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New: Falcon BMS 4.33

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Falcon BMS is an amazing demonstation of what a bunch of nerds can do with the source code of a 16 year old flight simulation. You do not only get bug fixes to the 16 year old "queen of flight simulations", you basically get an entirely new experience. For free*.

And to show what the developers are capable of, simply watch the trailer...



...and consider that the original Falcon 4 had no carrier ops, only an F-16 to fly, was not available in 64bit, had no autogen or dynamic weather, no terrain following radar, no cockpit shadows, no HDR lighting, no clickable cockpit and some simplified avionics.

I've always loved and hated Falcon for its complexity**, but the feel of immersion you get when sitting in that cockpit is totally worth it. And the flying just feels...right. Better than in any other simulator I've ever tried.


DCS? What's that.



*If you have the original Falcon 4 CD. Other than that, a visit to GOG and $9 also does the trick.

**600 pages worth of manuals to skim through and they expand or change some weapons procedures with every new release plus lots of keyboard keys with quintuple mappings
 
I think I still have the Falcon 4.0 CD somewhere. The manual, which was very large for its time, got eaten by my doberotty many years ago. I sure miss that old dog.
 
I was really into BMS for a while. After seeing the 4.33 update I may have to start blasting some bogeys again!
 
BMS is the only sim I'm logging flying time in at the moment. I've also ordered a new flightstick because of it. Air-to-air refueling is really, really tedious when your throttle axis is nearly unresponsive.

I've also rediscovered my admiration for the gal in the tower. She sounds half asleep yet manages to vector in eight aircraft at the same time. In terms of approach vectoring, the ATC generally does a much better job than the one in FSX.
 
I dug out the 4.0 CD and installed it. Finally found a link that wasn't dead for the base 4.33 and installed it. That's got to be the best mod I have ever seen for a sim.
Since this is the base, what else is available in addition, if anything?
Can I delete 4.0 now?
 
You don't need to install 4.0 at all. Just pop in the CD, run 4.33's installer and point it to the .exe. When 4.33 has installed, you can remove the CD again.
 
Heretic said:
You don't need to install 4.0 at all. Just pop in the CD, run 4.33's installer and point it to the .exe. When 4.33 has installed, you can remove the CD again.
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Would have, should have, could have, you didn't answer my questions. :cool:
 
Paul Domingue said:
Would have, should have, could have, you didn't answer my questions. :cool:
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This just reminds me of an episode of SP with captain Hindsight and his trusty companions: Coulda, Woulda and Shoulda!

Sorry for my interruption, continue!
 
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F747fly said:
This just reminds me of an episode of SP with captain Hindsight and his trusty companions: Coulda, Woulda and Shoulda!

Sorry for my interruoption, continue!
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That's an old come back but I used proper grammar so there wouldn't be any confusion. ;)
 
Paul Domingue said:
That's an old come back but I used proper grammar so there wouldn't be any confusion. ;)
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Ahhh too bad actually. Well I guess I could have used my amazing hindsight to know that your grammar was better then that used by SP ;)
 
Paul Domingue said:
Would have, should have, could have, you didn't answer my questions. :cool:
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Question #2 can be answered with my previous reply and a bit of "count 1 and 1 together" or by RTFM (BMS-Manual, chapter 3.1.1)*.

I'll throw you a bone for #1 though: Nothing essential.




*I love how "RTFM" and/or hints at manual pages are totally legitimate answers in the official forums.
 
Heretic said:
Question #2 can be answered with my previous reply and a bit of "count 1 and 1 together" or by RTFM (BMS-Manual, chapter 3.1.1)*.

I'll throw you a bone for #1 though: Nothing essential.




*I love how "RTFM" and/or hints at manual pages are totally legitimate answers in the official forums.
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Hmmmm...I forgot, what does the acronym RTFM refer to? :scratchch
 
Definitely looks awesome. Promising.

However, if I wouldn't know better, I could take the trailer as a DCS clip. Looks pretty much the same to me.

What would you say are the main differences? ATC? Weather? Performance?
 
Falcon 4 and thus BMS have always had a completely dynamic campaign while DCS still uses scripted missions.
 
Heretic said:
I've also rediscovered my admiration for the gal in the tower. She sounds half asleep yet manages to vector in eight aircraft at the same time. In terms of approach vectoring, the ATC generally does a much better job than the one in FSX.
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True... Generally the comments and call-outs are great! But the main menu music still beats it all ;) it's the kinda music that stays in your head for days...
 
My introduction to Falcon 4 was the Allied Force release a few years back. I spent hours and hours on that game and loved it. I downloaded the BMS 4.32 update a few years ago after reading about it in PC Pilot Magazine, but never got around to installing that. I've just recently started getting in to DCS World, which I have had for ages but never played. I bought a heap of modules when they had about 70% off earlier this year. The last few weeks I have been flying (and fighting) in the Mig-15. And I am loving it.

I'll have to checkout this new BMS release too though. So many aviation sims, so little time.


Wow! Just went and bought the Falcon package from GOG as mentioned above for $15 Australian (bloody exchange rate:mad:). Unfortunately you can't use the Allied Force program to install BMS (as I found out years ago when I downloaded BMS) so I thought I would go legit. The Falcon package comes with all the original games and some extra goodies like reference cards and more.

It's amazing how far PCs have come. The size of the installer for the first two games is 16MB :scratchch

Cheers,
 
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Falcon BMS is great aswell! Though I still have to figure out some start up issues when starting in 64-bit mode and since last night it also fatal errors on startup in 32-bit mode after installings some additional theatres... But all in all the effort of fixing it is worth while, such a detailed flight model and quite an interactive day-to-day missions campaign. And I have yet to try out the full aircraft which got a 3D cockpit now (such as the Panavia Tornado).
 
Beware that any add-on aircraft is - in terms of avionics - just an F-16 in disguise.
 
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