I wonder what happened to that group of folks that went off and made their own company to do sims after MS shut down the studio. I think they did some scuba diving thing, and haven’t heard from them since.
I’ll definitely take a look at this flyinside title.
Flyinside prerelease is out, and there’s a 7-minute-flight demo version.
It’s not groundbreaking, and it’s very much still a work in progress, but it’s essentially a sim that looks like P3D (well, with FS 2002 scenery, but it’s in alpha) but has about 4x the graphics performance. And a really nice set of included planes from Milviz and other companies.
I have a feeling the SDK is really similar to FSX, given how straight the airplane portovers are.
Anyway, for $25 (since I own FlyInside) it’s a no-brainer to support the development. There’s plenty already there to have fun with, just trying out the default planes, and as the features get rolled in there’s a lot of potential there.
The early access version of Fly Inside Flight Sim is available now. Just $32, $25 if you’ve purchased any version of Fly Inside. It’s interesting for a number of reasons:
Anyway, yes, it’s a fresh start, and yet another new sim, but at the low cost of entry, it’s worthwhile just to play around with the planes. (The TFDi 717 alone sells for $59.99.)
Hoping lots of folks will check it out, because it’s pretty impressive for a super-early release, they’re doing the right thing with the SDK, and I want to see them get enough support to keep developing.
Thanks for posting this Denny. I downloaded the free trial and gave it a whirl. I was really impressed with the following:
The one downside was that buildings were laughable, so I am glad to see you write that this will change. Sounds like something I should keep my eye on when they eventually release with buildings.
Do you have AeroFly 2? That’s supposed to work great in VR too, although it has its own problems (no moveable objects other than your own plane).
Is the performance in say XPlane VR much worse? That was the civilian flight sim I was going to target in the holiday sales. I have a 1080 video card.
So I really like flying in VR. I also really like proving my wife wrong that I wouldn’t get much value out of the T16000 HOTAS and VR headset I bought over the last few months. Trouble is DCS and IL-2 run like crap in VR for me, and I am weary of trying to improve the situation (will probably give it another go when I upgrade CPUs).
Anyway, what’s a guy to do? I figured I had two choices for flight sims that aren’t horribly optimised in VR: Aerofly FS2 or the FlyInside sim that @Editer posted just above this.
I’ve actually bought and refunded Aerofly FS 2 before. I found it a bit too boring, but that was before I got a HOTAS and VR. The scenery it has looks fab and the VR performance is supposedly very good. On the other hand, studying the rate of development since release I am not too confident that they are going to get around to features I think (as does most reviewers of the game) are important: other planes, road objects, good weather, and more detailed flight systems. I also didn’t like that they are selling all these first-party scenery packs when these features are still missing. So, I passed.
Instead, I bought the FlyInside Flight Simulator. I am really enjoying it so far, I can get 90fps in VR or I can lay on alot of supersampling and AA and get a steady reprojected 45fps which works great too. It’s so nice to fly in VR without always worrying about fps dips and studying the settings menu! The menu system works great in VR too, everything is just so easy.
Anyway, the included planes are really nice. There’s a T38 trainer jet that looks and feels really nice. Not as nice as the DCS Viggen, but still great. Alot of other interesting planes to try as well, all with detailed cockpits, although I think some of the planes have systems that are yet to be implemented.
What really shows the early pre-release nature of the game is when you look out of the window of the plane. The scenery and buildings look rubbish, but they are up front about this and they seem like nice hard working people so I hope that this improves soon. The clouds are really nice though!
Cool beans bro, good to see you found something that works for you. Take your time getting the gumption back up to do another round of tweaking to get DCS and Il2 right. Gunnery is what VR is for man, and you know it :P (shooting approaches in foul-ass weather is also a very good use case tho)
If Deadstick has VR support, that might be the convincing I take.
I thought to try the demo but it seems like it requires FSX or other simulator.
Is that also the true for the full product?
It’s not true of the demo or the full sim - you just have to select the correct product. :)
It’s the top one:
Right, there are two series of products: FlyInside Flight Simulator is the all-new sim.
FlyInside FSX/Prepar3D/X-Plane all add or enhance VR capabilities for those sims.
Seems like the top one for VR?
Yep!5
Huh.
Looks to scratch part of my SimCopter itch.
I’ll be waiting for the Blue Thunder dlc
OH GOD YES PLZ.
I watched that movie just last week. Still a good watch although incredibly quaint in some respects.
My multiplayer handle will be JAFO
Ha ha!
I personally use the “time test”; e.g. counting off seconds, then seeing how far off I am against a clock.
Because the first thing that goes is the sense of time.
So I got me a used Thrustmaster HOTAS and I’m ready to get into the world of flight sims. I checked the FlyInside demo and its not really aimed at total neophytes is it? I wasn’t even able to configure the HOTAS, let alone make any sense of the cockpit, gah:
MSFS is going for very cheap right now on Steam. Would it be a better introduction to flight sims. I’m basically looking to have my hand held until I get the basics going.
