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Hi all.


I have few questions about CFS ?

1) Which Combat flight simulator is better?


2) Are there modern aircrafts like F-16,15 , 14 and all that stuff?


3) Is it like you flying military aircraft and shoting other aircrafts?


4) What game modes it has?

CFS3 is by far the best in the CFS series. It doesn't have any modern aircraft but you do get some jets. The P-80 Shootingstar, De Havilland Vampire, Me262, and the Gotha GO229A Flying Wing are all 1943-1950 jets that are included in the game. If you get CFS1 or CFS2, there are modern addons but not too many.

There are 4 game play modes in CFS3.

-Quick Combat: Quick mission builder or just fly alone.

-Missions: Full missions that you can fly without getting into a
campaign.

-Dynamic Campaign: Best part of the game, your actions effect the outcome of WWII. Not historical but very realistic.

-Multiplayer

CFS3 is very realistic when it comes to flight. The focus is mainly ground attack but there are dogfight missions too.

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CFS2 for me remains the best of the CFS series. There are hundreds and hundreds of quality add-ons out there that keep this sim going way beyond its sell by date. You can fly Warbirds and jets and it is compatible with other M$ sims allowing you to import aircraft and scenery from other M$ sims.
CFS3 looks nicer but is very buggy and system hungry and has a more game like feel to it. It is also less historicaly accurate with many aircraft details being incorrect. Having said that it is a very enjoyable game to play and has many great features.

This is a really interesting topic, and I hope others join in the debate.  I have CFS, CFS2 and FS2002.  All are very good in my estimation.  I have seen a lot of negative things written about CFS3 and have, mainly for that reason, delayed getting it.  I really wonder about Microsoft's decsion to make it so incompatible with previously sims.  Also, CFS came on one CD and took up relatively little HD space.  It doesn't require a very powerful PC either, yet it still works really well.   CFS2 came on two CD's and hogs lots of resources on my year old PC.  It looks prettier and the damage model is better, but it takes of loads of HD space. FS2002-- 3 CDS and even more HD space.  Scenery and planes do not look as good as CFS2.

The people making these products at Microsoft seem to be getting lazy when their apps take up  more space than most people's entire hard drives could hold just a few years ago.  

Still I am intersted in hearing more about CFS3

I too think "3" is the best.
I've played them them all.
"1" was great for the time, good dogfighting and such.
CFS2 was great for adding content but somewhat lacked immersion as far as combat is concerned.
The boring CFS2 AI is legendary, LOL.
CFS3 came with a new format to allow for more objects being rendered at a time and to allow for a makeover of AI routines and multyplayer cheating, but was rushed out due to bizdev's christmas bussines deadline.
It has it's issues, performance wise but is to date the most immersive of the three - if you get it to run properly on your machine .
Ground pounding is excellent as a real war is going on down there, high altitude is great either as the both the terrain and the flightcode actually do work as opposed to "the other game you know which one"
The latest 1% creations shure have proofed that.
Beside, it's modeller's heaven, you can spend polygon budgets for a single plane that you'd otherwise use for 4-8 planes in any other sim.

Three is the way to go. 2 is yesterdays newspaper.

BTW you will never get these graphics in 2.



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