Its a good job you never had to fly a b29 or a multitude of other ww2 aircraft.
FDL horrid cockpit
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Its a good job you never had to fly a b29 or a multitude of other ww2 aircraft.
It's initially a little jarring, but for me it's not an issue.
Perhaps using a headtracking device will alleviate the issue - I use FreePIE on my smartphone with Opentrack, and found that I basically didn't notice the bars at all after a while.
Perhaps using a headtracking device will alleviate the issue - I use FreePIE on my smartphone with Opentrack, and found that I basically didn't notice the bars at all after a while.
How so?
I will certanly try that, and not just for FDL. Thanks for showing me this option.
But without VR or head tracking this ships' cockpit is simply unbearable for me
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I have no problems with the FDL at all.
But I have my mouse cursor activated in settings, which helps enormously.
Please read the op.
Also I fail to understand how leisure yacht seat coupled with rudimentary WW2 counter fighter canopy, the one which is better suited for centerline pilot placement at that, adds to combat performance.
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I had an FDL. The cockpit is super weird but you can get used to it with time. Took me a bit.
But they Python IS a medium ship. It goes on a medium pad. The Python is only 6 meters longer and wider than the FDL, with essentially the same height. When we’re talking about ships that are nearly 100 meters long, that’s not all that massive a difference. Noticeable to be sure, but not massive.
By comparison a large ship like thof Conda, is more than 50% longer than either of those, and more than twice as tall.
But they Python IS a medium ship. It goes on a medium pad. The Python is only 6 meters longer and wider than the FDL, with essentially the same height. When we’re talking about ships that are nearly 100 meters long, that’s not all that massive a difference. Noticeable to be sure, but not massive.
By comparison a large ship like thof Conda, is more than 50% longer than either of those, and more than twice as tall.
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And, hilariously enough, the conda only has 40 ton on the base hull mass of the python... stretching that much metal around that high a volume... repairs should be cheap as hell, unless popsicle sticks and aluminum foil are banned...
1. I did read.
2. Its personal preference.
3. I like the cockpit looking like that because it feels somewhat like a joke. They tried to make a combat ship for wealthy that go bounty hunting for fun. So they added in a yatch cockpit missed with a fighter cockpit because they didn't know what to do.
2. Its personal preference.
3. I like the cockpit looking like that because it feels somewhat like a joke. They tried to make a combat ship for wealthy that go bounty hunting for fun. So they added in a yatch cockpit missed with a fighter cockpit because they didn't know what to do.
After all the nerfs, Python could be flown only like big ships do (by flying backwards and trading hits). Opposite from Clipper, which is flown like a medium ship. And it's just that I had read somewhere that Python is counted as a big ship by some internal in-game parameters, but I can't find that info atm somehow.
My point is that FDL while being best PVP ship, and having no alternatives with similar characteristics, being impossible to fly for some people is not ok.
I fly with KB+M atm, my cheap HOTAS have too much deadzones to it to aim with fixed weapons, especially with FA OFF sometimes.
And yes, alternative cockpits' implementation is the one of solutions. Dont care if I have to pay or not (unless they will cost 50$ or something). Saying that it becomes a P2W aspect is agreeing on the fact that the current cockpit is not good.
And btw, quite alot of ships could use some alternative cockpits (like without wires sticking out like this ship was stolen to be sold to you for 140 mil base cost
).Lol! It’s true tho. Someone did the math once and figured out just how unbelievably light the conda is for it’s size. According to them anyway, if you pumped the air out of it the Coda would float in the earths atmosphere like a boat lol.
The cockpit asymmetry takes some getting used to. I know I felt like I was sitting on the starboard wing every time I flew for about the first week. Now I don't notice it at all.
I fly with KB+M atm, my cheap HOTAS have too much deadzones to it to aim with fixed weapons, especially with FA OFF sometimes.
And yes, alternative cockpits' implementation is the one of solutions. Dont care if I have to pay or not (unless they will cost 50$ or something). Saying that it becomes a P2W aspect is agreeing on the fact that the current cockpit is not good.
And btw, quite alot of ships could use some alternative cockpits (like without wires sticking out like this ship was stolen to be sold to you for 140 mil base cost
I like the look of the FDL, but the offcentre cockpit struts throw my sense of direction off when I'm flying with hardpoints retracted so I crash into things like the letterbox. I'm the same in all the offcentre ships, but the FDL is the only one I consider putting up with it for.
Left right or centre seat via the store for the same price as whatever the cockpit decorations cost could be the way. Or an engineering option with seat placement and transparent bubble canopies (better visuals but less robust) on offer.
There's an option to put a dot in your HUD . You will forget about the lack of simetry in time
Same person you recommended enabling mouse widget recommended me to do so five posts above [haha].
Thing is, it doesn't rly help.
The cockpit of this ship is simply incompatible with some peoples' physiology. That with this ship having no direct alternatives is an issue.
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By FD lore, the FDL was designed as a leisure yacht, and only afterwards modified for bounty hunting. It was not "meant to be" a "combat ship"... by lore. If you buy into that. So, scratch all the "fighter plane" stuff as the ship was not designed as such.
I cannot believe that the support structure of the canopy renders the ship impossible for anyone to fly. Annoying to some? Probably. Impossible to operate? That's a long stretch... You do realize, every ship has a canopy support structure yeah? How do you deal with the others?