(Wonder if that "coordinate change" has anything to do with a round earth?)

 

I wouldn't be surprised!

Still; beautiful as Aerofly is, I have to give the nod to War Thunder for graphics and variety. This game pretty much stomps from a great height on every other sim I have ever seen, visually.

 

And despite all that graphics splendor, the game runs smooth as butter.

I got a little curious about this War Thunder, Is it a full blown combat sim or just another arcade combat flying game? Could not find any info about that on the website, the graphics looks awsome and if It's a sim I would buy into that.

I got a little curious about this War Thunder, Is it a full blown combat sim or just another arcade combat flying game? Could not find any info about that on the website, the graphics looks awsome and if It's a sim I would buy into that.

 

It has several modes, including a simplified mode and also a simulator mode with a tougher Fm and restrictions such as being stuck in cockpit mode only (no outside views) and no target Id tags (good luck identifying targets on the ground and keeping track of enemy planes!)

 

Cool! I have to check this out, bought Il2 Cliffs of Dover but do not use it at all because I cant get good performance from it and the antializing sucks. Couldn't get nvidia inspector to work with it either so It will be good to have a better WW2 sim to replace it.

Aerofly FS is taking over. Hold on to your hats laies and gents: http://www.ipacs.de/...elopment-Status

Very cool. If they succeed with those goals they might be the future sim.

Cool! I have to check this out, bought Il2 Cliffs of Dover but do not use it at all because I cant get good performance from it and the antializing sucks. Couldn't get nvidia inspector to work with it either so It will be good to have a better WW2 sim to replace it.

 

This might be helpful as well.

http://xsimreviews.com/2012/11/21/war-thunder-nda-period-is-over/

Cool! I have to check this out, bought Il2 Cliffs of Dover but do not use it at all because I cant get good performance from it and the antializing sucks. Couldn't get nvidia inspector to work with it either so It will be good to have a better WW2 sim to replace it.

That vid was pretty cool. First time I've seen the Henschel Hs129 in a flight sim. Thanks.

 

What's the usability of our Addons with prepar3d?

"card board boxes, plungers and lawn chairs"

 

Yes, right after Mayan Friday things will change! We're stocking up on Mr. Beer kits, have already bought a plow, and gathering lumber for building a horse stable in order to get to the farmers vegetable stands on market day.

Someone never got the memo, lol. Microsoft is out of the flightsim business, MS shut down the sector that made flight sims. It's very sad, but after the release of Microsoft Flight I'm not so sure that Microsoft would have done a good job anyway haha (well, I'm sure different people worked on Flight). And I agree with X-Plane, I have tried it and used it for months at a time and after every use I come back to the same conclusion: I hate it. I find it absolutely blech. So far, the only glimmer of hope is P3D, which actually looks very captivating. As long as it has good interface and is fairly "open" to tweaking and addons and what not, I think P3D would be the way to go.

What's the usability of our Addons with prepar3d?

 

None?

None?

Bad guess. Actually most FSX addons are compatible. Advanced gauge systems that depend on SimConnect are what engender the most issues folks may have. That is becaused they are compiled against a specific version of SimConnect that simply doesn't exist in a default Prepar3D installation.

Bad guess. Actually most FSX addons are compatible. Advanced gauge systems that depend on SimConnect are what engender the most issues folks may have. That is becaused they are compiled against a specific version of SimConnect that simply doesn't exist in a default Prepar3D installation.

 

Hmmmm..... then the question was unclear to me since he started by commenting about the War Thunder video before asking about compatibility......

 

I assumed he meant compatibility with WT

You seem like a technical simmer, but if you are looking for a taste of whats possible with modern systems and graphics in a flight sim (and an example of how far behind civilian sims have fallen in many areas) you could always take a quick look at War Thunder.

 

Free download is here: http://warthunder.com/

 

 

Thanks for telling me about this game. It's awesome! Unrepentantly made for multiplayer dogfighting fun, but without a flight-model that wants to make me cry *narrows eyes and glares at Hawx 2*

You don't have to fight, though. You can go into "test mode" and stooge about the countryside at rooftop height over the cities and towns, swooping over trees and banging them with your landing gear, then soaring out over the ocean to circle aircraft carriers.....

 

What it really reminds me of is what MSFlight! might have eventually become if anyone at Microsoft besides the programmers and artists had given a damn. Swooping over Hawaii or some other zones, some of the similarity's are heartbreaking.

 

Maybe one day, War Thunder will release a "civilian mode" with commercial planes.

 

http://youtu.be/saus0lroQ0o