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[Frequent_Flyer]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Keep in mind that for Clod the game engine was being created for the series. BOM development will be more of a content, rather than game engine...I think everyone in the development side, know that it was Steam to blame for much of the problems. Now who should we thank for giving us Steam.

I play almost exclusively off line and the game engine and the game features, or rather the lack there of, need a tremendous amount of work yet.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

I play almost exclusively off line and the game engine and the game features, or rather the lack there of, need a tremendous amount of work yet.

I agree. Unfortunately the recent Q&A from luthier seems to suggest that there is very low priority on that, and a sort of willful ignorance about what makes for a next gen single player experience.

[ATAG_Doc]

Hehehe before it use to be ghost planes. Now its ghost trees. Hehe

[NLS61]

well about the trees it would be possible to put poles scatterd best at random at an interval that does not affect frame rates to much so to discourage flying through them.
the effect being somwhat of a minefield and not historical correct but neverthe less hiding in the trees would become highly dangerous.
for now maybe a solution.

[ATAG_Doc]

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

The S. S. Minnow is a fictional charter boat
what I dont get, but Im Dutch so should be forgiven, how it relates to the post(s) above.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

I would not be too suprised!!

In that this would not be the first flight sim to simulate the SS minnow!

microprose pacific air war 1942 (PAW) had an 'extra' island out in the pacific map.. And if you flew close to it.. You would start reciving radio message (text) from the 'folks' living on that island! Get closer and you could see the ship and people sitting on the beach

It was a great sim.. One of if not the first PC game to impliment a true 6DOF flight model.. Though it was fixxed point math and not floating point.. It was still far better than the other sims at that time (AOTP, AOE, RB, CYAR, SWOTL, etc).. It was also the sim that lead the way to microprose european air war (EAW)

[planespotter]

Ahhhh EAW, my first true love. would you believe i left her for CFS3 (yes, I am ashamed but I did love that mosqito) but she took me back. I had another affair with B17 the mighty 8th but EAW still had my heart. then IL2 came along (aces expansion, not the first one) and I left EAW forever. I still see her around, she's holding her age pretty well, but it's not the same anymore.

[ICU_DIE535]

Anyone remember the Easter eggs in Fleet Defender? The F-14 simulation from Microprose. If you fly to far to one side of the map there was a flying Dragon. There was also a mission where they scrambled you to VID a bogey that turned out to be a flying disk UFO.

[klem]

Originally Posted by ICU_DIE535

Anyone remember the Easter eggs in Fleet Defender? The F-14 simulation from Microprose. If you fly to far to one side of the map there was a flying Dragon. There was also a mission where they scrambled you to VID a bogey that turned out to be a flying disk UFO.

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