First SF product I have bought and pleasantly surprised.

Now tell me please. I've bought it straight off the Third Wire forum. Are there any patches, etc I need to download?

Cheers.

You can find all the patches at the thirdwire site.
And a lot of addons at combatace.com
You will be busy for some time if you start digging at Combatace!

My best regards, Kodiak.

TW game installer files are always updated after a patch release.
You have the latest version, fully patched already.

That's right. I bought North Atlantic in April and I got fully patched installer from April (the game was originally released in March).

Congratulations! SF 2 WOI is Day-Fighter Heaven! As noted above Combat Ace site is great for add ons. Especially evironmental enhancements.

Bumfluff,

as far as enhancing the looks of SF2:Israel, you might take look at those files:

Update to terrain with high resolution textures, trees, objects etc
http://combatace.com/files/file/10916-enhanced-sf2-israel-terrain-by-ca-stary/

New sky, sun, clouds, lighting etc:
http://combatace.com/files/file/12836-sa...d-sky-mod-v-13/

New effects:
http://combatace.com/files/file/11802-unified-effects-pack-10/
updates to above:
http://combatace.com/files/file/11803-unified-effects-pack-10-muzzle-flashes-fix/
http://combatace.com/files/file/11985-unified-effects-pack-update-1/

Cheers,
Stary

many thanks guys. is it easy to install these mods?

Hi again.

I'm trying to install the Israel terrain mod. It tells me to copy a file to my mods foldier, but I don't see that I have a mods folder inside my SF2 Israel install?

A little help?

sorry for copy&paste from Strike Fighters Knowledge Base:

"In Strike Fighters Project 1 and the other “1st Gen” games in the TW series (Wings Over Vietnam, Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Israel), any mods or addons were dropped into their respective folders in the game’s main install directory. That is no longer the case with the “2nd Gen” games (Strike Fighters 2, SF2V, SF2E, and SF2I).

Any mods or addons you download for the 2nd Gen games will most likely include a reference to a “mod” folder somewhere in the readme, where the user is supposed to put the downloaded files. However, there is no folder (nor should one be created) called “Mods”. The following is to help you understand what the “mod folder” is really referring to.

When a 2nd Gen game is first installed, the game needs to be run at least once so that the game can create the “mod folder”. After the first time you run the game, a set of directories will be created in one of two locations, depending on whether you’re running XP or Vista/Win7. Assuming you ran the .exe for Strike Fighters 2, the directories created are as follows:

WinXP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\

Vista/Win7
C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\"

here's link to Strike Fighters Series2 "Knowledge Base" at Combat Ace, very helpful for the beginners:

http://combatace.com/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/

Sorry to play the Noob. But reading the "what is your mod foldier" section of combat ace, it sounds like I simply copy the downloaded mod folder to my SF Israel directory and it sorts itself?

Or have I misunderstood?

yes you extract the files to your "mod" as we call it folder and overwrite when asked

Got it. I had installed my game to a D drive, but realised I needed to drop the mod files into the User's bit in C drive.

Israel terrain is stunning. Thanks all again.