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Respect, nice music work Cool_t :thumbup: Ross..

Torwak, as usual great picss!!!!!:thumbup: Inbound.. Ross..

Respect for this kind piece of art!! Ross..

Very nice sharing Kush.. Ross..

Pc gameplay isn't a sim magazine, so i think it's great they would review this sim. The person didn't had the time to make him clear with simulation, so i think he tried but was to hard for him.(and this is normal as not full time simmer) Again this isn't a sim magazine. So don't be so offensive against. Ross..

Translated by a friend Coenraad, If we are honest, then we'll have (with allot of pain in the heart) to admit that the realistic flightsims aren't the most populair type of games at the moment. But still The Fighter Collection (TFC) dares to come up with Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark. The goal of TFC is to continuously present new aircraft, and to start this initiative, they put nothing less then the Ka-50 "Black Shark" Hokum-A Attack helicopter in our lap. This Russian made chopper get presented by breathtaking state of teh art graphics and the flightmodel is so far perfected that even real life pilots get touched. Therefor it doesn't surprise that you can't just rush into the air to attack some bad guys on the 330.000km² big playing map of the Kaukausus mountains, but that you'll really have to dig in the controls and technikal matters before you even can think of fireing a missile or a high explosive round. From the startup procedure, navigating and weapons systems to safely landing with this distinctive chopper will take you hours if not days to fill with this extremely pushed trough realism. But no worries, for the people that all this realism is a little bit to much they have implemented a "Game" mode, in wich the playability is most important and realism is toned down a few knots. In that way you only get a fraction of the posabilities of the game and the satisfaction in the end will never be as high as when playing it the "Hard way", but the fact that this mode is present means that TFC is clearly aiming for a big audience. We'll have to give TFC credit for the fact that even in the "Game" mode the game never slips down to a brain dead arcade game, on the conturary, in that way you can slowly raise the realism bit by bit and still get to the level of Ace pilot. Graphicaly Black Shark has two faces. On one side there is the splendit cocpit detail and finish and the astounishing damage model, and also the display of all the other aircraft and vehicels is quite good. It gets a bit less when you are flying low above the ground, and look at the ground detail. The towns and villages and industrial areas are still quite allright, but the country in general does look like graphics from a few years back. As for game modes, this game has the complete arsenal with it. You can just dive into the action or chose one of the single missions, but the Campain has ofcours the best and most exiting things to offer, with a continuously changing front line accoring to your successes (or failing). Trough the mission editor you can build your own exiting scenarios and also the multiplayer with possabily to play cöoperative missions makes sure you'll have many hours of intense fun ahead of you. DCS: Black Shark has been in development for years and that you notice in the extreme detail and finish. It's an absolute must have for every flightsim enthousiast, and if you have been waiting to get your joystick out of that dusty corner, this is the perfect time. Hopefully TFC won't let us wait years for the follow up, and maybe the (combat) flightsim genre gets the attention back it atualy deserves. Pro's: Super realistic flight characteristics Dynamic campain Chalenging AI Cons: Extremely hard in simulation mode Ground detail Picture comments: 1) The weapons systems on the Black Shark make it to a true nightmare for everything that is on the ground. Rockets, armor penetrating- and high explosive rounds, he's got it all. Verus enemy aircraft he defends himself using missiles. 2)The Cockpit is abouts totaly clickable, what hightens the realism. Once you know what all those "clickable" buttons mean, you can easely allready call your self half a pilot. Translation by Coenraad "Cougar" Noorloos

Awesome model :thumbup: Ross..

Review Black Shark, Pc gameplay (region Belgium - the Netherlands) Ross.. The reviewer told me, he could only test in arcade mode, because he didn't got enough time for this review, so.. But as final score 82 isn't that badddd!!

Congratz 51, nice effort!! :thumbup: Ross..

Happy Birthday SKF :pilotfly: Ross...

Good work from my site of view, great job. No changes necessary.. Not possible to compare A109 and the Ka-50, so.. Out..

Still diff paintings on diff heli's. Ross...

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yes very nice skin, looks real:thumbup: Ross...

Another detailed picture..

Lol great work, i'm working on a Seaking Airbase with this kind of colors on our heli. Someone already made a Mig29 skin also in this kind of colors, :thumbup:

Nice to see a friends birthday!!! Happy BD Taipannnnn:thumbup: Ross...

Belgium Air Force.

Happy Birthday Fudd :thumbup::pilotfly: Ross..

Nice video.. Ross...

Happy New Year..

In name of the whole LO community, i thank ya!!!:thumbup: Ross...

Great work :thumbup: +1

I saw your demo Frazer, great job man.. Edit: Ah, amazing flying Frazer, very respectfull demo.. http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha2qzwtKZig Grtz, Ross...

Great show Frazer, een pluim op je hoed!! Good Job.. Ross..