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Altitude doesn't matter for the game. By the way, you can drag most of your waypoints with the mouse in the briefing map screen and also use W and Shift W keys in flight to switch between waypoints, eg to head right for home base after dropping bombs.

In Vietnam stay away from the ground. There aren't many enemy fighters and the game's version of SAM is dangerous only if you ignore it completely. High calibre machine guns will punch holes in you if you stay low there.

A Cryptic Comet is holding a promo key sale of their games. There's only 3 of them but that includes a couple of interesting turn-based strategy titles, one set in a post-nuclear wasteland and the other in Hell. Apparently the infernal TBS Solium Infernum lets you buy Cthulhu-in-a-bottle.

Picture the pilot going "Weeeeeeeeee!" while sliding.

Once? Once?! In the original unpatched FE it took flak about 20 seconds to get a perfect shot at you, unless you dashed to tree top level. Oh, and one MG bullet could take off your wing. That was scary

Haven't seen night missions in stock campaigns for a very long time. Might be a good thing because the AI has cat eyes.

Doesn't SF2 create files at the "Initializing" during startup?

Isn't that where Floggers with 2 AA-7 each like to hang out?

If your plane is smoking grey ejecting over friendly territory is more likely to keep you alive. The game doesn't know whether you're landed or in the air when you end a mission, so resting in heavily damaged plane is an invitation for KIA.

Okay... it's not fighters who's killing you. To avoid AAA the best bet is to keep low, turn on the ECM and look at the RWR screen. The guns that'll give you the most trouble are marked with <Z>. You want them somewhere to your sides not dead in front or in the back. Also, pause and look at the map. It'll show you enemy ground units. Then, since you're flying Red Lightning you also get killed by SA-8. There's next to no cure for that. Dodging, ECM and dumping chaff improves your chances but generally if there's SA-8 in the area (they like covering tanks) you can't come close anything until it's dead or wasted its 4 missiles. Solution - take 6 Mavericks. Always. Cycle through ground targets and knock out automatic AAA guns and SA-8 before you do anything else. If you're set up for a 2-plane flight, take another two guys at the roster screen, give them Mavericks and tell them to engage ground approaching the target area. Just be aware that SA-8's missiles are much faster than yours.

Could you elaborate "AA fire"? You get a log at the mission debrief screen which will list what exactly shot you down.

New DLC must've caused the game to reinitialize like it does after a patch i.e. to verify the files in the user's folder.

A crash with no fatalities, how I missed thee.

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Flying A-10 stay low. Not tree-top low but that's a good altitude to start. Each exe in SF2 uses it's own save/options/mods folder, but they'll give you an identical choice of stock planes, terrains and campaigns.

So this is where the portholes on the Russian roads come from. The size is about right

Maybe TK's trying out detonator failure, only the explosion effects are still there? I saw one Flogger fly unscathed after it had two 'winders blast under its belly.

Великий конспиратор в последний раз скрины модели выкладывал полтора года назад, а новую карту вообще не показывал.

You mean Tomcat? :)

So, it's SF2NA then. Rolls of the tongue. "SF Tuna"

Nope. You pick the skin on the loadout screen - you see that skin in the hangar. Any year, 24/7.

Can you confuse the hell out of people by putting it in the boot?

Could be the switch to the new hangar screens fully implemented. Even Harriers now change their picture when you switch the skin. Actually, those hangar portraits must've been what boosted the volume of the latest series of patches.

Тут в новом октябрьском патчике к SF2 обнаружились новые имена среди приземленной техники, которая вероятно появится в релизе про F-14. http://combatace.com/topic/68281-sf2-oct-11-patch/page__view__findpost__p__529505 В частности там замечен некий "Киев".

I wonder, if we'll see TK's take on helicopters.