Besides SH what's your all time favorite sim? (air, land or sea)

[meanstreak]

"Arma 2" wins hands down for me.

[tonyw]

Orbiter, And you think learning to drive a sub is hard, try hand flying a shuttle to the ISS and back without running out of fuel.

[java`s revenge]

Il2fb
rise of flight
DCS Blackshark

Redorchestra / Darkest hour

[Stormfly]

without words...



http://www.a2asimulations.com/

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by EAF274 Johan

For me it has to be Rowan's Mig Alley (released in 1998 I believe).

It has pretty realistic flight models, good AI, but most of all it puts you "right there". It has some of the best AI radio communications I've ever seen in a sim (next to Falcon 4) and the campaign is simply a gem: it's really a strategy game inside a flight sim. And then there are those little details: if you destroy enough trucks the enemy will be using mule convoys, or if you destroy their depots they will start hiding supplies in the woods.

On the downside it is plagued by some serious bugs that were never fixed, and the software itself is also rather unstable. In fact I've put the game aside many times in frustration because of this, but I always find myself coming back. And still play it today...

Gawd I Loved Mig Alley. Gunfighting at supersonic speeds! Dueling with a Honcho! And if you flew low over a crowd of enemy soldiers you could hear them cursing at you!

It really was the bugs that killed it though. Never could get through the campaign without crashing. Now I can even run it due to my widescreen monitor causing it to be so blocky it's unbearable.

Hotshot mode was amazing, though!


Oh... Favorite sim?

Naval = Fast Attack.

Air = Falcon 4.0 (but the "hardcore Falconeers" at Frugal's ruined it for me)

Land = Battlefield 1942 (so shoot me... multiplayer was a hoot)!

JCC

Land - Battlefield 1942 (I attended some awesome LANs playing that game!)

Sea - SH5 (heavily modded)

Air - Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory (Can't remember the name of the mod I'm using, but it adds a whole new level of realism. And still looks awesome for a 2005 game!

Space - X3:Reunion with the X-Tended mod

[Bilge_Rat]

land: combat mission line, mostly CMBB and CMSF.

air: tie between IL-2, F4AF and Jane's F-18.

naval: I would go with my first computer subsim, Jane's 688iHK.

[GerritJ9]

Apart from SH3 + GWX 3.0 and SH4 + TMO/SH4 + OM/SH4 +Battle for the Baltic (three separate installs), I also run IL2:1946 (with UP 2.01), Danger from the Deep, Jutland and Distant Guns. The DRM of the latter two, however, put me off ever buying ANY sim with DRM again, including SH5- no matter how good the sim might otherwise be.

[Topo65]

DCS BLACK SHARK

Land: Battlefield 2 + Project Reality Mod (http://www.realitymod.com/)
excellent mod that, just can't mention it enough

Air: Red Baron

Sea: Silent Hunter 3

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Topo65

DCS BLACK SHARK

That looks cool, Win 7 Compatible?
Might have to invest in that, if so.

[Topo65]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

That looks cool, Win 7 Compatible?
Might have to invest in that, if so.

Win 7 & Vista, 32 & 64 bits compatible.

[Egan]

Falcon 4 in all of it's guises.
Aces of the deep.
Over Flanders Field ( so what if it's a CFS3 mod? It's still better than many 'proper games I've bought and played.

[karamazovnew]

Flight Unlimited. Especially the second in the series.
Even in FSX with tons of quality addons and planes, I still can't reach the feeling that FU2 gave me.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Topo65

Win 7 & Vista, 32 & 64 bits compatible.

Thanks for the link, that looks seriously cool, how long did it take you to master the start-up?
I'm not even going to ask how long to get to a flying stage
Looks awesome though.