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 Post subject: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 14:23 
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http://uk.playstation.com/ps4/games/det ... %E2%84%A2/

Really looking forward to this next Friday. Supports some PC flightsticks too apparently. :metul:
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 14:25 
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Flight sticks on the PS4? Cool :)

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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 14:41 
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It's been available to play on the PC for quite some time - great if you like a bit of flying and shooting but what I'm really looking forward to is the 'Ground Forces' addition (going into closed Beta in a few weeks on the PC but it's also due out on the PS4 some time) which allows you to control tanks (I'm a big fan of World of Tanks on the PC).

Ground Forces tanks will be able to exist in the same battlefield as the planes and it will be possible to have battles that involve planes or just Tanks Vs Tanks battles.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 14:43 
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I'm trying to come up with a clever Blitzkrieg / War Thunder joke but am failing.

That looks pretty cool. Pacific and European stuff ( although I didn't stop any Soviet bits in there )!
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 19:30 
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 19:37 
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Could be fun. See you in the air.

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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:25 
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It looks great, however any multiplayer plane-em-up i've ever played has just ended in endless circling...
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:36 
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It tends to not happen so much with more players. I played quite a bit of Birds Of Steel online and had some great dogfights, they tended to be over quite quick though before either getting a kill or getting killed or just losing each other and moving on to the next target.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:28 
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Didn't realise this was free to play on Steam. Downloading now :)
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 13:48 
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I love the name of this game! WAR THUNDER! It is like something out of Machete.

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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 16:07 
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Well, it looks nice, but it is utterly impossible to control with an xbox pad, even on the basic arcade control setting :(
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 13:13 
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This game is lovely on the PS4, once I'd got the controls set right. It defaults to a really horrible arcadey control scheme. So nice to have the head tracking too. I've not really begun the game proper yet, just been doing some test flights, marvelling at things and shooting a truck. Here's a video which will look much better if you watch it in HD
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 20:34 
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Was that played with a PC flightstick? Guess you wouldn't easily be able to look about like that with a standard PS4 pad.

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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 20:46 
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No, just the pad. You just move your head slightly and the camera sees it and looks around, it's amazing.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 20:47 
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Unless it uses the motion controlled gyroscopical analogue detecting trackpad lasers on the dualshock.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 20:47 
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Or the camera.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 0:17 
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markg wrote:
No, just the pad. You just move your head slightly and the camera sees it and looks around, it's amazing.

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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:40 
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You'll have to pop round some time, I'll let you watch me play it.
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 Post subject: Re: War Thunder
PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:14 
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Pick me up and I can drink your booze while you play it.

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