posted 10-16- 09:55 PM               

Ok, the damage on this game is sweet!!!!!

I was flying behind some Bettys (Bad idea I know, but I wanted to see what they could do to me) I heard tracers and before I knew it I saw sparks fly, smoke come thru my cockpit and then a fire broke out!!!! It began to spread to my cockpit and my egine was stuttering. So I shut the engine off, (cut the mixture) opened the crowl flaps and went into a dive. I got the fire out so I tried to restart my engine and it wouldnt!!!!!! It was dead meat!!!! (Plus that little red engine liight was on) So then I decided to do a crippled landing and I pressed the G key to lower my gear.... well they wouldnt!!!!! I had to manually pump them down.. The flaps were jammed too!!!! I went to look outside my aircraft and there were bullet holes everywhere! (Could also see them from inside) By that time I was going way to slow to reach land so I ditched. Hehehe fun as heck. Only problem then was how do I get out of the plane once its ditched?

posted 10-17- 05:26 AM               

I think it's time to write a letter!

Now...where's my address book....oh there it is....now where's 'C' (flicking pages)...got it ! 'Clause, Santa - 0'0''......

Cheers

AGAS 5

posted 10-17- 01:27 PM               

Best Buy just got it in here. I'm so there baby!!

Report to follow.

posted 10-17- 03:56 PM               

P.S. Pete, what was it you didnt like about the beta?

posted 10-17- 04:40 PM               

Just some more CFS2 shots!

posted 10-17- 05:38 PM               

I don't know if this was brought up previously...but it seems to be developing into a bit of a problem...

http://www.combatsim.com/ubb/Forum62/HTML/000301.html

I guess that's one advantage of FSDOE

Maybe it is a case of joining a trusted Squadron (like the 225th RAVENS - G'day Spyder!)

Or maybe it's too early to be critical and something will be done about it...hope so.

Cheers,

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posted 10-17- 05:49 PM               

Good to see that M$ thought about this though

Cheers,

posted 10-17- 09:38 PM               

FINALLY, Somthing that I can get lippy about. HAHHHAHAA

Yeah well If i ever pick this up, I guess it will be offline only, That whole cheating issue is just to much to bother with.

posted 10-18- 11:24 AM               

Yeah, I don't think there's going to be a lot of problems with cheaters. It will be more a question of avoiding places where cheating is abundant, and also doing that special selection thing.

That does negate the modified files, but by the same token, once folks start flying with each other and knowing each other a little better, I can see squad vs. squad competitions where you both agree to use a certain FM, and pretty much know on an honor basis that the other folks enjoy clean kills better than hacked murders.

I think most folks who have flown for a while can tell if a plane is severely hacked. That fella in the combatsim forum was talking about going max speed in a Corsair, and a Zeke passing him, turning around, and diving after him, and overtaking him.

Nope, that don't sound right. Same with shots from a ga-zillion miles away. Kind of stands out like a sore thumb.

This game is obviously in its infancy. I'm a little confused about which FM modification is which.

I've heard the "Wells" modfication mentioned, and also noticed that Gregory Pierson (sorry Greg, forgot if it's "ei" or "ie") with the 714th VFS has some too.

I know Greg's reputation from Fighters Anthology, and he did an incredible amount of work back then, and seems like he hasn't slowed down a bit. He always did stellar work, and was extremely dedicated.

I mentioned his work many months ago when folks were having mis-matches all the time. He had a system where you could download .lib files that changed sometimes every few days. The system was so good though, that you could meet online on icq, realize you were out-dated, go to his site, download and install, and be back in about 3-4 minutes. And that was with a 28.8 modem. Hell, I think when we started it was 14.4!

Anyway, I'm not worrying about it too much. We'll get it all sorted out eventually. Playing almost anything on the 'zone is asking for trouble, and it seems as if there will be lots of online places to play where good folks cross swords with sticks and rudders.

Kali seems a good place to start, and seems like there's other servers coming online too.

And yes, I think being in squadrons and flying against other squadrons is a good idea too. I'm rather happy to say that I have never seen any squadron, using any simulation software, that condoned, supported, or embraced cheating in any way.

So I'm not going to stay away from online play on the off-chance that someone might be cheating. I'll just go to reputable servers and fly against pilots with good sportsmanship and decent manners.

Now if I can just get that F4U to do what I want it to!

posted 10-18- 04:03 PM               

In case you don't read the large CFS2 post anymore, I was wondering if you could send along the flyable files for the Val and Kate. I want to try them out.

I love this mission editor-- man I wish SDOE had it!! And moving ships, torpedoes that work (no offense to you Argon...I like the SDOE torps...but these work great as I am sure you know!)...and many other features too numerous to mention

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posted 10-18- 05:55 PM               

Seems as if people are going great guns with this stuff, and there's lots of imports already, and apparently more coming.

Seems pretty darn exciting. I'll kind of wait until most folks have tried'em out, and then try a couple myself.

posted 10-18- 09:58 PM               

Well--- once school settles down a bit, I will do up a proper one to match the one I did in SDOE...but I am still learning the editor so I can make the best possible mission

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