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Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Aces High 3 is a really fun similar fighting ww2 based combat sim

I wonder if Aces High 3 works well on LINUX thru an emulator like WINE. And I wonder if you'd need a monster computer to get a smooth frame rate through emulation like that. LAC, BTW runs very very nicely on cheap laptops and even does pretty well on Raspberry Pi 4b.

But I certainly agree that Aces High 3 is magnificent on Micro$oft Windows.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Not LAC, but it's "dad" GL-117, yes. Flightgear was much better, (and today FG graphically curb-stomps LAC) but as a quick match against the CPU, it was fine. Xonotic and Red Eclipse 2 began as quick, improved Q3A FPS clones and now they are pretty well known in lots of places with their mechanics being utterly ripped to set fakely placed as novelties and "revolutionary gameplays" into propietary AAA games.

Here is a link to the online reviews from SourceForge, by people that HAVE played it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/reviews/

So you are sending me a links which makes my point even more better? Thanks :)

As I said, the game is to GL-117 as Supertuxkart over Tuxkart, or Speed Dreams over Torcs.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Untill you play it. I said the same in ~2003 with the first Deus Ex. Dull graphics, not the best usage of the first Unreal engine, cliché conspiacies almost straight from the X-Files series and common urban legens. Yet the emergent gameplay and the semi free-roaming playability made it better than most FPS crapware being shold from 2002 to 2009 save for Half Life 2 and Crysis. This might not be the best game on the f…

So did you play Linux Air Combat and what are your impressions?

Yes. I played it and I liked it. It reminded me very much of Aces High "classic" or its successor, Aces High 2.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Here is a link to the online reviews from SourceForge, by people that HAVE played it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/reviews/

So you are sending me a links which makes my point even more better? Thanks :) As I said, the game is to GL-117 as Supertuxkart over Tuxkart, or Speed Dreams over Torcs.

Yes. Only LAC's improvement is even more because GL-117 didn't even have any network support. It was all offline. LAC is fundamentally an online, multi-player rewrite of GL-117 with vastly improved flight models and a lot more airplanes.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Yeah, I don't think "lightweight" is very honest when the game looks like this.

For a 56MB AppImage binary it looks very good.

Yes. It does look surprisingly good for such a small AppImage. Digging around on their forums, I found this thread describing their struggle to thrive in spite of the old-school graphics. It includes three embedded YouTube clips that make it easy to compare LAC with some other famous sims like Aces High 2 from about 10 years ago, Aces High 3 (current), and Aces of the Pacific from 1992. Here's the link: https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/...

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Is there anything like a source port of Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat? I suppose this is not it.

LAC is not Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, but I've flown both and I get the same kind of thrill with both. CYAC was brilliant in its day and it was my fav for 3 or 4 years. But that was a long time ago! If your old enough to imagine CYAC with network support and graphics advanced about 15 yrs you get a pretty good idea of LAC. BTW it runs very smooth on my oldest laptop computer, a LeNovo T61p from about 2010. And with LAC you get full source code. Compiling it from source was easy.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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You're comparing something that literally looks like a movie to a game that nobody would even dare giving away for free in cereal packs.

Alright, compare to up and coming air combat game Tiny Combat Arena, which requires at least 1GB.

I haven't played Tiny Combat Arena but their video promos look very much like ysflight, which I have played a lot. I mean Tiny Combat Arena really looks very very much like ysflight. I wonder if it's a fork of the ysflight code. I don't think ysflight ever published their source code and Tiny Combat Arena is a sold-for-profit app, so we'll probly never know.

But I have played LAC and LAC looks better to me. Especially the terrain graphics and clouds.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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You're comparing something that literally looks like a movie to a game that nobody would even dare giving away for free in cereal packs.

Alright, compare to up and coming air combat game Tiny Combat Arena, which requires at least 1GB.

For the record, TCA is 243MB as of right now. I think the smallest it ever was, was ~120MB on launch, and ~90MB in early pre-release versions. The audio files alone are ~60MB. I was sad to see it hit >200MB, but it can't be helped.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Alright, compare to up and coming air combat game Tiny Combat Arena, which requires at least 1GB.

I haven't played Tiny Combat Arena but their video promos look very much like ysflight, which I have played a lot. I mean Tiny Combat Arena really looks very very much like ysflight. I wonder if it's a fork of the ysflight code. I don't think ysflight ever published their source code and Tiny Combat Arena is a sold-for-profit app, so we'll probly never know. But I have played LAC and LAC looks better to me. Especiall…

The code has no relation to YSFlight, and predates YSFlight source being released either way, but I admire YSFlight's timeless art style.
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