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Fuzzie Dunlop posted:Any more trip reports from Brew Barons? Thinking of picking it up this weekend. Worth getting now? Not worth it til more features are built out? How's the flying? i've been enjoying it, it's essentially a few minigames put together (flying/harvesting/exploring, brewing, outfitting your bar), similar to dave the diver the flying is very arcade-y but it's fun and feels good on a controller... i think some review described it as "like pilotwings" and that seems about right. you of course can customize and upgrade your plane with the resources and money you collect etc etc etc i appreciate that it's something i can pick up and mess around with for a few minutes or more vs needing to block out time to get into msfs
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Fuzzie Dunlop posted:Any more trip reports from Brew Barons? Thinking of picking it up this weekend. Worth getting now? Not worth it til more features are built out? How's the flying? I'm enjoying it so far, but it seems that the brewery aspect is a much bigger part of the game than flying. I haven't gotten far enough for any combat though, so that balance might change later on. Flying mechanics are definitely on the arcadey side of things, but it's pretty fun. I don't regret picking it up.
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# ? Mar 7, 2024 22:24 |
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I've been enjoying Brew Barons so far as well. There are a few things about the gameplay aspect that aren't very clearly explained but the steam forums seem to be catching up and you kind find answers to most questions now. The devs seem to putting out quick patches every day to address issues as they come up, which is good. Flying is definitely very arcade-y, but works really well with a controller - there is absolutely no need for HOTAS for this game, and in fact I imagine it might actually be a worse experience. I would definitely re-buy this if it comes out on console, just to chill on the couch and play it.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, I don't care that much about the voices sounding totally human. The real killer feature is ATC that makes the right calls at the right times and responds correctly to what you say. Give me that and I'd be fine if the sound came from a fuckin MacinTalk TTS. Honestly I see tremendous value in an AI-powered ATC that can deal with contextual information. Mentioned it somewhere else but I rarely fly into controlled airspace IRL so there's a real chance you'll hear me go "uuuuh say again slow what sorry". Having an AI that can react humanlike and realistic would be really really good. The fact alone that these voices have the same accents (mostly Germany dutch, french) that I hear on the radio is strangely powerful. What I am wondering is how much realistic procedures you can expect. Will the AI be able to read through the published procedures and vector me to the correct reporting points? Will they have templates for flight information services? Can you feed it information to use? That sort of thing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyqyL8QcAhs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhIdsTa-Fs
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Was just playing Desert Strike on my MiSTer FPGA last night, so this looks to be right up my alley.
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# ? Mar 20, 2024 00:32 |
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That looks neat
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# ? Mar 20, 2024 00:51 |
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I wish this type of faux retro games would do a more Zarch/Virus style landscape instead of the "flat plane with pyramids." You could adhere to the retro style, but add something that was impossible 35 years ago. But Thunder Helix looks fun nonetheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXypBxNGMo
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# ? Mar 20, 2024 07:59 |
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For me this is peak visual design
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MSFS SU15 is delayed until sometime in April. That's really unlike Asobo, historically when an announced release day rolls around they shove whatever they've got out the door no matter what's still wrong with it. Hopefully a good sign for the future.
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So when are they going to start talking about FS 2024? Wanna fly some hot air balloons.
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Theris posted:MSFS SU15 is delayed until sometime in April. That's really unlike Asobo, historically when an announced release day rolls around they shove whatever they've got out the door no matter what's still wrong with it. Hopefully a good sign for the future. Asobo does seem to be learning from their mistakes with MSFS, and since these SU's are also being used as a guinea pig for some FS2024 stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if Asobo is taking a chance to get stuff tweaked now to reduce how broken Fs2024 will be at launch.
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# ? Mar 26, 2024 00:01 |
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I wonder if this has anything to do with this inibuilds neo situation. The stolen a32nx project code got ripped out but the replacement fms and fbw law implementation seems to have some issues. I'd be happy with the a32nx neo but its fms cannot do go around guidance or final app and those are both rather important features. The v2 fms will supposedly implement them but it has been in development hell for something like two years and the sole developer on that side of things seems more interested in playing with the a380 anyway.
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# ? Mar 26, 2024 00:05 |
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Playing with the MSFS World Builder alpha really shows me how a lot of these airports ended up badly generated.
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# ? Mar 26, 2024 00:09 |
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If you're not on the Beyond ATC discord, they have a poll up looking for input. They say that they're basically done with the IFR experience and could release a solo IFR product very soon. They still need 3-4 months to properly finish and test the traffic injection part of the program. So the poll is asking if they should release the solo IFR component now, at full price, and then release traffic injection (and VFR later) as a free update in 3-4 months or hold off and release IFR and traffic injection together when it's ready.
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Might have to hop in and vote
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:05 |
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I’d bet the overwhelming response of gamers (even simulation ones) is gimme gimme gimme but tbh I don’t think I’m as enthused without the traffic personally.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:26 |
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Same, the atc is great but honestly after many years I have so many add ons that do ore-files atc really well. The traffic injection stuff, that’s great. I remember in the waning days of FSX a solo dev started tinkering in that direction but stopped after a proof of concept.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I’d bet the overwhelming response of gamers (even simulation ones) is gimme gimme gimme but tbh I don’t think I’m as enthused without the traffic personally. Gimme gimme gimme.. anything is better than msfs atc
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:01 |
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"Gimmie gimmie gimmie" would also help with the budget for continued development.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:43 |
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I don’t disagree in some senses but there’s also potential whiplash if it’s too early and everyone says it’s poo poo. Damned if you damned if you dont.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 02:47 |
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Thanks Bart Simpson
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 21:58 |
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Traffic injection is what I'd be most interested in. I can fly alone on VATSIM right now. But if they do release early it would be nice to see how it performs before I decide to buy it.
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Zero One posted:Traffic injection is what I'd be most interested in. I can fly alone on VATSIM right now. I ain't using VATSIM so gimme gimme gimme
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Call this the quarterly recruitment post. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQOrFyiMlYgpCPaCkB2E6i52UptYSRMlGQoa1pWnEy&s All this you can partake in by joining the Discord at: https://discord.gg/airgoons Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3633891 But most of the activity nowadays is on Discord. AIR GOON RECRUITMENT First type of event: quote:The Long Afternoon War, a dynamic, player commanded war that combined DCS, Arma 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Command: Modern Operations into one game! It is mainly played in DCS. Played every Saturday. SECOND EVENT MERCENARY CAMPAIGN, Brownwater Corporation. quote:Ludicrous plot lines, lots of free planes, crazy stuff, insane plot, and even more. Played mostly on Sunday in DCS. Very newbie friendly! THIRD EVENT: quote:FALCON BMS, The original, the free, the legendary. The absolute queen of F-16 simulation. Older than most, yet better in so many ways.
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An after action report from Long AFternoon War heli ops:Mederlock posted:Package Lead AAR
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTG4n233aq0 Feel free to link it to the Falcon BMS thread if there's still one active
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This will be a lively discussion.
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Just wanted to pass on appreciaition of the Long Afternoon War posts, wish I had the time (and competence) to muck in.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Just wanted to pass on appreciaition of the Long Afternoon War posts, wish I had the time (and competence) to muck in. I cannot stress enough that competence is not a requirement or a priority.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Just wanted to pass on appreciaition of the Long Afternoon War posts, wish I had the time (and competence) to muck in. If you get time, grab an a4; it’s free, and they have plot armour. Go fly with ford and throw rockets at anything that is in your way. We also have a goon server up with a4 that has people flying on it almost every evening for us time zones.
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You know how Viper is the coolest guy in top gun, and flies an A-4? Be like Viper, fly an A-4
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And yet he named himself after the real best aircraft
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gently caress SNEEP posted:And yet he named himself after the real best aircraft NFWS changed to F-16 just a couple of years after Top Gun, so Viper possibly got to fly a Viper.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:And yet he named himself after the real best aircraft i didn't know his name was Tom Cat
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Is there anyone still using CH products? I'm having a hard time having them working on my pc, Win11 updated and all checked. Drivers are from 2006 so I mean... thanks CH for the effort of not giving a gently caress so hard for almost 2 decades. That being said device manager recognizes them, it says they're working good but if I open the CtrlMgr app and try to calibrate them the app freezes (not the pc, just the app). MSFS doesn't see them at all. Another concern I have is that they made me disable the 'core isolation/memory integrity' feature, and if I have them plugged in during at boot, they make me go into a reboot loop for some unspecified reason. So, I need to unplug them, boot up, then plug them in, but yet they won't work in MSFS. I'm clueless also because I used them in the past and IIRC it was already on Win11 so wtf is going on?
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Snapshot posted:If you get time, grab an a4; it’s free, and they have plot armour. Go fly with ford and throw rockets at anything that is in your way. We also have a goon server up with a4 that has people flying on it almost every evening for us time zones. Love the A4 and I'd be there but yeah its the time mainly - in the dad space of all the kit and modules but no opportunity, one day soon! Used to pop in to jazzahn's server occassionally, good stuff.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Love the A4 and I'd be there but yeah its the time mainly - in the dad space of all the kit and modules but no opportunity, one day soon! Used to pop in to jazzahn's server occassionally, good stuff. Jazzahn’s isn’t running anymore - a new server is up, Even lamer NA goon server. It runs a mix of pretense and the missions that were on jazzahn’s. Details in the air goons discord.
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