Most fun dogfight you've ever been in?

[Skybird]

The sim was Flanker 2. A later upgrade they released, turning it into 2.5, included a complete, flyable model with all flight physics and in-cockpit 3D for the Fulcrum.

A Flanker 2.5 disc never existed, I think. Only 2.0

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The sim was Flanker 2. A later upgrade they released, turning it into 2.5, included a complete, flyable model with all flight physics and in-cockpit 3D for the Fulcrum.

A Flanker 2.5 disc never existed, I think. Only 2.0

It said 2.5 on the disc.

This is a picture of the box



The box I got mine in looked like this

[Arclight]

Think I shot Herr B. out of his A-10 with a Maverick once. Wasn't a dogfight, just a test case, but it gave me a good laugh.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

It said 2.5 on the disc.

This is a picture of the box

The box I got mine in looked like this

Ah, they made a "best buy" golden collection super package of it then.

Back in those days, this is what it looked like over here. I have never seen the 2.5 box in stores.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Ah, they made a "best buy" golden collection super package of it then.

Back in those days, this is what it looked like over here. I have never seen the 2.5 box in stores.

It's a great sim either way. I really liked it.

I don't recall being able to fly MiG's in my 2.5 Version though.

[Skybird]

The Mig-29K, to be precise. Yes, it had that.

Will you finally believe it...!?

I am not certain, but I think it was not before 2.5 that aerial refueling was possible, too. For the player, I mean.

Later came LOMAC. Then the DCS series with Blackshark and Warthog. Unfortunately one already could see in the early Flanker what later titles still suffer from, imo: the sterile, non-imserive environment and playing expereince. Technically the planes they simulate are works of wonder. I just find not much fun in using them in their environments. Technically sophisticated, but leaves my heart out in the cold.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Probably the most fun dogfight I've ever been in was way back when the 4.09 patch was still the norm for IL-2. I don't off hand remember if it was an event that Oberon, Hunter or myself was hosting. But I do remember myself and SgtPotato going at each other, him in a Bf-110 and myself in a Gloster Gladiator bi-plane, and I was singing "I am stringbag man, dun-un-dun, stringbag bag man!" What was the most bizarre thing was my Gladiator wasn't turned into shreds by Potato's 110 and my Gladiator didn't manage to nick the paintwork on Potato's 110.