Black Shark: Quick First Impression

[Mad Dog 7.62]

After a lot of hassle getting my big paws on it, I finally got a copy of Black Shark downloaded tonight!! Install went fine though it took a little while. Flew the bird around a bit right away with the graphic settings it installed with and the frame rate was very smooth. It installed with pretty much everything at medium and the res at 1280x1024 I think it was....the only problem was the switches and guages in the cockpit were not very easy to read. I bumped the resolution up to 1900x1200? and the improvement was immense, the cockpit guages and displays are nice and clear now, and the frame rate is still fine...I need to tweak them some more and see how much I can turn stuff up before my frame rates take a big hit. BTW my system is a quad core 2.4 Ghz with 4 Mb ram and a 8800 GTX vid card. Anyway....the chopper flies pretty nice...after a bit I could "feel" how much collective I needed and the sound of the rotors actually gives you good feel for how much bite they have in the air....pretty cool. I had one fatal crash when I settled too hard....other than that I managed a couple of decent albeit a little hard landings. I am very happy with the way the helicopter handles but I need a lot of practice on the systems! I never did get my rockets to fire....probably a switch setting somewhere....nor did I figure out the other optics very well....I need to watch Wags producers vids a few more times too...but all in all I am very impressed so far!! The english manual makes it quite possible to enjoy the russian version of this sim even if you don't speak russian....but when the full english version comes out it will be even better. But hey, for the cost of the download it is very well worth it!!! Thanks ED!!!

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Edited November 19, 2008 by Ulrich