Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by anonymfus on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:14PM (#36936997)

So did you play Linux Air Combat and what are your impressions?

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by anthk on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:24AM (#36941053)

Not LAC, but it's "dad" GL-117, yes. Flightgear was much better, (and today FG graphically curb-stomps LAC) but as a quick match against the CPU, it was fine.

Xonotic and Red Eclipse 2 began as quick, improved Q3A FPS clones and now they are pretty well known in lots of places with their mechanics being utterly ripped to set fakely placed as novelties and "revolutionary gameplays" into propietary AAA games.

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by FlightSimGuy on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:43AM (#36954475)

Here is a link to the online reviews from SourceForge, by people that HAVE played it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/reviews/

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by anthk on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:19AM (#36968991)

So you are sending me a links which makes my point even more better? Thanks :)

As I said, the game is to GL-117 as Supertuxkart over Tuxkart, or Speed Dreams over Torcs.

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by FlightSimGuy on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:57AM (#36970969)

Yes. Only LAC's improvement is even more because GL-117 didn't even have any network support. It was all offline. LAC is fundamentally an online, multi-player rewrite of GL-117 with vastly improved flight models and a lot more airplanes.

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by FlightSimGuy on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:53AM (#36970933)

Yes. I played it and I liked it. It reminded me very much of Aces High "classic" or its successor, Aces High 2.

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by FlightSimGuy on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:07PM (#37005909)

They have a new version out for beta testing. It looks like they've had recent complaints about compatibility. Like people that didn't have a joystick. And some people that applied recent OS patches were having problems. The new beta test one purports to solve those problems. I didn't try it because the version I got a few days ago works great on all of my machines. But if you had trouble you might try the beta. It's at https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/files/Choose...

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Re:Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source comba... by DillardTheDread on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:17PM (#37057622)

Yes. I've been playing it for about a week and it is surprisingly good once you get past the simple tutorials. The online missions are deep even if you're the only one. The flight is credible and feels really smooth on my xubuntu desktop with Intel core 2 duo and Nvidia Quadro graphics. Two or 3 times I have had other players show up but I am not ready to tangle with experts yet so when I see others I just switch to a different mission lol. I fly the spitfire mostly cuz I always loved that plane and it seems to fly very close to what I expected.

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