Flanker15

Eventually all military tasks will be replaced by "The Machines" aswell as civilian tasks. Then we will inevitably by wiped out by an error in the program or a robot rebellion. We must strive to make our robots as kick ass as possible since our technology will be our legacy to the universe and when aliens stumble over the remains of our civilization I want them to say "Damn these guys built some kick ass robots"!

Spiders on Drugs! Go now!

It's not relevant for download purchases but they could use the non-intrusive star force protection that the FC DVD version has.

So it's a bit like LongBow 2's campaign?

I don't have much personal experience but most people here seem to go with a Saitek X52 hotas and the CH rudder peddals.

I want the Hind or the Mi-24 or maybe the Mi-35.

Thinking about ways to defend yourself against fighters I was wondering if you can call in fighter support in the event enemy planes appear? I'm sure that you could do it in LongBow2 where it was useful since your stingers were rather ineffective against planes.

Why do I want to fight helicopters in the Ka-50? Well for one reason it's cool and something I haven't done in a simulator of this caliber. Also I found a vid on tube of the effects of a Vikhr on a plane and tank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z03y04imhQg

Ok so now that I've determined that there will be no AAM for the Ka-50, I'm curious about the effect a Vikhr proxy explosion has on a helicopter? It's a dual HEAT warhead so how much damage could one detonating next to a chopper do (damage rotor, knock a bit off or total disintegration) and does it have special fragmentation bits? Also in the game since there is no fragmentation modeling how do proxy triggers work in the engine, do they just have an area of blast effect?

Do you think that AAM payloads (and other payloads) and a RWR could be tacked on with mods?

What happens if you run into a situation where you must fight a plane? You die right?

Ok so let me get this straight.... Lets say you are hovering or something and the chopper is trying to yaw to the left a bit. You'd apply rudder until the movement stops then press the force trim button, after which the chopper won't keep moving even with the rudder centered. Is this right?

What about stinger missiles on Apaches? Is that realistic?

I was wondering if there is anyway at all to put R-60s on the KA-50 in BS? I know that it was said that choppers use ATGMs for AA but I have seen photos with them on Ka-50s and it is in their payload specs. It would be weird not to include something that's realistic when so much realism is being put into the sim.

One of the ED guys said that it would have proxy detonation for air targets and I guess area targets. It was important since AA missiles aren't used.

Does anyone know why the KA-50 was designed with it's cannon mounted into the fuselage instead on a nose turret? The Mi-28 mounts the same cannon on a turret and is the same general size as the KA-50. Is it because controlling a turret would be too hard for a single pilot or is it for balance or streamlining?

I thought it was a screenshot at first glance but closer examination shows that it's a photo. The fact that it can make you think that it's a screenshot shows how good the model for the KA-50 in BS it!

I just got my X52pro a week ago and I know this isn't about rudder pedals but it's soooo cool. All these buttons and toggles with lights, I got annoyed at how how far down the hand rest was at first but then I discovered: ZOMG it's adjustable how cool is that! Oh and how the fire button turns from green to red when you flip up the cover that's just plain coolness. I can just sit and look at it and it impresses me! (Note my previous joystick was a SW2).

But the water is under the land! So even when your miles away from the sea the engine is still rendering water. If you put the water effects on high with reflections it renders all the reflections of the ground which kicks the FPS in the nuts.

I'd like some pedals one day but this track IR thing seems interesting aswell. But they're both so expensive!!! 260A$ for IR and 240A$ for pedal! Also with this Track IR thing, if you look left wouldn't you actual head be looking away from the screen?

This Force trim button do you simply need to press it to trim or is there another button that I need to press aswell to control the amount of trim? Also on my new X52 there is a perfect button under the thumb for this!

Yay I got it to run, turns out LB:A has all of the patches and fixes already installed so running the patch again destroys the exe file!

Still can't get it to run. I install the game see that it's version 2.07F so i run the patch, it says that it can't find the old files but has found a file of the same name so it won't run ok.... So I do all the other things in the guide and go to start it in software Error: windows can't access this file, make sure you have approprite permissions! WTF I'm the administrator! Can't get anyfurther and it doesn't help that AVG seems to think LB2.exe is a virus!

Ok I'm gonna try to get it running again with a new copy of LB2! I picked up a copy of LB antholigy for $7 on ebay and whats more the guy lives only a few km away

Good luck! LB2 is one of the most uncooperative games in history to get working in XP! I've never been able to make it run using any of the guides.