Welcome to "Linux Air Combat Online Battle Samples"!

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The "Thursday Night Battles" thread within our "General Discussion" forum has grown so long that it has become unwieldy. Most of its recent posts have introduced related YouTube clips. I have created this new LAC forum area to help prevent that old, general discussion thread from becoming impossibly large. I will use this new LAC forum to post links to new YouTube video clips documenting online battles from recent versions of LAC (since version 7.64).

Here's the link to the entire Playlist, starting out with 15 clips documenting our escapades up thru last week (01Aug2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHw_-y-CJNg&list=PL1IYes9MY6lLbjo3uk92rh4b8E3B4AJ9b

I have been post-editing and dubbing lots of after-action audio commentary into most of these clips. However, that process is too time-consuming to be done every time. Accordingly, some of these clips will just be "raw" replays of the action exactly as I saw it in flight. In those cases, my own Mumble voice transmissions are not generally recorded. However, in those cases, the intent of my messages can generally be deduced from the situational context and from the Mumble voice responses of the other players.

(If you haven't yet subscribed to this LAC Discussion group, then you are welcome to comment on the individual movie clips within YouTube's comment facilities. Otherwise, your comments are welcome here and are best kept adjacent the relevant clip links. Obviously, if any of you have the capability of recording our flights, you are also welcome to post links to relevant clips here.)

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"Linux Air Combat Online Battle Samples 2019" new clip #16 from 08Aug2019

We had another fine time last night (Thur08Aug2019), with three players. Here's a link to the latest addition to the list, entitled "Linux Air Combat 7.65: FW-190 vs. P38", in which I attempt to tangle with a Lockheed P38L in my FW-190 in a very long, complex dogfight. My opponent was "Blake", and I think he had more fun than I did. I'm really not very good in the FW-190, and I failed to get my speed up into the realm where it can dominate. Blake whittled me down little by little until dispatching me at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLRmYlJyQMc&list=PL1IYes9MY6lLbjo3uk92rh4b8E3B4AJ9b&index=17&t=0s

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We now have 32 video clips in that playlist.

The latest, from Apr2020, documents a wounded P38, chased away from the enemy airfield and then landing for emergency repairs with 92% damage. The opposition was swarming around him all the way home, but our hero was escorted by an ally that shot down the nearest opposition at the critical moment, allowing his safe landing. Here's a direct link to that short segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Iy-xgNBzs&list=PL1IYes9MY6lLbjo3uk92rh4b8E3B4AJ9b&index=32

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Update 18Dec2020:

That YouTube playlist has now grown to 39 video clips. The newest additions demonstrate LAC on Raspberry Pi hardware and the newest online, multiplayer mission, named "Peabody's Mission", which is the first of 8 "TEST" missions to be promoted to "Production" status. (All of these newer missions are more complex than the three classic missions, but those still marked "TEST" in the menus are all functionally identical, serving as place-holders and code-style examples for future mission developers.)

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