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Offline Arlo

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Korean War Arena and Jets
« on: November 06, 2019, 05:45:18 PM »
Just sayin'.  ;)


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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2019, 06:17:16 PM »
Would be a bust just like in Warbirds, but what the heck?
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2019, 07:43:31 PM »
Would be a bust just like in Warbirds, but what the heck?

You were never an Air Warrior. Gangbusters there (until it went full realism and the RR regulars had a hissy).  ;)

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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2019, 07:54:35 PM »
You were never an Air Warrior. Gangbusters there (until it went full realism and the RR regulars had a hissy).  ;)

Interesting. 
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2019, 09:04:48 PM »

never mind   <sigh>

It's just a wish list thread. Two models of jets, a terrain. Imagine it fun. ;)

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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2019, 09:36:10 PM »
You were never an Air Warrior. Gangbusters there (until it went full realism and the RR regulars had a hissy).  ;)

It didnt seem all that popular in AW compared to the European and Pacific theaters

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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2019, 09:58:57 PM »
It's just a wish list thread. Two models of jets, a terrain. Imagine it fun. ;)

Well they were going to do one right after they finished Spanish Civil War, but LunaticFridge put his foot down and said no more arenas!
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2019, 10:58:56 PM »
You were never an Air Warrior. Gangbusters there (until it went full realism and the RR regulars had a hissy).  ;)

LOL....those RR regulars had more than just a hissy.....
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2019, 11:32:13 PM »
It's just a wish list thread. Two models of jets, a terrain. Imagine it fun. ;)


  While the jets would be cool and you can sign me up for the mig it would end up being a battle of the blackouts for most players.

  Not knocking it as I remember flying them in the past and it was fun,except for those poor F86 guys. :ahand



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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2019, 09:45:48 AM »
it would end up being a battle of the blackouts for most players.


That's how I remember it.  But FR Korea did have a small - but dedicated - group of fans.

OTOH, I understand that there are other jet games out there, so somehow they've figured out the blackout issue.

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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2019, 11:55:37 AM »

That's how I remember it.  But FR Korea did have a small - but dedicated - group of fans.

OTOH, I understand that there are other jet games out there, so somehow they've figured out the blackout issue.

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It was RR. There were no blackouts until it went FR. That was when the Smoke Over the Yalu scenario was being designed. Then their dedication wavered. Lots of creative skinning for that event. B-17s skinned as B-29s. P-47s skinned as Yaks. Wish I'd kept some screenshots.

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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2019, 03:30:41 PM »
I vote YES to Korean arena...right after we get 400+ players online at one time - better yet 800+ like the old days.   ;)
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2019, 03:47:33 PM »
I vote YES to Korean arena...right after we get 400+ players online at one time - better yet 800+ like the old days.   ;)

Agreed.   Things are already diluted enough.
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Re: Korean War Arena and Jets
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2019, 07:51:43 PM »
No sim out of the box has even attempted to properly cover Korea since Rowan's outstanding MiG Alley. But both generations of Third Wire's Strike Fighters series had extensive free user mod packages that allow building one hell of a great Korean air war environment with nearly every conceivable aircraft flown during the war being available for AI and most of them being flyable, too. I would love to see a dedicated Korean air war sim focused on air-to-air combat with high fidelity flight and damage models similar to Aces High, but it clearly isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever.

In our ever so small niche of PC air combat simulation, WW2 is by far the bread winner for developers. After that, modern jets sell the best. All the great generations in between are left behind :( At least WW1 still gets some love periodically.

In the mean time, DCS World has the F-86F, MiG-15bis, and P-51D. It just needs a terrain map and a ton of ground objects and AI aircraft to make it work half decent.
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