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when moving the slider i found the "my missile miss bus, my missile miss train, my missile miss truck, my missile miss plane"-game mode good for pacifists but not taxpayers. ($50,000 for a maverick to go "poof" in a shrubbery):doh:

hopefully the FC2.0 ones will have voiceovers.

GAH! 5 weeks delivery from Canada apparantly! Must be strapped to a passing cod.

I had similar "lockon.exe stopped responding" crashes in win7 x64 till I ran the game in vista sp1 compatibility mode. Stopped the crashes.....so far. rt click .exe Properties Compatibility Run in compatibility for…”vista sp1” as 1.12b was pushed out to make FC work on vista, this is the least flaky compatibility mode for win 7 x64 that I have experienced you've killed UAC right? i had a nightmare fannying around till i followed this http://www.dutch-flankers.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_Flaming_Cliffs_on_Windows_7 from scratch. then all i had to do was the compatability fix.

Whoa! Viper, you had the paint burnt off your nose there by that missile. I guess that would be a valid combat procedure, (cannons vs strela), if you were in a michael bay movie.:lol:

touched it once. broke game. reset to middle. end of.

head over to SIMHQ http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2142529/All_of_the_LOMAC_FC_Training_M.html#Post2142529 excellent tutorials & all based on SU-25 and... http://www.flankertraining.com/ironhand/news.html has the best set of video tutorials for various craft. really helped me. there are possibly more that i havent unearthed yet............

I know but the key point is that you 'could' have fired first because you locked at 3mn, whereas he didn’t fire till you were at 1.8mn-ish. That gave you 1.2mn to have a fag /wagon wheel before he was a threat to you. On A-10 campaign mission 2 when I am ground stabilized to road next to approaching Strelas, I get a lock at the exact same time they fire no matter how much I nudge the designator over the target. At first I thought I was holding the designator near some high contrast shrubbery, but I have tried on the road itself. Same thing. I will try your setup, “A runway, a Strela and me”, later in the week.

"early 2010" could mean up till June the 29th. June the 30th could be classed as "mid 2010" then anything after that, "late 2010". unless FC 2.0 hasnt launched by then in which case, "mid 2010" could be pushed back till the day before new years eve. Funny old world

Viper I played that track you sent of you bearing down on a lone Strela on a runway. You get good optical lock at around 3mn, whereas the Strela doesn’t launch at you till you are at 1.8mn, (at work so can’t remember the exact figures). You therefore can launch first and be extending away spewing flares before he launches. Are you fighting against units from the ‘Stevie Wonder’ regiment? J I get nailed at 3mn when I use optical Mavs. My Strelas are on red bull compared to that guy! I now use IR mavs against AA threats, (to save my sanity). No matter how much red bull they drink they can’t beat a 6mn lock!

Or just use ir mavs, get lock earlier, launch furthur and rtb with clean trousers? I hear what you say viper but that seems a little 'square peg round hole' when an ir mav is so superior. I may however be being a wuss! Once back to my rig I will experiment.

max range on the optically guided maverick is the same range at which the strela launches at me. I see the flash if the sam launch in the mfd as I get a contrast lock. Wingman useless at sead. He drops ordnance as soon as he is shot at.

Guys Back in mud moving mode. A-10 campaign mission #2. Max cloud ceiling 5,000 so no 'high and dry' diving from 15,000ft tactics to avoid shilkas and strelas. Aforementioned threats and sloping terrain make cold war fulda gap 'down in the weeds' tactics suicidal. So, a compromise. Employing mavericks at maximum standoff, as there is no air threat, I can motor at 5000. The issue is in my attempts at aqquiring using the optical 'k' model maverick. With it's feeble 3x zoom I can get a lock but only at the same time the strela launches. It's like a game of chicken and far too dangerous to be the correct methodology. No problem with the 'd' model with it's IR seeker and 6x zoom. I can pick the threats off at safe standoff. So the question is....... Are optical mavericks just for none AA equiped targets like tanks and apc's. Preserve IR mavericks for the strelas and shilkas?

Gah! Missed all the fun. Bloody Masterchef!! Seriously though, how dare ED make a game, (in 2003), that still pushes modern PC's. The very cheek!

Stays put like heavy metal things stay put. Performs well IMO but i havent had an X52, (only a Cyborg, then a Cyborg EVO). The software is not as simple as run of the mill plug and play, but is very flexible. The hog could be good but all we have seen are tiny glimpses and no pricing or release dates so far.

that sorted it. cheers. it was the missile effectiveness slider i think. couldnt find the .cfg or .lua file so just reset to defaults in game. btw my "view angle min" are differnet to yours CameraAngleLimits = {} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_27] = {160.0, -76.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_33] = {160.0, -79.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_25] = {109.0, -70.0, 104.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_39] = {116.0, -85.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iMiG_29] = {160.0, -80.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iMiG_29K] = {140.0, -65.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iA_10] = {160.0, -72.0, 145.0} CameraAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iF_15] = {160.0, -81.0, 145.0} any idea why?

Guys I changed my graphics.cfg file to “1.6” FOV and that works okay. I avoid the settings page now so it won’t reset. I tried an f-15 mission. Fine. Better SA. Like it I tried a few a-10 missions. And every single maverick I fired missed. By the same margin, below and to the right, (i think). Do you think the forced FOV change has somehow messed up the HUD alignment? As mavs are targeted using an essentially auto-locking visual means, this may have been borked by changing FOV. I will revert and test. I swear I saw a little mod on lockonfiles to tweak the targeting pipper but ignored it, (and can’t remember the name now). It could be another mod messing with stuff. Without mavericks, the A-10 is just a tour bus!:noexpression:

hang on. if i have a crap pc and i want to run a game at max settings.....maybe if i rant about it, magical elves will appear and make it work. or. turn some sliders down and. stop insulting people who try to help

cheers brit. i know that. it just feels like cheating somehow. daft i know.

CGTharos is quite right. Read the excellent, “Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War”. Once deployed to Iraq, the pilots soon abandoned their “down in the weeds” training tactics for medium altitude sorties only going in with guns once out of mavericks and once they were sure AA threats were taken out. The low approach seems to have been advocated for radar avoidance of the perceived threat from the Iraqi air force which didn’t really materialise.

It bloody worked. Getting below them. The 29's can still dodge your missiles like they are stoned bumblebees chasing Usain Bolt, but they cant dodge 3 OF THEM!! .....[and my campaign wont save....after all that...back to 1st mission...delete saved states....this game is a PATIENCE SIMULATOR].....

I learn a new thing every day, (slaps forehead). I've had the bloody thing in 4:3 FOV all this time!!!!! ggggaaaAAHHHHHHH!! My eyes are open now!

Nice and easy to fly. Easy to land. Looks mean. Only issue is that it’s pretty slow, which doesn’t inspire confidence whilst avoiding SAM's in the later campaign missions. Good as a trainer though. I too struggled with treetop ingress and attacks. The trouble is, down in the weeds you have precious little room to manouver to avoid SAMS, (see iron hands excellent A-10 SAM avoidance tutorial here , http://www.flankertraining.com/ironhand/a2g.htm, where he rarely flies under 4,000ft to allow for his split-s evasion manouver). ps. I used the pot cleaner on my 2nd hand Cougar. Good as new now.

Always assume that a column has some anti-air protection. Usually at the tail end. Make a high approach from their 3 or 9 for recon. If you have IR mavericks, scan the columns profile and look for the distinctive shape of the AAA vehicles. Kill them first then it’s a turkey shoot. Strafe the convoy from their 6 to line them up nicely. Btw. I recently started the A-10 campaign again as the F-15 was stressing me out too much and I was getting caught in my own frag blast. Low alt low bomb / strafe runs are inadvisable against armed targets. Pickle at 4-5,000ft for safety.

Life is one giant Donald!:doh: