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Someone's still playing World In Conflict? That was an outstanding game! Playing Wing Commander Darkest Dawn and it's absolutely awesome! Technically, it's a space sim. But really, it's as much a space sim as Ace Combat is a flight sim. Then there's the old faves like San Andreas and Payday: The Heist.

This is precisely why I used Fighter Ace and it's dynamic multiplayer battlefields with it's objectives, it's strategic nodes and resources (flying transports to resupply FOBs with resources allowing other players to operate from them = awesome!). Aces High with it's bog-standard deathmatch style games can be just horrible at times. Get some squaddies in and Fighter Ace was a great game. Pity.

This is how I've approached the sim. I've always loved it for it's simplicity and the fact that it always has been a work in progress and I figured the DLC business model was the inevitable way of TW. Thing is, I've not once bought this sim for the aircraft. TW provided us the easel for us to do whatever we wanted and the community responded by developing some brilliant wares. With the locking out of specific, integral elements of the game, this, to me in any case, appears like there are now caveats on how we use said easel. And I get it, I mean I understand TW did this as a justifiable response to some pilfering of their hard work, but the solution has been game changing. I pretty much only use community made aircraft now, especially when modding, since their ease of use trumps using stock or DLC for my needs. There have been some sorely needed updating to particular elements to this series, especially the terrains. If you're not convinced, play some Hawx, then come back to our stock terrains. And while there have been other elements that have been added to make this a more rounded sim offering over time, updated visuals and audio, mission editor, and so on, multiplayer, like it or not, is going to continually be the 800 pound gorilla in the room (well, one of them) and adding a token death match or versus mode simply won't cut it. Fighter Ace ran an INCREDIBLE multiplayer experience for more than 10 years on an engine that, graphically at least, wouldn't have seemed out of place on a SNES. It was proof that a great multiplayer experience wasn't intrinsically linked to a great graphical engine, but since the focus has been on the lone wolf since the beginning of the second generation, the visual elements play a much greater role in creating atmosphere and keeping players interest in game. So on this basis, I've felt TW switching their attention to tablets and relegating these much needed upgrades to the bench for the foreseeable future was a bad decision. But the thing is, smart phones and tablets have exploded over the past 5 years, so much so that relatively little attention by these users can still translate into high sales numbers by the sheer number of people it could be exposed to. If this increases TW's revenue streams by a higher or more consistent income or otherwise allows them to expand their business, then I welcome it. Even if this proves to be the end of the series as we know it, the community will run with it for years to come. Look at examples such as The Babylon 5 Project or Wing Commander Darkest Dawn, both mods using Freespace SCP, but a game that's been around 13 years no less.

Cheers Spill. I was thinking maybe Italy had tried to sell us the G-222 early in our Caribou replacement program or something.

DC-8 Boeing 707 and Convair 880 On a side note Hgbn, what's the story with that G-222 with the Aussie flag and K-roo?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47396187/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T65hPVJ1SYo Why are we still discussing this?! We should be building this now!!

I've been out of modding for a quite a while now, but the 'What if' potential of this series and your skins Spinners(and NazGhul's and CadeteBRA's WI skins for that matter!) are pretty much the only draw cards keeping my interest in this!

Have to admit, that was the first thing I thought when I read the article.

Adam Yauch aka 'MCA' Dies at 47. RIP Yauch!

The Professionals.

That photo of the Early prototype that eventually became the Su-24 looks more like the JH-7 Flying Leopard...

IW won't be making this or any more CoDs. This particular one is the Treyarch series.

Wasn't there also talk of the US possibly exporting the A-10 to Pakistan in the very early eighties too? Once again, you're the epitome of quality Spinners!

Interested to see how they release this one. I don't know anyone who didn't have a copy of BO 1 that wasn't buggy as sh*t. What piqued my interest was the addition of a Zombie campaign alongside the main story.

This is hilarious and I'm not even finished yet.

It wasn't an F-22 as far as I could tell, we saw a pair doing their thing out of while we were on the Mighty Mo today and the sillouette was completely different. The big Hunter wing was easy to spot and it had a distinct single engine look about it. You're right Storm, hell of a long way for one to go. If it is a Hunter, I'll be buggered if I know how they got it there.

Does anyone know if ATAK are operating Hawker Hunters out of Hickham/Pearl? Was at a beach in Kualoa today and we caught glimpses of fast movers operating very near us and amongst the other military traffic and at first they looked like Rhinos, although when they orbited closer, they seemed to have the distinct Hunter sillouette.

This makes me want to start making a WCIII Hellcat V for the series... Gonna have to find what I did with my copy of 3DSM.

I'm with Wrench: Awesome scheme!!

Nevermind, it's been sorted out.

Had to stop a kid playing this (or something very much looking like this)in my Library today. It killed me to do it. I finally told him after about 10 mins of watching him kick mountains of ass.