Awesome! Can't wait.

And thanks, it's from http://www.brooksart.com

Usually soloing but, PSN:
RotorTrash

Ideed!

Ahh great site, some brilliant pictures on there.

Might have to consider changing the old sig ;)

So I finally got the full version of the game last night.

Wow. That was so fun! Of course I did the training missions first to get my simulator mode. I have to say, playing in sim mode in the hurricane feels like hell! The office in that plane looks GREAT but the framework really blocks my view from everything. It took me a while to find the bomber in the training mission. I was actually chasing around a red clump on the map until I realized that the bomber was a flashing yellow dot.

I'm starting to get used to the fact that I have to use the R3 to look around, and I'm more able to keep my view on the enemy.

Any tips flying with a game pad? I feel using a HOTAS defeats the purpose of a console game.

I recommend aviator layout it is way easier to keep sight on enemy, bad news is that you have no brakes and target zoom

Yea.. it's weird. I'd fly with aviator if they had target zoom as triangle or something. Then square could be brakes, since neither button is used for some reason...

Hopefully that could be fixed in the update.

Anyway, tried my first couple of missions today. Exhilirating. But it's SO difficult to find enemies in the first place. I don't have an HD tv so when I look for 109's I notice the yellow wingtips first. As soon as I start encountering later 109s, it will be damn difficult to spot them until I'm close.

I use the map a lot but it will only give you a general feeling.

How do you all spot e/a ( enemy aircraft )? I suppose it just takes 'practise' :-P

yeah practice and using the map alot does it, but an hd tv sure doesnt hurt either... got so frustrated the other day that i wnet out and bought myself a 32" full hd tv and the difference is unreal... the patch should also help with spotting enemies from a distance.

Btw on the aviator layout, triangle is for bombs, square rockets, circle guns and x is ur trim

cheers

Ah I would really like an HD tv. Oh well.

I guess I'll just practise. Hah. Oh yea, I forgot about bombs and rockets.

Thanks!

Defeats the purpose of a console game?

This setiment is the problem with console companies, publishers, developers, and some gamers.

Why should we be confined to playing these games with a gamepad? It has to be about the worst possible control method for flight sims, FPS, and RTS games. Gamepads and the rigid enforcement of using these pieces of crap in games like Halo mean, for me at least, that I get NO enjoyment playing an otherwise great game. If I could play Halo with full mouse support, I'd be playing that game for sure.

At least with driving sims they have enough sense to support wheels.

Seeing as how PC games are dying, if consoles take over and I'm forced to play games with a one size fits all approach regarding control interface - my desire to play games at all really will tank.

Maybe playing with a HOTAS defeats the purpose of a console game for YOU - it doesn't work when applied in a general sense.

Lol calm down there, sonny :-P

I meant that it defeats the purpose of a console game for me. When I use sticks, I used them for PC, and I had a helluva a time. Using a stick on a PS3 makes me feel weird.

Many of us have been somewhat shamed by this game's abundance of historical flaws, and I'm only going to be completely comfortable when the largest of these flaws are fixed.

I, however, do enjoy the fact that this is a game, even with its monor quirks. Flying a Spitfire all the time, I don't notice the larger quirks. I enjoy the unlimited ammo and fuel because the only thing I want out a of a sim is good flight modeling, and the Spitfire IX is probably the most accurately modeled of all the planes right now.

So a stick, really is not that great for me. I love the feel of this being a smooth-running game I can play with my friends just for fun on my controller, on the comfort of my couch. When I feel like hardcore simming, trimming each surface manually, changing propeller pitch and working with the engine, I simply fire up IL-2 1946 and play there on my PC.