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DCS Black Shark I fired up for the first time on arcade mode with a Grand Campaign and offically got kicked in the balls. Game is harrrd.
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2010 20:34 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 08:36 |
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Stupid DCS: Black Shark question - does playing in arcade/game mode mean I lose the awesome damage model?
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2010 23:15 |
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pixelbaron posted:Also, with mods: What mods and where can I get them?
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| # ¿ Dec 2, 2010 00:01 |
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Well, this offically made my week just now.
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| # ¿ Dec 2, 2010 00:09 |
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I swear, I need to get around to Strike Fighters 2. Someday. If they have the all-in-one-bundle this Christmas I am so in.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2010 01:01 |
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Just picked up Apache vs. Havoc + Commanche vs. Hokum + Interstate '76: The Arsenal off of GOG.com. I heard something about integrating AvH and CvH, is that true at all?
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| # ¿ Dec 18, 2010 07:13 |
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So uh, Commanche vs. Hokum (with allmods pack) is uh, pretty loving brutal. Why do my rotors keep breaking? I had it happen twice with my Longbow then with a Blackhawk I was flying.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2010 08:36 |
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Essobie posted:Keep your airspeed below the maximum limits of the rotors. I can't remember off the top of my head what those are, but you can reach them pretty fast in just about all of the copters. I think the manuals list them somewhere. Oh god. I think I'll just turn off the realism setting for it.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2010 22:05 |
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Kolodny posted:You should try Black Shark! If you're not paying attention you can set the collective pitch a bit too high and poof, off go your rotors. Supposedly the EKRAN is suppose to beep before you get to this limit, but in my experience it's barely given warning before I'm headed for the ground. I don't know what it is when I was eleven, but I can hardly play serious simulations anymore. It's kinda weird. But I love the gameplay in EEAH/AH with the whole battlefield and jumping between different units, it's pretty satisfying even if it's a total bitch to get used to. Jefferoo fucked around with this message at Dec 22, 2010 around 22:38 |
| # ¿ Dec 22, 2010 22:35 |
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Playing the loving hell out of Strike Fighters 2, I'm debating how badly I want the expansions. Loving the merc mode, does that carry on into the expansions? Also, someone gifted me HAWX 2. Is it the Bad Rats of flying games?
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2010 09:18 |
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Strike Fighters 2 is really, really accessible enough but not retarded arcadey. That, and it's got a kickass atmosphere of flying around in old jets - and more modern ones with the expansions. Totally worth the price of admission. I mean, I just started playing today and I'm having trouble learning how to aim rockets and drop bombs properly so I'm forced to stick with my front cannon, but otherwise I've had nothing but oodles of joy with it.
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2010 10:16 |
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I would kill to play all of the Jane's games again. But seriously, Strike Fighters 2 is loving fantastic. Died gloriously in the last mission of the first campaign and proceeded to start the second one which throws you in the middle of a F4 Phantom vs. MIG dogfight and it is soooooo loving good.
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2010 23:43 |
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So is it worth the 50+ bucks to get the Strike Fighters 2 Europe and Vietnam expansions? I'm only into my second Merc campaign in the base game and I don't want to blow what little Christmas savings I have leftover if they're not up to par with the original.
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2010 08:02 |
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Oh my god, I would kill to play some kickass AC-130/B-52 missons. I was playing HAWX 2 last night and being told I'd be flying the AC-130 got me way too hyped, only to have it crushed by it being a simple ripoff of the modern warfare level. HAWX 2 feels kind of like the Clancified version of Ace Combat. There's a lot of hokey poo poo like putting my plane on autopilot to control a UAV and it's quite off putting. I like the Arcade/Survival modes though, it's nice to have something to extend replayability.
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2010 22:31 |
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I got rid of it after being loving unable to figure out how to get it to work with anything. edit: Dropped the cash on getting Vietnam/Europe/Israel, what mods should I download for it? Do I really need the expansions? Jefferoo fucked around with this message at Dec 30, 2010 around 23:24 |
| # ¿ Dec 30, 2010 22:56 |
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Downloaded an AC-130 mod for Strike Fighters 2, this is automatically far more satisfying than HAWX 2. While it controls like a flying brick, it's just pleasant to have the fidelity of actually controlling the plane.
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| # ¿ Jan 1, 2011 22:54 |
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I just had someone import me the Russian PC version of Apache: Air Assault, with hand written instructions to install an English version, it's pretty fantastic.  I'll get some better screens later but it looks really nice and plays pretty fantastic and the realism scales pretty decently from arcade to sim. Highly recommended if you miss the days of Longbow and what not.
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2011 21:52 |
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I got it in Russian because it was ordered for me as a Christmas present...it came with amazing instructions for installing it in English. I tried to get better action shots but the screenshot function didn't feel like playing nice... I tried.  Click here for the full 1152x648 image. Here's the gun cam with thermal mode.  Click here for the full 1152x648 image.  Click here for the full 1152x648 image. Game is super pretty in motion, not gonna lie. Explosions are pretty sweet. Gotta play it with my 360 controller as using the keyboard is just too inaccurate for a lot of missions. Otherwise, game is pretty great, voice acting is... bearable, and it's pretty action packed! The first missions starts off with you taking off in the middle of a loving mortar attack, explosions everywhere.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 07:44 |
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Hey, has anyone got the ATI HDR mod for Strike Fighters 2 working?
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2011 02:58 |
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Haledjian posted:Hey is Strike Fighters 2 Europe an expansion for Strike Fighters 2, or a standalone product? I think I kinda want it. It's a standalone expansion that can be merged with the original SF2, if I remember correctly.
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 02:08 |
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This is out: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-U...e&wa=wsignin1.0 I'm debating whether or not I want to get it.
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 23:20 |
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Wait, the planes actually crash this time?
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 21:47 |
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There isn't like, an addon for it at all?
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2011 00:27 |
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Spent 35 bucks on a Logitech Extreme 3d Pro joystick, has officially made Strike Fighters 2 a lot more enjoyable. Can't wait to try it with my other games, but seriously! I could play Strike Fighters 2 for loving forever.
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2011 09:40 |
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I feel like I'm the only one that plays Strike Fighters 2  Since I got a joystick I turned a bunch of the realism stuff up to high and it's a stupid amount of fun. I installed the Wings Over Europe: NATO Fighters series of mods from column5 though, and my sky keeps flickering between two different colors depending on my angle, it's super distracting.
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| # ¿ Jan 9, 2011 08:46 |
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Hey, does anyone know if Strike Fighters 1 plane mods work in SF2?
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2011 10:49 |
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Just dropped the 60 on DCS A-10. Will I regret this? Does this bring the glorious satisfaction of icing fools with a 30 cal?
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2011 02:52 |
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Holy loving poo poo, DCS A-10. This is more complicated than getting a girl in bed for the first time. Maybe I should actually pay attention in the tutorial. Any reason why the game lags when I shoot off the GAU-8?
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2011 08:53 |
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Back to Apache: Air Assault for a second: I set up my joystick for all my basic flight controls, the keyboard for a couple other things, and I have the motherfucking mouse as the main control of the machine gun. It's way too satisfying for it's own good, especially after all the trouble I had to go through setting the axises, controls, and so on.
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2011 11:43 |
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Insert name here posted:What black magic do I have to invoke to make this happen? I haven't played the game in a week or two, but last time I tried it didn't want to bind my mouse axises to anything. I set the mouse axises to camera. When you're in cockpit it's tied to the cannon.
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2011 12:53 |
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Dominoes posted:Quote this if you'd like to play A-10 multiplayer with me. If anyone would like help with aircraft startup, avionics or weapons use, I'll walk you through it. Quoting this for I can get my plane off the runway. But that's about it.
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| # ¿ Jan 26, 2011 19:38 |
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Well, I got Flight Simulator X. What's some good freeware? Planes, preferably, and what's some fun poo poo to do in it after I finish all the missions?
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2011 09:57 |
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Hey FSX guys, should I get Real Environment Xtreme HD, VFR Real Scenery, or Ultimate Terrain X? EDIT: Went with Real Environment Xtreme. Will post a trip report in a bit. Jefferoo fucked around with this message at Jan 29, 2011 around 11:43 |
| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 08:38 |
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Steam version is certainly compatible, or I wouldn't be having all this goon fun. Getting UTX now. Is there a way to set Mouselook to default in FSX? It's a real pain in the rear end going between my keyboard, joystick, and SPACE+MOUSE, I hate using the hat switch on my Logitech Extreme compared to the mouselook I've grown so fond of in IL-2 and Strike Fighters 2.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 13:06 |
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TrackIR costs things like... money!
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 13:54 |
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I'll see. That and the crazy loving zoom on virtual cockpit bug me. I scroll out all the way and enjoy the view. Also, how the gently caress do I fly the fast-mover in the Area 51 mission?
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 15:09 |
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Does anyone know of any good mission packs? Ive been playing this VF Rescue mission pack thing and it's not too miserable.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 16:49 |
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So I fire up FSXPassengers for the first time, and I'm taking off out of some airport in Rwanda in a Cessna, which is apparently a warzone - and get my left fuel tank shot up upon takeoff, forcing an emergency landing not 15 minutes afterwards. Pretty goddamn entertaining. I could enjoy this.
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| # ¿ Jan 31, 2011 18:55 |
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That makes me really wish I recorded the time I accidentally hit Fly Now over Friday Harbor and out of frustration proceeded to put my plane safely on the ground in 1:39. And by safely I mean putting Tokyo Drift to shame.
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| # ¿ Feb 1, 2011 23:40 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 08:36 |
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 Nighttime in an AC-130 heading west over the I-10 out of Phoenix. Really waiting for someone to mod in explosions, etc.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2011 16:38 |
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