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The Ferret King posted:That looked really survivable until the huge explosion. If the current thread title didn't already make me giggle every time I see it, I'd suggest this as prime material.
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'm looking at updating my hotas with the Thrustmaster Warthog setup. Is there any interest here for a Saitek X65 here? The Saigek X65 is a pressure-sensor stick. Great at simulating an F-16 side stick. Terrible at everything else.
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Shanakin posted:If I want to take advantage of this sale and get FC3, I need LOMAC right? Where's the best place to get that these days http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003UEREBQ/ref=redir_mdp_mobile Comes with FC2, IIRC.
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Shanakin posted:Bugger. No Digital distribution at all? I'm not keen on paying as much shipping the game as the game itself only for it to maybe arrive at earliest a week after the DCS sale has ended. I called around to every best buy in my area, and finally found it that way. Go by sku number, so they don't get confused.
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SocketSeven posted:Is there a trim button? That would put the cyclic stick and possibly rudder pedals in a non neutral position in game, when your joystick is centered.  reply: The trim system you're describing is the case with the KA-50, but with very few, if any, other real helicopters. Most helicopters incorporate rotor trim that works more like the trim in a fixed wing airplane.
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The AccuSim B377 is loving amazing. I just wish FSX itself was up to the same standard.
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I also strongly urge you to fiddle with your control curves, particularly for your cyclic. A real helicopter cyclic is extremely long, with generally very light control forces, meaning that you end up with a large range of motion, and the ability to make extremely fine control inputs. This ability is often lost with PC sim hardware, because of their fixed-wing-centric nature, and the combination of small ranges of motion, and heavy centering forces you end up with.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Rise of Flight's sale ends TOMORROW and I want to pick it up for $10. Sadly, their download is a complete hosed up mess. You can try to download all 4.6GB from their site, which seems to be slow no matter what mirror you pick, or you can click the torrent link. Doing that, however, gets you an error page. There's an alternative torrent link hidden on their site, but THAT one's corrupt and downloads too much / too little and makes the .zip file impossible to open. I've downloaded it a few times, on multiple different computers, over a few different Internet connections in several different counties, in two different, widely separated states, and have never gotten past the login page. I always get a connection error. Oh well. 
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The Ferret King posted:Jesus christ, really? Accusim rocks, but their video dude needs to be in gay porn or something. He makes me uncomfortable when he talks about knots.
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So, BS2 upgrade customers are still hosed. Grats, ED.
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I tried to find it, to no avail, but for Arma2, look around for Dyslecxi's Littlebird Training Mission. It has great fly-alongs and ride-alongs to show you what good combat insertions and extractions look like. Plus it has an awesome respawn script. 
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The Ferret King posted:Their website says it does. It's also a website trying to sell a product so I don't know for sure. DodoSim is the best you can do with FSX, but all of their advanced flight model features are essentially hacked in. FSX structurally does not support multi engine helicopters, or many of the more advanced concepts of rotary wing flight, like vortex ring state, retreating blade stall, etc. Dodosim does what they can, but it's still not in the same league as DCS.
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The giant row of red Xs on the version chart is hilarious. They're like Top Gear coming to the US. THERE WILL BE NO FUN HAVING.
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Anyone with Prepar3d 2.x and TrackIR manage to get them to work together? I had a weak moment, this morning...
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Sappo569 posted:Did... did something happen? The day there is a DCS: 9K330 Tor, is the day I buy Combined Arms. 
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cheesetriangles posted:Decided to get back into flight sims after not playing any for the past year and a half to two years or so. Did the Nevada DLC for DCS World ever come out? And are any of the newer DCS modules any good? I have A-10C and BS2. On a tangentially related note, I own A-10C, FC2, BS, and the BS2 upgrade, and I installed DCS World through Steam. I'd like to pick up FC3, UH-1, and MI-8 through Steam, next time they go on sale, but ED hates its customers, and won't let me register BS2 on Steam. Is there any way to install Steam and non-Steam modules, and have everything Just Work?
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cormac posted:I can't for the life of me figure out why BS1 is still on sale, and they haven't bothered to enable owners of the upgrade to use it through steam, but it's pretty clear that it's never going to happen at this stage. Maybe I'm more OCD than I think, but the whole thing makes me irrationally angry.
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 Full-disclosure: my girlfriend won't let me set it up in our new place. It's in the garage, waiting for me to convince her that I'm not a lost cause.
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hobbesmaster posted:I'm sure it'll be released just after the Nevada theater. Nevada is the Duke Nukem Forever of flight simming.
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Chiwie posted:One of the developers had a poo poo fit and left, but it's still being made. DCS: Hawk should be out in the mean time. As in the BAE Hawk, or the Raytheon Hawk? One is cool. The other would give FAR more amusement to me, personally. 
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Colonial Air Force posted:And there's always Microsoft Flight! Don't even joke about that.
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Hobbiesmaster is being a smartass. P3D has the same realism settings as FSX. No tutorials though. I would recommend getting a King PPL set, or something like that, or a copy of Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche, and just practicing with that material, in the sim. In fact, if LockMart and NaturalPoint can stop fighting long enough to get TrackIR working in P3D, I'll be able to recommend it over FSX in every single case. It's simply better in every meaningful way. (Note: the default aircraft includes the J-3 cub, but the next step up from there is either an M7 Maule, a Mooney Ovation, or a Bonanza. There isn't a C-172 or PA28 analogue in the default aircraft list.)
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Keeku posted:Those who have been playing P3D 2: How is the stability compared to FSX? I love FSX, but very sick of the random game crashes (especially before landing after a long flight). Does P3D suffer from this or have they found how to fix it? Its not only more stable, but performs better, and is prettier with the same hardware. It's the way forward for FSx based simulation. I still don't think XPlane is ready for the prime time, sadly. 
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e.pilot posted:How much less buggy and optimized is P3D compared to FSX? Because FSX is a mess. It's night and day. You can still see the heritage in menus, structural stuff, etc, but the bugs have been pretty ruthlessly stomped out.
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BookaT posted:I was asked to post about this as I took this opportunity to install it. I just recently reinstalled my FSX setup and didn't want to deal with FSINN and Windows 8.1. I am one of those people. gently caress SquawkBox.
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Honestly, I feel like everyone should fiddle with the basics in a Cessna at some point. Learning to fly in a sim really isn't far from learning to fly in real life. That's the whole point of a sim, after all. Basic knowledge of how an airplane flies and reacts to control inputs pays dividends later, when you're trying to put pipper on target.
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jb7 posted:"Huh that's weird. ED just released a Pakistan map." "This is the best dynamic mission generator I've ever seen."
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If ED just copy-pasted the A2A Accu-Sim B-17 into their WWII pack, gave it weapons and multi crew, I could die a happy man. B-17 Flying Fortress III, essentially. Dare to imagine ten Goons on a six hour mission.
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Nostratic posted:So what's the deal with Prepar3d? Is it sort of modernized FSX? and I'm not getting the pricing. I may just be stupid, though. LockMart bought the FSX source code from Microsoft to develop commercial flight and systems simulators. They realized not long after that there is probably a market for a continued development of FSX, and started selling Academic licenses, which have EULAs that comply with Microsoft's "Don't compete with us in the simulator-game market" license stipulations, hence the "No Fun" chatter you hear. It's FSX, except it's been patched since 'Dubya left office, and isnt a completely broken POS. Now, though, MS has sold another license to the people behind Train Simulator, to develop a game-simulator based on FSX code. Which is what LockMart has already done in everything but EULA. THERE SHALL BE LITIGATION
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sellouts posted:PMDG have already announced they will develop for it. Avsim links. For when you absolutely, positively, don't want to ever transfer any information, other than the fact that the Avsim servers are run on Pentium IIs, or the admins have no loving concept of how to run a website in the post-1999 time period. In short, gently caress that place.
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The Ferret King posted:I feel like I have to share this every time. I'd like to pretend that I just draw out my speech because VATSIM's codec sucks (it does), but I sound just as dorky in real life. Calm controllers, best controllers. Some of my coworkers are very solidly in the SPEAKASFASTASICANTOTHECHINESEEXCHANGESTUDENTANDTHENGETUPSETWHENTHEYASKMETOREPEATMYSELFTHREETIMES camp.
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I was going to break my anti-social routine and come annoy FK with itty-bitty-patterns, but my girlfriend banged in to work, which shot my gaming plans for the evening in the forehead.  IRL, I worked a DC-9-15 today. I didn't think there were any of those left.
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Colonial Air Force posted:The MD-11 is a trijet and is therefore something you need to own. The last trijet, no less. 
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SybilVimes posted:Dassault would disagree. The last trijet that anyone cares about.
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LordPants posted:Air Hauler is kinda worth it just for when it sends you to Dade-Collier or Montréal–Mirabel and you're like "What the gently caress is this place" One of the guys in my flying club almost got shot at Dade-Collier. Miami-Dade PD was holds their sniper/counter-sniper training there, and failed to NOTAM the airport closure. He landed our 182 in the middle of their rifle range. They were not amused.
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Hadlock posted:What was the server situation like for xwing alliance? XvT required some sort of goofy Microsoft matchmaking service which was probably turned off long ago. Or you could do IPX emulation with Kali like all the cool kids used to do. The Kali XvT channel was basically my home from release in 1997, through to about 1999. Disclaimer: we were pretty much the opposite of the cool kids.
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SelenicMartian posted:Fleet Defender is now on Steam Fleet Defender posted:The catapult officer calls for full afterburner. 50,000 pounds of thrust spools behind you as your F-14 strains for release. That... Is pretty close to how I feel about it.
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Psy890 posted:If anyone is looking for a thrustmaster warthog, amazon has them on sale today for $360. Welp. There goes my new-monitor fund. 
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Got a Warthog on sale with Amazon, got it hooked up, and my G940 quit working, so now I have no rudder pedals.
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EvilJoven posted:The Carenado B58 for FSX is beautiful. Most of Carenado's recent stuff is awesome. I really like their products a lot. Their texture work especially is lifelike and realistic, without crossing the border into tacky "photorealism"
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