Global Conflict Blue 2 Updated

[Jason]

<strong>[ Free Game ]</strong>

<p><strong><a href="http://www.gcblue2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">Global Conflict Blue 2</a></strong>, a free real-time air & naval warfare sim, has received an overhaul with version 1.0.6. Here's some of the changes:</p><blockquote><p> Simulation improvements
- Improved damage model -- Added more general damage model with physical effects like blast, fragmentation, kinetic energy, etc.
- Larger damage footprints -- Support for area effects of single warhead nuclear missiles, bombs, torpedoes
- Air-to-air guns -- Improved the sim to handle air-to-air guns and also better model for ship point defense guns
-Smart bombs -- Sim models for GPS and laser guided bombs and wing kits,previously the sim would only handle unguided gravity bombs
- Aerial refueling -- In-flight refueling with tankers
- Air formations -- Basic air formations now possible (mainly to support refueling)
- Chaff/flare countermeasures
- Approximate ranging for passive detections
- Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) ESM model for rapid alerts vs threat radars
- Line of sight/terrain masking calculation for sensors </p></blockquote><p>Head <a href="http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=257601&mpage=1#310832" target="_blank">here</a> for the full details and the download. </p><p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.wargamer.com/">The Wargamer</a></p>

 

[Burning Bridges]

I heard a little bit about this one in the subsim forums. As far as I remember the first version was buggy as hell, and therefore never really adopted by the subsim community. Which could mean it is simply not that good.

There is a little bit about GCB2 of info in this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124977.

And this older one about GCB:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=99213

 

[Jason]

As far as I remember the first version was buggy as hell

To be fair, that was around two years ago. Have you tried GCB2?

 

[Burning Bridges]

No have you? From the screens it looks like it's inspired by SC2. But what I know is that the subsim community is pretty lenient when it comes to indy games, and if no one plays this, there must be some reason.

My feeling is the dude bit off more than he could chew, I would certainly not give the advice to take on such a project single handedly. Even in the unlikely case that you succeed it could ruin your life.

Well I might eventually take the pain to install it if I have time and more information about the software.

However I find Danger from the Deep a much more interesting project. Ir looked and ran pretty well when I installed an older version.