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Anyone else find the first campaign mission for the Su-27 a bit insane? You and your wingman take off loaded with 4xR-27ER's, 2x R-27ET's and 2xR-73's and are immediately confronted by 4 F-16's loaded up with Aim-120's!!! crazy_o.gif  I've beaten it, but not consistently. The only tactic that seems to help is to climb as much as possible initially so that my R-27's have more kinetic energy than their Aim-120's (therefore more range), but even then I've got at least one F-16 trying to lock me up at all times (If I can get the first leader on the defensive with R-27's), and if I loose my lock at any time during the initial BVR pass, I'm dead (the leader of the first pair always manages to point his nose at me and launch a slammer before I can slew the radar beam over him again).

If I kill the first F-16 and make it to WVR, his wingman can normally get a lock on me before I can turn towards him (or at best, we lock at the same time)

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Anyways, I just spent an hour and a half trying to figure out a tactic that would work consistently for this mission, and I should be cleaning the appartment :P

Like i said, the campaigns and missions are a big drawback. biggrin_o.gif and their are not even dynamic rock.gif

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bah, the first one seems a bit hard but I love the second mission. Flying at full burner 20 meters off the ground with the radar off, relying on AWACS data link to sneak past a pair of F-16's on a fighter sweep ahead of an ELINT C-130, and popping up just beyond WVR, with the radar turned on just long enough to dispatch it and it's F-5E close escorts biggrin_o.gif.

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Man, I love the MiG! The thing flies like a Yak-3 with a warp drive, the thrust to weight ratio is amazing. Coming from the Su-27, the radar tracking range, combat radius and the measly 6 weapon pylons seem unimpressive, but when you're throwing it around the sky you really notice the difference in weight.

Here's a little aerobatic track I made showing off mostly the MiG's power in the vertical, along with some traditional High AOA stuff, a somewhat suicidal low speed pass, and a very short landing approach smile_o.gif

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For anyone who cares, here's a recording of a similar but leaner air show (5 mins as opposed to 7) where I started lightly loaded with fuel, shows much better energy management on the vertical, more suicidal high-speed-low-altitude passes, and IMHO, much better camera work on the edit smile_o.gif

http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/lope0036/Tovarish_06.zip

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4GB wow_o.gif

?

It's several avi files in a total of ~125MB. He took the big one down?

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4GB wow_o.gif

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It's several avi files in a total of ~125MB. He took the big one down?

Apparently so. The one I viewed was a single 4GB WMV file.

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Nice Flanker video link avonlady...

Sadly I must state that those flanker pilots looked like they got their uniforms and helmets at the local charity store.

Special deal comrades, pressurized flight suits, hideously olive color, priced at only 3 suits for 15 Euros.

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I have no knowledge on the SU's or the F-15.

So I can't help you there I'm afraid.

I only do mudwork with the Hog. So ask me anything regarding Mavericks  tounge_o.gif

Ditto!Love flying the A-10.The SU-25 is the most challenging, yet very fun.

I'll see if I can upload some in-game videos of me doin some hog work. wink_o.gif

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Hey guys, I know this is a little late, but I dled the demo, and it is working, BUT I CAN'T FLY! it's like it's on pause, but there is sound, graphix, everything and it looks GOOD! Why is it doing this?

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Press 'S' to unpause. The game starts paused. If you have a USB-keyboard then 'S' might not work. Re-map it to something else.

Oh and the full version has far less bugs and can usually be found in the bargain bin for 20$.

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I tried, but  I don't see 's' anywhere on where remap screen.  sad_o.gif

Select Other and you'll see toggle pause 3rd from above  smile_o.gif

Still, remapping might still not solve your problem. I know the bug is still in the retail-version, but it has supposedly been improved alot. I've never experienced the bug as I use a good old fashion ps/2 keyboard.

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There is no 'other', there is 'view', 'custom', 'flight', and 'combat'. No Other! sad_o.gif

I did have a similar problem with the game BlitzKreig, the keyboard wouldn't respond, but a patch fixed it.

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There is no 'other', there is 'view', 'custom', 'flight', and 'combat'. No Other! sad_o.gif

I did have a similar problem with the game BlitzKreig, the keyboard wouldn't respond, but a patch fixed it.

Prolly under 'custom' then.

In the retail you got 'other' instead of 'custom', rest is the same.

Try to steal/borrow/buy a ps/2 keyboard if you can't find the re-map for pause.

This game is worth it if you like modern flight-sims smile_o.gif

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yeah it ain't under custom sad_o.gif

but i did read on their forums that you fix it buy remapping so I'll just buy the retail version for only $20 smile_o.gif

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This is awesome! wow_o.gif I hope I'll be able to afford a new machine soon, because I really want to fly this sim. I used to play falcon 4.0 a lot. I just love the realism in games. smile_o.gif

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What? An Su-25T?  rock.gif

I can think of a few other planes I'd rather fly.  crazy_o.gif

Here's how it goes. Ubi abandons Lo-Mac, and Eagle Dymanics is forced to concentrate on what the Russian market wants. What does the Russian market want? The Su-25T, and improvements in the Russian avionics. If UBI had given Lo-Mac a fraction of the support it gives Il-2, maybe we'd be seeing work in progress of an F/A-18, but hey, it's business as usual.

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There is still hope though, for ED has mentioned they will work on at least another addon after this one - they'd like to make the Ka-50 flyable, and if enough people petition/but the Su-25T addon, who knows? The F-18 everyone's been crying about might become a reality

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Yes, and whats worse is that they only plan on updating the SU-25. None of the other aircrafts benefits from this expansion-pack crazy_o.gif

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Is that the only difference in the T model? Capability for IR missiles or did they also upgrade the performance and such.

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Yes, and whats worse is that they only plan on updating the SU-25. None of the other aircrafts benefits from this expansion-pack  crazy_o.gif

Not true, there will be bugfixes, a few new features, and realism improvement on Russian avionics. I'll see if I can dig up some pics

Video showing physics improvements

Improved Su-27 avionics

Improved Su-27 Avionics

*edit* from what I gather though, you might be partially right as to that word on the street say the new physics might only apply to the Su-39

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