Have you tried the campaign yet?, it's not Falcon 4, but it isn't sterile like LOMAC.
I'll be impressed if they've moved it forward much from LOMAC. The rest of what I've seen of the world outside the cockpit so far isn't that promising. I mean, according to the forums they haven't even made improvements to the AI of the ground vehicles... and they're the main targets you're supposed to be hunting in the Ka-50. You'd think that would have been a priority.
I will say though that I did have a brief period of almost sim Nirvana yesterday. Brief because I changed a few settings to try and get my wheel's pedals working for yaw control (instead of my X45's rocker) and now I can't get any missions to run for some reason (maybe unrelated). I have to debug that later... or, annoyingly, use up an uninstall/reinstall cycle.
Anyway, the first thing which impressed me was the 3D effect using TrackIR. Now, I'm not a big fan of trackIR, despite having bought two versions (3 & 4) while trying to find a version & settings which suited me... intellectually I'm sure it's wonderful, but my brain refuses to settle down and enjoy the experience. So this is the first outing for the TIR for about a year (in fact I found it dangling, covered in dust, down the back of my desk after a long hunt!), but despite my continuing uneasiness using it, the effect in BS's 3D cockpit is rather impressive. Very impressive indeed, in fact. I may persevere this time... though I suspect my brain is just anti-TIR.
That leads me to the more impressive thing. I blew caution to the wind (ok, and about £650) earlier in the year, buying a Triplehead + 3*1680x1050 setup. I was nervous about it, despite the fact the whole lot cost less than I paid for a 17" CRT 14 years ago (and for the 19" which followed a few years later), but in racing sims like iRacing, GTL, and rFactor I've found it to be worth every penny.
BS is the first flight sim I've run since getting that screen setup and without the TIR running it is a real joy to fly (and frame rates are surprisingly good at max detail without FSAA, with a GTX260). The peripheral vision, as in racing sims,takes immersion to a totally different level. Throw in the TIR as well and... well, the jury's still out. I think both together is probably overkill.
Anyway, it's inspired me to reinstall LOMAC & Flaming Cliffs later. That peripheral vision *needs* to be moving at Mach1. None of this pansying about at 100kph... sideways, then backwards, then spiralling into the ground. Deliberately, obviously.
Andrew McP
i enjoy most flight sims (il2, fs9-fsx, falcon 4) just lomac never gripped me in any sense of the word, ill probably get it tomorrow when my pay shows up in the bank.
But I've only bought it in the hope they'll eventually get round to updating the Su-27. I like my flying metal to have afterburners, not a gearbox.
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