Falcon 3.0 Gold - Bosnia Campaign - Mission 1 - Intercept

Keeping up the situational awareness in Falcon 3.0 Gold is very hard at the beginning. The flight is manual, no autopilot who does all the job. The briefing doesn't give you all the details, which is realistic. You see some threats but not all of them.
Once the problems start after takeoff... they won't stop till the landing! Enjoy!
OBS didn't quite record Falcon 3 as I wanted it too. I had to re-record the material to make the display size bigger.
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[@helgividar]

Exellent air combat simulator with smart enemies. Written and designed by specialist. Came with a 350 page manual that tought you how fly a fighter aircraft and conduct an aerial combat including adrenalin pumping dogfight.

[@Durian_Defense]

Falcon 3.0's padlock view was the best then!

[@CptSnarkyPants]

wasn't finally surpassed until TrackIR came out decades later. I LOVED this game. Used to haul my rig to my friend Harold's house and we would play this networked for hours. Available on GOG with Falcon, Falcon AT, and Falcon 4.0 (ready for BMS install) for peanuts!

[@MrNathanIL]

classic. invested hours in that cockpit... in love with the f16 ever since

[@damsonn]

A true classic indeed, I started replaying this recently. Good mission friend! Rare sight in this game getting back to base in one piece ;)

[@raterus]

I remember playing "instant action" this with my cousin for like a week straight, we had a rivalry to see who could get the highest score, actually I don't even remember if it kept score now... I Still remember the bug where when you blew up the big hangars, their shadow kind of floated around the sky and wasn't just on the ground. Fun times!

[@GrandAdmiralGamez]

Loved this game as a kid.

[@56kwith200ping]

So many hours wasted flying over Las Vegas, the source of the Colrado River and through Area 51.

[@MrRubbish12345]

I recon my i7 with 16GB should just about run this now.. its struggled on my 386 back in the days

[@Tertius_Oculus]

There is one issue with modern hardware. You can’t use the high fidelity flight model since you get insta g-locs at the smoothest turns. Falcon 3.0 still has a lot of content as does Digital Integrations Tornado with Falcon BMS being the best one. DCS is too much sandbox, simply empty...

[@RetroAmateur1989]

any advice on how to figure what is going on and make things more managable? I'm trying to give this game a shot, but it's kinda difficult due to it's age.

[@Tertius_Oculus]

Trim your thought-process on the following: - Know your Mission (Waypoints, Heading, Expected Threat Vector (where the enemy will come from), hostile area - Keep in mind any allied flights - Use your IFF interrogation to identify contacts (Hostile/Friendly) on your radar - Listen to the AWACs calls. If hostiles are near, point your nose straight at them. - Watch your RWR for hostile radar emissions like SAMs. Keep them on distance during a combat air patrol (CAP) => enemy territory - Maintain your situational awareness. You are moving in a 3D environment, don't get yourself lost especially during dogfights. - Use your wingman on a target while you focuss on the second target. - Absolutely necessary: Watch => kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqvHqn2ahLqMiLM (F-16 pilot Pete Bonnani made a Falcon 3.0 Course called "Art of the kill" talking about ACM and using the ACMI records during flights to analyze your flights. Falcon 3.0 demands a lot from you, as does Mircoprose Fleet Defender and Digital Integration Tornado. Currently, Falcon 4.0 with BMS 4.33 and DCS full fidelity modules are the highest you can get in Combat Simulators.

[@RetroAmateur1989]

@@Tertius_Oculus Thanks for your input, but my issue is not with the piloting and combat operations, but rather with how clunky the graphics and the game in general is. It's the obsolete mature that Im trying to overcome. I know BMS and DCS, and I can manage there.

[@Tertius_Oculus]

Retro Amateur To keep you motivated: Missions aren’t just missions. Such missions, with the past Cold War flair without fancy AIM-9X, F-35.. but with the A version of the F-16 etc., missions from past technological times with the old Soviet foe like in Fleet Defender too will never be reproduced. You will get this experience nowhere. The same goes for titles like Harpoon. The biggest obstacle being the graphics... “Cold war gone hot“ stuff is getting rare. :) Try to adapt your eyes to these graphics. It will take some time. Tornado was easy to adapt to.... while Falcon 3.0 & Fleet Defender were absolutely not (Padlock games).

[@Risingson2]

@@Tertius_Oculus cannot wait to see you reviewing the other combat simulation highlights of the era (TFX or EF2000, the other D.I. or Microprose ones...)

[@Tertius_Oculus]

Risingson Carlos Risingson Carlos I got them all. :) But the time is missing to fly them all. There is a guy called damsonn here on KZbin. He recorded US Navy Fighters and more stuff. I try to get deeper into Fleet Defender because... this setting & Cold War atmosphere is still freshly conserved in this fine sim. I will try to fly/record them all someday... but I feel that Tornado starts calling me for more sessions. Do you fly these oldies too? Remember, the cold war times, 80s/90s are still conserved. The missions, the foes... no F-22, terrorists etc. You will get this world nowhere to experience. This goes for titles like Harpoon as well with its carefully and realistically crafted battlesets which CMANO doesn’t provide. These are all gems.