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At least, I had my first flight yesterday in VR :) I had great expectations, and I had fears too : Would my gtx970 handle it ? Yes, no problem :thumbup: No word can describe what you are about to live when you put your headset on for the first time. OK, we read everywhere that you are actually IN the game/video/cockpit...Yes, it's right, you are, but from what I knew so far, I expected some sort of 360° TrackIR, a 360° flat image. It's so much more than that ! The most stunning is that you can see, you can feel the volumes, the actual scales. The Gazelle and the P51D cockpit are sooo tight !!! :shocking: And I can't help trying to touch every knob, I almost forget it's just images ! VR is a major step in not only video games and all sorts of sims, but I think it's the future of the way we look at images, truly. Maybe the biggest improvement in image since the Lumiere brothers showed the first moving images more than a century ago ! I lived every forward step in video games since Pong (I'm 52), but VR is by far the most incredible ! If you still hesitate to order your rift, I can tell you it's well worth the price, even if it were twice as expensive. I used to play on a 40" 4K, everything maxed out, and NEVER MORE I would be able to play a game, ANY game, on a screen, it's VR forever ! There's no going back ! What you lose in graphics (and honestly it's not that bad) you gain in immersion, sensations and EMOTION ! I tried an emergency landing with my P51 and experienced my first bad landing in VR and I actually SHOUTED when my landing gear broke and my bird crashed ! I was breathless and needed some time to recover... Talking of immersion, I have a buttkicker too and it's priceless :thumbup: I now need a moving seat and consider getting a Geko GS105 as soon as possible and everything will be perfect :) If you are about to take the plunge into VR too, buy VoiceAttack, it's almost mandatory, the mic of the rift works just fine with it. I have a G13 too, and I don't need my keyboard anymore :) I also tried a few free apps like Google Earth VR or Mission : ISS, and they give a short overview of what VR can bring in the future. Rift is my best investment ever ! :thumbup: Thanks to all for you for giving me the desire to buy one, I owe you one big time :smilewink: Edit : I'm short-sighted and presbyopic given my age and wear bifocal lenses or bifocal glasses and everything is OK with both, if your glasses are not too wide. Lenses are more comfortable though

I took the plunge too, just ordered mine ten minutes ago :) My graphic card may be the weak point of my rig (GTX 970), but never mind, it should work until I can afford something bigger :smilewink:

I noticed that too. Not only that, but when my rope tears, my fuel level decreases very very fast ! With a full tank, I run out of fuel about 10 minutes later ! :cry: Did you notice that too ? It's obviously a bug...

In fact, you just have to take his seat and that's it :thumbup:

I just discovered and intalled this great mod, and it works like a charm for me, I can't believe it's for free ! Thank you very much AlaskanGrizzly for your awesome work ! :thumbup:

I have the same problem, or even worse because I have absolutely NO sound of my Huey with or without your (fantastic ! :thumbup: ) mod when an AI Huey is next to mine, and I'm surprised I found no mention of it anywhere :(

Too bad I'm grounded for several weeks after a shoulder surgery and I can't use my right arm, but I promise you I'll try it and give you my feedback as soon as I can fly again :thumbup:

Could you share them please ? I think many people would be interested :thumbup:

You're right, but let the good old TrackIR as it was so far please. If we want to "emulate" real view for a real sim, we'll buy a VR Headset ;) Thank you in advance.

+1

I can't manage to upload my images but I have the same problem with Uh-1H, and I see as through a wide angle, a fish-eye....:cry:

Yeah, it's unplayable as it is now :( I was used to pause my TrackIR often during cold starts.....impossible now to make a cold start in MI-8 or even worse, A10 with clickable buttons everywhere And when the view is "off-limits", it auto-centers itself.....:mad:

I'm using the open beta 1.5.4 I'll try it later with the stable version ;)

I wanted to give a new try tonight, but I saw right away something was wrong : almost night, blinding red sun just rising behind the horizon, I could not see a thing, I couldn't even see the dashboard even with the lights on, and I had the default textures, not the Vietnam ones (summer). The mission starts on April 02/2012....obviously not summer ;) Did you set it like this in the first place ? Did the last update corrupt the .miz file ? The "LandTexturesSummerOther" is still in place where I put it, what's wrong ? The default trees are way to dense to let a chance to see the vehicles, but nevertheless, I go back to combat right now ! Wish me good luck ! :thumbup:

Problem solved : I had missed a switch above the two "Master Arm" switches...Everything seems OK now ;)

I have the same problem as drummer : master arm is on "arm" on center panel, "armt" is on, the gunsight is down, but I have no reticle and can't fire... No choice in the dropdown menu : there's only SA342, no L or M variant...

I just watched it and you're right, only the first minutes are ok...too bad :(

Here's the link to my track : http://dl.free.fr/mfbvkZPXp I'm looking forward for the next round ! ;)

I couldn't finish the job :( I went back, had to make again a close and low pass to have the ORANGE smoke, and wasted my rockets...:cry: Back home to rearm, I went back, got a BLUE smoke this time, fired all my rockets, I was pretty sure I destoyed it, but without any message, I went again for a new pass after rearming, and.....nothing :( Only infantry shots, no new smoke despite all the low passes, no shots from a tank.... I saw a wreck in the haze, hovered a few feet over it under the vietnamese bullets to make sure, and finally went back home, almost lost in the haze, radio compass broken... but when I had a look at the mission debriefing, I saw I just shot it, but not destroyed it. Where did it go ? However, I had a really great time, I'll fly this mission over and over, I LOVE it !:thumbup: I saved my track, I think it's worth a look, and wanted to attach it, but it's much too big, almost 22Mo, sorry :(

Third try : I won't even mention it.....:music_whistling: Fourth try : it's still running, I paused the mission to give you a direct feedback ;) I finally got the two vehicles, and I was heading home when I got the message....Despite the very bad condition of my chopper (I lost the airspeed indicator, the radio compass...and my left gunner, my bird is a total wreck), I flew back and made a close pass on the tank, got the red smoke and even managed to shoot it....I'm now on the pad, waiting for repair and rearm, and I'm going back to finish the job...I hope :) For this try, I flew very low past the hill , then came back to avoid being blinded by the rising sun... The more I try it the more I love this mission :thumbup: You could call it "Fly low and dodge the bullets" :lol: Thanks for your work, it's really immersive :thumbup:

First try : My co-pilot got shot and died in the first run and my left gunner went out of ammo, my bird took serious hits, but I managed to get back to repair and rearm...No new copilot though :music_whistling: Second run, it was my turn to die :cry: I played with the default textures and the vehicles were almost invisible, I took down one but I almost stumbled on it, let's call it luck. Maybe green tracers are the key to spot them ? Second try : the Vietnam textures are almost mandatory for this mission. I could see the vehicles, but I couldn't even shot and I didn't make it, and died in a crash rather quickly..... Yes it's hard, but it's Nam, man :smilewink: Don't change a thing, I really love it, and I'm going for a third/fourth/fifth....try, until I succeed.....or not ! :thumbup:

Hey ! thanks for this great mission :thumbup: I'm reading just now "Chickenhawk" and Wow ! I was really in the atmosphere, that's really great I admit I had to cheat a little and go in the ME to see where I had to go, and yet I hovered long minutes above waypoint 1 to locate the ruin.....actually they're almost at waypoint 2. I'm reading just now "Chickenhawk" and Wow ! I was really in the atmosphere, that's really great :) No problem with take-off of the fake insertion though I'm not a great pilot, but it's definitely not for beginners.... Keep that level, I really LOVE it ! And I already have Starway's Vietnam mod and Skull's Huey Sound Mod installed, I had a great time..... Looking forward for the campaign ! Great work, thanks :thumbup:

Looney, please keep us informed if it works : I have a G13 too, and for now I have no time to try ;)

Given the very high quality of your Gazelle, I will for sure buy it as soon as it's released, I'm confident it will be a real masterpiece :thumbup:

Yes, I have the same frame rate in Vegas and in Caucasus, at least 30/40 fps everywhere. But I think Sporg is right : altitude and temperatures may be the reason, I also feel a big difference with the Huey in NTTR, it needs much more collective to fly than in Caucasus too, and is harder to fly.