LockOn: Flaming Cliffs Unofficial Add-On

[Mano Faber]

Seems like a nice add-on for Lock-On.

Here's the link where you can get it (CD or download).

http://www.lockon.ru/

Here is a article about it at SimHQ.

http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_130a.html

[Mordax Blyrr]

It doesn't seem like a nice addon. It IS!

Ok, so much for advertising.

Anyway, it makes the game a whole lot better.

Most bugs are fixed now and the new addon gives you a whole new damage model, though currently only for the newly added SU-25. Other flighmodels will be updated in coming (free) patches, according to the devs.

[Mano Faber]

Hmmm, is wish u didn't tell me but i guess i have to buy it . But looks very nice.

I have to get throttle-stick combo first because Thrustmaster set is broken. I'm going for the Saitek because Cougar is too expensive for me right now.

[Mordax Blyrr]

Nice call. My Saitek X52 HOTAS just came in this morning!

I got it cheap from a german store on ebay. It's new, not used AND you save fifty euro's. So I didn't have to think for too long to make the decision.

The Cougar set is top notch, though. But indeed also VERY expensive. I don't even know if the yoke in the real Fokker 50 I am going to fly is as expensive as the Cougar!

Anyway, the X52 will do nicely.

But back on topic: Yes, the publisher of the original game only had a contract with the devs to support only 2 patches, which came. As flightsimulation being a niche category when it comes to public interest, the plans for an expansion were dropped. At least, so we thought for a long time. Our russian friends had been working on a whole new damage model en we sorting out the bugs for a long time and decided to go along on themselves. Hence the 'unofficial lock-on addon' as they state on their website (www.lockon.ru). I think that has to do with the before mentioned publisher still holding all the rights or something.

It's as official as you can get and if we keep supporting these guys there might even be another expansion on the horizon, plus the addition of the damage model for all flyable planes. Too bad nothing has been said about the AI using the same damage model. If not, the AI has a huge advantage over human players. Multiplayer, on the contrary, will be a BLAST!

Pick it up, you can't go wrong with this one if you love Lockon, well except for the Starforce crap maybe. Some download version owners complain it screws up and they have to re-activate everytime they try to run the game. I didn't have any problems with that.

The only thing you did have was upon re-install (without hardware change) you had to re-activate (and you only have 5 times), but the devs have put a registry key up for download which will provide a workaround for this problem too.

[Mano Faber]

Thanks for the info. Ordered the X52 and checked a bunch of reviews and most of them were very good. Will receive my Saitek combo tomorrow. I haven't played LOMAC for a while because since you need a HOTAS combo to play it IMHO.

I was kinda dissapointed in the TM F22 product

because a metal-part broke and it was hard to get spareparts and i read that the pots are still a problem in the cougar. That's why i chose Saitek insted of the Cougar.

Guess i'll be trying the Su-25T soon