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- From: hogue@cs.arizona.edu (Justin C. Hogue)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Flying Tiger and Falcon 3.
- Keywords: upgrade to Falcon 3.0
- Message-ID: <21591@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 22:53:05 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
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- I just picked up the Flying tiger upgrade (note: it is NOT a campaign disk)
- and have a few things to tell you about it....
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- good....
- * it contains ALL the patches to Falcon 3.0
- * your wingman are much better at watching thier radar
- * manual included explains waypoint commands (cap, cas escort) much better
- (if you wonder why the air support on your bomb missions sucks, it's because
- escort will make wingman only attack visually sighted enemies, as they
- keep their radar off to avoid giving away your position)
- * Upgrade of the not-so-heralded ACMI player
- * Enemy logic better
- * Your f-16's look MUCH better (you can even see yourelf in the cockpit)
- * Elimination of all those nasty glitches, like the IFF tone not stopping.
- * Japan Theater set in 2001, with new version of Falcon, including missles
- under development that are not finished yet
- * also only in Japan, You get to attack ships, which is hell, and you have
- to deal with rules of engagement
- * addition of borders of countries to the maps
- * Tells you, if you fail a mission, why.
- * Tells you if your wingman plowed into the ground.
- * No more static for wingman voices.
- * Also campaign in Pakistan/india or Korea, where the enemy is only 3 miles
- from your base!
- * addition of new waypoint commands, SEAD (supression of enemy air defense)
- so you can specifically kill sam's and AAA.
- * Book gives you some idea of how to manage fuel, dodge sams, and make
- wingman do what you want.
- * New, awesome intro screen, new Jets (mig 31, mirage 2000, it goes on...)
- * Padlock can lock onto missles, so they are much easier to dodge--also,
- radar on left shows ALL missles coming at you, not just SAM's
- * many, many more little things (you can see trails of flare-chaff)
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- BAD.....
- * requires 616,000 (approx) of conventional space instead of original 612000
- * STILL didn't make debriefing to show you what happened to other flights
- * Doesn't appear (yet) to have fixed problem with mig-19's moving like f-16's
- * Almost too real--6 types of ground radar now, not to mention dug in tanks
- that fire back--it is real hard to keep track of it all.
- * new changes will NOT allow comm fights with 2 computers unless both are
- falcon 3.0 or falcon 3.01.
- * cannot play old avtr tape on new player
- * lose ALL squadrons and records.
- Overall, the bad is very minor. I tried to keep this post down, so I didn't
- mention alot of small stuff (like the Japanese zero mark on the FSX, or the
- american sign on are f-16's, or the unmanned mystery fighter owned by russia
- in Japan, or being able to pull 9.9 g's instead of only 9, or......)
-
- --Jowfus
- Justin hogue hogue@caslon.cs.arizona.edu Tucson, Arizona
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