Why post? Honestly I believe the majority of you postings here are on defense or support of other games.
Nonsense, people are replying to your ridiculous claim that AH2 'looks better'. That last pic you posted looks like crap. The Ki-84 cockpit in your first post is better then the AH1 cockpits but post a pic of the FB/AEP Ki-84. It looks better then that.
This is your thread about PF vs. AH. The rest of us are just replying to your premise. If you all you wanted was for folks to pat you on the back and agree with you then you should make these posts on a private forum where you can control access.
AH is a great game on its own, there’s no need for comparisons. Its functional utilitarian cockpits are fine for the type of game AH is. Despite the mirroring and wrapping errors on some the AH bmp they are large enough to get great results. Pyro has said the mirror issues will be fixed and the new models look fine.
Most servers for FB/AEP have skin download off any way so unless you fly mostly offline you don’t get to use or look at the skins online in FB/AEP. FB/AEP/PF have issues all these games do. But for IL2/FB/AEP/PF one of the issues sure isn’t that AH ‘looks better’.
What I am talking about in the case of IL-2 vs AH for cockpit functionality is standard zoom, front view. AH's cockpits work in that view, IL-2s are just eyecandy.
Karnak,
They are more then eye candy, they function fine. What is it you think you need to 'study' in the cockpit?
All you need is the speed indicator, climb, rpm, boost, fuel and temp. It takes longer to type that out then it does to glance at them in the game.
By looking at the positions of the indicator (the white arrow) you can tell the setting just like you can look at a clock with no numbers and know what time it is.
I can read the numbers etc, but for the sake of argument I will accept that you can't.
If the boost indicator points to 4 o'clock then that’s about 12lbs boost. How much more specific does it need to be?
If the arrow indicator points to 12 o'clock on the tachometer then you are at 3000 rpm.
If the speed indicator is at 6 o'clock then you are doing 300 IAS.
That's why I asked if the problem is with them being unfamiliar rather then 'not functional'.
Some planes the gauges are hidden and impractical. I concede that but like I said there's device link utilities that can put whatever data you want on your screen.
I just don't its all that important to know to the ump degree what the gauges read. In AH I never looked at the gauges. I don't look at them much in FB/AEP/PF. Just the temp and fuel gauge the rest of the time I fly by feel.
So when I say I don’t understand I really don’t. I will just assume we have differing experiences and leave it at that.
