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The O' Club / Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Last post by AKIron on Today at 02:49:02 PM »I was disappointed in MSFS 2020. X-Plane 11 has better physics, less better visuals. X-Plane 12 is out now I think. I'm unlikely to buy it.
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The O' Club / Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Last post by CptTrips on Today at 01:11:56 PM »Different strokes for different folks.
Luckily the flightsim world is still producing product that span a range of costs\fidelity. Pick from WT to DCS, whichever works best for you.
They all don't need to become clones of each other. It's good to have a healthy diversity of options and competition.
I do believe there is potentially a larger market players who would find AH's complexity the optimal trade-off sweet-spot rather than the extreme-end like DCS which can see a little over the top. A lot of people have families and jobs and are looking for a balance something more advanced than WT but not to the DCS fetish level.
That still begs the question then, why can't AH capture that larger potential pool of customers?
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: I'm out
« Last post by DmonSlyr on Today at 12:58:50 PM »Say hi to Jedi
I've been curious who this Jedi fella is. Not confident thats its Rud3boi though. Had a real good Ki84 fight with him so who ever it is isn't their first rodeo.
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The O' Club / Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Last post by AKIron on Today at 12:51:30 PM »My brother, who flew jets for American, helped me set up some emergency situations in MSFS. I was able to handle them with ease. I don't know which of us was more skeptical then of the flight modeling, he with thousands of hours in jets or me with 45 hours in single engine planes.
He had me practicing emergency procedures in the DCS Huey, which he flew in the Army, and I struggled. We both agree, much more realistic.
The "Challenges" in MSFS are ridiculously easy. Sure, you're trying for a high score, but it should not be so easy to do some of that stuff. Borders on arcadish.
He had me practicing emergency procedures in the DCS Huey, which he flew in the Army, and I struggled. We both agree, much more realistic.
The "Challenges" in MSFS are ridiculously easy. Sure, you're trying for a high score, but it should not be so easy to do some of that stuff. Borders on arcadish.
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The O' Club / Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Last post by AKIron on Today at 12:41:46 PM »I'm going to disagree with you about DCS and MSFS being the same. DCS has far more realistic flight physics than MSFS, IMO.
But, MSFS is prettier.
But, MSFS is prettier.
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The O' Club / Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Last post by The Fugitive on Today at 12:27:11 PM »Here is where the "state of the art" combat sim has currently reached. Some complain about the price ($60 pre-release and $80 after pre-release discount), but when 1/48 scale plastic model kits are around the same price it doesn't seem quite as expensive.
Closest you can come to owning a real F-4 Phantom (not to mention firing ordinance from one):
First let me say it is VERY pretty, but after that, I dont have much else good to say about it. $60-$80 for a single plane, I have been able to fly almost 100 different planes over the last 20 years, doing the math thats $36 per plane, including bombers, scout, and supply planes. Not to mention vehicles that are available.
Then the learning curve, an 800 page manual ??? Im guessing the other planes dont have such big manuals, but why would I spend all that time to learn to operate a single plane? I do have a life outside a game. Im sure some of the info can be transferred from plane to planes, but that is still a lot of time just learning to fly never mind fight.
Fighting, he called it dogfighting but LOL!!!! really? hold a track a few seconds and "fox1!" Great fight! LOL!!!
Then there are terrains and other add-ons that you have to buy, more money gone for little return.
No, the time and money is a waste for me. I spend far less and get to spend a few hours a week battling other PEOPLE in many different fighters and bombers defending bases or taking bases and on an odd whim get my butt handed to me multiple times in a tank. DCS is nothing more than Microsoft Flight Simulator with the occasional chances to blow static targets up, with the odd chance of running into a real player looking to fight you.
The time investment, money, and the boredom just makes it not worth it for me. It just blows me away those players that have left the excitement of the action we have going on in Aces High for lack of action in DCS. But, it is very pretty!
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: I'm out
« Last post by Frodo on Today at 12:02:36 PM »Say hi to Jedi
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: IL2 sale any good? Dunno what the "normal" prices are
« Last post by knorB on Today at 11:54:03 AM »I'm not sure whey you keep repeating this - you started saying this directly after I posted about Eagle Dynamics not having paid Razbam for 9 months, and latched on to this like it's your guiding star in sim world or something.
For the second time now, the only information the public has is that Razbam and DCS are in a squabble/discussion over who owes who for what. ED maintains that due to Razbam making $ off using Eagly Dynamics IP to build a South American air force a simulator for their pilots, it's Razbam that owes ED $, which is why they haven't transferred the typically regular payments to them for the last 9 months.
No other team has made complaints about payments from ED for their work, and there are 15+ teams woking for ED besides their own coders. For all you know ED/DCS has cash pouring in, more than sufficient to keep the company both solvent and growing. No players here are trying to entice AH players to "move" to DCS in order to "save DCS". The entire player base here wouldn't have much if any impact on DCS's current business model and customer base, so thinking that some AH player is somehow harming AH by syphoning off AH players to DCS is ridiculous.
Regarding IL2 - watching Krupinski's YT channel videos in IL2 give a great idea what the multiplayer is like, same with DCS, and obviously here at AH.
Uhhh ohhh, now you’ve done it.
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: IL2 sale any good? Dunno what the "normal" prices are
« Last post by waystin2 on Today at 11:28:32 AM »Been playing Arma Reforger a bit recently, good fun.Heya Krup!
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: Any other good ww2 mm live games?
« Last post by waystin2 on Today at 11:27:19 AM »ARMA 3 WW2 setups. However nothing matches the Aces High flight model. Too bad this game's population is declining. 