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Lock On Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great sim. Note it will not upgrade to Lock On Flaming Cliffs v1.12b it will update to version 1.1 this somewhat inhibits the online play as a lot of online gamers use the 1.12b. here are servers that do use the 1.1 version but as stated many use the 1.12b version.

enjoyable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I like this sim, the graphics are great if you have the card to drive them and you will need a hefty card if your still in AGP mode like I am.
I currently am using a HIS RADEON 1650GT and can not max out the water visuals but I am close, but this game came out in 05 and the 1650GT is a recently released card,bad coding I guess.
This sim flies well and if you can plug it to a wide screen HDTV with a decent graphics card you will have a blast flying and shooting after some practice. I do recomend this sim.

Great game for serious simmers only!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a incredible game (it's not even a game really). The radar is very realistic (able to beam and notch the pulse doppler effect, you are able to change the pulse repitetion frequency, and much more). The flight charactoristics are awesome in the Su 25 and 25t. The US missiles leave much to be desired, but oh well. If you get this game, you MUST get teamspeak and hyperlobby and a headset and play online.
This game rocks, however, you will be spending more money on a joystick. :)

More Starforce Problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This Game/Simulator was fun for the short time I had it working.

The next restart had me formatting and reinstalling my OS.

After learning about Starforce copy protection (Google "Boycott Starforce" for the details)
and that it was only on disc two with the "Flaming Cliffs" install;
I installed the first disc only and had a bit of trouble getting it to work on my widescreen.
The Eagle Dynamics company forum was no help at all; save one person who responded but had no answers.

After a couple of days,
I finally found a solution in adding my resolution to the config .ini file.

It worked well for the evening I played it but, the next day when I started my computer;
I had lost my DVDRom completely and my DVDR was showing as a CDRom.

Now, I have no proof that the disc 1 did this but strongly suspect that Starfoce was behind the problem.
Many have posted similar problems after installing games with that copy protection on them.

I have since stopped buying any games from companies that uses Starforce copy protection.

It does nothing to the Pirates who will, do and have gotten around it
and causes trouble for the end users who actually pay for the product.

Lots of folks play LOMAC and maybe I need to find a copy of it alone for trouble free play.

This and another game have taught me to read the reviews closely
before paying good money for something you can't or don't want to use.

CAVEAT EMPTOR!

Best combat simulator ever!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Best combat simulator ever! Nothing left to say, but I hope they will go on with that. The programming is a bit waste of performance. Looks amazing for the age of the game, but there are graphicprogramming-techniques today which could give even more quallity with more performance!! Please eagledynamics, build another great version of this fantastic Simulator!

For all new players...use hyperlobby for multiplaying, u dont have to tell the hobbies of your parents there like u have to do at ubisoft regestration :-)

Original Lock On Version 1.02 V. Lock On Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The original Lock On with version 1.02 is awesome. However when you load the second CD with Flaming Cliffs the performance goes down. The flaming Cliffs software (CD2) only still has some bugs and glitches so I am waiting for a patch. FYI, I own a "state of the art" Custom Built Gaming PC with Nvidia 8800 GTS, AMD Athelon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ Processor with 2 GB Ram so it's not the PC and its configured right. It's just that the original Lock On CD 1 of this package works great and Flaming Cliffs CD2 software does not (thanks Ubisoft). It is still by far the best Flight Simulator out there that's why its gets 5 Stars. I am a 7000 hour Corporate Jet Pilot so this is a really good simulator ( I have flown many multi million dollar sims) even if you buy it just for the Original Lock-On 1.02 version. I run Version 1.02 with all video settings set to max and it runs flawless. Have fun!

No fun if it won't run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had a real challenge installing this program and to date still don't have it running. The company is sending me a replacement for disc 2, so we shall see if that is a fix. I have a friend who loves that game.

Lock On Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for my husband and he says. . .

This just the kind of battle game I was looking for. Unfortunately I do not have the full recommended video memory so it does not play as well as I had hoped.

Otherwise evrything is fine.

This SIM ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like posted in my discussion.

If you are looking for an arcade game, get Ace Combat.

If you want some real engaging fun, this game rocks.

If you want the most from this game, get a HOTAS and pedals. Even TrackIR.

Didn't even get to play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of flight sims and expected that I would love this game as I have loved the Il-2 series. They both use the same base engine and some people were on both programming staff.

Unfortunately, the LOMAC team left out one major feature that is in Il-2, scaleable difficulty. There is no learning curve, there is a cliff.

A note to any game designers, making a game so in depth that trained professionals barely notice the differences is great, don't make it so that only people with years of training (be it professionally or self taught) can PLAY the game.

I knew the game was, at it's top end of it's realism settings, the most advanced flight sim yet devised. Even so, as I have been playing flight sims since I was 8, I expected that I would be able to jump in at roughly the midlevel point without problem. Even after taking into account that this would be my first jet flight sim since "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" and therefore my most complex. Then I would be able to learn the basic controls and slowly move up the complexity as I have done with Il-2. Unfortunately, this isn't possible. You need to bassicaly teach yourself how to fly a modern jet combat aircraft, just using the game designers control scheme instead of the aircraft manufacturer's. Thankfully they did provide some very good tutorials to help you, but they aren't enough. The manual is a must, and that's a seperate purchase if you can't spend the time scrolling through the included PDF.

One major problem I found with the training materials is that they only reference the default keys, which doesn't help you if you've had to remap the keys. Since the game uses keys my keyboard doesn't have (the Right WIndows Key) and the Left Windows Key pops you to desktop in XP instead of excecuting the game's command, most people are looking at having to rebind the controls. THAT.. is quite the endevour.

While I can see the great potential of the game by watching the various movies inculded or other players have made, I (and I expect many other players) would be looking at having to devote a couple months of time to get to the point where I can actually try play the game. Quite simply, that's asking too much given the alternatives on the market.

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