immersion

I see from time to time fellow simmers complaining that such or such flaw of the sim has "ruined their immersion". I certainly do not want to judge in anyway their feeling, just to say that immersion can vary very much from one another.

I've just completed a flight with the excellent  Sim Skunk Works G-91, a Cold War subsonic jet without autopilot, from Yerevan in Armenia to a small AFB runway near Tabriz in Iran. Great landscapes (volcanoes, lakes etc.) but the mesh was so so in places, the light overexposed on my SDR monitor and the tile colors were badly  harmonized at arrival  but... I was there. All the flaws were forgotten, I was busy taking off without killing myself, then keeping altitude and heading, glancing at the landscape seeing the best of it and then stressed to do a good landing which is not particularly easy either with the Gina ( I did 👍) .

If you read me you may have noticed that I am not specially what you would call a f_nboy 😋 but the cocktail of aircraft, weather, imagery served on my old jalopy of a computer was heady enough that... I was there. I wonder whether having played flight simulators for so long has not made me both more demanding to get a sim close to what was promoted  but also more indulgent when immersion is concerned. This sim can be really immersive if you concentrate on what it is made for, in one word "flying".

Edited November 17, 20214 yr by Dominique_K