perod@ifi.uio.no (Per Christian deg}rd) (03/12/91)
In article <lord_zar.668707990@ucrmath>, lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) writes: > Hiya. I've been considering a flight simulator, and as I've always been a > sucker for the latest in technology, F-29 caught my eye. A chance to > fly an X-29 (Yes, I still have my old newspaper clippings of it....) or > the more mysterious ATF got me excited, however, I recalled the thread > on it running thru this newsgroup, and I wonder if some kind person > might summarize its pros and cons, preferably by post, since many > new readers have most likely jumped on and would also be interested in > knowing... These are, in my eyes, the pros and cons of F-29 Retaliator: + * Fast update speed * Pretty 3D graphics * Many and fairly interesting missions * Lotsa weapons available (all the latest hardware) * Fast loading * Quite good manual (not as good as the F-19's, though) * Excellent ouside view of plane * Variable skill level - * Utterly crap collision detection - safety margin=2 miles :-) * Small maps * Lotsa bugs, sometimes fatal. Some may be corrected in recent versions * Oversensible stick control OVERALL: Rather good flight sims which is partly spoilt by bugs and programming flaws Per Christian Odegard (perod@ifi.uio.no)