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Hey guys, took me a while to find (forums search sucks rear end) but I wanted to get some opinions on what equipment to get a friend. She's a IRL pilot that's just getting her wings in Cessnas and would like a yoke set-up (not a stick) for flight sims; I don't see many options on Amazon when it comes to this stuff so I'm sure that isn't the place for proper sim equipment (also Amazon reviews aren't that great for what I see). The OP is years old and I'm not sure if that stuff is still applicable. Logitech seems to be the only horse in the race when it comes to cheaper priced stuff but one review stating "not good enough for actual pilots" makes me think it'll be a waste. Any thoughts?
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Nov 3, 2019 10:45
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I was looking to get the whole package, yoke/throttle/pedals and I know I'm looking to spend quite a bit for the lot but that seems like I'm poo poo outta luck unless I grab several different products and combine them. I know nothing about flight sims but I'm astonished how much some of poo poo I see costs, I guess you have to pay to play for the high end. I'm not looking to spend that much, several hundred isn't bad but there doesn't seem much for all three parts for that much.
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Nov 3, 2019 12:51
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From what I can figure, the Honeycomb Alpha Control Yoke is the only lower priced yoke that has the proper 180 turn, but I can't seem to find that anywhere in stock for the US outside of a douche on eBay with it at double the price. Also, in regards to the TrackIR, would you say that's better than a VR headset? I have a spare that I was going to give for flight sims as well but I know resolution won't be as crisp and I'm sure the instrument panels will be hard to read though I'm not sure if it's as problematic as I'm thinking. Lastly, when it comes to mixing and matching parts, how easy is that to do? Like, say I got her the Honeycomb, is it just a plug and play affair if I use a Saitek Quadrant and CH pedals?
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Nov 3, 2019 22:06
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Awesome, thanks for all of the help guys. I ordered a Honeycomb Alpha Control on eBay (bullshit shipping, but not much more over MSRP) and will probably just go the Saitek route for the Throttle Quadrant and Pedals, then top the whole thing off with a TrackIR. I'm not sure which flight sim she has, but I'm pretty sure it's Xplane 11; how intuitive is it to set up all of the controls? She lives a couple hours away so getting me to set it up would be a mission. I'm hoping I don't have to make that trip if it's a bunch of lovely hoops to jump through.
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Nov 3, 2019 23:52
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I'm glad to hear it, I look forward to getting all of this stuff in and getting it to her so she can practice on it. She's actually going to fly in to pick it up one of these days. I'm debating on getting flight set-up as well since that new MS Flight Simulator looks incredibly beautiful. I mean, god drat. But I know nothing about flying and have never played a flight sim so lol.
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Nov 4, 2019 00:22
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I recall seeing something in the VR thread about FS2020 not going to support VR headsets, is that the official word? That poo poo would be breathtaking in VR.
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Nov 4, 2019 00:43
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Jonny Nox posted:MS is pretty up in the air right now about how they distribute games. Gears 5 hit Steam, I think they're going full on releases on Steam from now on. Anime Store Adventure posted:My guess is Microsoft store. The way it’s marketed as a big Microsoft thing with cross platform, it screams like something that they’ll use as a carrot for gamepass and their ecosystem. The Master Chief Collection just released on Steam and within the game you log into the Xbox Live ecosystem, so we'll probably see the same thing with FS2020.
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Dec 4, 2019 09:52
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For someone who wants to get into simming soon (once FS2020 hits I see myself dumping some serious money into equipment), are there any titles good for just flying around and operating old-rear end WWI aircraft casually in VR? Or should I just play War Thunder and fucks with poo poo that way, though that's less of a sim and more an arcade type thing right?
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Mar 4, 2020 00:24
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Thanks!
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Mar 4, 2020 00:27
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I was hoping FS2020 was going to be my first Sim to get into before actually trying to get a license to fly IRL... but no Steam release? Uhhh... gently caress that. I stopped using the MS Store since Gears 4 and I'm glad as poo poo I'm never going back to that horseshit.
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Jul 16, 2020 08:41
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sellouts posted:Literally every one with a day one patch? Anthem, for one? Nothing fixed Anthem of being terrible.
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Jul 17, 2020 18:51
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For anyone that does flight simming in VR and is interested in the HP Reverb G2; the difference in the bump in resolution is night and day from a Rift S or Valve Index: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4wlEbD5vxk Just thought there's someone in the thread that would care for this, shame there's no VR in MS2020 that poo poo would be astonishing.
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Jul 22, 2020 08:32
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One retailer for it says it ships in September, but HP hasn't said anything definitive about it.
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Jul 30, 2020 21:43
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bird with big dick posted:I do these flight sim role plays where I do real-time 12 hour flights to London and my wife brings me mediocre meals and then I bang her in the closet of my computer room This is beautiful and I'm dying over here.
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Jul 31, 2020 08:44
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How customizable will FS2020 be? I feel like in this day and age things would get locked down and require approval etc before people can use poo poo. Seems like a total MS thing to do.
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Aug 2, 2020 10:11
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Well that's why it's a bug, for some reason that poo poo ain't followin' the rules I'd love to see a modded slider that can grow the trees to gigantic levels all over the globe.
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Aug 2, 2020 17:50
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I believe Steam has a clause where if your game is on sale on other platforms it has to be on sale as well on Steam, so I wouldn't worry about DLC not going on sale.
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Aug 2, 2020 18:04
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Sagebrush posted:The reason force feedback is dead is because a patent troll in San Jose (Immersion Corporation) has been squatting on a couple of key patents for the last fifteen years. They produce no products and their biggest source of income to date has been suing Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft for putting vibration motors in their controllers. You may recall that the PS3 controller had no vibration functionality, which Sony said was because it would interfere with the motion sensing; the lawsuit was the real reason. All three companies now pay Immersion license fees. What an informative post and holy poo poo that's miserable. gently caress that company.
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Aug 9, 2020 21:20
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While the speed of the download is absolutely abysmal whoever thought it was a good idea to have music looping in the background for the whole loving download is a moron. Why yes, I don't want to enjoy anything else while this giant game downloads.
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Aug 18, 2020 08:27
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Romes128 posted:Right click on the sound icon > open volume mixer > mute flight sim. Remember to unmute it when you actually play the game. I ended up watching some movies while it downloaded. God bless. I still have 30GBs left, the game's been running for 2 hours. 
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Aug 18, 2020 09:32
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Arsonide posted:In one of their interviews they said they are using PlayFab for this. I've used PlayFab in another project, for a very similar purpose albeit on a much smaller scale. So basically the way it works, is you make an HTTP request to PlayFab to download a thing, then they respond with a URL that you then use to do an HTTP download of said content. I'm confused as to why this is better than just using Steam to deliver all of the same content.
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Aug 18, 2020 10:17
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drat the Steam reviews are brutal, but they have a point with "Took so long to download I can't refund it" poo poo. edit: What are the most optimal settings right now? sigher fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Aug 19, 2020 01:22
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Google Butt posted:that's what they get for not getting it for literally a dollar lmao owned  Cojawfee posted:Yeah, why the hell are people buying it on steam? Because people prefer it and the Microsoft Store misery.
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Aug 19, 2020 01:39
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Okay, for the full "experience," is there anyway to start a flight on the tarmac and not have all of the switches and poo poo pushed for me? I start a flight and there's a huge checklist of things to do, but it's all already done so like... what's the point? I'd love if the tutorial would teach me more than just how to fly, but what everything does. The missus is going to learn me all of this, but it'd be nice if the game explained it all to you. So is there anyway to start a flight with a complete, cold start? Also I see no god drat way this game is running in VR without being completely nauseating. I flew around LA on my 9980HK and RTX 2080 and at night was getting around 20fps; I do have most setting maxed out to be fair but jesus christ.
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Aug 19, 2020 05:57
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Thanks guys, I thought just selecting the airport was going to be enough, I'll zoom in even more than that.
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Aug 19, 2020 07:02
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Okay, so my lady's copy of the game won't finish downloading, there's 1.3GBs left to download and it literally just won't so the game can't be played. She's left the computer on since release and it hasn't moved. We tried verifying the game files and reinstalling, but nothing fixes it. I also can't find anyone having the same issue online.
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Aug 20, 2020 08:59
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What are the other planes in the sky? Actual airliners in real life or just scripted planes flying all over the place? Is multiplayer "always on" because I haven't run into any other players so it seems and I've been cruising around LA a fair chunk.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:26
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So did MSFS2020 gently caress the flight sim peripheral market right up the rear end? It looks like everything is out of stock and prices for used gear are gouged like crazy. I don't remember paying $260 for my T16000M HOTAS... I just want some pedals and the Honeycomb Yoke.
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Aug 25, 2020 00:10
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I have 64GB of RAM, what should I set my paging file to? It's currently at 0.
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Aug 25, 2020 02:16
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Thanks! I'm hoping this will help with a little bit of performance, I heard that having a larger paging file does that for MSFS2020.
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Aug 25, 2020 02:21
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For people who have flown in VR, how does it work? Like, are you just given the viewpoint in game and you still have to use a mouse to interact with the instruments on the plane? I assume that's how it works for X-Plane which is horseshit, but has Microsoft said anything about using VR controllers to interact with gauges and what have you in physical space?
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Aug 25, 2020 22:30
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A MIRACLE posted:hmm that forum link says "G-Sync reportedly may have issues with MSFS, lowering framerates when the window is in focus." which mirrors my experience. I need to test that but god drat that's really annoying.
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Aug 26, 2020 05:09
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soggybagel posted:Why are all xbox controllers sold out on the internet? It can't be just this game...can it? If you're having trouble finding one and don't mine a Minecraft Creeper edition I have a spare one sitting around that I don't use if you'd like to buy it for $30?
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Aug 26, 2020 19:18
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JayzTwoCents has a pretty good video on what to do to get some FPS that helped my rear end a ton. I just did everything he did in the video and it's a crap ton smoother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKVhyOZaUcU
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Aug 28, 2020 13:12
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Harminoff posted:Anyone rocking a setup like this? No but holy poo poo that's amazing. Does MSFS2020 support all of this gear right out of the box without any loving around?
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Sep 1, 2020 01:33
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So the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant goes up for pre-order tomorrow, seeing how every sim peripheral is out of stock all over I'm sure trying to get this thing is going to be a shitshow: https://flyhoneycomb.com/products/bravo-throttle-quadrant?utm_campaign=emailmarketing_66823716973&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email
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Sep 1, 2020 07:07
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Romes128 posted:I'm jealous of the yoke and throttle quadrant people. Despite casually playing flight sims for years, I didn't take controls into account when buying a desk. It has two draws beneath the surface so I can't clamp anything to the desk, it's too thick. The Honeycomb Yoke actually has a huge sticky pad that you can use to mount it on a desk if the clamp doesn't work for you. My girlfriend does this and it holds really drat tight.
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Sep 1, 2020 17:40
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 ORDERS ARE LIVE FOR THE HONEYCOMB THROTTLE QUADRANT https://flyhoneycomb.com/collections/honeycomb-flight-sim-hardware/products/bravo-throttle-quadrant
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Sep 1, 2020 19:49
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simble posted:As of this post, you can order the honeycomb throttle again for "week 2 production." Why can't the loving Yoke be up for a Week 2 Production god drat it! 
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Fayez Butts posted:Im gonna continue refining this but this is what I came up with in half an hour This is a loving work of art, hell yeah.
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