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Sauer posted:I haven't been playing BMS or DCS at all for the past few weeks because of a new "F2P" flight/tanking obsession that some Finnish ex-patriot who shall remain nameless got me hooked on; but the Mig-21 BIS is probably the highest quality 3rd party addon for DCS that's available. Its also total hoot to fly. How do you get hooked on this, I've found gently caress all for simulator battles.
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Lockmart Lawndart posted:How do you get hooked on this, I've found gently caress all for simulator battles. You get get hooked on it when you realize it's not a simulator and just play arcade or historical so you can shoot down other scrubs.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:50 |
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Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Say if a game presented a near-future fighter, with a "realistic" flight profile and capabilities, but not strictly locked to a plane that currently exists, and a level of detail rivaling BMS or DCS, with study-sim systems complexity (i.e., not "push button to kill bad guy"), would you play it?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:27 |
EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Wouldn't really grab my attention. A big part of the enjoyment of detailed sims is knowing the history and importance of an aircraft. There are just certain fighters I love (BF-109, SU-27, F15, F-16), whether it be looks or how superior/insane it was vs it's contemporaries.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:12 |
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Are there any SR-71 sims out there?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:17 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? I wouldn't. For me the appeal is learning what real pilots have to learn, whether it's "playing the piccolo" in the Viper or Hog, or memorizing the 10,000 toggle switches that surround you in the MiG 21. Creating that level of complexity from scratch for a fictional plane would just seem arbitrary make-work to me. ZekeNY fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? No, for the same reasons as above. The fact that this stuff is real is a major part of the draw.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:33 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Or gently caress, alternatively go hog wild with the scifi. Air war among the aerostat islands and zeppelins of a far future Venus. Elukka fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? I didn't know Chris Roberts had an account.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:04 |
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Would I play a game based on fictional stuff with system fidelity like DCS with clickable cockpits and stuff? Hell no. Would I play something like Crimson Skies but with a level of realism akin to Battle of Stalingrad? gently caress yes.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:06 |
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give me a clickable cockpit Ace Combat game and I'd be all over that poo poo.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:30 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Nope. What would be more interesting is a greater variety of aircraft, multi-seat, swing wings, carrier ops, to name a few. I think the aircraft need to be known and desired, like the Spitfire or F-111, I will throw handfuls of cash at a study-sim for these aircraft. I think the key is passion, flying is a passion and you yern to fly is certain planes that get etched into your mind when your young. They can be unreliable pigs and down right lovely aircraft, but you don't care. I still remember my first airshow and a the F-111 flew right overhead that roar went right through me, and I still remember that to this day. I guess what I'm saying is I want to fly a pretend F-111 buzzing pretend children at airshows/war zones possibly in Georgia and trying not to get shot down by some face rolling F-15 pilot @30k ft with a full AIM-120 load. Also I want a Spitfire.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 12:53 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Just let me mess around with the Mave and I'd be golden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXadee4y5PQ
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 13:02 |
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If you are going to go future-tech then that puts you in sci-fi territory and gives you carte-blanche to do interesting stuff. Posit a 80 year future where material revolutions make radar missiles obsolete and you have a generation of advanced fighters that are back to having to dogfight each other.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 13:32 |
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Ichbinuber posted:Nope. What this man said, I love 60-70s era aircraft because they're fast, loud and existed in a time where missile kills weren't a forgone conclusion. Thats why I love the pain of flying the mig21 up against the 4th gens in DCS. Also, if you're looking for a DCS level spit simulation. Look no further than IL2 cliffs of dover with the ATAG patch. Its quite good now and they have a very active online community with a battle of britain server that is stable with 50 some odd people in it. Ninja edit: and to answer the question, Yes I would totally play a fake simulator with complex and coherent systems and rulesets. I'd love a DCS:Mechwarrior. Skoll posted:Are there any SR-71 sims out there? X-Plane 9 and 10 both have a flyable SR71 with clickable cockpit. Its not DCS level since the INS doesn't work to my knowledge and You can't really fly correct mission profiles with it given that theres no inflight refueling. But if you wan't to fly Mach 3 in a sim that does high altitude/high speed pretty well then X-plane is your best bet. Lockmart Lawndart fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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A clickable crimson skies would own.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 15:38 |
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Give me a clickable F-14 with carrier ops and I'll never fly anything else. One can only dream
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 19:53 |
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my first airshow they had the f-14's playing over toronto, climbing up to almost a stall and letting them fall over the city going into burner for about 20 mins. i was like 5. Another airshow I went to in hamilton, ontario had a 4 ship of usaf reserve f-4's do a formation takeoff, and two did a 700mph pass at 50feet over the taxiway about 200ft from the crowd. it was the most epic thing i had ever seen when i was like 9 yrs old, and i still remember my chest pounding from it. old people were losing their poo poo, babies were crying, people covering their ears from how loud it was. when i was 14 i caught a ride in the back of a hornet from comox, bc back to cold lake. ride of a loving lifetime, especially going from 10k to 30k feet in a heartbeat. sometimes the older poo poo and even some of the stuff they have done during the cold war may never be repeated. If it did anything, it definitely drove technology to advance and push things beyond the limits of imagination at times
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 23:31 |
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Lockmart Lawndart posted:Also, if you're looking for a DCS level spit simulation. Look no further than IL2 cliffs of dover with the ATAG patch. Its quite good now and they have a very active online community with a battle of britain server that is stable with 50 some odd people in it. Thanks I'll check it out once I have a reliable internet connection again.
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Lockmart Lawndart posted:IL2 cliffs of dover ... quite good I found the lie in your post
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 04:32 |
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Kilonum posted:I found the lie in your post Well, they fixed it after 4 versions of patches later. I've never had an issue with it past version 4 of the ATAG patch.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 04:39 |
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I'd play the crap out of a detailed, realistic flight sim that wasn't shackled by needing to match some arbitrary real-world model. It's something I've wanted for ages. Imagine what could be accomplished if instead of spending months researching what exactly some particular aircraft did, the developers just picked something reasonable and spent the rest of the time on gameplay!
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 07:02 |
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Yeah I'd play the hell out of a plausible future simulator.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 13:37 |
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EpicPhoton posted:Unofficial Poll: Would you play a study-sim, based on a fictional plane(s)? Definitely. It would need a good hook though. For DCS, its that you can pick up chicks by telling them you can probably fly a real fighter jet.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 22:36 |
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Then suddenly pull 5Gs and your untrained, acclimated brain goes lights out and you decorate the terrain with goon bits.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 22:40 |
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Fortunately most girls won't know that, if they do thier either a guy or a pilot and one of those is most likely out of our league.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 06:00 |
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Wh1plash posted:when i was 14 i caught a ride in the back of a hornet from comox, bc back to cold lake. ride of a loving lifetime, especially going from 10k to 30k feet in a heartbeat. Whoa whoa whoa. Who do I have to murder to get THAT childhood?
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MrYenko posted:Whoa whoa whoa. Who do I have to murder to get THAT childhood? Visit relatives in the military and get slipped under the radar :P Edit: the ride out sucked, was in a C-130
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 07:08 |
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Wh1plash posted:Edit: the ride out sucked, was in a C-130 Oh boo frickin' hoo.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 15:29 |
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DCS: F-14 with Goons is going to be loving legendary when it comes out after most of us are dead. Inter-cockpit feuding will be loving great.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 23:29 |
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Dandywalken posted:DCS: F-14 with Goons is going to be loving legendary when it comes out after most of us are dead. Did Leatherneck finally get off their asses and officially announce it?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:29 |
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McDeth posted:Did Leatherneck finally get off their asses and officially announce it? Nope. They did tease the February update, which has 48 hours or so before it's late.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:39 |
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The MiG-15bis was just released, but only on ED's website. Can I activate all of my steam modules in the ED downloaded client?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 18:20 |
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Welp, DCS World Newsletter February 2015 has been released! No real surprises here except for the next WWII planes they're working on are the P-47 and the Spitfire. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=139694 HypeTrain posted:
Deutsch Nozzle posted:The MiG-15bis was just released, but only on ED's website. Can I activate all of my steam modules in the ED downloaded client? Unfortunately no. You can only go from ED -> Steam, not from Steam -> ED. After playing DCS for a long time I came to the realization that the only real advantage of Steam over ED is the download speed of the Client. Literally everything else goes to the standalone client from ED.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 19:30 |
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McDeth posted:
Pretty sure you got that reversed. I bought some DCS packs on Steam during the holidays and had no issues with transferring it to the ED client. quote:http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=113587
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 19:45 |
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Yes, you can put all keys into the activate module option of the ED version main menu. The steam version lacks an option to manually activate things, and so can only use steam purchased modules. Just use the ED version.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 19:47 |
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Bolow posted:Pretty sure you got that reversed. I bought some DCS packs on Steam during the holidays and had no issues with transferring it to the ED client. ya I did get it backwards. Still though...the only reason to use steam is because it downloads faster.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 21:56 |
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Welp, time to fire up that F86 again. Bout time it had someone to play with Mig 21 can at least play with the large quantity of brain dead 4th gen pilots.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 22:47 |
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So Leatherneck finally posted their "Februarmarch" update. The TLDR part:"Leatherneck posted:Currently, we hope to release two aircraft during the course of 2015. As usual, everything is subject to change, but as we become more experienced, we are able to better gauge our progress and remaining workload.
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ZekeNY posted:So Leatherneck finally posted their "Februarmarch" update. The TLDR part: Its going to be an F4U corsair, so don't get your hopes up for a tomcat. Also, Thank the eagle dynamics for finally fixing the spawn troops so I have a reason to fly choppers in multiplayer again. Also, gently caress eagle dynamics for breaking it in the first place and waiting months to fix it instead of making a quick hotfix. assholes.
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