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Hey I guess the next IL2 is upcoming, but I just reinstalled 1946 for the first time In years, are there any graphics and sound enhancement mods worth downloading? When I last played seriously oleo was still at the helm and mods were considered impossible, I understand all he'll has broken loose since than.
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Ralith posted:Battle of Stalingrad early access (incl. multiplayer) is now finally running seven days a week, and the Pe-2 has been added. joystick still hasn't shipped and the x52 is out of commission. Sorry sir. Will advise as soon as I have the new stick.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Hey I guess the next IL2 is upcoming, but I just reinstalled 1946 for the first time In years, are there any graphics and sound enhancement mods worth downloading? When I last played seriously oleo was still at the helm and mods were considered impossible, I understand all he'll has broken loose since than. I think the big ones are Ultra Pack or HSFX They got a lil bit of everything.
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Apr 13, 2014 20:44
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Does this group do any DCS?
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We have in the past. It's been a while, though, and I think not everyone currently active has it. Generally we have a really hard time coming up with suitable missions, especially if everyone doesn't want to use the same kind of aircraft.
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Battle of Stalingrad now includes the Yak-1 and the Bf-109 G-2. Anybody else got a copy yet?
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Have an amazing video of an awesome dog fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_armg3ENFGM Not mine, but they're both really quality players and keep things really tight for a good 8 minutes
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Longtiem posted:Have an amazing video of an awesome dog fight. Perfect example of how, when choosing between a good turning craft and a strong climbing/higher speed craft, the latter wins every time. The LaGG got the advantage early on (109 pilot was too liberal with the stick, dragging his speed down), but the 109 pilot was able to disengage and climb to alt. Ending was pretty funny. Ralith, still waiting on newegg to ship my drat stick. Looks like June now, lame.
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dayman posted:Ralith, still waiting on newegg to ship my drat stick. Looks like June now, lame. Got my X55 the other week, and it's such an amazing stick. For the money, the best stick you can buy, hands down. The Warthog edges it out a little, but costing twice as much you get a lot less value for your dollar.
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Ralith posted:Battle of Stalingrad now includes the Yak-1 and the Bf-109 G-2. Anybody else got a copy yet? 
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Is the current price going to be the same as the release price? I had assumed up to now that it was simply a premium price to get early access to the game.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Got my X55 the other week, and it's such an amazing stick. For the money, the best stick you can buy, hands down. The Warthog edges it out a little, but costing twice as much you get a lot less value for your dollar. where? i'm half a mind to cancel from newegg and order from saitek.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Is the current price going to be the same as the release price? I had assumed up to now that it was simply a premium price to get early access to the game. If it is like RoF, they will sell the planes grouped in various DLC packs.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Is the current price going to be the same as the release price? I had assumed up to now that it was simply a premium price to get early access to the game.
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dayman posted:where? i'm half a mind to cancel from newegg and order from saitek. I got mine direct from Saitek.
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Battle of Stalingrad release date has been announced as September. Furthermore, they've brought back the 'Standard' preorder for $55, which comes with early access and is $5 cheaper than release. They've also added the La-5, which is Premium-only for now but will be made available for purchase with the Fw 190 A3 at "the end of June". If you've been planning on getting BoS and you're not too worried about them somehow loving up what's already a decent game in the coming months, there's no reason to wait any longer now. e: The 'Standard' preorder will go away again on June 18th Ralith fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 8, 2014 |
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Thief posted:If it is like RoF, they will sell the planes grouped in various DLC packs. Only $400 for everything!
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Shine posted:Only $400 for everything! Sucks, but if they weren't charging what they are, I doubt there would be any modern flight-sim games at all. It's actually kind of baffling that a new flight-sim is even coming out at all.
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Shine posted:Only $400 for everything! It's a real shame Oleg Maddox isn't involved in BoS, I'm going to miss out on everything being free and having the original Russian boxed versions of it all. Does anyone know what actually happened to him after Cliffs of Dover exploded, is it just 777 studios developing by themselves now? It's looking and sounding good so far, not sure if it'll be the labour of love the original IL-2 was. That game has some serious legs.
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I think he's completely given up on game development. Last I heard he was high up in some firm doing architecture or urban planning visualizations or something.
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Strumpie posted:Does anyone know what actually happened to him after Cliffs of Dover exploded, is it just 777 studios developing by themselves now? It's looking and sounding good so far, not sure if it'll be the labour of love the original IL-2 was.
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BoS is such a joy to fly. More people would be cool.
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Just had some good times flying BoS on Expert with Burno and Vahakyla and co. Having to spot and IFF targets entirely by eyeball is a bitch, but goddamn victories are satisfying. You really have to stay alert, too, since if you don't the only warning you get that someone's behind you is when bullet holes start appearing in your plane. Guns seem to on the whole do more damage than in IL-2, too; a good solid machine gun burst will gently caress someone right up, to say nothing of cannon. It seems like even on Expert (at least with the settings the official servers use) radiator, pitch, and so on are automatically controlled by default, so you can just hop in and go look for planes to shoot. Can't seem to get multicrew (i.e. manning tailguns) to work, but dogfighting's awesome.
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For the second night, we flew IL2 Battle of Stalingrad with a small band of goons. It is truly intense on a server with no HUD whatsoever. Engagements happen close and low, with a lot of confusion. But getting an enemy plane feels insanely satisfying. So far we have also burned engines, had our wingtips shear off after a tree hit but kept flying, had an aerial mating where a 109 rested on top of a Peshka, said "wow a wing passed me oh poo poo it was mine" and had my own propeller blade come in from my windshield. I think Skwee got hit by flying debris that shattered his windshield and gunsight. For anyone on the fence, if you enjoyed IL2, RoF or Sim WT, this is most likely your game. Graphics are gorgeous, game is optimized and it is a fairly compact install at 2GB. 55 bucks is a steep price, but there is not a lot of options either on the market. Hopefully it will be on Steam, too. Currently there is an option for quick missions for SP and single Team Deatchmatch map with opposing airfields and respawns for Multiplayer. The sun always, no joke, shines from the Russian side. I claim russian bias. Anyway, come fly with us and be confused when you got pounced out of nowhere, while your wingmates hastily scramble to the directions of the wind, chasing a speck of dust on their monitor. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 04:35 on May 10, 2014 |
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So it's been a couple of months since our last IL-2 1946 game. Anyone up for giving it another go? Maybe this coming Sunday afternoon?
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Someone other than Joven would have to host. Myself, I'm pretty caught up in BoS lately, now that there's people to fly with.
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Flying IL2 Battle of Stalingrad right now, SIM people will most likely like it: http://www.twitch.tv/kalleerikvahakyla/
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I kept a small pause but I'm back. We play COOP Arma 3 tonight with a smallish mod pack that you can use the goon launcher to launch, so you do not worry about download links nor setup. We will be playing some of the old missions since I haven't worked on any new ones in a while and I want to make sure we get going as fast as possible. WHAT: Arma 3 COOP missions, vanilla branch, NOT DEV START TIME: Start time tonight is 1800 EST, 1500 PST. WHERE: Camping The Stairs Mumble, there is the Arma 3 Channel just under "games". MODS: About 655MB, Vähäkylä's Mod pack, see instructions AUTISM LEVEL: Low, only minor vaccinations needed. Do what the leader tells you, whoever it will be. In other words, we start little after two hours. I will be hosting for about two hours which will be a mission or maybe two. These will be small unit, 12 guys with one more as a leader. Info for mod pack: https://github.com/wigumen/SlickUpdater/releases/tag/1.3.2 Download Slick Updater. Launch it from its folder and it will start up. The list of mods you see are the Reddit Arma3 community mods. We do not want them. Go to "options" and from under "repository", select "Vahakyla's Goon A3 Mods". Ensure that the directory for Arma 3 is also correct. Do not worry about the teamspeak, ACRE is disabled. Go back to "Arma 3" tab, refresh the page and download mods. After they are done, there is a button to "launch arma3". Your arma will now launch through steam with all the mods downloaded and activated, without any hassle to you. This will also leave your game intact so whenever you launch directly from steam, your game is as it ever was! 
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Ralith posted:I don't know what exactly made the original IL-2 a labor of love, but so far BoS seems to be a worthy successor in every regard save number of planes. Is it better, at this point, than CoD is?
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JerikTelorian posted:Is it better, at this point, than CoD is? No. CoD with the newest community patch is better. But it won't be in the future.
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JerikTelorian posted:Is it better, at this point, than CoD is?
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Ralith posted:Massively. I have no idea what Vahakyla's smoking. I think Cliffs of Dover with all the patches and community works at this point is a more complete flying game than BoS.
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Are there any joy sticks in the modern day that don't cost an arm and a leg, that don't have that super stiff deadzone like the x52? It makes it really hard to aim 
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TheTrend posted:Are there any joy sticks in the modern day that don't cost an arm and a leg, that don't have that super stiff deadzone like the x52? It makes it really hard to aim Thrustmaster 16000M is around 40 bucks.
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Vahakyla posted:Thrustmaster 16000M is around 40 bucks. Yep and the hall sensor for the stick axes is bad rear end. I hate the green light that goes off every time it's moved from center, but you can always mask it.
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Ralith posted:Massively. I have no idea what Vahakyla's smoking. Are spotting issues resolved? Attacks from below were annoying.
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Snapshot posted:Are spotting issues resolved? Attacks from below were annoying.
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I'vs seen people mention the Saitek x52 in the thread. My Logitech one is bugging out on me so I am looking to upgrade. Is the x52 good overall, or is it just a stopgap for the more expensive ones?
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I never have anything nice to say about Saitek stuff. They source bargain bin parts to keep costs down and it shows. The pots they use for axes are spikey and imprecise. The buttons and switches wear out with even moderate use. Some folks here are fine with the Saitek peripherals but I've always been disappointed with mine from the start, and am looking to get rid of anything I have with their name on it. I've used a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro before and it was ok (also it's ~$15 on ebay often). Recently replaced it with a Thrustmaster T.16000M and the difference is very noticeable. Build quality was fine on either stick, they're plastic, but the TM is a bit more solid. What the TM has, though, is a hall effect sensor for the X/Y axes and it's so incredibly sensitive and precise, it's amazing. The little flimsy throttle thing on it blows, and I'm not sure what to do for an add-on throttle for combat aircraft yet (might look at CH's combat throttle some day.) I know some people are happy with the throttle portion of their Saitek HOTAS but I'm not going to buy anything else from Saitek again, so I'll have to figure something out for more complicated military sims.
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