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sellouts posted:has this happened in any flight simulator? there's lots of dumb and bad things about the community but surprisingly i can't recall a problem with bigotry in game oh it's absolutely there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CECHCZE32Pg&t=85s (1:30)
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sellouts posted:has this happened in any flight simulator? there's lots of dumb and bad things about the community but surprisingly i can't recall a problem with bigotry in game If we're talking about flight simming in general, here's a fun post detailing the poo poo pulled by just a single DCS group: https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/i4qcig/a_running_total_of_all_the_crap_the_grim_reapers/
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Aug 11, 2020 20:54
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I knew who this was going to be about before I even clicked on it.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:56
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my fault, i don't touch combat sims so i didn't even think about that. i meant civvie no weapons fly around and look at poo poo flight sims
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Aug 11, 2020 20:58
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Love to join a public server hoping to have some friendly dogfights and instead get spawnkilled 10 times in a row by a guy named [SS]ErichHartmann88
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Aug 11, 2020 20:59
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"The Grim Reapers"? Are these guys in middle school or something
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Aug 11, 2020 21:01
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No, they're just desperately uncreative and can only ape real-world squadrons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-101
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Aug 11, 2020 21:03
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drat, I watched a ton of their stuff lately and only noticed a weirdly placed 'and that's why I would have voted Thatcher'. The recent interview with ED they did was all 'nudge nudge can't talk about it but we've been contracted to provide sim training to real militaries' ... which I guess makes sense.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:54
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The main thing I noticed about their videos is how little "cap" knows what he's doing
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Aug 11, 2020 21:58
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I had no idea about their larger scandals, but there were enough weird little edgelord comments and gendered insults and stuff to get a general sense of foreboding. They have that (not unlike old SA) glee about being un-PC. And yeah, the head guy doesn't know how anything works.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:12
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BMan posted:The main thing I noticed about their videos is how little "cap" knows what he's doing They're loving useless and their tutorials are just 'cap' asking someone over chat how something works and then getting it wrong. They also push out a million videos a day so they get a ton of views.
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Aug 11, 2020 23:00
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when i search youtube for dcs videos "dcs -grim"
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Aug 11, 2020 23:06
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I had no idea those guys were so gross. I didn't mind watching their stuff from time to time. Thanks for the heads up, I'm going to unsub from their YT channel right now.
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Aug 11, 2020 23:13
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i mean their poo poo also suck from a qualitative perspective
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Aug 11, 2020 23:18
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Youtube random fed me one of the grim reapers videos, which got me into DCS so IDK. His tutorials are poo poo compared to RedKite or Mudspike, but their content is pretty entertaining.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:35
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Sagebrush posted:oh it's absolutely there Gender fluidityyyyyyyyyy!!!!  What a lovely person.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:05
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Sagebrush posted:oh it's absolutely there Oh ha ha look how cool this flight sim nerd is, those sjw's are so dumb and he is someone I totally take seriously! The fact that he's a mil-sim moron is icing on the cake.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:27
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he plays airsoft
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Aug 12, 2020 02:34
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You guys were right again. I watched a DCS video last night and now my YouTube homepage is all reaper videos. I hadn’t even watched a reaper video in the first place, they’re just the entirety of DCS on YouTube.
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Aug 12, 2020 05:51
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I use the BlockTube addon in Chrome to filter any Grim Reapers vids from coming up.
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Aug 12, 2020 11:59
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Just remove the video from your watch history and it will stop recommending them
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Aug 12, 2020 15:29
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They come up when you search for just about anything DCS-related though.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Monstertech sells these for starting at $100. If you're mechanically inclined though, you can bang these together out of parts for about half that. Just need some Bessey clamps, some 80/20 extrusion and associated fasteners, and a bit of aluminum plate. Did that myself, and saved quite a bit to build two HOTAS mounts for stick and throttle. My problem is sourcing the clamps. There are some photography clamps that look promised, but I'm looking for something that would work with V-track, like the Monstertech ones. Anyone know where to get the clamps from? Also, favourite ways of stopping your office chair rolling away from rudder pedals?
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Hav posted:My problem is sourcing the clamps. There are some photography clamps that look promised, but I'm looking for something that would work with V-track, like the Monstertech ones. https://smile.amazon.com/TING-Holding-Capacity-Toggle-Quick-Release/dp/B06Y2NPC2D https://smile.amazon.com/Bessey-STC-IHH25-Horizontal-Auto-Adjust-Clamping/dp/B0057PUFMG https://smile.amazon.com/TING-Toggle-Antislip-Horizontal-Release/dp/B01BR75WFW
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Aug 12, 2020 16:58
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What flight sims need is a single player "career" mode with a Truck Simulator style progression system / economy. Start out flying for a company using their planes. Earn enough to buy your own plane and do community announcement board jobs or whatever. Eventually buy multiple planes and start a company where you hire pilots to fly for you while you keep on flying. Add upkeep costs like fuel, airplane maintenance, and insurance to add "stakes" to the game. Branch out your company with different divisions! One for flying cargo, one for flying people, anything! GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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GreatGreen posted:What flight sims need is a single player "career" mode with a Truck Simulator style progression system / economy. Look up FS Economy, Air Hauler 2, etc. These exist and are called VAs or virtual airlines.
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Yeah, literally all of that exists and it owns.
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Aug 12, 2020 17:47
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Dumb question probably, but what’s like the fastest plane that’ll be available at launch?
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Aug 12, 2020 18:07
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I think its the 787 Dreamliner? But this answer varies if you mean "illusion" of speed or quickest - because you'll definitely feel zippier in an acrobatic plane at 1000ft than you will at 40000ft doing 0.85 mach.
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Was it FS2000 that had the Concord? I remember flying it a few times and not being impressed because it didn't feel fast that high up.
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Taintrunner posted:Dumb question probably, but what’s like the fastest plane that’ll be available at launch? The 747 and 787 both cruise at around Mach 0.85. What airspeed that translates to varies with temperature but at 35,000 feet that's around 500 knots (575 mph). As noted, an airliner at cruise doesn't feel fast at all. Probably the fastest-feeling airplane is the TBM 930, with a powerful turboprop engine in a small airframe.
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Taintrunner posted:Dumb question probably, but what’s like the fastest plane that’ll be available at launch? where you goin in such a hurry?
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sellouts posted:where you goin in such a hurry? Uh, have you seen the state of coronavirus in the USA right now?
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Aug 12, 2020 19:22
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Take the bush planes, organize a rally through NYC
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The Extra 330LT looks like a fun plane if what you want to do is buzz your house at 200+ mph. edit: A max cruise speed of 205kn/235mph, definitely puts it as the fastest single engine piston prop plane in the game. It's a zippy little thing. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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I would be totally up to try some bushplane flying when this poo poo drops next week. Targeting South East/Kootenay area of British Columbia if anyone wants to try it out with me.
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What is the multiplayer like? I'd love it if there were groups similar to Elite: Dangerous so if we have a Goon group we would see are currently flying and where. But I assume it's only dedicated sessions where you have to create a flight and join?
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Zero One posted:Was it FS2000 that had the Concord? It's a pity that accurately modelling supersonic in MSFS, with all the weirdness it produces in the air model and shocks, would probably require too much development for such an edge case to ever be done. (I'd guess that the ability to do that kind of proper modelling of it would have to be inserted by the actual Dev team, I expect that third parties would only be able to fake it superficially.) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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I remember breaking the sound barrier in a few jets in FSX but I think they were all third party (my friend gave me a CD-Rom with a bunch of fighter jets and such) but I never thought to consider if the game itself handled the sound barrier breaking or if it was part of the plane add on I was playing. Are there other things that act differently at mach speeds?
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The entire atmospherics model would have to behave differently relative to the plane once you get into mach speeds if they wanted to do it properly and simulate the atmosphere's interaction with the plane the way they do in MSFS. (In theory if they did the atmosphere sim on a low enough level it could happen emergently without special coding, but I don't think they've done it quite that low) In real life flight nothing changed noticeably because supersonic service is just go-in-a-straight-line, but in a sim let's be honest we're gonna do stupid turns and stuff and I want my flips to be accurate. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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