U.S. Navy Fighters - Mission 50: Sierra Hotel

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We've made it to the end of the campaign and with style I might add.
But it's not over as I'm planning to release some bonus content.

[@twisantigo]

Back in the day, I would set up 3 F-18s to be flying close together over an airport, and I'd be the 4th...we were the Blue Angels...I'd adjust their waypoints so they'd all break at the same time, and it would look like a Blues maneuver at an airshow. It took FOREVER to set it up, but it was worth it.

[@jhouse6352]

Man I remember playing this on our gateway 2000 lol. This and ATF were my obsession and were my gateway drug into becoming a real pilot.

[@wildbronco038]

God. Watching your playthrough of this was such a nostalgia trip. This and ATF were pretty much my pre-teen and teen years. I spent so many hours on these games. I loved creating custom missions in the editor

[@LLCoolPass]

Same

[@LLCoolPass]

And fighter's anthology

[@semicolon101]

Yeah wish i could get all the patches required to play this again, but it seems like a slow clocked Pentium1 with win95 is all that will do the trick

[@alan93]

@@semicolon101 There is a helper app to get this to work on a faster system. It's mostly the same but the joy stick is more herky-jerky. I had one computer this worked on from 30 years ago and the MB died. It was like a AMD Thunderbird 300mhz processor. Sad day.

[@semicolon101]

@@alan93 i have tried a couple of times, when i get the game to play at normal speed the control inputs are delayed by literal seconds, it would also randomly crash. The best bet it seems is to get an actual pentium1 with win 95/98 and play😂 or you know, just watch videos about it online

[@hofmanlsd]

All those sounds and phrases so deep in my mind. First time i heard them after 20+ years Fuck god what was that

[@azjoe_6310]

I played that game so much years ago. i used to get a kick out of the phrases that would be said during game play. Sometimes for kicks I would shoot my own wingman and he would say, "Hey, I'm a good guy!!!"

[@alan93]

I remember fighting some guy online in F-14 AtA duel. I was really good but he kept outmaneuvering me and shooting me down. I asked him how he kept getting behind me so easily. He said he started the mission with 1/3 fuel.

[@damsonn]

That would be correct. The flight model took into account gross weight of the aircraft (fuel + loadout) and stores drag in its calculations. So if the same type of aircraft would fight both traveling at corner speed (best airspeed for minimal turn rate) the one that was lighter would win. There was an option to disable this behaviour however, the empty weight and no parasitic drag would be considered in calculations IIRC.

[@AdventuresWithRandR]

Ah USNF, this game was my shit in the day

[@tonyc416]

One of the most amazing things about this game other than an entire list that I can go on and on about.... is the event-changing music.... I loved it! always helped set the mood right along with the RIO when engaging in combat.

[@PiggoNZ]

Awesome. I joined the airforce as a pilot largely because of this game. Thanks for sharing

[@2polev355]

old school sims are the best

[@SpaceGaucho_]

damn, the soundtrack was beautiful

[@damsonn]

Still is ;)

[@jfish83]

My favorite mission it took me 4 times to get it right. So much fun!

[@adams17561]

Could you imagine if they remade this game? make it alittle more realistic but with a graphic update? would be the best sim wouldnt it?

[@Bozman117]

You mean something like this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHqnYqZ7Z92Zrbc

[@dixievfd55]

DCS

[@LLCoolPass]

The military industrial complex is not going to do that because they don't need real in the seat pilots in the future anymore.

[@DrNo-fj2sy]

Good old memories

[@spaghetti9845]

this game did so many things right

[@elvoria]

Nostalgic. I remember getting KIA in vietnam campagin by a machine gun shot and bleed to death in the plane.

[@alan93]

I remember it being hard as hell shooting things on ground with missiles from F-4s.

[@blacbraun]

I feel the need, the need for speed!

[@Bryanbobber]

Played this game as a kid. It was the gold version. Were the maps infinite? I remember when I got bored I would just fly straight forever lol.

[@damsonn]

Well they didn't had borders, you could fly out of them but there was no scenery beyond the map edge.

[@pasha21363]

congrats on beating this campaign there are some near KIA moments then and there but you made it through only 1 not so expensive aircraft lost i don't care about wingman losses

[@broken1965]

It took some serious voodoo 3dfx to run

[@damsonn]

I appreciate the pun kind Sir, but the game didn't supported accelerated graphics, only software mode ;)

[@broken1965]

that was the discrete graphics excel card 1990s SLI lol

[@damsonn]

I know what 3dfx Voodoo card was (one of first was Diamond Monster 3D it only accelerated 3d graphics in certain games that supported it) - I'm just saying 3dfx was not supported in USNF or any other game in this series, even Fighters Anthology from 1998.

[@spearPYN]

Flat/Gouraud shaded 3d polygon graphics or texture software rendering (like in USNF 97) still looks superior to any "photorealistic" technologies based on GPU's.

[@hihihi229able]

More training... basic AOA on approach, weapons management... etc. Imagine doing this mission single ship.

[@Teeb2023]

That's in 640x480 SVGA, yes? Scary... how low-rez it looks these days. I used to fire-up this game just to marvel at how good it looked. :D

[@damsonn]

When you were accustomed to 320x200, seeing 640x480 was mindblowing. Not to mention 1024x768 which this game also supports albeit without the cockpit art.

[@EJ205T]

Pentium 100 mhz could run it in 640x480 with 30+ fps

[@The-Fluffy-Birdcat]

How do you get the F-104 in this game? I know it's flyable but it's never available during the campaign.

[@damsonn]

To fly it in campaign you would have to enable "Allow flying any plane" cheat from the menu in the Aircraft Selection screen.

[@Pandacat80]

Good job. It'll be nice if you had played some of the missions with su33. The only plane you never touched.

[@damsonn]

Never say never, there are still some single missions which needs to be flown ;-)

[@alan93]

yea that was a tough one. For some reason I always had problems with the YAK-141 too.

[@pedditte84]

my first simulator was it a long long time ago

[@EnhanceRaptor]

I never finished the game as a kid. I think I dropped out around the time "The Cattle are horny." I always wondered how the game ended and boy was I disappointed. I was expecting some kind of character resolution for Alex or something more than the briefing officer narrating the ending to me.

[@MinnyTheBest100]

Where can I download this? :(

[@damsonn]

Try here: archive.org/details/JanesCombatSimulationsFightersAnthologyUSA

[@scotttucker9613]

STEADY STEADY ... UNSAFE LANDING

[@cheufdphil2487]

Thank you for your work! With the Russia - Ukraine war going on your game does feel a little future sight seeing. Good luck with your YT channel!

[@leonardosoto3034]

No entiendo porque no siguieron con este maravilloso juego en las consolas de nueva generación. Los tipos arcade son feos.....

[@cripplehawk]

If only DCS makes a Ukraine Map Extension to the Caucuses map...I can play like it's 1997.

[@mertcankorkmaz1038]

This game for ps2

[@damsonn]

No, it was PC exclusive.

[@mertcankorkmaz1038]

@@damsonn hey you are real fighter jet pilot??

[@mertcankorkmaz1038]

Do you understand me

[@damsonn]

@@mertcankorkmaz1038 No, just a flight simmer ;)

[@kennymustdie8518]

It's good to see US fighters in the Ukrainian skies. That's what we are waiting for in real life asap.🇺🇦