skwabie

my strong belief that russian software isn't the way out. no matter how well they model US aircrafts it still feels russian. more importantly despite it looks feature rich, it gets boring and empty much faster than SF. but i'm and always be hardcore Falconeer so that's just me :)

well...fake pilot ECM is a bit coarse tbh, best a modder can do tho i suppose. J Late has more changes too.

it's a shame. they make F-4J late and F-4S skins, just not the models. It's not as if it's a very hard task...

you're right... bloody hell!

hell... did TK mention that somewhere? the planelist in current SF2 do say there's an N, S and J_74 there..

:yes:

thanks so much mppd! ah little problem, there's a small gap between the ecm and intake but heck can live with it no sweat. ALQ-126 here i come

hi mppd can't see any difference on intake. if it's too much trouble though one can pretty much take the gen1 f-4j ecm and put it on gen2 i reckon

Liking the fake pilot ecm best tho, stock f-4 models have the best quality yet and reckon skins are gonna be easily compatible with future tk releases... plus the big when and if for sf2NA

ah rgr... found the F-4S, links for other thread readers i suppose package http://combatace.com/files/file/11617-mirage-factory-f-4s-phantom-ii/ extra skins http://combatace.com/files/file/11639-f-4s-skin-pack/ skin template http://combatace.com/files/file/11616-sf2-f-4s-templates/

thnx a lot mppd eagerly waiting for the shorter ones on J and S :yes:

I've read the AIs all use normal FMs? All do the friendly ones with same AC type use the same as player setting?

thank you very much sir!

yea saw an F-4J_74 and F-4S in aircraftlist.... gonna start praying now. i'm not gonna start flying an f-4 echo navy version even if all fails haha

Doing the stock Linebacker I campaign the amount of SA2 is amazing! I've mostly plastered all the migs and they don't show up anymore, so now all I get is strike missions, but SAMs continue to harass me and friendly flights. So I often use remaining ordnance to take out a few extra Fan Songs. Question is does that help with reducing amount of SAMs? Or does it just generally reduce the amount of ground vehicles... or maybe it has no effect at all Sorry if it's a newbie Q, I've done some research but hasn't quite figured out how the campaign system works yet..

Aaah OK good to know, makes sense.

Actually I think TW has just more focus on AF versions. We don't get an F-4J (75) or an F-4S etc. Mirage Factory does a great job on the S and F-4JUK with ECM fairing but the shape of the nose is a bit of... Guess there's just no perfect solution on this one hehe

Hi gerwin I just dragged and dropped every cat file in sf2's object folder and none will extract... is it safe to assume it no longer works with sf2? The official extractor works fine but it seems to deliberately miss the .lod model files? O.O

as a naval phantom lover I also find it a shame that the J version doesn't have the ECM fairing (perhaps TW was modelling the earlier J but...) it would be really great to see those added!

So just bought the F-4K addon and apparently 2 .dlc file is extracted to the \DLC folder. Tried the .cat extractor on it and no joy. I guess there's no way end users can edit its content?

aargh thanks(!) that's it sorry just upgraded win7 and a bit unfamiliar with it...

Looking at the screenies/aar reports i see many LGBs being carried, but I've never had much success of them... You can't release them as dumb bombs, you can only drop on targets that's selectable with visual targeting and there's not much info in the cockpit to show when they're in range. Any tips as to how to use them effectively?

yep seems sometimes it's necessary to take one on those bridge strike missions indeed. prefer walleyes/gbu-8 tho as those are a bit more flexible. still it's hit and miss after many many drops, they just have a very small release window and there's no way i could know that. currently 2 pairs of mk84 gives better results even as i've gotten pretty good at that without the ccip pipper...

oh yeah i know liking it surely ain't because of looking for in-depth avionics but the visuals/mods/challenging dogfights/personally the phantom. might even warm up to PGMs after I decided to move past the golden 70s and jimi's guitar:D