On a completely unrelated note, the registration process for this game was the dodgiest thing I've ever seen. I was sure I had given my email to a faux site until I actually tried logging in with it. All it asked was a username and email address, and the typoed title in the confirmation email didn't help, either.
War Thunder, Update 1.97: Swedish Tanks
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I tried a bit but something about it didn't tickle anything fancy so just dropped it.
For the facetracknoir, I played around with a bit last year or so, for it being a way to get head track essentially for free, it's pretty damn amazing.
That said, the output from the faceapi is extremely jittery, although he has all sorts of sliding averages to smooth out the numbers jumping, it is really difficult to hold your vision steady in one direction. Your head isn't moving but the faceapi keeps sending new x/y/z outputs regardless.
You can try to deadzone it, but if it goes too high you lose the good response time of shifting your head around a bit.
I tried with a logitech webcam @ 30 FPS, which was nice in that I could adjust the camera gain and all that to get better result in low light. I had a crappy desk lamp behind me off to the right, and if that is the only light source it really confuses the face algorithm with the heavy light on one side of your face. Again this was a problem for me because I have no lamp behind me and tend to play at night with lights off in the house.
I then switched to a ps3 eye to get the higher framerates, I think I got around 50ish, which is very noticeable in response time for glancing around, but still has the same drift problem. In addition the eye has a wider lens so it was picking up more junk behind me, at one point it thought a picture on the wall behind me was the face, in addition the software for the ps3 eye I couldn't find settings for the camera's gain and such so couldn't tweak it for low light either.
All in all you can't beat a track IR's stability, but as it costs an arm and leg facetrack is a great alternative.
/Am waiting on occulous rift
For the facetracknoir, I played around with a bit last year or so, for it being a way to get head track essentially for free, it's pretty damn amazing.
That said, the output from the faceapi is extremely jittery, although he has all sorts of sliding averages to smooth out the numbers jumping, it is really difficult to hold your vision steady in one direction. Your head isn't moving but the faceapi keeps sending new x/y/z outputs regardless.
You can try to deadzone it, but if it goes too high you lose the good response time of shifting your head around a bit.
I tried with a logitech webcam @ 30 FPS, which was nice in that I could adjust the camera gain and all that to get better result in low light. I had a crappy desk lamp behind me off to the right, and if that is the only light source it really confuses the face algorithm with the heavy light on one side of your face. Again this was a problem for me because I have no lamp behind me and tend to play at night with lights off in the house.
I then switched to a ps3 eye to get the higher framerates, I think I got around 50ish, which is very noticeable in response time for glancing around, but still has the same drift problem. In addition the eye has a wider lens so it was picking up more junk behind me, at one point it thought a picture on the wall behind me was the face, in addition the software for the ps3 eye I couldn't find settings for the camera's gain and such so couldn't tweak it for low light either.
All in all you can't beat a track IR's stability, but as it costs an arm and leg facetrack is a great alternative.
/Am waiting on occulous rift
Geezus, the F2A Buffalo is ridiculous. A Rank 1 plane that can easily keep up with if not outmanouver my Rank 3 German fighters.
542 km/h and WEP? Pick some unsuspecting ****s and start flying circles, they'll never even get close.
Sacrifice a bit of the Gold Eagles for crew experience (reload thingy and getting the pilot to withstand G-forces better) maybe even the first specialisation if you bought enough experience and you're set for a big bucket of fun.
542 km/h and WEP? Pick some unsuspecting ****s and start flying circles, they'll never even get close.
Sacrifice a bit of the Gold Eagles for crew experience (reload thingy and getting the pilot to withstand G-forces better) maybe even the first specialisation if you bought enough experience and you're set for a big bucket of fun.
German fighters, trollol, bloody Itie planes more like and those 112s are flying barns. Axis are hard work until rank 7 or so and I can't fight for toffee in the Buffalo, I do however find the Japanese planes frankly mental, I think I have more kills in the rank 0 F1M2 than all my Axis planes combined.
But for many of my grumblings oh do I find this game fun, especially so when I get placed in a nice game with similar tier planes and begin to decimate those who know nothing about flying. Also I came across a video of the Armour tech trees for the next release of the game here, should read comments, they are fake alas. Do want. This game shall be rather awesome once we get Land, Sea and Air going in the same match.
But for many of my grumblings oh do I find this game fun, especially so when I get placed in a nice game with similar tier planes and begin to decimate those who know nothing about flying. Also I came across a video of the Armour tech trees for the next release of the game here, should read comments, they are fake alas. Do want. This game shall be rather awesome once we get Land, Sea and Air going in the same match.
Aye, the first decent Italian plance in the Rank 4 fighter M. C. 202 or whatever. And even then you could have better American ones for a long while.
Heard bad things about the Japanese ones actually. haven't tried them yet though.
Oh and the rank 2 Italian plane is hilariously bad. Climb rate of 10m/s and a turn rate of 23s, **** yeah
And yeah, they really need to make double time on the matchmaking.
Got into a match with four FW190s and three jets yesterday. All on the enemy team, naturally. As level 3 pilot and with rank 2 planes in my selected nation...
Fastest loss ever so far.
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Did any of you try the Dynamic Campaign yet? How bad/good is it?
Heard bad things about the Japanese ones actually. haven't tried them yet though.
Oh and the rank 2 Italian plane is hilariously bad. Climb rate of 10m/s and a turn rate of 23s, **** yeah
And yeah, they really need to make double time on the matchmaking.
Got into a match with four FW190s and three jets yesterday. All on the enemy team, naturally. As level 3 pilot and with rank 2 planes in my selected nation...
Fastest loss ever so far.
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Did any of you try the Dynamic Campaign yet? How bad/good is it?
Wellenbrecher said:
It's lame. You get hardly any experience. Most of the time it's just fly for 3 minutes to the designated location, destroy a few things, now fly back to the other side of the map again. Mission done. Congratulations! Here's 1000 XP. Now to the next battle.
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Well I might cave in and download this.
Though what would be better... this or Combat Flight Simulator 2?
Though what would be better... this or Combat Flight Simulator 2?
QuailLover
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I can't afford to buy anything at the moment. I already own CFS2; I was wondering if War Thunder was at least as good as that.
gaham1 said:Check the level 3 one which can land on the sea. It costs 14k in repairs. Crazy stuff man.
Edit: This one
Oh god, they have the H6K?
Oh sweet Jesus now I definitely have to download this game. I have a fetish for Pacific floatplanes and flying boats.
Decided to hop onto this game and see how good it is, surprisingly it runs quite well on my incredibly crappy non gaming laptop. Anyway i immediately picked a British plane and jumped into an arcade battle after doing a quick flight test (don't see the point in tutorials, best to learn in your own time), i managed to destroy 5 ground targets and somehow manage to shoot down someone.
Also taking off and landing is surprisingly easy, i was expecting to burst into a ball of flames when i tried landing, but instead all i managed to do was knacker the engine a bit (i was flying quite low at a speed of 25%).
And i'm not sure whether this is due to altitude or speed but i find my plane constantly shaking at medium/high altitudes, it's kinda frustrating when you're trying to shoot someone down only to find yourself shaking violently all over the place.
Also taking off and landing is surprisingly easy, i was expecting to burst into a ball of flames when i tried landing, but instead all i managed to do was knacker the engine a bit (i was flying quite low at a speed of 25%).
And i'm not sure whether this is due to altitude or speed but i find my plane constantly shaking at medium/high altitudes, it's kinda frustrating when you're trying to shoot someone down only to find yourself shaking violently all over the place.
