Pacific Fighters Details
Friday, September 24th, 2004 - 11:12am
All I want for this is a little more accessibility for not-quite-as-good pilots like myself. A better training area maybe, but after that, i'm happy.
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XBL Tag: Prederick
Looks impressive. I''ve always been interested in games like this, but am so freakishly bad I just can''t play them. I have this problem with hitting the ground. Hard. Never really understood it myself. I can manually dock with a rotating space station in a space based game, but can''t avoid hitting the freaking ground in a flight based game?!
Graktar, Orc Hunter
I want it, and I want it now. I''ve been waiting for this one with baited breath, as 1942: Pacific Air War is still one of my all-time favorites...
I agee with Prederick that I hope you don''t have to go to ''school'' to enjoy this sim. And I agree with Veloxi...oh yes! PAW was great! (fave was Battlehawks...maybe the first Pacific flight sim).
XBL: DonanGWJ
PSN: Toxdon
Battlehawks was fantastic indeed. I sure do miss those old sims sometimes. Thankfully PAW still plays on DOSbox.
What I really want is a new ""Aces"" game. THOSE were a blast.
*IL-2 BUMPOVIK*
Well, well, there ya go.
Bah, first Rome: TW, now this. The list of games to drive me into the purchase of a new PC slowly grows. (While the amount of time I can spend on games has gone down...)
I''d be very interested too if I could get past the learning curve for the IL-2 games. They seem nifty and all, but I could never figure out where I was going or how to find my waypoints or how not to suck, so I gave up ;(
Xbox Live: hubbinsd
Sweet Wounded Jesus! Stop, my wallet begs you!
XBox Live: SwampYankee68
STEAM: SwampYankee
I didn''t even know this game existed! Some of my most favorite memories of Aces over the Pacific are my horrible crashes in a Dauntless! Now, at long last, I can crash the SSB''s again!
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
This and Dangerous Waters are the only big games I''m elbowing 800 people to get to at least until X-Mas.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Full plane list:
New flyable:
A-20G
B-25J-1NA
DAB Beaufighter Mk21
F4F-3
F4F-4
FM-2
F4U-1A
F4U-1C
F4U-1D
Corsair MK.I
Corsair MK.II
Corsair MK.IV
F6F-3 Late
F6F-5
P-400
P-39D-1
P-39D-2
Hawk 81A-2
P-40B
P-40C
Tomahawk Mk. IIa
Tomahawk Mk. IIb
SBD-3
SBD-5
Seafire L.MK.III
Seafire F.MK.III
Spitfire MK. VIII
Spitfire MK. VIII(CW)
A6M2-21
A6M2-N
A6M3
A6M5
A6M5a
A6M5b
A6M5c
A6M7-62
A6M7-63
D3A1
Ki-43-Ia
Ki-43-Ib
Ki-43-Ic
Ki-61-Ki
Ki-61-Hei
Ki-61-Otsu
AI:
B-17D
B-17E
B-17F
B-17G
B-24J-100CF
B-25C-25NA
B-25G-1NA
B-25H-1NA
B-29
Blenheim Mk.IV
Hawk 75A-3
Hawk 75A-4
PBN Nomad
TBF-1
TBF-1C
TBM-3
Avenger MK.III
B5N2
Ki-43-II
Ki-43-II Kai
Ki-46-III Kai
Ki-46-III Kai Otsu
Ki-46-III Recce
N1K1-J
N1K1-Ja
H8K1
L2D
Flyable if you install over IL2:
Hurricane Mk.IIb
Hurricane Mk.IIc
P-38J
P-38L
P-39N-1
P-40E
P-40M
P-47D-10
P-47D-22
P-47D-27
P-51B-NA
P-51C-NT
P-51D-5NT
P-51D-20NA
P-63C-5
A6M2
Ki-84-Ia
Ki-84-Ib
Ki-84-Ic
Available in new free add-on:
F2A-2
G4M1-11
Wait, so now I need IL-2 for the full experience?
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Those blood sucking bastards will not only get my money but they''ll get my money and I''ll buy their damn games!
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
Reaper81,
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SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM "IF YOU SEEK PEACE... PREPARE FOR WAR"
PUBLIUS RENATUS, 390 AD
IL2:FB + AEP, apparently. I''m pretty sure the P-51 and Ki-84 are from the expansion.
The good thing is, if it''s still true, that some new features of Pacific Fighters will be applied to your stock IL2 game.
The more I learn about this sim, the more I drool over it. If I''m lucky, I''ll get a copy to review...
If you want an nice introduction to Oleg and his work I would recommend that you pick up IL-2 Sturmovik. I think it can be had now for $20. If your even modestly interested in flight sims you will find this extremely enjoyable. And don''t forget to patch it to the latest version.
Pacific Fighters is an absolute must have. Then again, so are HL2 and the JO Expansion pack!
I also like Flight Sims but have questionable skills and little patience. I had read IL-2 was a pretty challenging game, I''m assuming this will be as well? Something a little more approachable (Jane''s USAF wasn''t bad, for example) would be a lot of fun. And I''ll introduce the obligatory desire for a Longbow follow-up.
no particular interest, no particular talent
<sigh> I still play Longbow 2 regularly to this day. Shame we''ll probably never see a Longbow 3, but Comanche Vs. Hokum is a good second...
I cant find my copy of comanche v Hokum, but it is a great game.
XBL Gamertag
SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM "IF YOU SEEK PEACE... PREPARE FOR WAR"
PUBLIUS RENATUS, 390 AD
Excellent flight sim. And soooo dynamic. I mean things were
happening everywhere. It was cool. (Longbow was pretty cool too).
XBL: DonanGWJ
PSN: Toxdon
Sure was. Though for a few good reasons, Longbow II trounces it and every other military helo game around. Excellent dynamic campaigns, realism out the ying-yang, 3 distinctly different choppers to fly -- so different that the campaigns were completely different depeing on your choice of bird -- exquisite multiplayer. Damn shame Andy Hollis doesn''t make sims anymore. He was a real master.
Man, there''s a name I haven''t heard of in a long while. I totally agree, he was really something. And very, very in touch with the gaming community. He''d be on internet forum''s discussing things. Pretty cool.
XBL: DonanGWJ
PSN: Toxdon
Yeah, he was quite cool, the rabid ""rivet-counting"" fans who drove him out of the sim business altogether were decidedly uncool.
Ahhh, I remember that now. A minority of jerks did us all (flight sim folks) a great disservice.
XBL: DonanGWJ
PSN: Toxdon
Yer damned right. Thank GOD Oleg and crew don''t subject themselves to the same type of...ahem...""scrutiny.""
Actually, my golf-on-Tuesdays-only-friend, that is a misconception. The games have toggles for realism in a bunch of areas, so that it can be as tough or easy as you like.
XBox Live: SwampYankee68
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The is true. One of the (many) beauties of IL-2, for example, is that it can be made into a glorified arcade game, if you so desire.
Hm, I suppose that is better than my other label, ""shanked-repeatedly-on-Thursday-friend"".
That aside, I did not realize it was that configurable for the difficulty. Maybe I''ll see if I can find a copy cheap. Its not worth me spending any large amount of money on as I know I''ll likely only play it a few times, given previous history.
Thanks for the tip.
no particular interest, no particular talent
NP. I hope you can get into it. It''s one of those games I will play if I ever break my leg or something, as I never seem to have time any other way!
XBox Live: SwampYankee68
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Ooo, ooo, finally a use for my crowbar!
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
**Ouch!**
I said LEG, goddamn it!!!
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