>extremely accurate simulation of WW1 aircraft and the dangers of early flight
>headtracking is free if you just use your phone as a camera
>...
>literally zero players
I hate the state of modern video games. We have the technology to larp as ww1 pilots but nobody bothers, instead billions are spent on gacha
>headtracking is free if you just use your phone as a camera
Huh, that sounds like neat tech. However
>80 dollarydoo DLC for a 50 dollar base game
I think I solved your case of zero players, detective.
Does this actually work? Any other games that use this?
If it works in IL-2 it most likely works with any game that allows headtracking. IL2 is a b***h when it comes to tracking.
>80 dollarydoo DLC for a 50 dollar base game
>buying on steam
>not buying it from the official store page
LOL
LMAO
The number of people that genuinely like videogames is extremely small.
>We have the technology to larp as ww1 pilots but nobody bothers
It's just boring as shit, moron.
If I wanted some cool "flying" combat, I'd play Elite Dangerous or something. And that's also boring shit.
I genuinely like "videogames" (Black person, are you, like, 80 or something?). I don't care about WW1 planes. Capiche?
Combat in elite dangerous is the blandest shit imaginable.
At least with planes you have gravity and stalls etc, more variables in any given situation.
Maybe seeing this on the store page is what scares people off. And even if you just buy the content you want, the one in your pic alone costs more than AAA games, plus you still have to own the 50€ base game too.
>if you use your phone as ~~*camera*~~
So it's spyware
Schizo
WWI combat just isn't as interesting as WWII or jets.
how easy is IL2 to get into for someone whose never played a flight sim before with no stick?
I play 1946 with a gamepad just fine. I'd assume Great Battles is no different.
The two key things that help make it playable are relaxed analog actuation curves for more precision doing small adjustments and using motion controls to look around and track targets. Looking around in my experience is the great bottleneck when it comes to WWII air combat. I'd say a good way to look around is far more important than having a joystick. That's why people recommend getting head tracking or VR. Motion controls on a gamepad work well, you only get 2DOF though as it's bound to mouse look.
It has plenty of toggles to make it more casual or more simulator. On the easiest settings it's basically not even a simulator.
It's very easy to get into, but like all flight sims it does require some tinkering instead of just clicking play.
you have to actually learn how to fly the aircraft. Games like war thunder does that for you so you can focus on learning to fight in the aircraft
>didnt even make it past the search bar
jesus christ never had a game repel me this hard before
>three seperate WW1 DLC's
>each is $80
What in the flying frick.
I bought the base IL-2 game and a handful of DLC's for around $80, admittedly during sales but still fricking christ.
They jacked all of the prices massively a while back, no idea why.
>mfw flying circus is almost $120 dollery doos here
Yeah nah, I like WW1 birds but not that much.
You can buy it or any other IL-2 module without paying for Battle of Stalingrad if you directly through their website. It's moronic.
Also Vol.I goes on sale for less than $20 every now and then, not sure about Vol.II since it's fairly new.
Already paid like a $100 bucks for their dogshit Tank DLC, not giving them anymore money.
>headtracking is free if you just use your phone as a camera
That's amazing but don't you have to twist your neck if you want to see your side while maintaining your eye to the monitor. Sounds like a pain.
There's a multiplier. So for example if the multiplier is 8 you only need to turn your head 22.5 degrees to look behind. It feels quite natural after a short while.
Why not just play the better game for free?
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why not have a nice day?
The game doesn't really have that option, technically. You can jump out of your plane though, which will likely kill you since there's no parachutes.
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This is fine and all, but how diverse is the game?
there's a huge diversity of WW1 fighters
>niche game
>niche-er dlc
go figure. also impressed il2 is still going strong, i was playing it like 15 years ago
>virgin DCS autist vs chad WW2 dogfighter
looks like it could be a better version of war thunder, might check it out if i win in lottery.
Youre not going to need all of the dlc in a simulator game. The base game already has plenty of planes to fly.
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Just play modded 1946.
Which mods are the essentials? Is there a similar kind of living battlefield and dynamic campaign like BoS?
VP modpack if you want a polished and expanded WW2 game, BAT if you want 200GB of fricking everything imaginable from WW1 to modern jets with wildly variable quality.
If you just want shittons of content (including the WWI and jet stuff) get BAT, if you want a very solid WWII experience get VP, there's some other modpacks out there but these are the ones I'd recommend.
There's dynamic campaigns in the sense that the battlefield on the next mission changes based on the outcome of the last but it's all very much mission based. Dunno how it's done in BoS.
flightsims have always been a niche genre, moron
>flightsims have always been a niche genre, moron
Black person what? You think Microsoft is still making flight sims because they're niche, or because they sell tens of millions of copies?
Microsoft makes flight sims because aviation companies pay them to dumbass
>Microsoft makes flight sims because aviation companies pay them to dumbass
LMFAO no, quite the opposite.
MFS can be played as an arcade game, the game has settings for how much assistance you get too
It's not really a sim, or rather, most people don't play it as such
Yeah because you know I'm right and you feel hurt
Might be easier to admit you were wrong than to keep moving the goal posts.
Moving what goalposts you stupid schizoid moron, I wasn't the one arguing with you about MFS. I'm just saying that using it as an example is completely wrong because it's a game that can be played with arcade controls
I'm sorry that nobody plays your shitty sim, but you don't have to be so angry about it. Maybe accept it's just not that good of a game instead of blaming it on those who don't play it
>I'm just saying that using it as an example is completely wrong because it's a game that can be played with arcade controls
So can the game in OP, your post was dumb and ignorant, no doubt a common theme whenever you express an opinion.
They've made THREE fricking overpriced Flying Circus DLC's and all of them are barebones as frick, all of them combined don't even make for a good DLC.
Flying Circus devs should fricking rope at this point, their shit products and ridiculous pricing have completely killed the genre.
I'm sorry but
>simulator
Most people don't like the complexity that comes with sims, much less the hardware required to play them like they're meant to be played
>WW1 era planes
ugly, unappealing, boring
>headtracking
I doubt anyone cares, sounds like a gimmick for anyone not invested into sims
>it costs like $130 or something like that
lmao
Worst post on Ganker
>oh gee, I can be the slowest and most boring pilot in history after the wright brothers
Who the frick even cares
Pretty much. Those planes only appeal to a very small niche minority. Which is fine, really, there's nothing wrong with making niche games, but don't make multiplayer the focus for frick's sake
Should've spend all that money from selling $150 games on making better enemy AI and gone all in on single player campaigns like Ace Combat
You know to be fair flying those planes was anything but boring. Imagine having to fly so low to the ground with absolutely no protection against bullets, those pilots were absolute madmen
Not that it makes the game any better, just saying