Caretaker Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 A short look back into flight sim history... Secret Weapons for the Luftwaffe Each "Tour of Duty" addon contained one aircraft (Do-335, Me-163, P-80, P-38). No changes to the game engine otherwise. Suffice to say the detail level was ridiculous compared to current sims. Falcon 3 Addons were available that featured the F/A-18 and MiG-29 respectively and some new terrain. No major changes to the game itself besides some bugfixes (and some new bugs). Tornado The Desert Storm addon provided new terrain to fly over. The terrain was completely fictional however and the main difference to the original was the yellow-brown colour. No new flyables or other changes. EF2000 The "TACTCOM" addon introduced a simple interface for the user to change his flight plan, which wasn't possible with the standard version (you had to rely on the auto-generated flight plans which were often pretty senseless). It also fixed some crippling multiplayer bugs and was required for the 3DFX patch that came later. F-22 ADF & TAW TAW was the same game as ADF with a dynamic campaign (as it had already been in EF2000, only it worked better there) instead of a limited number of static missions, re-released as a full standalone product. Jane's Longbow "Flashpoint Korea" provided one static campaign over new terrain and some new AI objects, as well as updates to the AI and the Apache cockpit (adding a 2nd cockpit seat that the player could switch to). No new flyable though. I'm wondering which of these qualify as "addons" and which as "patches" according to some people's definition? ;) FC delivers more than any of those with the possible exception of Flashpoint Korea, which was an excellent upgrade to the whole sim. But so is FC, and it adds a new flyable on top of that. Caretaker ED Beta Test Team
Allochtoon Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 The su25t is not a brand new plane in lomac, its more of a semi new plane. Youd be suprised how long it takes to model and skin the plane and the cockpit ;) im not complaining or degrading EDs work on it tho, its very well done. You can't compare these two. And even then, the flight model of this new bird is of the best quality yet to be seen in flightsims. (So i heard, dont got 1.1) Even though visually creating a plane is quite some work, making it fly like it's supposed to isn't the same ballpark. By lightyears.
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