Yeah, I can live without being able to lean out the cockpit. The real guys did slacken off their straps though (nearly killed Lipfert a couple of times when he forgot to tighten them again).
I've had my first combat against a P51 (AI) and managed to shoot him down. During which I discovered how quickly the Dora loses it if the stick is hauled on even moderately. She's no turn-fighter.
The sim desperately needs EDGE and its, hopefully, drastically improved effects. Hitting the P51 was like a flashback to the first MS CFS. We've been totally spoiled in that dept by CloD and I couldn't play DCS seriously with the effects as they are now.
I also find it extremely hard to believe it was this difficult to get a wide-tracked fighter off the ground. The tyres seem to model no grip on the tarmac and even a couple of millimetres input to the rudder wants to send the whole gig south. The tutorial says to keep the stick back until 200kmh indicated but the plane tries to lift off by itself at about 170kmh and then everything goes badly wrong. In short, directional stability on the take-off run is atrociously bad.
It's very pleasant in the air, so long as one isn't having to deal with a P51. It goes where it's told without rubber-banding or otherwise being a twitchy mess. Rolls are fast and sweet. And right on the deck it does feel decently fast (I think the rain was skewing my perception before).
In summary it's ok but it hasn't grabbed me. It all kind of feels lazy and slow and sedate, if that makes sense. I think if the graphical effects were as good as CloD's it would have a greater WOW! factor. The sounds don't work very well with Buttkicker either...either crazily over-powered or barely there at all. Overall some parts are good, some are ok and others are meh. I was barely aware my wheels had hit the tarmac when I landed (my flaps hadn't gone down though and I had difficulty getting it down before I ran out of runway).
I'll continue to mess around with it but until the graphics are improved the operative phrase will be "mess around".
Thanks for the help guys.
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