Pre purchase question - VR

[muehlema]

Hi

 

 

I read several complaints about the F14 and VR use.

 

 

Before I pull the trigger, because i want to buzz the tower, is this bird usable in VR or not?

 

 

 

The F18 is flawless and performing very well on my system. So can I assume the same for teh F14?

 

 

Thanks for feedback

[uri_ba]

I only did one IA yesterday, vanilla DCS, no shader mod (I'm on Vive W/1080)

It performed very well, displays are readable. But I haven't done very much head down stuff...

 

What struck me is the enourmus size of the cockpit. It's massive!

 

Haven't tried RIO pit yet.

[Larkis]

To talk about Pilot.

 

 

No Problems here. There are some problems on reading buttonlabels, but mostly they are for tests only and can be ignored. HUD and Monitores are easy readable. The warnlights around the HUD are easy readable.

 

 

And its just awesome to look back and see that MASSIVE Plane behind you. :pilotfly:

[birdstrike]

vr works good with the F-14. and what i didnt expect....its fu**ing awesome to sit in vr on the rio seat, and let your friends take the front seat...not that i had the slightest clue what to do on the backseat yet, lol, still just amazing. only the watch the pilot animations in multiplayer is great.

[Sephyrius]

vr works good with the F-14. and what i didnt expect....its fu**ing awesome to sit in vr on the rio seat, and let your friends take the front seat...not that i had the slightest clue what to do on the backseat yet, lol, still just amazing. only the watch the pilot animations in multiplayer is great.

 

Sitting through dogfighting maneuvers without personally controlling it does seem like a surefire way to induce nausea though.

[Whisper]

Not the worst performance in VR (I think the Gazelle ou Mig21 have that title), but not the best, It's rather performance heavy, though I've made zero optimization yet, will do tonight (like clearing shader cache).

I've not done RIO job, only pilot. The TACAN readout is far too small, that makes it unuseable form the pilot cockpit, but your RIO is there for that. Hopefully the TACAN is more readable on the RIO pit.

There are some information written in little caracters, like the state of the Wing Sweep system (manual or auto), they need you to either zoom or close up on the readout. But most of them are text in fixed place, which means once you know the pit, you don't need to read the text, just know where the text is (ie, for the Wing Sweep system state, the "auto" state is writtent above the "manual" state, so seeing that the text is "rather on top" makes you know you are in auto mode).

Some other are badly written due to the worn state of the cockpit (like if I remember well, the ICS switch, the "Hot Mic" is kinda unreadable).

 

Last, I have a general "problem" in DCS in that the feeling of speed is rather absent. I feel it's worse with the Tomcat, I've ended up in a slow turnfight with a Fulcrum without realizing I had gone that slow. Ended up with my RIO kissing his seat goobye and me feet wet in the ocean :D

But it's just from 1 flight

 

Other than that, that bird is love in VR.

[Georgio]

Only had a chance for a quick flight and this is a beauty in VR, the cockpits are suitably grimy and lived in.

Only on a normal Rift but it looks fantastic and I can read most dials without having to use VR zoom...:thumbup:

[deadpool]

As previously no RIO has written a reply:

 

 

Very usable in VR as RIO, except for the TACAN authority display, liquid cooling and weapon selector.

 

but with face against the plate and zoom you can manage those. and usually you only set them up once or at least know their last status. So no real gamebreaker there.

[DutchCoolHand]

It works very well for me. Good FPS. I had 40 on the ground in the cold start in Nevada with AI planes flying over. The takeoff lesson in the Caucasus was lower but it had more objects around it.

[Highwayman-Ed]

Performance is great for me, same issues as the others, some things are difficult to read because I don’t know the pit yet, and yes the TACAN is very tricky, but using the zoom you can just about make it out.

 

Overall, she’s perfect!

[birdstrike]

Sitting through dogfighting maneuvers without personally controlling it does seem like a surefire way to induce nausea though.

 

 

i thought so too at first...but i had no problem at all...even enjoyed it immensively. having said that, i never had any problems with nausea in the rift, nor in real life flying.

[Wrightie]

Using a CV1 here and it works great. Very little noticeable differences in the frames when compared to the F18.