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Was anyone else disappointed in how bell-and-whistleish Harpoon 2 was over original Harpoon? Also, original Harpoon had an online component, a huge deal at the time. Multiplayer re-enactment of the battle for Keflavik 
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Microprose always had the best game manuals. Pacific Air War gave you a game, and a flight manual, detailing how to do maneuvers, explanations behind the history of certain tactics, and a breakdown of certain battles. Task Force 1942 had a game manual, plus they also had a "ship recognition manual" printed on retro brown paper that had all the US and Japanese ships and their stats. I'm also certain everyone remembers this little ditty. 
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May 23, 2013 00:44
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Blistex posted:Microprose always had the best game manuals. Pacific Air War gave you a game, and a flight manual, detailing how to do maneuvers, explanations behind the history of certain tactics, and a breakdown of certain battles. Task Force 1942 had a game manual, plus they also had a "ship recognition manual" printed on retro brown paper that had all the US and Japanese ships and their stats. I'm also certain everyone remembers this little ditty. The one I have of that is the spiral bound one, still a good manual. drat shame that the manual for BMS Falcon still needs a ton of work.
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May 23, 2013 00:53
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Blistex posted:Microprose always had the best game manuals. Pacific Air War gave you a game, and a flight manual, detailing how to do maneuvers, explanations behind the history of certain tactics, and a breakdown of certain battles. Task Force 1942 had a game manual, plus they also had a "ship recognition manual" printed on retro brown paper that had all the US and Japanese ships and their stats. I'm also certain everyone remembers this little ditty. Possibly the first flight sim in history where the developer just printed and bound the USAF Dash 1 and called it good.
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May 23, 2013 02:48
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It's a shame we don't have the same gamer demographics of the early-mid 90's. So many amazing sims that big developers were willing to invest real money into.
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May 23, 2013 03:04
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Flight Sim X was fun when you could get over the astonishingly horrible performance, which if I recall correctly was still bad on my high end computer four or five years after it came out.
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May 23, 2013 03:09
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Mortabis posted:Flight Sim X was fun when you could get over the astonishingly horrible performance, which if I recall correctly was still bad on my high end computer four or five years after it came out. FSX should be a graduate-level course in how not to design software.
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May 23, 2013 03:17
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It still runs like poo poo, even after going through all the spells and incantations and third party software to eke out a bit better performance.
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May 23, 2013 03:22
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I had some tank sim that I played on my C64 back in the day. It was pretty fun until I figured out that laying smoke in my Bradley meant that I could blow up other tanks with my TOW (while on the move!) and lighter vehicles got chewed up by my cannon with impunity.
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May 23, 2013 03:28
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Mike-o posted:It still runs like poo poo, even after going through all the spells and incantations and third party software to eke out a bit better performance. Yeah a year and a half ago or something I reinstalled it thinking "huh, maybe it will actually run okay now that I have a brand spanking new top of the line computer and it's relatively ancient" but nope.
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May 23, 2013 03:55
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M1 Tank Platoon 2 and F-14 Fleet Defender Gold were the apex of fun Microprose sims. It was all downhill from there.
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May 23, 2013 04:13
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F22 Lighting 2 had a fabulous manual that was as thick as my thumb, which went through the history of flight, the physics of it, combat manoeuvres and tactics, and a detailed breakdown of every weapons system in the game. It was also a fantastic jumping point into more complex flight sims, and a hellishly fun game. Now seemingly everything is incredibly simple, or like A10-C, wanting you to spend days learning how to start your engines properly and taxi 
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Oxford Comma posted:I had some tank sim that I played on my C64 back in the day. It was pretty fun until I figured out that laying smoke in my Bradley meant that I could blow up other tanks with my TOW (while on the move!) and lighter vehicles got chewed up by my cannon with impunity. http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Steel_Thunder Steel Thunder. I always used the M60 because it carried the most ammo.
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PhotoKirk posted:http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Steel_Thunder Yes! This game rocked until I figured out I could hide in smoke and snipe everything with a TOW from kilometers away.
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May 23, 2013 16:58
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Oxford Comma posted:Yes! This game rocked until I figured out I could hide in smoke and snipe everything from kilometers away. Pretty much my forums posting strategy these days
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May 23, 2013 18:19
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Snowdens Secret posted:Pretty much my forums posting strategy these days You made this post all the way from GiP, didn't you?
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May 24, 2013 00:48
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Look. A useless thing happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW28Mb1YvwY
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May 24, 2013 15:56
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Roll on, Peace Dove.
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May 24, 2013 16:03
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mlmp08 posted:Look. A useless thing happened. Also, you're forgetting about marines being able to VTO with 2 missiles and 30 minutes of fuel to defend Henderson Field after the airstrip is bombed to nothing and only the aircraft, pilots, fuel, weapons and maintenance crews are left.
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May 24, 2013 17:11
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A guy showed me that video all amazed. I found out he'd never heard of the Harrier. "That jet can just HOVER!!" "Well, there's this other 40+ year old jet.."
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May 24, 2013 17:25
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Yeah, the comments are full of annoyed Brits pointing out that the Harrier did it first. 
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May 24, 2013 17:26
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British military engineering usually takes something amazing (Rolls Royce Pegasus engine) and surrounds it with a lot of other less good stuff.
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May 24, 2013 17:31
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I like to imagine the engine exhaust clenched at about the same time the pilots sphincter did. Being the first one to VTOL with a new jet design has to be a worrying experience.
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May 24, 2013 18:18
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They probably had done quite a bit of testing on the system while tethered, I remember watching a Nova episode quite a while back about the JSF competition.. They start them out on these large steel grids they can blow cool air through to prevent hot air ingestion and go from there. The X-32 suffered from that problem so it was one of the reasons it lost out. I thought it looked cool, myself. Especially with the Pelikan tail. But the first time on your own, yeah that'd be pretty freaky. The whole engine swivel/ducted fan thing just seems wayyyyy too complex to be a good answer but here we are.
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Forums Terrorist posted:Yeah, the comments are full of annoyed Brits pointing out that the Harrier did it first.
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May 24, 2013 20:44
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Pablo Bluth posted:..and then showed we could do it pilot-less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbgF616PJk That's a good feature to have, considering how often the Harrier kills pilots.
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May 24, 2013 20:57
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priznat posted:British military engineering usually takes something amazing (Rolls Royce Pegasus engine) and surrounds it with a lot of other less good stuff. 
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May 24, 2013 21:10
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See, the brits make some drat fine engines!
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May 24, 2013 21:20
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priznat posted:British military engineering usually takes something amazing (Rolls Royce Pegasus engine) and surrounds it with a lot of other less good stuff. priznat posted:See, the brits make some drat fine engines! First operational aircraft to enter service with the Merlin:  Point proven I think.
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Alaan posted:I like to imagine the engine exhaust clenched at about the same time the pilots sphincter did. Being the first one to VTOL with a new jet design has to be a worrying experience. priznat posted:British military engineering usually takes something amazing (Rolls Royce Pegasus engine) and surrounds it with a lot of other less good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8W2SI4c93s
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May 24, 2013 21:46
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Pablo Bluth posted:..or in this case, almost nothing. But the rule still holds. 
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mlmp08 posted:Look. A useless thing happened. In other news, single-engine powered-lift is still a dumb loving idea.
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Forums Terrorist posted:Roll on, Peace Dove. That's a bit mean, at least the Yak-38 got on a ship.
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LP97S posted:That's a bit mean, at least the Yak-38 got on a ship. And in some way or shape, the pilot was always destined to go off again.
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Mike-o posted:I saw it on their facebook, looks like they announced it on their twitter too, and probably on their website. It was a couple days in advance, but I'm not sure if they do this regularly or just happened to give everyone a heads-up before it happened. http://flyingheritage.com/TemplateEventsCalendar.aspx?contentId=54#76 it appears they do schedule in advance and then they also probably have some more ad-hoc stuff on twitter. So yes, I do plan on showing up for when they fly the IL-2, among other things, because drat. I'd like to show up for all of them but it's a bit out of my way, plus it might make me think buying a $2500 zoom lens is a good idea (it's not). iyaayas01 posted:Possibly the first flight sim in history where the developer just printed and bound the USAF Dash 1 and called it good. Falcon 3.0 was close, figures they'd go all out with Falcon 4.0. Are Dash 1s published anywhere for nerds who aren't pilots (aka me) or what? I know they're not exactly the most exciting reading but they're still pretty neat when you don't have to be in the USAF 
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May 26, 2013 03:52
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Plenty of A-10C nerds would buy a copy for their flight simming.
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Another great video from the Middle East thread. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d72_1370178096 T-72 getting hit by what is probably a Konkurs ATGM.
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The ubiquitous takbirs will never ever not creep me out
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Warbadger posted:Another great video from the Middle East thread. T-72s were originally designed by Roscosmos, in an effort to put tank turrets in space.
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Warbadger posted:Another great video from the Middle East thread. So, what exactly keeps you from popping something like a Leopard 2 with one of these? I know that the T-72s and such typically explode in a hilariously big fireball, but would many of the Western tanks fair that much better?
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