What aircraft would be good?

[Sweeper 0]

Thought Bombers and such would be fun, attacking enemy installations.

Nad fighters for escort and to keep enemies away, fun to splash a Cessna.

At least you see my favourite at my Avatar

In case you don't notice it's the B1 lancer

[Intruder 0]

A6 Intruder

[Damage Inc 0]

No aircraft. The OFP engine doesn't handle aircraft that well.

[Intruder 0]

Attack aircraft are the only ones that usually go with OFP.

[Damage Inc 0]

Air to air is completely useless in OFP so no air to air based aircraft are needed.

40 posts until 2000

[Intruder 0]

little off topic here: LOL this is turning into a sport, seeing people posting topics before thier closed

[Damage Inc 0]

What are you talking about?

[Intruder 0]

All of a sudden I see all these new posts, the second I go to answer them their closed, I just though it was funny. lol.

[Damage Inc 0]

Placebo is fast.

Hey at this rate I could reach 2000 today.

[Intruder 0]

Do you get anymore stars?

[Damage Inc 0]

No I get the fifth star at about 4000 posts.

[Raptor Superhero 1]

u guys should get a flight sim!!!

[Intruder 0]

got some

[Damage Inc 0]

I have Falcon AT, that rules.

[mahuja 12]

The thing is that planes (currently) are too powerful for gameplay.

That's all there is to it. Without good means of keeping them down we'll have a hard time if the enemy puts its paws on a chopper. Or worse, a plane. If we could do patrolling with an airborne anti-air platform (which should usually be the fastest in a game) we'd have a lot easier time of it. The alternate would be a big number of vulcans or a bigger number of AA soldiers. Those stingers are too weak for such though, you have to dedicate way too many men. Or a good sam site.

(ever thought of that? OFP would (afaik) be the first sam-site-sim ever. Not counting those old 2d arcade games as sims.)

[LuD 0]

None of those... Modern aircraft take no skill... Give me a P-51 Mustang, or a Corsair anyday.

[cnskin 0]

i would like to see a Su-24-E flanker at(anti tank) plane a 2 seat decient plane.

[jimz0rz 0]

I did not vote because all of the above aircraft are unsuitable for OFP.

[Sweeper 0]

Well OFP engeine has now handeled airplanes very well.

But with a big island people will feel the need to send scramble flights towards incoming bombers.

And modern aircraft does take skill how about you are running away from yemen territory with MiG-29m's on your tail and you only have a gun load left on your F-22 and nobody to back you up inside a 200 miles radius.

Did that yesterday and man it was fun were shot down at the end but it were really fun.

One of the MiG's "overshooted" me and wound up in front of my cannon.

THAT DAMN thing jammed and he got away. all of this happened to me in "Total air war" so can OFP do the same on a bigger island?

Also the TU-22 can deliver anti ship missiles when we get carriers and the Russians wouldn't need any good ships cause they have aircraft to deal with it.

[KingBeast 0]

In my opinion any planes other than specific ground attack ones would be useless, because you just cant maneuver planes properly ie doing proper loops and rolls.

[Bonfire 0]

i think that new planes are not the way to go....i think the secna (sp?) should be modifyed so it can drop bombs and have a gunner out the window:D

[Tovarish 0]

Ok, I posted something like this a while back on the General forum so it might look familiar....anyway...how about this idea...no dedicated fighter aircraft (supersonic fighters would not work well with the engine) but how about a Harrier for western forces and a Yak-38 for the Russians? Both have been used as maritime interceptors, both are subsonic (so the game engine would handle them as well as the Su-25 and A-10, and both are VTOL.

This would help balance out mp games where too often some dink gets in an Mi-17 & lays waste to your base....having planes with some _limited_ dedicated AA weapons (Both the Harrier & Yak-38 have no sophisticated AA radar & both use only short-range heat seeking missiles) would make people like that think twice.

Also I think some mobile armoured SAM sites could also protect friendly bases against "rapers" as well as keeping the new AA aircraft in check....should't bee too hard, I know some variants of the BMP carry short-range IR missiles.

And yes I know pretty much everything I've mentioned is available as an unofficial addon please BIS, make it official!

I mean, who the heck wants to fly a Harrier/Yak-38 that's really a tweaked & reskinned Su-25?

[Satchel 0]

A slow flying cumbersome transporter like the C-130 wouldn´t be too far off.

It has shorter take-off and landing distances than the A-10, is capable of dropping supplies safely in NOE flying height and paratroopers could be dropped around 300m or even less on automatic.

Would be great for supply drops, transport, eye candy, as mission objective......etc.

[Mig pilot 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ Feb. 06 2002,15:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In my opinion any planes other than specific ground attack ones would be useless, because you just cant maneuver planes properly ie doing proper loops and rolls.<span id='postcolor'>

what goes for loops and stuff i say get joystick

What goes for planes in Ofp Su25 just not powerfull enoght to do manuvers and i tired of chopers catching up to me Give me more power AR AR AR

[P8ntM98 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (jimz0rz @ Feb. 05 2002,17:02)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I did not vote because all of the above aircraft are unsuitable for OFP.<span id='postcolor'>

I agree. If you play alot of flight sims like USAF F/A-18 etc theyre alot better than flying the ofp planes. They dont have things like a HUD and if you try to get to a realistic altitude you cant see anything except fog or something. The helos are pretty fun to fly. I'd like to see an AV-8B, AH-1W, C-130, and F/A-18 if OFP was more like a flight sim.