homepage Forums Air Combat & Civil Aviation Third Wire Series New and easy to install Mod Pack for FE.

Available here at Combat Ace http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=7022

You need the paid for Oct 2007 Expansion Pack. Flight Models have changed considerably with each version/patch, so for example this will not work with the latest April 2008 Expansion Pack patch.

You can keep your stock/modded and patched April 2008 Expansion Pack as a seperate install.

Installation is very simple and quick:

1) Do a clean install of the the original FE (no need to apply patches), then install the paid for Oct 2007 Expansion Pack. DO NOT install any EP patches at all. Call the new install something different like "FE Mod".

2) Extract this zip file to a temp folder, and move or copy all the folders of the extracted zip to your newly installed main First Eagles directory, and when prompted, click yes to overwrite existing files.

Thats it. Takes about 10 minutes.

The benefits.....

The mod updates FMs for stock planes (FE and Expansion Pack), makes AI only planes flyable (some of these are the best), adds Le Prieur rockets, changes the AI, reduces gun damage effects to realistic levels, many other things. The overall result is that its more realistic, the dogfight experience is very very considerably improved, perhaps the most challenging of any sim.

If this is installed its quite simple adding add-on planes incrementally, as most add-on plane FMs have now been done for this Oct 2007 version of the game (but not for April 2008 patch) and work as a consistent set.

Cheers

I put away FE after the expansion pack (very good). So what is this thing done in April? And I so wish there was a good online coop play and a large online community.

Uriah

The April 2008 Patch was a patch to the Oct 2007 Expansion Pack game. It also included a seperate patch that updated the original FE game with the considerable improvements in the Expansion Pack...without the new plane models of course.

The April 2008 patch made some minor improvements to the Oct 2007 version, fixed a couple of bugs (introduced a few more too), but the Flight Model changed considerably. No better or worse, just different, most players probably wouldn't even notice.

Unfortunately with all thes changes you can't mix and match FMs done for one version/patch of the game with another version/patch of the game.

FMs done for the Oct 2007 Expansion pack don't work well in the April 2008 patch, at times major problems. Nearly all add-on plane FMs have been done for the Oct 2007 version, but none for the April 2008 one. It takes a fair bit of time...theres a lot of add-on planes, and there may be more changes in the next patch.

The big thing I noticed and loved with the Oct 2007 Expansion was the proper stall spin and ability to get out of it too.

Is there now ground engine start?

Uriah

You can turn engines on and off now, yes.

What key do you use to turn engine on and off?

Hmmm, can't remember what the default was for sure, could'va been "Ctrl + I". I remapped to "E".

Its called "Engine Toggle" in the keyboard assignments.