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err.. omg. I've never seen those pics before... How the hell did he get it back home??? If you try doing something like that in the su-25, it just won't do it... it'll roll over and head for the ground.. (I realise it's a sim). But yeah, some of those photos are inconsistent but it still looks cool.

Bah... Just about to give up on flaming cliff's last mission (11)? I can barely get enough time to fire off a missile before having to fly evasive manouevers.. For some odd reason, the SAM sites seem to have this fantastic reload time.. :( But... it all allowed me to show you just how sturdy this plane is..

Some of us don't have trackir for various reasons, but I notice BS's spangly 3d cockpit that you can look around in etc.. To my thinking, some of the views inside the cockpit just aren't going to be available to those without trackir. Does this mean there is an option to turn off rendering of these areas to increase frame rate?

I'm just curious... are there any lockon mod teams who are doing scenery packs for Lock on? The reason I ask is because I'm in the middle of writing an essay on why democracy hasn't come to the middle east properly and I just figured it would be great to have a middle-east campaign setting.. (I don't want to come off sounding like a gun-toting anti islamic flight sim freak. I'd just like to see some more contemporary campaign settings rather than the old Russians vs. USA. ones)

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Ok, I'm on a SEAD mission for the SU-25t. Mission 11 in fact of flaming cliffs. Now, I get to roughly the mission area and then find there are two f-16's ahead, while the fighter cover is covering an air group behind us. No matter what I do, I get shot down. Put jammer on? They just Home on Jam. Go low... some odd reason they can just wipe me out. Anybody got any ideas on how to do this?

nope, it wasn't that. the front wheel and the assembly for it just ripped away from the plane when i lowered the gear while i was descending, not on the tarmac. i wasn't over speed. I had the dual sensation of being all tingly that this was possible but i was also going to have the worst end to a mission. ever.

:( you mock me sir.:P

Ok I was playing mission 10 out of flaming cliffs. I can't remember its name so we'll just call it mission ten. I had about 75% of the mission done when I got a small nick in the aircraft from some AAA burp. I didn't think it was a massive problem as either engine 2 was doing a couple of rpm's slower or I was getting a dodgy reading on the engine.. It was still working though. Russian betty pipes up and says i'm low on fuel.. mainly because I kept trying to do Iron hand's manouever everytime someone got radar lock on me so as opposed to heading right back, i blew up some targets of opportunity with the remaining missiles and then headed for the nearest friendly airbase.. All is well and I'm passing said airbase. It's at this point I notice that my engines say that they're not throttling back past about 6 (can't remember how many rpm 0's are needed..) fine.. I'll get on the glide path and then cut them on the final approach. It's at this point I'm lined up, ready to land and doing about 400kph. I've got flaps on full and I'm slowing down so I lower the landing gear... and then there's a big thump... my nose wheel is heading for the ground at an alarming speed (as in it actually just ripped off).. Is that even likely to happen?!? When the thing finally came to a stop after a belly landing it promptly blew up before i even ejected...:cry:

:confused: I left this thread for like 6 hours and it's turned into this behemoth! Airtito! how do you know so much?!? I guess this means i need to go learn a little something about co-axial helicopters in order to get some decent skill at flying the BS... Oh... btw.. if anyone is planning on modding for BS when it's out... do an AH-64 D please :p

To tell truth though.. I'm a little concerned. Flight sims are kind of notorious for bad FPS.. they're kind of system hogs. LO:MAC is no exception, especially with the smoke... Here's my two pence: Look for the video on the website showing the black shark dancing around a column of trucks. Notice how you get the dust clouds beneath it as it flies close to the ground. Now, when you crash land in the SU-25's and switch to F2 to admire this, the crash generates (while in motion) the same dust cloud... but also the FPS goes to about 3-5 as well during this.. Combine this with a full 3D cockpit, are we going to see some bad frame rates? (I know someone posted a thread about LO:MAC BS called 'will it kill my pc') The fact that the detail on the vehicles has been increased probably means a lower ceiling of operation so there could be quite a bit of that 'dust' flying about.

:icon_jook Am I drunk? No! Whenever I fly a mission, if it's in a new aircraft from lomac ( I still have to go through the SU-25, Migs, F-15) I can virtually guarantee that since I'm still learning I'm probably going to get shot. The AFM for the SU-25 was great as it allowed for crash landings... these were hard to pull off mind you.. it was tough to find flat land in flaming cliffs (hence the name) but when you crash landed, you could then admire your lovely buggered-up aircraft. Is it going to be the same in Black shark? Probably... But helicopters don't glide.. So is anybody able to tell me whether or not we'd get the chance to auto-rotate in the black shark... for instance if a tail rotor was lost? Last question, someone explain to me what 'azimuth' means.. i have a vague idea but without looking it up, its true meaning eludes me.

thanks Ironhand, I'll take a look later. I haven't had a chance to print off the whole of the manual yet, I'm doing it in chunks, but thankyou for the input over the trim all of you. I'll just be careful to avoid hitting 'a' instead of 'shift-a' when i'm approaching the target area next time :rolleyes:

Ok, this is just a quick question... Is AP bugged? A couple of times i've flown a mission but turned the AP on by mistake at the last minute.. usually something like heading or alt-hold... The problem is, sometimes my plane just barrel rolls and points down... almost as if it had turned into a manic depressive lemming.. Just now, I flew an SU25t mission and i hit AP by mistake. When I hit alt-9 to turn it off, the lights went out, granted but the plane was still trying to turn right as much as possible.. the unfortunate result was CFIT. I tried pressing Alt-t as if the AP had fiddled with the trims but no dice.. So is this some long standing bug or what?

There's another trick for me though... sometime in the future I will kill my saitek cyborg 3d gold. It's a POS. Half the time when I start my PC it fails to initialize, which means I need to unplug and replug. Furthermore, when using the hat to move the pipper, the thing just flings around so it's tough to do fine aiming with it.

I know this is a very superficial question and I should spend less time admiring my plane, but I can't help but notice just how great the SU-25t looks whereas the rest of the aircraft look a little plain. The turbines for the A-10 don't even spin for example. If I was being honest, it's not a major issue, but I'm just asking anyhoo.. Mainly because since Lomac is quite a niche game, people generally have 'powerhouses' of pc's since its initial release... Only problem is it does suffer its slow downs occaisionally.. (I'm really looking forward to Black shark)

Ok. FC by itself is hard.. that first mission is giving me a headache, so i decided to try out the vanilla campaign for the SU-25t.. the one about eco-terrorists who have some how managed to steal a load of hot-pooh military hardware and no one knows who they are.. :icon_pidu The second mission basically involves a long, convoluted flight path that eventually puts you up against two SU-25's and two aa boats. Now, the SU-25's are a pain, but if you drop the tanks and don't announce your presence until about 2.5 miles behind them then you're ok... but the boats... The boats are beneath a low.. I guess fog bank. Now, you can't see them beneath it... I don't think the SU-25t has an IR loadout to see beneath.. so to ensure a hit you pretty much have to go beneath the cloud... However: My pc normally has about 30-40 fps while playing, but sometimes it'll slow down which necessitates a pause and alt-tab. But when I go beneath this fog bank and see the ships, I get 1-5 FPS. I really don't know what to do..

;) That was just ground pounding... I've got a serious problem with the SU-25t campaigns. For FC, just because it's flippin' hard but for the campaign entitled 'su-25t campaign' the second mission is causing me a headache. The turn rate of my plane won't match the su-25, I can' see the ships until i'm beneath the mist and as soon as i do, for some odd reason i get a slide show and die when i get close enough to use rockets on them.

:icon_supe Ok, I guess everyone loves Ironhand and his flanker training site, but considering i bought Lomac a week ago, with FC, I am fresh to this game and don't know everything yet. I played the a-10 campaign through but I wanted a clean score, so I started again.. I always had trouble with about three of the missions though as there was so much AA presence. For a while, when it came to tor's, tunguskas etc in missions I couldn't really figure out how to get past them unless i used a Mav on them. I've just watched one of Ironhand's 'how to operate in a SAM environment' and completed all three of those missions without a scratch - and i didn't destroy any of them either.. just my main targets. Thankyou ironhand for the tutorial!

meh.. I don't know.. I was looking forwared to Armed Assault but I just watched the video. It just looks like a spangly version of OFP. I think in fact it's just supposed to be OFP 1.5 and the gameplay there just looked like OFP with some bumpmaps or sommat. Maybe it'll be good, and yes, I loved helicopters in the first one, but I don't think that everything in OFP did chopper combat justice. The explosions for one just looked weak. The smoke also looks like someone grabbed a size 15 grey airbrush from paint shop pro. Ahh, I'm just naysaying. I loved OFP, but maybe i'll wait before i buy.

wierd.... I removed the wierd net framework account and got like.. 10-12 more fps :rolleyes:

In answer to your question, I''m using the latest official ATI drivers which is 6.3 I think. I may get another stick of RAM - I don't want to turn this into a 'how to upgrade your pc' thread, but lets just say that I bought my pc a month or two too early - the result is i don't have PCI-e and with vista (yuck) and DX 10 cards round the corner, plus the possibility of the reduction of available gfx cards for AGP, i'm not sure whether it's worth upgrading. much else other than the card and the RAM for this beastie for the time being.. btw: this was the result of my victory roll...

After getting annoyed over the face that one of the A-10 campaigns wants you to travel through a gauntlet of Tor's I did a quick flight in the SU-25t. All was going well until I did a victory roll over the avenger :rolleyes:.. Is this game RAM instensive though? The reason I ask is that once shot and when I had flames etc pouring out of the aircraft, and when I attempted a crash landing the game slowed to about 8-10 FPS. I know the game has a problem with smoke because on ground pounding missions, if you fly through the smoke, the FPS slows. So what's the deal? P4 3ghz 1024 MB RAM ATI 9800 pro (the old workhorse)

I'm curious, because i'm on the 2nd a-10 mission and we climb to about 15k feet before we reach our target area.. problem is that when I attempt to do CCIP on the buggers at that height, the pip drops alright but then i get a big cross and nothing releases. Then we both get shot down :P

yup. University of Aberdeen.. good place. My brother's up at Robert Gordon, but what do you mean by R.G.I.T? is that another acronym for the place?