best dog fight game

[900donuts]

what is the best free or part free (demo) flight sim shooter for linux that is easy to run and install ive tryed target ware but had no luck so far

first time post

[lingnoi]

Not really answering your question (which I don't have an answer for. Sorry :( ) but kind of extending it...

I have been longing to play an Air Attack clone myself of many years. I was hoping that there was a free alternative somewhere but so far I have not had much luck in locating anything close to the experience.

Air Attack was a game you could play long time ago on the wireplay network. You would connect to a server and then dog fight each other. Fast, fun and simple. Loved it.

You can still play it (DirectX 7 I believe) and there is a website here: http://www.airattack.co.uk/

I would still like to find an open source clone of the game, since you can not make your own server / have to do all this weird stuff just to play.

If anyone knows of such as game it would be great! :D

[gjtoth]

what is the best free or part free (demo) flight sim shooter for linux that is easy to run and install ive tryed target ware but had no luck so far

first time post

GL-117 isn't too shabby

[Josey]

descent 3 which runs nativley on linux
it actually runs better than when i played it in windows

[900donuts]

let me add some clarifacation to what i want
im not one for death match games infantry is just not my thing
some ones that i've liked were simple yet intence like star fox 64 or flying planes in bf1942(not easy at first but the best part of the game when you know how) my apsolute favorite was galactic conquest mod for bf 1942. is there any thing like that

[RomeReactor]

I don't know if you've tried Freespace 2 (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Fs2_open_on_Linux) or VegaStrike (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/), but perhaps they're something like what you're looking for.

Edit: FreeSpace 2 is not very easy to install, though. This page (http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Simulation_Games) has some simulation games, it's worth checking out.

[900donuts]

well every thing ive heard about vega strike multiplayer wise hasn't been good i also tryed the privatere vega strike remake and it didn't look good

and ive visited that link 1000 times

[K.Mandla]

Sopwith! (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/games/sopwith) :biggrin:

[900donuts]

if i didn't say so before im looking for a multi player experience

[David Mulligan]

Give Freespace 2 a try. The URL is above. It is difficult to install but once you do I think you will like what you find.

[lingnoi]

Freespace 2 and Vegastrike are space sims not flight sims. :(

[RomeReactor]

Well, he did mention galactic conquest (http://images.google.com/images?q=galactic%20conquest%201942)... :neutral:

[lingnoi]

Something like Air Attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airattack) (the wireplay version) would be great but with the current implementations available you have to pay $9.99 per month when all I really want is a lan game. :(

[SteveNorman]

I been playing aa multiplayer for free! its fighter ace you have to pay for. I play it on my microslop machine, but am to dumb to download it into feisty

[lingnoi]

Do you have a link? Is this to play AA on the Korean server?

[SteveNorman]

http://www.airattack.co.uk/club/index.php

this is where I have been playing from until I switched to linux last week

There is a link from the fa3 to download for linux, but I am to new at this to get it to work.

http://linux.ketsujin.com/

I always logged in starting at the page above. It is pretty buggy, but once you get it running it works great..

For windows, you have to load the software, register, log in once from your desktop launcher to have the password stored. After that you go to the link above, hit launch aa
then register again, launch aa again, log in and go. complicated but its free,,and it is the same soft ware put out by the fa kaitsun peolpe. The money is only for fa3. If you get it to work I would love some help getting it back up on my linux machine. aa is my last link to microsoft. after i get it linuxed I can cut it off for good.
Steve

Steve

[lingnoi]

I was looking for an open source clone I could play on a lan to be honest. :(