Back To Page 1 Up. Left… Right… No, Left… Using the descent stage for sustained velocity control instead of altitude management in the less-than-zippy LEM can be tricky, however. Pitch too far over and you’ll lose altitude and crash into the Martian surface which turns out to be just as unforgiving as the surface of the […]
Back To Page 3 Jumped Daggers (230 kb) Shot on a Dagger (168 kb) Chris: Have you decided what form the demo is going to take? Dante: Yep, a big archive, possibly featuring: Goose Green (Pradera del Ganso) area, village and airfield with flak defenses Port Stanley (Puerto Argentino) area, town and airport with flak defenses […]
Back To Page 2 Chris: Will there be a multiplayer campaign or will online play be more along the lines of “deathmatch” type of play? Dante: Very oriented to a multiplayer online campaign. Of course some fun death match maps will be available, especially in the islands themselves, as the distances between one airfield and the […]
Back To Page 1 Chris: Will environmental weather effects such as reduced visibility, rain, and changing winds be modeled? Dante: Yes. Wind and rain are already modeled. As well as cloud cover (but these need a revamp, as the code is a bit old now). Vulcan Dawn Bombing (171 kb) Chris: To what depth will the Blue […]
SimHQ interviews Dante Mendes De Patta, Jet Thunder Project Manager, to discuss the highly anticipated project covering the 1982 Falklands / Malvinas War. We also have seven exclusive new screenshots in 1600 x 1200 of the work-in-progress. Interview by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth Chris: How much fidelity should we anticipate from the Harrier flight model? User controllable […]
Back To Page 5 Conclusions and Recommendations This is where I normally provide purchase advice, but considering that OFF is free, it’s hard NOT to recommend it to anybody with an interest in World War One aviation. The ‘standard’ for WW1 sims has to be Dynamix’s Red Baron 3D. I have heard comments from some […]
Back To Page 4 Graphics, Sound, Ambiance and Other Notes of Interest If Microsoft has always been weak on AI they definitely spent the extra effort in the Graphics ‘shop’, OFF is no exception. The environmental eye-candy is as rich as your hardware can handle, it’s no longer cutting edge graphics technology but still looks […]
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Back To Page 2 Flyable Aircraft, Flight Models and AI The flyable aircraft included in Phase 1 of OFF are: Allied: Bicycle, Sopwith Camel, Sopwith Triplane, Nieuport 17, SE5A, (2 versions), Short 184 Bomber, Hanriot HD1, Spad VII and XIII Central: Albatross DII, Albatross DVa, Albatross DIII, Fokker DrI, and Hannover CIII. More aircraft are planned and […]
Back To Page 1 Game Play Options Just like CFS 3 there are four modes of play, Quick Flight, Missions, Campaign, and Multiplayer. I dove right into Quick Flight; I was greeted with a screen informing me that there wasn’t an active pilot selected! One confusing pre-play setup requirement I originally missed is the creation […]
by Vince “Beer Camel” Putze Introduction If you have been reading recent SimHq News, or spent any time in our forums lately, you probably already know something about a new add-on for Microsoft’s Combat Flight Simulator 3 called Over Flanders Fields. (Also known as ‘OFF’). For those that haven’t heard, it is a free World War […]
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