The Star Citizen Thread v8
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Merlin, there is a reason why later versions of MiGs had better view - its called improving the design, once again we are not flying ancient oldtimers but military marvels of SC universe - any pilot would complain and the constructors would "fix" those pits. Its just faulty design, plain and simple unless its explicitly explained in lore. Accept that SC is no perfect and we should complain if something is wrong, thats the whole point of testing an alpha isnt it?
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It won't mean anything if the feeling of flying the things is that of swinging a PoV camera around. That is unlikely to change.
The mentioned MiG 21 is the product of Spviet doctrine where ground control vectors the jet all the way into the intercept. It's not a pilot's aircraft. Sit aw is for capitalists it seems. Why would we want to fly somehing like that in space combat game?
Can't yuu roll the mouse wheel to adjust walking/running speed?
Well srry guys/girls....I really tried....sometimes if I get lucky on less occupied servers FPS can go up to 20-30 but even that is barely playable.....FM sucks badly as you could see....graphics are eye candy but thats about it....anyway it is a bit more interesting to "play" 3.0 then 2.6 at least there is something to do.....
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lol no
I'm guessing if the cockpits were bigger the fps would be even lower.
It really should be seconds per frame, players need to be fully immersed in the graphical fidelity that the Vision has gifted us.
Cheers for Streaming, It was interesting to watch. Nothing I saw that makes me regret my refund! Which is actually a bit of a shame.
For the sake of your sanity and stomach give up. :x
Also that ship looks stupid. [haha]
Thanks for providing the stream. Its a nice opportunity to watch the state of the game with all its faults and glory /cheers
They've also said it's just about finished, that they like it and that bar a few tweaks, it's essentially ready
Which one should we believe.
The flight model currently in the game is bad, unpopular and needs changing.
That doesn't mean CIG are going to change it, especially with work on S42 progressing again.
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Regarding the poor visibility of the MiG-21 cockpit, I suspect that such questionable ergonomics were acceptable due to Soviet military doctrine at the time the aircraft were designed. In essence, interceptors were ground-controlled missile launch platforms, and were expected to engage beyond visual range. They were not designed as dogfighters, and the pilot would accordingly spend little of his time looking out of the cockpit. A very different scenario than the close-up visual combat that SC seems to be based around. In any case, I don't think the real issue with SC cockpits isn't poor visibility (which one can readily justify as consequential of designing for a vacuum environment, where large 'glass' panels might be a liability). The real issue seems to me to be visual clutter from a multitude of unnecessarily-elaborate elements. A real aircraft HUD is carefully designed to only present the immediately-necessary detail, and to do so as simply as possible. It is rarely pretty, but it is functional. SC seems to be designed more for looks than for function...
Indeed. t's almost as if a game has absolutely nothing to do with actual planes.
Especially SC which is a possibly a screenshot simulator but nothing else.
For reference I've been flying submarines for over 40 years and I can say categorically that there is never not a good time to not have an unobstructed completely blocked view of all the things.
That's just like submarine school 101.
Ooh I remember this one from a couple of years back "the flight model is so good it just seems terrible".
Uh... the Bards Tale series, Ultiima I-5, the first two gold box SSI games... the first BattleTech and Mechwarrior games. I can go on and on
Heh, that one is right up there with CR failing to play his own game.
There's so many comedy gold moments over the last few years..
Trying to play a flighing game which is displayed on a flat 26" screen is totally different to a real situation. The peripheral vision you have is extremely limited and you have what would be a surrounding environment all in a small space. So trying to compare the view from any aircraft is daft unless said aircraft is flown from a windowless cockpit and a single screen. VR would be needed to get anywhere near a simulated cockpit experience.
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