The title says it all...I have been flying LOMAC all weekend so far.

I don't know what all the discussion is about regarding F4AF and LOMAC. In my humble opinion, LOMAC is the winner hands down.

The graphics are SWEEEET, and the realism is enough without being too overbearing. It could do with some longer campaigns, but I am sure with some looking around I will find a bunch of addons.

Anyway, to coin a phrase..."I like it, I like it a lot"...

Shhhh. You're gonna start a fight in here with those words. Try http://www.lockonfiles.com for more campaigns and missions. I recommend d/l'ing LMR and my mission pack for it, there's alot of replayability when using LMR. The missions never play out the same.

Yes, I should have thought about the inevitable 'flaming' that would normally result from my statement.

I can only hope that noone will flame it and will instead offer a new LOMAC pilot some guidance on great mods, addons, and misc stuff to make a great sim even better.

I don't think you'll have that problem. The mods are pretty good at keeping the ones who would do that, in line. Like I said, Lockon Files is invaluable for your LOMAC needs. Thomas has done a fantastic job with the site and with his work for the LOMAC community. Just a quick shout to Thomas, and thanks again bro!

If you have .net framework installed (1.1 version) try LMR (LockOn Mission Randomizer). I've made some A10 and Su25 s/p and m/p missions. You can grab the LMR Ground Attack Pack here and check out the missions. If you fail one, you can randomize it again and the enemy units won't be in the same places again. Sometimes the mission will play out more difficult, and sometimes it will easier.

You should also grab LOMAN or Modman, which we use for most of the addons that this community has made. It's one click goodness for adding your fave skins and mods.

Welcome to the community. Feel free to ask questions, we'll help out the best we can.

Welcome to our addiction Sascat!

Out

Thanks Guys. I have been playing F4 since it was released, and I tried LOMAC years ago but my system was not sufficient to run it.

Now that I have some power (and my wife just gave me the okay to get a new system...woot) and the game runs well, I am getting back into it.

So far I am getting smoked after about 2 or so missions in the A10 campaigns.

I have downloaded the latest Modman and installed a bunch of mods/skins.

With the graphics on this game, it is a wonder that noone has bothered to implement a ground combat simulator that could tie into the theme.

Which A10 missions are you having problems with? Maybe I can talk you thru them.

What you all must do: Fly Lomac on a puter hooked up to a 50" plasma screen. That is all kinds of kick ass!!!!

Quick question...or two..

Do I need to start the game from Modman?

Can I have many skins installed using modman or only one at a time?
Thx

No you can launch FC any way you want.

If you open up one of the skin .zip files you will see that the skin files have numbers (different number of available slots per A/C). So you can only have one addon skin per slot.

What I do if a skin I want would replace another one I like, I unzip the files to a temp folder and rename the skins to another slot and make a new modman package. This way you can use every available slot and have all your favorite skins.

That's great to hear SASCAT. The game is worth buying just for the SU-25T alone. I have had more fun and challenges flying the SU-25T than any other jet in any PC game.

I agree, I love it and hate it.

Where do I find "Lock On Mission Randomizer"?

Mark

You can grab it from my site, I'm hosting it.

Get LMR here

If you like the A10 or Su25T, I have a mission pack for LMR that you may like. There are m/p coop and s/p missions in the pack.

LMR Ground Attack Pack

The only plane I don't fly is the Su-25 / T as it seems to be the only aircraft that slows the sim down to a crawl for me.

Shame, nice plane otherwise.

The Flaming Cliffs Su25 is far more detailed than the other Lock On aircraft both in gfx detail and flight model, it makes sense it'd take more grunt to run it.

Having said that I don't really find much difference frames pers sec wise between the Su and the A10, I haven't done any benchmarks though.

Hey, ruggbutt!

I'm using Modman...not sure which version, I'm at work right now...but I installed it a long time ago.

Have they ever fixed the bug where the installation screen shows your file as NOT being installed (color RED) when it really is? That's the only thing that's annoying about the program. I had the same problem with LOMAN, too. I switched to Modman thinking the problem would go away. I seem to recall ThomasW telling me in a post about it way back when that this was a known issue but (certainly) not a critical problem...since the missions and skins were, in fact, actually loaded.

Dumbo, there's a patch for Modman on Thomas' site (Lockonfiles) that should fix any inconsistencies in Modman. Give it a shot.

Stupid me can't seem to find it over at http://www.lockonfiles.com for whatever reason . Could you shoot me a link that takes me straight to the download? Much obliged!

Forgive me for being too lazy to find it, I just took the easy way out and uploaded it for you. It's here . I spent most of the night in Photoshop and I'm wiped out.