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CCIP 05-28-07 11:14 AM

What flight sims do you have/play?
 
Other than a silly poll, I thought this'd serve a real purpose of helping birds of the same feather to hook up for MP :D

Currently active:
Falcon 4.0 SP4.2OCI (I tried both Red Viper and OpenFalcon but both performed poorly on my PC, seemed a little prone to glitching and I didn't bother further on)
First Eagles (technically I haven't played this one in a while - I'll grab some mods for it sometime and play around again though)

In reserve: (i.e. not currently installed)
IL-2 (4.06, that is, up to the Pe-2 add-on)
LO:MAC Flaming Cliffs (I still can't get myself interested enough in it)
FS9 (would be on, but the beast absolutely devours my HD space so I can't afford to keep it there for now!)
Jane's F-15 and F-18 (would go back if I can figure out which mod updates I need for them)
MiG Alley, F-22 TAW (would go back if these have been modded in the last few years)

Would like to/plan to get: (both current and future games)
IL-2 1946 (soon)
BoB 2 (maybe)
B-17II (maybe, if it's been modded enough)
Black Shark (depends on how its state at release)
Storm of War (but only when I get a new PC :dead:)
Knights of the Sky (alternatively, OFF - if I can find a copy of CFS3 somehwere)

Tools:
Saitek Cyborg EVO
(would like to get TrackIR and a HOTAS eventually, in that order)

HunterICX 05-28-07 11:21 AM

I have installed&Play:

CFS3 + OFF supermod
IL2 1946 patched to 4.08m

my Tools:

Logitech Force 3D pro.

planning to get that TrackiR one day.

CCIP 05-28-07 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HunterICX

my Tools:

Logitech Force 3D pro.

planning to get that TrackiR one day.

I should add that too :D

agreed, would love to get a TrackIR (in fact it's top of my list as peripherals). A nice HOTAS wouldn't hurt either :hmm:

Jimbuna 05-28-07 12:16 PM

IL2 and CFS3 :D

Dowly 05-28-07 12:22 PM

Games:

IL2 & OFF

Tools:

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
List titled "How to piss Hunter off"


Only have got to the first item, which says "Shoot him down over and over again", have to try some other tonight like "Ram him. Preferably when he is taking off".

HunterICX 05-28-07 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

Only have got to the first item, which says "Shoot him down over and over again", have to try some other tonight like "Ram him. Preferably when he is taking off".


:hmm: Me smells some challenge in this one

:stare: bring it on , punk!:arrgh!:

Dowly 05-28-07 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterICX
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

Only have got to the first item, which says "Shoot him down over and over again", have to try some other tonight like "Ram him. Preferably when he is taking off".

:hmm: Me smells some challenge in this one

Our dogfights and challenge dont fit in same sentence... atleast from my POV. :rotfl:

Chock 05-28-07 12:46 PM

Pretty much got them all (you could probably have worked that one out from my forum name I guess), but the one I mess about with the most is probably Condor The Competition Soaring Simulator, as it has a flight model which blows every other PC-based flight simulator out of the water and is certainly the only one that you can spin properly in; in fact, the reason I decided to buy it was when I saw a demo video of one of the gliders spinning, and thought 'Yup, that's exactly what it's like in real life!'. Plus it runs great even on a moderate PC and it has a great online community as well as a competition league for tasks and races. Great with Track-IR too. And handy when it's too rainy to go and fly the real thing!

I like the flight model in IL-2, but the single-player game itself is a little lacklustre and the AI is somewhat questionable, although it does come into its own online against human players.

FSX is another favourite, but the flight modelling is not brilliant, however it is great for variety, modding possibilities and the modelling of complex systems, although many of the better aircraft are only to be found in FS9, so I use that too for things like the PMDG Boeing 747.

I occasionally wheel out some of the older ones like B17 and Gunship, and the free WW1 add-on 'Over Flanders Fields' is great for CFS3, so that gets a showing every once in a while.

Not forgetting Falcon Allied Force of course, which definitely has the best dynamic campaign of any flight sim, and is also a blast online. another one that's great with Track-IR and it runs good on a moderate PC too.

So, yup, I do use quite a lot of them :rotfl:

Couple of pics from Condor below, one is a Ventus 2 coming up on 18,000 feet over Mont Blanc, the other is an ASW 28 on aerotow at the start of an online race.

:D Chock

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Montblanc.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ASWaerotow.jpg

robbo180265 05-28-07 02:45 PM

Currently Play CFS3 and FS9.

I've had LOMAC for a while,but like others have said I too can't get interested in it at the moment.
I also Found IL2 1946 at our local shop for £15.00 so I bought that too. I'm finding the planes a quite easy to spin, and the missions a little bland, I'll give it a little while longer and see how it goes.

What with all that + Medieval 2 Total war and ArmA, I haven't been near a sub in weeks!

STEED 05-28-07 05:33 PM

None at the moment as I need to reinstall them on my new hardrive. :roll:

I like this colour scheme in this forum. :up:

Right a quick run down CF/IL2 I will list them in full when there all installed again.

Tomorrow I hope.

joea 05-28-07 05:34 PM

Il-2 46, don't really like the modern stuff. Flew the MS civvie series for some years but kind of got bored with it.

Egan 05-28-07 05:37 PM

BoB, CFS3 / OFF, ILSturmovik (up to the most recent one,) Falcon in varous flavours and Lomac. I think thats about it just now. Oh yeah, FS9 too.

BoB and OFF are the two I play the most. I love Falcon too but mostly AF since it is so accesible and it's all right there. the various flavours are fine but I'm pretty lazy.

ILSturmovik, I think, is my least favourite one. It just bores me. For all the prettiness of the models I just can't play it for more than about 10 minutes. The problem is probably that I'm not really into online play and the solo mode is just....rubbish, even with the various campaign generators. I'm keeping a close eye on Sortm of War but, well, we shall see.

Marko_Ramius 05-28-07 05:56 PM

The one, the big, the great Falcon, (AF, OF, an other) best sim ever made :up: ;) A Multi-role, incredible environemental feeling of battlefield, an amazing dynamic campaign... Since Falcon 3.0, i fell in love.


IL2 FB/PF is great too, and waiting for me.


LOMAC great too, but no campaign :-?



But since a few months, i began to be a casual fly-boy :-? Not enough time for them.

Skybird 05-29-07 07:11 AM

FS9, currently the only thing that I occasionally do fly with.

Also still installed is Falcon, IL2, Longbow2, but it has been aeons since I last ime used them.

After over 20 years, maybe it is time to change my avatar, maybe. From "Skybird" to "Heavybeast", maybe? :D

How was it with that old saying: "they always come down again..." :lol:

STEED 05-29-07 12:30 PM

OK I got the IL2 series loaded up now so heres the the list -

IL2

IL2 Forgotten Battles with add on's they are -
Operation Barbarossa
Ace Expansion Pack
Battle of Europe
Pacific Fighters


Can some one put up the exact link for the patches I need for the above, many thanks guys. Tomorrow I will post the CF info.


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