Poll: Interactive Cockpits

[Supah]

Originally Posted by mondo

No thanks. Too much of a pain in the ass. besides, how is clicking on something in a cockpit with a mouse any better/immersive than pressing a buttons on a keyboard? I don't know many planes that are controlled by a mouse.

I know as little planes that were controlled with a keyboard.

[Chivas]

I voted NO...but...

I wasn't a fan of clickable cockpits in BOB WOV primarily because the switches were very difficult to find with the mouse. It was an excercise in frustration. When they modded it so you could map the switches to our Hotas, things changed dramatically.

Turning on the full cocks, magnetos, adjusting prop pitch, pumping the primer, and hitting the starter.... watching the prop turn over...hoping it will fire up as a group 110's are a seconds away from blasting your base.... is very exciting.

Also taxing and shutting down next to the ground crew while they rearmed my aircraft (hitting the rearm key in BOB WOV) hopefully a much more immersive implemetation in SOW then start up procedure to have another go at the departing LW formations. All great fun and very immersive.

I would really like to see this modded in SOW, but Oleg has suggested the real start up procedure would be too complicated and few people would use it. This is probably true, but personally I don't need the ultra realistic start up procedure...being able to map a few more switches to my Hotas(and verifying the switches are being turned on in cockpit) would be more immersive than the "I" engine start key.

~Salute~
Chivas

[mondo]

Originally Posted by Supah

I know as little planes that were controlled with a keyboard.

The point is the keyboard, for the user is much quicker and easier than clicking around a cockpit with a mouse and far more similar to what a real pilot would do; hitting nobs, buttons and switches etc. I don't want to have to take my right hand of my joystick to then use my mouse to lower my combat flaps or change the engine RPM or any of the many things you have to do constantly in combat.

If SOW does both then cool, everyone is a winner. I just don't want it enforced on me, it would be a deal break for sure.