Comments on: Peculiarly Vehicular

By: TheLordHimself

TheLordHimself — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:04:04 +0000

Check out the hydro foils on that Cat! I bet that thing is fun.

By: Laco

Laco — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:19:57 +0000

Turning up the wave height and standing on the deck of the ship during a thunderstorm just gave me the most real feeling of vertigo I’ve ever had from a game. Maybe not quite vertigo, but whatever you call that top-of-a-rollercoaster feeling.

Makes me wonder why I haven’t played more ship simulators before (or any, really). It’s possibly that most of them are combat sims, while I much prefer just mucking about exploring the world in these types of games.

Brilliant fun, anyway!

By: fulis

fulis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:06:34 +0000

Free Falcon 5 is just around the door so =) make sure you post about that when it comes out!

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:53:04 +0000

“Add a drop of lavender to your milk, and leave town with an orange.”

Ah the little book of calm, I’ll never forsake thee!

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:52:26 +0000

Thanks Jonas. I aim to be posting a bit more in the run up to Christmas.

The trick to landing on the carrier is plenty of flaps (from the external view you can drag them down with the mouse pointer) and killing the engine (e) just as you cross the deck threshold. Well, that’s the way I do it anyway.

By: fulis

fulis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:50:56 +0000

oh how I wish I had time for flight sims

By: phuzz

phuzz — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:45:22 +0000

Hang gliding is relaxing? I found it terrifying! Well, up until I noticed the PgUp to gain altitude bit…
Also, how are you supposed to control SpaceShipOne?

By: marxeil

marxeil — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:41:51 +0000

These kind of articles are why I love RPS so much. Its like the side roads guide to PC gaming.

By: Pags

Pags — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:34:18 +0000

Props on actually managing to land on the carrier at all, I completely missed the deck altogether.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:15:26 +0000

Tim Stone, you do not post here enough. I am really not into sims, but whenever I read one of your ultra-geeky, super-enthusiastic posts about one, I feel like giving it a go anyway.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:06:47 +0000

That’s quite cool actually, having everything combined like that. From your screens it looks rather nice too!

“Can you land a plane? Can you land a plane on a ship? Can you land a plane on a ship in a storm? Can you land a plane on a ship in a storm in a flight simulator?”

Personally I have always found them to be very tough… One particular incident involving a stalling 747 full of innocent holidaymakers when I was a lot younger put me off Microsoft FS for a while.

I see on the website that he has released a bit of the source so you can add your own functions via DLLs! There’s few developers that would do that…