Last weekend I flew with an Airforce pilot with Lock-On. When I was in dogfight with him he noticed that the F-15 is under-powered. Can you guys do anything about this? I think he is totaly right with this, hope you can figure out how to change this.

Thanks.

Dude, you are so right. By the way, did you notice how unrealistic the pasition of the air intakes at the front of the plane are. In the real world they are at a down pasition, not in this game. The game developers just dont like realism I guess... THE POINT OF A FLIGHT SIMULATOR IS SIMULATION OF THE REAL WORLD, HELLO ? UBISOFT/LOCK ON ????????????? PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN MAKING YOUR NEXT GAME...

all planes in the game are underpowered
empthy mig 29a at A.O.A 90' has a 300 m/s!!! climbing speed. As pilot of real mig 29 you can escape any f15-16-or 17 just by climbing at full speed. in lomac migs are inferior to us planes!!!BU.. ..IT!!!

yadda yadda yadda....a game designed by russians gives the russians bird a disadvantage? Not likely. And you might be able to escape a viper by zoom climbing but I wouldn't try it on an Eagle. Not sure I've heard of the F-17.

Also, if you'll notice the AI plane's intakes are normally down in the F-15. And yes, the F-15 has about as much power as an F-4 in this game. Do not try to climb to more than 30000 feet in anything, even lightly loaded.

I wouldn't try to out-climb a Block 52 Viper either. A zoom climb is not a 90 degree AOA maneuver...and the F-15 intake ramps are variable geometry intakes (their position changes based on a number of different flight conditions). That being said, however, the Eagle in LOMAC is pretty severely underpowered.

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By the way, did you notice how unrealistic the pasition of the air intakes at the front of the plane are. In the real world they are at a down pasition, not in this game.

Yeah known bug for a long time, works OK on AI planes though. Might affect an occasional screenshot/movie but not exactly a disaster....
Not likely to get fixed, there are more important things for the Devs to do.

As underpowered as it may be, it's still harder than hell to stay at corner speed in a lightly loaded Eagle unless you've got the airbrake out or a nice throttle to work with. This doesn't belong here, but as long as we're getting responses, I'm wondering about the autopilot. Do the real birds have alt. hold and auto-throttle? Does the real autopilot actually have control of the throttle as well? And for pete's sake, even if it does, i'm CERTAIN it isn't so damn burner-happy.


...damn autopilot....

I wonder if pilots in real life (assuming alt. hold exists) turn with the alt. hold on. Makes things simpler if you keep the bank angle at <30 degrees. Not helpful in a dogfight (shame on you anyway if you try)

Yes, many real aircraft have auto-throttle...I believe the F-15 is one of those that does. Being burner happy is just a function of how fast you need to fly to meet your TOS for the current waypoint. Are you using your HSI to make sure that your are not only on the right heading, but the right track? Ideally, your CDI needle on the HSI should be dead-center with the course arrow pointing straight up and down. This condition indicates that you are on the proper track to your next waypoint.

Heh...he's explaining to me the HSI. Well thanks for the good intention, although I do understand how it works. What I meant was that if you activate the autopilot and you're basically millimeters off course, it's going to kick in the reheat. The time-to-point doesn't really seem to affect it, only the predetermined speed (and height) from the mission editor. Now as long as we're on the subject, my nav computer has been behaving rather iffy lately.

The hud compass and steerpoint marker will be completely off occasionally, indicating a 270 degree turn when clearly a 90 degree turn will do. And I don't know what causes it, but also the CDI needle will be facing 50+ degrees from the course needle, which is a little mind boggling. "the waypoint is bearing 180, so to get back on course you must fly course 030?"

Hey...take it easy there rookie...only trying to help. The NAV system is completely Fox Uniform, dude...I've been b****ing at ED for years about that, and it still ain't fixed. Maybe the auto-throttle problem has a lot to do with that, although I never use it. Follow your tadpole, it will point you in the right direction better than your HDG bug (with the known NAV bugs in the game.) The HSI has never given me problems though, well...except in a BC situation, then it doesn't work for s**t. BTW...couldn't help the avionics lecture, since I'm an IRL FAA-licensed avionics inspector and occasional IRL pilot.

You are no such thing, for I decree it. And what I say, goes. So...yeah.


One thing I've always wondered is how the HSI behaves outside of navigation mode. Yaknow, once you go to BVR or what-have-you mode, the HSI seems to still be pointing at something. Maybe an experiment or two will prove helpful here....

the only reason I asked about the altitude hold is because I don't wanna feel cheap and use a system that doesn't actually exist. Doesn't stop me from using missile labels though. There's pride and there's too-damn-good-to-use-cheats.

Is it healthy to be this happy whenever your AI wingman dies? I'm always really glad when he dies and I don't. I must be superior then. One thing I doubt you've managed to do even in your experience with the game is to make your wingman depart. I like to make missions and juke through canyons n whatnot in my heavily laden starship (with a wingman for this very reason) and at one point I'm making some ignorant manuever, and I hear "Two, ejecting!"

piano grin for the next half hour.

The AI is *not* supposed to make mistakes! The very nature of the computer. He even stayed with me through a low energy immelman in which I am certain that some angels assisted me in getting over the top.

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the only reason I asked about the altitude hold is because I don't wanna feel cheap and use a system that doesn't actually exist. Doesn't stop me from using missile labels though.

LMAO!!! This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have read yet!! Plus you got a major attitude to boot!! Man I hope I run into you on Hyperlobby sometime.

First up, we're probably not going to get along. But to each his own. Plus, I don't have a major attitude. I'm certain you want me to, however.
Who doesn't want to love to hate me?

...Whatever! Certain you want me to be some egotistical noob who you can gangrape over and over online but perhaps you should find someone else. Incidently, and on a completely unrelated note, don't mess with VA state troopers.