When the SDK comes out (assuming it support scenery editing), I'll be doing a proper hand-crafted rendition of my neighborhood. Since I live in the middle of nowhere, it'll be easy enough to do
Game Discussions Microsoft Flight Simulator
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I'm unable to figure out how to configure my joystick.
The game sees it, and lets me create a profile for it (with nothing filled in). From there I can select from what it thinks are over 100 buttons (my joystick is a VKB Gladiator MKII -- it has maybe 15 buttons). I can select the various axes, and the sensitivity thing works, but I can't actually assign anything to anything.
So I'm temporarily stymied. This is even worse than ED's control configuration, and that's saying something.
Time to look for help...somewhere. lol.
The game sees it, and lets me create a profile for it (with nothing filled in). From there I can select from what it thinks are over 100 buttons (my joystick is a VKB Gladiator MKII -- it has maybe 15 buttons). I can select the various axes, and the sensitivity thing works, but I can't actually assign anything to anything.
So I'm temporarily stymied. This is even worse than ED's control configuration, and that's saying something.
Time to look for help...somewhere. lol.
This makes me feel less bad about having crappy internet. It might not be the fastest Internet, but it's faster the what Microsoft's servers are feeding me at the moment. Not that I blame them, this is a TON of data to stream to potentially millions of people at one time.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable disappointment when I try to locate the Orkney islands and there's just a blank space with 'Here be dragons' written on the map...the national weather maps are pretty much the same, they just have 'Shyte weather' embossed on the map anywhere above Inverness
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Been messing with this for the last 3 hours or so (where did the time go???). Found 3 family home locations (in 3 countries), the one I live currently in even matched in terms of the textures of the 3D model. The other two (one less known city, and a tiny village in middle of nowhere) have auto-gen placeholders but they're in the right spot and could easily be found by following landmarks and major roads.
Running on high default settings, getting between 45-60fps depending on where I am (NYC is obviously worse than the middle of nowhere). But the middle of nowhere never looked better in a flightsim. I'm seriously impressed with this. I do seem to have problems with the FPS limiter, when setting it to 30 it seems to lock it at 20. Hope this gets fixed, or maybe I'll try to limit it via Nvidia settings instead.
Also is very playable indeed with an Xbox pad, once I worked out where the sensitivity settings were. And TrackIR works like a charm.
Love it.
Running on high default settings, getting between 45-60fps depending on where I am (NYC is obviously worse than the middle of nowhere). But the middle of nowhere never looked better in a flightsim. I'm seriously impressed with this. I do seem to have problems with the FPS limiter, when setting it to 30 it seems to lock it at 20. Hope this gets fixed, or maybe I'll try to limit it via Nvidia settings instead.
Also is very playable indeed with an Xbox pad, once I worked out where the sensitivity settings were. And TrackIR works like a charm.
Love it.
It works, just don't rely on MS getting their screenshots correct! I called this out in the Alpha stage.
Do not use direct button selection when assigning elements to the X52. They have the Joystick L (throttle in the picture and in my book) and Joystick R (stick) confused.
The way to get them assigned is to go into the feature you wish to assign and in the very top box, click, and it will ask you to press the appropriate button and/or axis to be used. This is how I found out they were the wrong way round!I now have the basic controls assigned, throttle, ailerons, elevator (rudder is on pedals and they worked fine out of the box), flaps, gear, etc.
Just did a 2:45 flight from Manchester to Madrid and landed safely.
I also got a picture of my house before hand when messing with control assignments!
I'm not telling you which one it is though! 
The Premium Deluxe content is around 4Gb, are you sure it's not just downloading that? Because they've just put in a few fixes for it not showing up before... took me a while, but I got there.
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That's exactly what it is. One of the initial file names gave it away i.e. 787. Content was missing despite having paid for the Premium Deluxe edition so seems they sorted that now.
Having issues with the third tutorial mission (take off and level flight). It asks me to full throttle which I do on the HOTAS (and even on the in cockpit throttle it says 100% throttle) but then if fails the mission saying speed isn't high enough?
Got it to work by pulling cockpit throttle out then back in again. Then it seemed to bug out when I got to 1500 ft. :S
Got it to work by pulling cockpit throttle out then back in again. Then it seemed to bug out when I got to 1500 ft. :S
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They just don't understand island development.I'm just waiting for the inevitable disappointment when I try to locate the Orkney islands and there's just a blank space with 'Here be dragons' written on the map...the national weather maps are pretty much the same, they just have 'Shyte weather' embossed on the map anywhere above Inverness
It doesn't matter - we'll load up on cluster bombs and level the whole place! looks believable tho.
I'll do you a screenshot. I flew from Kirkwall to Flotta the other day...I'm just waiting for the inevitable disappointment when I try to locate the Orkney islands and there's just a blank space with 'Here be dragons' written on the map...the national weather maps are pretty much the same, they just have 'Shyte weather' embossed on the map anywhere above Inverness
I can't wait, please do...but turn live weather off as it's pretty miserable here today...I'm a bit further north than the main island though, Kirkwall is a 3 hour ferry trip away... or 11 minutes by plane.
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I had to create a new XBox account (never bothered with it before). Did you already have an account? If so, it should have given you the chance to change your tag when you first created it. I was very pleased it allowed spaces in the name
I have been able to change my tag and sub tags for children before. Shouldnt be a problem probably just buried in sub menus.
Got an email from IC game studios today...dev studio responsible for IL2 if anyone didn't know. Here's an extract...
'REAL VIRTUAL PILOTS FLY COMBAT
Attention Pilots!
We are aware that many of you are sight-seeing in your Cessna or flying an Airbus today. We consider this activity a little perverse of course. Not that there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not our thing! However, with everyone being in a flying mood today, we have launched our REAL VIRTUAL PILOTS FLY COMBAT Sale with some mind-blowing savings on several Great Battles products.
If you’ve wish-listed any of our products on Steam or been thinking about grabbing one of these from our website now is the time to make your move! We’re almost giving them away. Get in the cockpit today and BECOME A WARRIOR NOT A TOURIST! Tell your General Aviation friends this hobby is much more than driving a bus with wings.'
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'REAL VIRTUAL PILOTS FLY COMBAT
Attention Pilots!
We are aware that many of you are sight-seeing in your Cessna or flying an Airbus today. We consider this activity a little perverse of course. Not that there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not our thing! However, with everyone being in a flying mood today, we have launched our REAL VIRTUAL PILOTS FLY COMBAT Sale with some mind-blowing savings on several Great Battles products.
If you’ve wish-listed any of our products on Steam or been thinking about grabbing one of these from our website now is the time to make your move! We’re almost giving them away. Get in the cockpit today and BECOME A WARRIOR NOT A TOURIST! Tell your General Aviation friends this hobby is much more than driving a bus with wings.'
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