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System Specs:

P4 2.4c (at 3.0 GHz), ASUS V9950 Ultra (Fx5900 Ultra based) 256 MB, 1 GB Corsair RAM

8x AA, 4x AF

The frame rates were pretty low at these settings. This configuration was intended for screenshots only. I'll play at around 1024x768 or a little higher. I had all video options maxed as well.

I also know that I have the Mavericks loaded on the wrong stations. They are currently at 10 and 2 and I have since moved them to 3 and 9. Ignore that minor issue and enjoy the view.

I did the modifications to the Mission file myself. Pretty easy to figgure it all out. (add clouds, Mavericks, Time of Day, Warthog Skin and clouds)

MrMudd,

Can you please put up the A-10 refueling mission? I have part 1 and 5 and would love to get 2,3, and 4. Can you put the full file up on your CH site so there is only 1 file available? I really enjoyed watching part 1 and 5 and would love to see more! I know you mentioned it would be up at some point and I thought I'd nag ya a little. (nagging works for my wife so I thought I'd try it out)

Also, do you have any new videos under way? You certainly are great at doing them! You should do a voice-over in a video as part of a review..

Hey MrMudd,

Your Eagle video in the thunderstorm was outstanding (as usual). It really made me appreciate just how difficult it can be to fly/land in bad weather in LOMAC. I am certainly looking forward to seeing your other videos!

I have part 1 and 5 of the A-10 series and look forward to seeing what happens after takeoff and before landing :)

Keep them comming!!!!

Since Lo-Mac seems to become the most important modern flightsim I would really like to see a way to use it as a benchmark.

I agree! I had aksed a while back if Eagle Dynamics would consider including some sort of built-in Benchmark track which we could use to compare system performance. I never heard back unfortunately. B)

I hope you get some great answers from those who know!

Sorry bud, we've had a rather bad few weeks around here with RL and the website problems the past week. I have been anable to even contact Mudd the last week or so to see how Part 3 has been coming. Unfortunately, I have been unable to do anything on my end with all the other things going on in my life at the moment.

 

Be patient, they will come. But don't forget, this is a hobby to us, and unfortunately our paying jobs come first. ;)

Not a problem! We're LOMAC fans so we know all about patience .. 8)

Take your time, get RL in order because that's the priority, and do your usual great job when you have the time. I was just curious because I hadn't heard anything about it and wanted to know if it was still planned.. Thanks again for the update!

It's been quite a while since the additional part(s) of the preview were going to be put up. I understand that real life caused a delay but I was wondering if there are plans to complete the previews for us all to drool over. You guys do outstanding previews and really hit on the stuff that others miss that is of interest to the sim community.

There was going to be something "special" for the weekend back then that was going to be the culmination of the previous parts of the preview over the week.

http://bittorrent.info/eng/

 

Good Idea!

 

I'll forward that to MadJeff. He owns and Manages the Site.

Glad to hear this MrMudd. I hope you guys set the standard and we get a chance to see some big videos (i.e. good duration, high quality) come out this way!

A great client I use is Shadow's Experimental Bittorrent Client which can be found at this link http://bt.degreez.net/

Of course any Torrent Client works!

Have you guys ever thought of using BitTorrent?

It's the latest and (IMHO) greatest Filesharing P2P out there. As soon as someone starts to download, they start sharing what they have downloaded and so it grows that way. I am surprised this is not used more often by companies who want to share demos and videos. id set up a Torrent for Enemy Territory and it worked well..

Any news on when the remainder of the preview will be out on Biohaz? I really enjoyed what I've seen thus far and look forward to parts 2 and 3!

There's a thread on the Lo-MAC forums with a link to a new video which was released at the Games Convention in Germany. Follow the link and grab the video. It's pretty sweet. Shows a lot of stuff not yet seen in previous videos and its quality is a little higher than what's been released thus far. It's a little large (90 MB) but well worth it.

http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_vie...mac_gd&id=zvwou

In case you haven't checked at the official site, there's a new video released by RJester. It's an awesome video showing lot's of Air to ground and Surface to air and Surface to Surface action. I won't give details other than it rocks.

I thought the opening scenes were shot from real life footage. (these guys have outdone themselves as far as quality goes!)

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/lomac/media/jet-movie.zip

[Hey MadJeff,

As with your screenshots, you've done Very Well with this preview! You look at the stuff that we want and tell it like it is! Awesome job!

Can I make one request? Can you make the images on the preview clickable so we can get a larger version? (i.e. thumbnail them into the preview). Some of the pictures were a little too small to see details (on my 21" monitor). :shock:

I'm eagerly awaiting your thoughts on the many aspects of the sim!

As usual, awesome pictures MaddJeff! Hope you plan on doing a video of some good CAS action! A nice 6+ minute video along the lines of what Check Six did recently will do but shoing the A-10 and other Aircraft in action against some enemy positions. Preceeded by TLAM's from a B1 or Ship followed by SEAD and the strike packages.. Total Chaos! Perhaps simulat a downed pilot rescue by some helos with A-10's providing CAS in the background.. (drool, slobber)

Sheesh! Some people need to nit-pick less on unimportant issues and just enjoy what they see. Honestly, it's like you were LOOKING for something to complain about. I'm not attacking you but I disagree with the things that people spend time picking over..  

Keep it all in context. This is a FLight Sim, not a movie maker. Stuff will be flying past you at a great speed several hundred feet below your aircraft.  

 

I made and obervation and posted my thougths.

 

Your post was fair. You stated your points, and were mature about it.

 

I respect that and thank you for your feedback. Please see my final comment on Lo-Mac. I ended it with a positive comment.

 

 

I am sure you spent countless hours on your rebuttal Seawolf.

 

LMAO- Whatever!   :roll:  

 

See above about mature posts.

Well, I respect that people will say what they feel and your last point in the original post was not lost on me. This was the last board I came to after having read so many people picking on points that don't merrit discussion due to the fact that this is a flight sim (so I was a little jaded). The battlefield needs to look chaotic when you see it (briefly on your attack runs then perhaps in the rear-view mirrors as you exit the area quickly).

The Dev team has put in a phenominal amount of work on the small details while striving to maintin a reasonable frame-rate (so I don't imagine the smoke's gonna blow or linger as long as some would like to see but in the end, you'll see some smoke comming from stuff you just blew up and that will satisfy the majority out there) The explosions looked beyond great! Imagine seeing that stuff going up as iwe saw in the video when you're rolling in on a battlefield behind another flight which just laid waste to the Air Defence and some other targets! I am worried that I'll be too stunned at the viisual feast before me that I'll fly myself into the ground! :shock:

Regardless, I am sure you and I and everyone else will agree that this is the best flight sim yet once we start flying in it!

I have to agree to a point.  

 

Bad

 

The explosions were too close in fact some were identical.

 

Smoke was good but no wind effect.

 

Good

The action is going to be fun! :D

Regarding the bad point.. Are you serious? Some of the explosions were identical..?? Who cares! This is a flight sim (not a real life video). There HAS to be similarities with stuff like that. Remember, you'll be flying along killing that stuff on the ground which will be in sight briefly until you turn away.. I doubt that you'll be noticing stuff like identical explosions..

Sheesh! Some people need to nit-pick less on unimportant issues and just enjoy what they see. Honestly, it's like you were LOOKING for something to complain about. I'm not attacking you but I disagree with the things that people spend time picking over..

Keep it all in context. This is a FLight Sim, not a movie maker. Stuff will be flying past you at a great speed several hundred feet below your aircraft.

Actually, I haven't been able to sit down for more than a few minutes this weekend and play with it. :D I'm going to try and sit down for an hour or so and write up my initial thoughts and get some screenshots together. I'm testing it on my lower-end system right now to see how things work. The answer might surprise you, it's not as slow as you would think. More later... ;)

Ok, tell ya what.. Send it here and I'll write up a review for you..

We're all eager to hear how well it handles on differing systems! Looking forward to seeing what ya think of it.

He is probably totally addicted and isn't reading the forum anymore because he needs every second in the air. :)

 

So you know what you have to do before you go to the store and buy LOMAC:  

call your family and friend and tell them it was nice knowing them. ;)

Heh! That's what I was thinking! I am sure he's too pre-occupied to stop flying to write stuff down. As for the family, that's the plan! Oh, and I think I might come down with some illness at around the same time which prevents me from going in to work for a few days...

Ok MadJeff, time to stop flying and start telling! :-) HOw far along are you in your preview? Can you toss us a few screenshots here? Try for something unique!

SimHQ has added a new set of amazing shots to their collection off the main page. Follow the link and be amazed!

:shock:

http://www.simhq.com/_air/air_068a.html

a bunch of new multiplayer screenshots are in the LO-MAC UBI forum! follow the link!

It looks awesome!

:shock:

http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_vie...mac_gd&id=zwvkz

MadJeff,

Are you only allowed to release screenshots with your review?

I've been very interested in seeing a high res video from the game (the ones on the net are kind of pixelated and really, IMHO, do not show how awesome this sim will look and feel). So, if you can put a video up in high res, we'd appreciate it.

If not, I'm sure you'll do a great preview of the sim. Perhaps you can put up a warstory with screenshots as others have done? I always enjoy those.

Can somone point me to a link which has the in-game video of an SU-25 taking fire and dropping some CBU's on a wheeled vehicle on a road? I saw a portion of it in a homemade video which shows various aircraft being represented in the game. The homemade video was made using the publicly available videos.

The official Lo-MAC site does not include links to ALL in-game videos released. I would appreciate help.

Yeah, thank you for the screenshot links. It looks like "night" flying will actually look more like Dusk/twilight which is fine. I was curious to see if they were going to make night flying similar to F15 Strike Eagle ]I[ where, if you turned off night vision, it was totally black. I wasn't sure if there would be something LIKE a LANTRIN pod. (notice I said _like_)

I have been looking at all of the screenshots of LOMAC and I have noticed that none of them include any cockpit shots of night flying. Has anyone discussed how this will be handled? If you have seen any night pictures, please put up a link to them in a reply.

I'd be curious to see how night flying will work for all of the Aircraft.

I'm not sure if this has been asked already (I had a look around and could not find any info). I am interested in the opinion of the LOMAC community as to what hardware I should be buying to enjoy LOMAC in full detail settings. I've been contemplating buying a new system for a while and I think now's the time. (Note: I am aware of the official Minimum and 'suggested' system specs. I want to go beyond this)

1) Video Card. nVidia or ATI? Both have some pretty impressive cards out now. I can't determine which would be better suited for this sim.

2) Motherboard, CPU, RAM. - I'm aiming for a considerable amount of RAM (1 GB). Any thoughts on the motherboards and CPU's out there now? Also, any particular RAM types?

3) HOTAS - I had the original Thrustmaster HOTAS (configured with DIP switches!). What's the latest and greatest from Thrustmaster?

I'm not looking for debates over who is better. Just offer up your opinions. I'm sure there are others out there who would appreciate this kind of input!