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#4317315 - 12/04/16 01:30 PM Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance  
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After having flown Falcon 4.0 right when it came out, I put the game aside for some years. Recently, the urge to fly this great sim has come back big time. I started researching a bit and I discovered that plenty of upgrades, patches and mods have been developed in the meantime. Actually so many upgrades seem to have been made that it is hard (at least for me) to understand what I should install to get a "state of the art" installation of Falcon 4.0.

To my knowledge the following exists:
Falcon 4.0
Falcon 4.0 - Allied Force
Skunkworks
Red Viper
SuperPak
FreeFalcon
OpenFalcon
BMS

From the googling I have done so far I got the impression that BMS is the most recent and complete update to Falcon 4.0 but I have also read that Allied Force still has quite some supporters. I now wonder if there is a recommondation on what of those upgrades I should install if I wanted to play the Falcon singleplayer campaign?

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#4317334 - 12/04/16 03:19 PM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: Shabe]  
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BMS 4.33U2 is the most current and most complete version to date and the only one to my knowledge that is still supported.

For single player (and MP if you can find someone), you can still fly F4AF as it is stable and the Campaigns work. Balkans and Korean theaters are the only campaign options AFAIK. SuperPak was a patch IIRC. Skunkworks was a Mod available for F4AF and is almost impossible to find but can still be found I think...

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4283304/F4:AF_any_patch_sites_still_up#Post4283304

OTOH, BMS is just better with much more realism, reading/studying, theaters, weapons etc. etc. etc. I would fill up the rest of the page with the pro's to picking BMS over AF, but that is only if your dead serious about realism. Probably the biggest difference is the fully clickable 3D pit that you get in BMS. Honestly, if this was available in AF, I might be inclined to pick it up and play it every now and then.

The rest of the versions you mention are pretty much dead now.

HTH



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#4317342 - 12/04/16 04:34 PM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: schnidrman]  
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Thanks for your answer, schnidrman! That sounds like I need to get BMS. Before I do I wonder: Are there any advantages of F4AF over BMS at all? You mentioned that F4AF is stable and the campaign works...does this mean that BMS is unstable and the campaign there doesn't work as good as in F4AF?

#4317345 - 12/04/16 04:51 PM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: Shabe]  
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BMS is mostly stable, but some issues in MP with large number of clients. Like over 20 or 30.
Otherwise it's rock solid.
Most campaigns are working while some are still WIP. Sorry for any confusion.


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#4317755 - 12/06/16 03:16 PM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: Shabe]  
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If you are interested in Falcon 4 history there's a cool chart showing all the versions and the path they took developing this awesome sim.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...history.svg.png

It's not up do date. At the bottom the Falcon 4.33, U1 and U2 are missing.

#4317779 - 12/06/16 04:20 PM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: Shabe]  
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Cool! Thanks to both of you!

#4317935 - 12/07/16 01:23 AM Re: Falcon 4.0 Upgrades Guidance [Re: Shabe]  
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Here is "just a taste" of some of the theaters available.



There are more available, some working, some still in the works.


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