yeah, quality...'Chickenhawk' walt
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Combat helicopter flight sim
- Thread starter gorilla
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I used to love Comanche 3. Terrain masking etc really worked - snurgling in through valleys, avoiding SAM sites, launching missiles from distance... then an SU-25 Frogfoot strafes you out of the sky. Many a happy hour.
Runnybabbit
GCM
I believe that Vipil are working on having a heli set-up HOTAS for the back end of this year. If you haven't checked out their stuff, you might like to check out a few reviews, well engineered (for that, read over-engineered) gear. Having said that, it's a bit pricey!
Additionally, with regard to VR, the one to hold out for being delivered to the masses, is StarVR, though you'd need to sell a few organs to cover the cost at the moment. Full human peripheral vision capability, with eye-tracking built in, it should be the dogs-doodahs for those that have the dosh..
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Ultra-wide FOV Headset StarVR One Priced at $3,200, Selling to Enterprise Only
StarVR One, the ultra-wide field of view (FOV) VR headset, has traveled a long and winding path on its way to launch since it was first announced in late 2018 that developers and enterprise would be able to apply for hardware. Now the Taipei-based company has detailed price and availability in...
www.roadtovr.com
Lastly, I had a cabby on these rudder pedals from Thrustmaster, and the difference between these and standard offerings of other manufacturers is night-and-day. Very fluid feel, functioning as per a real aircraft, but again, not cheap:
Thrustmaster TPR: The best flight sim pedals you can buy in a store like a normal person
High quality, high precision, and mod-friendly—even if they look a little odd.
FlightSim.Com - Review: Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder System
Review: Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder System. The rudder may be somewhat overlooked as an aircraft control but having proper rudder pedals can actually make your flight simulator time much more real. Airline pilot Tony Vallillo puts the <b><i>Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder System</i></b> to the...
www.flightsim.com
StormsInAfrica
War Hero
Connors walt!
Tank sim controllers are about the same.
However, a regular throttle will work fine. If the two DCS modules I've tried (Huey and Gazelle) are any indication, you don't need a throttle, and the throttle you have will work fine as a collective.
gaijin
LE
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NSP
LE
I got a pennies deal on Helliborne and I can't leave it alone. On the Soviet side I'm sporting a MiL-8 armed with more teeth than you can shake a stick at, some seriously tooled-up door-gunners and 2/3rd platoon of infantry; a top-end Hind and a licence-built Romanian Puma with some serious toys. I'm using this squadron to fight my way up to enough points to bring my US side up to the same level - although so far the only showing is a Chinook - but you should see what's hanging out of the doors! And what's hanging off of pylons I wasn't aware could be hung off of it (and probably can't, else we would have already).
NSP
LE
Took me ages to realise that I was piling the Gazelle in by over-torquing the rotor when I shoved the throttle slider all the way up.
Just need to work out which key commands give me weapons lock/release and assign them to the joystick and I might get something out of it.
Completed the UN mission with the UH-1 with DCS. (The default which comes with the module). Not bad. Decided to acquire the Greek campaign (Argo), and have come to a screeching halt due to a bug in the campaign. Unfortunately, DCS has changed since the campaign was released, and few things broke. Unsure if I want to get the German campaign. Will probably move back to the F-5E.
NSP
LE
I think you need to swap out some infantry for a mortar team in a transport heli', drop the team off somewhere near your target then switch to a heli' with a mortar controller onboard and select him as the active weapon then put the cross on what you want to mallet with indirect fire to do that.
NSP
LE
If someone figures out how to build an online team I'm in.
NSP
LE
Just got the Take On: Helicopters sim plus Hinds on offer on Steam, about a fiver for the lot. Bit more sophisticated in the flight model than the other two cited Hind games but reacts like a real heli - heavy-handed and it falls out of the sky; gentle input and it plays. Just taken a Merlin down a nice Afghan valley without twatting anything. There's a gunner on the ramp but he has eff all to do in the instant action training mode. Although I did discover that if I land it and get out I'm tooling about with an M4 and a Holywood mag carrier on my vest.
Dashing_Chap
LE
NSP
LE
No idea.
TamH70
MIA
It's heavily integrated into ARMA 3, yes. Same engine and everything.
