Over Flanders Fields : Preview Movie released

rabu · 9 December 2005, 02:21 PM

Even Microsoft is happy about OFF... have you all noticed how the sales on Ebay have shot up.. CFS3 which was selling for about $15 a few months ago is now going for $30-$40

Bluedevil · 10 December 2005, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by rabu

Even Microsoft is happy about OFF... have you all noticed how the sales on Ebay have shot up.. CFS3 which was selling for about $15 a few months ago is now going for $30-$40

Tell me about it !

rabu · 10 December 2005, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bluedevil

Tell me about it !

Hehe... ya, I know..

but I bought my used ebay copy about four months ago and kept it sitting on the shelf, all in anticipation of the OFF moment.

Yeoman · 11 December 2005, 01:12 AM

I was actually give a copy of cfs3 by a chap who couldn't play it on his system. I had a quick go on it decided it wasn't worthwhile and consigned it to the dark recesses of a long forgotten drawer.

Needles to say I have now retrieved said game in anticipation

rabu · 11 December 2005, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Yeoman

I was actually give a copy of cfs3 by a chap who couldn't play it on his system. I had a quick go on it decided it wasn't worthwhile and consigned it to the dark recesses of a long forgotten drawer.

Needles to say I have now retrieved said game in anticipation

You did better then me... I bought it online for about $30 originally, decided I just wasn't into it and sold it on Ebay, then when OFF started developing, bought it on Ebay again..

11 December 2005, 01:17 PM

I'm trying to bully the missus into buying it for Xmas for me...ain't really working so far, even though it'd get her off the present thing cheap.

F=MA

Blue Max · 11 December 2005, 03:32 PM

There's a store near me that sells CFS3, so I figure I'll be getting it there.

This does look like a deee-lightful piece of work.

jastaflieger · 14 December 2005, 09:27 AM

dear polovski,
i am new to posting, been watching this thread for awhile, question: i have CFS 3, but on a different computer- will i be able to purchase OFF on a disc so as to use my other, non-internet computer? And, how much will the OFF add on cost? many thanks.

bzhyoyo · 14 December 2005, 09:44 AM

The grand amount of 0.00000000 dollars, euros, whatever

14 December 2005, 09:58 AM

If the add-on is free, I wouldn't mind checking it out. However, if it costs anything, I doubt I'd take the risk.

As I'm sure many of you know, M$FS/CFS is table based, which is a pretty major strike against it these days. But making matters worse is that changing planes seems to be something of a "black box" (in the physics sense) to the community who does it. M$ keeps a lot of the information that would be helpful, to themselves. This is another strike against it.

However, to give you an idea of where CFS3 stands - when it came out, 1C:Maddox/Ubi Soft was working on the Aces Expansion Pack for their Forgotten Battles sim (a semi-sequel to IL2 Sturmovik). We (FB community) had been informed that we would be getting the Go-229 as part of AEP, but it was some time off yet. Between the wait, and the desire to try out a user-made Vampire for CFS made me get CFS3. The first thing I did was go up in the Go-229 and try to see how much trouble I could get myself into.

I managed to get the wing into a full 720 degree tumble (not just a spin, but a spin in both horizontal and vertical directions) at about 1000 feet...... and I did not lose altitude!

I couldn't recover it, and stumbled on the warp button and arrived at the next waypoint flying properly again.

That is simply inexcusable in a flight simulation. I realize that out of the box the plane's might have some things not quite right and the community can improve them, but all they are doing is tweaking the paramaters of the plane, not the physics engine, and the physics engine should never have allowed something like that to happen (I should have dropped like a rock and cratered), regardless of plane parameters.