPS games that people are playing and setup the appropriate forums.

I've had a lot of requests to add some different forums for various FPS games such as Operation Flashpoint, America's Army, Soldner, and more. I'm curious as to what the general consensus is on this. While the site is dedicated to combat flight sims, a lot of us do play other games as well, and I think it would not be too far out of our realm to has some discussion forums on some of the more popular FPS's out there. Your thoughts?

I've added a new forum for discussing various WWI Flight Sim projects currently in progress. ArgonV, an avid WWI simmer and one of the devs for the OpenPlane WWI mod, has kindly assumed the moderator role.

Everyone be sure to welcome ArgonV to Biohaz as our new resident WWI sim fanatic and forum moderator! He'll be helping out keeping us up to date on the latest WWI Sim news. :D