I added a new section for Dawn Patrol a classic W.W.I flight simulation to the site starting with some info and screenshots for now.
CommentsThere is an
announcement on the Sierra community forums that on 01-Nov-2008 a lot of game servers will be shut down. This is caused by the merger between Blizzard and Activison and the intention to cut costs.
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Announcement: Sierra Game Servers Closing Down
Posted By: Eric@Sierra
Created in: System (Global Announcement)
Posted: Oct 7, 2008 1:29 PM
The following game servers will be shut down as of 11/01/08:
1. Alien vs Predator 2
2. Arcanum
3. Caesar IV
4. Dark Reign 2
5. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
6. Empire Earth
7. Empire Earth 2
8. Empire Earth: Age of Conquest
9. Ground Control
10. Ground Control2
11. Homeworld
12. Homeworld: Cataclysm
13. Nolf2
14. Red Baron
15. Sanity
16. Star Trek: Armada
17. SWAT3: EE
18. SWAT3: GOTY
19. The Incredible Machine
20. Tribes2
21. Vampire
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This step was expected since last year a lot of
Sierra game servers were already shut down for example the NASCAR servers.
How does this affect Red Baron II/3D?
There is speculation that only the 'Red Baron Arcade' server will be affected. But most likely the EAST WON Meta Server for Red Baron II/3D Multiplayer will be affected also as the 10-year-contract between Sierra and World Opponent Network (WON) will cease on 31-Oct-2008 and will not be renewed.
If this happens and you intend to play RB3D MMP then you should open up your mplayer.ini file in the RB3D folder and comment out all WON Meta servers in the [MetaServers] section with a preceding // and after that you should add some entries for Meta Servers run by members of the Red Baron 3D Community. It should look like this:
[MetaServers]
// Server=TCP:rb2.west.won.net:6001 ; CA Titan Server 216.52.220.23 - not working anymore
// Server=TCP:rb2.east.won.net:6001 ; NY Titan Server 63.251.143.210 - switched on and off intermittently since 06-Oct-2007
// Server=UDP:dyn-meta.dynamix.com:47801 ; Baron Meta Server - switched off since early 2000
Server=TCP:depotserver.de:6001 ; Longarth's Meta Server
Server=TCP:82.95.229.75:6001 ; Rens' Meta Server
Server=TCP:66.225.104.67:6001 ; Tiger's Meta Server
See also the statement in the
Sierra Classics Forum about switching off also various Sierra Forums. There are plans to set up a private site and forum for all Sierra games on
www.sierrachest.com.
Source: Sierra Community ForumsFlyRetired has some impressions of the 'Rise Of Flight' sim development for us:
"On a recent visit to the neoqb offices in Moscow, flight sim fans in Russia got some real hands-on experience with the alpha build of Rise Of Flight. The following screenshots were taken from flight sim enthusiast -=RFF=-AvvA's trip this past month, and give us a look at some of the work that's been created for the sim."
Rise Of Flight loads …
Campaigning intro footage …
The workings of the Mission Editor …
Mission Accomplished and controllable pilot animation …
Hey wake that guy up … ROF Team at neoqb …
Our thanks for this news goes to FlyRetired.
Source: SimHQ RoF ForumI have uploaded some Red Baron II/3D files from my archives:
* Pat Wilson's 'Western Front Patch Version 7.1' (this is WFP1 not WFP2)
* Cameron Riley's 'Flander's Fields Patch' including Add Ons
From what I know you can not find them anywhere on the web. Now you can find them on the
Red Baron II/3D Superpatches download page.
There is some update by OFF Team leader Winder about the Phase 3 progress:
"Just a quick update that I thought might be needed especially as SOH have lost all the threads - as we all know."
"We have been flat out these past few weeks testing and tweaking and fixing bugs - things are really starting to come together quite well now. Yes you can tell we are also not rushing it but it still has been a hectic few weeks or is that months since we started testing. No I am not committing to any date as per usual - we all have days jobs etc."
"I have noticed a few comments out there about the OFF vids looking good because they are all human players in an MP session … Well just for the record all the videos as made by Polovski are shot in campaign mode with only Pol against the AI."
"So in reality this is encouraging to hear that the AI look that human - but they are still just AI!!"
Source: Sim-Outhouse OFF ForumThe Developer's Blog for the upcoming 'Rise Of Flight' W.W.I flight simulation has gone on line on September, 28th, in English and Russian language. The blog is divided into six topics and the first blog entries are about damage modelling, the game world map and the Games Convention 2008 held in Leipzig/Germany.
Source: Rise Of Flight BlogCommentsAs today is the 91st anniversary of the epic dogfight between Werner Voss and seven pilots from 56 Squadron RFC - the most legendary aerial combat ever - First Eagles player 'Southside Bucky' has made a special mission for First Eagles + Expansion Pack 1.
"This Mission is a re-enactment of an actual aerial combat that took place at about 6:30pm, on Sunday, 23rd September, 1917, in the skies above Poelcapelle and Westroosebeke, about 7-8 miles NE of Ypres, in Belgium."
"The action involved seven SE5a's of 56 Sqn, the RFC's premier fighter unit, and Lt. Werner Voss, a 48 victory ace and a holder of the coveted Ordre Pour Le Merite (Blue Max)."
Download the missionSource: First Eagles Forum on CombatACE.comCommentsGreat news for all OFF users. NaturalPoint has released a new beta driver for TrackIR. It incorporates the fix for CFS3 under Windows Vista which has been made possible by the research work of the OFF Development Team in collaboration with NaturalPoint.
Changelog:
4.1.036 beta 01
(Posted September 22, 2008)
# Changes Added Russian language translation
# Updated German language translation
# Fixes for CFS3 under Vista
Hats off to the OFF Team for all the work with researching the fix Microsoft was not willing to do for their own products (Vista and CFS3).
Driver download at NaturalPoint.
Source: Sim-Outhouse OFF ForumCommentsI have done some re-arrangements on the site. If you look on the lefthandside navigation you will notice that I have moved the abandoned projects into a respective section below the list of released W.W.I flight simulations.
Also I have moved the 'new' Knights Of The Sky project into the 'Rise Of Flight' section as there was a name change by the developers neoqb. In the 'Knights Of The Sky' section there are now some information and screenshots of the 'old' Knights Of The Sky flight simulation by MicroProse (1990).
The same goes for the 'Knights Of The Sky' and 'Rise Of Flight' section in the forum.
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