DCS

[CanadaOne]

36 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

Finally caved and got DCS Normandy + Asset pack, Spitfire, P51 and campaigns.

 

I had low expectations but  I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I might post a some comparison thoughts if anyone is curious.

 

Yeah, please do.  

 

I bought it and returned it a while back. Looked and ran like a dog's breakfast. But as the maps get improvements, I was wondering if it was worth trying again.

 

I have Nevada and Persian Gulf maps and I think both are great.

[Bremspropeller]

On 4/26/2019 at 5:56 PM, Bremspropeller said:

F-8J

 

No, really!

 

RedFlash 213, Crusader, Ball, one point five...

Edited April 29, 2019 by Bremspropeller

[ACG_Invictus]

On ‎4‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 11:56 AM, Bremspropeller said:

F-8J

 

^ this.  Please oh please oh please....any F-8 variant would be fine! Well...other than the pure recon versions, of course...what fun would that be?! :D

 

KV

Edited April 29, 2019 by Invictus_84

[Sharpe43]

6 hours ago, Invictus_84 said:

 

^ this.  Please oh please oh please....any F-8 variant would be fine! Well...other than the pure recon versions, of course...what fun would that be?! :D

 

KV

from what I've seen they re going to do a gun fighter..

[ACG_Invictus]

14 hours ago, Sharpe43 said:

from what I've seen they re going to do a gun fighter..

 

Good.  That was my understanding as well.... but ED sometimes makes some odd choices so one never knows. 

 

Now they need the Mirage III and F4 they have been talking out and that should flesh out the "60s" fighters nicely!

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, Invictus_84 said:

 

Now they need the Mirage III and F4 they have been talking out and that should flesh out the "60s" fighters nicely!

 

Will be awesome over Vegas and Normandy.

[Monostripezebra]

2 hours ago, Invictus_84 said:

 

Good.  That was my understanding as well.... but ED sometimes makes some odd choices so one never knows. 

 

Now they need the Mirage III and F4 they have been talking out and that should flesh out the "60s" fighters nicely!

 

Part of the DCS fun will probably always be that the "next module" logic is inversely proportional to "insert reasonable logical guess from playerbase" ;=)

[Bremspropeller]

2 hours ago, Invictus_84 said:

Good.  That was my understanding as well.... but ED sometimes makes some odd choices so one never knows. 

 

Now they need the Mirage III and F4 they have been talking out and that should flesh out the "60s" fighters nicely!

 

That's why I wrote "F-8J", which is what Magnitude is going to do.

It'll have the -420 motor, so it won't be the early J, which was a dog.

 

Razban was supposedly working on the Mirage IIICJ. But that was before they were going on a spree and started modelling any plane in the Jane's catalog...

[ACG_Invictus]

59 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Will be awesome over Vegas and Normandy.

 

Agreed....but Persian Gulf would be the most interesting for me.

 

59 minutes ago, Monostripezebra said:

 

Part of the DCS fun will probably always be that the "next module" logic is inversely proportional to "insert reasonable logical guess from playerbase" ;=)

 

 

13 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

Razban was supposedly working on the Mirage IIICJ. But that was before they were going on a spree and started modelling any plane in the Jane's catalog...

 

Yeah.  I have a similar fear the Mirage project will disappear for that reason. 

 

The Mirage IIIC is my favorite plane from that era (followed closely by the Crusader).  So I will shed many manly tears if they drop it. 

[-=PHX=-SuperEtendard]

It will probably be a Mirage IIIE for their Falklands map

[ACG_Invictus]

48 minutes ago, -=PHX=-SuperEtendard said:

It will probably be a Mirage IIIE for their Falklands map

 

That would work for me as well!

[nirvi]

Damage model update:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3900137&postcount=194

 

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by nirvi

[Sokol1]

 

They are nice "actors".

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2019 by Sokol1

[dburne]

16 minutes ago, Sokol1 said:

 

They are nice "actors".

 

 

 

Nice video!

[Trooper117]

Yes, a lovely video... it shows off the aircraft nicely.

I thought though that the P-51 was not to use rockets in Europe as it's inline engine was very vulnerable to ground fire, and that all ground attack ops were left to the P-47's?

Any more info on this?... I know rocket attacks were carried out on the Japanese however.

[Lusekofte]

They strafed airfields and did dedicated groundattacks. Spits did too. The need for close air support was high. But I did not know they carried rockets before Korea

[Poochnboo]

 

2 hours ago, LuseKofte said:

But I did not know they carried rockets before Korea

I know that Mustangs were using rockets against targets in Japan in the last months of the war. But I don't remember reading of them ever being used by European based P-51's. 

[Rolling_Thunder]

People, people, were talking DCS here. Since when has DCS WW2 had a specific time period in mind? There is a 1944 map, quite pristine for the Normandy invasion though, later axis airframes, what does it matter that the P51 has rockets? 

[Poochnboo]

 

1 hour ago, Rolling_Thunder said:

People, people, were talking DCS here. Since when has DCS WW2 had a specific time period in mind? There is a 1944 map, quite pristine for the Normandy invasion though, later axis airframes, what does it matter that the P51 has rockets? 

Yeah, never bothered me. Half the time I have it dressed in Korean War paintschemes as I go after Russian equipped ground units. As a matter of fact, I like to use the Mustang painted in the excellant Iwo Jima based  skins I found. I fly it against the Zero and Jack mods. It can be 1944, 1945, 1952. The default map has been Korea, Italy and Japan for me. Gotta have some imagination, for pete's sakes!

[Lusekofte]

I personally like the Mustang in DCS. Better than the rest. And I guess that is in some way realistic. It fly well, do well in almost every aspect of flying. 

[Urra]

I was kind of blown away this week when I installed Dcs after six months and found all the stutters I had previously were gone.  Don't know what they done, but they done it good!

[Gambit21]

On 5/6/2019 at 10:30 AM, Trooper117 said:

Yes, a lovely video... it shows off the aircraft nicely.

I thought though that the P-51 was not to use rockets in Europe as it's inline engine was very vulnerable to ground fire, and that all ground attack ops were left to the P-47's?

Any more info on this?... I know rocket attacks were carried out on the Japanese however.

 

Rockets aside, MANY P-51's engaged in ground attack operations, both pre-invasion (my computer wants to auto-correct that to "pee-invasion) and then fewer but still a few

squadrons with the 9th Air Force later in the war during the time frame of our BoBp map.

[Poochnboo]

4 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Rockets aside, MANY P-51's engaged in ground attack operations, both pre-invasion (my computer wants to auto-correct that to "pee-invasion) and then fewer but still a few

squadrons with the 9th Air Force later in the war during the time frame of our BoBp map.

Interestingly, there were actually no 9th Air Force fighter bomber Mustang units at the time of the Bodenplatte operation. The 9th only ever had two P-51 fighter bomber outfits. The 354th, and the 363rd. The 354th, "The Pioneer Mustangs" lost their beloved P-51's early in December. They got P-47's to replace them. They were not amused! They didn't get their Mustangs back until March of '45.

The 363rd was a real hard luck group. High accident rate, low number of air to air kills, low morale. In August of '44, 9th Air Force high command decided to turn this unit into a Tactical Recon group. It's pilots were either sent home, or assigned to other groups. Many went to the 354th. 

So, the only Mustangs operating with 9th Air Force at this time were TacR units flying F6's. 

[Gambit21]

Thanks Pooch - I meant for the map timeframe, not necessarily Jan 1st of 45.

 

Informativel post nevertheless.

[nirvi]

Open Beta Changelog

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3904062#post3904062

 

The I-16 will be released today. (I-16, not F-16)

[Trooper117]

That is very strange... it's certainly got nothing to fight against.

Having said that, it's certainly an aircraft I will wait for in a sale 

Edited May 8, 2019 by Trooper117

[Archie]

4 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

That is very strange... it's certainly got nothing to fight against.

Having said that, it's certainly an aircraft I will wait for in a sale 

Apparently it was once a mod, so obviously a labour of love.It looks lovely but I don't personally see the point until there is a 109E or similar in game.

[LuftManu]

Nice! Digital Combat WW2 Airshow is looking better every day!

/S

PS: Without context, theater or whatever it's just a plane for ferry flights. Nothing more. Great for learning how to turn her on. Full stop.

[Bremspropeller]

With the I-16 ED just once more proves that they have no vision where they're going or trying to go, other than compiling a complete clusterduck of half-finished scenarios.

 

It surely is a nice airplane for itself, but that's exactly the issue there: It's useless.

[Poochnboo]

8 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Thanks Pooch - I meant for the map timeframe, not necessarily Jan 1st of 45.

Yeah, sorry about that! I had a brain fart and actually forgot that I was in the DCS thread and was referring to the BOX series. 

[Lusekofte]

13 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

With the I-16 ED just once more proves that they have no vision where they're going or trying to go, other than compiling a complete clusterduck of half-finished scenarios.

 

It surely is a nice airplane for itself, but that's exactly the issue there: It's useless.

? For me the I16 would have been the ticket for VR. But I bought a boat yesterday. ?

so VR suddenly got low on my priority list. 

But I 16 suit me fine for what I use it for, free flight and campaigns. 

But I get your point. Absolute all ww2 era planes are now from different periods. It simply make no sense for a CFS game. It is so amazingly stupid that it went from hilarious to  tragedy back to hilarious and now total disbelief 

[MeoW.Scharfi]

 

So you see, that's where the trouble began. ?

[ACG_Invictus]

 

How much do they want for the I-16 module? If it's the standard 50-60 USD they can forget it.....I might consider 20-30 USD.

 

The fact it is just a target for every other released aircraft except the unarmed Christian Eagle and some of the 'copters isn't helping my buying decision.  Likely this would just get shuffled to the backlist of modules I still have to learn....so for me it's not a priority.  

[Guest deleted@83466]

Where is the Hind-F helicopter I've been waiting for?

 

[Sharpe43]

1 hour ago, Bremspropeller said:

With the I-16 ED just once more proves that they have no vision where they're going or trying to go, other than compiling a complete clusterduck of half-finished scenarios.

 

It surely is a nice airplane for itself, but that's exactly the issue there: It's useless.

3rd party product..

[Guest deleted@83466]

I guess as long as it's a small third party with little or no involvement by the majors, and it isn't delaying something more tactically useful, there is nothing wrong with having it.  It actually looks pretty cool.

 

Edited May 8, 2019 by SeaSerpent

[Lusekofte]

I payed 27 bucks for it but I could use 12 $ bonus   So if you ain’t have bonus it cost 39$ 

 

If IT is like I hope I will love IT more than the 52 If not I am finna be a bit dissapointed

38 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

Where is the Hind-F helicopter I've been waiting for?

 

Ya I really only have that on my wish list. I got more than enough keeping up with the modules I already got

Edited May 8, 2019 by LuseKofte

[Rei-sen]

I like the promo video, where I-16s are fighting with 109 K4s?

[ACG_Invictus]

39 USD?  Meh...just not enough interest on my part to buy it now.  Guess if I get the urge to fly an I-16...I'll stick with IL-2 Great Battles. 

5 minutes ago, Arthur-A said:

I like the promo video, where I-16s are fighting with 109 K4s?

 

I'm sure that will work out well. 

[AndyJWest]

So, they've added an I-16 to their stable of obviously-well-matched aircraft. A must-buy for all WW2 combat simmers, surely. 

 

I wonder what they are planning next? A Wright Flyer? A Hindenburg airship? An Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy (either of the two types of that name, though I was thinking of the Whistling Wheelbarrow)? Perhaps they are working on the principle that if they add enough aircraft at random, eventually they'll come up with a pair that can actually do something sensible together? Sadly, at the rate they are going, I doubt I'll live that long...