Hacker News Reader

Comment by partiallypro | Hacker News Reader

I used to play Jane's USAF all the time. Jane's was seemingly the industry standard for accuracy. It is actually pretty sad that no good air combat simulators exist anymore. Ace Combat was good in the 90s/early 2000s, then it transformed into some weird anime thing later on with a story line when I really just wanted to be Maverick. Maybe the new Top Gun movie coming out will renew interest.

View on HN

> It is actually pretty sad that no good air combat simulators exist anymore

See my comments elsewhere about DCS World. It is modern air combat simulator and is incredibly detailed.

There is also Falcon BMS which is also extremely detailed.

For WWII look at IL-2 series.

Honestly. Right now we have 3 amazing combat simulators that blow everything in the past out of the water.

"This is why we fly" is a good video for DCS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6kyNx7kG8

http://reddit.com/r/hoggit is a subreddit dedicated to the above sims (with a focus on DCS)

> It is actually pretty sad that no good air combat simulators exist anymore

LockOn [0] (formerly known as Flanker, IIRC) and DCS World (never played that one) look quite cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_On:_Modern_Air_Combat

[1] https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/

-ss

Lock-On became DCS world. DCS extends the Lock-on codebase and added a ton of new features (and bugs, unfortunately, but on balance still good)

The lineage is bit complicated, but mostly Lock-On became Flaming Cliffs 2 and 3, and now they are going back to "Modern Air Combat" branding.

Good ol' days. I miss Flanker 2.0/2.5. Sort of liked Crimea better than Caucasus.

-ss

> It is actually pretty sad that no good air combat simulators exist anymore.

There's several. The problem is that, as hardware got better and the simulations grew ever more accurate, they become too complex for anyone but the most die-hard aviation fans to actually enjoy.

Happy news for you the I guess; Eagle Dynamics just recently announced "Modern Air Combat", which is a friendlier version of their hardcore flagship DCS simulator. Essentially a follow-up on their more game-like LockOn.

Sure, it still might feel bit too much, but if nothing else it represents that they recognize the need for lighter products.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsle...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com