Phoenix V5 update

[z0m8i3]

So what's the decision??? Has anyone updated yet?? Just deciding wether or not to do it?

I'm updating as we speak...

[Jez N]

Managed to download this morning. First impressions are that it is not really any different to v4 except the impact physics are now totally rubbish (5.0a on the way i hope!). I know that there are new features for designing stuff, but at the end of the day this is a simulator where i go to practice not spend hours building a model and setting it up. Enough of that in the real world!!

Feel a little underwhelmed and for that i blame you guys for hyping it up!!

[z0m8i3]

It needs tweeking on alot of stuff.

[Pj1969]

Well that's it for me, I'm sticking with v4, I'm happy with it, so better the devil an all that.

[Surinder Singh]

Really struggling with v5.0b non of the Helis feel right. Even the Avant Aruora which was the most realistic flying model in my opinion in v4 just feel wrong. I made some nice progress on piro flips, backwards and forward flips on v4 now in v5 the models just feel really weird too floaty and as if too much negative pitch is being applied at the wrong time on piro flips etc. The model will shoot of at a weird vector. Even hurricane and funnels don't feel right.

How do I revert back to v4 any suggestions?

I'd like to hear more feedback from anyone else that's upgraded to v5.

Or is there something I can adjust to get the v4 feel back?

[jimmyhorns]

Really underwhelmed.

Really pleased I spend the money on neXt

Until there are some significant improvements and a reality check, I wont be using this again

[Surinder Singh]

Really underwhelmed.

Really pleased I spend the money on neXt

Until there are some significant improvements and a reality check, I wont be using this again

Is there a demo version of neXt and will it work with Simstick ?

[z0m8i3]

Reverted back to 4, theres to many bugs ATM on 5.

[jimmyhorns]

you get a two minute demo, which I felt was too short, but it gives you a feel.

Its heli only

I dont know if it will work with simstick.... if you google next flight sim, then it will take you to the page where it lists compatible controllers.... im using a 9 in 1 ebay job at the moment, as the normal pheonix dongle doesnt work

[z0m8i3]

Well at least they're actively fixing all the bugs. It still doesn't import the logbook details over from 4 though...

[Bhujang]

Phew! Will try the c patch and try again. b was way to floaty the physics were all wrong...

[danep]

Its no different to align and its align 150! How can they even big up a big release like phoenix 5 when it feels like some kids have made it!? Shocking! At least were not constantly paying for this!

[jimmyhorns]

Yes I have to say it's a little disappointing.

I wouldn't have expected a release like this not to have had fairly basic issues sorted.

It's pretty unprofessional imo. These kind of issues are fine and to be expected for beta testers but not at general release.

[Sesame]

I still can't even get it from the servers still offline

[JWhitby]

I still can't even get it from the servers still offline

They've stopped the updating from 4.0 to 5.0 temporarily.

Check out the news item from 17th Feb 2014. Phoenix model flight simulation :: News

Please Note: This update has been temporarily removed while we address some stability issues with our download servers and will be online again very soon.