panton41

I have the Hornet and Harrier and picked up the F-5 for shits and giggles during the Steam Lunar New Year sale. I mostly fly it just for the fun of it without much thought to learning much more than basic airmanship. A big plus is the systems are so simple I'd memorized the startup and taxi procedure just by reading the manual a few times. (I had a lot of downtime at my old job.) I've described it to my friends who play video games as a scooter with wings, while the Hornet is a car with all the electronic bells and whistles and you're not quite sure what everything does. (The Harrier is a 4-wheeler for mudding, the F-14 is a muscle car and the A-10 is a panel van for bombs.) Whether it's worth getting is up to you, but I'd recommend getting it (and really any DCS module) on sale.

I've found mapping software in general to not be worth the effort. Especially since most flight (and driving) sims have such good mapping options built in. Now, for the Steam Controller the mapping software is virtually mandatory to make it even remotely useful with any game.

I won a set of Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs in an eBay auction along with the CH Products HOTAS stuff I really wanted. I play in VR, so actually seeing them would be difficult, but would they still be useful anyway? Does anyone have hands-on experience using the MFDs and VR at the same time? I'm sure the answer is "Just try it and see" but between several external drives, the VR headset itself, the HOTAS and the usual keyboard and mouse I'm simply out of USB ports and don't have a hub to plug them into. A good powered USB hub is on my to-buy list, and I even had one shipped halfway to me just this week, but Amazon lost the "two-day Prime" package twice and after five days of waiting and two seperate packages with the same item getting lost twice in three days I just canceled it. (Amazon shipping, as opposed to UPS, FedEx or US Postal Service, is terrible and loses packages on a monthly basis for me.)

I found a little program on Steam called OVR Drop that will let you set an overlay, which can repeat certain windows or a specific monitor and be mapped to a certain (virtual) part the hand controllers so the virtual "top" of the controller has the overlay and the "bottom" makes it invisible. You can also just plain let them be screens "hovering" at a fixed point, though they're always on top of everything else. It's a huge pain in the butt to set up, but once you do it's nice. It's not much use in DCS for stuff like reading manuals, but for watching videos (but not HDCP protected, so no Netflix or Hulu) and consuming with other media like that. I'd imagine if YouTube works you could watch DCS guides while following along in-game. I once spent an evening playing Elite: Dangerous with the TV series Firefly playing like a drop-down screen in an SUV.

Once it's established a bit and in actual production I might be able to talk myself into getting one. As cool as DCS in VR is I'm reluctant to play because reaching for the mouse is so immersion breaking it kills the fun of VR.

Makes me think of a scenario I played in Command Air/Naval Operations where I had Paveways getting shot down by AAA sites near the target. I didn't even know that was possible, but didn't entirely doubt it knowing the game's reputation. (It's essentially old school Harpoon, but with DCS levels of realism.)

With how volatile cryptocurrencies are you'll see the price on the store page as one value that's roughly US$50, pay half that number in coins because they went up that much in value in the last 5 minutes, and by the time ED cashes out (because you can't pay the power bill with cryptocurrency) it'll be worth US0.97 because the market collapsed when people realized they're worthless. As far as commodities go (and cryptocurrencies are commodities by every legal definition) at least you can eat corn and burn oil because they have intrinsic value.

When I was a kid I'd bicycle down the streets of my neighborhood at unsafe speeds with the other kids pretending to be a pair of F-14s. I painted my bike helmet to look like a fighter pilot's helmet. (I also pulled a "Goose" and destroyed that helmet when I wrecked into my neighbor's house.) I'd also swing *really* high at the park pretending to be dogfighting and jump out to ejecting. Closest thing I have to authentic flight gear is a civilian CWU-45/P aviator's coat from Alpha Industries. It's just plain a nice looking coat that gets comments all the time.

For what it's worth Thrustmaster makes a left/right handed pair of the T16000 sticks for Elite Dangerous. In that game you can map one stick as the throttle and use it for forward and reverse thrust as needed.

Happening with me on an Asus Mixed Reality. I've repaired as well. I don't play often but it seems to have started about the same time you reported. Edit: Setting the Windows Mixed Reality for Steam and SteamVR apps to "beta" fixed the problem. Strictly speaking this is a bug in DCS World since it works just fine with the stable versions of both apps in other games, but seeing how the beta releases of the apps fixes the problem (and whatever did it will probably be merged into the stable app in the future) then I'd argue with workaround is a plenty good enough fix to be considered solved.

While in VR with Asus Windows Mixed Reality when I open the pause menu (i.e. press Escape) I can't click on items on the upper half of the screen. I haven't tested if it's registering clicks on the upper half of the display in-game since that need hasn't come up and I'm really needing to fiddle with the Option settings in-game first, which is a selection I can't choose. Specifically, it doesn't register that the cursor is over those items and highlight them with the darkened box and trying to click them without the highlight doesn't do anything.

I know the OP is posting it as a bug, but to me this is a useful feature for practicing bombing runs. I haven't really played combat flight sims in close to 15 years and between my rusty skills and the newer simulators being so much more realistic the immediate BDA would mean I could "score" my bombing passes immediately.

I have the Asus WMR and I gave my TrackIR to my best friend for playing Elite: Dangerous (and hopefully to multi-crew in DCS: F-14B one day) because there's no comparison for immersion.