Salute! Saludo! Gruß! Salut! Saluto! saudação! from RB3D Recruiting Officers
Come fly the skies of WW1, in Red Baron 3D! When men were made of steel and planes were made of wood! Hear your opponent grunt if wounded or scream if you shoot him in the head. Have your wings pop off if you overstress them, black out if too many G's are pulled, deal with gun jams, all the while looking at your opponent from mere feet away. Learn to take advantage of each planes strengths or weaknesses and how to exploit your enemies'. Whether you live or die an honorable 'Salute' is given.
Brief History
Red Baron a WW1 flight simulation that has been around since 1992 RB, 1995 RBII, 1998 RB3D.
Today
There are approximately 700 players who play RB3D in over 50 squads? On average you will find 30 to 50 players online at any time of the day or night from all nations and backgrounds, as well as 30-40 servers of all descriptions and FMs. You can either join a squad or fly as an independent.
Getting Started
http://www.wings-of-valor.net/
http://newbie.wings-of-valor.net/
http://www.swwisa.net/
RB3D For Sale
http://www.interactcd.com/
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/redbar3dpr.htm
http://www.sold-out.co.uk/soldout/products/redbaron.html
http://gametz.com/?citem=RedBaron3D&A=Games
You will need the 1078 patch to see servers online. Available here. Also if you have RBII get the super patch here.
Hardware Requirements
Minimum:Pentium 133 MHz
32 MBs RAM
140 MB Hard Drive Space**
Mouse
SVGA 256 colors
2X CD-ROM
Recommended:
Pentium 233 MHz
48 MB Ram
300 MB Hard Drive Space**
Mouse
SVGA 256 colors
8X CD-ROM
Windows Compatible Sound Card
Joystick
28.8 modem for MMP
For best graphics it is best to have a voodoo card. Either
direct or by using a voodoo 2 with SLI patch through cable. But
it works fine in 'Glide' or 'Direct Draw', just the graphics are a
bit poor until you install the terrain patches.
There are some glide wrappers out there which are being improved
each day. This one is about 95% perfected. Visit
http://www.glidos.net/baron.html.
Operating System WinXP / Win2K
Does present some problems, its nothing that hasn't been addressed in this document. http://www.wings-of-valor.net/files/documents/xpworkarounds.pdf Also you may run into some other problems which need to be addressed on an individual basis due to hardware. These are best addressed at the WOV forum everyone will be glad to help you.
Paints
Since its release over 2900 paints either for squads or freelancers have been created and are available for use at either http://www.flybert.net/ or http://www.rbwarpaints.com/ With 22 planes and 190 paint schemes available to be created and used either for personal or squads making a whopping 4180 total paints available. Plus some of the new patches have added other planes boosting the number available.
Enhancements
Most patches and enhancements can be reached by going to the files section at http://www.wings-of-valor.net/ or http://www.swwisa.net/
Flight Models (FM) / Damage Models (DM) AFM
Air War
http://www.swwisa.net/airwar/
Flanders in Flames modified AFM FM/DM additional planes
http://richthofen.jagdgeschwader1.com/Flanders.html
KFM weird and wacky Flight Model. I don’t know of a link?
Panama Red Don't know of link?
Sound Enhancements
Blue Max theme music at WOV
Promised Land enhanced sounds
Terrains / Planes / Sounds
http://www.rhoag.com/index.html On The Edge graphics CD for 8.50-10 $ US
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rensg/ Rens' combined terrain, sounds, planes
http://www.wingwalkers.org/jasta1/newplmain.htm Promised Land
http://siralesi.bei.t-online.de/baron4.ted Sir Alesi’s Island mtns
SP Campaign Enhancements
http://www.swwisa.net/~wfp Western Front Patch Modified AFM FM/DM
http://www.wytbear.com/thehangar/ Devils Island
http://www.swwisa.net/~munro/ Italian front
http://www.swwisa.net/~munro/ Russian Civil War
http://www.swwisa.net/~munro/ mideast.html Middle East Patch
Patches Directories
Simpatch
This is the default directory for patches. Any file put in here
will be used ahead of all other files, in both single and
multiplayer games. Files in Simpatch are used ahead of the same
named file in Shellpat for SP; however, files in Multi will
over-ride Simpatch for MMP.
Shellpat
This directory is only used by the single player game, so it is a
good choice for e.g. flight and damage models, which will get you
ejected from a server in MMP if you have changed them from stock.
It is also a good choice for any date based patches, otherwise you
will get some weird results in MMP. I had a lot of allies flying
Siemens-Schuckerts at one point.
Multi
This directory is only used by the game for MMP. It over-rides
Simpatch.
3Dpatch
This directory operates in much the same way as Simpatch, and is
mainly used for 3D shapes and terrains. I don't really know why it
is there; I use it solely for terrains. Though it works in both SP
and MMP, I'm not sure if it over-rides the Shellpat and Multi
folders or not.
Read the read me info in any patch this is just a brief
explanation of the patching folders and what they do.
Campaign Manager required for some patches like WFP read the read
me or FAQ on patches site.
Links
Red Baron 3D Links at Wings Of Honor
Red Baron 3D Squadrons at Wings Of Honor
http://h.webring.com/hub?sid=&ring=redbaron2&id=&hub
Red Baron web ring
Organized Events
There are a number of organized events available for squad members or mercenaries either in Normal Flight Mode NFM or Advanced flight Mode AFM plus an additional selection of modified FM's DM's FIF, KFM and GW to name a few. If you like co-op RB3D is the place to be.
Red Baron Gaming League
http://www.jasta18.com/textonly/rbgl/
Red Baron World League 4th annual
http://rbwl.sqhq.net/
FIF modified AFM
http://richthofen.jagdgeschwader1.com/Flanders.html
Speed Cup race
http://www.terra.es/personal6/airsurfer/
GW Great War in its 5th annual
http://www.greatwars.org/
War Forces
http://warforces.sqhq.net/
Strategic Air War
http://saw.wings-of-valor.net/
SNF
http://www.homestead.com/misfitssquadron/The_SNFs.html
Rhinebeck real life meeting
http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/
One Life to Live
http://trak.to/oltl
Hunters of the Sky
http://www.geocities.com/ww1aces/
Combat Air Patrol
http://www.geocities.com/combatairpatrol/
There are too many others to mention them all, not to mention all
of the individual squadron challenges.
Servers - It's free!
You can either run your own or join in with others. The possibilities for server setups are limitless. You have a choice of two Flight model’s Advanced FM or Normal FM (not to mention all of the newly created FM's KFM, FIF, WFP etc).
Each FM has three different settings Novice, Veteran. or Ace.
There are four different server types. Melee, Team melee, Team Target melee, or Get the Baron where you can choose the number of barons at will. Also Rens has created a new Real Front server RFS for balloon busting.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rensg/ Rens' Real Front Balloon busting
You will also find a new security enhancement at Rens site it is required for some servers.
You can add or subtract targets to create a map of your choosing or select from the different target densities settings of sparse, medium, dense or full. You also have a choice of 4 map sizes small, medium, large and full. With 4 maps too choose from Island, Alsace, Flanders, and Marne.
You can set up progressive wars by date or if you like have all planes available.
No longer need to bomb in turn. New server logging program records all destroyed targets. New server log distiller easily allows you to correlate scores.
There is a great server setup utility here at http://www.wings-of-valor.net/servermanager/index.htm with graphical interface for ease of use.