telepathiclove

Sorry to hear about the cracking. I have to say though, it's not even in the slightest bit unusual or unexpected. It happens to every game now. (With only a couple of exceptions). I also suspect that even with the new tweaks like the online activation etc, it will still be cracked. Of the last few games I read about with that kind of protection, one lasted about a week until it was cracked, one actually lasted very long and took about a month, and one (very recently) was cracked the day after it was released... I think it's inevitable unfortunately. Hopefully there can be a CD Key check on the multiplayer because at least then it might encourage some pirates to buy it so they can do multiplayer. The rest is down to fate though really. I personally would put a message on the front of the game too. Before the company logos etc, have a cleverly worded message that appeals to the sense of fairness in the downloader and explains that the money IS needed to support the game in the future and for there to ever be a chance of addons/sequel etc. I think most pirates are not even convinced it's a problem. Oh well. Hopefully there will be enough good people out there who will buy it anyway. And I hope the big marketing blitz to gets the word out to a lot of people.

Those are some of the best shots I've seen of this game. Especially the second one (from left). The graphics look really great.

Yeah that's exactly what I thought too. I personally appreciated what he said though because I am probably going to play with a lot of game mode settings. But to the average gamer, even this would sound complicated and boring I think. They want to see something that resembles Comanche 4. Zipping around left and right and through valleys at high speed, firing rocket all over the place with tanks and buildings blowing up and then using the cannon on people etc. I am thinking that all might be done in different movies though, when they start marketing it to the west. Actually, I bet you will lol. I've seen your last ones so I bet you could nail this. I can't wait to see it :)

Thanks! That movie was great and I found that thread about "game mode". It sounds great :) It's almost like 2 games in one. I hope they advertise this a lot because I think it will be a lot more popular if average people know about the game mode and how fun it could be.

1) Has anyone played it with arcade type settings? I keep hearing about people doing nothing but crashing and how it has a steep learning curve and how it's crash crash crash. That is not everyone's idea of fun so I am just wondering if it can be simplified in the settings and to what extent? 2) Are there any missions to blow up bridges, and if so, do the bridges collapse? And how about the big dam I saw in a screenshot? Thanks :)

Do you speak Russian? If not, is it hard to navigate the menus and stuff?

Yeah nice shots =82=LAF :)

It's just nice to know there is realism and objects have clipping and stuff. I remember in the beta of RPG's I've played where you can run straight through trees :P Doesn't give the world a very good feel.

Wow they are pretty shots. Does your frame rate get really low when you fly over that area in the first pic, with lots of trees and buildings?

Lol :)

cool :)

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I'll never learn the procedure, so I am glad to hear that. I just want to take off, and fly around blowing stuff up. I would like to be able to land it properly though, I'm just not into flicking switches.

Cool that is the same as my PC except my CPU is a bit slower, but I think I can OC that. I'm hoping "High" is as high as the settings go.

They're super to me, cause I have nothing :P thanks :D

Thank you Russian people :) Thank you urze! :) That was great. The sky in that shot looks fantastic! Is that what it can look like in the game?

That can happen if you started the PC without the power supply connected. A lot of laptops put themselves in to a kind of low performance mode when they are started on just the battery. If you restart the laptop with it connected to the mains, then it should go to it's full speed. If you can run FC at low settings, my guess is that BS will run at low settings too. To be honest none of the components are terrible but none of them are good either unfortunately. Both the CPU and Graphics Card / chip are the most important components and they are pretty slow. It is good spec for a laptop though, just not very good for a gaming machine. Personally if I was you, I would consider putting together a proper gaming PC. Gaming on a laptop is just like fighting a losing battle in my opinion, unless you have lots of cash.

That was REALLY COOL!!! Thank you!! The game looks really good. It is movies like that which will make this game sell well in my opinion. Action packed movies with damage and stuff being blown up with adrenaline pumping music. I hope there are lots of movies like that.

I hope they make it a good demo. A good demo will sell the game, a very limited one can do the opposite. Being able to start on the ground and power up the chopper and watch the blades slowly turning and then get faster and faster... that would be a big deal and would attract a lot of people! And then it really should have the ability to fly around blow some stuff up - even if it's only one mission.

If you mean an option to enable big Hollywood style explosions and stuff, then yes I would love that, and personally I think it should be set like that as default too. They may add that some time too. To me, the most interesting thing will be to see just how flexible this game actually is. I have no idea how it will be. A sim is very valuable to sim fans, but not to arcade gamers. And conversely an arcade game is not much fun for sim players. So I will be interested to see if this game can get both types of gamer playing together in the same game. If it can do that, I will be very impressed. Although, it's not that difficult when I think that LOMAC achieved it to some extent at least.

Youtube is horrible unless it has that high quality option. Although I'll take whatever I can get :P It's going to be a long wait for us westerners so I really hope I can see some movies and screenshots and hopefully lots of discussion about the game.

I too would like to change my votes to be like this person: That would be so great!!! That is a great choice.

Harrier would be so great! And in second place, the F18 for sure. Third place the F16. And I guess the X35 is out of the question X)

I started with Falcon (1987). I'm old :P The first combat flight sim I really got drawn in by though, was F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988.)

I really value this highly. As good as it is to have a realistic chopper, I always thought it was very important to feel like you are actually fighting FOR someone or something too. I have played a few chopper games, Longbow 2, Apache vs Havoc, and they both had this and I loved it. It added extra tension and purpose to everything. I wasn't just jumping in to a flight simulator, I felt like I was actually going out on a mission and winning or losing mattered. The best of all for me, as I've said countless times, was Gunship 2000 :) That barely had any speech at all, but that was an action gamers dream. It had some good sim elements too but wow... the promotion aspect of that game was fantastic. It unlocked better choppers and let you control more wingmen etc. I really hope you have played it some time in your life. If not, I hope you can some time. (You can play it using DOSBOX). If there is one ultimate wishlist I had for your DCS game, it would be to encompass that from GS2000.