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Originally Posted by facepoppies
Hm, i'm wondering now if I can use the hatswitch on my stick for free look?
Yeah, somebody else told me to start with the earlier il-2 game, but I don't wanna. Is that crazy? I can't think of a better reason not to than "I don't wanna." Haha. This game, from all the vids I've seen, looks so freaking amazing.
My specs are i7950, 6gb ddr3 ram, and a gtx 580, so I should be able to play it on medium. And, hey, if I have to go through some patches to play it on high detail, then I'll wait.
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That's the spirit!
Welcome facepoppies.
You can look around with the hat switch. It should come already mapped by default with the views.
You don't need any external stuf to fly. Sure once you got used with the game, controls and flying, you can try free track or other things, but they are not mandatory.
Even if the views are not maped you can do it yourself. Just go in the contrls meny and map the pan or snap views on the hat switch. They are both useful. Before I got trackIR i was playing for years with the hat. I prefered fast snap views in combat.
About learning to fly in a sim in genral, there are very good tutorials around that could help you a lot. They are not made for this game but the idea is to get the general idea.
Here are some good ones:
"In pursuit" is a great start:
http://pilotpress.wordpress.com/in-pursuit/
There's also a lot of good info on that site.
There are some excelent video tutorials about combat maneuvers made by Requem in Rise of Flight. They are made for a ww1 game, but are very good to understand some basic combat maneuvers:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Requiem10NS
Also a lot of great video tutorials for Il2 on "Dart's Page"
here:
http://www.darts-page.com/
Speciffically for Cliffs of Dover is good to do the in game tutorials/flight training and read the manual found in /Steam/Steam apps/common/Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of dover/ folder.
Anything that you don't understand, you can ask here and someone will help you.
Good luck and most important have fun.