Other combat simulations like this [request]

[MACIORELLA]

I just started to be interested in this simulation games, well matured, your needs (at least mine) increased, I dont want to be insulted by poor simulations scenarios like in other games, now I want it to be close to reality as much as possible. I am planning to buy some good rig with proper equipment etc, I understand that DCS is the best combat simulator aside of civilian XPLANE/Flight Simulator. Do You have any other good simus close to reality?

[Frostregen]

Take On Helicopters was my entry drug which lead me to DCS :)

[Piro]

引用自 Heron：

The ARMA 3 engine is the most advanced and is not weak

As someone who actually works on game engines on a regular basis, I'd be happy to argue this with you somewhere else. The engine is a hacked together hodgepodge of bad design. That said, I didn't make the claim the engine was weak (though that is in fact the case). I claimed that it was a weak sim.

引用自 Heron：

ahdering to the market that the majority of gamers cannot handle the task of a cold start to finish job of a cockpit pilot.

And that's absolutely fine. The tradeoff for this however is that it becomes less a simulation and more of an arcade experience.

[Hadji]

My wet dream is a combat sim that offers DCS level planes and helos in a Arma environment.

[Goritude]

引用自 El Hadji：

My wet dream is a combat sim that offers DCS level planes and helos in a Arma environment.

Your dream has come true. WinSPMBT does it but it is a turn-based wargame, not a real-time one. And it is free to play.

[Gubernaut]

Is Ebay the only place to get Falcon 4.0 to be able to install BMS?

[Hadji]

Amazon and Ebay as far as I know.

[Piro]

Just make sure it's Falcon 4.0 and not Allied Force.

[Gubernaut]

引用自 El Hadji：

My wet dream is a combat sim that offers DCS level planes and helos in a Arma environment.

If you haven't tried out the AH-64D Apache Longbow by Nodunit and Franze you should check it out now they got a version for Arma 3, it has some bugs but it's still really fun.
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?162767-AH-64D-Apache-Longbow-for-ArmA2-by-Nodunit-and-Franze
Get the version 1.4 for Arma 3 and then download my version of DUWS https://github.com/Emton/DUWS-Longbow/blob/master/%5BSP%5DDUWS-Longbow-12.Altis.pbo
to fly it on, DUWS makes an excellent target rich environment for flying the Apache.

[Zombiescu]

If you like f-18/f-14 there is vrs tacpack and vrs superbug for fsx which the tacpack is a weapons addon for the f-18, pretty amazing addon

[Cyber_Chupacabra]

Yea, Flacon BMS is a DCs lvl of combat flight sim. Also as other have mentioned Il-2 games are pretty good.

[zax]

Since it hasn't been said (at least I think it hasn't), I'll add in War Thunder's Aircraft Sim mode. I've played a bit of War Thunder (tank and aircraft) and I can say the sim mode is not terrible. It has an arcade mode, realistic (which is not very) and sim, with sim being the least arcade-y.

Unfortunately the overall game suffers from the free-to-play design which makes me slightly ill to my stomach. But if you can swallow that pill, then the aircraft sim mode can be fun and is readily available for multiplayer combat. I don't have a lot of unlocked planes as I'm an older player and am more than happy to put 40 hours into a single aircraft, but the flight mechanics do differ from plane to plane (this is not saying they are good, bad, realistic or otherwise). I also often play in realistic mode due to the fact that sim mode changes as to allowable planes everyday and if you limit yourself to cockpit view in "realistic mode", it is a bit like playing IL-2 1946 with HUD icons enabled and probably some engine management stuff off, but I'm not sure.

It is one of the few experience you can have flying WW2 planes against player controlled AA. Which can be fun.

[kazereal]

引用自 zachary.hutchinson：

Since it hasn't been said (at least I think it hasn't), I'll add in War Thunder's Aircraft Sim mode.

The question was about simulators.. War Thunder does not match the definition..

[zax]

True. I sorta missed the last statement about 'reality'. Mine was definitely not a plug for War Thunder as sim, but as a possible cockpit experience.

[Coronavirus Carl]

If you're looking for a good flight sim, IL-2's nice. Arma 3 and Takeon Helicopters are also very well done for their chopper flight. And frankly, if you're worried about realism, take it from me that there's only so much "realism" you can squeeze into a flight sim before it becomes superfluous; taking the controls of an actual helicopter and flying is a sensation that no video game can ever hope to fully replicate.

[kazereal]

引用自 Tony Danza：

If you're looking for a good flight sim, IL-2's nice. Arma 3 and Takeon Helicopters are also very well done for their chopper flight. And frankly, if you're worried about realism, take it from me that there's only so much "realism" you can squeeze into a flight sim before it becomes superfluous; taking the controls of an actual helicopter and flying is a sensation that no video game can ever hope to fully replicate.

Have you tried DCS Huey yet? ;)

Arma 3 and Takeon could be considered "simcade" - still not full simulators.