Yup. There are interesting things to do in this arena. Especially in VR...
...which makes me wonder why external views are not enabled.
I have a difficult time imagining how external views might allow for unfair advantage or some other problem...
Done. Unless Hitech overrides me.
I don't think he will mind. If he had concerns I would push back with the following arguments:
1. There are only 3 or 4 of us who fly in there regularly. Who cares?
2. It's not really a competitive arena. There are no field captures, scores are not being kept.
3. I think the whole corn-cob up the wazoo hang up about external views were questionable even in 1988. Now days with TrackIR and VR in combination with hat-switches, I think it is downright delusional. I put it up there with icons. No, planes didn't have icons in real life but it is a compensation for the lack of real-life "pixel" resolution at distance. It would ironically be less realistic to not have icons. In real life pilots don't have to contort the fingers and thumbs to look up and to the rear. They just turn around and look instinctively. F3 view isn't realistic, but it's over-all SA may be more representative of real life that then looking a paper tube view of the world non-VR players have.
Realism? If in VR I can hit my rear view hat-switch and then lean a bit side to side to look around my head rest without twisting around in my chair? That is realism?
If I can lean forward an look over the nose to see how my rounds are arcing when shooting in a 5g turn, is that realism? A pilot supposedly strapped into a seat? Leaning forward under 5g with no head-shake?
Don't get me wrong, I love my VR. I don't think I'd be willing to ever fly without it now. I still suck, but I suck about 1/2 less with VR. I'd say VR + hat-switch is
twice the advantage that F3 view is, and no one in the MA is complaining about it. LOL.
In my view, if non-VR players really realized the advantage, they'd demand F3 mode for themselves to compensate or demand hat-switch is removed from VR/Track-IR and G-load movement limits enforced. But since they don't have VR, they are blissfully ignorant.
So, yeah. I don't have a problem with F3 mode. I don't remember turning it off, but I don't mind turning it on.
I've never tried it with VR though. Seems like a recipe for vertigo. Keep a bucket handy.
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CptTrips
