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Welcome! I would suggest you get SF2 Complete if you haven't bought any yet, you will end up wanting to buy all games, expansions and DLCs however obscure they might be. The game itself doesn't need much in the way of hardware, other than it seems not to like Nvidia for some reason, IIRC. Better ask someone more knowledgeable on that topic. If I were you I would start playing mostly stock, learn a bit about how mods work and then get them bit by bit depending on what you find most interesting.

For that specific timeframe, it might be interesting to see the F-104s or the F-5s, you would think the US never used these in combat.

Crap. Mine's an Intel.

My issues are not so drastic, but despite a fairly decent SSD laptop I do feel a noticeable improvement in performance with the fewest aircraft mods possible, but it does play great with maps like Green Hell and tons of (mostly stock) aircraft in the air. Seems like much of the issue, for me at least is reading different aircraft skin BMPs. That being said, I've got to appreciate a lot of the stock aircraft. The only modded one I have is my Frankensabre with two generic skins. Edit: Well, I just saw the F-86H, I guess that makes two aircraft mods.

Wagner guys sure have reasons to be concerned about the USAF. Imagine Milley and Austin feel like pulling a Mattis at some point.

Something I've seen people in DCS do a lot, in my opinion, and it has become more apparent with the Mirage F1, is pulling too much AoA / too many Gs, almost stalling their aircraft. Many of the aircraft they have had could tolerate that, but if they lean towards the mid Cold War era, like in our SF2 niche years, they'll end up changing the meta and manage their energy much more carefully. Specially with the Hun, chances are it will become Farmer fodder. I hope the Phantom, being as iconic, brings more attention to the way they had to fly them in Vietnam for example. I hope to get into DCS in a couple of months though, and be gangbanged by these people. The effort and passion that community seems to put into the hobby is beyond my comprehension. They don't count the rivets, they check if they have the right twist and gauge.

Pretty much the point. I never complained about SF2 being abandoned if it wasn't profitable to develop any further, but if you are going to keep it on sale, at least make sure you are not selling it faulty or, in this case, not delivering it.

Ouch, that's bad. I found it worthy even if only to have it all in one place, but that hurts

I'm almost eager that Germany has to bail us out of the next crisis and part of the deal is buying these to replace our Leos.

Shame, I was convinced, after 9 years, we were close to Exp3, SF2 Korea, plus the Indo-Pak and Iran-Iraq games.

Could you give any more info? What aircraft are you using, the model of R-27, if it happens with other missiles, and so on.

I've often wondered the same, beside issues like short range and, well, engines catching fire, it would seem like if the real Farmer was as good as it is in game it would have been much more ubiquitous and popular, not that it wasn't in real life but not as much as MiG-17s and 21s. I guess it might have had, as both the 17 and 21, some issues with the control surfaces at higher speeds but I've never heard any of that

I always felt she was meant to be