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@Dave nice jet there sir. I think it can even have 4 extra hardpoints alongside the fuselage for sparrows/slammers - multirole FTW!

Sometimes I'm really tempted. At least it's got community and you can talk about gameplay with other ppl. But then I went to the forum and don't quite like what I see. Apparently if one wants to pwn, play Russian... which sounds familiar with all Russian games... So I realize IL-2'46 is still the better choice where at least there's open modding. Then again who knows, maybe i'll come find you oneday, MrGoTime.

Cool, just what I need! TK said lots of stuff like these over the years. More please if anyone has it! Shame on myself as I only saved TK's notes on some FM param.

Thanks Gunrunner. Liking the nosearts and polka dots. Didn't know at all the cheetahs flew entirely the slatted Fs. From the SAAF forum thread you posted, 622 the hard wing one only arrived after armistice?... I'll make a slatted F-10.

Apparently video description says it's from San Diego Air and Space Museum. Took me to links like this: http://s92006.eos-intl.net/S92006/OPAC/Search/AdvancedSearch.aspx?TaskCode=129028&TitleListPageSize=10&PageNumber=1&ReturnToSearchIndexCode=1 One could nerd out for days in that place. Oh man...

popped up on my feed. Yep just a youtube clip. But gun cams of Korea seems relatively rare. Air to air gun cams start at around 21:30. Previous ones are bombings. "GP" stands for group. oh and I think best shot goes to Mr Blesse :D

yeah no he's not coming back to PC. Oughtta be obvious to anyone at this point. The biggest loss I feel is the forum... perhaps old heads like eburger68 etc have memorized by heart all what TK said over the years on game info but I haven't searched the thirdwire forums nearly enough. Does anyone have any backups?...

They do say one needs a good gfx card. Updated gfx engine, 4096 textures and whatnot. Being rather frame rate sensitive I'm probably gonna do hardware upgrade even.

hmm another problem... Comparing Jul'12 to Jul'13 I even get better fps in former with the same setup.. beginning to suspect that TK lost the love and hence the touch in the last few patches.

too hard. missile.. meh... gun.. meh... flak... meh but collisions are way too hardcore. collides with bandits, collides with wingies, collides with mother earth...... (also collides with carrier but that's ofc the norm) aarrrgh.

Weird that I find his career story more interesting, the choices he made and how he got to where he is. Also I don't think Caesar's gonna be happy about the last part lol:D Aircraft comments tho read most already from other sources but good to refresh up, I think the gentlemen is a dogfighting fighter mafia descendent which prefers the better jet in the phone booth instead of bvr jousting

Thanks a bunch viper. Definitely gotta check these out when my SF energy recharges!

gameplay shots! yea and also drag select with A pressed will only pick combat units.

Lol exactly fastcargo mate. you don't get what im saying. there has got to be a better way of selecting a ship than clicking it. this is in 3d world and ships overlap each other. sometimes clicking on the one u want ain't easy. heck it becomes difficult to issue an attack order as the enemy ship is say covered by my own strike crafts and whatnot. click...no wrong ship. zoom in...click...no. rotate cam, click..still no good. wait 5 seconds so the ship in foreground moves outta way..click.. got it. meanwhile..."Battlecruiser lost" what??

yeah, I'll see if it's still available somewhere. But not exactly fast paced i guess, it can be fast all the way, or step-by-step methodical all around, but not constantly pause it to do unit management... Maybe it's like playing SF and having to take hand off the stick and hold down the mouse keys for zooming the inflight map. One ofc map the mouse keys on the stick!

FastCargo you apparently have more experience with the series than me as I never played HW1. Do you consider Cataclysm the best among them (or is the graphics already too outdated)? My main gripe with the UI is the unit selection. Suppose I have Group 5, composed of frigates, destroyers and battlecruisers, currently engaged with enemy. Now, a new frigate has finished construction and I need to add it to group 5. To do that I have to pause the game; go back to the ship yard; carefully pick out the frigate among a plethora of other ships; shift select it and smash Ctrl-5; Unpause the game. Way too tedius and a great pace killer to the game IMO. Red Alert 3 does this very well for example despite all its downfalls, single press a key select all units on screen same in group 5, double press the key does the same across the map. It works wonderfully. Secondly the zoom out distance in normal view.. way too small. I had to play in sensor view most of the time to get a good tactical picture. Until I started modding the game and dug out the camera distance value residing in the script files and changed it, and some other camera stuff... But that's a few hours of my life away. Lastly.. the mousewheel zoom, would it be too hard to implement a sensitivity setting for it on the game option UI. One mousewheel click jumps way too much. But yeah.. I reckon these are mostly considered minor by the masses but I'm always anal on control ergonomics. Wish I could just use the force and completely do away with keyboard and mouses . But consider the early date of the game and the 3D space combat perhaps there're some intrinsic difficulties. I totally agree with the scripted campaign and your other points too, but not holding my breath on the remastered version as what isn't scripted nowadays? Gonna give HWC a check tonight

Is that Launchvipers reworked for BMS or has the mighty Janhas finally released his next gen F-16 models?

who in their right mind hacks a flight-simming community site? so strange...

eh Africa is awesome. The yellow sandy terrain is just eye watering. And for the Messerschmitt it's king of the skies. Too bad it's often neglected by the masses and cool that it's getting some love! I've flown a scripted 109F-4/G-2 Africa campaign as well in the early days of Il2 and it was great fun... well, the 109F4 part was. The G2 was a bit too sluggish for my taste:| You have the emil here and it should be great!

well, i kept going and finished it. And did some skirmish battles. Now i can somewhat see why it's liked but the RTS fans. Also.. completely open modding. some of the big mods are epic. but i'm modding it myself so to be aware of what changes are applied.

so, dug out miraculously intact HW2 CD, installed, patched, win7 edits fixed, started campaign. Went til mission 7, completely pwned by carrier spamming AI. nop... still can't like it. It must be the hardest game in history, comes down to a matter of beating mission scripts. Or i'm just lacking the RTS multi-tasking/micro-managing genes.. dunno.

Wow, I've only tried homeworld while in college, and it was sure an epic game, and it's reputation sure was out there, like man it's homeworld! But... I just can't seem to like it. The user interface control, like camera orientation in 3D world, was a bit awkward. IMO for a resource gathering RTS, a good UI is a must for I have to feel comfortable with its controls. Maybe it's just an RTS with a bit of steeper learning curve, and I did get blown away by its epicness... Gonna check this new one out.

Perhaps, TK was wise after all.

Flanker vs Orion arch enemies since 1987 But I think the orion still hates the J-8 more

Modern missiles have an engagement zone that results in 100%(nominal) PK. Avoid this zone. If pushing it, assume a "kamikaze" mindset.