Biohazcentral has part 1 up of a very good first look at this impressive looking flight sim. Not only does it look good but it would seem the developers have got the flight model and the options associated with the entire game so well set up they might just keep everyone happy. Novices and hard core joystick junkies alike. As for performance the author indicates that it ran pretty well on his Athlon 1800 and ATI 9600 maxed at 1024, which tends to indicate the finished product will run very nicely indeed on current higher end vid cards and heftier cpu's.

AVSIM has another similar snapshot up and has some new and awesome looking screens from this game.

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/dwegner/pics/lockon1.jpg

A bit of formation over the sea.

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/dwegner/pics/lockon2.jpg
Cool weather and environmental stuff.

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/dwegner/pics/lockon3.jpg

Lighting, haze, clouds..obviously a lot of work has gone into this.

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/dwegner/pics/lockon4.jpg

"You smell something burning?"

A demo of this game is due out within the next week. Keep your eyes peeled and watch your six!

What kind of super computer are we going to be getting to run this sweet sweet sim??

gonna have to rush out and get a hotas setup :p

The graphics look f***ing nice as in those pics.

whoa, that looks super pretty!

All tests for this preview were run on my main gaming rig, which consists of the following:

MSI K7T266Pro2-RU
Athlon 1800+ (Overclocked to +2100)
512Mb PC2100 RAM
ATI Radeon 9600Pro 128Meg w/Catalyst 3.6 drivers
DirectX 9.0b
80Gb Maxtor Drive
48x LiteOn CD-R drive
WinXP Pro SP1
CH Products ForceFX/Pro Throttle/Pro Pedals HOTAS setup
TrackIR unit w/2.11 driver

*follow links boxhead.. idiot :p*

i like the look of this:

http://www.avsim.com/pages/0803/lomac_preview/lomacpic/cockpit4.jpg

cant wait to have ago at this game!

hmmm looks pretty swoit. I might have to nick Dad's joystick for a couple of days :P

Will look sweet on your card Decimate/Box...how sharp are those cockpits.

and yeh Box READ my post ya gumby!

:P

Yeh this looks fun :)

My Radeon 9500 Pro will handle this easssyyy

that looks awesome

fwoar! this game looks awesome!

those graphics are very impressive!

Might have to play this one; I haven't played a flight sim since Descent Freespace II :P

psycho i saw the photos and my eyes glazed over

psycho i saw the photos and my eyes glazed over

I thought that was the Rum that does that to you?

:D

I can't wait, what card do you think i should get to make it run nice? Radeon 9700 do the job?

Holy s***, Psycho! do I know you in real life? seriously, I don't think I know any cops....

Radeon 9500 Pro's, they are better then the 9600 Pros, but you will be lucky to be able to find a shop that will have a decent version in stock :(

Nah Box..we havent met but I feel I know you...I'm very perceptive you know. Oh and there was that time up at the hospital when you gave me that sponge bath....

hehehe now I'm screwing with your mind!

:)

Psycho are u a cop and what police station mite of met you before met a few in my life

Excruci@ting, I think a 9700 or a pro and higher will do nicely, vearing in mind what these preview guys played with isn't final optomised product.

I havent even checked or I have forgotten if there is MP...a GA Lock On server would be sweet though...

must go check about that MP aspect...

That 1st pic looks real

WHAT?! that wasn't you?! :p

eheh hrmm this is bizarre...

Anyways, lockon will rock hard...

Psycho are u a cop and what police station mite of met you before met a few in my life

I was up an wonderful Ipswich for 11 years in CSI but now flying a desk at the DNA unit. I made a thread pun...flying a desk..in a flight sim thread..Im on a roll. :P

haha

might have a preview of this puppy soon if I can prise the CDs out of terms hands

Furgle check out the gallery archive on that AVSIM link I posted...some of the pics I can't tell they aren't real, they are that good.

i saw a network play option in the main menu screeny, thats a good sign :D

and a ga server would be awesome!

might have a preview of this puppy soon if I can prise the CDs out of terms hands

Let me be the first to say..

WHAT?!?!@#?@!?#?!@#?@!#?!@!!@#@!#@!#!@


Hihi, i'd like to write reviews or something... anything.. previews... ANYTHING AT ALL...

OMG...

might have a preview of this puppy soon if I can prise the CDs out of terms hands

dont tell us you dirty dogs have the beta cd of this already!! grrrr

well u wouldnt of seen me then :( at the police station

Yep MP is there, silly me.

Multiplayer for up to 32 players via LAN or at least six over the internet, go head-to-head or take part in cooperative missions.

This might be a good candiadate for that Cogslan P2P game doohicky the GA guys are working on, 6 players ect..doing a co-op mission would be very cool.

I want this game.
Now.

I want this game.
Now.

well by trogs post that's achievable, we just have to kill Term first.

:)

there better be a GA mirror soon upon its release

This might be a good candiadate for that Cogslan P2P game doohicky

Technical language at its best...

Also.. Trog/term, hand over the disc!@!!

Excruci@ting, I think a 9700 or a pro and higher will do nicely, vearing in mind what these preview guys played with isn't final optomised product.

I havent even checked or I have forgotten if there is MP...a GA Lock On server would be sweet though...

must go check about that MP aspect...

Too easy, can't wait to test it out on HL2 too! (I only have a ti4200 atm)

Well one of the Developers said he had 16 FPS.

on a P4 2.4, 1gb ddr and R9800 Pro.


Demo out this week, w00t!

Edit:

MP is probably gonna fail this game, there will be no dedicated server.

A quick note on frame rates. No, I won’t give any, since this is a PREview and not a REview. But I will say this, I am running an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with all graphic settings on max right now with 1024x768 resolution (see top of story for test machine specs), and the frame rates are very acceptable in my opinion. If there is a lot of activity going on things can get a little choppy, but overall I was very pleasantly surprised at how well things ran. Considering this is a beta version and not a final optimized RTM copy, things are working damn well!

hmm well thats from the biohazcentral preview..so i dunno who to believe now! Unless this build is more optomised. I guess we'll have to wait for trogs definative review.

ahah cool, i bought a 9700 and a p4 2.5 and it got me through battlefield 1942 and gta vc... ok new computer time so i can play hl2 and lock on (and maybe halo?)... then a new pc so i can play doom3

this should keep me going till i finish getting into the airforce.

i think my flight sim 2004 is slightly more realistic flying sim tho ;)

ive been for this game since i saw the first screeny. might be time to upgrade my geforce 4 440 mx

Lock on!!
http://www.rthq.freeservers.com/gunhedsm.gif
did anyone have one?

edit: what a waste of post #1000

laser force owns lock on (the s***ty zappy gun one that is)

Yeah I remember lock on ... I almost bought it once, but then realised what a waste of money it would be

I had a Sega Lock on :)

Yeah I remember lock on ... I almost bought it once, but then realised what a waste of money it would be

if only i thought like that a while ago, i would have been $100 better off

phwar! I hate flight sims but I'm definately gonna have to check this one out, it looks fkn awsome! I used to play some game on my megadrive I think it was called lockon. Some helicopter thingy. Might actually be worth getting a joystick for

yeah, i'm wanting to get into flight sims, and this one looks lush. can't wait for the demo :)

Lock on cained when I was about 10 years old, if you had 2 sets you could play 2on2's, especially at night time, that cained!

These are the 'official' system requirements for the game.

What are Lock On's system specs?

Windows(r)98/ME/XP/2000
Pentium III 800/AMD Athlon 600 or better
256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
3D video card (DirectX 8.1 compatible) w/32MB RAM (128MB recommended)
Sound Card (Direct 8.1 compatible)
DirectX 8.1 or higher (included on disc)
4X CD-ROM or better (Not recommended for use with CD-RWs)
Internet connection (56 kbps or better) or LAN for multiplayer
Hard Drive Space 1.1 GB

Although we all know how some *cough* system specs listed by developers are questionable at best.

I guess the demo will give interested parties a pretty good idea on how the final will run. Come on trog review!

Any news on a demo or final release date. I know the final release is in Winter this year, but Winter is almost over :/

http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=1845409

The demo was supposed to be out this week but Ubi Soft pulled it apparently so as to coincide the release of the demo with the magazine coverage/demo release worldwide.

Ticked me off big time as I was really wanting a demo to see how my vid card handles it.

omg can't beleive i missed that thread :/ shame on me.

Also, Remember winter will mean Summer for us, When every company is trying to sell games in the holiday period.

But how certain "Winter" is I dont know. I see an Ad for lomac, when Installing Ravenshield saying late 2002 :(

Been waiting for this game for around 6 months now. Any of you guys played IL2 Sturmovik, was the one before this and it f***ing rocked!!!

OMFG! I want, it want it now!


By the looks of those screenies, for the first time I wonder if my faithfull old Ti-4400 will be up to the job?

I dunno much about the game.
But if you remember Strike Commander from meny eons ago, that'd make an awesome remake/spin off.

Maybe a few changes, manage the merc. squadron but also buy the planes you're going to fly.
It'd be nice to be able to buy your favourite fighter jet, arm her up and go do your job, rather than having the jet you have to fly thrown at you :/