http://forums.bistudio.com/ Discuss our game Take On Helicopters. en Sat, 25 May 2013 00:48:12 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.bistudio.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.bistudio.com/ http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155324-Am-I-Being-Too-Hard-On-Myself&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 11:30:10 GMT Hi all

This isn't my first look at "TOH". I first tried it a while ago, but RL distractions and an unfortunate hard drive problem pulled me away from it before I even got properly started really. Now though, inspired by a fantastic birthday present earlier this month of an "X52Pro" HOTAS and "TrackIR" (No Pedals though, not now and not in the near future.) I decided to re-install "TOH" and have another crack at it. :yay:

I'm very much enjoying working my way through the training missions. I didn't get very far yet and have just reached the take off tutorial. In doing so though I have reached a bit of a crossroads and am trying to decide which route to take.

While I've been fine in the air, flying through rings and generally waving at the sunbathing babes on the boats below. This tutorial I am finding discouragingly difficult. I have the difficulty set to "trainee" by the way. So am cutting myself every kind of slack.

I remember from last time around that it was really difficult, but back then I was using my old "Extreme 3D Pro" stick and while I love it to bits and we've tackled many great sims together, it is getting a little long in the tooth and my feeling that its sensitivity was an issue, has been borne out by a huge result in "DCS A-10C Warthog", where the new HOTAS has enabled me to immediately succeed at a training maneuver I was consistently failing in before.

So I was hoping for a little easier time of it in "TOH" with the new setup, but sad to say it seems however careful I try to be I simply can't manage a hover. I mean I'm not even close. The bird probably gets about six feet off the ground before it decides to go wildly wandering one way or the other and any careful counter pressure I try to apply, sends me drunkenly lurching the other way. I'm failing every time for leaving the take off area instead of hovering.

Goodness knows there's little point in my leaving this lesson without getting it right, because the next one is landing and... well we know where that's going don't we.

Thing is.. I'm not really asking for advice with that. (Although advice is always welcome) I fully appreciate that it's going to be a matter of practice and trying to get my pasty paws around the problem. But all the time I'm being tempted by the auto hover option. The training text actually says words to the effect of "if you find this too hard, use the auto hover. Go on, you know you want to." (ok..it might not actually say that last bit.)

So yes I could do that and yes it'd see me through this lesson and the landing lesson as well. But I wanted to do it properly and this feels so much like cheating. Plus, unless I'm going to commit to just using the auto hover feature forever, sooner or later I'm going to have to master this challenge.

I wonder if I just roll with it and take the hit, whether getting much more used to the flight model, might magically make this easier somehow at a later stage. Somehow I doubt it though.

Anyway, while I decide which way to roll on that, I wondered whether any of you might be able to recommend a series of good solid tutorials on YouTube covering the early aspects of learning the sim. All I've been able to find are vids of people flying about over Seattle (lots of em) and I'm sure that there must be video guides out there somewhere by the "TOH" enthusiasts.

See you up there folks. :D
Badger ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL FatBadger http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155324-Am-I-Being-Too-Hard-On-Myself http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155082-Disabling-Force-Feedback&goto=newpost Thu, 16 May 2013 19:18:53 GMT I'm attempting to use SimFFB so I can get proper force trimming with my G940 stick, but Take On refuses to give up FFB control to the outside program. Is there a parameter I can change somewhere to completely disable FFB? And if so where exactly is the location? I've searched high and low for FFB control, but the best I've been able to do is turn off vibrations. Thanks for your help, guys. ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL Jaximus http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155082-Disabling-Force-Feedback http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154781-Take-on-Helicopters-Arma-2-3&goto=newpost Fri, 10 May 2013 13:14:22 GMT Hi to all. Well I was not sure where to post this, in Arma or in TOH forums, but I decided here since TOH is what I like! Now what I would like to... Hi to all. Well I was not sure where to post this, in Arma or in TOH forums, but I decided here since TOH is what I like! Now what I would like to know is if TOH and Arma 3 can be united with a patch of some sort. I am aware that there is a possibility with Arma 2 but with Arma 3?

And also what is there to unite exactly?. I mean ok the light and the medium choppers I suppose will have their flight-realism and control enhanced as I would like, but what about the Chinook? There is no such helo in TOH but there is certainly one in Arma missions. It would be a unique experience to fly one but only on the TOH level of realism. I wouldn't be interested otherwise.

The reason why I am asking all this is that there is not much multiplayer action in TOH and I hope that there is in Arma. And in Arma games what can you exactly do in multiplayer games?

If I miss-posted this thread I would be happy to post it in the Arma forums.

Thanks in advance... ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL Helicopterenthusiast http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154781-Take-on-Helicopters-Arma-2-3 http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154598-TOH-specs&goto=newpost Tue, 07 May 2013 09:58:01 GMT Hi I am new to the forums and to TOH. I have a couple of questions. I have a WIN 8 PC with 8 GB ram and an AMD A6 5400K Black Edition CPU 3.6GHZ... Hi
I am new to the forums and to TOH.
I have a couple of questions. I have a WIN 8 PC with 8 GB ram and an AMD A6 5400K Black Edition CPU 3.6GHZ with integrated graphics (radeon 7540) is this enough to play the game. I ask this as I cant run it on anything other than " normal" graphics and even then its choppy and can even pause in game as if it is reading the disk. The disks are sata II drives I think

Second is my joystick a cyborg evo- I just cant get this to properly calibrate in the game. without any input from the controller the helicopter banks left. Can some one give clear instructions to setup properly.
Thanks

cc ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL Cc1970 http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154598-TOH-specs http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154204-I-completed-all-the-career-tasks-but-now-I-can-t-fly-them-using-the-Luxury-Heli&goto=newpost Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:55:28 GMT (Hope the title is appropriate...)

I completed my career. I saved up enough money to buy the Luxury Heli, but can't use it. All the career options are, "replay" which always defaults to the previous heli used. I can't use my heavy even after selling the heli last used to complete the task (I thought that if I only had the heavy, they'd let me use it). So my question is, once the career's complete, how can I continue flying the career tasks using a different (heavy) heli?

Thanks in advance. ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL mithbun http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154204-I-completed-all-the-career-tasks-but-now-I-can-t-fly-them-using-the-Luxury-Heli http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154187-Take-on-Helicopters-bundle-on-sale&goto=newpost Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:29:00 GMT Wasn't sure where to post this but Gamersgate has the ToH bundle for $6.23.


http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-TOHB/t...-bundle-bundle

I'm assuming Gamersgate is considered a legitimate retailer because I know BI's policy on cd key resellers and such. ]]> TAKE ON HELICOPTERS - GENERAL Insanatrix http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154187-Take-on-Helicopters-bundle-on-sale