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Yeah, I don't think "lightweight" is very honest when the game looks like this.

CptTightpants 3y ago
Claims RPi can handle it, so if true then it's a reasonable claim (depending upon how much you have to disable to get it to work well). It's not like it's claiming to work on a 8MB 486 or similar.
elmomle 3y ago
Sure it is. Nothing in the word "lightweight" implies stellar graphics. If anything, it implies that heavy and nonessential things (like cutting-edge graphics) are totally out of scope.
badsectoracula 3y ago
For a 56MB AppImage binary it looks very good.
- FlightSimGuy 3y ago
  Yes. It does look surprisingly good for such a small AppImage. Digging around on their forums, I found this thread describing their struggle to thrive in spite of the old-school graphics. It includes three embedded YouTube clips that make it easy to compare LAC with some other famous sims like Aces High 2 from about 10 years ago, Aces High 3 (current), and Aces of the Pacific from 1992. Here's the link: https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/thread/c59952805a/ https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/...
dharmab 3y ago
y copy of DCS World (a popular combat flight sim) is around is 426GB. This is positively featherweight for the genre.
- orangepurple 3y ago
  My copy of X-Plane with photogrammetric scenery is several terabytes
- nocoiner 3y ago
  Oh come on, surely that’s an overstate… > Size: 458 GB Damn.
- iLoveOncall 3y ago
  You're comparing something that literally looks like a movie to a game that nobody would even dare giving away for free in cereal packs.
  - anthk 3y ago
    Untill you play it. I said the same in ~2003 with the first Deus Ex. Dull graphics, not the best usage of the first Unreal engine, cliché conspiacies almost straight from the X-Files series and common urban legens. Yet the emergent gameplay and the semi free-roaming playability made it better than most FPS crapware being shold from 2002 to 2009 save for Half Life 2 and Crysis. This might not be the best game on the flying combat genre, but don't forget that these games are built for fun and if they work on multiplayer, for quick matches quickly forgetting the rest. Heck, a lot of pro FPS players put the texture settings at the core mininum and with a 1920x1080 resolution at best so they can spot the rest of the players at a quick glance...
    - anonymfus 3y ago
      So did you play Linux Air Combat and what are your impressions?
      - anthk 3y ago
        Not LAC, but it's "dad" GL-117, yes. Flightgear was much better, (and today FG graphically curb-stomps LAC) but as a quick match against the CPU, it was fine. Xonotic and Red Eclipse 2 began as quick, improved Q3A FPS clones and now they are pretty well known in lots of places with their mechanics being utterly ripped to set fakely placed as novelties and "revolutionary gameplays" into propietary AAA games.
coldtea 3y ago
What do you think lightweight means? I don't think it means what you think it means...

Claims RPi can handle it, so if true then it's a reasonable claim (depending upon how much you have to disable to get it to work well). It's not like it's claiming to work on a 8MB 486 or similar.

elmomle 3y ago

Sure it is. Nothing in the word "lightweight" implies stellar graphics. If anything, it implies that heavy and nonessential things (like cutting-edge graphics) are totally out of scope.

badsectoracula 3y ago

For a 56MB AppImage binary it looks very good.

FlightSimGuy 3y ago
Yes. It does look surprisingly good for such a small AppImage. Digging around on their forums, I found this thread describing their struggle to thrive in spite of the old-school graphics. It includes three embedded YouTube clips that make it easy to compare LAC with some other famous sims like Aces High 2 from about 10 years ago, Aces High 3 (current), and Aces of the Pacific from 1992. Here's the link: https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/thread/c59952805a/ https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/...

dharmab 3y ago

y copy of DCS World (a popular combat flight sim) is around is 426GB. This is positively featherweight for the genre.

orangepurple 3y ago
My copy of X-Plane with photogrammetric scenery is several terabytes
nocoiner 3y ago
Oh come on, surely that’s an overstate… > Size: 458 GB Damn.
iLoveOncall 3y ago
You're comparing something that literally looks like a movie to a game that nobody would even dare giving away for free in cereal packs.
- anthk 3y ago
  Untill you play it. I said the same in ~2003 with the first Deus Ex. Dull graphics, not the best usage of the first Unreal engine, cliché conspiacies almost straight from the X-Files series and common urban legens. Yet the emergent gameplay and the semi free-roaming playability made it better than most FPS crapware being shold from 2002 to 2009 save for Half Life 2 and Crysis. This might not be the best game on the flying combat genre, but don't forget that these games are built for fun and if they work on multiplayer, for quick matches quickly forgetting the rest. Heck, a lot of pro FPS players put the texture settings at the core mininum and with a 1920x1080 resolution at best so they can spot the rest of the players at a quick glance...
  - anonymfus 3y ago
    So did you play Linux Air Combat and what are your impressions?
    - anthk 3y ago
      Not LAC, but it's "dad" GL-117, yes. Flightgear was much better, (and today FG graphically curb-stomps LAC) but as a quick match against the CPU, it was fine. Xonotic and Red Eclipse 2 began as quick, improved Q3A FPS clones and now they are pretty well known in lots of places with their mechanics being utterly ripped to set fakely placed as novelties and "revolutionary gameplays" into propietary AAA games.

coldtea 3y ago

What do you think lightweight means? I don't think it means what you think it means...