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Originally Posted by Placoderm
Perhaps you are not familiar with the enthusiast-developed "Over Flanders Field" or the study sim "Rise of Flight"? Both of those are more than worthy sucessors to Red Baron.
Yes, it took years for them to come, but the wait has been well worth it for this ex-Red Baron pilot.
Food for thought. And hope.
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Exactly! I have "Over Flanders Field" and it's pretty good. The graphics are a bit dated, but it supports TrackIR (or rather, the underlying MS Combat Flightsim supports it), which makes it light years ahead of the Red Baron gaming experience, as much as I loved Red Baron. I thought helicopter combat sims were dead and buried too, and then DCS Black Shark came along recently.
Subsims are probably a little easier to program than flight sims. Fewer variables, enemy AI moving in two dimensions instead of three, and at much lower relative speeds. Water effects aren't that difficult with modern 3D environmental suites. Someone else will do it. But it will take a few years for SH5 to finally fade from the scene, and leave a gap in the market.