#3618491 - 08/02/12 01:06 AM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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Wags might be the only guy over there that for sure knows what 'damage-tracking' means -- that and many other key features that Janes FA-18 has that their sim does not. All sims have their limitatios. For them I think the key is to keep their eye on the ball and not get distracted with all the many possibilities. They have proven to be good at that so far IMHO.
For us we'll see. We are also keeping a narrow focus (despite all my attempts to day-dream and consider larger possibilities) and the first was getting this thing to work with a newer version of DX.
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#3618829 - 08/02/12 03:54 PM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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For us we'll see. We are also keeping a narrow focus (despite all my attempts to day-dream and consider larger possibilities) and the first was getting this thing to work with a newer version of DX.
...getting it to work, period, would make me very happy for a start! ...then the doors are wide open for day-dreaming!!!
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#3618883 - 08/02/12 04:59 PM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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All they need to do is play the thing and be inspired by it! And Longbow too for that matter (and BoB).
As technically good as the ED sims are, they are still aimed at chess players ... I'm convinced that neither they (nor Oleg) ever played the older sims.
Cheers Keith I completly agree! I also think ED trends to forget that sims are in the end PC games like any other kind of PC game. This means that 'gameplay' features (which I won't mention here since these were already debated to death here in SimHQ) are together with 'full realism' (whatever that might be in/for a PC game) vital for a comercial sucess and these 'gameplay features' are definitly missing in ED sims.
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#3619326 - 08/03/12 09:16 AM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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For us we'll see. We are also keeping a narrow focus (despite all my attempts to day-dream and consider larger possibilities) and the first was getting this thing to work with a newer version of DX.
...getting it to work, period, would make me very happy for a start! ...then the doors are wide open for day-dreaming!!! Right, for me it won't run at all since going to 64-bit win 7. I guess for some it does work, still.
USN/USMC -- when it positively, absolutely has to be blown up overnight.
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#3619363 - 08/03/12 11:43 AM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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Right, for me it won't run at all since going to 64-bit win 7. I guess for some it does work, still.
That is weird Ripcord, I can run it fine (the real one and even a VS6 build) under W7 x64 Ultimate.... (no compatibility mode)...
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#3619797 - 08/03/12 10:04 PM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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Right, for me it won't run at all since going to 64-bit win 7. I guess for some it does work, still.
That is weird Ripcord, I can run it fine (the real one and even a VS6 build) under W7 x64 Ultimate.... (no compatibility mode)... +1
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#3620422 - 08/05/12 02:14 AM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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As technically good as the ED sims are, they are still aimed at chess players ... I'm convinced that neither they (nor Oleg) ever played the older sims.
Cheers Keith
I think it's also quite likely Oleg did play the older sims. You only need to look at the number of things in the earlier IL-2 releases that were nicked straight out of the old European Air War. IL-2's biggest innovations were graphical and proprietorial (ie the grim skill with which they impeded modding...) Hey, my first post here in many, many years! And the first since rediscovering my ancient SIM-HQ password.
"Wait until you see the whites of his eyes." Sailor Malan, 'Ten of My Rules for Air Fighting', no. 1
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#3620962 - 08/06/12 02:20 AM
Re: Any news on Janes FA-18?
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Flying over Afghanistan in Operation Anaconda. Intel map below: Whale's Back on western side of Shah-i-Kot Valley. Takur Ghar to south east. Lots of XCAS coordinating with ground-based FACs. Flying from carrier in northern Arabian Sea, ingress over Pakistan, and hitting vul time over eastern Afghanistan. Terrain is Iraq with winter landpal. Still lots of action to wring out of this sim.
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