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Interesting game, one step past ace combat on the arcade/sim scale, had some good fun playing coop on the big total war mission https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168680/Nuclear_Option/
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This looks really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0j1-mdSMjI
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Zero One posted:This looks really good. Given that the water physics in MSFS are still hilariously wonky, the continued emphasis on seaplanes strikes me as a bit weird.
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 New F-16 throttle from Thrustmaster announced yesterday. $530 as shown. I think $350 for the throttle only and ~$250 if you just want the lower button panel for some loving reason.
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1672616438660464640 Okay, I'm getting as hyped for this as I was for FS2020.
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Hope the "xxxxtreme creator control" involves thrust vectoring. I need my F-22 to be more accurate.
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I hope the aerodynamic improvements mean that prop drag and fuselage drag are modeled correctly so that slips and flares work like they're supposed to
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Combat Pretzel posted:Hope the "xxxxtreme creator control" involves thrust vectoring. I need my F-22 to be more accurate. All I ever asked in my life is to pilot the Rockwell X-31 in that as it's meant to be piloted.
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And the F-35B. It'd actually benefit from proper thrust vectoring too. The current best implementation from IFE still has a jarring transition between VTOL fake physics and actual flight.
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I watched the presentation, and it looks like they're using their newfound ability to utilize multiple cores to go insane on physics simulations, which I'm very into. Peep this bespoke balloon physics simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPhScg_FINE&t=819s They aren't going into detail on additional aerodynamic simulations, but they did show this:   I don't think the one on the right is necessarily final, but Sebastian said it took him around five minutes in the editor to add all of those points on the fuselage, showing off how easy it is to edit and update planes. So if a company wants to charge $30 for an update to the new version, feel free to yell at them. When talking about new terrain detail, they say they're doing aerial photogrammetry on some landmarks to give them 15cm of resolution, while their new procedural system gives them 50cm of resolution, which I believe is significantly better than what it was before? (3 or so meters, no?) I'm not sure if this means the entire world will have that level of detail, or if it will only be certain parts of it. The new trees and rocks and poo poo also look great. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Digital Twins are becoming a huge thing in the GIS world and they can be insanely powerful in terms of replicating entire cities at insane resolution so i'm v interested in how they incorporate that kind of tech into flight sim I'm more than happy paying full price for this game now that they've like explained what they're doing. I think they didn't do a great job communicating what exactly they were doing when they first announced this but I'm entirely on board
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1672616438660464640 okay this makes me feel way better about FS2024.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Honeycomb is also making new things The LCD screens? I would love to have the one above the yoke.
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I said come in! posted:The LCD screens? I would love to have the one above the yoke. Yeah if i read this correctly it's a completely configurable set of screen that slots in above existing honeycomb peripherals. Can do G1000, but also airbus displays, and apparently fighter stuff in the image above? Like that is massively cool
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Why is it called "F-16" if there's a twin throttle?
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Lord Stimperor posted:Honeycomb is also making new things Believe it when it’s released. That HOTAS was announced what, two years ago, and still hasn’t even come close to a release date? (Not to mention the Sigma Tau HOTAS appears to have been memoryholed at this point.)
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Lord Stimperor posted:Honeycomb is also making new things hot drat
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Honeycomb is going to deplete my wallet more than it already is. Have they said anything about an upgrade path to 2024? I want to assume they'd have some sort of steep discount to upgrade to the new version. ...Right?
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sigher posted:Honeycomb is going to deplete my wallet more than it already is. 2024 is still probably a year away, so they haven't given any specifics about the different SKUs that will be available. They have said that all of your existing marketplace purchases will carry over, and the new version will be backwards compatible with the current version's community folder as well. This will be a full game release for full price (which means $70 probably), and if there's any discount for previous owners, then I suspect it will be fairly small, maybe $10 to $20. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying full price, given the wealth of new content they'll be offering. The value proposition compared to the typical third-party add-on seems very high.
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One good thing about 2024 is that I can finally get off the Microsoft store ecosystem and get it on Steam. MS store makes locked down folders if you install off your root drive and it can get weird if you have to delete stuff in that folder. Also might get the pack that includes the 777/Citation (if they keep it this way) because the pricing for an upgrade from the base game is more than buying the game again new.
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skooma512 posted:One good thing about 2024 is that I can finally get off the Microsoft store ecosystem and get it on Steam. MS store makes locked down folders if you install off your root drive and it can get weird if you have to delete stuff in that folder. Same. I initially thought that steam would be worse since it felt like a launcher in a launcher type of situation but the folders thing loving sucks and it’s buried somewhere with a dumb path that’s hard to remember how to find when you need it.
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They fixed some aspects of that folder business. At some point they changed how MSFS installs itself, so that it uses a more normal structure, and it lets you decide where to put your content folders independent of the rest of the sim. If you installed early on and never had to reinstall, then you can convert your installation type from the Xbox app: https://parallel42.com/blogs/wiki/converting-my-sim-install-from-legacy-to-modern Also, if you decide to switch from the MS Store to Steam, don't expect your marketplace purchases to show up. You'd think they would, since you buy them through that stupid Flight Points conversion or whatever in the in-game store, but no: https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019301400-I-moved-on-to-Steam-from-another-platform-where-is-my-additional-content-
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skooma512 posted:One good thing about 2024 is that I can finally get off the Microsoft store ecosystem and get it on Steam. MS store makes locked down folders if you install off your root drive and it can get weird if you have to delete stuff in that folder. Ooh absolutely, I am very glad I decided to get Flight Sim 2020 on Steam.
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Shart Carbuncle posted:They fixed some aspects of that folder business. At some point they changed how MSFS installs itself, so that it uses a more normal structure, and it lets you decide where to put your content folders independent of the rest of the sim. lol fantastic. Luckily I don't think I have anything more than the AN-225 on the marketplace. Hopefully with 2024 they'll change that bit.
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Anyone here know about good flight stands? I'm looking for something like this, but 550EUR is really loving steep. I mean you can expand it with a tailormade seat and motion controls, but that's really bonkers territory. Ideally, something that can carry a HOTAS plus a yoke setup and/or mouse, keyboard - I want to build a sim station that I can carry or wheel out of the way, and just connect to a USB and possibly power port and go. There are also plenty of stands like this one, but they look wobbly and not very expandable. Anyone got any hot tips here?
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I was watching an XP72 stream last night, and somebody had the electronic "whistle" sound you hear on some real aircraft ATC calls in the background. Is there some way to emulate that?
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Lord Stimperor posted:Anyone here know about good flight stands? I'm looking for something like this, but 550EUR is really loving steep. I mean you can expand it with a tailormade seat and motion controls, but that's really bonkers territory. Ideally, something that can carry a HOTAS plus a yoke setup and/or mouse, keyboard - I want to build a sim station that I can carry or wheel out of the way, and just connect to a USB and possibly power port and go. There are also plenty of stands like this one, but they look wobbly and not very expandable. Anyone got any hot tips here? How handy are you and what are your technical design skills? I built my own stuff using 8020 aluminum profiles. Its what many of the cockpit builder use; like Sim-Labs. The stuff isn’t that much more complicated than Lego.
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I used plywood, 2x4 ripped down, some drawer slides and a Poang chair. Works well.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I was watching an XP72 stream last night, and somebody had the electronic "whistle" sound you hear on some real aircraft ATC calls in the background. Is there some way to emulate that? Run your computer on 400hz AC, and then intentionally gently caress up the shielding on your headset wires.
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550 euro ends up being pretty good deal for that simchair. Over the course of my illustrious air goon career starting in 2013 I’ve experimented with various sim pit options. Table stands to table clamps to plywood boxes to side mounts to a plywood almost-ACES seat replica to metal holders on sliding DIY rails to two sim seats. By far best deal has been a 450$ chair similar to the linked one. The key point is that you end up bleeding money with the other options. Nothing is ever right so you get more clamps, or you order custom parts or whatever. It never is perfect nor finished. Or the path of lesser resistance: a solid half-thousand gets you an adjustable chair with precise mounting brackets and screw holes. The chair will move based on your leg length and you can get extension to it. It not only ends up as a more comfortable option but likely also cheaper.
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Smithwick posted:How handy are you and what are your technical design skills? I built my own stuff using 8020 aluminum profiles. Its what many of the cockpit builder use; like Sim-Labs. The stuff isn’t that much more complicated than Lego. That Works posted:I used plywood, 2x4 ripped down, some drawer slides and a Poang chair. Works well. I have near 0 skills. I mean I can saw and drill but everything I do ends up crooked and janky. I would eventually be able to create something funtional, but very ugly, after half a dozen of iterations and hundreds of euros in wastage and man hours. I want it to be both adjustable and pretty. I'm willing to buld some minor extensions and additions but I really think I want the base frame to be something proper. Vahakyla posted:550 euro ends up being pretty good deal for that simchair. Do you really mean the chair, or the stand? I would like to keep using my office chair, as I don't have the space. With the link I was actually referring to the stand specifically (see below). The more I think about it, the more it seems like a 'buy for life' thing. It's got wheels to drive it in position. You can lock your chair into place. Can mount a yoke, panels, joystick, and throttle. Can mount keyboard / mouse. The price is still ridiculous but like you, I've had various clamp setups before that I ended up going back and forth on. And having a nice setup might make it easier to get back into DCS and AirGoons once my life quiets down a little. And I really miss that. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:I was watching an XP72 stream last night, and somebody had the electronic "whistle" sound you hear on some real aircraft ATC calls in the background. Is there some way to emulate that? VATSIM has a hilariously complex radio sim that actually models attenuation and interference based on terrain and the position of planes and the ATC ground transmitter, so it might have been from that. It's also kind of buggy, so it might have been from that.
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Google Butt posted:Are they gonna make the water less wonky in 2024? Are you suggesting that real lakes don't have strange watery cliffs in the middle of them?
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PT6A posted:Are you suggesting that real lakes don't have strange watery cliffs in the middle of them? 
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Logitech yoke and throttle quad are 41% off today ($99) https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Pro-Flight-Yoke-System/dp/B07QXMTNPB/
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Is OnAir still the go-to career addon thingy? Game made MSFS an absolute blast to play and I'm wanting to pick it up again. I got really hooked at one point doing night flights and hauling cargo.
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