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Next military jet for acceleration
SUBS17:
--- Quote from: Razgriz on May 20, 2008, 11:04:13 pm ---A very new "Modern" fighter. The Tomcat has had its day.
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Its still in service in Iran but its unclear how many they still have flying.
SUBS17:
--- Quote from: jimi08 on May 20, 2008, 08:39:06 pm ---Subs,
The first point you brought up is the same point I am trying to get across. Just like you stated about flying from point A to point B and how it eventually becomes boring, I feel the same way about making the next aircraft a Tomcat for FSX Acceleration. The point is, you are doing the same thing. Whether it's in a Hornet or Tomcat. You are still either flying from point A to point B, landing on the carrier, or flying formation with people in multiplayer. The only thing that changes is the type of aircraft that you are doing it in. Which I feel will get boring pretty quickly after the "Wow, I'm flying a F-14 Tomcat" factor dies out.
As far as the last part of your post. I think you misunderstood me. I DEFINITELY WANT COMBAT!!! But the more though I put into this topic the more I feel that instead of fiddling around with adding military aircraft into the world of FSX, Microsoft/Dreamteam/etc. needs to go ahead and just make a new, full scale Combat simulator. It would have all the realism of FSX, but built and designed from the ground up for the combat side. Imagine a sim that would have the flight & avionic modeling and realism of Falcon 4.0, the multiplayer smoothness of LOMAC and the worldwide accessibility and weather dynamics of FSX! An with FS Dreamteam by our side, we can be assured that we have a nice plethora of quality aircraft. Not just different blocks of F-16s. If you want to do high altitude bombing with a B-52, or it you want to simply do donuts in the sky with a KC-135 while refueling a flight of F-15s, you can. If you want to practice carrier approaches with a RIO in the back or if you want to practice spin recovery procedures in a TexanII, you can. If you want to grab a couple of P-51s and stafe some trains, you can. Instead of having tutorials for x-wind landings, there will be tutorials an how to do the carrier break (aka the overhead). Most of the missions will be military related, from tactical flight formations, to Air Combat Maneuvering, to Aerial refueling. If you want to drop bombs or fire cannons, you can....with your online buddies at your side! Leave FSX for the civilian/corporate/commercial guys and build a new, expandable combat sim for the guys that wanna do the military thing.
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Theres already a couple of sims in development at the moment which will deliver in this area and they are the DCS series by Eagle Dynamics which at the moment are making the KA50 but will later do A-10, AH64, Hind, F-15, F-16 and Mig29. There is also FighterOps which is still a while off but will feature Texan 2 and T38C fully modeled 2 seaters UPT and IFF trainning modules. And they are the basis for combat addon F-15C/D/E, F-16C, A-10A and later other addons may include a Naval addon. As for any FS combat you are quite limited as its not designed for it as you know the only way to do that would be to use MSESP I think and it would take quite a long time to develop considering how complex a jet combat flight sim is. As for your MP issues I have to suggest that you should join a virtual squadron. I myself fly with VFA35 online and we use F4AF, OF, lockon and occassionally Janes F/A-18 and we are also part of a large online virtual Navy. At the moment Arma is probably the only sim that allows pilots and marines to work together(eg ground lasing tgts for LGBs) in MP but hopefully FO will go that path later so our Navy/Marines and Pilots can work together online. Hopefully companys like FSdreamteam would make quality addons for FO later on with aircraft such as the Tomcat and Hornet etc. 80s cold war Naval combat mod would rock. 8)
Intrepid:
I have to admit ,this is all very interesting .I too would be very VERY excited of the prospect of a full
combat version of FSX.Unfortunatly the thought of updating my computer once again (for no other
reason than to run the latest sim) is ,or would be a difficult sell.I think and would prefer add ons along
the lines of the Acceleration pack ,with "enhancements" of course.The programming expertise of Aces
should find within there capability to produce a quality millitary expansion pack and that way those who
prefer civillian only, need not buy
My 2 cents
Randy
crim3:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on May 23, 2008, 01:12:02 am ---I agree FSX is not the place for air combat but this sim here is:
FighterOps interview
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Some people say that fighter ops is genuine "vaporware". At least they have a video now, but still they have to prove they are really producing something.
JamesChams:
--- Quote from: crim3 on May 23, 2008, 09:02:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on May 23, 2008, 01:12:02 am ---I agree FSX is not the place for air combat but this sim here is:
FighterOps interview
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Some people say that fighter ops is genuine "vaporware". At least they have a video now, but still they have to prove they are really producing something.
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crim3,
Where might I find this video that you are refering to?
Thank you.
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