DCS

[Robli]

1 hour ago, Tuesday said:

That channel is a fire hose of bad tutorials and garbage content.

 

Really? I have always found them very good. Simple and informative.

[CanadaOne]

1 hour ago, Tuesday said:

 

Do not watch GR if you:

1) want to learn things

2) want to keep your brain cells

 

That channel is a fire hose of bad tutorials and garbage content.

 

 

I can see how they might rub some people the wrong way, but I like them. And their tutorials got me right through the Harrier and a half dozen other planes.

 

I think everyone likes a different kind of plane, and a different kind of tutorial as well. 

 

Vive la difference, eh? 

[DD_fruitbat]

Grimm reapers vids are absolutely fine for the basic understanding of features, and an overview.

 

Redkite does some really excellent in depth videos along with jabbers,  but no one has the library of work of GR.

[Guest deleted@83466]

I also think GRs are just fine.  You get a new aircraft, you want to learn how to use weapons systems X, you watch, it works as advertised when you try it for yourself, viola.  Successful tutorial.  GR videos have been a part of learning all the aircraft that I have actually learned in DCS.

[Bremspropeller]

GR is usually enough to get started, but their disorganised way of doing things just p!sses me off, watching.

If you just half-arse it, then don't do it at all. /opinion

 

Red Kite is very structured. Spudknocker is also good'ish, though some have called him out for imposturing once. He apologized, so I guess it's okay.

Growling Sidewinder has some tutorials and generally is neat to watch. He's more of an A2A guy, though.

Tricker also has some tutorials. As has Tactical Pascale. And Jabbers.

 

I like Ralfidude's Sh!ts'n'Giggles compilations.

Edited November 24, 2020 by Bremspropeller

[Lusekofte]

GR is basically me and how I do it. If it can’t be done half harted I won’t do it

[Bremspropeller]

Ok, I'll give it a second try.

 

Can we get some excitement for this baby?

 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by Bremspropeller

[Jaws2002]

Mig-23 vs Mirage F1.  Angola map. Go!

Edited November 24, 2020 by Jaws2002

[Gambit21]

Israeli Mirages vs Iranian F-14’s.

 

[DD_fruitbat]

29 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

Ok, I'll give it a second try.

 

Can we get some excitement for this baby?

 

 

 

Yeah, i'm tempted  

[Bremspropeller]

4 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

Israeli Mirages vs Iranian F-14’s.

 

Would be Iraqi F1s against Iran's F-14s.

Israel switched from french equipment to US equipment post Six Day War (due to a french embargo), hence no F1s with a Star of David.

 

Pretty much every customer's F1s were different. Some of the most capable export F1s were the iraqi EQ5 and EQ6 models. Both could fire the Exocet missile.

 

Turns out I had been searching for the second song in the video (just based on the melody) since I was a kid.

So I'm looking for cool F1 videos and BAM, there it is!

 

[Borat voice]

Great success!

[/Borat voice]

[CanadaOne]

3 hours ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

GR is basically me and how I do it. If it can’t be done half harted I won’t do it

 

Testify, brother!  

 

I want the flight to be exactly the way I want it to be, no less and no more complicated than I find enjoyable at the moment. And if that means half-assed, then that's how I'm doing it. If I want painful reality I'll go to work.

 

In all truth I really enjoy the GR videos. And when I posted to them asking about how the Supercarrier looked at night - because they had a pre-release module - they made a good fun video about it. Me I like dat! 

[DBFlyguy]

4 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

GR is usually enough to get started, but their disorganised way of doing things just p!sses me off, watching.

If you just half-arse it, then don't do it at all. /opinion

 

Red Kite is very structured. Spudknocker is also good'ish, though some have called him out for imposturing once. He apologized, so I guess it's okay.

Growling Sidewinder has some tutorials and generally is neat to watch. He's more of an A2A guy, though.

Tricker also has some tutorials. As has Tactical Pascale. And Jabbers.

 

I like Ralfidude's Sh!ts'n'Giggles compilations.

 

I've got nothing positive to say about GR or Pudknocker...

 

But there are several really good options out there too:  RedKite, Tactical Pascale, Fast Jet Performance, Overkill, The Air Combat Library, The Air Warfare Group and Ralfidude are all really good.

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by DBFlyguy

[CanadaOne]

One thing about the Grim Reapers, they do bring out people's opinions, pro and con. I remain solidly pro. 

 

I don't watch Spudknocker much at all, his "Aaaaaassssssss always..." intro is like nails on a blackboard to me. I really like Ralfidude's "A-10C for Dummies". It's very, very well done. I'll have to watch more of his stuff. 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by CanadaOne

[Bremspropeller]

2 minutes ago, CanadaOne said:

Aaaaaassssssss always...

 

Yeah, but IFC does that, too.

 

 

 

[CanadaOne]

5 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Yeah, but IFC does that, too.

 

 

 

 

Que es "IFC", jefe?

[Bremspropeller]

I Fly Central.

[CanadaOne]

Don't know that one, but I'll check it out.

 

Edit: IFC puts the emphasis on the second syllable in the second word. That bothers be much, much less than the drawn out "I'm on the intercom speaking to the passengers on a flight out of Atlanta" affected drawl of Spudknocker's first word.

 

I want Kenneth Branagh doing all my flightsim video voices.

Edited November 25, 2020 by CanadaOne

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, CanadaOne said:

 

 

I want Kenneth Branagh doing all my flightsim video voices.

 

He is THE cat.

 

I choose Samuel L Jackson.

"Can you see the flap knob? You can? Good, then turn it MOTHER F$%&#r!!

[CanadaOne]

10 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

He is THE cat.

 

I choose Samuel L Jackson.

"Can you see the flap knob? You can? Good, then turn it MOTHER F$%&#r!!

 

I can see the value in that. 

 

But I want something more in tune with the classics:

 

To BRRRRRT or not to BRRRRT! That is the question 

Whether tis nobler in mind to suffer

The 23mm shells of outrageous cannon 

Or to take BRRRRRT! against a sea of Shilkas."

 

I'd drop serious cash to have my plane talk to me like that.

[Gambit21]

1 minute ago, CanadaOne said:

 

I can see the value in that. 

 

But I want something more in tune with the classics:

 

To BRRRRRT or not to BRRRRT! That is the question 

Whether tis nobler in mind to suffer

The 23mm shells of outrageous cannon 

Or to take BRRRRRT! against a sea of Shilkas."

 

I'd drop serious cash to have my plane talk to me like that.

 

I can see that.

Then I choose Tom Hiddleston.

He's a Shakespearian powerhouse as well.

 

[DD_Crash]

There are several voice packs for VoiceAttack for Elite Dangerous dont know if they would work for DCS.

https://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/

[CanadaOne]

9 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

I can see that.

Then I choose Tom Hiddleston.

He's a Shakespearian powerhouse as well.

 

 

Really? I didn't know he did Shakespeare. I'll bet he's good. 

[Hoots]

18 minutes ago, CanadaOne said:

 

Really? I didn't know he did Shakespeare. I'll bet he's good. 

 

This conversation has become far too highbrow. Please start talking about farts and other bodily functions immediately. 

 

Thank you.

[CanadaOne]

2 minutes ago, Hoots said:

 

This conversation has become far too highbrow. Please start talking about farts and other bodily functions immediately. 

 

Thank you.

 

We flightsimheads are nerds and geeks by nature. We know about things. That's why we're flightsimheads. 

 

 

[DD_Arthur]

2 hours ago, Hoots said:

 

This conversation has become far too highbrow. Please start talking about farts and other bodily functions immediately. 

 

Thank you.

When we did the fifty-five miler on the Ten Tor’s expedition on the Saturday night we boys had a fart lighting competition. Roz Horth ran out of the tent screaming with laughter and broke her ankle in a ditch. Since we were in the middle of the moor, at daybreak an army chopper had to airlift her to hospital. She was a nice girl and never let on what really happened ?.  Does this help?

[Hoots]

9 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

When we did the fifty-five miler on the Ten Tor’s expedition on the Saturday night we boys had a fart lighting competition. Roz Horth ran out of the tent screaming with laughter and broke her ankle in a ditch. Since we were in the middle of the moor, at daybreak an army chopper had to airlift her to hospital. She was a nice girl and never let on what really happened ?.  Does this help?

 

Much better, thanks

[DD_Crash]

49 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

When we did the fifty-five miler on the Ten Tor’s expedition on the Saturday night we boys had a fart lighting competition. Roz Horth ran out of the tent screaming with laughter and broke her ankle in a ditch. Since we were in the middle of the moor, at daybreak an army chopper had to airlift her to hospital. She was a nice girl and never let on what really happened ?.  Does this help?

Thats raised the tone a bit

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, CanadaOne said:

 

Really? I didn't know he did Shakespeare. I'll bet he's good. 

 

Oh yeah, that's his roots.

Look it up.

 

[AndyJWest]

Anyone who thinks that Shakespeare 'raises the tone' clearly isn't familiar with his line in smutty jokes.

[DD_fruitbat]

Midsummers dream could hardly be called high brow.......

 

Anyway, I digress.  Extremely tempted to buy the Raven one campaign at the moment,

 

Quote

The Raven One campaign for the F/A-18C Hornet is based on the bestselling novel of the same title. This campaign was developed with the active participation of author Kevin Miller and Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, host of the Fighter Pilot Podcast. Both are retired U.S. Navy Hornet pilots, each with over 3,000 career flight hours and numerous overseas deployments.

The campaign faithfully recreates sorties from the book, while adding additional ones related to the action, for a total of 15 immersive, fully voiced-over missions. Each script was carefully checked by Kevin and Vincent to ensure the most realistic experience available in DCS.

Release: 08/19/2020

 

Finally, the campaign utilizes innovative solutions, making in-game AI more responsive and predictive. It will also have a limited save-game capability during the campaign gameplay, as some missions may take two or more hours to complete.

Features:

• 15 story – driven missions
• Over 2200 recorded lines performed by over 50 voice actors
• All main characters from the "Raven One" novel
• Mission briefings supplementing and extending the ones described in the book, written in close cooperation with Kevin Miller
• Highly detailed and realistic maps, kneeboards and other documents based on real-life counterparts
• All major types of missions: CAP, CAS, SEAD, ground and surface strikes, Alert – 7 and Alert – 30 launches, Sea Surface Search Control, air interceptions and others

 

Its got Jell-O involved, and anyone who has DCS and doesn't know what the fighter pilot podcast is, is quite simply a heathen !!!!!

 

Here is a vid of RedKite playing mission 9 as an example,

 

 

 

The interaction and mission building is staggering.....

 

Talk about immersion!

Edited November 25, 2020 by DD_fruitbat

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Midsummers dream could hardly be called high brow.......

 

Anyway, I digress.  Extremely tempted to buy the Raven one campaign at the moment,

 

 

Its got Jell-O involved, and anyone who has DCS and doesn't know what the fighter pilot podcast is, is quite simply a heathen !!!!!

 

Here is a vid of RedKite playing mission 9 as an example,

 

 

 

The interaction and mission building is staggering.....

 

Talk about immersion!

 

Why did you do this to me...why why why why...

[DD_fruitbat]

8 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Why did you do this to me...why why why why...

 

Lol, I've just bought it, and the book ?

[Gambit21]

In no danger of buying the Hornet mind you - but my brain is still off-task and dreaming of the F-14 even more now.

[DD_fruitbat]

19 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

In no danger of buying the Hornet mind you - but my brain is still off-task and dreaming of the F-14 even more now.

 

Well, the Hornet has certainly been a grower on me, never a plane I had any predisposition towards at all. But Shhh, don't tell DD_Fenrir this... I prefer it to the Tomcat!

 

Mainly because I like running the radar and Tpod etc myself. There's a reason why people say its a bit sterile to fly, because you cant do all that in something that is difficult to fly. Same reason the Tomcat comes with a RIO!!!! You need one!!!

 

This campaign is going to be a huge challenge, not so much on the flying and deploying weapons, that I can do, but on the actual mission comms and procedures of actually flying a proper mission, how it should be done realistically. I blame the Fighter Pilot Podcast for my purchase, lol.

Edited November 25, 2020 by DD_fruitbat

[CanadaOne]

6 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

Anyone who thinks that Shakespeare 'raises the tone' clearly isn't familiar with his line in smutty jokes.

 

Raising the tone and smutty jokes are not mutually exclusive. The joy of Shakespeare is not in it being highbrow, but in it being human.

 

The point is that we flightsimheads... know things. 

 

Bought the Mig-29. That little bastard is fast. 

[dburne]

Wow that Raven One looks right up my alley, would love to fly a campaign like that in the Hornet.

Only problem is after many, many hours spent already trying to learn the thing I still am not close to actually being able to fly combat in it.

So I took a break from it and have not resumed yet.

So much to learn and no single good place to get the info from is my problem I guess.

[OrLoK]

5 minutes ago, dburne said:

Wow that Raven One looks right up my alley, would love to fly a campaign like that in the Hornet.

Only problem is after many, many hours spent already trying to learn the thing I still am not close to actually being able to fly combat in it.

So I took a break from it and have not resumed yet.

So much to learn and no single good place to get the info from is my problem I guess.

i too have a stable of aircraft going mostly unused in DCS. 

 

I *should* adore DCS but seem to find it more frustrating than fun. Im sure its an issue with me but I cant get motivated to jump in any more.

[dburne]

1 hour ago, OrLoK said:

i too have a stable of aircraft going mostly unused in DCS. 

 

I *should* adore DCS but seem to find it more frustrating than fun. Im sure its an issue with me but I cant get motivated to jump in any more.

 

Yeah probably same here. I would love nothing more than to know enough with the Hornet to be able to fly that campaign, or any campaign for that matter. The problem for me is getting all the info I need to learn it. They have a good tutorial on the Hornet, however it does not cover all one needs to know so one has to search and try to find it.

Very time consuming. And I have memory issues now which does not help.

Edited November 26, 2020 by dburne

[161snails]

Yes i agree, i spent a small fortune collecting the DCS aircraft until one day i thought Why?  just to fly one needs degree level study. I dont have the time to set aside to do that now and to be honest its all so sterile. im now pretty much a IL2 pilot, VR is a blast and not to be missed. it runs so well in IL2 and a onle grinds along in DCS (another reason i never bother anymore)