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An early feedback of OFF3

Rabu- I believe I have the old CD version..however it is patched to 3.1 and 3.1a and flown once. Does it matter that the CFS3 is a CD version and not a DVD?

Royce
 
icuucme37 said:
One other question, is it just me or does CFS3/OFF have one of the most stupidest view control systems in a flight sim?
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Its not just you. The CSF3 views are really poor. The only decent solutions are to get good at using the pan view or buy TrackIR.
 
cptroyce said:
Rabu- I believe I have the old CD version..however it is patched to 3.1 and 3.1a and flown once. Does it matter that the CFS3 is a CD version and not a DVD?

Royce
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Sounds like you are installed right.

No, I don't think it makes any difference.. I believe the only advantage to the DVD version is that after it's installed you no longer need to insert it to play OFF.

REally strange that you are not seeing a difference. Maybe read back through the tips and stuff on the web site and see if something got messed up at some point.. and check your settings in the config program.
 
icuucme37 said:
Someone said that they seen battle damage? I must have my settings wrong, because I've have yet to see any battle damage to the planes I am shooting or when I am getting shot.

One other question, is it just me or does CFS3/OFF have one of the most stupidest view control systems in a flight sim?
I know that OFF design team had nothing to do with key assigment.

Why is it when you hit/go to Player/target view it give you a view From the target to the Player ? Wouldn't that be Target to player view?

Now I know why I only played CFS3 for about 30 mins 4 years ago, because of the stupid view system.
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This has been covered a lot in the past, just do a search on damage.. it's WWI, the planes were made of fabric, not metal with very few damageable parts. You either have your settings wrong or you need to improve your aim? ..get in close and use short bursts, etc.

The CFS3 view system is not one of the better ones, I agree, it's very different, but I also found that if you take the time to get used to it and then configure your stick buttons it can work pretty well. Track IR, however, is a huge benefit, as it is to any serious sim you would want to play and it isn't that expensive to find version 3 out there on Ebay, etc. or get the latest version, it will last you a long time and is well worth it if you're more then a casual sim flyer.
 
icuucme37 said:
Someone said that they seen battle damage? I must have my settings wrong, because I've have yet to see any battle damage to the planes I am shooting or when I am getting shot.
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Are you using skins settings High res? If so unfortunetally you dont see bullet holes in high res settings, but normal setting all damage are visible.
 
icuucme37 said:
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Now I know why I only played CFS3 for about 30 mins 4 years ago, because of the stupid view system.
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I have never for the life of me understood chaps who want to play flight sims- for realism- who play it in external views?

Amazing really - of course, you are entitled to- but surely ( you don't mind me calling you surely do you?) :) why fight in a sim except in the cockpit?
 
icuucme37 if you still see no bullet holes and you are on normal textures (not ultra high) then you may be running out of vid mem, try knocking terrain/scenery/clouds sliders back 1. in cfs3config (workshop)
 
Thanks all- for the suggestions..apparently there was a CFS3config problem somewhere. Or I don't know what.
I began getting constant error messages re: CFS3config after trying OFFP3 again, I couldn't run it. It semed that the Config file was bieng reset to 16 bit from 32 bit and erasing whatever settings I was making in the Overrides file.
I ran a search for P2 files and folders and their were some left over from what I thought was a deletion of P2.

Sooo..I did a completely cleaned, and another install CFS3 and patches, and ran it once, and then tried another install of P3 and Voila! BHAH. And yes I can see a big difference. Took a long tour from Valencourt to Paris and then east to the front. Lovely...

Royce
 
That's a big relief, Royce.. you, of all people, I wouldn't want to see unhappy with this. :amen:

Cheers!
 
Holy Moley thank goodness ! Glad it's P3 now not P2 and something ;)

Thanks Royce - I thought of all people you'd notice the big difference lol :d
Play some and let us know!
 
I really loved P2..whatever the shortcomings folks felt about it. P3 however is beautiful and exciting. Among many things so far, I enjoy the after flight review and the detail therein.
Don't know what PC conglomeration I had going on previously, but all is wonderfully well now. Thought I'd flown for about half hour or so..actually was almost two hours; I wasn't even aware of the time!

Regards,
Royce
 
Outside views are great

Well it hs been said by several people that we should stay inside the cockpit for realisim.

Well I can't see why the hell you would not take advantage of this fantastic feature and get a good look at the work the skinning guys have done. Try the float view also. Man, I fly aircraft in real life and I only wish I could get outside views of me flying around in great looking vintage aircraft. You are missing out on some great views if you dont use the outside views.

The player/targt external view has reversed from phase 2 to phase 3 for some reason. It is now target to player! Any chance of changig it back Winder ?

Thanks for the great sim,
Speedski
 
Cptroyce: "Among many things so far, I enjoy the after flight review and the detail therein.
Don't know what PC conglomeration I had going on previously, but all is wonderfully well now. Thought I'd flown for about half hour or so..actually was almost two hours; I wasn't even aware of the time!"

This is a beautiful compliment, Captain Royce; glad, it worked out well for you now.
I'm sure, Winder must have been shocked, when you didn't seem to see the difference first - but now (I hope) he'll sleep well again (lol).
 
Olham54 said:
Cptroyce: "Among many things so far, I enjoy the after flight review and the detail therein. ..snip...
I'm sure, Winder must have been shocked, when you didn't seem to see the difference first - but now (I hope) he'll sleep well again (lol).
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Sleep???? Not sure if he's ever given that a try. :faint:
 
For Icuucme37

Why is it when you hit/go to Player/target view it give you a view From the target to the Player ? Wouldn't that be Target to player view?
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Once you have the F4 "player/target view up, use ctl-shift-F4 to togle to the view you want. Use it once and it sticks.

This information was brought to you by our friendly Polovski who answered the same question for me.

Cheers,
Speedski
 
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