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| My comments after playing a few instant missions and a couple of campaign
missions are:
In flight graphics are hardly distinguishable from FF3 and in fact have bugs
like blown up planes appearing as square blocks. Also frame rates whilst
near loads of planes like before take off are very slow as with FF3. No
change there then.
Some keyboard commands have been switched around (the HSD range being one of
them) which doesnt seem to be logical but its easy enough to put them back.
Chaff/flare program default to setting 1 as per FF3 which is daft
considering it only releases flares. I always have to reset it before my
flight to program 4. No change there then.
The Balkans campaign is good fun and there are plenty of campaigns to choose
from. But the cown side is you can fly anything but F16s ie no Typhoons
:-( this is a step bcak IMO but may be for stability reasons. Still annoying
to go backwards a step compared to FF3.
Flight dynamics and weapons seem identical to FF3 except that the ground
targets GMT radar doesnt work at all. Cant believe this slipped through the
testing.
There are some good test missions like 1x1 airfield attacks etc but not much
to write home about.
There are clouds but theyre not brilliant.
As theres no F4patch you cant configure things like the near label range
setting, padlock box size, etc which is annoying.
Cant say much about the changes under the hood like wingman AI etc as havent
got that far yet.
So far from what Ive seen the game provide a new campaign but is a step
backwards from FF3 in many ways. Still it is enjoyable as ever and Im sure
the bugs will be solved shortly.
The main reason to get it is to get rid of the need for all the addons and
patches.
Nats
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