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Once that stuff goes sticky there's no getting it back, best bet is to just remove it with alcohol then if the hard plastic surface bugs you put some cloth grip tape on it. I had to do this with my x52 a couple years back.
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I carved lines on the rotary thumb knob on my X52 with a hobby knife to get a better grip.
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Thanks, that's reassuring. Its mainly going to serve as an extra button box so I won't have to grip the actual throttle much, but still eww gross
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Chubby Henparty posted:Thanks, that's reassuring. Its mainly going to serve as an extra button box so I won't have to grip the actual throttle much, but still eww gross You could dust your hand with talcum powder and then rub the sticky bits of the rubber. That should take care of it for a little while at least.
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big nipples big life posted:Once that stuff goes sticky there's no getting it back, best bet is to just remove it with alcohol then if the hard plastic surface bugs you put some cloth grip tape on it. I had to do this with my x52 a couple years back. Same. After I pulled the X52 throttle out of my closet for MSFS 2020, the rubber coating was sticky and gross. I ended up having to scrub the coating off with rubbing alcohol.
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Anybody own the turtle beach velocity one yoke/throttle thing? Thinking about getting one because it works on both pc and xbox and I play FS on both.
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big nipples big life posted:Anybody own the turtle beach velocity one yoke/throttle thing? Thinking about getting one because it works on both pc and xbox and I play FS on both. I got one mainly because I like having a nice trimming wheel, it works pretty well if you don't mind it being on a pricey side.
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The Darkstar mission in the Top Gun promotion is so cool. Took me a few tries to get the speed profile right but once I got it crossing the US in a half hour was awesome.
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Anybody have opinions on the Hotas One? I'm just getting back into MSFS and I'm not 100% sold on spending real money on fake plane parts, so it's either this (or something around the same price) or the gamepad. A lot of Amazon reviews mention poor build quality. Anybody have hands on experience?
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The Xbox Showcase is playing right now and a free update dropped today for MSFS2020, you can pilot a Pelican from Halo. They also showed off Helicopters, The Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright Flyer.
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Helicopters and gliders are coming for the 40th anniversary update this november.
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sigher posted:The Xbox Showcase is playing right now and a free update dropped today for MSFS2020, you can pilot a Pelican from Halo. The official forums are very mad about the Halo thing, it's very odd. Also they apparently announced the Inibuilds A310 is coming, and will be free. Which is cool!
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Lester Shy posted:Anybody have opinions on the Hotas One? I'm just getting back into MSFS and I'm not 100% sold on spending real money on fake plane parts, so it's either this (or something around the same price) or the gamepad. A lot of Amazon reviews mention poor build quality. Anybody have hands on experience? You're getting what you pay for in this segment, not that I'm sure there's any other options for <$100 at this point. If you don't mind dealing with warranty replacements you can probably get a good 18+ months out of it on a one year warranty, and if you're in a eurozone with the 2 year warranty you can probably make out pretty good knowing you're going to be taking some 6 week breaks for warranty replacements.
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Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F20n8BwME edit: and the blog post https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/06/12/microsoft-flight-simulator-celebrates-franchises-40th-anniversary/ new a/c: quote:Historical Aircraft: hannibal fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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Steadiman posted:The official forums are very mad about the Halo thing, it's very odd. Also they apparently announced the Inibuilds A310 is coming, and will be free. Which is cool! tl;dr: nerds are the worst.
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How dare you put in a fun free thing that lots of people will like! Instead they need to spend more time on a real time baggage handling algorithm.
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The helicopter reveal for flight sim was awesome. I am so excited for that update.
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soggybagel posted:How dare you put in a fun free thing that lots of people will like! Instead they need to spend more time on a real time baggage handling algorithm. You jest, but I GUARANTEE that is someone, somewheres overriding concern.
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soggybagel posted:How dare you put in a fun free thing that lots of people will like! Instead they need to spend more time on a real time baggage handling algorithm. Or, like, anything besides Another Tubeliner. Don't get me wrong, high fidelity airliner systems modeling is neat but if you want diverse people coming to this game (and spending money on it!) you need weird/different/interesting stuff. They are making some progress though: the Wright Flyer and high def modeling of the Wright Brothers memorial (was that there before?), helicopters, gliders, old interesting planes like DC-3s are all great. I wish they'd double down on stuff like bush trips, people need stuff to do in the game. Buy NeoFly and integrate that, whatever.
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hannibal posted:Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F20n8BwME Okay this looks pretty loving sweet. I'm looking forward to the space ship holding over JFK
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I landed the pelican after this guy flew it around a bit at the xbox showcase I went to this morning. Xbox controls though so I didn't know the button mapping too well. Looked pretty drat good on the series S console they had for demos, not even the more powerful series X. 
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hannibal posted:Or, like, anything besides Another Tubeliner. Don't get me wrong, high fidelity airliner systems modeling is neat but if you want diverse people coming to this game (and spending money on it!) you need weird/different/interesting stuff. They are making some progress though: the Wright Flyer and high def modeling of the Wright Brothers memorial (was that there before?), helicopters, gliders, old interesting planes like DC-3s are all great. I wish they'd double down on stuff like bush trips, people need stuff to do in the game. Buy NeoFly and integrate that, whatever. *Papery voice echoes hauntingly from the premier lounge* bizjetssssss...
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The Halo Pelican is like having two aircraft in one with the two flight modes. It's like an arcade V-22 that can break the sound barrier and go up to FL800. And I'm definitely a tubeliner enthusiast guy. The A310 looks great!
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hannibal posted:Or, like, anything besides Another Tubeliner. Don't get me wrong, high fidelity airliner systems modeling is neat but if you want diverse people coming to this game (and spending money on it!) you need weird/different/interesting stuff. They are making some progress though: the Wright Flyer and high def modeling of the Wright Brothers memorial (was that there before?), helicopters, gliders, old interesting planes like DC-3s are all great. I wish they'd double down on stuff like bush trips, people need stuff to do in the game. Buy NeoFly and integrate that, whatever. I’m the definition of a new guy to flight sim. Got super enthusiastic when it came out. Got sidetracked for a while due to real life but am coming back again and goofing around. The top gun stuff and a stupid/fun halo ship is exactly what’s going to keep me around.
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Steadiman posted:The official forums are very mad about the Halo thing, it's very odd. Also they apparently announced the Inibuilds A310 is coming, and will be free. Which is cool! Making MSFS loving rad is how the franchise gets money, more players, and eases in outsiders who might become eventual rivet counters. It’s classic grog bullshit to whine about actual fun and cool things, but they can smdftb because the Pelican is rad as helll and hope we get more stuff like that. The Top Gun dlc already got a huge amount of people in.
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I just bought MSFS a few days back and did my first real flight in real time. It's pretty loving rad in VR to descend into Long Island during sunset. Bonus was watching a ton of people in the distance going suborbital in Pelicans.
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hannibal posted:Or, like, anything besides Another Tubeliner. Don't get me wrong, high fidelity airliner systems modeling is neat but if you want diverse people coming to this game (and spending money on it!) you need weird/different/interesting stuff. They are making some progress though: the Wright Flyer and high def modeling of the Wright Brothers memorial (was that there before?), helicopters, gliders, old interesting planes like DC-3s are all great. I wish they'd double down on stuff like bush trips, people need stuff to do in the game. Buy NeoFly and integrate that, whatever. I think there’s a pretty good balance honestly, there’s lots of fun planes coming out at a steady pace. From the serious 737/A320 stuff all the way down to that Mach 10 Top Gun plane or the Halo thing, and everything in between. If anything I’d like to see some newer tube liners instead of the constant recycling of 737/747/777 assets and such. I don’t think we really need three A320s either. I wish there was some more variety there. A good A380 or A220, or something that hasn’t already been done to death anyway on every platform. I know atleast FBW are doing the A380 but who knows when that’s coming out. Or maybe a proper old analog 747, I dunno. Just something more interesting than what’s already out there on every flight simulator. Definitely agree on having something like Neofly built in though, some kind of campaign or mission structure would be wonderful, especially if it’s nicely integrated.
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I'd love to see the Beechcraft Starship and the split-tail Bonanza 35 added to the game. More unusual aircraft.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Oh you were there? is it fun? can it do cool stuff? As mentioned, it can go into hover mode with a flick of a switch on the centre console. It has terrible view from the cockpit with no side windows. It can go pretty fast and very high.   Looking forward to the expansion in November and new free content, getting a bit spoiled with the maverick update recently.
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drunkill posted:It can go pretty fast and very high. That's a remarkably detailed cockpit, especially considering the Darkstar, which is fictional but slightly more plausible than a Pelican, has a cockpit that looks like a Fisher-Price Busy Box.
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I'm guessing whoever made Halo Infinite already had a pretty detailed model for it (or maybe they got it from the show) so it was a matter of having the screens work and the buttons and whatnot. I haven't seen the new Top Gun movie, do they show the actual cockpit of the darkstar?
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Bentai posted:I'd love to see the Beechcraft Starship and the split-tail Bonanza 35 added to the game. More unusual aircraft. I think there's already a V-tail Bonanza out from a 3rd party developer, but it's pretty unlikely we'd ever get an "official" Starship, since Raytheon (who owned Beech at the time) ordered the the 48 company-owned airplanes completely destroyed because the company didn't want the liability of supporting them any more, so there's only something like 5 left (plus a few in museums), and I'd doubt Textron has any interest in bringing up what was a pretty spectacular (albeit very good looking) failure from a sales and business perspective. azflyboy fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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While I think it is neat they add some fun fictional craft to fly. I wonder if I can disable them if I decide to try and set up a more true to life environment. Would be a bit immersion breaking seeing a pelican from halo on the runway as I'm taxing in a Cessna Caravan. In fact, I really hope you can do that if they intend to keep adding sponsored stuff since eventually the game will turn into a mess otherwise.
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Cojawfee posted:I'm guessing whoever made Halo Infinite already had a pretty detailed model for it (or maybe they got it from the show) so it was a matter of having the screens work and the buttons and whatnot. I haven't seen the new Top Gun movie, do they show the actual cockpit of the darkstar? Boar It posted:While I think it is neat they add some fun fictional craft to fly. I wonder if I can disable them if I decide to try and set up a more true to life environment. Would be a bit immersion breaking seeing a pelican from halo on the runway as I'm taxing in a Cessna Caravan. In fact, I really hope you can do that if they intend to keep adding sponsored stuff since eventually the game will turn into a mess otherwise.
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The Kins posted:Isn't all the sponsored/fictional stuff implemented as marketplace DLC? You could probably just uninstall/not install anything implausible. You're probably right. If it is that easy then people have no reason to be this upset over some fictional planes being added.
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Boar It posted:While I think it is neat they add some fun fictional craft to fly. I wonder if I can disable them if I decide to try and set up a more true to life environment. Would be a bit immersion breaking seeing a pelican from halo on the runway as I'm taxing in a Cessna Caravan. In fact, I really hope you can do that if they intend to keep adding sponsored stuff since eventually the game will turn into a mess otherwise. I would, however, love to see the Wright Brothers plane taxiing in front of me at an airport and see it take off and not even fly the whole length of the runway and taxi back to parking.
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hannibal posted:Or, like, anything besides Another Tubeliner. Don't get me wrong, high fidelity airliner systems modeling is neat but if you want diverse people coming to this game (and spending money on it!) you need weird/different/interesting stuff. They are making some progress though: the Wright Flyer and high def modeling of the Wright Brothers memorial (was that there before?), helicopters, gliders, old interesting planes like DC-3s are all great. I wish they'd double down on stuff like bush trips, people need stuff to do in the game. Buy NeoFly and integrate that, whatever. Yeah, this is the stuff I love in the game. Give me more weird planes that you'd never be able to actually get to fly in real life. Give me more Seaplanes so I can land in all sorts of weird places like the Bush Planes. Give me the fun stuff like Top Gun challenges and the Pelican. Heck, even in the tubeliner stuff can be cool, give me an a380, give me an An-225, give me a DH.106. The 747 in the game is basically the only liner I've put any significant time into because it's iconic (I also like Steadiman's analog 747 idea). I think they've actually been doing a good job releasing stuff that's interesting and gets folks like me to pick the game back up every couple of months, I'm definitely going to try out the Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright flyer. Obviously it's a hard balance to both attract more a more casual audience and make the core flight-sim folks happy since that community consists largely of the tube-liner guys, and I don't want to say that the stuff they enjoy isn't important, it's just not for me and I think the third-party devs do a good job of getting that stuff built. Also, definitely agree that the game should incorporate something like Neofly into the game. That hugely extended the interest for me and got me flying a number of planes I probably wouldn't have otherwise. The Caravan turned out to be a lot of fun.
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Scruff McGruff posted:Yeah, this is the stuff I love in the game. Give me more weird planes that you'd never be able to actually get to fly in real life. Give me more Seaplanes so I can land in all sorts of weird places like the Bush Planes. Give me the fun stuff like Top Gun challenges and the Pelican. Heck, even in the tubeliner stuff can be cool, give me an a380, give me an An-225, give me a DH.106. The 747 in the game is basically the only liner I've put any significant time into because it's iconic (I also like Steadiman's analog 747 idea). I think they've actually been doing a good job releasing stuff that's interesting and gets folks like me to pick the game back up every couple of months, I'm definitely going to try out the Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright flyer. This was actually the theoretical selling point in X-Plane ages ago that it modeled physics based on the 3D model so you could make fantasy planes. In reality it's rarely done because the 60yo+ average flight simmer has no interest in fun, so it's very nice to see MS doing some less serious things.
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