Tailslide's Picks - Jet Combat Simulations
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Jane's FA 18
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Excellent graphics, not as much campaign depth as Falcon 4.
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Mig Alley
V1.23
Patch
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So-so graphics but good dynamic campaign and AI.
Excellent radio chatter. Make sure to get the patch, I couldn't get
it to run more than a couple minutes before crashing without the patch.
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Flanker 2.0
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here for free downloads of new Flanker cockpits.
Flanker 2.5 patch is in development, screen shots at www.flanker2.com,
proposed List of New Features:
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Ability to fly the Mig-29K (navalized version).
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Ability to give naval units waypoints.
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Ability for naval units to engage one another.
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Option to include MERs (Multiple Ejector Racks) and TERs (Triple Ejector
Racks) in the loadouts.
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Air to Air Refueling
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An expanded loadout selection.
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Ground Alert Intercept missions will no longer restrict runway usage.
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An improved view system including: a weapon to target view, a new dogfight
view, and a padlock from tower view.
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Additional commands to slide the camera right and left and reverse cycle
views.
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A scalable map ruler.
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Improved multiplayer chat.
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Option to have Nagging Nadia in Russian.
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Additional new scenarios and a new campaign.
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Options for adjustable missile effectiveness
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Improved wingman communication and responses.
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Company Line:
- New 3D graphics engine using full texture-mapped terrain.
- New Aircraft: Su-33 Naval carrier-based Flanker.
- New 3D sound system with shift and Doppler effects.
- Interactive training modules - complete with an in-cockpit
instructor.
- Detailed 3D ships, aircraft and ground vehicles.
- Mission editor allows the user to create a realistic theater of
operation.
- Campaign mission module includes resource management, realistic
enemy engagement and save now/play later mission save system.
- Multiplayersupport: 16 player network play via LAN, or 2 player
head-to-head play over the internet.
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Sabre Fighter Plane Simulator
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Sabre Fighter Plane Simulator is a freeware product under the GNU Public
License, developed as a labor of love by flight-simulation enthusiasts. For now, the focus
is on Korean War-era fighter aircraft, such as the classic North American F-86 SabreJet,
which dueled with the nimble MiG-15 over the skies of Korea. Also featured are the F-84
ThunderJet, the F-51 Mustang and the Yak-9. |
F16 Multi-Role
Fighter &
Mig29
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Happy Puppy
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- This could be the sleeper of the holidays, usually sold bundled together
- Unfortunately, only supports voodoo 3dfx cards.
- Play 128 player games on the internet, totally free
- Both games fly in the same universe, so you can have F16 vs Mig29 battles.
- Did I mention it only supports 3dfx? Hmm. Maybe my TNT card will get an add-on
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Falcon 4
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Patch
(do this if you have F4 !)
Falcon 4 patch V1.08 is out.
The
development team has been laid off by Hasbro! What did they do with
their final days at work? They managed to cram in a new
patch V1.08i that fixes almost all of the multiplayer crashes ! You
need to install the 1.08 patch then copy the executable from 1.08i into your
falcon directory.
Falcon 4 Patch 1.08i2 is out.. this is an unsupported patch that fixes
some crashes and improves network play.
FNG's Falcon 4 Site has a
Falcon 4 settings editor and he is working on new terrains. |
- Plagued by a raft of bugs, Microprose promises at least four patches to bring this game
up to snuff. It's getting there..
- Many of the sounds that you hear have been digitized from the real F-16, from the button
clicks to the whine of the engines
- Dynamic campaigns, the whole war is simulated
- Falcon 4.0 also is designed to allow players to jump into and
out of the game. This will enable the game to eventually host players 24 hours a day. One
of the areas which the team is working on is the creation of servers to support larger
scale multiplayer campaigns over the Internet.
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Total Air War
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ACMI Films
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- DID does it again with this sequel to F22-ADF.
- Dynamic campaigns, the whole war is simulated
- Pilot AI is pretty impressive!
- Be a Tactical Mission Planner, Weapons Officer, AWACS Commander or Combat
Pilot.
- A suite of sound effects including an AWACS vocabulary of over 10,000
words.
- 336 Page Spiral bound combat manual by Colonel Rich Reynolds, ex NATO Air War Planner
and AWACS specialist.
- ACMI allows the player to record and review a flight from any angle. This is hugely
important in improving your skills, now you can see why you were shot down !
- The dynamic campaign does not have bases that get taken over like Ef 2000 did.
- Some graphics glitches on my system, maybe they do not show up if you are running 3dfx
instead of Direct X.
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EF2000 V.2 |
- Limited 3d card support
- Great realism and graphics.
- Simulates an entire war, and you can choose which mission in the war to fly.
- Design your own missions
- Highly Reccomended, but check out Total Air War as well, it is much newer and based on
the same software.
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F22 ADF
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- Do not buy this game, buy Total Air War instead. It is a newer version of the same thing
with a dynamic campaign to boot.
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F22 Raptor
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- Incredible multiplayer internet support - 128 players online at the same time!
- State of the art graphics
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Jane's F15
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- Top Notch Graphics, explosions, fires
- Most realistic jet sim available.
- Very good flight model
- Lots of wingmen commands
- User createable missions you can download and share. You can even insert audio clips for
radio communications.
- Complicated. If you want to fire up the computer and shoot things this is not for
you.
- Resolution limited to 640 x 480
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