Simviation Forum - Lock On: GOLD edition

Dec 14^th, 2006 at 8:05am

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Ok, I've read a bit about this Sim (good things) and having not played a combat sim in quite a few years I'm up to the challenge. But all this stuff about patches and expansions has me a little Huh

you know.

But I found that Circuit City has the Lock On Gold edition and was wondering (I've tried finding out on my own) if this is a complete version to date, not needing any patches or expansion.

Anybody know??

(getting the 3-pack is tempting but I rather get this one on its own if no patch needed)

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Reply #1 - Dec 14^th, 2006 at 9:30am

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Well I continued searching and came across a Forum for Lomac and got my question answered. Basically the Gold edition contains the original game + the 'Flaming Cliffs' expansion which upgrades graphics and adds a bunch of missions.

The following quote from a recent post there was very helpful:

"The main thing is to get up to version 1.1 called "Flaming Cliffs" LO-MAC Gold includes this version. Once there- you can patch it up to 1.12a for free."

So only one patch needed after buying the Gold edition...

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Reply #2 - Dec 14^th, 2006 at 11:13am

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Exactly. If you want to try a modern combat sim, LOMAC is the best out there.

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Reply #3 - Dec 14^th, 2006 at 11:54am

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Check this out...

I can get the original game locally at a store for $20,
then buy the Flaming Cliffs expansion for $15 which is a download,
then patch that with 1.12 for free...total $35 (not much waiting)

OR

I can buy Lomac Gold via Amazon for $20 w/free shipping (expansion incl.),
then just apply the free 1.12 patch,
$15 savings Shocked

just need a little patience for shipping.

But, oh, one negative thing with Lomac Gold. Sad

There's a chance that the second CD containing the expansion is faulty. That had been a real issue early on. If so, not a real big deal, I just have to send it to evolved games and they send back a good one as stated on their website.

Worth the $15 savings? For me, yeah.
1) Won't have my new PC for a good 3 weeks anyway.
2) I have yet to buy FS9 which costs $20, mostly covered by the savings Cool

Sorry for the babbling, it's very slow here at work, I'll try to Lips Sealed

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Reply #4 - Dec 14^th, 2006 at 1:50pm

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Lock On Gold cost me about £15 the other week, and have had no problems with it.

In fact, since I got it, I've flown it almost exclusively, as opposed to flying in FS9.

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Reply #5 - Dec 15^th, 2006 at 5:25pm

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The Gold edition that may have had the bad CD should have been pulled from the shelves long ago so you shouldn't have a issue with it. If I recall the bad CD was actually Starforce

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Reply #6 - Dec 15^th, 2006 at 5:38pm

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Ahh yes LOMAC. The best combat flight sim to ever hit the market, possably the best flight sim ever? Regardless, I too have LOMAC gold, and love it, infact I play it soo much that I don't even have FS9 installed.

I cant wate for the Black Shark expansion to come out.....thats gonna be awesome

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Reply #7 - Dec 15^th, 2006 at 10:00pm

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LOMAC is a great combat SIM, probably one of two that I'd consider "best" (for modern air combat). The other is Falcon 4.0 AF. I find myself playing Falcon a lot more simply because there's a lot more systems depth (I find that complex systems are the primary appeal of modern combat sims). LOMAC is outstanding, you'll love it. It'll leave you wishing Microsoft used their flight model.

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Reply #8 - Dec 15^th, 2006 at 10:16pm

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I found LOMAC to buggy for me... WTF? And i play fsX Shocked

But seriosuly, does anyone else encounter high amounts of crashes?

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Reply #9 - Dec 15^th, 2006 at 11:04pm

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ctjoyce wrote on Dec 15^th, 2006 at 5:38pm:

Ahh yes LOMAC. The best combat flight sim to ever hit the market, possably the best flight sim ever? Regardless, I too have LOMAC gold, and love it, infact I play it soo much that I don't even have FS9 installed.

That's kinda what I'm afraid of, getting these two games but only playing one all the time and not the other. But, again, for $20 bucks each, whatever. I just spent a quick 2-G's on a new Dell XPS. What's 40 dollars?!?! I even threw in the latest scrabble game for the wife...God I love Amazon!

Flight sims are all I care about anyway, oh and Simcity 4...We love Simcity 4 Grin

I'm curious how Lomac will run on my system-to-be:
Intel Dual Core E6600 4MB 2.4GHz 1066FSB
2GB 667MHz Memory
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS

I also have a Logitech Wingman Force 3D joystick, can wait to try it out.

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Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 4:56am

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Quote:

I'm curious how Lomac will run on my system-to-be:
Intel Dual Core E6600 4MB 2.4GHz 1066FSB
2GB 667MHz Memory
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS

Fine.

I'm running it on mid-high settings with good FPS on:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67Ghz
756Mb RAM
nVidia GeForce 6800GT

Have installed a premade FPS tweak which could also have helped, but it runs very nicely. I could say it looks better than FS9.

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Reply #11 - Dec 22^nd, 2006 at 8:09am

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Just an update (I mentioned some of this in the FS2004 forum)...

Just got my Dell XPS410 day before last and yesterday received FS9 and Lock On Gold. As for Lomac, second CD (Flaming Cliffs expansion) worked fine with installation, no issues. Then I put the 1.12 patch and it's good to go. Look's great on my 20" widescreen LCD with high settings!! I love it already...Gotta do some serious reading with this game though and configure my joystick for it.

Oh, and the wife loves the scrabble game I got for her so she's happy too Cool

BTW, the 30-watt Dell speakers I got sound great, Shocked

I'm very impressed.

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Reply #12 - Dec 29^th, 2006 at 10:36am

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As long as the wife is happy, thats all that matters! Roll Eyes

AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE 3.6ghz, 4gb RAM, Palit GTX 460 1 gb, OCZ 750W, Windows 7 64bit

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