| 2025-12-26 | 2.0.0 |
- Two new main game modes accessible from the start menu - WARFARE - dynamic war simulation and GENERATED - fly procedurally generated missions.
- MISSION OUTCOMES
- Ability to eject. Ejection has calculated different outcomes: killed, captured by the enemy, ejection judged as unjustified, successfull - some new images illustrating ejection.
- WORLD / BATTLEFIELD
- Friendly AWACS when present provides full radar coverage in WARFARE game mode.
- Enemy fighters upon detecting you fired missiles at them will try to do evasive maneuvers.
- You can land to reload, refuel and get minor damages fixed.
- Tanks can move and provide AAA cover at the same time.
- HUD/COCKPIT/AVIONICS
- Radar automatically locks on first available target.
- When gear out and below 1000FT, a vertical line bar denoting vertical speed is shown on HUD.
- Labeling on the in-flight map. Separate display of names and kinds. Active options are highlighted. Map can be moved with joystick. Friendly units are marked green.
- When target enters weapon effective range marking on HUD changes from horizontal lines to rectangle.
- Right MFD mode 2 TARGET TRACKING shows both direction and distance to target. Far distances are marked with M.
- Drawing Sidewinder aiming diamond on HUD, Sidewinder lock sound.
- Altitude WARNING message with sound when descending below 256ft.
- AAA WARNING message with sound when entering effective range of enemy AAA unit.
- Warning sounds when enemy missile launches detected (different for G2A and A2A).
- Gear retraction/extension sound.
- Chaff/flare release sound.
- Change of RADAR modes ordering: NAV, A2A, A2G instead of NAV, A2G, A2A.
- Change of A2A weapon ordering: Cannon, Amraam, Sidewinder instead of Cannon, Sidewinder, Amraaam.
- Unguided rockets require greater precision for successfull hit.
- Various adjustments to weapon ranges, speed and effectiveness.
- SMALL IMPROVEMENTS AND ADJUSTMENTS
- Runways are wider for easier landing.
- Improved handling around angular poles.
- Various improvements to the design of training missions.
- Short radio noise before each new message.
- Changed bass option for CMC music player.
- Enemy SAM sites fire rate increased.
- Extended gear at high speed in air does gradual damage instead instant destruction.
- FIXES
- Vblank fix on mission end (reported by Stefan D 2025-03-18).
- Fixed damage penalty scoring (reported by Stefan D 2025-03-18).
- Small fix in ground speed handling so no negative value is shown.
- Fix to long range SAM site 3D rendering, shape simplified.
- Better target distance/heading informtion refresh when target changes.
- Wider range of visibility of CCIP bombing marker.
- OPTIMIZATIONS
- Many horizon and land drawing optimizations.
- Many code size optimizations.
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F16FalconStrike200.zip
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| 2025-02-08 | 1.5.0 |
- Blackout/Greyout/Redout visual effect when pilot experiences sustained significant G-force.
- Cockpit shakes when firing cannons, releasing bombs, receiving damage or stalling.
- Initially unlocked first 3 of 15 campaign missions - you can fly them using 'FLY UNLOCKED MISSIONS' option in Campaign screen.
- Changed bomb type from MK84 to MK82 and accordingly adjusted weapon weight.
- Ground explosion grows with time.
- Simple air explosion animation.
- Added code integrity checks.
- Various small technical improvements and optimizations:
- Fixed briefing dli being too long.
- Better handling of overlapping sfx.
- Better cockpit repaining after returning from map.
- Improved arithmetic shifts.
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F16FalconStrike150.zip
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2025-01-14 |
1.4.0 |
- On HARD level of "WEAPON REALISM" (former name "WEAPONS STRENGTH") difficulty setting only targets that are within onboard radar forward detection cone (128 degrees ahead) can be locked on.
Radar lock is lost when target moves outside of radar cone, message "LOCK LOST" is then displayed (see image gallery for 1.4.0).
Map still displays all near enough targets that are around player's aircraft.
- Trajectory of cannon rounds and unguided rockets is now affected by gravity so it is ballistic.
The further you are from the target, the more correction you have to make when aiming.
- Improved cannon hit detection, but cannon rounds now fly 3 times slower so you must aim much more ahead of moving enemy plane (new circular A2A HUD aiming marker can be used as a reference).
- Changed "About" screen to specify distribution conditions and no commercial use without written permission (see image gallery for 1.4.0).
- In A2A mode HUD aiming marker is now more circular than rectangular (see image gallery for 1.4.0).
- Increased pitching moment during stall.
- Improved campaign mission 1 for MED and HARD level of "ENEMY AMOUNT" difficulty setting - better placement of additional enemy fighter patroling area.
- Initial radar zoom changed to 5 (longer range) instead of 3.
- Significant performance optimizations:
- Improved skipping drawing of objects outside viewport.
- Loop unrolling to speedup screen clearing.
- Screen synchronization waits only for completion of 3d part of view redraw instead of whole screen.
- Simplifications in lift and speed calculation.
- Switched to better compression algorithm of all images and music.
- Changed mission outcome message from "YOU LANDED" to "YOU HAVE LANDED".
- Changed difficulty setting name "WEAPONS STRENGTH" to "WEAPON REALISM".
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F16FalconStrike140.zip
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| 2025-01-01 |
1.3.0 |
- Each mission now can have specific time of day and weather conditions: sunrise, midday, sunset, night and overcast.
Conditions are also reflected on the arming screen.
At night cockpit is higlighted in red.
- Changed cockpit stylization/design
- When landing gear is extended plane's roll rate is automatically decreased to make it easier to steer the plane to the desired heading.
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F16FalconStrike130.zip
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| 2024-12-07 |
1.2.0 |
- Easier difficulty settings for new players:
- Invulnerability during landing on "Landings" difficulty setting EASY
- Unlimitted ammo on "Weapon Realism" (former "Weapon Strength") difficulty setting EASY
- Improved navigation during flight - showing current heading with red line on the map (H key to toggle)
- Improved readability of preflight briefing map:
- Presenting waypoint labels - START, WP1 (Waypoint 1), WP2 (Waypoint 2), LANDING
- Initial map zoom level adjusted per each mission
- Adjusted ground green color changes to warn better about getting too close to ground.
- Showing zoom level in time acceleration mode and lower zoom speed change in this mode.
- Changes to cockpit graphics:
- HUD frame shape and color change
- Angle at cockpit corners
- Fonts at left side of HUD re shifted by 1 pixel to the right
- Changes to training missions
- Mission 2 - changed distances to waypoints
- Mission 6 - shorter distance to enemy aircrafts
- Small fixes
- Fixed 1 frame visual glitch with horizon line during rolled landing
- Remove of gray vertical bar that may be visible on title screen when display is in Overscan mode Extended
- RAPIDUS version - no other changes apart from the above
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F16FalconStrike120.zip
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| 2024-11-16 |
1.1.6 |
- Improved sim performance - faster drawing values in cockpit
- RAPIDUS version - no other changes apart from the above
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F16FalconStrike116.zip
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| 2024-11-13 |
1.1.5 |
- For german QWERTZ keyboards key Y has same meaning as Z (radar zoom)
- Status messages disappear automatically after few secs
- Assembly optimization of ground drawing in roll attitude
- Optimization of distant points rotation
- Optimization of vector addition in direction
- Small Fix - when target is destroyed optimization in version 1.1.0 didn't update right MFD in mode 2
- RAPIDUS version - no other changes apart from the above
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F16FalconStrike115.zip
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| 2024-10-27 |
1.1.0 |
- Improved campaign logic - if you land safe even without completing mission you can retry it, otherwise campaign ends
- Increased AAA explosion duration
- Adjusted 3D clipping range so runway is not clipped during take off
- Improved HUD A2A aiming circle resolution
- MFD refresh rate decrease and redraw optimisations
- Missiles/bulles and bomb CCIP are now always red
- Missiles are now displayed as + and x for greater visibility
- Drawing optimisation for far objects in rear hemisphere, small perspective optimisation
- Increased maximum allowed ground speed without damage
- Fixes in playing multiple sounds at the same time - cannon and explosion
- Disabling sound after playing music (request by JAC!)
- Fixed typo (thanks to StefanD)
- Added early preview of Rapidus vesion - keys 9 and 0 can be used to adjust game speed. Note1: cursor speed in briefing is not affected yet.
Note2: Not tested on real hardware yet!
- RAPIDUS only: all 3D objects always use full detail 3D model
- RAPIDUS only: more cannon bullets as fire ratio is faster
- Various other small adjustements and optimisations
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F16FalconStrike110.zip
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| 2024-07-31 |
1.0.0 |
Initial release for ABBUC 2024 software contest |
F16FalconStrike100.zip
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