Falcon 4 - the definitive edition

[HammerUK9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECIj35JCNXQ

Did I mention the self-shadowing, fully clickable, 3D cockpit?

Tim

[noeyedears]

i bought the original release and played it right up to BMS4.2 hires plus hitiles. didnt know someone was still working on it as the site went down years ago (cant remember its name). i still have the folder with all 750MB of update files in it, god it was a pain to install fully. last time i played it i remember there was a fog/ cloudbase problem. when flying in the valleys and mountains using NVG the fog went opaque and when you came out of the base of it, it was a sharp planar division. Do you know if it has been fixed? watching that vid makes me want to install it again.

[Pielstick]

Yep, the definitive version of perhaps the most ambitious jet sim ever made. Fifteen years on and it still can't be beaten in terms of the dynamic campaign.

[HammerUK9]

BMS 4.32 is remarkably painless - particularly if you're used to the 'Falcon Dance' of old

As to your NVG problem, I've not experienced anything like that - everything is reasonably seamless. Although some of the graphics do look a bit dated

Tim

[noeyedears]

I wish i still had the EF2000 sim too, i loved that one.

[Pielstick]

Some smart people managed to get EF2000 to work on modern Windows and DirectX.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3830314/EF2000_Reloaded#Post3830314

Edited January 16, 2014 by Pielstick

[noeyedears]

Cool, just watced the vid, the soundtrack brings it all back.

[prowler0000]

It's available FREE on their facebook page, too...

Along with F-22 Total Air War!

https://www.facebook.com/totalairwar?fref=ts

[noeyedears]

Wow excellent!

[Pielstick]

I can remember back in 1996... being 15 years old and pretending to be ill so I could get the day of school and sit and play EF2000 instead. Much more interesting than double French!

[DarrenH]

Great to see BMS doing so much greatvwork on the King of flightsims.

Many hours spent on the Korean peninsula by day and night in the best campaign game I have ever seen.

Great stuff.

[planehazza]

Bumping an old thread. Those that are into the details of sims like they are of modelling.  BMS 4.33 is the CLOSEST thing by far to flying the real Viper, and it keeps getting better.  

[NoSG0]

If you still have room on your SSD, looks like more improvements and VR support are imminent.  Looks like they are really improving this.

Be sure to get the right version of Falcon. I believe you need Falcon 4.0 for for BMS.  If you get the Falcon collection, this link should help, but read carefully!  https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/6808/gog-falcon4-to-bms-for-dummies

 

This link on reddit gives you information on what to get and set up. https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/qjl41c/bms_is_easier_to_use_than_ever_if_you_havent/

 

Various setup videos here. https://www.youtube.com/c/AviationPlus

 

 

Edited December 25, 2022 by NoSG0

[One 48]

Falcon 4 BMS 4.36 has been out a little while now though, hasn't it? On BMS 4.36 3.1 update here now.

But yes, go back a while with this sim, one of the old contributors to this site we used to fly early TE's in Falcon 4.0 online in UK dial, up days (Peilstick .. a navy career guy) it was a lot of fun. We'd try campaign mode but UK typical bandwidth of 3.5KBS couldn't cut it, the TE's were possible and we had up to 6 online for successful missions with voice back in the day ... very immersive stuff.

Its great to see this amazing F-16 study sim get some VR love, Cliffs of Dover soon too.

[Putty Animal]

That looks amazing.  Even more so considering the age of the original software.  I'd love to see Il-2 1946 get clouds like that one day.

[One 48]

Falcon  BMS 4.37.0 with VR support got released today, wow, wasn't expecting this so soon.

Have it installed but not tried VR yet .. will soon though.

https://www.falcon-bms.com/news/falcon-bms-4-37-0-released/