Thanks. It all sounds kinda involved but i think I'd enjoy a more realistic sim to the ace combats of this world. Anything you'd suggest for a beginner? Last time I played anything similar would probably be knights of the sky back on the AmigaHey. I've got all of the IL-2's so hit me up if you've any questions. The single player has 2 main versions - career which is a fairly dry timeline of missions with moving fronts as per results etc. The other is scripted campaign which has more of a storyline.
DCS and Rise whilst free don't have much base content - you get 2 aircraft in DCS to start with, the rest are pricey DLC, which is fair enough given the effort put into em. One thing I'd say is almost a must though is a headtracker if you don't have one.
I can't vouch for how it'll be on a controller, but as an aside, they often do sales, that are pretty good. Last one a few weeks ago had the base and expansions at like £6 each. Might be worth keeping an eye out for those. That's the only time I get any expansions.Cheers. Just got to decide which one now. Cliffs of Dover Blitz edition has all the spitfires and hurricanes and is only a fiver, but is a rehash of a 2011 game and reviews suggest it shows it in places.
I like the look of Bodenplatte but it's forty quid and requires the base game, another forty quid, to play on steam.
Getting expensive already this! I'll go with Dover and if I get into it progress from there. I'll jig the PS4 controller for now and lookout for a cheap joystick and maybe throttle.
Embargo has been lifted on the Beata testers for flight simulator 2020 to show it running and it looks absolutely incredible.
You can make it as hardcore or as casual as you want and everyone I've watch on YouTube have said it's the most realistic and visual looking sim they have ever seen.
If you have a top end rig what can do 4k then it's going to look incredible but even if you have a low end to mid range pc of it will still look great. Digital Foundry tested it on a Ryzen 5 16GB Ram GTX 1060 and they were still getting 1080P 60FPS and the world still looked great
Now that is my setup apart from I'm on a Ryzen 3 processer so I should hit about 50FPS.
Also they tried it with an Xbox controller and that works really well although you still need a mouse and keyboard but ultimately HOTAS is the way to go.
Really excited for this. 18th August.
For good videos on YouTube check out
IGN
Eurogamer
Quill18
Squirrel
Digital Foundry
Xbox On
Embargo has been lifted on the Beata testers for flight simulator 2020 to show it running and it looks absolutely incredible.
You can make it as hardcore or as casual as you want and everyone I've watch on YouTube have said it's the most realistic and visual looking sim they have ever seen.
If you have a top end rig what can do 4k then it's going to look incredible but even if you have a low end to mid range pc of it will still look great. Digital Foundry tested it on a Ryzen 5 16GB Ram GTX 1060 and they were still getting 1080P 60FPS and the world still looked great
Now that is my setup apart from I'm on a Ryzen 3 processer so I should hit about 50FPS.
Also they tried it with an Xbox controller and that works really well although you still need a mouse and keyboard but ultimately HOTAS is the way to go.
Really excited for this. 18th August.
For good videos on YouTube check out
IGN
Eurogamer
Quill18
Squirrel
Digital Foundry
Xbox On
That's pretty much my specs but I have a Ryzen processer rather than Intel.Just watched the DF video (Is there any other channel that can hype a game so much?) and it looks incredible. It’s everything you dreamt of as a kid when you thought about games in the future.
The system requirements are naturally very high and it looks like there nothing on the market that can run the game at 4K 60fps. I’m hoping it scales well though and the bit with the i5 8400 / 16GB / GTX1060 gives me hope for my ageing PC (i5 4460 / 12GB / GTX1060) that I’ll be able to run the game at 30fps on medium.
Just watched the DF video (Is there any other channel that can hype a game so much?) and it looks incredible. It’s everything you dreamt of as a kid when you thought about games in the future.
The system requirements are naturally very high and it looks like there nothing on the market that can run the game at 4K 60fps. I’m hoping it scales well though and the bit with the i5 8400 / 16GB / GTX1060 gives me hope for my ageing PC (i5 4460 / 12GB / GTX1060) that I’ll be able to run the game at 30fps on medium.
See also ObsidianAnt for YT.
I reckon it's gonna look pretty good - see quill's system for example, not a super computer by any means. I'm on a 6700k and 980ti (so 4 years old at least, but runs anything decently) but with terrible internet which might be a kicker. I think it'll be mindblowing even not set to max on these given FSX fully modded looks good even now, but has a nasty frame hit sometimes. Either way, I can see myself shelling out for the full version after about 2 hours in the basic one. Particularly looking forward to the third party stuff. I wouldn't touch FSX now without Traffic Global and FSXWX etc.
It's a shame Manchester isn't one of the premium airports, but I'm sure someone will resolve that before long.
It's worth getting Gamepass for a month just to try it out. I'm not really keen on the Gamepass selection but apparently you can get 1 month trials for a £1 so essentially renting the game for a single pound seems a no brainer.
There might even be a decent deal or two for the game on HUKD once the game has been out for a month so it could work out cheaper in that sense as well.
I have a feeling PS might go the same way with the game pass thing, they reckon online play could be free and you just get a game pass at £10 a month or just buy the game outright but online play is free. I think I’ll still end up,with ps5 but I want a new pc first as mine is slowly dyingI'm still undecided about which next gen console to go for. Until three years ago I was xbox through and through but it felt a bit flat, so I bought a PS4 pro and loved all the exclusives on it.
The problem is, I think the Xbox game pass is such good value. All exclusives are on it for 10 pounds a month whereas PS exclusives are 55 each.
I have a feeling PS might go the same way with the game pass thing, they reckon online play could be free and you just get a game pass at £10 a month or just buy the game outright but online play is free. I think I’ll still end up,with ps5 but I want a new pc first as mine is slowly dying
The Xbox one controller is having some minor tweaks. For me it's the best controller so doesn't need to be reinvented. I'm part of the Xbox insider program and next week Microsoft are sending me a completely new dashboard experience for me to test. If everything is ok it'll be rolled out to all Xboxes in OctoberI hope so mate.
I think a disappointing feature of the new Xbox is that the controller and dashboard haven't even changed. It feels like when the Xbox One X came out. At least PlayStation have changed the design and the new controller looks fantastic as well.