Screenshots !

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elaine.fleet/LOMAC/

I'll upload some more in a bit, some action ones etc.

I've uploaded a few more taken just know in a MP mess around with DMW.

 

heh, okay, I'll add some 2morrow, gonna hit the sack in a mo

 

Those screenshots look cool, you got a url handy to the website? wouldnt mind getting it

 

Okay dokey, as requested, here as some more shots. Forgive the quality, had to reduce the image size etc to make em smaller.

(before I stick em up, www.lo-mac.com for the website raw)

Here we go.

All these shots are taken from the A10 Quick Mission;


A nice pic of the A10 instrument panel


Target sighted, locked with a mavrick...


Fox 2! Missile away, landed slightly beyond the target


Move on to a 2 truck convoy, hit it with cluster bombs. Boom.


A enemy helicopter got a little too close for my liking - he went down with a sidewinder up his tailpipe.


Evasive action captain!


Mav away!


Left cockpit view.


Right cockpit view.


Like my legs? I forgot to put on my g-suit


Lining up a T-80 for a cluster bomb...


'ave somma that!


Contacting tower for landing.


Above the glide path? pfft, I dont do 'normal' landings...

 

bast im now going to have to buy this game now

 

Yeah im thinking of doing the same

Looks like quality fun!

 

Get a joystick if you haven't already.

I have to struggle playing it with a mouse and keyboard, and it's not too good

 

I have a USB Joypad which i use for some roms i play occasional, that be any good? dont think i can be arsed with a joystick

 

Bah, i may have to stuff the ones of Cdr trying to cra..land on the carrier then.

 

Well, give me a buzz when ya do (on IRC), and we'll have a crack at some MP.

 

Lock On Rocks

 

I just downloaded the demo, but there doesnt seem to be a way of enabling the joystick, unless I have a wingman, which I dont :/
Is this right, or have I missed something ?

 

umm I think you've missed something...

Joystick should be enabled by default I think (I didnt have to go in and change anything to get mine working).

 

wow at those screenshots, does it play like a flightsim or a dogfight game tho?

 

Flight sim, although it does have some 'odd' flight characteristics. I'd say its not as complicated as something like MS Flight Sim, but certainly aint as arcady as Battlfield 1942.

 

Put it this way. I can just about take off and fly around a bit. I can't hit any targets or land again.

I can do everything in battlefield 1942.....oh hang on

 

Ok, you lot tempted me, downloading the demo now, and pondering simply heading into town to see if the local GAME has a copy of it.

-Ath

 

Pff i wandered over to this forum cause i saw athans name on the most recent thread and wanted to say hi (hiya athan) and now youve tempted me to buy a game dammit!

 

at Random.

Right, tried the demo. Figured out the A-10 stuff enough to blow up some of the targets, although without a manual I dunno what I'm supposed to line up with what for the non-cannon weapons. Managed to land it as well, then failed to find anyway to refuel/rearm, ah well.

Mig-29 part of it... um.... Am I the only person that it seems like if I do anything but the most gentle of turns (that are never going to avoid missiles or actually manage to get on the tail of the enemy planes) the AoA warning comes up and control totally craps out. There are times when the controls seems to completely stop responding as well.

So, is that a known problem with the demo ? Also did they ever clear up the "FPS take a nose dive when close to the ground" thing ? I did search through the official forums some, but it's been so long since the demo was released (end of Sept 2003), and there's so many mentions of 'demo' in other contexts that it was hard to find anything. The most I found on the AoA/Mig-29 issue was one vague reference asking if the problem had been acknowledged.

Either way methinks I'd need a new joystick (this is just a £5 piece of crap I got to test out joystick handling in BF1942). The throttle on this is crap, if only because the bit you slide is too small to reliably do small adjustments. No rudder on it either. Biggest problem, and this goes for BF1942 too, is it seems way too sensitive near the middle, making fine maneuvers next to impossible (end up havingp to use the rudder in the A-10 to line up shots).

Damn it, I was *good* at flight sims back in the 8 bit and 16 bit days!

-Ath

 

Or maybe I was just being crap. Doesn't help that there's a lot of low cloud, and you're over the sea on that map, so very little visual feel for turn rate. Pay more attention to the instruments and things start to come together, although the AoA stuff still feels weird. Half of it is my crap 'stick I think, and the demo doesn't seem to have the nice options for changing the response curves.

Managed to down the Mirage once 'by accident' (just suddenly was pointing at it), and after a few more tries got it nearly right off. Key seems to be to VERY quickly get a lock on it in the first few seconds and fire a missile or two. This stops the bugger from just circling behind you, and gives you the chance to line up a proper shot to actually kill it.

-Ath, off to www.play.com to order now

 

If you turn to quickly and at high speeds then you start to black our from the G force (Duh).

And i think this is represented by not only blacking out but also by shit control. And of course flying low to the ground gives shit FPS, it has to render all the details on the ground in greater detail then Cloud

 

That link isn't working!

 

it's almost 3 years old

 

He knows.