Jane's F/A-18 : mine_your_own_business custom mission

a gameplay video from the 1999 Jane's Combat Simulations F/A-18 Simulator with TSH 4.02 mod and user made mission, I'm still new to this awesome game (I played many Jane's survey sims though) and I don't have advanced gears like full blown HOTAS setup nor I have a TRACKIR, combined with the uber high learning curve this game has plus the fact that in the mid of a battle it's always chaos everywhere, the end result is predictable, I lost.

the goal of the mission was to provide air escort for the S3B that has been sent to drop mines to destroy the Russian carrier; however that mean my wing had to fly through the heart of heavy enemy defenses, the readme even said that there are 4 waves of enemy air threats! I didn't count how many waves I encountered, my guess would be 3 waves, I mean I survived 2 and shot down on the 3rd, I don't know for sure though, I haven't look at it on the mission editor.

all settings set to realistic, AI set to ace; the AI is very unpredictable as it can be easy at one time but at other times it could dodge 2 consecutive missiles! I'm also having trouble with close dogfight because the graphics are bad for today standard, I mean in games like Lock On you can spot planes easier during dogfight than in this game, in this game the planes somehow camouflaged by the terrain, draw distance is awful too for today standard making it difficult to spot things at anything farther than several nautical miles ahead, you can also see that I handled BVR threats quite nicely in this video; the 2nd problem for dogfights came from sneaky IR missiles (just like in real life), awful situational awareness + sneaky missiles = dead pilots...

the game is definitely difficult, it is after all, perhaps top 5 most complete and detailed modern fighter simulator ever made (this is if you counted the 2 new DCS sims : Black Shark and Warthog, without them, this Jane's F/A-18 may be on the top 2 or 3!), this game is exactly like the IGN review said it more than a decade ago : top-of-the-line not-for-the-faint-of-heart-or-short-of-attention-span work of genius :D :D :D

that last line couldn't be more true and appropriate in this age of video gaming and gamers... especially in the flight gaming genre..., personally I think it's sad and laughable if today gamers dismiss this kind of game, laughable because back then we were also kids/teenagers (or younger, far younger), and yet we COULD PLAY these games, we even enjoyed them; why can't today gamers do that too?

ah sorry, enough for the rant, enjoy or become confused with this video, feel free to bash my noobness in this game, but I'll definitely appreciate some input to improve my skill, not that I plan to play this online soon though, my internet sucks for gaming.

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@genbrien

wow, why did your comment flagged as spam? btw yes, it may be a bug :) lol... I'm trying Free Falcon 5.5.5 now lol so much harder than this game lol...

[genbrien]

lolll at the SAM warning even if ejected!!!!! Nice vid !

Will try to make it works with Win7