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Which CFS is best? CFS2 or 3?

Depends. 3rd party developers are only just starting to scratch the surface of what CFS3 can do. CFS2 is established and it's limitations are fairly well known. Having said that, more is discovered everyday about what is possible in each game. Best thing to do is to buy both.

Depends. 3rd party developers are only just starting to scratch the surface of what CFS3 can do. CFS2 is established and it's limitations are fairly well known. Having said that, more is discovered everyday about what is possible in each game. Best thing to do is to buy both.

I have both. I upgraded to CFS3 and was dissapointed.

Wait for MAW then reconsider.

Sorry...I know that this is the CFS-3 board, but I was/am really disappointed with CFS-3. So far I think that CFS-2 is still the best.

We have gone thru the process before. This a silly post if you ask me. It really matter at this point. I like them both and they both have their have atribute and short commings.

I played with both of them and want to thank the developers for their contributions in improving this games where they today.

Out of the box CFS2 was a pretty good game but not very exiting. Its Campaigns where leniar and lack a level of excitment that the real Pacific war had. But with the contributions of many dedicated deveelopers it has become a under rated Master piece.

CFS3 was a great disappointment out of the box. It lack the charm and easy of the two previous programs. It lacked a World map and a functional MB.

I really do not like this kind of post. First of all this has been done before. It will only come to a  inconclusive conclusion. It will divide us into two camps.

Soon one of the CFS3 members camp will come with some nice screen shots and try to convince the rest of us how much better CFS3 is over CFS2. When in reality you can do the same nice shoots for both games.

Than another member of the CFS2 will relataliate be exagarating CFS3 weakness. It will go and forth for a while.

Nothing positive will come out of it .Instead we should be making a petition to Microsoft to encorage them to restart CFS4.

A member will tell you how CFS3 can become CFS4 since they where going to use CFS3 engine any way. That just nonses. Only Microsoft is capable of producing CFS4 where it should have been by now.

All we can do is develope this two fine programs to their full potentials.

Lets hope one day Microsoft will come back and give us what we really want in the future.

Now lets stop making this kind of silly and non prductive posts in the future please.

Their is just to much to work on this two programs to bee done to waste it on bitter divisive post like this one.

James007

Neither. I think CFS1 (Europe) got CFS2 and 3 beat by a mile. CFS3 was a great dissapointment.  The guns sounded like pea shooters, its high performance (vintage) aircraft engines sounded more  like Briggs and Stratton mowers. CFS2? I uninstalled that game shortly after I bought it. further, how come there are very few if any available  downloads for CFS3? and for the other two CFSs for that matter.

Bubblehead

No add-ons for cfs3? You must not look at the good sites...

Here is a few ideas to help you :

http://off.synapticshock.org/index.htm

http://www.medairwar.com/

a total of 912 add-ons there :

http://www.combatfs.com/index.php?loc=p ... loads_cfs3

NB : you can download new sounds for the guns for cfs3 there but I'm not sure you're really interested in making cfs3 worth its potential with the add-ons. If you are, I'll answer your questions

CFS3 downloads
http://www.avhistory.org/

more CFS3 downloads:
http://www.groundcrewdesign.com/

I still like CFS  best of all.  CFS 2&3 are very good but imagine  CFS with the eye candy of CFS 2& 3.  I incidently run CFS sound in CFS 2 and it makes it more intense.

No add-ons for cfs3? You must not look at the good sites...

But there are more for CFS2, and you can import CFS1, FS2000, and some FS2002 addons. Infact, someone uploaded all the CFS1 default planes for CFS2. Can't be done for CFS3.

But CFS2 has been out two years longer and the method of building planes is the same as in CFS1 and FS's 98 to 2004. CFS3 uses a different method, only allows gmax and so there are fewer developers out there. On the plus side, the average standered of 3rd party is far higher for CFS3 than CFS2.

woodlouse2002 is completely right :
the file format is not the same, and building a model for cfs3 now requires more 3D skills from the modellers.

Furthermore, I don't think that's a matter of quantity, but of quality : I don't need to have 300 planes if they don't have a good VC, and most planes that have been converted from cfs2 to cfs3 have poor ones. I really prefer to have 5 planes but of outstanding quality. The other planes may become good targets though, but I'll never fly them.

cfs1 planes in cfs3 : no, thanks.

But there are more for CFS2, and you can import CFS1, FS2000, and some FS2002 addons. Infact, someone uploaded all the CFS1 default planes for CFS2. Can't be done for CFS3.

In fact the CFS1 planes uploaded into CFS2 all have compromised flight models,  not that they were all that great anyway,  because of some basic differences between the two games software.

We wont even talk about the CFS2 default planes not even having their flaps coded with as released lift values of 000000.

I love reading posts where guys advise flaps down for carrier takeoff when their only function in the game is as large air brakes.

BEAR