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Sagebrush posted:Oh yeah this is a real big one. One of the things that CLOD was supposed to implement -- don't know if they actually did, but it would help explain the lovely performance -- was a complete physically simulated engine model. All 16 pistons running on their conrods, valves opening and closing, fuel going in and exhaust coming out, air going into the supercharger, yada yada. The idea being that if you were shot in the engine, yes, the bullet would damage specific components and create ~~realistic~~ engine failures, like power loss because a cylinder was punched open or oil pressure dropping because a line was cut, as opposed to just rolling a die and failing some subsystems which is IMMERSION BREAKING and I CAN TOTALLY TELL. Lol what do they want, ANSYS running in the background just for the engine
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piratepilates posted:Is there any literature or research of damage suffered to engines historically? I'd imagine it's easy enough to just randomly choose between: I doubt it really matters. It's not like fighter pilots would know that the bullet hit cylinder #3 and now the manifold pressure is dropping and now he knows that he has 30 less horsepower so he needs to change his angle of climb to maintain speed or whatever. They would just check their gauges and make sure everything is within acceptable ranges and keep going. As long as the plane is still flying, exactly what part of the engine got shot up is a problem for the maintainers, not the pilot. And the pilot definitely isn't getting back to the air base and saying "bullshit, I know for a fact the bullet came in from this direction and should have it the intake manifold, not the magneto"
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piratepilates posted:Is there any literature or research of damage suffered to engines historically? I'd imagine it's easy enough to just randomly choose between: What if you just told them you totally did it, lock down the source code, and absorb the kudos? Unless the game has a mechanic feature (upcoming DLC), it's not like they can get out and look.
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While flight sim devs have committed almost every sin in the Game Dev Bible, straight up lying to their customers about features hasn’t been one of them (yet).
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i mean would it count as lying when you install a password cracker into your paying customers' computers and then, when discovered, first claim it doesn't exist, then claim it "only activates when it detects a pirated version," despite third-party hackers determining that it cracks all your passwords and emails them to the developers immediately regardless of the situation? if a sim developer had done something like that, i mean.
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Sagebrush posted:i mean would it count as lying when you install a password cracker into your paying customers' computers and then, when discovered, first claim it doesn't exist, then claim it "only activates when it detects a pirated version," despite third-party hackers determining that it cracks all your passwords and emails them to the developers immediately regardless of the situation? Pretty Mean Development, Guys e: oh wait, it was FSLabs that did that. PMDG also nuked your FS install though if you had pirated versions. Not just like their product didn't work, it would delete essential game files and you'd have to completely reinstall it. i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Nov 7, 2020 |
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I landed on a carrier for the first time! Been addicted to VTOL VR. I've not really gone far with military flying stuff since it gets overwhelming quick in any game I've tried before, but it's just the right mix in VTOL to feel progress and challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnDyllHN6cI Hugely wish for something similar to do GA instrument approaches with with a nice VR friendly flight deck. I haven't figured out VR for X-Plane yet, but hope to soon.
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uXs posted:This is exactly what I want to do as well. Well, or buy one. The design of my rig will have me flying flight sims and general gaming with the seat all the way back. The stick center mounted, throttle on the left side, pedals bolted to the chassis floor. For racing, I remove the stick extension from the base, slide the seat all the way forward, and there is a second, elevated heel rest underneath inverted fanatec CSL pedals. It ends up putting me in a roughly GT1 type seating position, with the rudder pedals just forward and underneath my knees and out of the way. Monitor is going to be wall mounted with a swing arm for general gaming, but I plan on most simming to be done in VR. MrYenko fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Nov 7, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:i mean would it count as lying when you install a password cracker into your paying customers' computers and then, when discovered, first claim it doesn't exist, then claim it "only activates when it detects a pirated version," despite third-party hackers determining that it cracks all your passwords and emails them to the developers immediately regardless of the situation? It astounds me that there was no legal action as a result of that. I mean that's almost cyber terrorism.
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I think this scam also counts as lying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyZw39ZiX8
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One of my favorite things in P3D is being able to turn on visualizations for airspace, VORs, instrument approaches, and things like that—guessing MSFS doesn't have those functionalities out of the box?
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HookedOnChthonics posted:One of my favorite things in P3D is being able to turn on visualizations for airspace, VORs, instrument approaches, and things like that—guessing MSFS doesn't have those functionalities out of the box? It does for airspace/navaids/fixes, hit f on the map screen when making a flight.
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I think its a pretty simple request that Flight Sim 2020 just simulate every single thing happening on earth with every single citizen of earth and every building be perfectly rendered.
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I want to crash into my friend as he's driving to work.
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Same but in game
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OPERATION BLIND DRUNK Mission for 2020 November 14 @ 2000 UTC It is a period of civil war. Georgia is split between pro-Soviet pinko commies and freedom-loving capitalist Georgians. A US carrier group has moved in to assist in defense as the Reds mount an assault. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Grz7yEp70GOFfjch3zD1mp2TpDStdapDdqNVTAOu6c/edit#gid=0
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What's the exact model/variant of the C172 in MSFS2020 (not the Glass cockpit one)? My lady wants to get me a proper checklist but needs to know the specific one I guess, she says the checklist in-game is dogshit, but I told her that it just says "Skyhawk" without a letter next to the name so I don't quite know. She also noticed there's several things different in the sim to the one that she flies IRL. I take it these things have variants up the rear end and are basically the VW Bug of the sky.
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It is a Cessna 172S with G1000. The premium edition bonus one is also a 172S but with regular avionics.
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Speaking of obsessive damage models, guess what DCS WW2 has now... (online test server only for now). I like my sims really "simmy" so damage models that do stuff like CloD and now DCS are right up my alley, can't have do many finite states and new ways for things to go wrong.
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Sagebrush posted:It is a Cessna 172S with G1000. The premium edition bonus one is also a 172S but with regular avionics. Thanks!
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downloaded flight sim to try on my new monster rig, went to do a tutorial and they were all grayed out. somehow the 95GB download did not include any tutorial mission or indeed any aircraft, which must be downloaded from the content manager within the game. what the gently caress is going on with this program
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Jenny Agutter posted:downloaded flight sim to try on my new monster rig, went to do a tutorial and they were all grayed out. somehow the 95GB download did not include any tutorial mission or indeed any aircraft, which must be downloaded from the content manager within the game. what the gently caress is going on with this program I’ve had that happen as well, but not every time I’ve installed it. 
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Jenny Agutter posted:you'd think "downloading content" was an extremely loving solved problem at this point in history welcome to flight sim
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sitting for a couple hours doing nothing while my GPU is pegged at 100% because there's a 3d hanger rendered behind the 16GB download progress bar. i'm sure it'll be worth it but lol
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Is that new? I never had to do that when it came out. Maybe they are trying to make the initial download smaller for people.
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They had to come up with a cross-platform (Steam, etc) way to allow their own marketplace and moddability. The Windows UWP stuff wouldn't allow you to access the underlying files and development mode would be basically impossible without them externalizing the whole bulk of their modifiable content. So basically they wrote all this stuff because Windows Store apps are sort of terrible.
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Jenny Agutter posted:sitting for a couple hours doing nothing while my GPU is pegged at 100% because there's a 3d hanger rendered behind the 16GB download progress bar. i'm sure it'll be worth it but lol Turn on v-sync from your video card's control program, like Geforce Experience or something. I think this is how The Sims 3 fried video cards too back in the day. Since there's nothing to render the GPU would just run frames into infinity and make them redlined on the menu screens.
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That is part of why I force a capped frame rate in the Nvidia control panel. At least then it won't try to run anything at 3000fps or what have you.
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What's the best way to play Flight Sim 2020? I want to have mod support when the mod community starts fixing areas that are kinda fuctup.
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Otis Reddit posted:What's the best way to play Flight Sim 2020? I want to have mod support when the mod community starts fixing areas that are kinda fuctup. On a computer connected to the internet.
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Otis Reddit posted:What's the best way to play Flight Sim 2020? I want to have mod support when the mod community starts fixing areas that are kinda fuctup. I got it on steam because I wanted the premium deluxe package and Microsoft’s store just isn’t robust and there’s some strange fuckery going on if you buy the DLC versions on gamepass where if you ever cancel gamepass you have to buy the whole game again. Steam also doesn’t lock down the whole install directory like the windows store version does so while this probably doesn’t matter much for mods, who knows, it might in the future.
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GutBomb posted:I got it on steam because I wanted the premium deluxe package and Microsoft’s store just isn’t robust and there’s some strange fuckery going on if you buy the DLC versions on gamepass where if you ever cancel gamepass you have to buy the whole game again. Microsoft is very unreliable in some ways.
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I wonder how many "avionics are suddenly just turning off" reports were from people leaving the ignition switch on Start after they received their honeycomb yokes
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Mine would suddenly turn off when changing between internal and external cameras. Sometimes it would get stuck in the external mode and have a person modeled in the cockpit and the screens off.
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Otis Reddit posted:What's the best way to play Flight Sim 2020? I want to have mod support when the mod community starts fixing areas that are kinda fuctup. Don't buy any version but the basic bitch one. Any *premium* plane is DRMed and can never be fixed by the community. Windows store vs steam doesn't really matter too much.
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Bedurndurn posted:Don't buy any version but the basic bitch one. Any *premium* plane is DRMed and can never be fixed by the community. Windows store vs steam doesn't really matter too much. Cannot emphasize this enough. Unless you’re attached to the included airports (imo don’t be, spend your money on third party ones) the planes aren’t worth it. The best current “vanilla” planes are all the ones the community can team up and fix and improve heavily.
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Cojawfee posted:Mine would suddenly turn off when changing between internal and external cameras. Sometimes it would get stuck in the external mode and have a person modeled in the cockpit and the screens off. Having the pilot pounding on the cockpit for you to rescue them was a real nice touch they did.
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First Time Caller posted:I wonder how many "avionics are suddenly just turning off" reports were from people leaving the ignition switch on Start after they received their honeycomb yokes Ooh hey look its me, I am that pilot. That explains everything now.
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So since FS2020 came out I've built a new PC (not for this, but it helps). For some reason my Game Pass app doesn't want to install FS2020 now though, it constantly gives me an error over installing something called "Digital Ownership". Anyone had this? I was thinking about buying one of the bigger versions of the game anyway (via Steam), but I'd kinda like to figure this Game Pass issue out first though.
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