I had to progressively remap a number of controls on my craigslist thrustmaster Warthog as I worked my way through the tutorial as it seems like they didn’t really test the default bindings at all so I only wound up playing a little bit last week between that, the initial download time and this being fairly CPU bound on top of that, but it seems like this is definitely Microsoft’s most interesting release since forza horizon 4, and I like that they’re leaning back into their niche of “we have too much money and every corporation in the world will work with us, so let’s just make engineering porn.”
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Beware, that Ace Combat stick is so gross. It’s got that shitty rubberized coating that gets sticky.
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Damn, that sucks. Is there a stick you recommend?
Opps, I’m talking the AC6 stick. Didn’t realize there’s a newer one.
The X-Box 360 color scheme one.
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Oh the AC7 one has no rubberized coating, it’s all regular plastic. Definitely feels kinda cheap, I‘d love more weight to the base of the stick, more resistance to the throttle. But it’s the best HOTAS you get for that comparatively small amount of money.
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Bergen, Norway, has been transformed by this bug into canyonlike terrain, its buildings forced to adapt to the suddenly steep ground, their roofs rising like mushrooms for dozens of stories. It’s otherworldly, unrecognizable.
Greenland, on the other hand, is terrifying. The available terrain and satellite data is less precise, so pixels are sometimes visible as square-edged neighborhood-sized patches of gravel. The far north is marked by 20,000 foot ice walls, improbable ice spikes, and strange shimmering rifts. The geographic North Pole itself is unreachable; players report that any attempt to descend below 2,000 feet results in the player being rocketed skyward by a strange repulsion force.
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This procedural solution accidentally creating true uncanniness and surprise in a vast world is like, some Daggerfall shit
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This is great and am wondering if “snapshots” of these maps in such a state would be archived anywhere to be explored if/when the maps (unfortunately) get updated with more precise renders.
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they need to lean into this with a Chaos Intensity slider as DLC
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They should really just deploy S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-style anomaly zones randomly throughout these fine United States, causing cars to climb buildings or water to bulge into the sky.
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another good curation thread
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I need to know whether the tower at Jones Beach has also been converted into a skyscraper
Fuck I really wish my computer could run this
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I just picked up the Steam version. This 82.27GiB install should give me enough time to get enough whiskey in my body as the average commercial pilot before a flight.
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cool void in brazil
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Stupid title and stupid opening line! But! It’s about the Vlambeer guy and he did something cool, so
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i really hope the person sitting next to him was able to have a subtle but life alteringly weird experience due to this
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this game can really be something, even (especially?) if you don’t really know what you’re doing. I just flew a shitty little cessna out of aspen in the dark, in sub zero temperatures with live weather and time, just managing to climb over the mountains barely above stall speed, before swinging it to the east right as dawn broke in pure pink against the fog. managed to pick out a puny airstrip for an unplanned landing, too. and god damn if that didn’t feel like it actually happened.
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