DCS

[Bremspropeller]

Another mid-80s morning in N'Djamena during Operation Épervier.

[dburne]

Normandy 2 Map coming:

 

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/304804-official-news-2022/?do=findComment&comment=5061396

 

At least I will qualify to get it for 10 bucks which helps. ( own both Normandy and Channel Maps).

Edited October 7, 2022 by dburne

[Guest deleted@83466]

This flight sim hobby seems to be getting more bizarre by the hour.

[SCG_Tzigy]

On 9/30/2022 at 11:36 AM, DBFlyguy said:

The AH/MH/OH-6 definitely look cool and I'm sure are fun to fly in a nice peaceful situation but they are nothing more than a target in pretty much every environment where the enemy is even half competent...

 

I still remember one of my high school history teachers talking about her husband who flew them in Vietnam, there was an instance where he was shot down multiple times within the span of a week doing the hunter killer mission they used to do with Cobras overhead, those Loach guys had balls of steel ... or a death wish... or both ?

 

I'm bummed we're not getting a Cobra in DCS, I was hoping eventually we'd get a Whiskey Cobra which  would've been nice competition for the Hind since it could carry Sidwinder's unlike the S and F models.

 

Have an acquaintance that did two tours, flying the egg; he recommended an excellent book and to this day I think it is the best helicopter combat book I have ever read and on of the maybe top 3-5 aviation books... " Low Level Hell"

 

https://www.amazon.com/Low-Level-Hell-Hugh-Mills/dp/0891417192

[DBFlyguy]

11 minutes ago, SCG_Tzigy said:

 

Have an acquaintance that did two tours, flying the egg; he recommended an excellent book and to this day I think it is the best helicopter combat book I have ever read and on of the maybe top 3-5 aviation books... " Low Level Hell"

 

https://www.amazon.com/Low-Level-Hell-Hugh-Mills/dp/0891417192

Thanks! I've heard of this one but never got around to reading it, I'll have to check it out!

 

 

 

 

And in other news, the "battle" of the Normandy maps just got a bit more interesting....

 

 

 

 

Awesome to see they are actually including the big important cities ?

Edited October 7, 2022 by DBFlyguy

[Trooper117]

1 hour ago, dburne said:

At least I will qualify to get it for 10 bucks which helps. ( own both Normandy and Channel Maps).

 

Me too... definitely getting it.

[Gambit21]

2 hours ago, dburne said:

 

 

At least I will qualify to get it for 10 bucks which helps. ( own both Normandy and Channel Maps).

 

lol - because you're normally shy about spending money on this hobby.

[BladeMeister]

1 hour ago, Trooper117 said:

 

Me too... definitely getting it.

Me to, for 10$, I am definitely in. Looks sweet.

 

S!Blade<><

[Bremspropeller]

3 hours ago, SCG_Tzigy said:

Have an acquaintance that did two tours, flying the egg; he recommended an excellent book and to this day I think it is the best helicopter combat book I have ever read and on of the maybe top 3-5 aviation books... " Low Level Hell"

 

Agree. Halfway through and it's a page-turner!

Edited October 7, 2022 by Bremspropeller

[Guest deleted@83466]

Ugra is a Russian studio, correct?

[Gambit21]

7 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

Ugra is a Russian studio, correct?

Yep

[BOO]

The $10 price is a nice gesture. Im a little concerned that it will perform like Syria in the way it has to be hobbled view distance wise and  the short detail pop ins though. 

[kendo]

I would also qualify for the $15 update.

 

Unfortunately I would also need to spend $/£2000 (probably no difference given the way our exchange rate is going. Thanks Liz ?) on a new PC to run it.

Edited October 8, 2022 by kendo

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

At $10, I'm 100% buying it and will start playing DCS more.

[Boogdud]

4 hours ago, drewm3i-VR said:

At $10, I'm 100% buying it and will start playing DCS more.

I'm not gonna lie, I'll be buying it as well. But it doesn't solve the problem with Normandy in dcs. They don't have period relevant aircraft for it, unfortunately.

[Guest deleted@83466]

17 hours ago, Boogdud said:

I'm not gonna lie, I'll be buying it as well. But it doesn't solve the problem with Normandy in dcs. They don't have period relevant aircraft for it, unfortunately.

 

I wonder why they would be going down this path, however, if there wasn’t some plan to flesh it out more.  So the K4 is out of place, maybe they’ll make a G-6.

Edited October 9, 2022 by SeaSerpent

[BladeMeister]

4 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

 

I wonder why they would be going down this path, however, if there wasn’t some plan to flesh it out.

Yeah they could fire up a Kickstarter and call it DCS: Normandy 1944 and get some guy named Ila to run it until everyone had bought in and then he could disappear. Oh wait,......

that already happened over 8 years ago? Hey come to think of it, WHERE'S MY ME262?

 

S!Blade<><

[Guest deleted@83466]

 

8 minutes ago, BladeMeister said:

Yeah they could fire up a Kickstarter and call it DCS: Normandy 1944 and get some guy named Ila to run it until everyone had bought in and then he could disappear. Oh wait,......

that already happened over 8 years ago? Hey come to think of it, WHERE'S MY ME262?

 

S!Blade<><

 

I think what happened 8 years ago with some kickstarter is irrelevant now.  Somebody must have taken WW2 seriously enough that all these years later, we not only have a Mustang, but also Spit, D9, A8, Mosquito, Thunderbolt.   And imo, they are pretty damned good.

[BladeMeister]

1 hour ago, SeaSerpent said:

 

I wonder why they would be going down this path, however, if there wasn’t some plan to flesh it out more.  So the K4 is out of place, maybe they’ll make a G-6.

ED has not fleshed out one genre yet, modern or WWII, at least for SP. I don't do MP so I am not speaking to that. Sure the WWII planes are fun for a week or two, maybe three at tops and a campaign or two, which most WWII modules have 2 or less for them. There is no career, no dynamic campaign as talked about by ED, and the only real sector that props DCS WWII up is a very small community offering. I hope your right and ED does have a plan to flesh out WWII, I damn sure wouldn't put any money on it if I were you though, and certainly don't hold your breath waiting on it. Ed just got around to implementing bomb fusing after all of these years in combat flight sim production. Hello? DCS is not fleshed out and most likely never will be, but here is to hoping. Good on you SeaSerpent.

 

S!Blade<><

[DBFlyguy]

Newest vid from Ward Carroll features the DCS P-51:

 

 

I actually had never heard about the sea trials with the Mustang.

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by DBFlyguy

[LukeFF]

Some of these YouTube video titles. ?

[DBFlyguy]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

Some of these YouTube video titles. ?

Triggers the triggerable

 

I'm sure the comments are full of ....

 

 

?

[Alexmarine]

Should have used a pic from Red Tails as thumbnail for even extra bait 

[Gambit21]

3 hours ago, DBFlyguy said:

Triggers the triggerable

 

I'm sure the comments are full of ....

 

 

?

With a title like that - well deserved ?

[nirvi]

 

[DBFlyguy]

This looks great!!!!!

 

 

[Gambit21]

Yep, some cool stuff coming with it...can't say what...but I'm looking forward to it.

 

 

 

[LLv34_Flanker]

S! 

 

Just wondering at what stage Vulkan implementation is..

[BOO]

21 minutes ago, LLv34_Flanker said:

S! 

 

Just wondering at what stage Vulkan implementation 

Or multi core. Been exactly 1 year since ED posted anything official. 
 

 

 

[nirvi]

La-7 and weather updates

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/304804-official-news-2022/?do=findComment&comment=5065349

[Lusekofte]

?‍? By all means, LA 7 and I 16 against K4 and A8 

LA 7 is a good plane, but it seems like eastern front will be the most complete ww2 set we ever get. 

I look forward to the Corsair,  it can if nothing else fit in a Korea look a like mission

[BOO]

13 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Yep, some cool stuff coming with it...can't say what...but I'm looking forward to it.

 

 

 

 

[DBFlyguy]

 

 

.....yawn....

 

But, it is a new plane for the WWII part of the sim.  I'm more curious on what 2.8 will include besides the weather updates. Multi-core and vulcan finally?

[AndyJWest]

A perfect fit for the Normandy map...

[BOO]

4 minutes ago, DBFlyguy said:

 

 

.....yawn....

 

But, it is a new plane for the WWII part of the sim.  I'm more curious on what 2.8 will include besides the weather updates. Multi-core and vulcan finally?

Well they are saying its a big update but that could be due to all the other adjustments alluded to I guess. I suspect WW2 Marianas. 

[Jade_Monkey]

The lack of direction from DCS is just astounding.

[Guest deleted@83466]

36 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The lack of direction from DCS is just astounding.

What is the direction of MSFS, rhetorically speaking?  Some people just like to fly planes that are detailed and well done.  Not everybody is in some competitive sim trying to do historical accuracy.   You can spend hours learning how to hover a helicopter over next to a patio table outside a cafe in LV, or getting good with the LABS system in a Sabre.  You might only be bombing a crop circle, for practice.  In other words, be it that it is a “study sim” in the finest tradition of PMDG and A2A, it sort of has a different quality than just theaters matched with correct aircraft.

 

An old friend said something like if you want fantasy, watch the Final Countdown (and I do watch the Tomcats vs Zeroes clip on YouTube more frequently than I should admit).  Have you ever done modern SEAD/Anti-Helicopter in a BF-109?  What does a MK108 do against a Spitfire?  What does a MK108 do against a Hind?  It’s all for fun, and that’s what video games are supposed to be.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 15, 2022 by SeaSerpent

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

18 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The lack of direction from DCS is just astounding.

This. I was very excited about the new Normandy map...until I saw that the Channel portion won't be modeled and now IDGAF. DCS WWII is run by people with no vision to put it mildly.

Edited October 15, 2022 by drewm3i-VR

[nirvi]

4 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The lack of direction from DCS is just astounding.

It‘s a 3rd party developer, and their first module was the I-16.

[Eisenfaustus]

33 minutes ago, nirvi said:

It‘s a 3rd party developer, and their first module was the I-16.

GB uses 3rd party devs to close gaps in their plan not to sprinkle unconnected content in at random. So it is a choice. 

 

5 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

Some people just like to fly planes that are detailed and well done.

Would they be less detailed/worse done if they existed in a historical plausible context? They at least would be more interesting for me. 
 

That‘s mainly what keeps me from buying into the warbirds.