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Good move populating this. Is it possibe to add a heli on the LHA too ?

Thanks Sid ! Curious what TK has to say about it. If he claims it was like that in RL, i might prefer keep it as he maded it.

Do we have maybe a word from TK on the past Mach 1 roll rate ?

This could be a sticky. Comprehensive guide for the new graphics settings

as mentioned elsewhere, reducing mainly the terrain detail to medium / low, combined with horizon distance to normal or low , improves performance significantly while eyecandy is reduced only in the sense of horizon distance which again is ok, it gets on the distance levels of previous SF2. Give that a try. Combines also with reducing some textures like 'pit textures for example and terrain textures to normal or high at most

+1

OT : i like about the new water (apart from the obvious) having a good way of avoiding shimmering

i still owe you 20 though , (just me ok?) lol

FC2 / BS2 terrain Indeed its polished FC1, but still, improved. (eg, gong back to FC1/lockon i could feel the difference and wanted to go back to the FC2 eyecandy) The demanding is even maybe an understatement ... But there are workarounds for that making it possible to achieve a golden medium between looks and performance - just like the terrain detail / horizon distance in NA) The moding situation is eventually changing and from what i heard its planned to change significantly. Me too, i am not saying SF2 is a bad product. I am not even saying ED is the best. FAR from it. ED pages are full of my remarks on things their product is weak and wrong. And the perfomance issues is indeed of its worst and most important flaws. You have also a point indeed in the aspect of if you don't own a higher spec rig at least you have the TW option, saving you the huge bucks eaten by hardware. But as i said still there are workarounds for ED performance, while if you are new buyer you need 60 usd to not be stuck with two flyables, and you cant escape an outdated environment. Thank god though ofcourse theres the modding community which raises SF to a gorgeous level. SF and ED stuff are different things , i used the ED example only to state that more or less TW exists in a specific market that has some competition. I am not saying i regret buying it. But saying that contemplating if i will keep on buying (unless he changes smth in his policy) . That if he keeps on like that, maybe there would be financially not much TW left to produce titles / DLC / updates ... That i am sometimes frustrated , seeing this huge potential unexploited and kind of lets say self-sabotaged. Because it does exist either he or we want it or not, in the middle of a market that extends beyond us here, and it has competition issues / pricing in that market. At least in the way i see it ... (And if it wasn't for the wonderful choices provided by the modders i think it would have long lost most of the market merit i has.) And because i absolutely dont want TW to go out of business is another one of the reasons i have been a customer so far.

I'd pay for your terrain mods !! :D They are worth it . Especially if you released a NEW theatre. I dont know now how much i would be willing to pay for that, and again i have to see what Nevada is about actually first and then decide and yes more than indeed Lockon should had come with other active terrain options looong time ago .....

FC2 is better terrain and graphics than FC1 , apart from other changes - improvements. FC3 is DCS graphics - terrain , (better than FC2) amongst other numerous game improvements again, and allows you to join a multiplayer theatre of awesome graphics with KA-50, or A-10C, or as ground forces controller or as one of the FC3 flyables - including the reds (which TW has not too) The terrains of ED standards i believe are worth paying as separates. Now if Nevada is worth 20 usd, will have to see more videos and screens and what actually comes with when its out, to judge.

plus own radar contacts i think

Yeap ... that sounds quite amateurishly made ... like the homescreens which look like there has been effort put intentionally to make them as cheap and uggly as possible .... Whats with that? no radio transmission fx plugins available around for TW sound editing software ? ..... I am not saying NA is not worth. (Not 30 usd though) Ofcourse it is. Adds on one side a new potential base with major changes - improvements in various parts of the games core. But they are not yet visible or porjected / promoted as they should. Still keeping the ugly wrapping and something so easy to improve to proper standards : clouds etc : That is all WRONG marketing . It looks more like a big update / patch + throwing in a flyable tomcat and phoenix. For 30 USD i will get later this year Flaming Cliffs 3 which is HEAPS away from NA. - Think that: If you get just NA, for 30 dollars, you only get a flyable tomcat and a corsair and a dull outdated visually terrain . Thats all. Smth like buying Seven-G for 30 USD ... Paying 30usd for Flaming Cliffs 3 (or even Flaming Cliffs 2) you get galactically more product. You may need to spend maybe 10 usd more to acquire a copy of original Lockon if you don't have one already, then again you need another 30 usd to buy another SF2 title -so to get some decent number of flyables more- and if its Europe you get a joke of a terrain .... TK has correctly moved to a more effective profit wise strategy some time ago, but i think he is overdoing it maybe now .... i am having serious thoughts the past few days about buying from TW again ...... Just being honest

If you manage to land and take off on there i'll give you a cookie

you can eject in SF2 ? LOL

I hereby declare this the Combat Ace Post Of The Year

What other would be cool to be added : head inertia , like they have this option in Eagle Dynamics (Lockon, DCS) . Accidentaly i just had an experience like that by hiting the map borders and it suddenly add A WHOLE NEW FEEL (more real) to the sim ... seriously ... even the static screen looks cool, although it could be just from a TRACK-IR. Not everybody has Track-IR though .... ______________________________________________________ My NA notes : http://combatace.com...post__p__557985 ______________________________________________________

i actually feel like i have paid $30 for beta testing lol thats ok though Martin Baker GRU-7A ? ....

Its here . Cursor and crosshair area on the map. Some elevation confusion. The engine cant decide if it should be land or water. Like Lockon , i think water is rendered under the land. (I swear i think i saw the logo of AMD somewhere between those islands ) ______________________________________________________ My NA notes : http://combatace.com...post__p__557985 ______________________________________________________

Guys your coastlines have the issue i refer to, no transitions at all. Now concerning the screen i post i bet its like that in yours too, i just have to find again that area again and visit the specific area.

:( can you send or post some coastline screen ?

i dont believe you refer to this as coastline huh ? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ My NA notes : http://combatace.com...post__p__557985 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ .

Outside Pearl Harbor ...

i confirm. works even with middle. Combined with very far distance i got improved eye candy with old performance