Hotas setup for the upcoming Cliffs of Dover

[blampars]

Oh wow that's bad. Reminds me of sending away for things through the mail. Mail out the order form, wait 8 weeks to recieve item. C'mon interwebs!

btw just watched your WoP dogfight video using freetrack (reading your headtracking thread now, I'm thinking about TrackIR 5...) Good stuff. Would you recommend WoP?

[Royraiden]

Well I got into ww2 combat sims because of Wop.The graphics are amazing but the gameplay is sub-par.I went from begginer to simulator in less than a month and even at the hardest difficulty you can see on my video that it is farily easy.Well it wasnt meant to be a simulator after all.Its a great starting point for new pilots though.I played Il-2 after Wop and even with the outdated graphics I noticed right away that it was miles ahead.I couldnt even take off the first time I tried Il-2.As for the head tracking you cant go wrong with TrackIR but it is really expensive.Ill be forced to get it if Freetrack is not supported so I need to wait.Theres a lot of non-sense on that other thread people dont know what is relevant and what is not.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

Well I got into ww2 combat sims because of Wop.The graphics are amazing but the gameplay is sub-par.I went from begginer to simulator in less than a month and even at the hardest difficulty you can see on my video that it is farily easy.Well it wasnt mean to be a simulator after all.Its a great starting point for new pilots though.I played Il-2 after Wop and even with the outdated graphics I noticed right away that it was miles ahead.I couldnt even take off the first time I tried Il-2.As for the head tracking you cant go wrong with TrackIR but it is really expensive.Ill be force to get it if Freetrack is not supported so I need to wait.

Ah gotcha. I'm no master pilot, and quite frankly I suck at dogfights (hope to improve with new gear!). The graphics in WoP look really good, which is why I was wondering about it. I beefed up my system with 2 gtx 460's in SLI back in september and have been itching to get a sim with some major eye candy. I love IL2, don't get me wrong, but I also love sexy visuals.

As for head tracking I've been using FacetrackNoIR. I've got it working reasonably well but it's still slightly slower and not super precise. I get a lot of drifting or bobbing when I look around. I could probably fine tune it more but documentation is scarce and I don't understand what the different settings do really. It's all experimentation If I can't get it down pat I'll probably whip out the charge for Track IR and hope the fiance doesn't notice. I still havn't figured out how I'm going to explain the full CH Hotas setup yet hehe...

[Royraiden]

You could download the Wop demo and see if you like it.If I were you I would start with it to get some experience and practice.One downside to it is that the demo does not record your input setup,so everytime you launch it you would have to setup your gear again.

[blampars]

oh hell, didn't even dawn on me to check for a demo heh.
Downloading from steam now

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

got the CH fighter Stick Roy and I love it,took me a little while to get used to it after the x52 pro but so glad i bought it now
hope you get yours soon and Blampers

[blampars]

Amazon shipped out the pedals today so I should have them by Tuesday. That alone will make a big difference.

Roy, did you decide on a set? I can't remember if you said so or not.

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by SsSsSsSsSnake

got the CH fighter Stick Roy and I love it,took me a little while to get used to it after the x52 pro but so glad i bought it now
hope you get yours soon and Blampers

I remember you and that you used the x-52 from the Wop forum.I guess I will get my stuff during the first days of March.