V
Mitch
IL-2 had mega patches, and like Papy servers, you had to be up to***on
thepatches to use the servers. Make sure you are fully patched from here:
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
V
I just got IL-2 myself on a kinda-sorta rep of being "the GPL of flight
sims";
..good sim, but boy, it's well hard to shoot down anything. These
***s sure want to stay alive and their 'planes seem to be made of
Mithril or something <cue Tolkien fans>. For wot it's worth I got blown
out of the sky by that lowly ME323 because I quickly found out it was
armed and its gunners wanted to eat newbie for breakfast ;)
(Did manage to get my first offline kills later (on Day 2) tho; shot
down two HE129 ground attack planes from my IL2, and managed to take off
& land without wrecking my underpan.. eh undercarriage as well ;)
I do feel I need to get a joystick for it though.. it does fly rather
cr*ppy with the keyboard, and me GPL wheel just won't cut it either.
(Anyone got a good little gameport stick left over? :)
Regards, Rudy
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GPLRank: -23
> Hee hee, glad I'm not the only one getting his bits shot off all over
> the place ;)
> I just got IL-2 myself on a kinda-sorta rep of being "the GPL of flight
> sims";
> ..good sim, but boy, it's well hard to shoot down anything. These
> ***s sure want to stay alive and their 'planes seem to be made of
> Mithril or something <cue Tolkien fans>. For wot it's worth I got blown
> out of the sky by that lowly ME323 because I quickly found out it was
> armed and its gunners wanted to eat newbie for breakfast ;)
> (Did manage to get my first offline kills later (on Day 2) tho; shot
> down two HE129 ground attack planes from my IL2, and managed to take off
> & land without wrecking my underpan.. eh undercarriage as well ;)
> I do feel I need to get a joystick for it though.. it does fly rather
> cr*ppy with the keyboard, and me GPL wheel just won't cut it either.
> (Anyone got a good little gameport stick left over? :)
> Regards, Rudy
> --------------------
> GPLRank: -23
V
Ah, no. Sounds like you haven't flight simmed for awhile.
If you really want to go all out guys, you need to get a hotas setup.
Just like sim racing; you get what you pay for equipment-wise.
Well, except for the pos TM Cougar anyway.
You got airborne in IL-2? -Wow!
Didn't manage that in 2hrs of trying with my Thrustmaster HOTAS + rudder
pedals setup. Then I turned on the relaxed realism settings and found that
too arcady, so I unstalled the demo and gave the flightsim hardware to a
friend.
If I wasn't into race simming as much as I am, I would have persevered with
the full version though. It felt very good, I was just too ***at it.
Jan.
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No, you don't need a hotas, but it makes things much more enjoyable.
Don't need a wheel/pedal unit for racing sims either, but..........
"Some of the knobs aren't configurable unless you program them...." Um,
yes, so ? Same as any stick.
But yep, you can definately play most flight sims with a good programmable
stick, where you program in whatever functions you want to the various
buttons, etc., and use the keyboard for the rest. Just a hell of a lot
easier with a hotass; no keyboard at all then.
Did you release the wheel brakes ? <g>
