Ever get frustrated with the size of the game?

[Betting]

It's finally coming together, bit by bit. Today I got made a flight plan, seeing quite a large amount of the countryside and made it back to base safely. It was quite an exhilirating accomplishment.

 

Now, this really makes me want to upgrade my rig and be able to see the game at the highest level of detail.

[Inrptrn]

I ran the shooting range mission again today.

Took out a few targets with ATGM's, had the trimmer freak out on me when starting egress but instead of panicking and crashing I kept it together and pulled out of it. Made a decent, but not great, landing without breaking anything. All this took under an hour but it felt like forever it was so intense.

[VMFA117_Poko]

Ka-50 isn't so hard to master. I've learnt it quite quickly in matter fact. I love the complexity of this sim. Can't wait for A-10C now - this could be much harder. When I read "SIZE OF GAME" in title of this thread I thought the author had in mind the size of the map. This - I agree - is tight.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Poko24

[Endoplasmic Reticulum]

It's a hard life ER, but I'll get there ... eventually hehe. Don't misunderstand, the game is incredibly enjoyable, just complex for those who don't know a great deal about flying.

 

Konichi wa Betting San :smartass:.

You will get there if you enjoy this sim. Although I play flight sims since US Navy Fighters (first hover experiences with the AV-8B Harrier) and Falcon 4.0 since it came out in '98. Now you think "what an ace", right? A clear no! Because as I first bought BS, I was like a little baby making its' first steps. I was so astonished how different it was. Due to lack of time I can't spend the amount of time training with my Sim as it would be necessary to do (sorry for my english, folks, I've just got up. Yawn!!!!). Let me tell you at what level I am: I can start up,fly (applause), land, eject, die, crash, shoot up some tanks, try to evade some bad rockets, get shot at, get shot down, fly formations, curse, laugh, cry and so on. I'm still having serious problems with the abris and several logical understandings how things work in the sim. But all these things give me the power to try out these things as soon as I have time for my BS. So you're not alone here and you get a lot of help to any question you have in this forum. I post rarely (time thing), but read a lot at work (unfortunately I can't play at work) and learn a lot, just to try that out when back at home.

 

Sayonara,

 

Safak Celik

[Endoplasmic Reticulum]

(In Soviet Russia, chopper commands you. Haha.)

 

It's like having pets: You command a dog, but a cat commands you :director:;)

[deltahawk2008]

Once I got Trim and the AP sorted, the rest started to flow. That said, ABRIS and the PVI 800 need demystifying. As for all those other switchs... Yeah, I know, just press 1 on the PVI and it will do the rest-but still.....

[hilikusopus]

 

I really do love this game, probably more than I loved LB2 so many years ago. But the size of this game is truly daunting for me at times. I find it so much more difficult than LB2....

 

Any other newbies to this game, have the same or similar thoughts as I do?

 

I love that I have to study to play a study sim. LB2 was different for several reasons, and partly on account of the pilot/gunner system. The Hokum pilot is almost required to manage twice as many systems as the Longbow pilot. Plus, the systems present in the Longbow, and missing in the Hokum - such as FLIR and the Longbow FCR - are ones that I would think alleviate the workload of the crew.

 

That being said.....I want DCS Longbow!!!

[sinelnic]

Please don't see this as a flame against the game at all, that is definitely not my intention at all.

 

I really do love this game, probably more than I loved LB2 so many years ago. But the size of this game is truly daunting for me at times. I find it so much more difficult than LB2.

 

To fly the KA successsfully, there are just so many buttons to memorise, plus only me in the cockpit (Oh ... isn't Russia so lucky to get me!! :helpsmilie:). Making a successful flight plan is my next goal, hopefully I can do that this weekend.

 

At the moment, I play the game for an hour a day at max, then I need to turn it off just to relax my brain for a while.

 

Any other newbies to this game, have the same or similar thoughts as I do?

 

A couple of things worked for me:

1- work your ergonomics, find a joystick position where your shoulders are "up" and make sure you´re not curving your back

2- turn down detail to get very good framerates, you need them for relaxed operation. At least until you´ve really learned to fly

3- Make sure your joystick is not playing against you. I, for example, have an X45 which has a terrible design failure and the stick has a "mechanical deadzone" that made precise flying a nightmare. I had to mod the joystick to solve this, but it terribly paid off.

4- If possible at all, make/get a mod for your stick and throttle so you get proper cyclic (long stick) and collective (horizontal stick) controls. They made a huge difference for me, and took only one day and about USD 10 to make.

 

5- After fullfilling the need to try the weapons and missions and discover how unaccessible proficiency in those areas is, I got totally back to the basics and realized I needed flight school, so I turned on Flight Director and started doing a daily routine of airfiled traffic patterns at set speeds and altitudes. Sounds boring, but it´s one thing to perform an elliptic oscillating "just good enough" pattern, and a correct one, and there´s a lot of fun in discovering why the damned thing won´t stay on course but slightly slide to the left, and managing to correct it.

6- I did a lot of reading about helicopter aerodynamics and handling. Found this (http://www.scribd.com/doc/13027591/Rotor-Crafts) particularly useful. I get back to it whenever I experience something I don´t understand during flight.

7- I finish my daily routine with a series of simple aerobatics (roll, loop), flying under a bridge, and landing "on the exact spot of my choice". I quickly realized there´s a tendency to say "I want to do this", and then doing what the chopper wants, and saying "well, that was good enough", I´m trying to counter this by applying the documented procedures to the letter. It´s harder but you learn a lot. For instance, just yesterday I found myself in a vortex ring state about 50m above the ground, managed to detect it while it was developing, and able to counteract it knowingly and continue the flying. There is an enormous satisfaction in doing that because I really knew what was happening and what I did to solve the problem!

 

I think the learning process I´m following is to gradually build instinctive handling of certain aspects before moving onto the following areas, which in my case will be hard weather first and then navigation and IFR. I approach the whole thing as if I´ve been given a chopper for christmas and so far the ejoyment is enormous, whithout blowing a single thing up. The simulation of the machine is so detailed that there´s unlimited fun in this approach.

 

At least my two cents!