The graphics on the flight deck are a bit iffy. But the semi-irritating thing is the antennas and flag staff on the stern. You have to fly right through them to land.
When I touched down on the deck, the life rails lowered into life nets. Which was great, but why didn’t they do so before I landed? Do you have to do the whole “Inbound” and “Request Landing” thing? Regardless, it is cool.
“Open the Hangar Doors HAL. I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that now.”
…any idea why my MiG always does this? engine startup, engine shutdown repeats a bunch of times on the post mission report. It doesn’t do it in the sim so…?? Weird.
The hanger doors have always been weird. I haven’t known them to open on parking. Hell, a good number of times you spawn in - they fail to open to let you out!
The smoke markers are currently quite dramatic, yes. A handful of them and you can make a screen as opaque as a snowy mountainside and would be equally damaging to performance as the resulting avalanche is to anything in it’s path.
The VR & helicopter stuff, unfortunately I cannot speak too.
I’ve seen the sinking armored vehicles before. I’ve also seen various vehicles run through each other. This is especially annoying when civilian road traffic plows through your carefully created military convoy or a train passes through another train that you were able to stop by taking out the engine.
Yes, you can disable civilian traffic but sometimes you want to have that traffic as “atmosphere”… i.e. “it was just a normal Tuesday when the enemy struck.”
Well this happened to me a few days ago (and yes, I was pressing to get to a fist fight with a Fulcrum/Flanker at the time with just the gun left, if you were wondering):
This is afterburner employment. An unfortunate bug that has been lingering about for years but luckily is not very impactful. My guess is it’s about it’s rather unique afterburner design with its emergency power stage.
For a really terrifying VR experience, try getting into a losing fight in Flying Circus. A death spiral in that game is dizzying and horrible. Not for the faint of heart.
Actually that landing ended up fine. It just scared the bejeesus out of me as he came in way steeper than I’m used to, and rolling wildly to get lined up.
Etched into my brain it is, every screaming second of it.
See, I relive that flight every other night in my nightmares, bookended by deaths in flying Circus.
We oughta do that again soon mate! But this time I drive!
without VR.
No lights… No sounds… for a few seconds I thought I must have died for real.
