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No, I specifically want a private server so that I and the one or two other people I fly with can have one to ourselves to fly co-op. Not a fan of pubbie games in general. Flying with the goons was as far as I'm willing to go with that; I have no interest in being shot down over and over by some guy in a late-model Bf-109 with a suspiciously Nazi-sounding handle. Remember the hopeless biplanes map? Or TB-3 jousting? Man, those were good times. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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watch dis dude nearly fly a 747 into a mountain because he ignores the SID, gets hilariously behind the airplane, and has no idea how to cope
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that guy is pretty bad at pretend airplanes
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aunt jemima posted:watch dis dude nearly fly a 747 into a mountain because he ignores the SID, gets hilariously behind the airplane, and has no idea how to cope It’s so bad I can’t even... There’s a reason that an IFR rating is so incredibly difficult to obtain and these procedures are even more complicated when you’re flying at 200+ knots. I get the leaning part but there was nothing “fun” about watching people make dumb mistakes and then extorting viewers out of money.  Sorry, I’m just bitter. i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Feb 13, 2018 06:36
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He's been flying offline on his stream for months and finally got up the nerve to go online, so of course he takes a 747 out. I've tried to help him on a couple occasions with chart-reading and such and he never asks any questions and seems to take on zero of the information so it's tough. Seems like a nice kid. Also so incompetent he has no perception of how incompetent he is.
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Sagebrush posted:Il-2 1946 was the peak of the overall flight sim experience and it's only gone downhill from there. Coop missions on Hyperlobby will always some of my favorite gaming moments. Getting a bunch of drunken Aussies back to Malta ay 2am local by navigating by the stars, doing a BnZ on a 4-ship of Il-2s and laughing my stoned rear end into a hill after getting a fluke gunner kill, TB-3 missions - especially when the pilot got shot on the way home but only after setting the level autopilot, or tracking and killing a contact with a Bf-110 in one of my very rare Full Real coops only discover I'd bounced our fighter cover (hence the 'very rare' bit). e. Sagebrush posted:I have no interest in being shot down over and over by some guy in a late-model Bf-109 with a suspiciously Nazi-sounding handle. Or frantically switching sides on a dogfight server because JG_5X_Stiegler is on the other side. Motherfucker had ten times more combat hours than Hartmann; best 109-G6 pilot in (or out of) history. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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All he’d have to do is spend 1-2 weeks doing the ifr ratings on PE or zla and he’d pull it off. Especially with a plane as automated as that. It’s not as hard as much as it is that he’s lazy.
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From the aviation megathread, this is what happens when these people fly real airplanes: https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/60000-60499/60373/611541.pdf Or the FL410 club dudes.
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Sagebrush posted:Okay, well, looks like it's time to reinstall BoS and dig into making a dedicated server. You'd think the ubiquity of things like UE4 and Unity3d would make it more likely a group of devs would do such a thing, since you don't have to build a custom engine anymore and can focus on the things you mention. But it doesn't seem to have popped up anywhere that I have seen. Something like Janes/SF shouldn't be too hard to pull off for motivated gamedevs but people seem to get sucked down the rabbit hole of hyper-realism or pure systems modeling (no missions). Yet here we are. I lament the same thing for a straightforward X-Wing/TIE Fighter remake. If I could only win the lottery and quit my day job...
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iirc Ace Combat 7 (not quite a sim but still) is being done in UE4 Hell, you could probably also license the Xplane engine off of Laminar, it's already got support for weapons in it. EDIT: and hell, I'd be more the person running poo poo/providing the money than coding/modeling. Kilonum fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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So FSLabs puts a cool thing in their A320 installer that dumps all the passwords out of your Chrome to a text file. And according to them, this is cool and good because they will only use this information if you pirate the product, to find out who you are.  I don't fly P3D but if I did and I had bought this plane I'd be charging back right about now.
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Hahaha gently caress flight sim devs forever.
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I would say R.I.P FSLabs but I'm sure there is some loving part of their userbase that will defend them over this.
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Most of their user base, I'm sure. The only thing more certain about flight sims than "the developers are incompetent" is "the community all has Stockholm Syndrome."
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Waiting for FSLabs to just add a bitcoin miner with the executable
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I don’t play flight sims but I saw this linked in SH/SC and  . I was bored so I went on their forums to see how people are reacting and their user base is generally split between- “if you aren’t pirating then you’re fine” - “this sucks but good on them for “””fixing””” it so fast!” - “whatever, I’m not going to bother upgrading because I trust the devs” (seriously) - “what’s the big deal, afraid they’re gonna get your pornhub password???” To be fair there’s a couple of people calling for refunds and so on but most of the users don’t seem to care. There’s even one dude who said he works in software security and doesn’t see this being a big deal because the devs said they only steal your passwords if you’re pirating, they promised.
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Boris Galerkin posted:There’s even one dude who said he works in software security and doesn’t see this being a big deal because the devs said they only steal your passwords if you’re pirating, they promised. Either a janitor or an executive.
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FSLabs is Greek, if I understand correctly? I'm guessing they'll want to clean it out before May 25 — between loss of sales and 8-digit fines, the former seems more conducive to staying in business.
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As a Greek company, there actually is a bunch Consumer Protection of EU could achieve if proper complains are made. Downside is that a small company like that could be wrecked, but they might deserve it.
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Holy poo poo, that's hilarious in a totally frightening way.
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Feb 19, 2018 13:11
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gently caress my bank account and any bills I have to pay, I just don't want FSLabs having my SomethingAwful.com forum password!
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Boris Galerkin posted:To be fair there’s a couple of people calling for refunds and so on but most of the users don’t seem to care. TBF the forums of the developer itself are not a good sample. Those things are always just sycophant city. The /r/flightsim thread gives you a slightly better sample of how people feel about this.
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I did. I found it interesting that this was posted in IBT. Makes it a bit more mainstream than just angry screaming at some subreddit.
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if I hadn't just changed the thread titlequote:FlightSim Megathread: I spent $150 on a DLC and got malware
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Does flyinside work well or is it a waste of cash? Separate version for every sim god drat it fight sim money grubbers? Which one is the best
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Well, X-Plane is working on native VR support, so I wouldn't get FlyInside for that.
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god dammit when VR becomes standard for this genre i don't think i'll be able to keep up. it's pain in the rear end enough to plug in a joystick each time.
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"A" joystick. lol when i'm flying i have my mouse, keyboard, joystick, throttle, rudder pedals, headset, head-tracking camera, and powered tracking markers
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For a while, I couldn't access my BIOS because too much usb poo poo was hooked up and my keyboard didn't come online til sometime after the windows loading screen.
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In the same amount of time it'd take me to boot up set up and get into where I'm ready to fire up the A2A Cherokee i could reserve drive out to the airport and get my butt in the seat of a real one, if I hustled a bit. EDIT: as long as the real one was fueled.
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Got my hotas working with the ps2 emulator so that now I can play the best flight sim there ever was, sky odyssey! Is there anything like that game for PC?
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Harminoff posted:Got my hotas working with the ps2 emulator so that now I can play the best flight sim there ever was, sky odyssey! I suppose Crimson Skies isn't a world away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Skies_(video_game)
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Community drama? In my nerdy hobby? https://m.facebook.com/pmdgsimulations/posts/1754116817961428 PMDG on Facebook posted:On 02MAR18, PMDG informed AVSim of our intent to move our support forum to a company owned site.
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If they actually are presuming accidentally and not trying to politely dance around "The fuckers vindictively took down our support forums".. they're presuming wrong.
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A few days ago I got annoyed enough at my old CH pro pedals being a bit poo poo and stripped that fucker down and gave it a full cleaning. amazing how much dust and other crap had built up in the base. I even disassembled the potentiometers and gave them a good cleaning. after a few mishaps with putting it all back together it's now working great and they are a poo poo ton more precise and smooth then they've ever been.  Also I recently got x-plane 11 and gently caress me the atmospheric effects in that are amazing and the UI is actually good. Aanyone got any recommendations for good freeware planes and anything else? I've been out of the xplane loop for a couple of years.
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