Product Description
In the tradition of four previous versions, the new Flight Deck 5 keeps the excitement in aircraft carrier operations. The USS Gerald R Ford is your new base where youll perform launch and recovery until youre blue in the face. The powerful catapult gets you airborne in just a few hundred feet. And during recovery, youll want your tailhook to catch the steel cable to bring your muscular aircraft to a screeching halt. From the flight deck of the new USS Gerald R Ford, youll fly 7 exciting aircraft and take advantage of Flight Deck 5s brand new technology featuring an aircraft carrier that moves and a super accurate catapult launch and recovery system. Youll experience the thrill of authentic deck operations with AI traffic on and above the carrier. Youll see why cable recovery on the short flight deck is both thrilling and nerve-wracking.
Maverick missile Fly from the new USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending
Rate Points :1.5
Binding :Video Game
Brand :Abacus
Label :Abacus
Manufacturer :Abacus
Model :S760
MPN :S760
ProductGroup :Video Games
Studio :Abacus
Publisher :Abacus
UPC :090869557609
EAN :0090869557609
Price :$29.95USD
Lowest Price :$17.95USD
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Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
I order one of these, actually two by mistake. I notified the seller before shipping and still got two. I gave one away for a gift.
Unfinished Product
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :2
Im having the same problem as others:
1. Nearly impossible to land on carrier because the LSOs directions are flawed, the "meatball" is totally wrong, and you fall through the carrier after catching the wires.
2. The flight dynamics are pretty unrealistic need to tweak the performance envelope of nearly all the aircraft - particularly the hornet that gets airborne on 15% power and hits over 400 knots...
Abacus needs to patch this soon...
I wish I had read the reviews here first
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :1
There are so many things wrong with this add-on:
- The aircraft models and textures are average. I couldve easily gotten high caliber aircraft off of FlightSim.com or AVSIMs databses. (And I already do)
- The most atrocious thing about the aircraft though, is the cockpits. The virtual cockpits, again, are the same exact thing that you can find for free. Even worse are the 2D panels. They look like something straight out of FS98.
- There are so many bugs with regards to the carriers and the missions. During night missions there is no panel lighting or carrier lighting. Cant see a thing. It also doesnt give you waypoints during any of these missions. They call out the coordinates once and thats it.
- Whenver I try to take off from the carrier it detects me as crashing and I get the old "bounce up". (If I had crashes turned on Id never get through this add-on)
- The documentation is poor quality. It mentions things that are common knowledge and leaves out items that are not.
False Advertisement
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :0
Box states that the game is "enhanced for FSX". However many "important" features do not exist for FSX.
While Abacus brags that the carrier moves in FSX, they DONT have the following for FSX:
1) Abacus had to eliminate IFLOS (Improved Fresnel Lens Optical System - carrier landing guidance by instrumentation on HUD). Dev was unable to program the instruments to work with a moving carrier. In other words, you will have to land on the moving carrier by sight (without the guidance system)...so much for realism.
2) There are NO LAUNCHING MISSIONS and you cannot INITIALLY LAUNCH FROM THE CARRIER IN FREE FLIGHT in FSX. Abacus had to eliminate this ability because they cant place your plane on the moving carrier. You have to land first and then launch.
Basically, you have to "start" every mission in the air, then land (without a working IFLOS) and then launch. SO if you cant land (which I couldnt by sight, go figure), then you can never launch. Does this sound like fun?
Tech support was very willing to defend this decision with "thats just the way it is" as a response to my concern.
I will never understand why Abacus released this game with such disdain for FSX users and then used false advertisement to solicit sales. On top of all of this, they continue to ignore the FSX deficiencies by producing a new game, "Strike Force", with the same lame launching protocol.
Unfortunately, one star is the lowest score I can give for this game. Fortunately, I was able to get my money back. For FSX users, look elsewhere dont waste your time believing the lame advertising ploy from Abacus.
Bug review is accurate
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :4
Ive only played for about 4 hrs. Yes I have noticed strange bugs in this game. Some more serious than others. Such as the "TailHook" on the F-18E refusing to lower. Even if I click on the icon in the cockpit nothing happens. But it DOES work on the F-18C model. Maybe they switched the shortcut key? Who knows because I do not have a keyboard assignment manual. But you cant land on a carrier without a working Tailhook so basically Ive never put the F-18E on the deck yet.
Graphics are VERY good. So if you like eye-candy you should enjoy free flights around the carrier. Just dont land, it might look ugly from the bugs you may face.
Voice communications in this game with the carrier is really great!
I would rate this game much higher if the bugs were fixed.
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