Lock on: modern air combat

**FSPilot** · Jul 25 2003, 14:38

hahaha, this is beautiful
I went to sleep last night with 50 minutes left on the "protection time" clock. woke up this morning and saw "your wing has been destroyed".
I guess I'll just scout around a lot, maybe pick on a few new wings until I can get into a good one.

**Tex [USMC]** · Jul 25 2003, 17:00

I think this picture best sums up why I'm so excited about Lomac:
http://www.combatsim.com/img/6/6/1/g...attack.jpg.htm (+100kb)

The A10, the explosion, the ground detail, the weather, the coast in the background, it's the whole package.

**FSPilot** · Jul 25 2003, 17:06

It looks much more in depth than flanker 2.5, but I'm still a little apprehensive.

Thats almost OFP-quality scenery.
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again

**Tovarish** · Jul 25 2003, 17:18

Originally Posted by (FSPilot @ July 25 2003,14:06)

It looks much more in depth than flanker 2.5, but I'm still a little apprehensive.

I have Flanker 1.5 and I'm anything but aprehensive. In fact, It's the main reason I'm interested. Sure, I had issues with wingmen not doing what I wanted them to (frustrating as hell on some missions), but overall, I would not call the AI dumb.

**FSPilot** · Jul 25 2003, 17:53

I'm most frustrated with the avionics. I'm getting better, but that Soviet radar is hard to use, for me at least. I guess F4 has spoiled me

I'd bet that the AI problem and other issues are fixed in LOMAC.

**Tovarish** · Jul 25 2003, 18:12

Originally Posted by (FSPilot @ July 25 2003,14:53)

I'm most frustrated with the avionics. ***I'm getting better, but that Soviet radar is hard to use, for me at least. ***I guess F4 has spoiled me

Yeah the avionics were wildly different from anything I'd seen in a sim before, and the radar was fairly complicated to use, but that was part of what kept me hooked. Even in the first Flanker ground clutter was well modeled, and I remember quite a few times loosing precious seconds in a furball by locking on to a SAM or one of the larger AAM's. Then there were those occasions where I kept my radar off and relied on IRST in order to be stealthy, but that was always a bit of a gamble as the detection range was not that great. (On ***the plus side, once the enemy's RWR was going off, an Archer was already well on it's way)

Dammit, I want Lo-Mac. I'd still be playing it if it wasn't for the Windows XP Joystick issues ***

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