A DCS: Black Shark Technical Report by Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce As a follow-up to my Employing the Vikhr article, here are some videos showing the Vikhr in action in DCS: Black Shark. Here’s a video showing a basic and slow-paced Vikhr attack against a stationary target. You can follow along with the numbered steps in the article or download the track […]
A Second Opinion by FearlessFrog Ah, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, so many things to say. I’ve been eagerly following this title since the day of its release back in April 2011, where even buying the game came with the adventure of guessing whatever the Russian for “credit card” was. Since that day I’ve played about […]
Opinion by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield It is amazing how ten years change things. I started writing this opinion piece covering Ubisoft and 1C’s roll out (if you want to call it that) of the new IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Doverquite a while back. As most of us already know the development and release of the follow […]
by Guest Writer Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce Whenever we have visitors at our house, I always make a point to drag them into our second bedroom, which I half-jokingly refer to as my “Man Cave”. There I show off mySilent Hunter IV ship identification posters hanging on the wall, the bookshelf of game-related manuals and books, the file […]
by Guest Writer Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce Stability Augmentation and Control Feedback Now that we understand how the Trimmer works, let’s look at its companion system, the Autopilot. The Ka-50 is a big helicopter with lots of moving parts. In fact, if a helicopter is defined as a system of 10,000 moving parts surrounding a hydraulic leak, […]
by Frank “Dart” Giger Introduction If you’ve ever thought of flying a modern shooting helicopter simulation but were afraid of having to obtain an associate’s degree in avionics in order to do so, don’t be afraid of DCS: Black Shark. Jump in and buy it, the water’s fine! I dislike “switch simulations” with a passion. Nothing […]
A SimHQ exclusive on the just-announced product by Chunx Introduction Darwin theorized that the process of evolution would cause a species to refine itself over time, with stronger, more effective traits advancing while weaker or ineffective traits were killed off. That theory also holds true in the computer gaming industry — so long as you accept […]
Read It – Do It by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth After a long pause in the “Read It – Do It” series we’ll continue our exploration of the close relationship between the books we enjoy reading and the sims we love to play. For this issue we’ll look at a fantastic book by William Smallwood “Strike […]
