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Started by coo... Philip Coombes
Thu, 21 May 1992 11:09
Falcon 3.0D fix
Author: coo... Philip Coombes
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:09
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:09
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>gwer...@husc10.harvard.edu (James Gwertzman) writes:
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>>mkk...@tamsun.tamu.edu (Mark Kuebeler) writes:
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>>>Just saw that SH has uploaded F3FIXD.ZIP, the D Patch for Falcon
>>>3.0, to Scorpia's Roundtable library on GEnie. At over 600K, it'd
>>>be about a $5-$7 download at 2400 baud, so I may wait to see if they
>>>will send it to all registered owners (like they've promised).
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>>>Think I'll pop over to wuarchive to see if some kind soul has ul'd it!
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>>What does the patch do?
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>DON'T GET IT!!!! It is bogus. I tried it and it just does not work!
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>It patches just 26 files, and when I run the patched version I start at
>a day somewhere in the 15000-16000 range and all data is wrong. A little
>later the games crashes!
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>My conclusion is: do the same as with the B patch, throw it away!!!
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I got the F3.0D patch from compuserve last week, and it appears to work
fine.
It appears to fix mostly trivial things though, my main problems are
with the mapping functions etc, and also my mouse doesn't work properly
with it ( the ONLY thing it doesn't work with ).
Anyhow, as far as I can see the principal difference is improving the
way the game handles ECM pods in a number of places.
The most obvious of these are :
a) Your ECM pod now doesn't make you invincible, just less susceptible
to missiles
b) Your wingman/men now use ECM properly, tho' how do you prove this??
At least they don't go down (!!???) immediately on contact with the
opposition
c) The enemy uses ECM randomly, with the effect that it can be difficult
to obtain/maintain missile lock or tracking at all.
I haven't really had chance to check it out thoroughly, but I know that
a list of fixes is included with it.
Also I have a SB and have had no problems, except for dodgy speaker.
Phil,
>> pre-owned .sigs bought and sold, best prices paid, no .sig too old <<
Re: Falcon 3.0D fix
Author: roes... Martin F. Roesch
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 22:26
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 22:26
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>>gwer...@husc10.harvard.edu (James Gwertzman) writes: >> >>DON'T GET IT!!!! It is bogus. I tried it and it just does not work! >> >>It patches just 26 files, and when I run the patched version I start at >>a day somewhere in the 15000-16000 range and all data is wrong. A little >>later the games crashes! >> >>My conclusion is: do the same as with the B patch, throw it away!!! >> RTF readme file!!!!!! It says all campaigns from previous patches will no longer be any good, which means YOU CAN'T FLY YOUR OLD CAMPAIGNS!!! I hate to yell (electronically speaking), but this kind of reactionary "throw it away" knee jerk response is completely uncalled for. The patch works fine and the game is now more callenging than ever. Your old ACMI files won't work anymore either, so don't try 'em. BTW, has anyone seen an AMRAMM actually hit a plane in the new patch? Maybe I'm just having bad luck, but there was this one SU-27 this morning that I had dead to rights and the $$%@#!~$$ missile missed, and so did the second one. On the C patch I had pilots with 40+ kills in a campaign on ace level, now I'm having a hard time getting five on trainee. Guess it's time to get out the old Modern Air Combat book and find a few new tricks... -Marty roes...@craft.camp.clarkson.edu "I wish I could sit on pillows and drink molton lava" -King Missile
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