Friday Update, February 24, 2012

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

This is the same discussion we had about clickable cockpits and extra CEM options a few years ago: most people argued against it with a passion ("LoLWut?! FSX in MY combat sims?")I and now they like and use the features because they are done in a clever, optional manner. Don't like CEM? You can turn it off. Don't like click-pits? Press F10 to disable it and map everything to your HOTAS.

But if you don't have a HOTAS and only a simple stick and keyboard setup, clickpits let you control a higher fidelity representation of the aircraft without needing a 2nd keyboard for all the bindings, you just keep the critical stuff mapped to stick and keyboard and use the mouse for the rest: essentially it let the developer up the ante in terms of realism without skewing the playing field depending on the player's peripherals. But most people were too blind to see it back then as well.

It will be like this with ground combat too. Don't like it? I don't drive it.

But somewhere down the line, the majority will be happy to zoom around, patrolling over hedgerows in Normandy in a bombed up P-47 and listen on TS for that CAS request from a friendly Sherman tank battalion that's been pinned down by 2-3 Tigers, swoop in and take them out and enjoy the added layers of gameplay it offers.

Deja vu