It’s completely plug and play once calibrated. Just turn it on. To the PC it’s a mouse. Such a clever little device. Get it! Do it!
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Getting there…
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Abbreviated clip of me flying VIP Extraction last night. Was doing pretty good until I took a MANPAD to the face during my troop insertion, resulting in an asymmetric thrust during the landing phase…couldn’t save it at that low altitude and couldn’t get my nozzles pointed aft fast enough…
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Very nicely shot!
I wish thegreatoverlordofallcheese would cut down on his callsign. 
Kinda detracts what they’re trying to demo here.
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I can barely read the VTOL Discord channel anymore. I love the modders and mission designers…but the Discord chat format is terrible.
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Using the HMCS to pick out targets in the city…
Once roughly designated with the HMCS, you can tweak the aiming with the hand controller touch pad. The new city lighting really is fantastic…
In another mission. Mistakes were made. Apparently it was supposed to be a precision strike on the oil platform so as not to totally destroy it. My 16 rockets had “environmental disaster” written all over them. Mission failed.
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I am really starting to think I have to get this game.
I’m its biggest fan-boi, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt. But whenever I play it, I enjoy it immensely because it is “complicated lite”…which doesn’t make sense, but it has a near perfect mix of action, cockpit interaction, complexity, and (generally) achievable missions. It isn’t supposed to be DCS, and it isn’t supposed to be as pretty as other sims, but they nailed the feel of interacting with a cockpit in a meaningful way.
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What is the VR equipment you use?
HP Reverb paired with my Samsung Odyssey controllers (they are more ergonomic than the Reverb ones). But VTOL VR works well even with lower resolution VR headsets since the graphics are more basic and the size of the stuff in the panel lends itself to easier reading and manipulation.
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I’m going to have to go back to the MudSpike section where people have reviewed and recommended VR headsets and such. It may be time this year to jump in.
Agreed with all. I came away with the sense it was flight sim’s answer to Kerbal Space Progam (which I love); there’s lotsa realistic stuff in there but it’s less…errr…‘retentive’ about visuals? Still not getting used to the controller thing - my brain has used a real HOTAS for decades so it’s gonna be tuff.
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It’s simple at the moment: Preorder yourself a reverb G2.
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The Reverb G2 should be pretty darn good. I have the G1 (Gen 1) and absolutely love it.
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v0.1.0p12
General
- Fixed emissive texture bleed on airbase runways
- Fixed missing ATC tower lights in Akutan
- Fixed: city streets in custom maps were a rough surface for landing gear
- Fixed: RWR could detect radar through terrain when radar source is outside of terrain LOD area
F/A-26B
- Fixed: HUD and HMCS power switch bases were not illuminated by interior light
- Improved catapult take off trim
- Fixed briefing and objective descriptions in Op. Desert Cobra 8
- Updated interior light model
- Fixed strobe light switch base material
A/V-42C
- Fixed: HUD and HMCS power switch bases were not illuminated by interior light
- Updated interior light models
- Reduced altitude AP wobble at high speed
F-45A
- Fixed equipment title and description for GBU-53 and AIM-120D
- Fixed: LIM button was visible in minimized EOTS page
Units
- Fixed: soldiers dropped off by AV-42C glitched if they were spawned in the passenger bay while parked on ship
ATC
- Set waypoint to airbase when requesting landing from far away
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Just did the VIP extraction. Thanks for pointing it out. It took me a few tries but I enjoyed every minute.
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Yeah…it is not hard, but it took me a couple tries to learn some patience and the right mix of ordnance expenditures. Love those city lights…makes the IR picture a bit more complex.
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v0.1.0p13
General
- Fixed invisible sign collider in Airbase 1
- Fixed: Unable to repair when canopy is broken
- Fixed: Spectator camera 4k screenshots had a smaller FOV than preview
- Fixed more emissive texture bleed on airbase runways
- Fixed error when spectator camera is in preset view mode but no preset positions are nearby
- Fixed quickload error when AI pilot is evading
- Fixed: sequenced event actions got fired again after quickload if an exit condition was not met or it was the last node
F/A-26B
- Fixed: Cruiser did not follow carrier in Free Flight mission
- Fixed: Cruiser crossed each other in Free Flight 2
F-45A
- Fixed: Cruiser crossed each other in Counter-Bomber
- Fixed: instrument lighting switch also switched formation lights
- Fixed TSD quickload error that caused TSD to stop working properly
ATC
- Fixed: error sending taxi to parking route to player at Akutan airbase
- Fixed: quickloading ATC landing request would detect player landed and completed request if player spawned landed at mission start
- Fixed: error when quickloading ATC landing request from far distance before being given clearance to land
- Fixed: last contacted airport was not quicksaved
Units
- Fixed: Unarmed aircraft such as AWACS could enter combat state, causing errors
- Fixed error when AI pilot is using laser guided bomb but target dies before pickling
- Fixed: ships in formation always moved slower than their leader
- Fixed: subunits on allied assault carrier did not get destroyed when ship sinks
- Fixed: inner most AI pilot formation followers sometimes fly erratically
- Fixed errors when player gives RTB or Refuel commands to AI pilots when player is not in an air group
- Improved AI pilot rejoin behavior from far distance
- Fixed: Drone subunits on Drone Carrier did not get quickloaded properly
Mission Editor
- Fixed error when using “AllAirborne” conditional on a unit group with a unit that wasn’t spawned yet
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