Future of Falcon BMS
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i just read the falcon epopee for the first time….amazing work, fellas.
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I’ve learned a lot about Falcon and specially the Benchmark Sims because of this thread. Thanks to the moderators for not locking it and to all the members for not spamming it with DCS vs BMS stupidity.
forget about it , we are not a commercial company thus we dont have the ressources to pay the people that currently work on BMS.
Creating a new game from scratch would imply that most of our coders quit their current job to work full time on the new code which brings us back to € topic.
BMS is a success because we dont work for beeing paid and passion is our only dirver.
Let’s keep it like that.
I understand you and support you in any case. Thank you for all your hard work in bringing us this masterpiece. Surely you realize you are gods amongst men :bowd:
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@whitepony99:
In my opinion BMS is better then DCS. BMS as a simulator has no competition, could things be better probably but I have tried to play DCS and I can’t too arcade like for me
That’s because DCS has an Arcade mode, maybe you should try the sim mode! BTW also remember to adjust your joystick curves to get a realistic effect when you fly the different aircraft.;)
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That’s because DCS has an Arcade mode, maybe you should try the sim mode! BTW also remember to adjust your joystick curves to get a realistic effect when you fly the different aircraft.;)
wheres the thumbs down button…?
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Yep, I was one of the first to buy Falcon 4.0 when it was released (I still have the hard bound manual). Been a hell of a ride ever since. But I have been here when the modding first began (ERazor and SP). It has slowly changed into what we have now.
Me as well. Back to FalconAT. But I recall buying F4 after years of hype the month it was relased. Also the days of the infamous Delphi forums around then, the transition from combatsim when it went pay to Frugalsworld circa 2001.
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Waiting for update
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Me as well. Back to FalconAT. But I recall buying F4 after years of hype the month it was relased. Also the days of the infamous Delphi forums around then, the transition from combatsim when it went pay to Frugalsworld circa 2001.
Do you remember the TV add? I can find it anymore, but I remember seeing it when Falcon 4.0 came out. I simply dropped everything, went out and bought that sim!
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woah if there was a recording of that ad somewhere i would love to see it!
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Ah the memories. And the contributions of Pete Bonani. Somehow it made everything even better knowing that a real Viper pilot was overseeing some of the tech stuff. My binder edition and maps are all still pristine and I hope to keep them that way. It’s like having been around when Atari was state of the art.
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wheres the thumbs down button…?
I’m thankfull that I have other sims to fly if I feel like a change.
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woah if there was a recording of that ad somewhere i would love to see it!
I’ve looked for it, but can not find it. Maybe someone around here has it. At the time, it was pretty awesome!
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My 2 cents….I thank the team for putting their love into this and making it available to anyone who has love for the sim (and at no charge). Be grateful for what we have, do not be ungrateful for what we do not have
I have DCS as well and find it lacking in realism that BMS provides.
Peace out.
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+1 Well said!!!
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Falcon fans:
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wheres the thumbs down button…?
Hope this helps educate the great unwashed, I was amazed by what amount of work went into the P51D BTW the FW190D9s FM cost $120000 to make.(who knows how much the F-15C or SU27 cost as both must be a challenge to model to this level)
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Hope this helps educate the great unwashed, I was amazed by what amount of work went into the P51D BTW the FW190D9s FM cost $120000 to make.(who knows how much the F-15C or SU27 cost as both must be a challenge to model to this level)
What a shame… all that time and money and it’s still a collection of TE’s. Great looking but…
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^^^^agreed. It gets old real quick doing campaign missions. You’re better off using the mission builder at times. Almost no different. It lacks the simulation of an ongoing war, only individual battles or sorties in a confined area on the map.
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One can only estimate the costs to putting together a dynamic campaign in today’s world. When Microprose did it everything was less expensive and in reality I don’t think any of us really appreciated what we were purchasing back in the day as regards Falcon4. Now we are spoiled to the point that we tend to besmirch any flight sim effort that has to rely on “treed static campaigns” Once you’ve experienced F4 especially with all the improvements we’ve been blessed with over the years, it’s seems that good old Falcon 4 has set the bar really high. I sense that BMS will keep the bar waaay up there.
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As a programmer i would say that dynamic campaign is not that expensive for many reason. That said my opinion about dcs is “if dynamic campaign was the only issue, then i could easily forgive the lack and enjoy it more but unfortunately there are more serious lacks/bugs/issues”.
This is why bms is the first one when it is about combat aircraft simulator, surely the game is not perfect but it is well tested. Not only it has dynamic campaign but also properly working weapons that leads to enjoyable ag attacks and more over amazing AA engagements (bvr or dogfights) that together the smart scaling makes it a big pleasure. The graphics is not even close but the performance is amazing (considering that it is DX9 and most cards are not getting optimized to DX9 anymore. Surely there are others sims out there that has a better balance between graphics/performance like Cliffs of Dover TM and others). If you pay attention to the original Falcon 4 you will see the huge work that has been done by the community (older falcon’s forks) and by the bms team.
That being said i hope that the reason that DCS has those problems is due to the fact that they have been putting almost all their workforce on the EDGE and once it is out they start addressing others issues and working on new features not because i want to drop bms but because it would be nice to have an alternative that satisfy me for more than 2 days of random game.
So thanks bms team because i dropped aircrafts games around 2004 but in 2013 i came back because of the amazing work that you have done.