So DCS Hornet is now available for preorder! This will finally be the impetus required to get my lazy ass up off the couch and get VR and my HOTAS setup sorted.
It’s the most excited I have been about simming in years. 2018 just got a whole lot brighter.
So Early Access is six months away. There’s not going to be any missions or campaign, is there? I notice these days they tend to sell them seperately, later. :(
Indeed. But at least they put it up for preorder. I was beginning to think this module had foundered in the Bermuda triangle. As a big fan of the F-18 I take what scraps I can get these days. Not much to be had since the halcyon days of Jane’s F-18…
I’m self-taught so far, and it’s not bad at all. If you’ve spent much cockpit time in Falcon 4 or the A-10, there’s not much you need to learn in terms of concepts. It’s just learning procedures.
yeah, I also need to (re)learn the A-10C. I used to know Falcon 4.0 by heart, but that’s so long ago, it doesn’t count anymore. I really like the DCS interactive lessons. They are the game in it for me atm. But they are all set in the Caucasus, so I’m currently holding off on doing more training on the hog, the viggen, the fishbed and the choppers. Just treading water blasting drones in the planes I know (the FC3 ones, the Mirage and the F-5)
What are y’all using for HOTAS controllers nowadays? Having calibration issues with my beloved and discontinued Logitech G940 so starting to look at what’s out there. Doesn’t look like anything new has been released for quite some time. Logitech now owns Saitek, which at least probably means if I bought something from them I wouldn’t be totally screwed if it broke post-warranty like in the previous Saitek regime. But the reviews on the X56 are pretty negative.
Mix and match my friend. I’ve Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 stick, a Saitek X-52 Pro throttle and CH Pro Pedals. It’s great for old games and new because with many old games, you still get all the axes you need on the Sidewinder, but for games that can use multiple devices, using everything is the bees knees.
It also has the same internals (sensors) as the far more expensive HOTAS Warthog set. If you can lay hands on one of those for a fair price (2nd hand perhaps? They are Full metal Awesome and clean up well. In-fucking-destructible) That would be your first choice.
DCS 2.5 has an actual, announced release date of January 31, accompanied by a nice video showing some helicopter flight through four seasons in Georgia. (Which itself is accompanied by short snippets of Vivaldi.)