New idea (Mad) controllable SAM

[Kusch]

What do you think about controllable SAM in Lock-On? Really, really mad idea :devil_2:

 

Altek-300, S-300 simulation only for users :D

 

http://www.raspletin.ru/eng/lists/altek.html

 

[Guest Cali]

And what would be the use out of this?:dontgetit:

[GGTharos]

Personally I think it would be a -great- idea having a player control the IADS to some degree.

[AerialHawk]

That's awesome :joystick:

[44th Eagle]

I agree, this would be a awsome addition. It would also matter how well it was modeled.

[Shaman]

I think this idea was brought up several times, but now with some really cool link provided. Awesomeness. We better start to search p2p networks ;)

[GGTharos]

You won't find any of this on 'P2P networks' or any networks whatsoever. This, like manuals that are to be studied to utilize the S300, are typically locked in a training vault. You walk in with nothing, you walk out with nothing.

 

Don't kid yourself :P

 

Besides, an S300 simulation by itself is useless - an IADS simulation would work much better, even if it was abstracted.

[Shaman]

Don't kid yourself :P

I knew someone will take me seriously and think that I actually gonna look for it on P2P networks.

I was being sarcastic. Of course I wouldn't find it. Gotcha! :lol:

[Guest Cali]

I still think it would be pointless

[dodger42]

How so Cali? I mean its a natural progression ultimately for sims to encompass more human controlled elements. Although the likes of BF2 are ultra arcade, imagine ultimately having a sim where the majority or all of units are human controlled. Far greater immersion. No AI can ever (at least in our years) accurately replicate a human.

 

Personally I'd like to sit a few rounds out of flying and try to take out a few ACs from my SAM unit :)

 

I'd imagine working a SAM battery would be similar playing style to sub simulators. Lots more hands off, but more analysis.

 

Just my 2 cents tho.

[GGTharos]

Hehe. Wait for your units to report an inbound jet, rotate the antenna to the correct direction once you think he's within 20nm, then light him up and fire!

 

We'll see who calls it useless then! ;)

 

Follow up by shutting down and waiting again ... if necessary, order your vehicles to stow and move ;)

[Guest Cali]

Hehe. Wait for your units to report an inbound jet, rotate the antenna to the correct direction once you think he's within 20nm, then light him up and fire!

 

We'll see who calls it useless then! ;)

 

Follow up by shutting down and waiting again ... if necessary, order your vehicles to stow and move ;)

 

That might be ok but,

 

then they would need to add HARMS and GPS guided bombs, but hey I'll settle for a F-16-18 :v:

 

While were at it can I be a stringer or igla and wait behind a tree or house. So when those pesky 29's come by flying 10 meters off the deck I can nail his :censored:.

[GGTharos]

Yep, exactly! :D

 

Working ARMs would be needed along with the proper susceptibility to counter-measures.

[Force_Feedback]

Wasn't this a plan sometime ago to add a limited way for users to control SAMs (basically point, range, lock & click from what I understood). But then the idea died off, and everybody has forgotten it :(

 

It would be great to have something like in Dangerous Waters. Nothing fancy, just track, lock and fire, no detailed radar screens, no ECCM ops, just lock and fire.

 

So I guess ED (the fat computer geek :P) finally dropeed the concept?

[D-Scythe]

LOMAC - Lock On Modern AIR combat ;)

 

I'm in the camp of people who think this would be a waste of time and resources. Don't try to make Lock On into something it can never be - you might as well try to turn Flashpoint into Falcon 4.0.

 

The time and resources can be INFINITELY better spent on improved SAM AI. Tactics like blinking, ambush, etc. None of the "let's leave our radar on as long as possible and get HARMed" stuff that it is now.

[S77th-GOYA]

Who wants to join a server, sit and watch a blank radar screen, wait, wait some more, get a bandit, fire, then wait some more? If someone does, it would be cool to face human controlled SAMs, but how boring and lifeless can you get?

[GGTharos]

There are people who are definitely willing to do so - not all the time, for sure, but they're around.

 

Probably same people who would like to run LOTATC.

[3Sqn_Fudd]

I'm all for it.... I'd man up a Grumble or Pac-3 any day

 

Awacs would be the ultimate though

[SniperRu]

Virtual War with thousands of players online is not so far away ;)

 

imagine something like Lock-On Black Shark (for air) + OFP/Armed Assault (for infantry) + Steel Beasts (for armor) in one single game.

 

much better than real war :D

[nscode]

Not just SAMs. I want AAA :)

[hitman]

Hehe. Wait for your units to report an inbound jet, rotate the antenna to the correct direction once you think he's within 20nm, then light him up and fire!

 

We'll see who calls it useless then! ;)

 

Follow up by shutting down and waiting again ... if necessary, order your vehicles to stow and move ;)

 

Yeah and wait for the blue on blue to happen.

[GGTharos]

But it was an ARM I tell you! An ARM! ;)

[Stealth_HR]

Dibs on the Shilkas! :D

[Force_Feedback]

Manpads for me, being some unmovable dude standing in a clearing in a forrest, waiting till that damn Blackhawk with weed eradicating sprays comes around, and send him a thank you letter for ruining your crop last season :megalol:

Or to tease some Ka-50s with 23mm fire.

[hitman]

Screw that Im goin RAMBO. Got my 100lb bow with explosive tipped arrows, and if I have to Ill bring the bro's the Dukes of Hazzard in wid me and well all go nuts and stuff. A-Team aint got SHIAT on me!!! Be like some old redneck sitting in a lawn chair down at the end of a runway sipping beer in his lounge chair and shooting birds that might cause birdstrikes.