Searchlights in VR - Amazing!

[Lensman]

I keep thinking that IL-2 in VR has shown me all it can and then tonight happens.

 

 

I flew my first night mission (in VR) and was tasked with a bomber intercept, there were several bombers and they had a fighter escort. I was very high over Russia in winter near Stalingrad and there was some cloud but very little and the cloudbase was way below my cruising altitude. The stars and moon were out in the dark but the moonlight slightly illuminated my cockpit interior and also the white snow and ice terrain;  I could see for a hundred miles. My instruments had radium illumination and were glowing green, very atmospheric (no pun intended). Weapon fire in the distance be it aircraft or ground fire was spectacular, ribbons of coloured fire. Because of the altitude my staffel was creating vapour trails as were the Soviets and the moon was illuminating them as they twisted and turned through the air, just like the battle of Britain paintings. It was all just BEAUTIFUL and spell-binding to observe and then they switched on the search-lights!

 

Over enemy airfields and Luftwaffe airfields the ground crew switched on search-lights. They flickered to life and then started probing the sky, 2 or 3 per field and they were incredible. Enemy lights sought out my fellow aircraft and then 2 locked on to me and everything lit up. I could look down the beams and truly see my altitude. Luftwaffe lights were coning the Soviet fliers and even going near horizontal for miles over the snowy ground to illuminate low flying fighters so my staffel could attack them. You really had to see all of this to believe it, it was one of the most astonishing things I've ever seen. True vindication of the power of VR even at the current low resolution. Magic!  :-) 

[56RAF_Roblex]

I don't have VR yet but one of my squadmates does and he said getting caught in the searchlights is quite a shock in VR.

[OrLoK]

Its wonderful.

 

Ground based mg fire rocks as it curves towards you too.

[blitze]

Oh I can't wait till I am doing BoS in VR.  January it seems will be delivery time for me.

 

Ground pounding at night the first to be taken down is the search lights.  It would be great in proper 3D.

[doog442]

Yes my first night flight with the search lights was pretty magical in VR. 

[dburne]

They are definitley incredible to see in VR no doubt.

[Lensman]

Oh I can't wait till I am doing BoS in VR.  January it seems will be delivery time for me.

 

The first time that you try it you'll say:

 

'This is incredible!'

 

and

 

'Where's my resolution gone?!'

 

The former will persist indefinitely and the latter will quickly vanish.   ;-)

It's all good.

 

I assign a throttle button to the target label toggle though so I can flick the labels on and off at will without touching my keyboard. I find it helps.

[A_radek]

The first time that you try it you'll say:

 

'This is incredible!'

 

and

 

'Where's my resolution gone?!'

 

The former will persist indefinitely and the latter will quickly vanish.   ;-)

It's all good.

 

It was the other way around for me And that's where it's at. I so wish we could have a little more resolution.

 

Yet I stand firmly on the vr side of things. As the magic and "wow" factor of VR faded with time, equally, flying through a monitor diminished to some kind of retro gaming I just can't bear. 

Edited October 18, 2017 by a_radek

[dburne]

The first time that you try it you'll say:

 

'This is incredible!'

 

and

 

'Where's my resolution gone?!'

 

The former will persist indefinitely and the latter will quickly vanish.   ;-)

It's all good.

 

I assign a throttle button to the target label toggle though so I can flick the labels on and off at will without touching my keyboard. I find it helps.

 

That was my experience as well.

I too assigned labels to a throttle button and do the same.

[katdog5]

That was my experience as well.

I too assigned labels to a throttle button and do the same.

 

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