Simviation Forum - New sims for Skysim

Jun 27^th, 2006 at 7:34am

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Skysim are now stocking Lock On Gold and Falcon 4.
can I have your opinions on both games please?

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Reply #1 - Jun 27^th, 2006 at 7:56am

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Bear from AvHistory has nothing but good things to say about Falcon 4. As far as realsim goes it blows LOMAC out the water.

As for LOMAC: Eye candy. Grin

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Reply #2 - Jun 27^th, 2006 at 11:17am

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Falcon 4 is very realistic in flight systems, etc. I haven't been able to try Lomac because my rig won't support it. I like F4 though.

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Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 2:23am

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F4:AF looks ugly, and the some of the air-to-air missiles have unrealistically high kill ratios (AMRAAM: 99.5%), but as far as systems go, they say you could be trained to operate an F-16 with it.

LOMAC as great graphics, and it allows you to fly 7 different aircraft, and the systems modelled are done relatively well, but they are not nearly as in depth as F4.

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Reply #4 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 9:03am

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I love LOMAC.

I don't like F4. Undecided

That's about as "in depth" as I feel like going right now.. Tongue

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Reply #5 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 2:43am

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I reinstalled Lock On yesterday. Not Impressed.

Joystick is ultra sensitive, plane just oscilates.

AntiAliasing dosn't work

Unstable. mine crashes often.

If I get the osculations sorted then it will be fun, but not it's plain anoying.

Also, fs2004 has better graphics than LOMAC.

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Reply #6 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 6:19am

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I reinstalled Lock On yesterday. Not Impressed.

Joystick is ultra sensitive, plane just oscilates.

AntiAliasing dosn't work

Unstable. mine crashes often.

If I get the osculations sorted then it will be fun, but not it's plain anoying.

Also, fs2004 has better graphics than LOMAC.

As for a the joystick goes it's very adjustable:

Make sure the "Dead Zone" and "Curve" is set right, mine's set like this;

As for the AA not working, are you enabling it via your video card options, and do you have the newest drivers?

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Reply #7 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 7:56am

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I've never played either but we do get asked quite a lot for these and CFS 3 so we have decided to stock them and see how we get on with them.

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Reply #8 - Jul 6^th, 2006 at 8:43pm

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Don't own nor have I tried either, sorry. Embarrassed

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I've never played either

If I was in your line of business, I'd make it a priority to have tested every product to know what I was selling to my customers.

You have a great excuse for probably the biggest collection of payware anybody here are likely to own!
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Screenshots & Reviews please town. Wink

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Reply #9 - Aug 1^st, 2006 at 7:54am

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Don't own nor have I tried either, sorry. Embarrassed

If I was in your line of business, I'd make it a priority to have tested every product to know what I was selling to my customers.

You have a great excuse for probably the biggest collection of payware anybody here are likely to own!
Wink

Screenshots & Reviews please town. Wink

I am trying Series 4 but there is an awful lot to get through, as far as Lock On Gold is concerned I can fly the aircraft fine and I have tuned my joystick but I cannot seem to get any weapon action. Now I know the game is fine because a "Lock On" veteran came in to test it out before buying it and he was beating up everything on the screen but I haven't fired a single shot. What am I doing wrong?

P.S. We now have X-Plane 8

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Reply #10 - Aug 2^nd, 2006 at 1:20pm

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I've never played either but we do get asked quite a lot for these and CFS 3 so we have decided to stock them and see how we get on with them.

well if you want my lightly used copy of CFS3, take it. i don't play it.

that and i'm just not a WWII fan, or any military for that matter. althoughI still hear F4 is worth getting anyway.

Ramos

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