Zero Length Launch editionPrevious Thread: >>568825791A thread for all vehicle simulation games: racing sims, flight sims, train sims, submarine sims, tank sims, anything else sims which do not have enough traffic to sustain their own independent generals.>Extra attention grabbing search terms for example welcome sims/fsg/ /dcsg/ /fsxg/ /bmsg/ /shg/ /rofg/ /etsg/ /il2g/ /lfsg/ /tsg/>OP Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/TxxE74ja>Planefag pastebin:https://rentry.co/simg>Tankfag pastebin:http://pastebin.com/EbdtnyPX>Boat- and subfag pastebinhttp://pastebin.com/JqTQWFFE>Repository of various aviation related material:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3EQDvufMNdeTUh4SE9WV0txa0E&usp=drive_web>Example of welcome simsFalcon BMS, DCS World, Rise of Flight, IL-2, Combat Helo, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, Euro truck sim, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Live for Speed, SAM Simulator, Steel Beasts Pro, Steel Armor: Blaze of War, Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum, Silent Hunter, Dangerous Waters, Train Simulator, Farming Simulator 201X, OMSI 2, DiRT: Rally, Ship Simulator>Example of non-welcome games:Arm*, Ac* C*mbat, W*r Th*nder, W*rld of _____, The S*ms, S*m C*ty, G*at S*mulat*r
M346 VTOL getting paintedBased and dogtoothed
Cargo plane for 0.35 teased, currently a trijet BWB with a 90 tonne capacity. Currently planned to have a massive YAL-1 style laser turret as an option.
>>569942331Collective is OK with a throttle, but nothing compares to an actual collective.You are not ready for the difference.
>>569947204>>569946939nuclear option? they just keep making more and more cursed aircraft
How did pilots navigate this shit without beacons
>>569949610compass, map, stopwatch, I think some of them even brought sextants
>>569947458>they just keep making more and more cursed aircraftIsn't it great?
>>569946939>>569947204Holy based
>>569949610>Try to grasp how easy it can be to navigate from one IP to another without cheating, having climbed to an altitude of 7500M (4 miles), and able to see big landmarks and line features like Lake Habbaniyah, or the Euphrates River, or the entire city area of Baghdad from 50 miles away as we fly fighter sweeps from Kirkuk in our Egeo in the spring of 1941. Following the African coastline from one port to another is not difficult. Island hopping and finding ports in the Dodecanese islands is not difficult and finding RAF Luqa starting from south east Sicily does not require anyone to cheat provided the sortie is flown at a real;istic altitude and not a an altitude appropriate to primary trainers.
Anon, did you install your damper yet
>>569957446No i was playing some actual video games
>>569946939Nice. But I think putting a fence right on top of a dogtooth defeats the purpose of both.
>>569947458Inshallah we get VR support or a decent enough VR modI really want to play the game in VR
Is Opentrack good? A 1080p 60fps webcam is significantly cheaper than TrackIr5 in my region.
>>569984086depends a lot on lighting, also it's very cpu intensive keep in mindit does have other tracking modes than face tracking, so you could try to jerry rig a ghetto trackir headset with it
How piratable are top tier premium planes for MSFS?
>>569970565I don't get the hype for that plane. It's ugly, doesn't do anything special nor was it that historically relevant.
>>569985516check simplaza and skybound
>>569949610Celestial navigation
>>569946742>never understood what compels truck autists to put in 3000 hours in ETS2 and ATS>tried them a few times but always got bored to death>bought snowrunnerI get it now
>>569990804You don't get it, if you did you would have spent 3000 hours in ETS2 and ATS, but Snowrunner is a good game, albeit frustrating.
>>569990804driving is comfy
Need better bait for catfish.
>>569992985I've already told you anon, it's never coming out.
>>569991123maybe, but I mean that I now care about big tires, gear shifting, load distribution, engine and turbo noises. I figure that's what people get out of ETS2 in a more subtle way than in Snowrunner
>>570000169don't play mudrunner or the dumbed down physics of snworunner will start to grate on you
>>570000169Don't play any other game ever again
>>570000169yeah, you don't get it lmao
>>569985790it's new "content"that's all it takes for the 50+ whale demo
>>570002731Is it an early access release, or a proper one?
>>570001316explain it
>>570006268Just the act of driving a truck or flying a plane is fun and relaxing.
>>570014163Stop flying that plane please, I want it but I'm poor at the moment.
apache bros...
Trying MSFS2024 for the first time.Loading in to fucking pure slop AI-jeet-tier forced character creation after having to login to an xbox account on my fucking PC only to then see phone-game tier shitty menus...This hobby is so fucking cooked.
>>570016849Blame normies for wanting a career mode. Fortunately after making your character you don't have to touch that stuff again. My character looks like a stupid zoomer though no cap.
>>570002994there hasn't been a single proper release for a DCS module that wan't an early access.
>>570017256
>>570017256The MB-339 was a full release IIRC. But that's because it was a free mod beforehand.
>>570016849>needing a microsoft account for a microsoft game is le bad somehowyou valvedrones never cease to amaze with your double standards
>>570020519Valve is now lebad for what reason?
>>570016849Is MS2020 pantied and sissified like this?
>>5700253862020 doesn't have the character creator but you still have to sign in
>>570022226We've entered the chud continuum.
>>570031590Cool, I'll just wait for Deadstick release I guess.
>>570032029you need a steam account to play deadstickyou need an ED account to play DCSbut a microsoft account for flight simulator is a bridge too far?
>>570032408Yes.
>>570032408No
I am NOT installing my fucking damper today.
>>570047984How long have you been using the pedals for without the dampener?
>>570048903I think i bought them in 2024
FISH SOON
>four more sleeps til fishmas
>>570014331
>>570017086I made waifu at first but eventually changed it to an ugly fat guy for funnier screenshots
>>569949610Fighter navigation was pretty cursed in WW2. In the Pacific theatre, for example, it was common for a bomber to escort a formation of fighters transiting from one aerodrome to another - to give navigational assistance.
>>570050229
we ops
Airport sim is kinda comfy, ground ops from the other side.
bank angle
>>570078707We have airport sim at homehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzD1yBSGfk
>>570020519Valve/Steam is THE standard, anyone trying to make you log into anything after that is just being a straight up nigger.
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>>570022226he's our resident ED standalone dickrider
>>570016849 hereI gotta say. I kinda take it back after actually playing the game. The photogrammetry is actually game changing. Exploring Cities I've been to and recognizing individual buildings and street corners is not something I ever thought I be able to do in a game. It's insane.And the graphics have passed a tipping point where my IRL vfr instincts start to take over and I can trim and fly without thinking about it.If sims can at least do this now, I may actually have to buy a sim rig now. I just wish the monetization and user experience of modern sims were not so slop/skinner-box tier.
>>570101864Have you come from 2020 or straight into 24?
>>570103210Straight into 24. Other than toying with some DCS modules a while back this is the first sim I've tried since XP11 around its release.
>>570086834and why is it the standard? because they forced you to log in to install half-life 2, counter-strike, and skyrim. literally no other reason.you are THE nigger.
>>570101864>photogrammetrySpeaking of, I can say after checking it out that the photogrammetry for Munich models the year 2014 despite being released as a city update last year in 2025. Is it that way everywhere?
>>570112259I think that's down to Bing, I'm not sure Asobo have any control over it.
>>570112259they can only model when the aerial photography was taken
>>570109090To be fair, barely any of Steam's modern costumers uses it because they bought Half Life or Counterstrike back in the day, people nowadays simply prefer it over other services because it's at least somewhat user friendly, although of course not perfect. It still sucks, but it's the lesser evil and having to log in into a quadrillion other services for games you already own on steam is pure cancer.
>>570113923over 30000 PC games are exclusive to steampeople use it because it's a monopolystop being an idiot
>>570114208No, they use it because unlike other cancerous storefronts they don't try to steal your money constantly or pull bait and switches like EPIC and the like, on top of actually following consumer protection laws. In the current landscape of PC games storefronts, complaining about Valve and Steam (without being able to bring forth even a single valid criticism beside that they're the best) just makes you look like the retarded contrarian cuck that you are.
>>570117568they had to be sued to add basic refund optionsthey pushed in-game gambling and microtransactions before anyone elsethey have monopolized many of the most popular gamesbut god forbid EA try to fire back by making battlefield or mass effect exclusive to their store, or microsoft demand you have an account with them instead of valvebrainless valvedrone double standard
>>570109090Bait or are you actually that retarded? They are the standard because every single other competitor constantly enshittify their own service to the point that people either just pirate the game, wait for it to be available on Steam or don't play it at all.
>>570117943EA's refund policy and customer support is infinitely superior to valve's
>>570118046BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAH Now that's utter bullshit considering EA nuked my account that had Battlefield 3 back in the day in it because I tried to ask for a refund but had used the wrong email to request said refund. When explaining that I had no problem changing the email they closed the ticked and I was left with no refund and no account.
>>570117916The difference is that we're comparing current Valve, which even with its flaws is still the most pro consumer company in the market. An account with Steam is necessary since you're using their software for game management, meanwhile shit like requiring an EA or Epic account for a videogame that they now released on Steam after the period of exclusivity ended is just pure greediness over wanting to steal your data. Find me a single reason why I should need to register an account with microsoft to play single player DOOM or a GTA game?
>>570118569>An account with Steam is necessaryno it's not. It's pure DRM. Why is Valve drm good but microsoft drm bad? explain yourself, idiot.
>FFB anything above 70>Cogging>Clipping>Whole cockpit resonates with the wheel base>FFB anything bellow 70>Damped signal>Feather light>Little response>Feels like driving on iceAAAAAAAAAAAAA, fuck AC why don't you fucking work. AM2 works fucking great.
>>570117916Gabe fucked your mom again, didn't he?The man is incorrigible.
>>570101864MSFS is a great aerial tourism sim. Use vacation planning as an excuse to get into helicopters.
What are the most accurately flight modeled study-level props available for MSFS2024?I see recs for the A2A Piper PA-24 Comanche.
737-100 is cute
soon
>>570124185A2A has the top tier stuff. Other than that you should look at black square and its planes.Comanche would be the best start I think
>>570124321For me it's the 747SP
>>570125193black square is mostly good but they have this weird autistic hangup about default passenger model poses not fitting 100% precisely in the seats so they refuse to implement them at all and you have to mod them in yourself
>>570124185A2A and Blacksquare are the best, proper autistic simulation. There are other devs and planes that are decent though but it depends on what you're after.
>>570118691>false equivalence
>>570118691>You buy a game through Steam>You download a game through SteamVs>You buy a game through Steam>You download a game through Steam>Ops now you need make another account to another platform to play the game even though you didn't bought or downloaded a game that platformRetarded nigger, if you don't want to use Steam drm just pirate the game.
>>570126827at this point pure steam drm is so compromised you may as well included the crack with the gamePlenty of steam games make use of third party drm to increase security, why is microsoft uniqely bad?
>>570125305Damn that's nice. Is there a good circa 70s 747 module out there?
>>570127116PMDG are working on all 747 variants for MSFS 2024, including the SP, but fuck knows what the status is of the project.
>>570127074Because you're not buying the game through microsoft, you're not using their platform, you're not giving their your banking information to them.If my not buying a game through Microsoft, I don't want to make an account to microsoft in order to play said game. They making a drm that forces me to make an account is bad.
>>570124185A2A is the best. The Comanche may be the greatest flight sim module ever made from the comments, I have the Aerostar and it's awesome. So realistic I did learn to restart my flooded lawn mower engine after learning engine management in the module. Can't go wrong with them.Blacksquare is also very good although from my limited experience (I only have the Starship) I'd say they are better at system modelling but a notch behind in flight model. Those airplanes are more oriented toward commuting and flying IFR.The CAS J-3 Cub is excellent if you're looking for a light craft. Don't overlook it if that's your thing.If you're into warbird everything by Flying Iron is top notch, as well as the Blackbird Zero. Expect complex and unforgiving flight models and full engine management with damage.There are the Cessna 152 and Robin 140 freeware too. Maybe not as complex as above modules but they are unexciting planes IRL and you can fly them by the number in the sim.Have fun.
>>570134689The 152 freeware mod requires you joining their trannycord unfortunately, but it is good.
>>570135809>>570134689cessna 152 is completely pointless since it more or less is already perfectit's not a hard plane to get right
>>570138038The mod adds a lot more customisation iirc, better night lighting etc. I haven't actually had it installed since msfs 2020.
>>570135809Damn I had forgotten about this. Someone on AVSIM shared the link some month ago, maybe it is not dead.
>>570139886It's here, not sure if this will get janniedhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9wIdc7Qnyvc8XaiZV27_X0BtFk9kPGO/view?usp=sharing
>>570134689>Robin 140 freewareWhat does this bring the base aircraft doesn't? It sounds like he just did an engine swap of the base aircraft.
>>570143069The freeware Robin 140 is made to be flown by the number for IRL practice. It is also not suffering from the shitty propeller strobe effect plaguing the 2024 stock version.If you don't care about either of these points the default one is fine too.
ok, now the DC-6 update actually reached me. I had to setup the controls like I wanted (4-engine plane). Liveries work. Happy flying
>>570161430Is anything different or is was it just bug fixes?
FSLTL really does not have 737 max?
>>570156304it's like one of those pirate snub fighters from talespin
>>570161804All my settings were reseted like a clean new aircraft, but everyting feels the same. It was just making it officially compatible. It's the same DC-6, nothing changed.
retard
>>570176250please be patient
>police """simulator""">character selection doesn't work at all>meter maid simulator>constant callouts every 20 seconds to "minor accidents" that turn out to be 4-car pileups>have to level up a lot to even get traffic cones to stop more cars from joining the pileup>no other crimes than speeding, jaywalking, and major crashes
>>570180774Count your lucky fortune. I grew up playing a police simulator where the driving was unplayable and I had to type where I wanted Sonny the stupid cunt to move.
>>570180774What game?
>set up race for fun>can I get to p1 on a F2004 against the 2026 cars?>start at last>it bottles itself>overtake 16 cars>next lap race to reach p2>they can themselves behind stroll>reach p1>pic relatedIs there a way to fix this dogshit AI?, I can't take it anymore.
>>570190987Race like the goal is to kill your opponents, that's how I beat Gran Turismo 1 through 5.
>>570191656Funny enough, on GT cars the AI is much less retarded, still capable of canning itself behind blue faggers.These retards are unbearable on formula cars.
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So how long after the hun releases will Bonzo the clown decide that Grinnelli is the new great satan who he must obsessively destroy?
>>570221513what
>Defence Secretary John Healey has resigned from Keir Starmer's government>In a letter to the prime minister, he says the defence investment plan "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time"It's fucking over
>>570123839'Missile SPAM - how to literally burn your countries economy on million dollar fireworks''when 'allies' shoot you in the back - the Kuwaiti air force''How not to start a war - pick a fight with a country which controls the most important stretch of water on the entire surface of the Earth'
>>570224997plenty of fighting age men in the country - they are hanging around schools photographing schoolgirls and delivering justeat meals in bewteen plotting the islamist takeover of the UK
>>570227763vgh the deliveroo cavalry
How do I learn how to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024? Took me half and hour to get me plane off the ground and I can't land it, I crash every time I try to land.
>>570232086play the tutorials? the sedona circuit is pretty good, assuming they didn't bug them furtherdon't start with an airliner, lol
oh and use the checklists in the EFB (tab)they're a bit hidden compared to 2020, and you don't have co-pilot mode where it goes over the checklist for you, but it's very good to learn a plane since it'll highlight the switches and dials for you.
>>570232273There are no tutorials, people say career mode is bugged so I've only been playing free flight mode. Also, are the textures in remote places supposed to be really bad? The videos I've seen of the game all have great textures, but when I tried flying over my house in the countryside it was unrecognizable.
>>570232549there is a fine line between "the UI is unintuitive" and "I have a learning disability"you are on the wrong side of that line buddy
>>570232549>are the textures in remote places supposed to be really bad?Yeah it varies a lotSome locations have better data than others
>>570232549>people say career mode is buggedPeople exaggerate, try it out, there will be training in it. If in doubt though there are tonnes of videos on youtube, and you can use real world training too. I like this bloke and he's done tutorials for beginnershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHJ-OcvGcaE&list=PLumwWCWlwh3_UM3IDZz-HKIakrg3EUkHR
>>570233276That wasn't the right playlist woops, but just check his channel for tutorials. The thing about MSFS is that you're learning real life techniques, not just how to play the game, so everything online for real flying is useful.
>>570233276the training missions in career just teleport you to the tutorial missions, it's super lazy
>>570233618Just watch youtube videos on it it then, definitely look into circuits and practise them.
>>570233417This guy on /v/ said the game is not realistic at all… >>>/v/740420595
>>570238523I think that because flying irl involves feel, you can never truly simulate it. There are tonnes of pilots that play MSFS though so it's obviously doing a good enough job.
>>570236024no, just play the tutorial missions by themselves, they are quite good.the lazy part is just taking the same missions from 2020 and pasting them into 2024 career mode, not accounting for the whole "start from any airfield!!!11" gimmick. they should have made a new, dynamic training mission that adapts to your starting field.
>>570244598*starts at Lukla*
Manual is up.
>>570246162your arse
Is it true the included Citation Longitude is actually fighter fidelity that the premium flightfx Citation X?People seem to suggest the MS one is basically study-level it's just so automated an aircraft you could not notice.
>>570246975Flightfx make good stuff and their Citation X is top tier. The Longitude in the game is probably fine, I haven't flown it myself but it uses Garmin avionics which are done by Working Title, another dev, which is study level. If you're the anon who's new, stick to the in game longitude, the Citation X is more complicated, sexy plane though.
Recommend me a cheap flight stick.
>>570238706Flying is purely technique, there are no "feels" involved. Facts don't care about your feelings.
>>570248148I haven't flown myself but I've definitely heard from pilots that feeling is a big part, you can feel if your turns are uncoordinated for example.
>>570238523IDK which specific aircraft that guy was complaining about but the Cessna 152 and 172 in MSFS seems basically the same as IRL to me given there isn't the physical feedback or anything. If anything they're just slightly soft. IRL a 172 will nose up sorta hard if you slam full throttle whereas it's a bit slow about it in game.
>>570248007
>>570248764sovl, no idea what's on the top monitor though, it looks like pong
>>570248739Why do those things have to look like dildos? Also, do I need the pedals thingy?
>>570249165>Why do those things have to look like dildos?
>>570248739How do people use their HOTAS setup when using VR?
>>570249165You can perfectly play flight sim on a gamepad. I did for a couple months.However if you buy a joystick you'll say "that's so great, how could I do ever without it ?".If you then add a throttle you'll say "that's so great, how could I do ever without it ?".If you then add rudder pedals you'll say "that's so great, how could I do ever without it ?".You don't need them to have fun, and certainly not even to learn the basics of flying. But you'll be happy to have them if/when you get more serious in the hobby and you're ready to shell out more bucks.
>>570249805I got a simple throttle quadrant that only has a few controls that are located and spaced out in a way that's easy to find in VRI do everything that's practical in the virtual cockpit with the mouse and only need external buttons for some key things I need to be able to use quicklyBut for more complicated setups I guess people just get used to where everything is eventually
>>570251169How big is the performance hit in VR?
>A2A will never make god-level warbirds for nu-simshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cTL6YhEyg
>>570252538A2A made all sorts of stuff for FSX that I doubt we'll ever see in MSFS, their 377 was amazing, and iirc their Mustang and Constellation were really good. There is a way to port FSX planes into MSFS but it's a bit wonky and will probably be shit.
>>570248739the real issue with the 3D pro is the plastic bushing wears out causing the stick to get loose over timeyou can 3D print a replacement to get it back to nearly new state but I haven't tried it.the real strength is it's positively ancient design, meaning every sim and its grandma ever made will support this thing out of the box. it literally ships with profiles for half-life and descent 3.
>>570248739note on the saitek stuff, the OG Saitek sticks were really good, after getting bought out by madcatz the build quality nosedived, logitech buyout improved things a little bit but not much. the X45 was a lower end offering than the X52 originally, but since they stopped making it before getting sold out it now appears to be better quality.of course the OG saitek sticks are getting rarer and starting to fail after some 20 years.the good part is the same as 3D pro, really old but still in production, so software support is near universal
>>570256994Yeah the fly 5 should be removed from that image as it's absolutely fucking terrible.
anyone tried the new thrustmaster sol-r stuff?
>>570246975working title overhauls tend to be top tier, and citation might just be one of the best base game planesCJ4 proline fmc is amazing
>>570248148you're wrong
Did they patch Jesus out of the game? Why isn't he appearing in my game? The Brazil update also doesn't show on my library.
>>570263495Annoyingly you have to go on to the store and add the free world updates to your library to enable them. Why do you have to do that even though they're streamed? Fuck knows.
>>570263797Wtf? Why would they do it like that?
>>570264817I really have no idea, it seems utterly pointless.
>>570263797>>570265102Just added the update to my library and Rio now looks infinitely better, holy shit, so do all the cities that aren't parts of updates look like garbage? Is it only worth it flying through countries that received world updates?
>>570266187No not all of them, some of them have had multiple updates, some already had photogrammetry beforehand. I think Brazil just had autogen before the update.
>>570248148This is wrong. Learning to feel the air around the aircraft is an important skill, and a necessity in flying sailplanes or paragliders.And MSFS2024 does an honorable job at simulating what can be simulated within a computer sitting on the ground, enough for my meager IRL paragliding skills to transpose and experiencing flights flashbacks.
>>570268852Can you feel when you're in a thermal irl?
>>570268852Where is that and what plane is that?
>>570266329When they do those world updates do they update the entire country or just some major cities?
>>570270040I'm not actually sure, they do cities and landmarks, whether they also upgrade the terrain too I don't know. You'll have to check the articles for them and see what's mentioned.
>>570269457Yes. You feel even the smallest pressure difference in stable air, so every good updraft brings this uncommon feeling of being strongly pulled up. Like the acceleration in an airliner or a sport car, but vertical.I've mostly done soaring and I've never entered a strong thermal myself but from what I've heard and seen it can be quite the rollercoaster, if only because it has boundaries, and crossing them will bring strong vertical acceleration changes.
>>570248148>>570268852the problem with FS is the camera is dead.go and play old birds of steel for example, you can easily feel the air through the camera movement, it actually gives me the same sense of a rollercoaster when doing hard maneuvers.you judge all sims by one game with a particularly poor sense of motion.actually DCS has a nice dynamic camera too, but it is a special toggleable view like third person or flyby, you have to bind the keys to even find out it exists.there are some paid addons for flight sim to get a better camera too, but I can't speak to if they work well. birds of steel by far the best sense of flying in any game I've played.
>>570269898I'm was coming to Grenoble (the city in the valley) from the SE and the Ecrins range in the French Alps, in the (free) GotFriends Discus-2C glider.
2h of MFS24 and I'm already kinda bored, it's just Tourism Simulator, I can do that on Google Earth for free. Should I ask for a refund or maybe the game might "click" if I keep playing?
>>570270740I agree that the camera is shit in MSFS, but it is one thing you get used to.As for paid modules, I happened to watch a video of someone flying the Caravan with FSRealistic+ a couple days after being inside a real one doing engine runs, and the vibration effects in the sim were way to smooth and regular compared to the real one.. I'd still admit it looked a tad better than the default camera, but it was not more "realistic".But you can't really compare since IRL you feel the vibrations with your whole body while your brain stabilize the whole picture. It's the same thing with the sense of scale of a cockpit, or the smell of the aircraft, the entrance and exit, the hand-on walkaround... You can find many things that will never match, but the sim is good enough to let you fill the gaps, and good enough to develop skills that you can use both ways, and that's nothing short of awesome.
>>570272204>same thing with the sense of scale of a cockpitjudging all sims by another shitty thing unique to flight simulator, all default views are midget mode. you have a childs view of the controls so they look bigger. simply adjusting the default camera height fixes it.I get a very strong sense from your post that you did not read what I posted here >>570270740
>>570271447The point is the flying mate, if that doesn't interest you then it's not for you.
MRCH
When will Microsoft make a Drive Simulator where the map is the entire world?
>>570273542It's so shiny
>>570272610Ok, re-reading your post I kind of focused on the "paid addons" part.I actually haven't much experience with flightsims apart from 2024 (and some DCS a while ago), so I can't comment on whether it is comparable to Birds of Steel. In my opinion MSFS has a less subtle full screen shaking effect : if you fly a glider you can still get feedback from its attitude change, even if the camera doesn't move within the cockpit.
>>570273865Or ship simulator.
>>569985790>nor was it that historically relevant.it's got more combat history than most planes in the game. very widely used bomb truck, recon/FAC and the first SEAD planeit's also tricky to fly and analog while still being a supersonic jet that can shoot missiles, which is the sweetspot for flight simming.
>>570273431I can do that in GTA.
>>570274897Refund it then, why would we care?
>>570274950I'm giving you the chance to sell me on your game, retard.
>>570275060If flying doesn't interest you then a flight simulator isn't for you. I don't know what you want me to say.
>>570275248You could start by explaining why do you find pleasure in a game that's just flying from point A to point B.
>>570275372Because there's a lot more to flying than just going from A to B. Learning the systems in the plane, flying it well, navigation, sightseeing on the way, doing a good approach and landing. It's like saying how do you find pleasure in a racing game if you're just going around a track.
>>570275553Well, so far all I had to do to pilot the planes was press A, literally just that, I'm not seeing where all that depth is, I literally just hold A to accelerate and the right stick to control the height and the direction.
>>570275786Did you even land the plane?
>>570274780>no missions
>>570273542
>>570249805>>570251169Remember where it is and do it by feel, the more annoying part is remembering all of your procedures without a second monitor.Personally find flatscreen to be easier than constructing an elaborate system of VR kneeboards to remember shit, but can't deny that flying with the headset is 1000% more immersive.>>570251442If you can run it in ultra in 1440p, expect to top out around medium. High if you have a spaceship, but with a noticeable performance hit. Whatever your resolution, you're going to be pumping at least 2x the pixels to render a display for each eye. Quad views and foveated rendering help a bit, but there's no real shortcut around needing high-end hardware to comfortably sim in VR. 3080 or 4070 tier is basically the floor.
>>570270740>birds of steelIt's genuinely kind of sad that this (along with Wings of Prey) is still one of the best WW2 aviation games ever made in [current year], and absolutely rage-inducing that the dev will also never use their engine, assets, research, or expertise ever again for anything that isn't hyper-monetized live-service multiplayer arcade slop
MNPPfuck it was hard to see where the hell is the runway
>>570156304Yeah.
Recommend me unknown places to fly over in MSFS.
>>570282591You playing on ultra? That looks clean, damn. I play on medium and I can barely see any details on the statues and buildings.
Anon, it's Friday. Have you installed your dampener?
>>570287694No i've been drinking and working a lot. I'll install it after work, crash in my bed, and then next day will be FISH time.Thanks for asking.
>>570283639photogrammetry detail is decided only by terrain lod I'm pretty sure. ultra is 200, high is 100 and medium is 50. assuming 100 is tuned to 1080p, 200 would be perfect for 4K, but 50 would be sub-720, I think 540p.basically, turn it up to like 70-80. seems to be a good sweet spot between performance and not looking at mushy blobs
>>570289331There's no "terrain lod" in the graphical options.
>>570294786it's the very topmost onedo you not know what LOD is short for?
>>570280153>remembering all of your procedures without a second monitoris why I make audio checklists
>>569990804Driving is fun, what I don't understand is tube-liner pilots sitting on a 6 hour flight with autopilot on. Is the equivalent of that mobile game trend where "you can study and read while you play" automated games. And Im not talking about VATSIM events
>>570300003>tube-linerbeats me, never flown those
>>570300003about an hour and a half to two hour flight has plenty of things to do on a commercial flight, you are doing the job of at least two people after all.any more than that tends to just add dead time in cruise inbetween the takeoff and landing though.3 hours is pushing it, but can be comfy. 4 hours is immensely boring. 8 hours is mentally ill.
>>570300003In a plane that has random failures simulated, keeping an eye on gauges/annunciators is satisfying in its own wayA lot of people speed up the simrate in cruise though. Except for vatsim freaks
>>570300830the best failures are the ones you haven't enabled in a menu. once I lost power to both engines on the beaver, I legitimately have no idea what went wrong. I must have forgot some important switch or pushed them too hard on the RPM or something.
the americans are about to hit ireland
>>570233020> Red Bull Air race
>>570249805The app virtual desktop on MQ3 allows to have some passthrough zones where you can still see a bit, I use them for my keyboard mostly. For the HOTAS itself is just muscle memory
>>570271447That's all the flight sims, because at the end of the day they are well, sims. people that do enjoy them they do because they took the time to learn to fly a plane properly. Otherwise is not for you. I barely care about other aircraft that is not GA or acrobatic planes because they are not on my plans to fly them irl
>>570274443world ship simulator sounds orders of magnitude easier than a driving one. Like what else you can model on it apart from beaches, ports and sea structures
>>570288786How hard are dampers to install anyway, arent just a couple of screws?
>>570304920Yes i'm just lazy
>>570271447It's all about properly operating the vehicle, man
>>570306385Or deliberately improperly operating it
>>570300830
>>570306596where is the hot air balloon going at mach 2?
>>570298070Looking forward to the ingame checklist for the Hun, wish ED would adopt it as the standard for everything in the sim.
>Lap 62 of 72>From P14 to P7>Get passed by a gay little Audi>Panic>Aggressively try to take my position back>Crash and DNF
>>569949610Landmarks, natural and artificial.
>>570309946based if you took the audi with you
Reentry got a moonbuggy nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvaWUmQXovE
New update for DCS should be today
I remember a decade or so ago, there were somewhat frequent BMS OPS being done.Is this still a thing?
>>569949610E6B
binland :DDD
>>570337054binland again :D
>>570283498Bora Bora
>>570337592beware of the monkeys
>>570337964If you fly fast enough they can't catch you
>>570323673Thanks for reminding me. I was saving my steam funds for the controller, I can't buy yet another space game.
>>570338538You can, and you will.
Black Square Commander 114 in development.
>>570283498China
>>570340556>those texturesYikes.
>>570340556China is great terrain-wise, but the way they fuck with their satellite maps makes VFR unpleasant in many regions.
>>570341580China looks like shit on Bing maps for some reason, the colours are off and it looks hazy. It looks alright on Google maps though.
>NextGen Simulations’ EMB-110 Bandeirante v2 is out now for MSFS 2024One man development team from Colombia, impressive stuff. He's also working on a Saab 340 and 2000.
>>570339984
>>570342306>MSFS’s first working stormscope, with plausible lightning depiction for stormcell avoidanceI didn't even know this was a thing, sounds fun.
>>570325439
I just want the A2A 182 to come out already, man.
>>570342440Lightning is really loud on the EM spectrum, it was one of the first things we heard after inventing radio. These things are just a more sophisticated version of driving around with an untuned AM radio to listen to strikes. These use VLF, though. Most are also using combined sferic/optical sensors to reduce false positives.You can precisely locate lightning yourself if you have more than one receiver, too.blitzortung.org has built a huge network of home-built RF detectors with the TOA method to map strikes around the world in real time like this, it's pretty neat to watch.
>>570338316
>>570337592isn't that one of the discovery flights? how is it unknown?
>>570315571No I Senna'd myself
>>570344224Why do you need an instrument for it? So you can do daredevil runs through storm clouds and dodgy lightning bolts? I suppose it was just an early weather radar.
>>570331615On the discord there is a BMS channel, but havent seen actual OPS being done myself. I see mostly DCS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcYd-rPmnE3690 metres down lads
>>570347620Lightning comes with convection, flying through thunderstorms generally not recommended.Before satellite weather maps were in every cockpit, the only way to avoid storms inflight was to use METAR, the Mk 1 eyeball, or a lightning detector.Radar also isn't perfect, there are lots of gaps in doppler coverage with imperfect resolution due to terrain obstruction, and airborne systems are susceptible to attenuation and can't really see beyond the first storm.RF detectors are relatively cheap, really lightweight, and can be installed on GA aircraft that can't carry big airborne radar systems.
>>570350836I think I learned something about a horse's name just now
NORAD lol
>>570352894Which T-38 is that?
Best mod to give me a QT3.14 co-pilot model and voice?
>>570352957The Famous Flyer one.
I wanted to continue exploring Alaska but the weather is awful there, ceiling of 300ft, so I'm gliding in Utah instead.
>>570353350How is it? It has mixed reviews for some reason. There's another T-38 addon that covers different a cockpit/variant.
>>570353523Works just fine on my machine. I was worried seeing the reviews, but said fuck it. The instrumentation is weird (see speed here), but it's fine. They offer a 1 day free trial and a paid short rental on it.
>>570353918The T-33 has a similar airspeed indicator too, must be common in the old jets.
The other T-38 is by Aero Dynamics which has both the A and C models, the latter having a modern cockpit.
>>570300003It's perfectly natural in my opinion. It's something easy to do with your hands, or to look at while listening to a podcast or lecture. No different than people watching, watching boats on the shore or looking out a train window into the landscape while talking to someone. People think it's a sickness of short attention spans but I think it's different where one is a highly stimulating distraction the other is tranquil. If I'm going to be listening to a three hour lecture anyway why not? speaking of which I've been fiending for a train sim precisely for that reason but my choices are either finnicky 20 year old open source mess or yearly product slop
>>570354171Oh, the other thing I forgot is it has an AoA indexer which is kind of nice. >>570354391Ah, that's no fun. I'm not one of those VOR-TACAN-astrolabe only kind of people, but that just looks like an anachronism.
>>570353378I misjudged the wind and had to land in a cotton field, I'll glide somewhere else I think.
>>570355370start picking them cotton boy
>>570355414sheeeeeet
>go to normal gliding spot>20 knot winds >I can practically hover pointing into the wind, 8 knots ground speedThe weather is against me today.
>>570114208It doesn't matterIf domino's made the best and cheapest pizza that had a full nutritional profile for a healthy human being everyone would eat domino's pizza you fucking idiot
Steam is somehow the least shitty digital game carrier. Let THAT sink in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46BYD-cLC_winibuilds A380 'coming soon'>advanced water/waste management systems>onboard printer and cpdlc>GPS jammingNow that's what I call autism
why is this thread dominated by flight sims?
>>570358994It's just the most popular type of sim and gets content regularly. I like all types but spend the most time playing flight sims.
>L-39 cockpit lighting is STILL INOPI hate the french so fucking much.
>>570359415It's dead mate, move on.
>>570358994Racists have other threads and can discuss their games on /v/.
>>570358994driving sims are more popular but they have their own /o/ general
>>570358994This MF simulating scissor lifts.
>>570358927Curious to see how this and the community one will compare.
>>570360063Well the inibuilds one will actually come out for starters
>>570358927>incompatible with 99% of basic flight simulator features
>>570361205>toilet waste reaches 101%>YOU CRASHED>flight resets
>>570361310>toilet waste reaches 101%>Onboard Septic Automated Aerial Recyclers opens the door mid flight>Critical loss of cabin pressure>Crash
>>570361310>>570361815Cancel all the India routes.
A dog enters a planeHe looks around and says "I guess I will open this one"Nine-Eleven
>>570362616Nice poem
>>569946742thoughts on strike fighters 2? It is fun enough for me on mouse and keyboard while I wait for my actual flight sim peripherals. Very very light sim though.
>>570361205>basic flight simulator featuresMSFS has those?
>>570358994cost and skill floor make it cool. Us chad sub enjoyers will have to map intercept by ourselves
Anyone knows why they changed the beautiful handcrafted textures of some famous monuments for some ugly photogammetry in recent updates?
>>570371329The sub chads kneel to the forklift Gods
>>570371714Are there pallet jack sims? Skid loader sims?
>>570372026Yes
>>570372174Yeah das it mayne.
>>570372174>>570371714is construction simulator decent?
>>570371603May be a bughttps://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/christ-the-redeemer-needs-to-be-recovered-to-what-it-was-before-update/764713
>>570248739Anything like this for force feedback stuff? Is the Moza AB9 the way to go?
>>570373063If it was a bug it would've already been fixed, it's been months, seems deliberate for some reason.
>>570375171The bug wasn't reported long after SU5 came out, SU5.1 is only to address some memory issues, we'll have to see if it's in SU6.
Speaking of bugs, the G58 is broken and I'm pissed.
>>570375171>If it was a bug it would've already been fixedLol. Fucking kek even. Fucking absolute LMAO even. Completely ROFLcoptering around the damn room actually.
>>570368615It makes my computer fans do a turbine noise, so that's that.
>Fishbed gets some updatesGod damn.
>>570372026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWeG5OzJG-Mgot a 9.5/10 from gamingmill
>>570381193fish friday baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-CHF7VHMI>Microsoft Flight Simulator | City Update 15: Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin
>>570375171> it would've already been fixedkek are you new to flightsims? buckle up
>>570381193>Fishbed really? nice, I will update when Im home
>>570391391MiG-21 my beloved.
>>570358994If you want to talk about another genre, post about it, there's enough niche anons around to spark conversation usually.
Next DCS sale fucking when
>>5704075192 weeks
How's the fish, lads? I'm away from home for a few days
>>570407519>>570407653>https://steamdb.info/sales/history/
>>570409364I'll tell you tomorrow buddy
>>570409364above 450kts she can hang, below she's an absolute pig. Guns shred and the sight works great.
>>570410346I'm hoping it's gonna be in a very similar vein to the F1 - fast, hot-roddy and a bit of a pain in the ass in a fun way?>>570409824I hope you do anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdfN7SN-PE8Super Saber (not sabreh btw) is out
Alright, I cleaned my tower. Maybe this session won't make it hotter than a scramjet.
>>570410675No where near that fast. It's like a western Mig-19. Engine is very temperamental, cant neg-G or move the throttle too fast. Air starts are pretty easy once you got the binds.
>>570414408Still sounds like fun
>>570412369what game is that?
>>570421578MSFS 2020
>>570394875About damn time the Nig-21 gets some love. You'd think the Redfor aircraft would be getting more love than they do, considering there aren't nearly as many.
>>570430481дa.
>>570337592the rape…
The infamously dogshit MSFS Boeing 707 is rereleasing soon completely remade by inibuilds and working title, which means it is likely to be extremely good.
>>570430481You cant extract money from paypigs with old soviet aircraft. You gotta pump those Tomcat and Hornets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdIWF_zKnU
>>570435458Incidentally they also announced the 707s avionics (the inertial navigation, storm radar, autopilot, radios, ect) will be modulized. They can be reused to develop other period aircraft which used the same systems, which should encourage more 60/70s airliners to be modeled.
>>570323673
>>570440095but how will this affect… the rape…
>>570421578it's the weird fictional bomber from the top gun collab
Boeing is out. Now it's between the M-346 and the totallynotacessnascorpion Freedom Trainer. This is both great and not so great news.
>>570456539why were mcdonnell lawyers allowed to destroy three major american aircraft manufacturers?
>>570457068Cool it with the antisemitism. Anything that doesn't immediately baloon the shareholders wallets, even at the detriment of the lives, safety, and reputation of well established companies, is irrelevant.
>>570456539Time to pick a new primary jet trainer for the world's fourth-largest air force in a country renowned for its history of aircraft manufacturing, let's review our options:>obscure niche company with zero experienceor>russian-derived spaghetti jetThe state of modern US aerospace is pretty grim.
>>570457681>russian-derivedI hate how that stigma will never go away even if it's completely false. In a way we deserve it for ever considering doing business with fucking russians. >The state of modern US aerospace is pretty grim.Soon everyone will go to the shitter, Boeing employing jeet coders and cutting corners in QA will spread out to every other company who is run by people who only care about profit.
>>570456460I thought it was a test plane for some sort of next gen SR-71-like reconnaissance plane
>>570458860whatever it is, it really pisses me off that it can go much higher than the pelican. you know, the literal spaceship?
>93 GB update I swear ED is in cahoots with the SSD industry
>>570465062it was 78 for me
After all these years, MSFS autogen airport lighting finally catching up to Xplane
>>570465062I'm honestly contemplating whether to download such updates for the games I have installed. If any of my SSDs were to break I don't know if I could afford a replacement with current prices.
>>570465062Syria went up to 103 GB
>>570466173full-fidelity flight simulation requires proper attention to detail (please ignore the health bars)
>>570456539Reshaping our reality...
Can I get a QRD on hexagon games?Never really been interested before but the lastest one caught my eye because I love late cold war shit
>>570476851that looks like a square grid with free movementmight have more luck in civ4xg
holy fuck thought I'd never see the day
>>570476851They're great but can be unfathomably autistic. Shadow Empire is great, I'd recommend that.
No idea why the Piper M600 image is wrong.
Working Title and Inibuilds will be completely rebuilding the 707, 307, C-46 and Trimotor. Imagine being Aeroplane Hell and being such a shit dev that another company has to rebuild your product.
How do I find the fucking tiger in MSFS24? Spent 2 hours running around the forest like a retard and couldn't find a single tiger to photograph.
>>570479048Is the M600 image the Praetor 600 viewed from the front? I think I heard the 600 was originally going to be Expert Series 2 until it got delayed and the M600 moved in front of itThey typo'd Praetor too
>>570482806That explains the confusion then
>>570481689Buy FsExplore and turn on fauna tracking
>>570465556>>570477759This really is good to seeWas so weird with the unlit aprons
>>570483185>buyYou mean with in-game coins or with real life money? If it's the latter fuck no, I already spent $60 on this game.
>>570484119
>>570484119>he's only spent $60You're in for a ride mate
>"privacy laws"
>>570483645I'm convinced it was to sell premium airportsI have pirated so many premium airports just to get apron lighting
>>570486203Thank you for your sacrifice
>>570481689https://steamcommunity.com/app/2537590/discussions/1/603023534349911796/
>>570486203I used this in 2020https://flightsim.to/addon/8614/airports-lights
>>570486961that was good when it first came out but it created so many issues over time, many airports would get duplicate lights and only a handful could be manually disabled in the filesand the thing that led me to scenery piracy in the first place, deluxe edition airports were not lighted in the mod, so the generic heathrow and frankfurt for example were left pitch black
>>570481689You can use dev mode to locate fauna.See pic, the kangaroos are in the brown spheres near the bomb impact. Toggle "Names" for longer range visibility.
>>570485085What do you mean? How much do you people spend on this game? Do you just buy stuff on the marketplace or am I missing something here?
>>570487293Please do not bomb the tigers before anon can photograph them
>>570487395billions must pay (for addons)
>>570487293The jaguar is right there thoughever
>>570487430Don't worry, wildlife in MSFS is tough as nails.
>>570488298topkek
>>570487662Now that you mention it there's no mission to photograph a jaguar even though the Pantanal has been recently updated. Why?
Flightsim Studio (who made the 727) revealed their new project, pic related.
>>570488607they sure love their T-tail trijets
>>570488607A real life plane? Imrpessive
>>570487395People buy all sorts of things for flight simshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy19k0SPpm8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bn4M8EoCo8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G059BNWMkQEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtsYBquKAMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAmkhobRBDshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uf4SBJvQYchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzD1yBSGfk
They should rename this game USA Flight Simulator since only the USA received updates.
>>570491093The last world update was Australia
>>570491340Yeah, and the next 5 are going to be USA or European regions. Where's Africa, Russia, China, Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, Mars, but no, instead of those we gotta update some random US state because people wanna see their own homes in the game instead of playing a flight sim.
>>570491665
>>570481689airdrop some catnip
>>570465062makes sense. Its called DCS WORLD, which means you have full global map, like MSFS and XP, right? right?
>>570493147You will a map that's nothing but desert and you will enjoy it
So MSFS is not completely accurate, right? Some parts are procedurally generated, right? Because I found some houses in remote areas of my country that have an American architecture to it and I don’t think that's accurate at all.
>>570494269every building that isn't photogrammetry or hand made is AI generated based on outline recognition
>>570494269I believe it knows where buildings are and generates one using textures relevant to the area, or the closest thing to it.
>>570494478>>570494921Do you guys think we'll ever get a completely accurate world map one day?
>>570495967Possibly by using more AI, but I don't know where you would get the height information of buildings from.
>>570491925You just proved my point, 13 out of 22 updates were for the USA/Europe.
>skims thread...Where my raceist boyz at?>>570476851>Flashpoin Campaigns! MY MAN! Don't listen to others telling you 'autistic'. Flashpoint Campaigns is actually the best there is and pretty easy to get into, though it's kind of an idle game. Watch some youtube shit, but basically, it's a real commander's game, where you need to plan shit in the initial phase and after that it's just watching things play our and damage control every few minutes, when your turn comes up. All you need to know to be good at this is to understand the intel and command structure, but the interface, despite being kinda meh, gives you that info. Then you make your plan based on the objectives of the mission, and wait like 10 minutes for you turn. After that it's just damage control and arty and airstrikes. It's a very good experience, once you understand that it simulates you being in the commanders position, making a plan then letting in play out if minor adjustments like. Game doesn't tell you some things like you have a tank unit fighting and they are at 75% ammo, it means their out of SABOT rounds, so they won't be effective vs tanks. It's a cool game, but also something you play in the background. Outside of that, Armored Brigade 1 and 2 might be up your alley, pretty much the same thing but real time. Other? Graviteam Tactics has Cold War DLC.Forgot to record webms, so here's an old pic. Been hammering AMS2 in the past few days, those new Danielkart's custome FFB file won me over eventurally, but at the end of the day, I still prefer ACC. IDK man, AMS2 excels at Braz Stock Cars, anything else I drive feels like I have no clue how to set up and be fast. Maybe except GT3, but for some reason I just can't make up my mind on what to drive and how... Great game, but to broad in content. F1 stuff rules, but then I'm also shit at F1. Weird, it's like AMS2 is awesome for practice sessions, but despite inferior AI, actual racing fits me better in ACC.
>>570496110Where do you think most of the players of MSFS are from?
>>570495967I don't know what you want that's more accurate than global <1m satellite photos my man
>>570496761To be able to go into any house I want and ra-I mean talk to people.
>>570496280personally I want to see other parts of the world, if I wanted to see my own city or local airport I could just go outside
>>570496920Going outside is gay
>>570496126watching le mans
>>570496761I just said some remote houses are not accurate, are you blind? The textures in some big cities are also terrible, see pic related.
>>570499070>he doesn't like the spooky dreamscape ground level photogrammetry
>>570499412You can drive cars in this game? Wtf how?
>>570495967Maybe in 30+ years. The photogrammetry zones are currently extremely small and extremely hard to make, and 99%+ of the planet doesn't have collected data to make it in the first place.
>>570500226There's some "aircraft" that are ground vehicles >>570501580 (and boats)There's also >>570489264>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzD1yBSGfk [Embed]
>>570500457I'll be 60 by then and probably not playing games anymore.
>>57050205060 seems to be the average age of flight simmers
>>570502050I'll be playing games when I'm an old bastard in a care home shitting myself and saying 'nya yeh whatheheh' to the carer
>>570502537>>570503261No offense, everyone should live however they want and all that, but videogames aren't a hobby for a old man to have. You might leave regrets if you die with a youth mentality, you have to be wiser as you age so you can learn to detach yourself from your earthly pleasures in order to have a happy death.
>>570504468I already have regrets I'll die with, and will embrace death with open arms when it pays me a visit.
>>570493147>>570493239>Spherical Earth. This effort is currently on hold as we focus our resources on the Vulkan API, improved clouds and weather, better visual effects, and further virtual reality performance improvements. >This remains an important feature for the future of DCS, but we’ve had to prioritise resources on these pressing tasks. >We look forward to returning to this later.
>>570504468WW2 vet grandpa played flight sim til he died in his 80s, no regrets.Inspires the young people in your life to love aviation and gives yourself a stimulating hobby to continue learning and keep your mind young.
the difference between being a trucker and playing ETS2 is that the drive takes 20 minutes and you can go to the bathroom afterwardsthe difference between FS and being a pilot is you don't get paid
>>570493147no it means it's just a collection of all DCS products into a single "world"they used to publish modules standalone, like black shark and warthog
random ass airbus in orbit
>>570496126getting pitted by SOME FUCKING NIGGER IN A SLS FUCKING YOU NIGGER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>570504468>detach yourself from your earthly pleasures in order to have a happy death.In whole honesty anon, you should learn that by the time you're 25. Taking forty years to learn that life is short and none of what you currently have you won't be able to take without after you die is retarded.It is something I've learn from living near monks during my childhood.
>>570465062I hate myself but I literally ended up buying an SSD specifically for DCS so it fucking works if you're retarded enough. cunts.
>>570516827No way, I wanna indulge in my earthly pleasures for at least some 30 years more, do everything I want and then I'll start my preparations for death.
>>570518953You should start now.
>>570519429Why, are you on your way to his house?
>>570522637IT WAS SUPOUSED TO BE A SUPRISE GODDAMNIT
Just when you thought your wallet's asshole was safe, here comes Virpil with a FFB base, an Apache Cyclic grip, and rape in their eyes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BXK4CO9zYHopefully campaign creators will take the hint and start making Apache campaigns again.
Another view:
are there any new ffb sticks that aren't industrial grade costing 1500 dolla? you know like the one's from the 90's, just a regular cheap stick with a motor?
>>570532209Looks like the Virpil is going to be about $650 (had to convert from eurodollars to goybucks on their non-US website though, so might be a bit off), which is right around where the Moza AB9 is. Or you can go with the AB6 for like $450 or so.
>>570532209>you know like the one's from the 90's, just a regular cheap stick with a motor?Didn't see that part. No, you can't get cheapo FFB, because apparently Microsaar has a 100 year copyright on whatever was in the Sidewinder stick. I think used good condition Sidewinders are going for not much less than an AB6 these days anyways, if not more due to the collector's value on that piece of shit.
>>570530506I bought an AB9 to replace my WARBRD while I waited for them to finally do FFB but I'll get the Atlas and sell the AB-9 now, Virpil's software is so fucking flexible for bindings I want fully back into their ecosystem instead of using their grip on my AB-9.
Keep in mind Virpil doesn't include taxes unlike many sites (at least for EU) so it could be quite a bit more expensive than the Moza.I would pick it up and sell my Moza, but it seems like its quite a bigger beast, not made to be clamped to a desk.
>>570533907>Keep in mind Virpil doesn't include taxes in the EUpretty sure that shit's illegal
>>570533907I'll probably just build a fixed cockpit to house the Atlas during the 18 month pre-order wait. Hopefully WW3 doesn't start before then!
>>570534197Well if they don't enforce it, it doesn't mean shit. Oh and you also need to pay for delivery, unlike moza i bought from some other website with free delivery. So overall it will be quite a bit more expensive. >>570534250Yeah i'm not ready for a true simpit (i'm lacking space mostly) but the day i make one, i'll probably go virpil too. At least i won't be one of the guys buying early and suffering from all the early adopter issues.
>fish is out>FFB is apparently fuckedGod damn it
>>570535259fish feedback hehe
>>570534197Paying taxes as an EU citizen is immoral, since it is an occupation government at war with the native population.
>>570535259Fuuuuuck it, really?
>>570536047Didn't try it myself but thats what i've seen on the forum.https://forum.dcs.world/topic/388874-ffb-profile/
>>570536039Oh no, you're gonna pay them. They just don't show them until its time to pay.
some charts have like 4-5 different frequencies for the same thing, how do I know which one to pre-tune?
>>570536146That's a real pity, I think it's got huge potential with FFB
>>570508727>the difference between FS and being a pilot is you don't get paidAlso no liability when you stall during landing and crash on the runway on top of Corgi666 who was about to take off in the Fenix A320 | Asobo Default Aircraft A320.
>>570556908Shoulda took off from the taxiway...
>>570550885>BirdsHOW ?
>>570557008Joke's on you, I'm now flying Helicopters so I can crash-land anywhere I want.
>>570530506>25nm forceHOLY FUCKING BASEDI knew I worked up to 50lb dumbell curls for a reason.
>>570557015MSFS does have flocks of seagulls built-in as fauna in some places, but the ones in that screenshot circling a spot I think are from FS Birdshttps://www.southoakco.com/fs-birdsThey also make an addon called Traffic in Sight that adds small planes, drones, gliders, hang gliders, helicopters, and hot air balloons flying around. They're spawned as terrain rather than normal traffic injection so (1) they don't show up on air traffic displays, as if they lacked ADS-B out, and (2) you collide with them instead of passing through them
>>570557521Looks good but asking a separate 10bucks purchase for each region is a little too much for a world-wide flier such as myself.
>>570530506>>570557438Wait, no the pro version will be >45nmChrist, that actually is about 50lbs at the grip. What is this even for other than maybe a few warbirds? Someone is going to be injured by this thing.
>>570558270>Someone is going to be injured by this thing.Good, flying wrong should have consequences.
>>570337054same place i think
>FlightSim Studio reveals a Tupolev Tu-154MBIG NEWShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMFDMaock64
>>570557521In FSX circling birds indicated a thermal
>>570566668What, do you expect Microsoft to make a game about aviation with people who actually know anything about aviation?Devs are hard enough to find already, never mind devs with a PPL who give even the smallest shit about the thing they develop. Small studio, please understand...
>>570508727>the difference between FS and being a pilot is you don't get paidThe difference between FS and being a pilot is that you don't have biscuit chuckers in the sim. Air hostesses are mattresses for pilots.
>>570570896I think it's more lack of resources and misdirected development priorities by microsoft than lack of caring. If they straight didn't care I don't think they'd take the financial hit to completely remake botched modules like the 707 instead of just half-assing a patch or resting on the community fix mods.
>>570574265Since 2024 there's been more of a focus on quality, people want decent planes not slop.
it's funny to me that the big commercial simulators with the hydraulics and everything are just running heavily customized versions of FSX.it's even more funny to me that FS20/24 will never ever be suitable to replace it.20 years from now airbus 400 and boeing 797 pilots will train on FSX.
>>570574265>>570574398They care about it as a revenue-generating live-service game, not as an actual flight simulator. Hence the focus on aesthetics, graphics, visuals, and in-cockpit key janglers.Look at the features that FSX had that 2024 still lacks. This used to be a product built by and for aviation enthusiasts, but Redmond lost the plot. Austin's autism is a structural pillar of the entire civilian sim sector right now and that's not a great place for the ecosystem to be in. Microsoft used to have a whole team of Austins working on this stuff.
>>570575665It's a bit like how the sims military use look out of date compared to modern games.
>>570575990Austin is a moron, he may be passionate about aviation but he doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to the game. X Plane should have capitalised on the period when FSX had overstayed it's welcome and there was no alternative, had they done that they would have become the main civilian flight simulator.
>>570575990They shut down the original flight sim developer after X, asobo is literally some cheap licensed movie game developer that got to play with the ESP engine source code.their biggest game before FS20 was the ratatouille game.>>570576185I don't know what you think X-plane 10 was? The only real problem is they didn't catch up to 2020's visuals for the normies.
>>570576065to be fair they just announced VBS4 running on enfusionI do have to wonder if it will be viable or if the serious VR training will just stick to VBS2.
>>570576642I'm talking about before 2020, when people still played FSX and P3D despite it being fucking old and shit. Around that time X Plane should have capitalised on the gap by Microsoft (ignoring Microsoft Fl*ght) but it never materialised, people stuck to FSX because there were more addons because more people played it. Love it or hate it, MSFS has set a new standard for flight simulation and X Plane has been left behind. You can pretend that visuals are just for normies, but stock X Plane looks pretty terrible for a modern game, stuff like autoortho should be part of the base game, you shouldn't have to fiddle to get it looking reasonable.
Apparently this is VFR weather with scattered clouds at 4,100ft and overcast at 5,500ft. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
>>570576897And X-plane 10 came out just a few years after FSX was abandoned, and beat the crap out of it in every single category.as I said, the problem is XP12 is basically just 10 with some facelifts, they didn't really do major overhauls since then so it looks dated next to 2020 in screenshots. next gen terrain will be too little too late.It still beats it in everything other than visuals.
>>570577070if you can fly at reasonable altitude and still see the ground it's VFR. might be technically classed as MVFR though.
>>570577251I have made a terrible mistake, I can't see anything, but in for a penny in for a pound.
>>570577141It was a lot better than FSX, yet people still didn't switch.>the problem is XP12 is basically just 10 with some faceliftsYeah that does seem to be the case.>It still beats it in everything other than visuals.I'm not sure about that but can't be arsed with that argument.
>>570577479from what I remember the release was pretty hype but it cost $60 and took a 50GB install while FSX was going for <$10 and only took a few GB.this was back before every AAA game was bloatware too, I only had a 320GB drive.
>>570577373I got out of it eventually
MICROSOFT WHO??https://youtu.be/azYGYFeEn78?is=W2SF3myvDhMIBnV5
>>570530506Imagine this thing smacking 22kg of force right into your balls
>>570558270>Someone is going to be injured by this thing.First person to die while flying a sim lets goooooo
So the fake plane made by the Writght brothers is in the game but not the Santos Dumont 14-bis, the actual first plane ever. Why? Pretty stupid decision.
>>570591247Because America
You know what would be crazy? If Microsoft made fantasy world updates for MSFS, like imagine being able to fly over Middle Earth or Westeros.
>>570594510https://orbxdirect.com/product/jw-archipelago-msfs2024
>>570576642>their biggest game before FS20 was the ratatouille game.Fucking grim. This used to be built by an internal team of aviation nerds steeped in Seattle-area aerospace culture, a place and era where 777's were rolling off the assembly line and flying over their offices as they worked on the sim.Frogs who made a rat game and took a discovery flight once will never compete.
Might get back to MSFS 2024. All these screenshots, pretty cool stuff.
>>570598131it is a pretty game
>>570594510They literally did stranger things and jurassic world.
>>570598278It is indeed
>>570603134jurassic world was orbx no?they did put dune structures somewhere out in the sahara though
>>570598278>>570603176I feel like the clouds have gotten way worse since 2020 launchthey tend to look more like volcanic ash than clouds, or literally worse than FSX sprites. it wasn't like that at launch.I blame consoles
>>570603489It's hard to say, they vary just as much as they did in 2020. Sometimes they have definition, but often they're too blobby.
>>570603692I don't actually think the clouds are 'bad', just that they need some tweaking.
>>5706036922020 had some downgrades, notably in SU5 which was the console launch.2024 is the worst they've ever been, even on ultra there's this super noticable jittering to them, and they seem to lack multiple scattering and self-shadowing, which was only turned off on medium on 2020.in fact the whole "photometric lighting" thing has been a huge fail, it looks way less realistic than the old lighting overall, and it just makes the avionics blow out in your face at night all the time. I have to adjust the brightness several times per minute during dusk and dawn just to see, which isn't realistic at all. never had to do that in 2020
>>570605654they also fucked with the live weather at some point early on. at launch they would generate proper storm clouds and weather fronts, at some point early they changed it and it never generates any weather anymore, now you're lucky to get some rain or fog at the most. it makes flying even in IMC boring as fuck.You can set custom weather but it breaks down in fast aircraft since it repeats over the whole world.
>>570605654I'm not sure if or when we'll see them updated
>>570603134>>570603213Bought the P750 on its own like a month before they launched Jurassic Park and still kind of salty about it.
>>570606378Is it a nice plane?
>>570606013>I'm not sure if or when we'll see them updatednever.
Do these color look similar enough to the old cold war camo colors we had on the F-104s and Tornados? IIRC the UK and Germany used these colors as well but I can't find the proper name.
>>570608053For reference.
>>570608053The colours look close, the blue looks light in some photos are darker in others for some reason if you're going for the livery like pic related.
>>570609480The Vulcan was truly special.
>>570605982There's something wrong on your side mate, it's working pretty well on my rig.
>>570611148I know you're trolling but it's amazing how many boomers legitimately have this mindset
>>570609480Thanks. Yeah I think it's due to the photos of the time being made with film, so each manufacturer had different colour calibrations. Meanwhile modern pictures are often of planes that have sat under the sun a long time fading their colors. It's still one of my favourite camos tho.>>570609724Iirc it was a bit stealthy as well as some radar operators complained that it would disappear from radar on some occasions.
>spent the evening doing nothing but collecting forklifts in roadcraftI might be on the spectrum
>>570615126That doesn't look safe
Update, i installed the damper.
>>570616296Congratulations, why did it take you so long?
>>570616394Extreme case of laziness
>>570616296Nice job anon, finally.
>>570616581Thank you guys, i would not have made it without you.
>>570616296I doubted you the whole time.
>>570617356I know man, i honestly didn't think i would do it.
>>570616296Just use less force, no need for dampener.
>>570618430Its night and day difference. Went from bouncy as shit to smooth and nice to make small adjustments.
>>570606824It's a great little STOL bush turboprop, used a lot in places like PNG and does well in that kind of terrain if you enjoy VFR.
>>570616296>ultra gay anal sex
>>570623007kek didn't notice that
>>570623007Finally, someone notice
>>570623007The art of silly tabs isn't dead.
>>570616296> Halo - [Fan Animation]The most homosexual thing on that screenshot
>>570626997https://youtu.be/E5_ynsjwd48?si=CiTzuVAJGVtgBdlvIts kino, fuck you
>>570632760Saar, this is paki propaganda. I own that airplane, and that never happened.
>>570632760>>570633215
>>570633762>TFW you're drunk as fuck and not sure if the left or right toilet you're seeing is the real one
>>570605982>>570611227The problem was the hyperbole "it never generates any weather anymore"Probably meant something more specific like "live weather tops out at 20k feet so in high-altitude flights you fly over all of it"
>>570633834>Solution: don't piss right after sex, so that you can hit both toilets at the same time.
>>570637036no it means there's no extreme weather, you can go to windy and see storms all around the world, spawn in flight sim in the same place and there's even clouds and a light drizzle. there's no real bad weather in FS anymore.it used to generate storm clouds and fronts and everything, now it's nothing.
alright uninstalled this trash again, it's still too unfinishedmaybe SU6 will be better
How trustworthy is Virpil? I'm really considering the atlas pro and am weighing the pre-order discount but distrust pre-ordering as a concept.
>>570639470Pissing after sex is one of the best things in the world, like a second orgasm and you manage to push the urine out through the erection.
Big news on Miltech's U-2>nearly complete>U-2S (digital) and U-2R (analogue) and the ER2 NASA version>comes with five airports, RAF Akrotiri, RAF Fairford, Groom Lake, Space Force base etc>previously they said it wouldn't have a camera, but now it does, captures imagery over the terrain you fly, black and white imagery for the analogue variant>terrain radar/weather sensor>compatible with the mission hub>detailed damage model, low oxygen leads to blackout, hard landings damage gear and wheels
>>570683990They also teased the Dash 8 at the end. Majestic Software have taken so long that another developer has beaten them to it.
If I just want to do casual ground pounding/CAS and I don't really care about dogfighting or PVP am I best just sticking with Nuclear Option? I enjoy it but I kind of wish the weapons were a bit more engaging to use (IE. Not just lock on and shoot)
>>570679253They will get you your stuff, but I'd estimate that it will take twice as long as they are saying.
>>570684112-200, -300, -400 or god help me a -100? God I hope it's a 200
>>570686506>Miltech has said multiple variants are plannedNo idea yet
>>570686603>>570684112Holy fuck PAL, that's a maritime patrol variant, that's actually close to what I used to fly.
>>570686720You can tell us if it's shit or not. Email the devs and see if you can get an early copy and give feedback, they always appreciate that.
>>570686720Haha it's been a while but I probably remember half the speed cards
>>570687229What did you think of Sky King doing loops and barrel rolls in a Q400?
>>570687363We were impressed really - technically the classics could probably do a barrel roll but we had nothing like the horsepower of the 400.
>>570640953>it used to generate storm clouds and fronts and everything, now it's nothing.Meteoblue agreement and corporate schmoozing for contracts and advertising revenue ruined the weather in the sim.Windy bought out Meteoblue in 2024 and probably wants to charge MS more than they're willing to pay for the amount of data they'd need for building a better model.
>>570686471If the thing comes out and has issues though will they stand by it and fix them though?
>>570688440Is that true? That's shit.
>>570689031It's also a really buggy implementation that requires an external third-party data pipeline to stay up and running, maintained by the Ratatouille people who have no experience or interest in aviation and don't fully understand the importance of weather.
>>570691131I love always online games, truly a unfathomable joy.
what the FUCK am I even looking at?Raceists explain yourselves
>>570694481damping
>>570640953I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about, I always use live weather and I've been in more storms with assorted lighting and thunder than I can remember.Maybe make sure you use the live weather option in the world map settings and not only in the in-flight weather window, I don't know.
>>570699128I think people get a bit carried away so 'This area could be improved' becomes 'This area doesn't work and is terrible'.
605th post, 6 - 06 plane.
>>570702472I'm not sure about the red, it doesn't quite fit.
>>570702659It's meant to be an homage to the early Tornados of the Red Devils.
>>570703057Oh in that case it's a good reproduction, I still think the red looks a bit weird kek
>>570703359It does, I'll also make a blank version probably, or just with low viz insignas
>>570688474Knowing Virpil, it probably won't have any major issues, probably just a few software glitches that will get worked out if anything. They developed the Atlas with FFBeast as a partner, so it's not like this is completely untested technology.Anyways, I've got the Pro on preorder, and if it's anything like the quality of their R1-Falcon pedals that I pre-ordered last year, it's going to be a solid piece of equipment.
>>570699128>>570700038no, I have literally never seen anything more than a light drizzle no matter what the actual weather is.
>>570703974Well you're fucking blind mate, this was 'light rain' yesterday and it was pissing it down.
More rain
>>570704268>>570704497that's what I mean, that's the only weather you ever see, a bit of rain. perpetual summer with light drizzles. And like I said, it didn't used to be like this, they killed the weather generation early on and never fixed it.meanwhile, in X-plane:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXOuOk8WrDA
>>570706908I have no idea how to fly the max 737 but this is just an example, this is Houston at the moment with heavy rain and zero visibility as well as thunder and lightning, there is definitely still bad weather in the game.
>>570709930well, you're just wrong. you see the same drizzle and think it's weather. there's plenty of reports online.makes me wonder if you've ever been outside, gamers say the weirdest shit about reality. especially old ones.
>>570706908>i use xenviro which puts more rain on the windowI guess that explains the contrast between the outside snow and the heavy rain on the glass from the inside view
There's a demo out for pic related
>>570710889not actually a simulator
>>570710889this honestly looks better than PVKK
>>570713293>PVKKnever ever
>>570702472what program do you use for liveries?
>>570715345Photoshop
>>570715345Skinning is fun and easy.
>>570615126Update: I do now have all the forklifts. Turns out there's a total of 46 of them on the map.Now let's see if I can fit them all on the big transporter.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3713240/Last_Drone_War/What is this
>>570719645
Was a nice glider flight until the wind and temperatures started to drop in early evening and had to reach the airport at max finesse speed which is not very much.
>>570726765The thermals really drop off as the evening draws in.
washington mountain roads turns ATS into mudrunner
>>570726568kek
>>570728861There are some fun secret roads in ATS, I haven't found many but they're around.
>it collapsed right when I added the last forkliftwell fuck me.
>>570733180Clean it up janny
Combat Pilot really has the UE5 look (derogatory)
>>570735108Don't care if it looks like actual dogshit desu, just want a modern PTO WW2 game.
I want a space sim but with realistic airplanes instead of fictional spaceships
>>570750863> space sim> realistic airplanes instead of fictional spaceshipsI dont get it, like stuff as Shuttle and Energia?
>>570752068no, like the gameplay structure of a space sim, but with a realistic plane themekinda like how aquanox is underwater, or death stranding is hiking themed, or how the falconeer is fantasy
>>570750863Closest would be modded KSP I guess. Too bad they fucked up KSP 2 so ridiculously hard.
>>570752773Imo KSP2 was not needed. If you had a decent PC, which most of simmers, gaymers and math people tend to have. You can just mod it to hell and back, and with shaders you can make it look better as well.
>>570752773ksp is not a space sim
>>570752662Oh, now I get it. Kinda like X4 but with planes and continents instead of space ships and star systems? That would actually be pretty cool.
>>570753158yeah, something like that. actually croberts right after wing commander 1 made something along those lines called strike commander I think? basically just an F-16 skin for wing commander.
>>570750863>gameplay structure of a space sim, but with a realistic plane themeisn't that what flight sim career modes/addons and Deadstick do>>570753406oh for combat stuff I guess it'd be...uh...may have to go back to 90s games
>>570754864we'll see about deadstick, the playtest was promising but it could be very lackingflight sim career mode is pure ass, you teleport around the map doing random 2 hour long arcade missions that rate you on flying through gates like superman 64. fuck that shit.>career addonsno.
>>570755427>missions that rate you on flying through gates like superman 64Game was so shit, the dude who owned the game was a rapist and raped his cousin in the ass while i was playing the game. I almost wish he would have raped me instead. Almost. Funny childhood.
>>570750863>>570752662https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrUStar Wars was always WW2 themed, and the farther the franchise has drifted from scrambling underclassed fighters from a frontline QRA base the worse it's managed to get. >>570753158X4 but on land with props and early jets would be extremely fucking kino
>>570752662>aquanoxyou just brought back memories of me throwing a fit because my dad wouldn't let me play that on his computer
>>570752948it is with the right mods and power
How long did it take you anons to feel like you actually knew what you were doing in flight sim? Still can't really fly IFR or do more than fuck around with unguided munitions like a bush monkey after what feels like an embarrassingly long time and starting to think it might just be mental retardation. Can do STOL on rough fields and fly point-to-point with a map and compass, can fly helicopters, but can't dogfight worth a shit, can't AAR, and have no fucking clue how radar combat works.Is getting to a baseline level of skill for shit like DCS multiplayer supposed to take actual years to figure out or am I just a brainlet?
>>570765663>but can't dogfight worth a shit, can't AAR, and have no fucking clue how radar combat works.All of these are easiest to learn in the Hornet.
>>570765663A couple weeks. But I came from a good baseline of Warbird sims and shit like Strike Fighters 2, so a lot of the concepts weren't really that foreign. Biggest advice I can give you is find a group to fly with, or a couple buddies, one or two that know more than you do. You'll learn quick in that case. Otherwise, you're kind of shit out of luck.
>>570758047the death star battle is basically a combination of Dam Busters and 633 Squadron as far as I know.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU
>>570765663forget dickarts, play flanker 2.0 and RTFMED is a shadow of their former selves, flanker actually teaches you how to fly
>>570758047>>570753158>starter plane is one of those machine gun armed cubs from ww2>can dogfight>can carry a miniscule amount of cargo, one passenger, or a single bombperfect jack of all trades, but shit at everything starter
>>570766159>>570766689I can log in to a server and be a rocket goblin or loft FABs in a Frogfoot with reasonable accuracy, do SEAD in the T-model, do CSAR or CTLD with the helicopters, and be sort of moderately mission-useful doing non-serious PVE in more or less all of the shitty old cold war airframes. Most of what I fly regularly isn't even AAR-capable.Still feel unprepared for "real" PVP or PVPVE stuff where fucking up actually bothers people.I feel like I'm not ready to fly with other people until I can do it all backwards in the dark, but don't know how reasonable of a standard that is for the average online player.
up
LMS2 demo is out, lads!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-WVkCrtNM
>>570780931this is right up there with table tennis in terms of shit that doesn't need simulating
I keep forgetting about right on red in ATS because it's such an ufathomably stupid and dangerous rulesaves time though
>>570781587No, it's not.
>>570771730>Still feel unprepared for "real" PVP or PVPVE stuff where fucking up actually bothers people.It really doesn't bother people, if anything people just appreciate seeing another player since a lot of the time in MP you just take off and then run out of fuel before seeing anyone else. Or you can go on one of the Guns Only dogfight servers and spawn in the air in the middle of a huge furball, and see if you can even survive until your boolets run out. However shitty you think you are at DCS, you're still probably better than half of the other people flying in MP.
>>570781630it is
My intended flight plan vs my actual routeEmptied my main tank and was sputtering on the aux tank by touch-down, but two G50 kills ain't bad
>>570784972It isn't.
>>570786150I really need to play this game again. I grew playing 1946 on a mouse and keyboard for years, from the time I turned 9 to about when BOS first dropped and I got my logitech 3dpro or whatever that crappy joystick was called. I've been playing Cliffs of Dover on and off but nothing beats a good dynamic campaign.
does starshatter's campaign count?
>>570786252There is a dynamic campaign generator for CLOD
>>570787573>CLODI can't think of what that stands for
Since when is ED making an F-35?What kind of made up mickey-mouse bullshit is this about to be? Even the fucking flight characteristics are classified.
>>570788573it's not that hard to figure out if you know the engine, the weight, and the shape
>>570788573watch the msfs version be more accurate lmao
>>570789553The details about its specific engines, trust vectoring and fbw systems, aerodynamics, avionics, radars, weapons, ect. are all classified to high hell.The F-22 would have made more sense if they were going to add a """""""high-fidelity""""""" fairy tale plane since it is at least widely loved.
>>570790460all of that can be easily inferred, it's not magic, just obfuscation.there's only a few truly unknowns about it and it largely has to do with the software.
>>570765663Took me until I flew a real airplane (after like 500 hours in MSFS) to realize I did know how to operate a small GA craft.
>>570703974>light drizzle
>>570790460Honestly I would have much preferred the F-22 over the piece of shit F-35 boondoggle. What's next, putting an M7 in the hands of all the infantry assets?
>>570790006The Indiafoxtechno F-35 has good reviews but I don't know much about it.
ATS 1.6 is out, the new material system is only for two trucks so far.
>>570780931These games don't even have wheel support.
>>570781079*teleports behind you*
>>570781079Table Tennis makes a lot of sense, but only if it's VR with controls.
Lots of plane and helicopter crashes at the moment for some reason
>>570781079>>570802856Rockstar Table Tennis is unironically fantastic and the only people who shit on it are those who haven't played it.It's the foundation for the minigame mechanics in every game they made after it, you can still see its legacy in GTAV golf or RDR2 hunting.If RS ever locked in and made an actual simulation title it would be one of the greatest of all time.
>>570810835rockstars minigames suck ass though?
>>570812181Golf and tennis were decent in GTA 5. I can't remember what other minigames were in it.
>>570808226both that and the b52 crash were on the same day iirc. Bad day to be a strategic bomber
>>570813176>Leonardo’s IDV unveils uncrewed light tank at EurosatoryThoughts? The one on the right is cute.
>>570813421I know nothing about land vehicles so I can only say they look nice. But I prefer those with wheels like the Centauro.
>>570813740
>>570813421hey it's that thing from arma 3 apex
>>570812949Darts has always felt good. Bowling and pool weren't bad in IV. Basketball in SA was pretty shit.
>>570815376How active is the warbird side of DCS?I want the best BF-109 sim experience I can get.
>>570818953Isn't DCS a bit shit for WW2 planes?
>>570797530>IndiafoxtechnoI see they have a module for DCS as well.. maybe they will be the devs.
>MoD investigating reports Russian warship fired warning shots near yacht in ChannelIt's happening, world war 3 has started near the Isle of Wight.
>>570818953>>570819115The planes fly better in DCS than in any other sim, full-fidelity in such simple cockpits makes for really complete immersion (especially in VR) and the damage models are better for warbirds than any other aircraft in the sim.With that said, it's a pretty dead ecosystem, locked into a mismatched 1944-ish lineup with many ahistoric pairings, only two era-appropriate settings (three if you count the second version of the Channel) which don't exactly fit the available aircraft, requires an asset pack, and is basically an entire separate game's worth of upfront investment to get the baseline (mediocre) mission and MP experience. If you decide to try multiplayer, you're going up against competitively autistic NEETs or retired boomer sweats who have spent roughly 9000 hours exclusively flying either the 109 or the Spitfire and could probably out-dogfight actual WW2 aces in their prime if they could manage to squeeze into a real cockpit without having a heart attack.Flying props feels really nice, though.
The canadian govt will probably buy some M-346s (the previous news was about a private school)Seems weird after they had previously said they would use the PC-21 for FLIT as well. Maybe this is a quid pro quo to get Meloni to sponsor them joining GCAP.>>570820057The M-346FA can carry Poseidon antiship missiles. Convince your top brass to buy a few and I can give you a referral code for a free teacup upgrade.
shape reality...
>>570828406>Poseidon antiship missiles.My bad, it's the MBDA Marte ER
>>570831119Careful, there's a jaguar.
>>570831119Where is that?
>>570827502Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing
picrel is buried somewhere in the F-100D cockpit textures
>>570835772Ouessant (LFEC) with the FrenchVFR scenery
>>570837034That's the spirit
>British aircraft carrier to fly combat drone within 18 monthsCan we cancel the F-35s now? We're never going to get them any time soon anyway.
>>570828406I just got inside info (that for all purposes it's just me lying and making stuff up) that apparently it was the other way around. The RCAF was finalizing their intent on the M-346, the info got leaked to ITPS and so they placed their order to have future parts commonality.
>>570847725>cancel the F-35sIt would be a dream come true
>>570847725>>570849305Manned aviation is basically dead.
>>570847725Why is it pogging
>>570853150It can shout at people
>>570791287>there's only a few truly unknowns about it and it largely has to do with the softwareMotherfucker, the whole plane is software.
>>570847725>>570853150>DUUUUUUUUUUUDE
There's a new simming gamepad abomination coming out, the Meridian GMT.
>>570856253I'm an idiot, Meridian GMT is the company, the gamepad is called the X-Ray.
>>570856253Why even bother with a tubeliner gamepad when we all know you guys are on autopilot 100% of the time between takeoff and landing?
>>570855872lollmao
>>570856253is the throttle actually split or is it just cosmetic?
>>570856253That reminds me, are there gamepads with a third trigger? Having an additional trigger right besides the left one would be really cool for racing sims so you can control both the brakes and clutch dynamically, but I have never seen one that has that.
>>570820692Yeah. Its sad because the planes feel so fucking good to fly compared to Il-2, its not even funny. The D9 in particular has to be my favorite plane ever. Using full power + MW50 feels like you're flying an engine trying to get away from its own fuselage. Its raw and incredible. With force feedback, its a dream.
>>570865021If you throw a bunch of humans at it, the dogfighting isn't too bad, but if you're fighting AI or hitting ground targets the sim's fatal flaws become glaring and can make it feel sad pretty fast.Hopefully the PTO updates improve the situation sometime before 2030, but it's never been a huge money-maker for ED so don't hold your breath for additional dev time. F6F has been "coming soon" since at least the 2023 and Beyond video.
>>570856253Problem with this controller is that thrust is on the wrong side.
>>570876643no?
>>570876831Yeah. Maybe it's possible to use it upside down or something.
>>570877245by convention, the left stick is the primary control stick, so it makes sense to have it as the flight stick.in most aircraft, the first pilot sits on the left with the throttle in the middle, so it also makes sense from a mnemonic standpoint.you are talking mad bullshit.
ED, give me a single any FF Sukhoi, and my 60USD are yours. Also If you fucks dont do it I will start calling you Erectile Disfunctioners instead as punishment from now on
