Category: TrackIR

ShackTac turns seven

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the founding of Shack Tactical, my pride and joy. Thanks to everyone over the years who has helped to make us what we are today, as well as everyone who motivates us to keep on keepin’ on. 😀

You can find an image gallery of scenes from throughout the year here. Now’s also a good time to take a look at my 2012 in Review tribute video, below.

In other site news, I’ve added my TrackIR settings and profile to the TrackIR page for those who have asked for them.

The benefits of TrackIR

How much does a TrackIR really help? I can’t justify spending that much on it until I know how it is.

I am a huge fan of TrackIR, as you probably guessed from my past videos of it – most recently, my TrackIR5 video. You can see my usage of it in my recent first-person videos, to include aerial usage in Plateau Assault and infantry usage in The Little Delta That Could. I do not play ArmA without it – ever. I find myself twitching my head instinctively in other games that don’t support it, and wish they did. I have tactics as both infantry and air that simply are not possible to do without a TrackIR, and I know it has saved me many, many, many times in my gaming. I strongly believe in TrackIR as well as the company that makes it – NaturalPoint – and I recommend it to anyone who can scrounge up the funds. It is without question worth the money. It’s not terribly expensive when you put it in the proper context, and it’s an awesome product that will absolutely help you in ArmA.

TrackIR5 in ArmA2

TrackIR5 & ArmA2 Premiere.

It is my distinct pleasure to present the brand-spankin’-new TrackIR5, as seen in ArmA2. Have a look at the video, either on Youtube or via direct download:

  • Youtube HD
  • Direct download HD – Disabled currently due to ridiculous numbers of people trying to download it at once. I’ll put it back up when my site can survive the onslaught. 🙂

A brief summary is that TIR5 + ArmA2 is frickin’ sweet, and I’m really excited to be showing it off in such a capacity. Thanks to both NaturalPoint and Bohemia Interactive for the opportunity.

The TIR5 has a number of neat improvements over prior models, as detailed to a degree in the video, and in further detail below. On top of that you have a number of welcome changes to A2 to better support the TIRs in it, and then of course we have A2 itself being shown off in wonderful 1280×720 HD for anyone who would like to see it in action. Both A2 and TIR5 are really slick packages, and I think that both will be well-received by the community.

When you’re ready to order (because, you know, you should!), you can find two discounts for it –

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If you pick one of these up, please feel free to drop me an e-mail about it. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on these.