Some may remember the recent flour bombs post here.

I was looking at X-plane as an alternative to that piece of malware they called CFS3. In doing so I soon found several conceptual similarities between (stress: speculative) FSX and X-plane.

It was said that the weapon profiling in FSX would be 'flour bombs' and that this could lead onto full damage profiles.

I am informed that whilst X-plane can load weapons, they DO NOT have damage effects and there are no kills on anything. X-plane state emphatically that theirs is NOT a combat sim, in-fact stop just short of labelling anyone wanting a combat sim as some kind of anti-christ.

There is also a lot of suggestion on the net that FSX copies some of the ideas from X-plane, if this is true it would be wise to hold back for a while if you are a serious combat modeller / developer. Flour bombs might be all you will get.

Jasper

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Yep, just like it is now with Bill Lyon's Challenger

Something tells me its more than a .fx file. There was a recent picture of the FSX loading screen and it had the controls for a joystick on it... The trigger button for a joystick now drops the flour bomb instead of applying brakes.

Currently, it looks like the flour bombs r for the ultralight.  And the screen where the trigger is to drop them, was at a convention, to let players try it.

Besides, do you think they've taken out the ability to change joystick functions?

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Let me guess, you had a bad experience over there?

Mmmm....