DCS

[Lusekofte]

35 minutes ago, CanadaOne said:

 

If you can join a squad that pretty much solves the dickhead part of it, I guess. Or does it end up being squad against squad and the other guys are dickheads sometimes?

If by dickhead you mean middle age people taking off and by next two seconds loosing each other. We are dickheads. 

Have to take a couple of restarts because someone chew up their tail with their propeller, well mostly me chewing up others tail. In our squad your not really part of it before I have. 

Ok I am a dickhead. There are a lot of groups out there. Ours do not have a leader. We improve slowly because of that  we fly two days in a week but only every second month we manage to be all in. Does not matter. Coop is the only way to fully enjoy GB, it make GB best

[CanadaOne]

31 minutes ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Ok I am a dickhead. 

 

Now you've put me in a tough spot because I'm inclined to agree with you most of the time. Now if I agree with you you'll be upset, and if I don't agree with you you'll think I'm just being difficult.

 

This is very unfair on your part. Everyone says so. Many, many people agree. They agree like never before. This is the greatest agreement ever. Period!

[Pekka_Rayha]

10 hours ago, Arthur-A said:

About performance on monitor. My rig is in the signature. I run DCS with almost maxed out settings. I fly SP campaigns with a huge numbers of aircraft and ground vehicles (2 of them on a Normandy map). The performance is great overall. There is occasional stutter or two, but nothing terrible. Most of the time it runs smooth. And hey, the time acceleration works great up to x8! So I can skip long boring flights. And I was surprised when I flew low level over some big cities on Normandy map and didn't notice any FPS drop!

 

I run box with maxed out graphics(except for clouds that set to high). It doesn't run smooth, I get constant stutters. Low level flying above cities on Rheinland map is terrible even in Quick Mission with no other aircraft. When I try to fly some campaigns it's even worse. Time acceleration is not working, so there's no way to skip long boring flights. Sometimes even 1x time is more like 0.85x. So on rare occasions when I feel like I want to play box I usually quit this game after first 5 mins. It performs terribly. Lowering graphics settings? I mean, it looks meh even on maxed out settings. Especially the ground. Why would I want to make it look even worse?

I've got pretty similar experience.

I don't believe in GB engine. DCS seems to be the future proof option. Ironically it works ten times better running great battles. One of the major reasons I'm gravitating towards DCS lately. 

[Lusekofte]

7 hours ago, CanadaOne said:

. Now if I agree with you

How dare you, I am the greatest dickhead of all times, there has never before wandered a greater one on face of the earth, many many others  has said so

A typical sign of taking this game too seriously. Just now I discovered that Yak 52 has no damagemodel 

Edited January 4, 2021 by 216th_LuseKofte

[ST_Catchov]

10 minutes ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

there has never before wandered a greater one on face of the earth, many many others  has said so

 

I didn't.  

 

Sorry, should I have? My apologies. Where do I do it?

 

 

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Does anybody else have the issue with the TF30s randomly going boom om the F-14A, when going supersonic at altitude?

[CanadaOne]

2 hours ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

How dare you, I am the greatest dickhead of all times, there has never before wandered a greater one on face of the earth, many many others  has said so

 

Period!

 

2 hours ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

A typical sign of taking this game too seriously. Just now I discovered that Yak 52 has no damagemodel 

 

Why would you want to damage such a nice little plane? 

 

Don't be so horrible! 

[DD_Fenrir]

1 hour ago, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody else have the issue with the TF30s randomly going boom om the F-14A, when going supersonic at altitude?

 

TIT.

 

?

Edited January 4, 2021 by DD_Fenrir

[Bremspropeller]

Yeah, but the TIT isn't supposed to skyrocket for nothing.

The ramps were on auto.

 

Gotta be a bug and looks like others have it too.

[Beazil]

1 hour ago, DD_Fenrir said:

 

TIT.

 

?

Giggidty.

[DD_fruitbat]

5 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody else have the issue with the TF30s randomly going boom om the F-14A, when going supersonic at altitude?

 

Can't help you, I've only flown it once, have my hands full enough with the F-14B!!!!!

 

This is as close an escape as you can get, I should of died really, see 3:28......

 

 

Edited January 4, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[Trooper117]

That was quite intense!...

[DD_fruitbat]

1 hour ago, Trooper117 said:

That was quite intense!...

 

lol, it was, I nearly wet myself 'virtually' as the missile flashed by, then I remembered I'm a virtual TOMCAT pilot and shot him down!

 

Its from the Operation Cage the Bear campaign for the TOMCAT, which due to some editing, we're flying as a co-op together occasionally, some flying TOMCATS and some flying Hornets. 

Edited January 4, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[BOO]

17 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

They're called squads......

Most of the time (100% of the squads I've been privileged to be in). But you also get idiot squads too. And you can never account for public servers.  

 

Where I think squads work their magic is closed co-op. Having a clear "outlook" about who they are and what they want to achieve as a group also helps. Sadly my shift pattern and general curmudgeonlyness as I move into upper middle age (its not old age - never will be) curtails my squad applicability. 

 

16 hours ago, QB.Creep said:

 

In every game I have ever played, the computer is only capable of presenting a limited challenge. It's scripted to perform certain actions in specific situations, so there are patterns. Once you learn those patterns, you can exploit them, and the computer cannot improvise like a human can. 

 

All I'm saying is that the path you're on is a dead-end - AI in flight sims is either broken (can do things you cannot do) or is dumb as a rock. I haven't seen any middle ground. But to each his own - hopefully the dev team can improve the AI - I just think it will take a tremendous amount of time and energy to accomplish it.

 

This is very true but equally, humans are equally predictable in that someone will ruin it for everyone (they can also be very predicable opponents - as anyone who ever faced me would attest!). The only server/event I ever saw anything different was Tip's excellent FNBFs but that was very much the epitome of co-op excellence.

 

Predictability also settles in servers running the same maps on a cycle and even servers running longer campaigns with limited options each map. Play them for a week and you really do kinda know what will happen where and even at what alt. Bomb, die, repeat, bounce, die, repeat. Its not much better than AI with only the added frisson of peril that you might get shoulder shot or rammed by the the pain train behind you all grasping for stats.  

 

With SP, especially within DCS where the missions and scripting can offer other problems to solve other than just shooting down AI, I can still find stuff to do without worrying about how dumb some stuff is. I can randomize SAM spawns and their ability so that no flight is the same, I can allow random system failures to add spice, I can enforce strict navigational and timing parameters etc etc.   I would never knock the choice of those who enjoy MP, I did myself for a long time afterall, but I will defend SP as being an "easy peasy" option flown only by those not man enough to face breathers. 

[nirvi]

Preview of the new GMT-radarmode in the Hornet (And new clouds+Cyprus)

 

[Lusekofte]

13 hours ago, BOO said:

I would never knock the choice of those who enjoy MP, I did myself for a long time afterall, but I will defend SP as being an "easy peasy" option flown only by those not man enough to face breathers. 

I stopped flying MP because of its total lack of realism. It got nothing to do with historical air battles at all. I am in this because of my aviation historical interest, not for showing off my first person shooter abilities or lack of it. 

I am now flying a IL 2 career in box that is excellent. Ai wingmen behave and escort works. I fly transport missions in a MI 8 in DCS and feel useful. 

[SCG_OpticFlow]

29 minutes ago, nirvi said:

Preview of the new GMT-radarmode in the Hornet (And new clouds+Cyprus)

 

 

Nice clouds. DCS world engine has brought a lot of improvements during the last few years and feels to me like the pace has accelerated in 2020. Probably has to do with the scale of the business. Those modern modules like the Hog and the Hornet are also used by professional customers (ANG) which offsets some of the $million+ costs per module.

[CanadaOne]

That's some real spaceship action with the F-18. Pretty cool that they are always adding new features.

 

So in the near future we might see Cyprus added, new clouds, the Mosquito, and the Mi-24. Excellent! I'd like to see the new clouds most of all because they'll make every plane and map feel new.

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

2 hours ago, CanadaOne said:

Excellent! I'd like to see the new clouds most of all because they'll make every plane and map feel new.

 

It's amazing how much additional immersion they create!

Really looking forward to seeing them in the game.

Edited January 5, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[DD_fruitbat]

A few shots from last night, and a short vid,

 

Myself and DD_Fenrir orbiting, waiting for the Hornets to land, as somebody forgot to  put a gas tank in them when they designed the thing.....

 

 

 

 

 

And down on the carrier,

 

 

 

10 points for whoever can spot the deliberate mistake, ahem.

 

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

I guess INTENTINALLY not bringing any weapons helps in the drag-department?

[Hoots]

14 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

A few shots from last night, and a short vid,

 

Myself and DD_Fenrir orbiting, waiting for the Hornets to land, as somebody forgot to  put a gas tank in them when they designed the thing.....

 

 

 

 

 

And down on the carrier,

 

 

 

10 points for whoever can spot the deliberate mistake, ahem.

 

 

 

 

 

Hook still down?

 

[DD_fruitbat]

Haha Brems, my weapons were in 4 Migs by that point....

 

And Hoots wins 10 points! I accidentally clicked right mouse instead of left to raise my hook, which twists the handle and locks it into emergency down, can't raise after that, lol

Edited January 5, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[AndyJWest]

Hook left down is preferable to hook left up...

 

It looks like I'm going to resist the temptation to splurge out on the Tomcat, for now. Not because I don't appreciate it: I do, it's a magnificent beast. It's just that if I buy it, I'll probably spend hours half-learning half the systems, and never really get to grips with it. Instead, I should learn to fly the Hornet and Harrier first, to the degree where I'm a little more confident with them, and don't have to re-read Chuck's Guides for each of them each time I fly. Assuming that even happens before my clearly-diminishing capacity to remember stuff for any length of time reaches the point when I can't fly at all, because I've forgotten my PC password or something. ?

Edited January 5, 2021 by AndyJWest

[CanadaOne]

1 hour ago, DD_fruitbat said:

A few shots from last night, and a short vid,

 

 

 

 

 

What kind of planes are those? 

 

[DD_fruitbat]

lol, I'll let somebody else say.....?

[Bremspropeller]

22 minutes ago, AndyJWest said:

It looks like I'm going to resist the temptation to splurge out on the Tomcat, for now.

 

Do it, because

TOMCATS!!!

Actually, the front seat is surprisingly simple. Operating the Cat isn't really the issue here. It's flying and taming her in the pattern and whenever you're putting any g onto the jet.

Oh, and learn to trim. She needs a good thumb's full of trim whenever you do anything.

Retract the flaps? Trim.

Change airspeed? Trim?

Wings sweeping? Trim.

Going supersonic or coming back through the Mach? Well, bugger, trim!

 

It's actually very satisfying to see one's own learning curve in just flying the bloody thing any better than a random monkey from the zoo.

Plus it's visually stunning. Plus it's four player--aircraft, two AI aircraft and a whole set of carriers for the price of one module.

Did I mention Jester and Iceman? And how about the walkman.

 

Do it, Andy, do it!

 

[AndyJWest]

Yeah, I'd figured out the trim thing. Though not enough to manage to fly the circuit around the carrier without doing a roller-coaster impression with my elevation going from 1,200 ft to 50 ft and back again. Repeatedly. 

 

My learning curve seems to be a divergent phugoid. ?

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Seems like you desperately need to expand your horizon and need to cope not only with not stalling the aircraft, but also not stalling the engines.

Did I mention adverse yaw? ?

 

On a brighter note: There's DLC.

 

BTW: You haven't seen me in the pattern, so don't prematurely call yourself an idiot yet

 

BTW2: The fun really starts, when the RIO gets bored and tries out that fancy ejection-seat. That is always fun, when he can bang out both of you. Not sure if he was trying to tell me something...

Edited January 5, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[Lusekofte]

I do not think this new found sensibility of yours belong in a DCS forum @AndyJWest

Making sense is absolutely forbidden territory here. 

If my purchases after all these years would followed that logic, I still would have owned only the A 10 C ?

Edited January 5, 2021 by 216th_LuseKofte

[DD_fruitbat]

And now for something slightly different....

 

 

 

 

 

[Veteran66]

35 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

And now for something slightly different....

 

 

 

Yes the Desert make Fun.

 

here two missions for the FW190A8 Operation Frühlingswind Tunisia 1942

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/1969649/

 

Quote

 

 

 

 

Edited January 6, 2021 by Veteran66

[CanadaOne]

Hmmm, posted this in the wrong thread before.

 

Look at those clouds!

 

 

[cardboard_killer]

Not a big fan of jets, and I haven't done anything with DCS, but the F-86 has always been a favorite of mine, as well as an interest in the Korean War. I was thinking of getting it and the MiG-15bis and setting up DCS. I play solitaire. Can anyone recommend/describe what DCS has to offer to fill these interests?

 

Thanks,

CK

[unlikely_spider]

If you look under Campaigns on the website, there is one for the F-86 that makes the default map into a Korea stand-in. I haven't played it yet but the creator makes quality campaigns. The F-86 is a good module, but in true DCS fashion it is a module with few other items that are appropriate to go along with it.

 

Edit - Hunters Over the Yalu I think the campaign is called

Edited January 7, 2021 by unlikely_spider

[CanadaOne]

The F-86, although the cockpit graphics are a bit dated, is a lot of fun. The .50cals are great, they just seem right (as if I would know), and the plane has a good solid feel to it. I wasn't crazy about flying the Mig-15 (free trial), but it's fun to shoot down. I much prefer the F-86, which I bought a long time ago.

 

Not sure about campaigns, but it takes two-seconds to build a nice custom flight in the ME.

[Tyberan]

I bought the F14 finally mainly due to the sale plus also AUD was at 78c USD, so a lot cheaper for me then 6months ago. 

 

I like it but i'm having a lot of issues with using the phoenix and other AA missiles. For some reason jester cant lock on or even see enemy aircraft with the radar even within a 25mile range when flying at the enemy. Other times he's going nuts about Nails at 29 miles at my 6oclock, nothing seems consistent. I'm not sure if its some issue with the mission.

 

Other time I can see friendly aircraft via the blue tags other times I cant see anything tagged. I've not had a huge time in DCS but is it normal for spotting and radar to be wonky?

[Bremspropeller]

46 minutes ago, Tyberan said:

For some reason jester cant lock on or even see enemy aircraft with the radar even within a 25mile range when flying at the enemy. Other times he's going nuts about Nails at 29 miles at my 6oclock, nothing seems consistent.

 

Same issues here, but Nails calls are mostly by RWR and the unability to lock probably comes for them flanking/ notching.

[Tyberan]

yeah I guess. But I asked jester to lock on STT but he couldnt but I could lock on with the phoenix using PAL lock. 

 

I feel so bad at the f14, so far been shot down twice by a mig 21 in a dogfight and a mig 23. Friggin Mig 21 are more nimble then i thought. 

 

I tried using the Lantrin pod last night and its bloody hard swapping between RIO and pilot. Think I'll leave the A/G stuff for the F18 and the A10 which I've got as well. 

[Bremspropeller]

The best part about the Tomcat is it makes flying the Hornet easier ?