I'm NOT disappointed for this and other reasons. I'm more disappointed that MFS won't have VR support out-of-the-box. I'm also very much looking forward to Starbase, which is like Space Engineers MMO.
I'm NOT disappointed for this and other reasons. I'm more disappointed that MFS won't have VR support out-of-the-box. I'm also very much looking forward to Starbase, which is like Space Engineers MMO.
As for Elite, VR is the main reason I play these days, and the best VR experiences can be found in small ships like the Eagle, not the menu-heavy fleet carrier. That said, I am HAPPY that fleet carriers are coming (despite my lack of interest in them), because it's driving players to Borann. Hunting for players to pirate down in the beautiful rings of Borann A2 is very enjoyable in VR
and hopefully some of that will get into this SIM and stop it turning into a massive airborne memory test. Airliners don't interest me much, but I'd love to fly a piper cub or other lightweight over my house one day or practice short-field landing in the sports-field around the corner. Ridiculous, innit? What I found was helping is the clickable cockpits, like in DCS. Is more easy to remember "Flip dem switches on dis panel then dose on dat panel!" for startups than "ctrl-alt-shift-^" clears altimeter rotarition magneton and stuff like that. 1st rule of blissful sim player is also to not care about lights. Except backlites. I need to see dem needles. Except for der RPM and moter needles. Who needs needles for der moter when we have ear?!I don't know - I found a lot of flight sims pretty tedious. The problem with civil sims is often that - almost literally - nothing happens. Plus they can take a very long time to learn. I was very big on them back in the day (back when G'N'R were in the charts!) on the Amiga, but I haven't really bothered with them on PC. Much as I haven't bothered with Chinese Democracy..... I remember they ("They" Flight Sims, not "They" Axl and Co) went through this tedious phase of (apparent) hyper realism which meant you were spending 30 minutes before each flight preflighting the aircraft and warming up the engines. What made it even more tedious is that often they required massive collections of key combinations that needed to be memorised in order to turn on the carb heat as opposed to extending the flaps by 20 degrees. I hope that there are sensible ones in this and much of it can be done by looking at controls (it's easier to recall where the is than whether it's ALT-SHIFT-P or ALT-SHIFT-Q to turn on the landing lights!). I like the control methods in E
one area of concern is how good the game looks. Hopefully this does not mean it'll require silly hardware to run it. I think I might be tempted to pick this one up and see if I can rekindle my love of flight sims. I loved Flight Simulation on the spectrum, Falcon 2.0 on the Amiga, Interceptor on the Amiga and so many others. I think the last one I bought was probably MS Flight Simulator 2000 and I didn't have a flight stick so I hardly played it at the time.
No more learning keybinds! The essentials are always the same for flight sims, anyway. And startup procedures don't vary much - principle is always the same. Battery - fuel system - aux power - engine start (simplified).
Bandwidth requirements I presume are for the full monty of real time local actual weather, actual aircraft and any and all terrain you have not pre-downloaded I presume (I may be wrong but I recall you could download areas?). In terms of "world" it should not be an issue as long as you have pre-dowmload the areas you plan to fly in your next session etc, so unless I have missed something the high bandwidth is for real time stuff only no?
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