Mars Exulte

Singleplayer/multiplayer has absolutely nothing to do with forum usage... I'm myself a ''singleplayer'' and I'm sure there's tons of others. This is such a dumb thing to even say @@ Like... singleplayer games don't have or use forums? Like I said ''results don't align with my worldview, therefore I shall manufacture an excuse for how I'm still not wrong'' @@

I use a modified PlaySeat Flightseat. They're about $500 last I looked, and have attachments for both sides and the center (no pedal or monitor mounts, though). I welded my own platform on the front for my stick to bolt to, but otherwise, you can adjust the sides forward/backward and height, the center mount can be lowered for a stick or raised for a steering wheel (no longer an option on mine).

I don't think I've ever seen one designed to be mounted that way. Have you considered getting one of those ''workbench'' style setups that have everything facing upwards?

Offhand, I would say it will probably run a Rift S to a playable extent, albeit with the same kind of compromises everyone else is making. How acceptable it will be to you to play on lower settings/shadows is up to you.

No, what we have here is representative of people who care enough about the game to be active on the forums. It is otherwise not specifically biased toward any particular group or subset. The ''oh it's only fractions of a percent'' is not how polls work, and people who claim otherwise are invariably bitching cause they didn't like the result. Polls are ALWAYS ''fractional'', because it's not remotely feasible to ask everybody what they think about a certain policy or candidate or whatever. Several hundred people indicates a poll that ran long enough and drew enough attention to actually be noticed, and (probably) didn't have the kind of bs questions/options that make a poll useless. ''The vocal few'' thing works both ways, and STILL indicates a certain result even if within a smaller subset. ''But I don't like the results! Their vocal few outnumbers my vocal few! It's not possible that means what it looks like it means, because clearly I'm always right!!!'' That... isn't relevant to the accuracy of a poll's sampling.

For statistical purposes, a general sampling of a few hundred people is likely to be accurate plus or minus a couple points. The smallish sample size is more indicative of utter indifference than anything else.

I like a good fight as much as the next man, but the same 3-4 people keep having the same conversation over and over, and this is like the fifth or sixth thread. Don't you guys have anything better to do? Ohhhhhhhh.... nevermind. Carry on.

I was gonna say, I thought they planned on adding Cyprus

Yeah, the computer flying the plane for us is definitely highly instructive. It's like, all the advantages of watching a youtube video, minus the informative voiceover, human interaction, and awkard typing of phrases into search bars.

Yeah, silly us, expecting people to learn n' stuff. Totally unreasonable and illogical in this day n' age.

Truly, thou wert a prophet, I did not fully appreciate this at the time.

Indeed. What did he expect, peace in the Middle East and humanity uniting because of some grainy youtube footage? I think we've had that for fifteen years already

Looks like it. Go check the mod subforum, there's quite a bit of stuff in there saying ''CA Ready'' (which presumably means it's drivable)

You're behind the times, bud. This all happened, including the announcements, like a year or two ago.

I just start it with a ''non-Steam game'' shortcut in Steam. Steam takes 30% of ED's already niche revenue.

IT'S HAPPENING I bought as fast as I could remember my login info I can't even play DCS until later this year

Yeah, you don't need two installs. You can switch back and forth between versions in a few minutes usually, cause the changes aren't so big most times. And yes, beta eventually becomes stable. That's the whole point, it's just to test changes, then it goes to the main branch. So they overlap quite a bit.

Yep, 70s/80s would have probably been a wiser longterm choice, while still providing access to the star teen fighters and modernish aircraft. Search is your friend. It's the box at the top, you can type questions and keywords and it shows you relevant posts.

The biggest problem with DCS as an FPS ''simulator'' is infantry in real life is tedious and boring and so very time consuming. Even in Arma, the closest thing to what your requesting, the environments are somewhat constricted and funnel activity... and evem then without very careful efforts, it STILL ends up being hours of boredom. DCS environments are much larger, much more freeform, and will be 100x more prone to this sort of thing. That's the biggest hold up for vehicles, too. DCS is built around much more of a ''strategic scale'' environment. As mentioned above, it's an environment where a single plane literally has the firepower to decimate an entire column, from miles away without warning... that is not a great environment to play in. So what it boils down to is that if using vics/infantry you basically are forced to pare it down to a scale that virtually eliminates that aspect, which almost immediately leads to ''why bother?''. Why bother shoehorning DCS into a role it sucks in and would require extensive work to even attempt, when there are literally a ton of products better in virtually every way at it, designed for it from the ground up, without all this added overhead and complexity? Tldr : it's not as great an idea as it first sounds, and is definitely terribly impractical. As far as ''is it a reasonable expectation it will ever happen?'' It is a resounding ''no''. Yeah this is a wishlist, blah blah, but it's not gonna happen, all there is to it. It's just not a realistic expectation with the amount of work and drawbacks. Set aside the network issues from syncing all this up and the inflated player numbers for it to be reasonable.

What you're talking about in general isn't going to happen either, to the extent this whole thread is largely pointless. As for CA being ''even more dumbed down than FC3'' that's not the longterm goal for CA either. See several recent proposals to EXPAND AND IMPROVE Combined Arms' simulation aspects. The game as a whole is literally going the exact opposite direction of what you're requesting. As previously mentioned, MAC is in development, and does utilise simplified aircraft, but that is still in the works and may very well end up a completely separate product. If it does, then that will be the place to request such aircraft, even so, they're not going to go BACKWARDS overall. This isn't a survey level game, and it's unreasonable to expect it ever will be. This sort of thing is about as sensible as asking for enhanced gardening physics. It's literally the wrong genre.

MAC/Flaming Cliffs would make more sense than CA. Otherwise the whole ''simplified aircraft'' thing is kind of up in the air. On one hand ED is making MAC, on the other they say they don't want to make simplified aircraft anymore, and then there's debate as to whether MAC will be part of DCS or a wholly separate product (most likely will be separate). I wouldn't hold my breath on any simplified aircraft at all for DCS, as it is most likely going to be focused exclusively on hi-fi aircraft with MAC as a separate product for people interested in simpler experiences.

I play with shadows at low, always have in VR. The difference between off and low is minimal performance-wise, but higher settings really hit fps but don't make much difference visually.

Depending on the method you go about it it can vary. You may be able to simply copy the whole game over directly. DCS doesn't really have a hard protection in that respect, afaik. I had no trouble moving it whole from one harddrive to another. If you uninstall and reinstall, however, you'll need to deactivate the modules on the old install, so that you can reactivate them on the new one. With that in mind, I strongly recommend just copying it wholesale for your own convenience.

Yeah, it takes the fun out of telling somebody ''RTFM NOOB'' when their response is ''Wait... there's a manual?'' -edit Another idea : put a download link to the manual ON THE STORE PAGE right beside the BUY button, just to really make it painfully obvious and easy to find.

Should be on the main menu, and on the ingame ESC menu, too.