cannot believe I have only just found this excellent sim. Purchased UE and PE last night, Started a career in Flanders in a trusty Newport 10C1. Date is 22nd October 1915.
So far 3 long defensive patrols had no contact with the Hun yet, thought I would find it boring, but quite the opposite the challenge of keeping formation whilst looking for dots in the sky is enough right now.
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I'am looking at purchasing a Thrustmaster warthog HOTAS, would that be overkill for this game. As I intend to get stuck into the career mode exclusively for a while.
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 4,879RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
Senior Member
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
L'Etoile du Nord
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Welcome aboard Willo, glad to have you with us. You are in for many, many, many hours of wonderfully immersive WWI combat flying and fighting. Be prepared to lose more than a few pilots, in particular if you are flying without all the in-sim aids. The WOFF devs have created a true gem here and continue to keep right on making it better. Feel free to ask questions as you go along, and when you think you're ready come and join us in the DID campaign! As for the HOTAS, I don't personally use one but others here do and I am sure can offer you some of their insight.
Have fun Willo, and watch your six. And one more item of great import - new lads buy the drinks!
Cheers,
Lou
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I would like to recommend you visit Sandbaggers mods page and in particular take advantage of the backup utility for you pilots and woff settings. You wont loose your campaign career pilots if you have to restore WOFF at any time.
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Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper PSU: Ultra X3,1000-Watt MB: Asus Maximus VI Extreme Mem: Corsair Vengeance (2x 8GB), PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, Unbuffered CPU: Intel i7-4770K, OC to 4.427Ghz CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler Vid Card: ASUS GTX 980Ti STRIX 6GB OS and Games on separate: Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD Monitor: Primary ASUS PG27AQ 4k; Secondary Samsung SyncMaster BX2450L Periphs: MS Sidewinder FFB2 Pro, TrackIR 4
I open the window (it’s -17C here today), and turn on the fan perched beside the monitor. Castor oil is becoming increasingly hard to come by, but it does add a certain je ne sais quoi if you put a bowl of it in front of the fan Cheers Shredward
was just about to tuck into the mornings spread chocolate and whiskey (some say an old wife's tail), when the alarm rang for a full squadron scramble!
Our airbase just west of Dunkerque -St-Pol-sur-Mer, was under attack. as launched my kitte into the air I could hear the tell tale sound of a bomb whistling to the ground, well off target thankfully. We scrambled for altitude but by the time we reached 5000 feet the sneaky Huns had buggered off! Still no face to face action.. i'am sure it will arrive sooner rather then later. The squadron landed without incident
Lou, did you hear that banter!! Already a candidate for BWOC!!!
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Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper PSU: Ultra X3,1000-Watt MB: Asus Maximus VI Extreme Mem: Corsair Vengeance (2x 8GB), PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, Unbuffered CPU: Intel i7-4770K, OC to 4.427Ghz CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler Vid Card: ASUS GTX 980Ti STRIX 6GB OS and Games on separate: Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD Monitor: Primary ASUS PG27AQ 4k; Secondary Samsung SyncMaster BX2450L Periphs: MS Sidewinder FFB2 Pro, TrackIR 4
I open the window (it’s -17C here today), and turn on the fan perched beside the monitor. Castor oil is becoming increasingly hard to come by, but it does add a certain je ne sais quoi if you put a bowl of it in front of the fan Cheers Shredward
Shredward, you’re going to go through your toilet paper supply pretty quickly this way.
Welcome to the Front, Willo. Make sure to smear that whale goop on your face for total immersion.
"Take the cylinder out of my kidneys, The connecting rod out of my brain, my brain, From out of my arse take the camshaft, And assemble the engine again."
I had my first Full combat patrol over enemy lines. We were tasked to fly patrol over the Huns airfield at Ghistelles, the flight conditions were perfect, clear with some broken clouds. As we neared the mud and crossed over the front lines, I heard an almighty bang about 200 yards away.. that would be archy! Heard a lot about it, and its a nervy thing to deal with. As we headed over the airfield I saw a Aviatik C.1 and our flight lead instantly dove down, in my excitement I followed eager for action.. but as iam a total noob, I over speeded and damaged the structure of my aircraft. What a nob!
I decided to fly home tail between ones legs, when I spotted a balloon at 12 oclock, I decided to risk attacking. mainly because in 5 missions I hadn't fired my guns yet! Down the balloon went, but the ground fire was intense bullets skimming my kite left and right. Then I heard a ping in the front engine.. and smoke followed shortly after. Luckily I managed to make it to St-omer before I decided she was about to catch fire and ditched in a field up against a fence.
Willo - any landing is a good landing. Speed management will come in time although I recently also overshot a observation balloon - and I must have hundreds upon hundreds of hours flying WOFF and before that OFF. Watch the videos posted on the forum - there is some excellent flying on them
Welcome Willo,you've picked up arguably the Finest WW1 air sim ever produced. There's also more exciting news going forwards regarding WOFF,this sim goes from strength to strength. I mention this to ALL new flyers but have you downloaded the free skin pack and music score from the Store page?. The skins are incredible and IMO a must have but be warned they do take up a fair amount of space once unzipped.
Also regarding your question regarding the Warthog. My personal opinion if you purchase JUST for WOFF then i think it is a "overkill" if you fly say DCS or others then go for it. A lot of people like the T16000m you can purchase Joystick,throttle and pedals seperate or all together your choice mate. Id,also recommend TrackIR.Once used i couldn't fly without it, And dont forget to check out the brilliant mods when your settled..I highly recommend Jara,s mission editor amongst others.Again Welcome and watch for the hun in the sun pal
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
I agree with Adger about the joystick to use. I am using a Logitech 3D Pro with WOFF and it works well with the types of airplanes flown.
I have a more expensive VKB Gladiator Mk.II with VKB T-Rudder Mk.IV pedals and a Cobra Accelerator throttle, but I don't use those for WOFF and instead use them for aircraft flown in IL2 and Strike Fighters 2.
TrackIR is basically a must for WOFF. It's expensive, but definitely worth the cost.
I open the window (it’s -17C here today), and turn on the fan perched beside the monitor. Castor oil is becoming increasingly hard to come by, but it does add a certain je ne sais quoi if you put a bowl of it in front of the fan Cheers Shredward
Shredward, you’re going to go through your toilet paper supply pretty quickly this way.
Welcome to the Front, Willo. Make sure to smear that whale goop on your face for total immersion.
I'm a colonial. Shortages and all. Don't you know there's a war on ?
I agree, I have trackir 5, i forgot to start the trackir software before, and when I started a mission I had to quit it straight away.. impossible with the hat switches haha