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Antonov with Minigun against Shahed Drones

Welcome! We’re a small bunch here, but DID fans to the bone. The larger crowd is over at Discord, but since that’s notoriously bad at structuring conversations, we still stick to forums for anything that might be interesting to someone else later

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter comes to Steam!

DID re-releases the 1997 classic this February with almost 100 improvements and fixes.

Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146140/F22_Air_Dominance_Fighter/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7sd3ALAL1M

FAQ

Where is TAW/EF2000/TFX ...

R-60 AA Missile on Shahed Drone

Most likely to target helicopters that are sent to intercept drones

Novorossiysk Rave Party

… of course air defense missed and the drone hit (seen in the quoted video)

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1994363716641448006


Accuracy Gepard vs. Terminator

The wobbling in Russian barrels is supposed to reduce recoil by having the barrel absorb some of the ...

Russian Air Defense vs. ???

Moscow Air Defense vs. Drones

Shahed Drone in Infrared

F-29 Retaliator Demo from April 1991: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/40218/minerva2.zip/minerva2/DEMOS/RETAL.LZH

Backup because the readme explicitly asks to distribute it: RETAL.LZH


This is interesting because Retaliator was released in 1989. By 1991, Retaliator 2 was already in the ...

Yeah, probably inhaling the whole internet again to train their AI. With this forum 3000 times per day to make it really really good on TAW answers!

Currently under attack from crawlers again. It’s not as bad as May/Christmas 2024 when ChatGPT hammered the server, but almost.


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Note that only 50 % of accesses are categorized as crawling. The bot, whatever it is, uses no user agent string. Just Chrome on Windows like most legit ...

Su-25 Crash

Nice fireball

Thought I should gather what we know.

KALI
Introduced with the patched version. According to the readme, it affects multiplayer communications:
If you want to limit the amount of packets sent per second, put the word KALI on the command line if you are running from a shortcut.


tour_access ...

bored wrote: ↑2022-Nov-19, 22:27 I thought you'd answer quicker than that.

Here it is...

FYI: I just deleted the file because the bots downloaded it a thousand times, generating 130 gigabytes of traffic from that alone … I hate today’s internet.

FYI: Here is a great overview about EF2000’s countless patches, releases, and how they relate: https://www.tales-from-darkenedroom.com ... 1-a-primer

Once again … big forum update.

I removed the community.combatsim.com link from the front page … it’s been dead for some time. Removed all social media links at the page bottom except Discord.

If something is broken, report it here.

Su-25 Crash

Great! Here is a screenshot of what to expect:


The program closes directly after processing, but then you can’t see potential error messages. So it should be started from a console instead. Room for improvement in a future version 🤔

F22 Texture Editor by Krishty


F22TextureEditor.exe


F22TextureEditor.cpp


run from extracted EF2000 or F22 PROGRAM directory
converts all TM files of the game to PNGs in the subdirectory !converted
after editing the PNGs, run again to convert them back to TMs The last modification time ...