Hi, first post here, and just really wanted to say Hi, and maybe come with a question or two… :=
Falcon 4 is alive I see, and has been all the time I understand. That is good. Last time I really played it was after I think what was the last patch before the F4 team was laid off. Think it was patch 1.08. So… that is many years (20 or something) ago. I checked a few unofficial patches in the beginning after that, but gave it up pretty soon.
Since I´ve playing other sims, I knew that people were still working on it, but I never really checked it out. But - then I read somewhere about VR support - and wow - here I am again, installing Falcon 4 - over 20 years later!!
I´ve been feeling pretty nostalgic the last couple of days. I bought Falcon 4 the day it was released, back in… 98? Actually I bought two copies. One was an ordinary boxed version, but I also got a binder version The game brought my then high end PC to its knees It crashed all the time. I guess many of you are old timers too, so won´t bore you more with this.
But - a BIG thank you to all of you have kept this alive all these years and the team that is maintaining it now. Cause - yesterday I flew it in VR - and oh my god - that was insanely good. Back in 98 I would have never believed it would be possible to have such a Falcon 4 experience. Yeah, the graphics is not top notch for 2022 - but unlike some other combat sim (three letters, starts with a D and ends with a S) the picture is crystal clear in VR. Not hazy/unclear. And it runs smoothly, though I haven´t started a campaign yet. Just did some landing excercises and instant action dogfighting.
I am struggling a bit with my hotas setup. Thrustmaster Warthog with pedals. Trying to understand the best way/simpliest way to make it all work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not. (No, haven´t read the manual(s) yet). Is the best thing to set it up in the launcher program? That was the last thing I tried, and it SEEMS to work now. Have to do more testing.
Not to start a discussion here, but this flight model is… different I think. I have to put in a bit more work it seems. I like it
Guess this is all for now. Will try to get through a bit more documentation too