Lock On: GOLD edition

[Variable]

Ok, I've read a bit about this Sim (good things) and having not played a combat sim in quite a few years I'm up to the challenge. But all this stuff about patches and expansions has me a little

[Variable]

Well I continued searching and came across a Forum for Lomac and got my question answered. Basically the Gold edition contains the original game + the 'Flaming Cliffs' expansion which upgrades graphics and adds a bunch of missions.

The following quote from a recent post there was very helpful:

"The main thing is to get up to version 1.1 called "Flaming Cliffs" LO-MAC Gold includes this version. Once there- you can patch it up to 1.12a for free."

So only one patch needed after buying the Gold edition...

[Mobius]

Exactly.  If you want to try a modern combat sim, LOMAC is the best out there.

[Variable]

Check this out...

I can get the original game locally at a store for $20,
then buy the Flaming Cliffs expansion for $15 which is a download,
then patch that with 1.12 for free...total $35 (not much waiting)

[Tweek]

Lock On Gold cost me about

[Politically Incorrect]

The Gold edition that may have had the bad CD should have been pulled from the shelves long ago so you shouldn't have a issue with it. If I recall the bad CD was actually Starforce

[ctjoyce]

Ahh yes LOMAC. The best combat flight sim to ever hit the market, possably the best flight sim ever? Regardless, I too have LOMAC gold, and love it, infact I play it soo much that I don't even have FS9 installed.

I cant wate for the Black Shark expansion to come out.....thats gonna be awesome


Cheers
Cameron

[Chris_F]

LOMAC is a great combat SIM, probably one of two that I'd consider "best" (for modern air combat).  The other is Falcon 4.0 AF.  I find myself playing Falcon a lot more simply because there's a lot more systems depth (I find that complex systems are the primary appeal of modern combat sims).  LOMAC is outstanding, you'll love it.  It'll leave you wishing Microsoft used their flight model.

[DizZa]

I found LOMAC to buggy for me... WTF? And i play fsX  :o

But seriosuly, does anyone else encounter high amounts of crashes?

[Variable]

Ahh yes LOMAC. The best combat flight sim to ever hit the market, possably the best flight sim ever? Regardless, I too have LOMAC gold, and love it, infact I play it soo much that I don't even have FS9 installed.

That's kinda what I'm afraid of, getting these two games but only playing one all the time and not the other. But, again, for $20 bucks each, whatever. I just spent a quick 2-G's on a new Dell XPS. What's 40 dollars?!?! I even threw in the latest scrabble game for the wife...God I love Amazon!

Flight sims are all I care about anyway, oh and Simcity 4...We love Simcity 4

[Tweek]

I'm curious how Lomac will run on my system-to-be:
Intel Dual Core E6600 4MB 2.4GHz 1066FSB
2GB 667MHz Memory
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS

Fine.

I'm running it on mid-high settings with good FPS on:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67Ghz
756Mb RAM
nVidia GeForce 6800GT

Have installed a premade FPS tweak which could also have helped, but it runs very nicely. I could say it looks better than FS9.

[Variable]

Just an update (I mentioned some of this in the FS2004 forum)...

Just got my Dell XPS410 day before last and yesterday received FS9 and Lock On Gold. As for Lomac, second CD (Flaming Cliffs expansion) worked fine with installation, no issues. Then I put the 1.12 patch and it's good to go. Look's great on my 20" widescreen LCD with high settings!! I love it already...Gotta do some serious reading with this game though and configure my joystick for it.

Oh, and the wife loves the scrabble game I got for her so she's happy too

[Kaworu]

As long as the wife is happy, thats all that matters!  ::)