04.01.2010, 12:34
The question that I have concerning a "one install" and HSFX is their statement of:
242 Squadron quote:
[b]Everyone assumes that the HSFX mod package, which is now being used to underpin the 'unified' mods, was designed for this purpose. It wasn't. We in 242Sqn, and the squads we fly with, have been using HSFX for a long time now, through its A-G then v2 & v3 incarnations until the present v4. HSFX was built to allow us to fly in Scorched Earth campaigns and contains the featured mods that WE need for those campaigns.
Many of the mods that you, and others, like have been rejected by us for one reason or another. Some caused conflicts, some weren't very good, some we didn't like and some we hadn't tried. Others just weren't necessary for our purposes.
However, Charlie Chap, the main man behind HSFX, didn't do this all on his own. He believes in cooperation and is always in touch with any modder who wishes to be so. Thus, when it was found that HSFX 4 was going to be in compressed .SFS format, shipping along with Prof's excellent installer, then the other modding groups were immediately aware of this.
AAA, SAS, etc realized that this was the way to go and decided to adopt the HSFX package as the basis for all mod packs. All jolly good, unification of the mods - well done everybody said.
But, and here's the rub, because of this what you now get as the 'unified' mod pack is OUR mod pack, designed by us, for us. The features in it are designed for 242Sqn, 102nd, IAF.101 etc, i.e. the groups we fly with, so it's inevitable that it won't suit everyone.
So, by accident really, you are stuck with what we like, but at least it
242 Squadron quote:
[b]Everyone assumes that the HSFX mod package, which is now being used to underpin the 'unified' mods, was designed for this purpose. It wasn't. We in 242Sqn, and the squads we fly with, have been using HSFX for a long time now, through its A-G then v2 & v3 incarnations until the present v4. HSFX was built to allow us to fly in Scorched Earth campaigns and contains the featured mods that WE need for those campaigns.
Many of the mods that you, and others, like have been rejected by us for one reason or another. Some caused conflicts, some weren't very good, some we didn't like and some we hadn't tried. Others just weren't necessary for our purposes.
However, Charlie Chap, the main man behind HSFX, didn't do this all on his own. He believes in cooperation and is always in touch with any modder who wishes to be so. Thus, when it was found that HSFX 4 was going to be in compressed .SFS format, shipping along with Prof's excellent installer, then the other modding groups were immediately aware of this.
AAA, SAS, etc realized that this was the way to go and decided to adopt the HSFX package as the basis for all mod packs. All jolly good, unification of the mods - well done everybody said.
But, and here's the rub, because of this what you now get as the 'unified' mod pack is OUR mod pack, designed by us, for us. The features in it are designed for 242Sqn, 102nd, IAF.101 etc, i.e. the groups we fly with, so it's inevitable that it won't suit everyone.
So, by accident really, you are stuck with what we like, but at least it