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TehStu

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6 hours ago, Gotters said:

Depending on how you play this of course, but I think helicopters could be a bit of a game changer as somebody who uses this for a bit of virtual sightseeing, my partner says lets have a look at ...... and we have a nose round. The hard part is having to loop round and get good angles of all the stuff she insists on seeing. 

 

Copters should make that all far easier.

I agree, although the Halo jet they just added does this, too. It literally has a hover mode which will stay absolutely dead stationary wherever you put it, allowing you to just strafe around using the left stick. Suddenly a viable way to see your house, as long as there's an airport nearby (it's slow).

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TehStu

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Actually, the new Halo ship is awful. It does top out at 35k intentionally, and hover mode (can you map the physical switch to a pad button?) barely allows movement. Like, you'd have to toggle hover right where you wanted to hover. Also, it doesn't take much crawling left/right or whatever to freak out the AI and have it jam open the throttle to recover from a "stall", which sends you quickly into orbit. Or not orbit, rather.

 

Anyway, topography is definitely improved where I live, but houses are random "decent ish looking suburbia". The pavilion in the local park accidentally became a house with a satellite dish.

 

Totally nitpicking of course, I can easily navigate by road and they've fixed the bridges over the interstate. The current ground textures match Bing maps satellite data right now, but what I found interesting is that the resolution is much lower in the game except for the grass in the local NCAA stadiums. I wonder if someone manually fixed those. 

 

I definitely need a HOTAS, struggling with the pad for anything other than ham fisted sight-seeing.

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Boozy The Clown

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Took the plunge and bought a HOTAS today. I had to watch a ton of videos regarding settings and setups get started with it. I spent most of the day thinking I was daft to buy such a device but it was a combination of retail therapy, pay day & availability locally that led to it. I've gotten to grips with the basics now, though there's still a load of buttons I have no idea what they do. I was heavily sceptical towards it most of the day but persevered until I flew the Top Gun Jet. After an  initial attempt at take off and having no Afterburner input, I fixed that and took off from Prestwick, Got it 40,000ft in the air and just had a ball taking it up to height then diving down through a thick clouds to try some low level flying at top speed around the highlands. 

 

I've been playing FS for a year on and off but have never really ventured far outside of Scotland. It's now time to see the world and try a bunch of the more challenging planes.

 

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Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas One for xbox/PC. £80 from Argos. I've managed to set up Sensitivity settings for the various Axis on the stick to get it nice and smooth and have managed to put full 360 freeflow cockpit cameras on the Hat button. I'm sure there's tons of other tips and tricks to using it which I'd be more than glad to take advice on. I'm using Squirrel's tutorial videos on youtube as a guide to flying but if anyone knows of other good tutorial videos or webpages a recommendation is more than welcome. 

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Not much really, I don’t use the default MSFS configurator on PC as there are better third party alternatives. Definitely set up plane specific profiles outside the standard control surfaces, get some good camera shortcuts in place, try and map the controls that you need at hand for critical phases of the flight (eg taking off and landing). I have things like flaps, autopilot etc under my fingers/thumbs. Main thing is just have fun with the increased control, having a proper throttle is by far the biggest positive IMO

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After the HOTAS purchase I've put about 60 more hours into this and am now over 200 hours. On Saturday I bought a Spitfire in the sale using rewards $$$. Last night I watched DUNKIRK and now I'm chilling out watching this livestream which is the aeroplane equivalent of the Goodwood hill climb. 

 

I'm going to end up as a plane spotter in the future.

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Boozy The Clown said:

After the HOTAS purchase I've put about 60 more hours into this and am now over 200 hours. On Saturday I bought a Spitfire in the sale using rewards $$$. Last night I watched DUNKIRK and now I'm chilling out watching this livestream which is the aeroplane equivalent of the Goodwood hill climb. 

 

I'm going to end up as a plane spotter in the future.

 

 

 

Superb stuff.

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I've got the PS4 version of yon Thrustmaster HOTAS (think it's called T-Flight 4 on the PS4) and it works fine on Windows so I've been revisiting MSFS (although I haven't tried VR yet). 

 

One thing I really wish they would add is a proper photo mode. My system isn't the fanciest (6GB GeForce 1070 and some kind of i5 CPU). It's perfectly playable but I have to turn the detail down for obvious reasons, especially in built-up areas / at low altitude.

 

I'd love to be able to compose a photo and then tell it to go off and render in the highest possible detail, as you get with games like Gran Turismo or Forza. All this photogrammetry is a bit wasted on poor little 3080-less me. 😭

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On 18/07/2022 at 20:02, spanx said:

It’s been too hot to play for ages, stupid PC. Can’t wait for the temp to drop a bit so I can fly again

 

too hot to build my new PC bits up as well! Got that 5800x3d looking at me in the corner of the room. Maybe soon.

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TehStu

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4 hours ago, Vespa Alex said:

Ah, love the DC3, and was that the Spruce Goose at the end?

 

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We are also celebrating the storied history of aviation with seven famous historical aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. These aircraft include the 1903 Wright Flyer, the 1915 Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, the 1927 Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, the 1935 Douglas DC-3, the beautiful 1937 Grumman G-21 Goose, the 1947 Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, and the famous 1947 Hughes H-4 Hercules (the largest seaplane and largest wooden plane ever made), also known as the Spruce Goose.

 

Oh yeah.

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Just had my first flight using FSHud (fshud.com) to replace the default ATC, and my god it’s a massive improvement. In that it actually works. A bit pricey (£30ish) but if you’re looking to up your instrument flying game (and have it on PC) from initial experience this is brilliant. 

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