This is my most recent film, I finished it yesterday. It's short, only about 3 minutes long, but I hope it has a powerful message.
What I wanted to get across was that we have a beautiful sim. I always liked the sunsets in lockon, so I tried to capture this in my movie. When many of us play online, we tend to forget what lockon really is. People complain about ECM strobing, and chaff dumping and missile spamming, and how this can be more realistic and that can be more realistic and yada yada. However, maybe we should take a step back and realize that, frankly, lockon is beautiful. What we have is not an arcade game, but an honest to god sim. Granted, it's not as realistic as F4, but it's all there, and if it's not the exact procedure used in real life, it's at least represented. Does realism equal fun? Do you look at a game and say "it's not realistic, so it can't be fun."? I don't. Maybe we all should think about this when we fire the sim up. I truly hope this community stays strong until a fighter is released for DCS, and maybe even after this. There is no other fast mover sim that comes close to lockon in terms of graphical detail, realism and community support.
Lockon is beautiful. This appeared to be a theme a few months ago, and it's still true. Lets keep lockon going for many more years to come. It will be a sad day indeed when we log on to HL and no one is there.
Any way, here's the movie.
I had difficulty uploading to Stage6. I'll add the hi-res version once I get it straightened out.