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Smekerman posted:Oh come on. Sketchy? Sketchy implies they're loving over their customers and not delivering in some way. The only complaints I've heard about them is in regards to RoF DLC and I got most of that poo poo in a 75% off sale, which seemed more than reasonable to me. Three DLCs were also in a fairly popular bundle. Yeah, selling field mods is kinda nickle & diming, but to call it "sketchy" is a pretty huge stretch, imo. And it's not like they do shoddy work, RoF is a pretty loving awesome flight sim. Don't get me long, I love 777's work. There's no doubt that they're the best in the combat flightsim industry right now, and even without comparing them to their embarassingly poor competition they do good development. I just wish they weren't so Russian about it. Artless Meat posted:Their reasoning from what I heard is that the 190 and LA5 weren't actually fighting in Stalingrad, so they're just extra bonus planes you can buy. I'm guessing they'll probably do both, have expansions with extra premium planes that were introduced shortly after whatever the expansion is covering. Ralith fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Artless Meat posted:Their reasoning from what I heard is that the 190 and LA5 weren't actually fighting in Stalingrad, so they're just extra bonus planes you can buy. I'm guessing they'll probably do both, have expansions with extra premium planes that were introduced shortly after whatever the expansion is covering. You were asking me about taking off in in Fw 190 and I didn't know how, but I found this video that might be of use. Of course BoS isn't that complex, but you can pick out the relevant information. (By the way, DCS looks incredible.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArgtdYGiuaI
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Ralith posted:I just wish they weren't so Russian about it. They don't do that russian-dev thing where they seem all cordial and nice, then someone makes a mild criticism and they lose their poo poo at warp factor 11, do they? I've seen so many smalltime russian devs that are all "Hey, hope you enjoy game!", someone comes along and goes "It's a pretty good game, but the mouse movement on the UI is slightly sluggish.", and then all of a sudden the dev is all "Why you GIANT FUCKHEAD?! You go die in mothers vagina! American scum make me sick! You develop game if it's so easy. GO gently caress!"
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They don't do that russian-dev thing where they seem all cordial and nice, then someone makes a mild criticism and they lose their poo poo at warp factor 11, do they? No, they just have a business model that doesn't suit Ralith, I guess?  But yeah I'm with you all about the anti-"selling planes individually at a high price" stuff like with RoF; although come on, let's give them a chance to actually start selling post-release/-"deluxe edition" content before jumping to conclusions, here. They're basically just allowing people to buy one/both of the deluxe edition aircraft if you suddenly feel the urge to after buying the regular edition, rather than locking them down to people who are willing to go out on a limb and spend more initially. (but yeah I do agree that it's a touch steep in pricing...)
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zwdzk posted:You were asking me about taking off in in Fw 190 and I didn't know how, but I found this video that might be of use. Of course BoS isn't that complex, but you can pick out the relevant information. (By the way, DCS looks incredible.) Thanks. I figured it out eventually. It's probably not the right way, but I just keep tapping the right brake as I drift to the left until I get enough airflow over the rudder. It usually works.
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Artless Meat posted:Thanks. I figured it out eventually. It's probably not the right way, but I just keep tapping the right brake as I drift to the left until I get enough airflow over the rudder. It usually works.
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Wait, what happened with DCS:WWII? Is it actually a real project?
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Smekerman posted:Is $8.50 such a horrible price to ask for a full-fledged plane at full price? No that's reasonable. But so is me wa iting for a 50/75% off sale to buy it, despite how much I wanna get my Willy Coppens on. However, the Fw-190 and La-5 are $20 each on steam, not $8.50. That is what worries me, that they're setting the trend for future BoS releases on steam instead of RoF style DLC packs/mini-expansions.
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Bubbacub posted:Wait, what happened with DCS:WWII? Is it actually a real project? From memory, they used all their money up really quickly on some dumb stuff and then ditched the project forcing ED to take it up at great cost. Or something. Anyway I understand that to be the reason we have k4 and 190 modules coming though. If nothing else, at least it gives the P51 some stuff to do. edit: ED is the company, DCS is the product. Got them mixed up. Shanakin fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Essentially, ED took it over, and is gradually releasing components of the project as modules, thus leading to the 109 and 190 as Shanakin mentioned. Other planes (Spitfire, P-47, and Me-262) and the Normandy map will continue to gradually roll out alongside everything else they are working on (EDGE, Nevada, L-39, F/A-18C, etc.).
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Shanakin posted:From memory, they used all their money up really quickly on some dumb stuff and then ditched the project forcing ED to take it up at great cost. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=125454 They burned through the kickstarter cash and couldn't finish the project, so ED stepped in. It seems that higher tier backers got burned. Oleg can't catch a break at this point (I am being charitable). Amusingly, they stated that the Kickstarter would never have produced the money they needed to finish in something RRGs lawyers might have termed 'fraud' had they existed. You'll notice how ED doesn't want to get into discussions, but effectively taking money for a product that you _know_ can't be finished has some very specific law surrounding it.
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Major Isoor posted:No, they just have a business model that doesn't suit Ralith, I guess?  The problem is, again, their bullshit excuses for failing to deliver on stuff that non-russian devs have no issues with.
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MagnumHB posted:Definitely not the right way. Using brakes on takeoff is a big no-no, particularly in a tailwheel aircraft. At least in the sim, you probably won't get punished for doing it nearly as easily as you would in a real aircraft. I'm not sure if my Logitech is just making GBS threads out on me finally, but even with full right rudder and slowly moving the throttle, I still swing way to the left.
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Artless Meat posted:I'm not sure if my Logitech is just making GBS threads out on me finally, but even with full right rudder and slowly moving the throttle, I still swing way to the left. Test the axis in the control panel. If it's just the FW-190, it's because the thing is a beast to taxi. I have to basically drag the right brake and haul back on the stick until the automatic tailwheel lock engages. Apparently you're supposed to switch the FW to manual prop control and go full coarse pitch when you taxi, it cuts back on the intrinsic yaw created by the prop.
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Managed to get some Saitek pedals off of Ebay for about 85 bucks, and I have to say that these make even more of a difference. Every piece of gear I buy makes the experience exponentially more enjoyable.
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Ralith posted:Okay, since Joven's off having a life, I'll step up. I propose that we have an 
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Ralith posted:Anybody? Crap, I thought this was going to be later in the evening. I'm up for some shoot though.
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Ralith asked me to post this. If you guys could chime in that'd be awesome. http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/10559-control-input-text-and-target-icons/
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Session summary: God drat this game is beautiful. The sky shading and the contrails you get at high altitude are near photorealistic. There's also enough ground detail that navigating by map is actually pretty easy--towns show up really clearly against the snowfields, and the map matches their shape exactly, so "that L shaped town near the river" is actually enough information to locate yourself precisely. I managed to find my way back to the airfield and land after every flight that I survived. We do need to find some less spergy servers/missions. On a server of 50+ people almost everyone was flying long-range bombing runs as germans, and most fights consisted of finding nothing at all and then being suddenly overwhelmed. Hopefully some co-op missions will be available pretty quick after release. I was pretty pleased when I managed to kill two pubbies in a row just by out-maneuvering them right into the ground, though.
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Yeah, Navigation wasn't too bad, though I wish the kneeboard-map was more useful; it's too zoomed out and the icons are gigantic. That being said, I think I'm a bit too much of a pussy for no-icon planes. I can't see poo poo and I'm bad enough at this game. Also Joven, I posted in your thread.
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Just had another try at BoS after waiting for all the planes to be in (I tried it back before the La-5 was in) It still runs pretty terribly on my PC. Only like 20 fps on the "low" setting. Going to upgrade my PC soon anyway. Probably going to start doing research this weekend.
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For those who got the game from GOG, as soon as I installed IL-2 1946 I moved the main folder from my C Drive to the D one, but the separate patch file you download refuses to patch the game unless it is on that specific adress in my C drive. Any way to change it?
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Try searching for old install path in regedit and changing it.
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 IL-2 BOS AND/OR ANOTHER SIM THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21 AT 1030 AM CDT I have no idea what we're doing but it's going to be fun.
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So, BoS added engine control information to the HUD, like we had asked in the thread. It's fairly apparently they had it in the works, so that's great. The icons are still kinda crap but I have hope that is in the works too. One very nice feature is that when your plane has auto radiator/prop/mix, there's an icon on the HUD to let you know.
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Where are my god drat IR leds? They should already be here! I want to tinker my own tracking clip! Everything's ready to go, it's just the LEDs that are missing Also, I just created 4 different IL-2 1946 installations (vanilla, HSFX, UP3 [redundant], DBW) and oh boy is this easier than trying to juggle between all four in JSGME*. Seriously, create parallel installations for your mods. The hard drive space shouldn't be a limiting factor nowadays if you have a newish rig, but DBW stands at 15Gb and HSFX7 at 12Gb. *This inevitably leads to mods becoming an unmanageable mess Your controls are saved in /Users/[enter pilot name here, default is "doe"]/settings.ini so you can just copy-paste it all over the place. Doesn't work 100 % but is much easier than setting up everything.
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I just constructed my own LED tracker clip! This is seriously really, really easy and cheap - depending on what you have at hand. I tested it in War Thunder (IL2 DBW - DCG seems to crash, gotta fix those .inis) and it really helps. Suck it, 109G! I used: 1 PS3 Eye Camera + CL-Eye Drivers (apparently most modern webcams are good enough for this, Eye offers high FPS which some people say is pretty important, and there are good instructions on how to remove the IR filter) 3 Osram SFH485P IR-leds. These have good viewing angle and are considered "The" LED you should pick up. I am somewhat skeptical, and assume most IR leds are good enough, if you ramp up mA and/or use styrofoam as diffuser 3xAA battery holder (jerry-rigged) Wire, electric tape, soldering iron + tin, whatever that makes a frame I installed the leds in serial, did not use a resistor (this was a mistake), since 3xAA gives 4,5V which is the forward voltage of the LEDs. So they blast at 100mA, which is too much, 50 or 75mA would be good. Then I ripped off the IR filter from PS3Eye (this was horrible and took over 30 minutes) and installed a visible light filter using an old floppy disk. Some people set it up when they remove the IR filter, but I used an external filter made from cardboard, floppy and electric tape. Set up FaceTrackNoIR (Opentrack seems good too, haven't used it yet). Once you have the parts ready, constructing a clip takes about an hour, but experienced people say it takes 15 minutes. I'm not experienced. It's easy and cheap. Parallel build constructions involve two times the soldering, but seem a better solution. Picture of the wonderful creation
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Since I now got my X55/trackir5 I want to play this game as well. Are goons still playing it regulary?Azran posted:For those who got the game from GOG, as soon as I installed IL-2 1946 I moved the main folder from my C Drive to the D one, but the separate patch file you download refuses to patch the game unless it is on that specific adress in my C drive. That generally doesn't work since old games liked to be very liberal with regestry entries. And looking for them will be a crapshoot since you never know how many there are. Reinstall if you really need to. Michaellaneous fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Re: Battle of StalingradJerikTelorian posted:So, BoS added engine control information to the HUD, like we had asked in the thread. It's fairly apparently they had it in the works, so that's great. The icons are still kinda crap but I have hope that is in the works too. They've added the single player campaign as well, as of Friday, and are suggesting that it's 90% complete with a release date of November 1st. Starting a 'short' mission will start you off in auto-everything, which is nice. I can confirm that you can chop the tail off a Ju87, but your Lagg becomes a terrible glider. I'm enjoying it so far. The planes feel a lot more weighty and 'realistic'.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3670413 Il2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad thread. NEw info will start roll out soon since release is closer.
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Seeing as the 1946 group is mostly going to be playing BoS I'm going to put this thread on ice and post events in the new one. Odds are it'll be mostly BoS but if it proves to lack enough content out of the box to hold interest for long sessions I'll be keeping 1946 as a fallback. Steam group is the same. I'll be back home in a few weeks and will be hosting again, mostly on Sundays like last year.
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