Custom PCs / Gaming Rigs

Looks amazing. I wanted to get back into DCS but picked up a new game recently called Zwift. Basically you pedal your bike around Europe and the hard part is you actually have to pedal your damn bike. I bought a trainer that Bluetooths to my computer and it increases the resistance when you go up hills and stuff. Will be good for the winter when I cant get outside to ride. Would rather be flying though.

 

That sounds pretty cool actually. It would be neat to travel around Europe even virtually.

 

After two hours of downloading I was finally able to fly a short mission. I took off at 8:15 local from Fernandina Municipal to Jax International. I have everything on beginner because I wanted to see how the AI worked and mostly it's cool. Flying in on final you get these rectangles that keep you lined up and mostly on the glide path. The AI controls your throttle, flaps etc. Unfotunately it landed me well short of the runway.
I left all the data streaming on so I got live weather, air traffic, and a cleaner representation of the world around me. It was beautiful.
I could leave well enough alone so I took off and flew IFR (I follow roads) to the yulee exit and flew west on SR200 at 200ft. Went over my brother-in-laws house and south to the Nassau River where I crashed in the marsh looking for my house at night. I found it but I'm afraid my Cessna 172 was a total loss.

 

I watched a few videos where this dude was flying in all kinds of places with restricted airspace. Like he landed at Area 51 and flew low and slow over Chernobyl. If the terrain is that realistic then it's a great way to explore the world.

 

It is amazing if you leave the data on.

 

Yes! He is hilarious!

 

I have not done much flightsim in the last several years. Last one was X-plane. What interested me though was learning to fly the big aircraft and all the systems they had. I think my favorite was a pretty complete sim of a 727 where it took like 20 minutes to prep and start the plane before you even started to taxi. The downside though was it was designed to fly with radio navigation aids as well as inertial but many of the VOR stations are gone now that everything is GPS. I still vaguely remember as a kid flying on those and feeling the bank as we passed each marker.

 

I Love the big jets. I had a C17 on FSX that was a blast to fly. Will work my way up to the 747 as soon as I get the time.

Changing gears. I mentioned earlier that I was thinking about BF5 but I think I'm leaning towards post scriptum or hell let loose. Anyone looked at those?

 

Post Scriptum is supposed to be like Squad, which is a hardcore FPS that requires team play. I have not tried it but a couple of guys I used to game with got in early and were upbeat about it, but have not heard anything in a while. BF5 is a casual FPS with a low learning curve and it's nice when you just want to log on and shoot people for a while. To me Squad was fun when I was playing with my gaming squad, who were all good players and it was frustrating when I logged in solo and got dumped with a bunch of randoms on a team. On the flip side BF5 isn't very deep, so you could get bored with it quickly. For example, there is no ballistics simulation (drop) afaik. So it really depends on the type of game you enjoy.

 

Thanks for the input guys!

 

Hmmm...seem to remember some people complaining about the ballistic model as compared to PUBG. Thought they said there was no drop but may just have been less as compared to the other model. Recoil was another difference as I remember.

 

Picked up Flight Simulator 2020. BHG stadium was done pretty well and it's got the writing on the side and everything, not just a generic sports stadium. Rest of the city looked ok, not amazing. The sim is kind of a buggy mess right now and you are limited to the stock MS aircraft. Will probably be a couple years before they work through the patches and the third parties get some decent alternative aircraft and stuff out there. Would love to be able to take my realistic Baron 58 from Xplane and fly it around VFR with the MSFS scenery.

 

Is that a 2.39:1 ratio screen or something else... Never mind I just saw you post it.


Nice setup/rig.

 

It's pretty nice but has a way to go before it is amazing or whatever. The big draw is the ai generated terrain so you can fly VFR by landmarks. But there are a lot of bugs and stuff now and little third party content. It will get there but it will take a while. The flight planner is pretty nice but incomplete. ATC sucks but that's nothing new in flight Sims. The flight models for the aircraft aren't great either, but that's nitpicking for a casual flyer.

I have not started doing add ons yet. In my previous experience you can fill hard drives quickly with outside content. I will wait until some good quality releases of my favorite airports come out and some landmarks but probably won't add that much. The quality of BHG surprised me though because people were complaining that whole soccer stadiums were missing. I guess there is a Gator working on this at Microsoft.