What does it feel like to you?
I downloaded the the demo last night just to test it out again and I stuck it all on high graphics but even so and with a good framerate it all felt very electronic. By this I mean when I moved my stick a little the plane moved alot and I could not feel the plane through the stick as I can in IL2 (I dont have FFB stick).
Is this the same for everyone or just me?
Sterling.
Hmmm, it’s been a long time since I last flew LOMAC, and I haven’t spent much time in it at all, but I have a similar feeling. The planes reacted a bit strange to stick input, but I think part of it was due to settings.
I also couldn’t get TIR working as good as it does in IL, but I think that was fixed in a patch. Perhaps (hopefully) the other issues was also fixed with the patch.
I’ve been thinking about getting it though (only “tested” it so far), I’ve seen it cheap in a store here.
But I think others here have more experience in it and could give a better answer…
Try increasing the nullzone and decrease the shift/curve settings in the joystick options.
As to feeling the plane through the stick… Can you set a “return to center” option in your joystick setup program?
If anything, I find that the aircraft in Lomac feel nicely heavy. It’s a whole different feeling than the fly-by-wire jets like the F16 or F18.
For reference, my stick is stilll an old gameport MS Sidewinder FF.
same as Johan
I can really feel the weight of the planes…really noticeable when you are strafing with the Frogfoot.
For me its a nice FM
I had a play with the joystick settings today and found a better balance. One thing that I do notice though and is pronounced at higher speeds is that when I move in the vertical plane gently the aircraft can sort of buck-a-roo up and down with its nose. Is this what really happens or is this the auto-centre thing you talking about Johan?
Sterling.
Nope 
“Return to centre” is an option you set in the joystick program. It probably depends on the model of joystick that you are using. It makes the joystick movement more rigid. Now I think of it, maybe this is only available on ForceFeedback sticks…
The nose bobbing up and down may have something to do with trim settings. Maybe it is a bug because I remember people were complaining about it.
Ok, well I have seen it in the games stores for only about £20 here so I may just buy it and try the full game. It runs well now, but its just the ground detail when flying low that causes some bad frames per second. But a new gfx card will sort that out.
Do may people fly LOMAC like IL2 or is it more of a singleplayer game?
Sterling.
I’d say Lomac is more like a multiplayer game. In fact Lomac is very similar to IL2… great graphics, great flight physics, but poor mission and campaign system. You will see the same things happening as in IL2: AI fighting to the death or running off without a word so you are left alone. Fail to destroy a particular truck and you will have to fly the mission over.
Still, there are a number of well designed missions and campaigns for download and they are good fun.
The full game has better performance than the demo, but expect to do some tweaking to get it running smoothly.
I just bought Lock On - Flaming Cliffs, the russian version. Haven’t had time to install it yet, but will be interesting to see if I understand any of the russian in the game. :roflmao:
Payed less the €20 for it from a swede that bought two of them when he was in St. Petersburg. 
great, let us know how the Su25T handles please
they say is the most accurate FM ever in a flight sim
Mikke,
Next time ask if he can take with him some copies of the russian addon with the Pe2
lol we might get a few more Panzers in CW then :roflmao:
Panzers lol
A load of Panzers with pink balloons on the radio aerial
‘Rommel’s Panzer Boys Parked Up In Tunisian Souk: Scouting Mission’
Over to you Joe for that artwork
Ming
Just bought LO-MAC after putting it off for ages (couldn’t get the demo working very well and didn’t want to spend a load of cash on it if it was going to do the same in the full game). Finally got it for about £9 from Amazon market place brand new.
Well impressed with the small amount that I’ve played it. I did the taxi and take-off mission in the Su-25 last night. Wow! It was almost frightening. This may seem like an overreaction, but I remember, as a kid wandering around air museums and sitting in the cockpits of massive old jet fighters like Buccaneers, looking at the really heavy duty seeming controls and trying to imagine how this great clod of metal with all it’s dials and flaking paintwork would feel were you to be able to close the canopy, turn on the engines and take it through the wall on to the runway and then up into the air (no doubt trailing screaming parents and museum workers ).
Now I know.
I think that it’s because most of the jet fighter sims I’ve played tend to be of such new planes that they don’t seem really real, whereas the cockpit of an Su-25 is so … solid, it couldn’t be anything other than real. Trying to land the Frogfoot having got it up in the air made me think that it’d be like stacking a real plane were I to cock it up.
Very impressed indeed. I’m hoping that the rest of the game will impress me as much.
Does the Flaming Cliffs addon improve the AI? In Lomac the AI planes had the nasty habit of breaking off without telling you and go on a free hunt on their own (usually getting shot down in the process). It was very hard to set up a decent mission in the mission builder because the planes would engage SAM threats all over the map.