wtf lol
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it mist have been a wild time being an engineer back then, the amount of things they tried, never seen before, and imagine their surprise when they found out it actually worked.
otoh, the 'you get killed if it doesn't'-bit, that surely must have been in the mix as well, must have had its effect on the want for trying _something else_ in the hope for finding something worthwhile...
anyway, never heard of the Bv 141B before, that’s wild.
Mc. 202 respect+1 and approaching INT_MAX fast!
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(googles “best dcs module non american”)
speaking of dcs here’s a fun vid of a bunch of dudes challenging themselves with a SAM evasion canyon run. valley of death!
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so as expected, having looked into DCS, it’s very slim pickings for those of us that do not want to re-enact bombing brown people. There’s speculation that the Russian government prevents the devs from recreating any relatively recent Soviet/Russian aircraft, which means the vast majority of what’s out there is NATO modules, and the accompanying maps and campaigns are equally regressive. just surveying the campaign descriptions is bleak. (Syria map! Persian Gulf map! 80 variations of “re-enact the Korean War / Gulf War / Afghanistan / Iraq / Somalia / Abkhazia / Iran / etc”!). even when you go to the warbirds, all you have is Luftwaffe campaigns.
I don’t know what I expected! as @digs stated to me “you looked into the Fascism box and found fascists.” why do people buy this game?
guess i’ll be sticking to the Great Patriotic War for the foreseeable future.
i should note that some of the Ka-50 missions sound cool, and this is maybe the most interesting of the bunch:
have always loved that the Germans had to send a special forces team to rescue Mussolini after they locked him up, that really must’ve been a drain on the war effort, too bad Hitler really got a kick out of the guy so couldn’t leave him hanging
all the dsa twitter kids love the photo of him hanging from a gas station but I personally much prefer the 20 year saga to follow of the Italian government not being able to decide what to do with his remains since they didn’t want to give him a proper burial but they kept being stolen by fascist sympathizers so they had to keep moving his decaying corpse to progressively more secret locations right up until the years of lead
also love that there are like, old fascist government sources that now corroborate that when Mussolini had to enact the Nazi race laws to be consistent with Germany he was apparently like “OK, being racist towards the Africans I can handle, but mamma mia, I don’t want to bother the poor jews”
it’s just my grandma but taller and with an assault rifle
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I mean I don’t want to spoil the fun but who do you think is the market for military computer simulations exactly
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trans women
Everyone knows trans women pirate games
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DCS does have a number of WWII things, but the simple fact is once you have modern fighters if you want missions or campaigns or anything, those jets have literally only been used in service of empire, their simple existence is a function of an entire political ideology that can’t be separated from them.
anyway I did in fact throw some of my GME money into the VKB gladiator, and the super expensive shipping did at least manage the job, taking four days to go from china to my doorstep. this thing is way better than my super loose, maybe dying X52, with the exception of the hat switches. I like the mini stick (which only comes with the premium gladiator) a lot, but I prefer the hats on the X52 to the other two VKB hats, which are very stiff. also since the stick takes actual force to move, the grip of the base to my desk ends up inconsistent. it stays more or less stuck, but moving the stick can produce a weird clicking sound that sounds so much like some kind of mechanical defect with the stick that I disassembled the thing to make sure I didn’t fuck something up. I didn’t, and it’s definitely the suction of the base doing weird things. doesn’t happen all the time and I can’t really hear it so far when actually playing a game, so it probably doesn’t matter. maybe I’ll try smashing the thing into the desk a bit next time I play.
but yeah, the x52 had shitty calibration issues that would pull planes in weird directions and take way too much trim micromanaging to correct (above and beyond propeller torque where that is applicable). this just feels so much better.
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One day I’ll write up my observation of how blockbusters shifted from lionizing air power to infantry to follow the imperium’s current border wars
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since you got the premium, it comes with a little spring-removal tool and a lighter set of springs (#10)
i put those in and havent looked back
i get a strange clicking noise when i go past 60% right deflection on the stick, i thought it was bc i dropped a screw in there but maybe it’s just endemic. works fine
re empire and so on,
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Reflecting on this thread… lack of a cohesive career mode really such a flaw for Sturmovik… why do they suppose ppl play these games?
certainly there are an array of ww2 reenactors and fetishists who want Max Accuracy In Multiplayer as the prime game play experience… but one wonders whether the little guy (that’s me, I’m the little guy, just a lil baby person) is being cared for by this single player experience. I just want to cosplay fighter pilot in the historical setting!!
immediately after I fell out of flight Sims I picked up guitar which was a much more fulfilling use of my time… maybe I am just not hard core enough for the True Sim Experience. or more accurately, I am choosing to spend my time elsewhere nowadays.
anyways War Thunder is installed but I’m sure it would piss me off pretty much immediately. my kingdom for IL-2 But Arcade Mode
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