F117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 on GOG

[DoctorQuest]

What sim is that? Strike Fighters 2?

Yes, with the Operation Desert Storm mod from combatace.com.

[jomni]

What sim is that? Strike Fighters 2?

Yes, with the Operation Desert Storm mod from combatace.com.

Yup.  I blogged about his. :) http://jomnisgames.blogspot.sg/2014/05/desert-tornado-strike-fighters-2.html

[DoctorQuest]

What sim is that? Strike Fighters 2?

Yes, with the Operation Desert Storm mod from combatace.com.

Yup.  I blogged about his. :) http://jomnisgames.blogspot.sg/2014/05/desert-tornado-strike-fighters-2.html

I think it is by far the best mod for SF (either 1 or 2).

[Apocalypse 31]

Just get the second version: Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum

http://www.gog.com/game/comanche_vs_hokum


Then download the All-In-One Mod pack here:

http://eechcentral.simhq.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


That will give you numerous flyable helos in an old game, with a bunch of different dynamic campaign locations to choose from too.  It's old enough to feel a bit retro but is still passable as a modern game.  I think the somewhat blocky terrain is it's biggest problem but they upgraded much in the game and are still working on modding it.  The source code was released years ago so there's been a lot done on it.

I just picked this one up last weekend. Excellent game!

[Apocalypse 31]

Just get the second version: Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum

http://www.gog.com/game/comanche_vs_hokum


Then download the All-In-One Mod pack here:

http://eechcentral.simhq.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


That will give you numerous flyable helos in an old game, with a bunch of different dynamic campaign locations to choose from too.  It's old enough to feel a bit retro but is still passable as a modern game.  I think the somewhat blocky terrain is it's biggest problem but they upgraded much in the game and are still working on modding it.  The source code was released years ago so there's been a lot done on it.

Apache and Hind are not the EE sims. Still, I won't argue with your suggestions! You can never have too many sims.

How does it compare? The EECH dynamic campaign is pretty awesome

[Nefaro]

What sim is that? Strike Fighters 2?

Yes, with the Operation Desert Storm mod from combatace.com.

Yup.  I blogged about his. :) http://jomnisgames.blogspot.sg/2014/05/desert-tornado-strike-fighters-2.html

Does that Desert Storm mod come with the extra flyable aircraft or did you have to d/l & install them separately?

Also.. which versions of SF2 did it require?  I suppose SF2: Israel is one, for the terrain?

[vyshka]

F-117 was the follow up to F-19, after the world found out what the Stealth Fighter actually looked like.

One of the model manufacturers, Revell I think, sold an F-19 model long before it became unclassified. The edges were soft and rounded, not at all like the multi-faceted F-117A.

Tom Clancy also wrote about a "cathedral bell" shaped stealth aircraft, in Red Storm Rising.

Yes, I had one of those models when I was a kid.

I also have two copies of JD Webster's Air Superiority tabletop game, which came out in '86 or '87 and has the old "F-19" guesswork version with the curvy bell shape represented.  I think it was even listed as being supersonic and able to carry AtA missiles in that one.  Surprising because all the other aircraft data cards were pretty much right on the money. 

I'm pretty sure the real look and info started coming out in the press after Op Just Cause in Panama ('88) and started filtering into common knowledge.  That was the first conflict they admitted to using them and went somewhat public IIRC.  So most gaming stuff after that point had switched to the real F-117 look, and not the "F-19" guesstimate.

My recollection is it became known when one of them crashed in CONUS during a night time training flight.

[jomni]

What sim is that? Strike Fighters 2?

Yes, with the Operation Desert Storm mod from combatace.com.

Yup.  I blogged about his. :) http://jomnisgames.blogspot.sg/2014/05/desert-tornado-strike-fighters-2.html

Does that Desert Storm mod come with the extra flyable aircraft or did you have to d/l & install them separately?

Also.. which versions of SF2 did it require?  I suppose SF2: Israel is one, for the terrain?

All the stuff you need are in the 3 zip files.   But the base game is SF2 Europe because of all the NATO stuff.  The map is custom so no need for Israel tiles.

[BanzaiCat]

Thanks for posting this, Jarhead. I'm putting it on my wishlist for the near future. I loved this game - played it to death on the Babbage's store computer where I worked, printed out screenshots and built a rough 3D cockpit out of the screenshots for a store display...I didn't have my own IBM until late 1989 and worked there for many months prior, so my only IBM gaming fix came from hanging out in the back of the store and playing the crap out of everything I could get my hands on. Those were the days.

[Nefaro]

All the stuff you need are in the 3 zip files.   But the base game is SF2 Europe because of all the NATO stuff.  The map is custom so no need for Israel tiles.

Thanks.  I'll have to look this up.

[DennisS]

F-117 was the follow up to F-19, after the world found out what the Stealth Fighter actually looked like.

One of the model manufacturers, Revell I think, sold an F-19 model long before it became unclassified. The edges were soft and rounded, not at all like the multi-faceted F-117A.

Tom Clancy also wrote about a "cathedral bell" shaped stealth aircraft, in Red Storm Rising.

Yes, I had one of those models when I was a kid.

I also have two copies of JD Webster's Air Superiority tabletop game, which came out in '86 or '87 and has the old "F-19" guesswork version with the curvy bell shape represented.  I think it was even listed as being supersonic and able to carry AtA missiles in that one.  Surprising because all the other aircraft data cards were pretty much right on the money. 

I'm pretty sure the real look and info started coming out in the press after Op Just Cause in Panama ('88) and started filtering into common knowledge.  That was the first conflict they admitted to using them and went somewhat public IIRC.  So most gaming stuff after that point had switched to the real F-117 look, and not the "F-19" guesstimate.

My recollection is it became known when one of them crashed in CONUS during a night time training flight.

Anyone that lived anywhere near Tonopah Nevada knew about these for years, before they became common knowledge.

A very large C-17A landed at Tonopah every Monday morning, from Nellis AFB, and took all the troops back home to Nellis on Friday. I know this, as I turned down an assignment as WWO (Wing Weather Officer) for the flying wing back in 1983.

[BanzaiCat]

Do any of you have F117A installed through GOG?

I bought it a while ago but never had time to futz with it. Tonight I decided to give it a try. I'm in the cockpit and pretty much all the controls work except for the throttle (key command: SHIFT + for max power, = to increase thrust, - to decrease). I press SHIFT + over and over and over and over again, and even =, but nothing happens. No engine sound, no thrust, nothing.

If I hit SHIFT - (which is immediate no thrust), I hear the engines spool down. But as I am sitting on the runway with THRUST 000, this makes no sense. No engine sound, no thrust, nothing.

And yes, I set brakes and flaps and changed my radar to NAV - did everything I can think of. Irritatingly, the manual just says "Turn on your engines by tapping Max Power (SHIFT +)." Yeah, I tried that about 100 times, and nothing.

Every other control seems to work except for the engine throttle, which kind of makes this more of a sit in the cockpit and do nothing simulator. Any ideas?

If this is some weird simple fix, I'd be most grateful to hear it.

[bobarossa]

Someone posted on the GOG forum for the game with the same problem back in September but no one responded.  I do see there is an update from January '15.  Don't have the game myself.

[BanzaiCat]

Someone posted on the GOG forum for the game with the same problem back in September but no one responded.  I do see there is an update from January '15.  Don't have the game myself.

Thanks, bobarossa. I looked for and found the forum you were talking about (I missed it in my search).

One of the threads recommended remapping the key, which I tried to do, but of course that didn't work. I posted in the two threads on that board that indicated issues - one with the recommendation, one without. I also sent a support request to GOG as this makes absolutely zero bloody sense. No reason all the keys should work except those two.

[DoctorQuest]

I don't know what to say. It seems to work fine on my Win 7 system.

Dumb question. I assume you have a USB keyboard. Is it hooked directly into a PC port or are you using a hub? I am reaching here......