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ByIntroductionThe history of the Falcon franchise is long and storied — and in the interest of brevity, I’ll skip it. Basically, here we sit 13 years after the initial Falcon 4.0 release and she is going stronger than ever. Having spent varying amounts of time with nearly all of the varieties of Falcon (stock, FreeFalcon, Red Viper, Allied Force, etc.) I feel I can definitively state that the most recent iteration of Falcon released by Benchmark Sims is by far the best in the lineage. It is simple to install, stable, beautiful, and in many ways barely resembles the seminal product.Installation and ConfigurationAll that is needed to run BMS 4.32 is your original Falcon.exe which you can install from your original CD. Yes, we know that simply having the Falcon.exe is enough, but most fans of the series own their own disk anyway, so it is what it is. The BMS installer weighs in at 688MB and it installs to a wholly independent directory with no fuss or mess. Once the installer is done decompressing and installing the total package weighs in at about 2.34GB.
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Upon launching you are shown a simple BMS menu that has options for starting the sim, configuration, a link to manuals, an editor, and some client and server settings. Upon clicking the Configuration setting I was instantly taken back to the old Falcon days when I saw that it is basically the old F4Patch configuration utility, but do not fear, the settings are much more intuitive and less needed than all the fumbling about in the old days. Within you’ll find a wide range of options to tailor displays and realism to match your tastes.FeaturesThe BMS documentation includes a wealth of both old and new documentation that can be a bit overwhelming. The BMS manual is required reading because this new BMS package adds a lot of new features and realistic options that simply hunting and pecking in the cockpit probably won’t reveal. For instance — the planning screen now features the ability to use a Data Transfer Cartridge to pre-load some of your cockpit settings and specific mission parameters. The Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod tutorial within the BMS manual is well written and sheds some light on how to use this fantastic feature. While many of the systems and weapons have been evolving in terms of realism over the past decade in various updates to Falcon it seems that BMS has really put the finishing touches on so many aspects of the sim (though we know Falcon will never truly be finished!).
The intersection of sampling and synthesis. Falcon is a virtual instrument with 16 oscillators including analog, FM, wavetable, granular, 90+ effects, powerful modulation generators, scriptable event processors and more. Load as a stand-alone software or a DAW plug-in. Falcon 4.0 sports Instant Action, Dogfight, Tactical Engagement and Campaign over the entire nation of Korea. The terrain is vast, the weapons are many, the battle is now. In Campaign mode, the pilot interacts in an AI-controlled, real-time air/ground war. In addition to gaining air superiority, pilots must stop advancing enemy ground units.
The Falcon as represented in BMS 4.32 appears to be as technically complete, thorough, and complex as offerings from the DCS series — and that is high praise indeed.Legacy Falcon fans will be immediately shocked and impressed with the upgraded graphics capabilities of BMS 4.32. The short list of features include:. New graphics engine (DirectX 9). 3D cockpit (No 2D cockpit anymore!). New flight model. More realistic avionics.
Improved airbases. Weather and seasonsThe full list of improvements, modifications, and additions can be researched at the.The setup menus are a good indication of the changes you’ll see in the sim. While various features have been available in some other mods to Falcon 4.0 over the years, the BMS package seems to bring together the best of them while adding new ones. Things like weather, turbulence, seasons and HDR settings pop out at you right off the bat.
Controller setup options are better than ever including NaturalPoint TrackIR options, and my personal favorite: mouse panning! The four seasons available are beautiful and give you the option to fly in either lush green Korea or “Frozen Chosin” Korea and the seasons in between.Tactical Engagements have been improved and expanded to include some of the new weapons and features. Also improved is the option to include “Training Scripts” which adds text instructions and in some cases actually moves your viewpoint around the cockpit to point out switch locations. While it is definitely an improvement, it isn’t as well implemented as the training scripts in DCS: A-10C Warthog since it doesn’t feature things like highlighted controls or human voiceovers. That said, it is an improvement and is useful for learning (or relearning) things like the ramp start and other areas of the sim. The opportunity for expanding the training aspect of this sim is wide open since the extreme level of systems modeling requires more thorough in-cockpit tutorials.
This subreddit is for fans/players of the Falcon 4 modification Falcon BMS.DiscordWhat is Falcon 4.0?If you're new to Falcon 4.0, ('F4' for short), Falcon 4.0 is a combat flight simulator which was originally developed and released on December 12, 1998 by MicroProse. It features highly detailed models and avionics of the Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50/52 in a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula. Falcon 4.0 has been popular among combat sim pilots due to its dynamic war campaign engine, detailed aircraft avionics, and multi-player capabilities.What is Falcon BMS?BMS stands for Benchmark Sims, they are the developers/team behind the overhaul modification of Falcon 4.0.
BMS has worked on an wide range of features:. Graphics.
3d cockpit. Terrain engine. Multi-player code improvements. Flight modeling and physics. Artificial Intelligence. Avionics.
Sound engine. User Interface. Airbase modeling.
Weather modelingTools/Software.-This tool is a replacement for stock BMS launcher including key/axis mapping feature. It can configure and save BMS SETUP per Joysticks. When you launch BMS through this app, it auto-generates proper setup files and overwrites them for current device order before BMS find them changed and initialize your setup. Just saw this on the Benchmark sims forums.
Im sure many have already seen it, but in case you havent:quote from Boxer:'It has always been the BMS team's approach that Falcon BMS is an add-on for use with licensed copies of the original Falcon 4.0 game. As the primary element of the agreement with Tommo, the game now reinforces this principle more strongly. Specifically, the installer will check to see that a complete copy of the Falcon 4.0 game (Edit: 'we recommend patching to 1.08 to be on the safe side' - actually, belay that: it's not necessary - see here for more explanation) is present on storage media in the system on which the installer is running. Similarly, each time the launcher is used to start the game, the same check will be made. In other words, to use Falcon BMS on your system, a licensed copy of Falcon 4.0 must also be installed and present on that system.
You do not need to have run Falcon 4.0 after installing it before you try installing or running Falcon BMS; simply completing Falcon 4.0 install successfully is sufficient. Note that presence of a CD or ISO copy of the original game will not help you: Falcon 4.0 must be installed correctly and completely on the system for the checks to succeed. For the avoidance of doubt, only copies of the original Falcon 4.0 game will work for use with Falcon BMS (any other later variants such as Allied Force are not compatible).
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For clarity, the checks performed are entirely local to the system so both installing and running the game will work on a system that has no internet or other network connection.If you have Falcon 4.0 resident on your local system, then the first visible difference you will see is a new splash screen. That screen shows a Falcon BMS logo and logos for Tommo, Retroism and the BMS team together with copyright and trademark statements that outline terms of use. You will note from this that the Falcon BMS community add-on is made and distributed with permission from Tommo. That permission is conditioned on the install and runtime checks mentioned above as well as reinforcing that, in line with the BMS team's long-time policy, Falcon BMS is only available for non-commercial uses. The splash screen is displayed in time that is used to load the game in the background so, in other words, no additional start up time should result from the splash screen (compared to earlier Falcon BMS versions).If you do not have Falcon 4.0 installed on your local system then the next thing you will see is a Windows message box pop-up that tells you that the installer or the game is unable to find a copy of Falcon 4.0 on your system. The message box has a button to dismiss it (once you have read the message) and then the game will exit immediately.
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As I said, if you have used Falcon BMS before then you should already have Falcon 4.0. However, for those who may be new to the community, the message box mentions some possible sources of licensed copies of Falcon 4.0 that you may like to use to acquire a legitimate copy if you need to do that. Other sources are possible and viable; for instance private sale or eBay to find a copy of the increasingly-rare original hard-copy game materials. Note there were some issues with copies of Falcon 4.0 purchased from Steam (it was made available there in January 2016) - these are now resolved as we helped Tommo get the Steam install process working correctly - thus Steam is a viable (and convenient??) source for copies of Falcon 4.0 if you need one.We had planned for 4.33.1 to be a small incremental patch for 4.33. As a result of the changes described above, this will not be possible. Instead, 4.33.1 will be a complete from-scratch installer. You will have to use this to make a fresh install of Falcon BMS.
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That install will be separate and independent from any other you may already have on your system. There are a few exceptions (see docs when available) but in the main, file content from 4.33 will be compatible with 4.33.1 so things like key files and log books can probably just be copied over to the new 4.33.1 install directory. For the avoidance of doubt there is no way, supported or otherwise, to get 4.33.1 features inserted into an existing 4.33 install.that just won't work so we would recommend not wasting time trying it.' 'End quote.