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After much speculation,guessing,chinese whispers and frankly some complete bs that I've seen lately, I can now freely give my views and opinion of AccuRC.
I was asked to join the Beta team about two months ago and started with "beta2" People were shouting "its a game changer,takes sims to a whole new level" etc,so my expectations were high I couldn't wait for it to download so that I could sample this myself.Well after installing it on my rather inadequate pc, I was to be honest disappointed.Graphically it looked similar to phoenix(forgive me here thats the only sim I have used so the only one I can compare it too) The start up screen is grey with the AccuRC logo and random helicopter and loading bar,rather bland looking I think.Once loaded your taken to "the workshop" from there you select your model set your TX and once done your ready to fly.(I've missed out a lot of detail here,about binding,setting etc)
The first model I flew was the Raptor titan SE fb. On spooling up the heli,yep just like phoenix! but then lift off the ground and it immediately starts to move around so a little correction with cyclic and I'm losing height,more collective and it climbs and continues to drift about,this is when I realized it really does feel more "real" all of a sudden I'm having to control the heli constantly not just as you do in phoenix where you give it a gentle touch and it settles,this raptor is more alive. after a little gentle fly around I tried a stall turn,...after coming back at me head first I turned it....straight into the ground! Ok so time for a better Heli maybe? back in the "workshop" I changed to the Trex600 DFC fbl and went to fly.First impression with this heli was "its completely different" to the raptor.Although there is no physical feedback through the sticks I'm sure you all know that feeling you get when flying different models? some feel light some feel heavy,floaty,more stable etc?Well thats what you get.The flight of each model is a new experience and I had to relearn a lot of what I thought was how things flew.
After flying I played with the workshop, here you change whatever you want on the model by selecting from menu's and adjusting parameters.this is far more straight forward than phoenix because you actually adjust real values such as servo throws,flybar settings ect not votices and lift,drag etc.(again stacks of detail left out! we would be here all night)There are other features like a video recorder that will send your flights straight to social media/youtube etc for you and mp3 player with beeps included for you flight to music pilots.
Just a quick a description of what you get. now what I think.
Is it better than phoenix?..... yes. not graphically that I would say is a dead heat.(If you ask me which I prefere I would say AccuRC,,,,because ... depth perception is easier,) maybe because the camera follows you and slowly zooms so the heli does not become a small dot as quickly as it does on phoenix. Flight wise AccuRC wins by a good margin, the models fly much more realistically and each feels different to the last,and are far more easy to make adjustments on.(one thing I will add here is new pilots may feel lost when faced with all this workshop stuff,but each model does fly "out the box" and there will be many instructional video's released)so It will also make a great set up learning tool,as you can feel what each change does,and of course there is a reset button!
We are now on beta6 and it has improved with every release,the amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes is truly amazing, final release version ships to us tonight.The first release is helicopters only and only three flying sites but future updates are free and I'm sure will come thick and fast(I'm actualy looking forward to a plank or two!)
I've seen comments on social media about beta testers been sycophants and yes men telling the developers what they want to hear and I can tell you now categorically this is not true,every single one of us wants this to be a class leading product and have done our very best to give the developers as much info as possible to make this so.The robotic look on the youtube video is not present in use maybe thats a compression problem I dont know.
I'm running
intel i3 3.30ghz(4cpu's) 4gb ram nvidia geforce gt520 graphics @1366x728 full screen. settings at medium 72fps
Thats just a very quick post of my thoughts as its late and there is a lot happening atm.
the AccuRC website should be live very soon.
http://www.accurc.com/
I was asked to join the Beta team about two months ago and started with "beta2" People were shouting "its a game changer,takes sims to a whole new level" etc,so my expectations were high I couldn't wait for it to download so that I could sample this myself.Well after installing it on my rather inadequate pc, I was to be honest disappointed.Graphically it looked similar to phoenix(forgive me here thats the only sim I have used so the only one I can compare it too) The start up screen is grey with the AccuRC logo and random helicopter and loading bar,rather bland looking I think.Once loaded your taken to "the workshop" from there you select your model set your TX and once done your ready to fly.(I've missed out a lot of detail here,about binding,setting etc)
The first model I flew was the Raptor titan SE fb. On spooling up the heli,yep just like phoenix! but then lift off the ground and it immediately starts to move around so a little correction with cyclic and I'm losing height,more collective and it climbs and continues to drift about,this is when I realized it really does feel more "real" all of a sudden I'm having to control the heli constantly not just as you do in phoenix where you give it a gentle touch and it settles,this raptor is more alive. after a little gentle fly around I tried a stall turn,...after coming back at me head first I turned it....straight into the ground! Ok so time for a better Heli maybe? back in the "workshop" I changed to the Trex600 DFC fbl and went to fly.First impression with this heli was "its completely different" to the raptor.Although there is no physical feedback through the sticks I'm sure you all know that feeling you get when flying different models? some feel light some feel heavy,floaty,more stable etc?Well thats what you get.The flight of each model is a new experience and I had to relearn a lot of what I thought was how things flew.
After flying I played with the workshop, here you change whatever you want on the model by selecting from menu's and adjusting parameters.this is far more straight forward than phoenix because you actually adjust real values such as servo throws,flybar settings ect not votices and lift,drag etc.(again stacks of detail left out! we would be here all night)There are other features like a video recorder that will send your flights straight to social media/youtube etc for you and mp3 player with beeps included for you flight to music pilots.
Just a quick a description of what you get. now what I think.
Is it better than phoenix?..... yes. not graphically that I would say is a dead heat.(If you ask me which I prefere I would say AccuRC,,,,because ... depth perception is easier,) maybe because the camera follows you and slowly zooms so the heli does not become a small dot as quickly as it does on phoenix. Flight wise AccuRC wins by a good margin, the models fly much more realistically and each feels different to the last,and are far more easy to make adjustments on.(one thing I will add here is new pilots may feel lost when faced with all this workshop stuff,but each model does fly "out the box" and there will be many instructional video's released)so It will also make a great set up learning tool,as you can feel what each change does,and of course there is a reset button!
We are now on beta6 and it has improved with every release,the amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes is truly amazing, final release version ships to us tonight.The first release is helicopters only and only three flying sites but future updates are free and I'm sure will come thick and fast(I'm actualy looking forward to a plank or two!)
I've seen comments on social media about beta testers been sycophants and yes men telling the developers what they want to hear and I can tell you now categorically this is not true,every single one of us wants this to be a class leading product and have done our very best to give the developers as much info as possible to make this so.The robotic look on the youtube video is not present in use maybe thats a compression problem I dont know.
I'm running
intel i3 3.30ghz(4cpu's) 4gb ram nvidia geforce gt520 graphics @1366x728 full screen. settings at medium 72fps
Thats just a very quick post of my thoughts as its late and there is a lot happening atm.
the AccuRC website should be live very soon.
http://www.accurc.com/
which to us non geek speakers means its sprouting I think! 
+ 7 x Eddies finest EGS's
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