Eliminate the Zoom function

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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Welshy » Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:30 pm

Onebad wrote:
Welshy wrote: do u have high powered fans next to ur PC just in case you have your canopy open or open a hatch in game?
Ughhhh, I do :D
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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Meaker » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:35 pm

Priceless Nev..... :lol: :nice:

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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Hannibal » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:00 pm

Ginger wrote:The same could be said for head tracking! who do you know who can look up 90 degrees or rotate their head 180 to look behind them while strapped into seat with a full harness!

This is not quite true.
You have to twist your head so much ingame because you have 60° FOV, so you need to rotate your head for at least 150° before you can see anything on your six. If you had 180° like you have in real life rotating for a bit more than 90° would be sufficient to at least know that there is a plane behind you.

To the topic: I sometimes have the feeling that zooming in to 30° FOV is a bit overkill, but with zoom disabled it is impossible for a player with standard setup to identify anything. This would just cause players with big, high resolution multi-monitor setups to have an extreme advantage over players with a standard 24'' HD monitor while we're not getting any closer to the "real thing".
While the system is not perfect, changing it radically would miss the point of reenacting WWII air warfare.

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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Ginger » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:08 pm

Who's got 180°head turn in real life backwards ?
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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Broadsword » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:21 pm

He means we have 180 FOV, so if you just turn your to 9 o'clock then you can see from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock...
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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Ginger » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:30 pm

there's seeing and seeing ? our binocular vision means you only really see things clear straight on! with your head turned 90° it's like looking through a pint glass any further back.
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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Bunny » Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:38 pm

Ginger wrote:with your head turned 90° it's like looking through a pint glass any further back.
In fairness, most of my Sunday mission is spent looking through a pint glass.

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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Ginger » Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:01 pm

LoL. :D
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Re: Eliminate the Zoom function

Post by Pariah » Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:33 am

Bunny wrote:
Ginger wrote:with your head turned 90° it's like looking through a pint glass any further back.
In fairness, most of my Sunday mission is spent looking through a pint glass.
It's the 501 way. It might explain by preference for crashing into things. :D
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