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I am too hyped about this new game, Battle of Britain: Storm of War that Im hoping will have all the problems with the original IL2 STurmovik fixxed.

I got $1500 in flight-sim equipment because I can not afford to fly in reallife and no one would pay me to do it for them.

I see we all build model airplanes, well flight simming is what got me into wanting to build model airplanes, something to decorate the desk I simulate flying, at.

Im wondering if anyone else enjoys hours infront of a monitor simulating the experience of flying your favorite war-bird (Or civillian aircraft). Ive probably put a Corsair down on an escort carrier in IL2 about 200 times and crashed or been killed 350 times, thank god its just a simulation.

anyhow, I enjoy flight-simming, especially WWII Combat Flight simulation. Heres a pic of my flight sim setup, would enjoy seeing others setups as well if anyone is into this hobby as well.

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BTW, if anyone else has a flight simulator setup and plans on getting Battle of Britain: Storm of War when it comes out, lets you and me, and anyone else who is getting the simulator, join a squadron together. Get in touch with me.

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I am too hyped about this new game, Battle of Britain: Storm of War that Im hoping will have all the problems with the original IL2 STurmovik fixxed.

I got $1500 in flight-sim equipment because I can not afford to fly in reallife and no one would pay me to do it for them.

I see we all build model airplanes, well flight simming is what got me into wanting to build model airplanes, something to decorate the desk I simulate flying, at.

Im wondering if anyone else enjoys hours infront of a monitor simulating the experience of flying your favorite war-bird (Or civillian aircraft). Ive probably put a Corsair down on an escort carrier in IL2 about 200 times and crashed or been killed 350 times, thank god its just a simulation.

anyhow, I enjoy flight-simming, especially WWII Combat Flight simulation. Heres a pic of my flight sim setup, would enjoy seeing others setups as well if anyone is into this hobby as well.

0816091955.jpg

BTW, if anyone else has a flight simulator setup and plans on getting Battle of Britain: Storm of War when it comes out, lets you and me, and anyone else who is getting the simulator, join a squadron together. Get in touch with me.

Nice setup! I happen to love flight simulators, and the very first PC programme I ever touched was MS Flight Simulator in 1984! With me it was the other way around; I've been building aircraft models for years, long before there were PC's, but it's my interest in aircraft that got me interested in flight simulators. I happen to enjoy Wings of Prey - the graphics are by far the best I've ever seen. Forget about "correct" flight models; I just hope they get the camouflage correct on the Soviet planes, especially the Il-2. The Shturmoviks look so real in Wings of Prey that it's a shame they have incorrect colour schemes. We shall see with Battle of Britain (which I hope will have the Eastern Front well-represented as well, at least as an add-on).

Regards,

Learstang

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wow, $1500 for the setup? Neat. I was into flight simms back when Janes USAF came on and loved it. Not much into them now but still like to play with MS flight simm once in a while. I'm more into Call of Duty and other first person shooters nowadays...For me, I can only actually sit down and actually play for an hour or so at the most before I get completely bored and head back to the workbench. I find much more pleasure in sticking plastic together.

Rob

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I use FSX a lot, and have just reinstalled IL2 1946 just this past week.

I hope you saw my post from a little while back about the sale at IRIS. $5 for any of the planes or sound packs is nice. It was supposed to end at 12pm Xmas eve, but I am looking right this minute and it is still on. Go grab one of the jets, I have most of them. Nice stuff, and you cannot beat the price if you hurry. Oh, you CAN use paypal, if you look at the IRIS forums for the thread or on the SOH forums it will explain it.

I saw Wings of Prey on sale for $6 and passed it up because it looked great, but I figured it would be to arcade-like. I may be sorry that I passed it up. Is is too arcade-ish or is it not bad? Please let me know and I may pick it up anyways.

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Half of that figure is because of the "Flight-Console" in the center, I also feel I underpaid him for his efforts because after labor, materials, tools and shipping I think he made next to no money off of me, even with benefits like using a laser cutter for free. I had to hire a mechanical engineer from Greece to design it for me as he had already built the prototype. Makes flying easier than using a keyboard, but because its completely custom it cost alot more than if it had been mass-produced.

Also I made sure to get topnotch everything in hardware, most people can sim for a lot less than what I paid.

Oh and I too felt WIngs of Prey would be too arcadey for me to enjoy it. Seems more built for a console gamer than someone actually interested in learning how to fly an airplane, let alone a WWII bird.

Oh TopGun, I feel ya on FPS about how they get boring, But I played them 7 years straight and could master most FPS's I touched (cept for CS because there is a ridiculous amount of competition). But I found that goes for a lot of games, you get bored. I like flying amongst the clouds because its just you and the air infront of you and below you, not much else matters, and it costs a fraction of doing it in reallife costs, without a 6 year minimum signup.

Sebastian Ill list off my PC specs

Q6700@3.16 Ghz (Could do more if I had a case with all working fans)

4 gig of DDR2 1000 Gskill RAM

Zalman 110mm CNPS Fan

8800 GTS 512mb

320gb 7200 rpm seagate

700w cooler master P/S

Ds3r-Ep35 MoBo

My next upgrades that I can do working with this CPU and Mobo, is Im gonna get a GTX-580 GPU, and an Antec 1200 case so I can OC my CPU some more. If need be, which I doubt, I can also add 2x2 more gigs of ram.

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Currently only flying Rise of Flight (this WW1 sim rocks).

Looking forward to that Battle of Britain sim, hopefully my machine (i5 750, 2 gig of ram) will be able to handle it.

I really enjoyed the Janes series (Apache Longbow the most) and Falcon 4. I found that with the modern sims, the controls are so complex that you need to fly quite often otherwise you lose your skills. Nothing like having to pause in a dogfight to break out the key card and look up which command is used for Track While Scan radar mode :)

BTW, this guy is working on a very high fidelity Apache sim:

http://combathelo.blogspot.com/

Looks to have some decent potential.

Regards,

John

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Graphics don't impress me as much as a detailed flight model. The arcade sims really turn me off. Mind you, I'm not totally into the minutae and monotony of pressing every lever and replicating every tiny detail (such as 30 minute warmup times on engines, waiting to taxi for 15 minutes, taking off, forming up in squadrons for 30 minutes then heading out to the enemy) but when I do meet the enemy I want the overall behavior of the plane to be fairly accurate and detailed.

The IL2 series turns me off in several categories. Their console ports lately have had laughable-to-no flight physics at play. They are all graphics and nothing else. I don't think BOB will be any better from what I've read so far.

I almost wish Jane's would come out and just update all their data to run on Windows XP (and up) and have decent 3D graphics. There really aren't many modern jet games out there. WoV got great reviews, but IMO seems a bit arcadish as well. Supposedly the AI fighting you is really really dumb.

In short, yes I'm a flight sim fan, but I suppose I'm more demanding than most. I want a game with more meat on the bones. The gameplay experience is just as important as the physics involved, IMO.

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Just curious of all the IL2 Sturmovik online players, Im in an argument with someone about the ability to play and patch the game for online play and having a newer O/S than when the game came out.

Did anyone else have that difficulty? Because I gave up after several days of help me threads and resorted to single player escort carrier landings and such because I could not get online play to work with Windows Vista. Havent tried Windows-7.

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I am too hyped about this new game, Battle of Britain: Storm of War that Im hoping will have all the problems with the original IL2 STurmovik fixxed.

I think Oleg's been working on this for what - 7 years now?

I'm afraid it's turning into vaporware. Every year it will come out next year, promise.

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I used MS flight sim 2004 to practice every day circuts, engine fails, emergency procedures, and everything else I needed to do while getting my private license in 2004. It sure saved me money in rental time because I was very proficient and comfortable with it when I stepped in the real thing. I even used it to very realistlicly practice my cross country skills and I even used it to fly 3 cross country trips before I actually flew them in real life. All done in a Cessna 172. I have a fighter joystick, also have a yoke and pedals. WOuldn't mind geting the radio, ILS towers to really enhance it. Not to mention the new virtual reality vison set...those look pretty neet. Otherwise one will find me blazing away in Pacific Fighters, jane's F-15 and WWII, and of course MS combat sim. Or I like to go to ACES in the mall of america and fly inside the cockpit sims there.

Check out this guy.....he does some really cool stuff that you can build at home.

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I think Oleg's been working on this for what - 7 years now?

I'm afraid it's turning into vaporware. Every year it will come out next year, promise.

Il-2 was in works for roughly the same time. and judgining by the latest in-progress shots and movies they're getting close to release - 2011 almost certainly

and if you take into account that Il-2, despite being 9 years old, is still the most "flown" WW2 sim ever, waiting a couple more months for SoW:BoB ain't a problem

here's one of the latest clips from SoW beta:

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