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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
Is DCT a PDK? I've been avoiding those afraid I might like them too much.
I did the 3 screen cockpit thing back in the 90's. Friend of mine install the then hute 24' CRT monitors for American Airlines. Another friend wrote a program Hellcats of the South Pacific. Set up the program specificall for the 2 huge monitors and a desk we put together to surround yourself with the monitor. Rigged up so foot controls, yoke, throttle etc. That graphics were kind a rudimentary, but still 3D with shadowing etc and enough detail you really got into it.
Made the programmer made because I beat his score on the first sortie. I flew the Hellcat in like it was a cruize missle, wiped out the bases defences, ack ack guns, planes on the tarmac, etc, Then bombed the base with impunity.
There was another sortie where you had to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier. Nobody could sink it without getting shot down. I came in right on the water and carrier guns couldn't hit me. The flew thru the fantail and dropped a bomb as I went thru.
One time I bailed out and parachuted onto the deck or a Japanese carrier. The game said I was found by friendlies and found my way back to base.
The game designer guy got mad at me and refused to give me a copy. Said I beat him so bad I had to buy a copy if I wanted it. LOL.
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Dual clutch, yes.
I knew you did well on that old game is why I suggested getting back into it. The new sims are much better and more realistic. The flight models and weapons modeling are much better.
One of the older Battlefield games (BF1942) has the Battle of the Coral Sea but with moderns stuff. We like to parachute onto the deck of the enemy carrier and shoot the enemy there before they can take off. Sometimes they run to the zodiak type boats to take one of the control points on land. We plant charges on them and let them disembark before pushing the button. We plant charges on the deck as well to catch planes or helos taking off. It isn't very realistic but it causes a lot of laughter when we play. Sometimes so much we have a hard time breathing and seeing what is on the screen because we laugh too hard.
Did you know you can fly into the back of an open C130, shoot the pilot and take over? Did you know that some people can lose control of a helicopter so badly that when they jump out the centripetal force from spinning the helo flings them half way across the map superman style. Or that you can almost drown your side gunner in the Blackhawk because you got too low flying under the bridge? Or that your kids can get your 70+ year old dad to play by telling him to stand behind the sand bags and shoot everyone that comes form over there --->?
The combat sims aren't something that non-aviation understanding people can sit down and play right away and survive very well though. Nothing like hearing your daughter do the evil laugh and the guy trying to get on your tail suddenly blows up as she strafes his SU-27 with her F-16. Or trying to bomb your target while your 8 year old son is a mile behind you thinking you are safe only to realize he has the Corsair Charlie with the 20mm canons and not the .50 calibers and he can in fact reach out to you at that range.
We don't play much online, but we have had as many as 20 at the house to play together.