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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Wings of Prey

Wow - well spotted Old Crow - that looks superb - did you see that winter landscaping as well as all the other great features :jump:
 
I took a quick look at the video that they had a link to on that website.

The opening scene of the Hurricane taxiing out of the hanger reminded me of the fact that folks who make opening trailers for flight sim games or movies rarely know anything about how real airplanes operate. To the best of my knowledge, aircraft never start or run their engines inside a hanger. This video from the ASB website shows why

http://www.asb.tv/videos/view.php?v=d7e6120d&a=category&catID=21

When I worked at Eidos Interactive the guy tasked with making the opening game movie for Confirmed Kill (WW2 online fighter sim - never published) admitted that he had never seen a airplane with a propeller start it's engine and knew nothing about the clouds of smoke coming out the exhaust at start up.
 
Wow, very impressive, looks to be a very complete game, all theaters, great visuals, looks like a decent damage model, Ill certainly buy it.
 
I guess on the whole aircraft don't start on run engines in a hangar but there are some exceptions - the first one that springs to mind is the SR-71 - but the front and back hangar doors open, so I guess it's not the same.

I did read a slightly scray account of an SR-71 in RAF Mildenhalls SR engine test hangar where the doors were not open enough at the front creating enough suction in burner that started to suck ground equipment and personnel towards the twin funnels swallowing the burners at the back of the hangar :icon_lol:

Shame no-one seems to be building a new modern sim, we're fairly well covered when it comes to WW2 and WW1, but I'm more interested in the jets that would be part of WW3!! Lockon is long in the tooth.
 
Just started the demo downloading. Thanks for the heads-up. Looks good! :salute:
 
Aircraft start up and run inside of hangars all the time. There are hardened aircraft shelters, sun shelters, bunkers and all kinds of places aircraft are preflighted, serviced and launched from. Most of the time it's a security or weather issue.
 
I've been playing the demo for a few days now and it is visually the best looking flight sim ever. It is way better looking than IL-2 1946 with the latest mods even. If you have a Saitek X-45 you will have to fly it from the keyboard which sucks big time. They have a fix coming out for that this month though. FMs are convincing enough to me. The sounds are really well done, but it's the atmosphere that will take your breath away at times. FSX can't even come close.
 
Scratch, I have it working fine with the Saitek X-52. I just had to manually map all the joystick buttons and axes.

I haven't put a lot of time into this, but what I've played is awesome. Absolutely beautiful graphics engine, flight models feel good, though they've overmodeled accelerated stalls IL-2-style.
 
After playing the demo this game looks very nice! Great environment, damage modeling, aircraft modeling, clouds/cloud shadows!

My question is: How to assign my HAT switch to look around cockpit and external camera view????
 
It says the minimum is a 3.2Hhz intel, anyone running the demo with less than that ? I have a 2.4Ghz sinlge at the moment, but would love to give it a go
 
AACK, was about to run a couple of errands with the extra purpose of getting this at the store and just realized it's d/l only, bummer. I hope it hits the store soon, want to check it out.
I have no desire to do an online purchase (they don't accept paypal) and wait for it to d/l.:a1451:
 
well i got my hat working. Just need to go to controls and assignments and set the hat switch to the view up/down/left/right stuff
 
:wavey:

Sweet - Thx for the HU -

Played Demo - Liked it - Downloading whooper 6.2GB -
Phew................


Cheers
 
I borrowed my daughters joystick, an old Logitech Attack and I can finally shoot stuff down now. I enjoy watching the replays almost as much as flying. The graphics are top notch. It looks really cinematic. The terrain even looks better than that of Rise of Flight.
 
I want to try it dang it... but I've downloaded it twice...each time the file being corrupt...any ideas?
 
I find that my msffb2 stick will not work with this demo. Is anyone using this stick for this game and how or what did you do to get it to work. I sure hope this is not another dud like blazing angels 2.
 
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