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When your mission is to escort a tank squad inside an enemy controled area, then you kinda have.

Sounds great :) Looks like my kind of mission. Will definitely try this once I got time :)

Depends :) On the first try I try to the default payload, becuase I want to play the mission the way it was designed by the mission designed. When that fails - mostly because you're tasked to destroy really unreasonable amount of units, i.e. 4 groups of tanks + some bmps - then I select my payload, and the more silly the mission is, the more silly my payload will be (i.e. 6xAGM-65D + 4xCBU 107)

They would. Atleast in Kosovo they had.

The only thing I kinda miss in DCS:A10C are practice missions, like they were in FC 2.0 (i.e. F15C- Sensor practice). Sure, they are easy to do in mission editor, but it is nice to have such missions out of the box.

I have the same rig as you, except that my C2D is only 2,67Ghz, and I'm able to run it after some tweaking at 1650x1050 med settings. You'll need to use the tweak in mustang sig, It isn't running at 30+ fps all the time, but it is playable.

Clear weather + targeting pod = +15000ft for me. CAP is there to handle Migs. SEAD is there to handle medium-high altitude sams. Flying low is a good recipe to have your day ruined by manpads and AAA. :)

It's good and interesting when you hear it the first time... but hearing the same, mission unrelated, 'realistic com' for months and years? It will get old fast.

The same is happening in BS and FC 2.0

Take On : Zombies DLC is confirmed april fools joke. But the Take On : Helicopter game seems to be legit. From Take On facebook page:

The main problem is that on some missions (especialy the georgian hammer campaign) you just don't have the ammunition to sanatize the area before engaging tanks. You, as a player, just fly high to avoid any AAA and IR sams threats. And flying high is something the AI just isn't competent to do. Especialy when it comes to CBUs, because, since FC days, they cannot dive bomb, they straight lvl bomb at low altittude and low speed. They will descent to 1,5k feet, slow down to about 180knots and they fly like this for several miles before finally getting to target. edit: Btw, Love watching these vids, keem them comming :)

The Microsoft security essentials are pretty good. I looked at some test some time ago and was pretty surprised that it can hold on pair with payed solutions.

Too bad Freespace SCP doesn't support multiple control devices :( For me, that's the no.1 space 'sim'.

Messed helicopters models aren't something community cannot fix by itself. Flight model on the other hand..;) I don't expect DCS depth, and anything around the Lockon depth would satisfy me.

The preformance boost from a dedicated sound card is very small, if any at all. So it comes down to personal preference, whether or not you can hear the difference between an onboard and dedicated card.

If a lone tank gets close to Farp then I hope that ground forces are able to handle one single tank because I'm practicaly out of ammo, and this isn't CoD.

It doesn't for me.

It would not, you have an old laptop that was never meant to be a gaming platform, and the a10c is pretty demanding on both GPU and CPU power.

You can download it freely with the torrent. It has no private tracker. Imho it will run very poorly on your laptop.

You don't get FPS loss around cities with high autogen settings in FSX? I certainly get.

I'm curious. Physics are some of the weakest parts of BI games since OFP.

I don't know what you will do after I tell you that potassium in your body has bigger radioactivity then the iodine in the concentration it currently has. Here they estimated the activity of iodine to be around 0,1 Bq/m3, while the potassium in human body has the activity of 4000 Bq...

The training missions are just videos that are playing. They were initialy ment to be actual missions, but were changed to videos to preserve compatibility for future patches.

The situation is somewhat similiar to open falcon. The full original is required, as SCP is still using some assets from it (sounds, missions, UI...) The original can be bought on Good old Games - http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/freespace_2 for 6bucks After you have the original downloaded and installed, you head to http://www.fsoinstaller.com/files/installer/java/FreeSpaceOpenInstaller.jar and download the installer. Use it to download the SCP to the directory where Freespace 2 is installed. Documentation on the installer is here http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/FreeSpace_Open_Installer

The Freespace 2 code was given to the community by volition when it was obvious that interplay/volition is doomed. Freespace 2 SCP (Source code project) is what community made from it, and the results are excellent. Not to mention the mods that grown from this (i.e. the babylon project, babylon 5 remake)