Flight Sims

Gusington · March 10, 2012, 11:55:49 PM

^Oh. Buzzkill.

Shelldrake · March 11, 2012, 06:10:12 AM

Quote from: Gusington on March 10, 2012, 10:14:21 PM
Now I'm torn...don't know if I should get ARMA II, Take on Helicopters or EECH...leaning towards EECH with mod but those ARMA pics are delicious.

Download ARMA2 for free to try it out (no campaign but you can play missions) and buy EECH from GOG for the campaigns. Then you have the best of both worlds!

http://www.arma2.com/latest-news/arma2-free-announced_en.html

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/comanche_vs_hokum

Hartford688 · March 11, 2012, 06:57:45 AM

If you are feeling flush, you may also want to buy Apache Havoc - two other fine helos that merge in the big mod. Then you have 5 flyables...just on the odd chance you feel the need of variety from the Hind!

Toonces · March 11, 2012, 12:45:21 PM

Well, I hope Mig has found some interesting info in this thread.

Isn't life amazing right now? Here we've listed dozens of sims and some of them you can fly for free, or practically free, right now with a simple download. And not scrub sims, either, sims like RoF, BMS Falcon, ARMA II...technology is great.

Seems to me that life is really, really good as a simmer right now. There are just so many options from the various eras.

Nefaro · March 11, 2012, 01:09:46 PM

Quote from: Hartford688 on March 11, 2012, 06:57:45 AM
If you are feeling flush, you may also want to buy Apache Havoc - two other fine helos that merge in the big mod. Then you have 5 flyables...just on the odd chance you feel the need of variety from the Hind!

Flyable Apache and Havoc (along with Cobra, Hind, and some others) already comes with the mod for EE:Comanche Hokum. So all you really need is EECH and the mod.

MIGMaster · March 11, 2012, 03:24:11 PM

Quote from: Toonces on March 11, 2012, 12:45:21 PM
Well, I hope Mig has found some interesting info in this thread.

Isn't life amazing right now? Here we've listed dozens of sims and some of them you can fly for free, or practically free, right now with a simple download. And not scrub sims, either, sims like RoF, BMS Falcon, ARMA II...technology is great.

Seems to me that life is really, really good as a simmer right now. There are just so many options from the various eras.

Thanks Toonces - I've got some great info outta this thread . Who woulda thunk that sim options would be that great. I'm glad I asked !!! Now I just have to wait for my vacation days to get topped up and get my hands on some new sim hardware - errr.... don't tell my wife 40 Cent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-X

Gusington · March 11, 2012, 03:36:20 PM

I definitely got some awesome info too, especially since I'm coming back into sim after a 20+ year hiatus :)

Feel good thread of the weekend!

Toonces · March 11, 2012, 09:30:03 PM

Ok, so I've been flying Rise of Flight multiplayer pretty much exclusively all weekend. I figured out how to shoot video today and took some footage of a dogfight.

So, here's Rise of Flight: http://vimeo.com/38336593

For comparison, here's some campaign footage I took of Over Flanders Fields a few weeks ago. Now, in all fairness, I'm playing RoF on my new blazing rig, while I was playing OFF on my aging laptop. That's not to say I didn't have OFF cranked up, but it's still not exactly a fair comparison.

OFF: http://vimeo.com/37437521

Check six,
Toonces

Staggerwing · March 15, 2012, 07:27:19 AM

GOG just released D.I.'s HIND!
Now we can drop Spetsnaz behind Muji lines and medivac our Heroic Soviet Wounded again.

MIGMaster · March 15, 2012, 08:16:48 PM

This release made me a happy dude ! I was always such a good shot in this sim - I guess you could say my Hind sight is 20/20 ;)

Gusington · March 15, 2012, 08:30:00 PM

^...

Toonces · March 16, 2012, 12:11:53 AM

You guys will have to let me know how it goes with DI Hind. I dunno...it's hard to retrograde back to something like that with EECH's Hind on my HD.

Bison · April 15, 2012, 11:45:32 PM

OK. Somebody explain to me what is the difference between the free RoF download and the $50 Iron Cross Rise of Flight edition from Gamersgate.

steve58 · April 16, 2012, 07:26:47 AM

Quote from: Bison on April 15, 2012, 11:45:32 PM
OK. Somebody explain to me what is the difference between the free RoF download and the $50 Iron Cross Rise of Flight edition from Gamersgate.

The biggest difference is the free version comes with just two planes (Spad 13 and Albatros D.Va). ROF:IC comes with eight (Spad 13, Fokker D.VII, Albatross D.Va, Nieuport 28, SE.5a, Pfalz D.IIIa, Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr.1). Also, don't spend $50 for the Iron Cross version. It goes on sale semi-regularly for $10 (Amazon, JustFlight, etc) so I'd wait for a sale. You can buy additional planes for the both versions. The planes are frequently on sale form the ROF store.

LongBlade · April 16, 2012, 09:27:44 AM

Quote from: steve58 on April 16, 2012, 07:26:47 AM
Quote from: Bison on April 15, 2012, 11:45:32 PM
OK. Somebody explain to me what is the difference between the free RoF download and the $50 Iron Cross Rise of Flight edition from Gamersgate.

The biggest difference is the free version comes with just two planes (Spad 13 and Albatros D.Va). ROF:IC comes with eight (Spad 13, Fokker D.VII, Albatross D.Va, Nieuport 28, SE.5a, Pfalz D.IIIa, Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr.1). Also, don't spend $50 for the Iron Cross version. It goes on sale semi-regularly for $10 (Amazon, JustFlight, etc) so I'd wait for a sale. You can buy additional planes for the both versions. The planes are frequently on sale form the ROF store.

Crap. You guys are making me feel like I need to get into a flight sim. Like I have time for another game.