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[BOO]

taken a bit of time to look around MT. I think some of the bigger gains seen certainly by flatscreeners like me are less down to MT and more down to the SSAA being disabled in the release. Ultimately I dont think the bump in performance is actually going to be as huge as it first appears - more for sure  - but not  huge huge (perhaps a $1000 dollar upgade not a $1500 one). Ultimately though MT is less about raw fps and more about using cores efficiently which it seems to be doing very well. Mirrors are for sissys anyhow so I wont be taking them which goes at least half way to any future 1.5 SSAA hit. 

 

Im sorely tempted to drag out the gear and join the hornet brigade as ive some lovely populated CVN71 2002 carrier templates waiting to go.....

 

Whatever happens ED have set themselves up well for moving forward. I remain (unusually) impressed.

[Lusekofte]

3 hours ago, BOO said:

taken a bit of time to look around MT. I think some of the bigger gains seen certainly by flatscreeners like me are less down to MT and more down to the SSAA being disabled in the release. Ultimately I dont think the bump in performance is actually going to be as huge as it first appears - more for sure  - but not  huge huge (perhaps a $1000 dollar upgade not a $1500 one). Ultimately though MT is less about raw fps and more about using cores efficiently which it seems to be doing very well. Mirrors are for sissys anyhow so I wont be taking them which goes at least half way to any future 1.5 SSAA hit. 

 

Im sorely tempted to drag out the gear and join the hornet brigade as ive some lovely populated CVN71 2002 carrier templates waiting to go.....

 

Whatever happens ED have set themselves up well for moving forward. I remain (unusually) impressed.

Never used SSAA and I have a huge boost. 
testing out this feature I noticed difference in less shimmering. So it do work somehow. Not sure if as good since I never had it on before

[Lusekofte]

7 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

you like the F-16 better,

In my eyes. If I can learn the Hornet. I can learn the  Viper. I do the Hornet now just to see if I am motivated enough to learn any of these. I am not quite sure if I ever will use it. But I do like learning. It is kind of a process 

[BOO]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

Never used SSAA and I have a huge boost. 
testing out this feature I noticed difference in less shimmering. So it do work somehow. Not sure if as good since I never had it on before

I agree that its working in some way, especially around the cockpit but not as it did. There still shimmering in the distance and on the ocean and the fps doesnt alter regarless of off, 1.5 or x2. 

 

Still 117 fps ave with a Hornet on a fully populated deck of the SC in strong shadow and looking at the superstructuce with everything maxed and AI firing off left right and centre (literally) Im quite confident I got more than enough headroom to accomodate its performance sucking full fat return. 

 

That joystick is calling me from the stair cupboard........

[DBFlyguy]

 

[Gambit21]

5 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

In my eyes. If I can learn the Hornet. I can learn the  Viper. 

The Viper is noticeably more intuitive/ user-friendly. 

[DD_fruitbat]

I'm going to say, 'i told you so'.

 

I told you so ?

[Gambit21]

On 3/14/2023 at 7:59 AM, DD_fruitbat said:

I've been getting back  into the A-10C this last week or so. Been ages since I last flew it. I did have to succumb to reading some of my notes I'd made a while back, and watching the odd videos, as it had been so long.

 

I'd forgotten how much fun it is making things go boom in it, I loaded up with a couple of CBU 105's, 6 Mav's and the rest laser guided rockets. Came back with 79 ground kills on our training server in one sortie!!!!

That’s probably my number one “I wish I already knew it” module.

I need an A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

A-10C is my number one “enough is enough” module.  I actually uninstalled the module to save space.  I made it a point a while ago that I wasn’t going to buy any more until I felt really good about several modules I already owned, so I didn’t buy the Viper (but I did a demo and came close).  I might try to take it up a notch with the Harrier before the Strike Eagle comes out.  Someday, I’ll learn the Viper, but if it proves to be similarly “intuitive” as the A-10C, then I probably won’t get far, and the only thing I’ll do is screw up my muscle memory for everything else in the process!  The Hornet totally makes sense to me, as it seems to have struck a good balance for me between hotas controls and DDI interaction, and it’s something I can come back to after an absence.  The JF-17, maybe because it’s the most modern plane, seems to have the most friendly interface of them all to me.  Maybe it was just my level of motivation at the time, but that one took a very short amount of time to start feeling pretty hot with, like 2 weeks.  

[MiGCap]

52 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

The JF-17, maybe because it’s the most modern plane, seems to have the most friendly interface of them all to me. 

 

 

Wait for the Eurofighter ... 

[Lusekofte]

I wonder if Hornet, Viper and A 10C is the reason I am not content just learning F 5 and A 4

Because I love those. But I feel I should learn Hornet or A 10. Weird way of thinking. It is never good enough 

[Guest deleted@83466]

Yes, I’ve noticed that 4th Generation Strike Fighter Usage Disorder seems to be pretty common around this forum. 

[Gambit21]

All roads lead back to Tomcat.

 

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

How much time in the backseat of the Tomcat have you really spent?

 

?

[Gambit21]

5 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

How much time in the backseat of the Tomcat have you really spent?

 

?

 

0 seconds

 

 

Was planning on it soon, just to configure bombs/intervals etc.

 

[AndyJWest]

Evidently the problem some people are having with DCS is that it provides too many different types of aircraft to fly...

[Gambit21]

I'm dragging my feet on the Tomcat just because I know Jester 2.0 is coming.

[Guest deleted@83466]

1 minute ago, AndyJWest said:

Evidently the problem some people are having with DCS is that it provides too many different types of aircraft to fly...

Us poor souls in this wretched world! ???

[Guest deleted@83466]

2 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

0 seconds

 

 

Was planning on it soon, just to configure bombs/intervals etc.

 

 

Screw that!  Start thinking what it means to drop a Walleye II dead center of a bridge, or fire 4 Harpoons at something.  And it’s GPS enhanced, so none of those stupid tacan updates. While you’re fiddling around figuring out how to IFF me in the F-14, I’ve just fired 4 HARMs at the air defense you were trying to protect, and my spare amraam at you! ? And don’t even get me started about Bullseye calls.

 

 

Edited March 16, 2023 by SeaSerpent
?Hornet trash talk

[Gambit21]

31 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

 

Screw that!  Start thinking what it means to drop a Walleye II dead center of a bridge, or fire 4 Harpoons at something.  And it’s GPS enhanced, so none of those stupid tacan updates. While you’re fiddling around figuring out how to IFF me in the F-14, I’ve just fired 4 HARMs at the air defense you were trying to protect! ? And don’t even get me started about Bullseye calls.

 

 

 

 

Well...most of my time tonight aside from some editor work was spent in the Hornet. 

I'm a ways from a Walleye drop, but dumb bombs are in my near future.

 

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

I think after ccrp/ccip, once you figure out your TDC controller scheme on your own joystick/throttle*** and fire off some Mavericks, first on their own, and then slaved to the targeting pod, everything else will follow more easily from there on out.  If you’ve flown the Flaming Circus A-10A, remember you can slew a diamond around on the HUD for the Mavericks, for initial aiming, and you can do that too in the Hornet; it’s not that different.

 

***some weapons slewable by the TDC in the Hornet require you to press down on the TDC nipple and then slew it, with lock happening after release of the press.  This doesn’t work well with some older Warthog throttles, so you can either map some other joystick button as the” press”, which you hold simultaneously; Or, just uncheck “realistic TDC movement” in Hornet Special Menu, and then you get to just slew and press (I think).  Im just saying this because it was something I didn’t know about, and it drove me nuts before I understood why I couldn’t slew an IR Maverick head around worth a damn on the Hornet.

Edited March 16, 2023 by SeaSerpent

[DD_Fenrir]

9 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

While you’re fiddling around figuring out how to IFF me in the F-14, I’ve just fired 4 HARMs at the air defense you were trying to protect, and my spare amraam at you! ? And don’t even get me started about Bullseye calls.

 

Nah. My RIO would have had you IFF'd and a Buffalo outbound at you before you'd even had a chance to release your HARM let alone find me on your radar....

 

Besides, I'd just crank, skate and defeat your Slammer, re-attack and still have fuel to do it 3 more times; if you dodged the first Phoenix you'd end up Bingo and headed home still carrying your HARMS! ?

Edited March 16, 2023 by DD_Fenrir

[Robli]

If only we had some kind of digital combat simulator with Hornet and Tomcat and ability to test in an online fight who was right...

[Hoots]

Thing is, they'd both be enjoying themselves so we're left with who has the best nerd sh!t talking skills

 

[dburne]

10 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

 

Well...most of my time tonight aside from some editor work was spent in the Hornet. 

I'm a ways from a Walleye drop, but dumb bombs are in my near future.

 

 

 

 

Good man!

[DD_Crash]

10 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

This doesn’t work well with some older Warthog throttles

You could always upgrade to the deltasim one https://forum.dcs.world/topic/170423-yet-another-warthog-slew-upgrade/

[Gambit21]

BRRRRRRT!!!

 

https://youtu.be/CoIRQ4Nv9-g

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AndyJWest]

40 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

BRRRRRRT!!!

 

https://youtu.be/CoIRQ4Nv9-g

 

The Swiss Navy at their finest. ?

[Guest deleted@83466]

I have always been amazed by that sound since I saw one of those Phalanx systems on TV in the 1980s.  Or maybe it was a closeup of the gun on an an F-14 splashing a Zero in The Final Countdown.  A zipping sound.  When you’re flying a plane with a Vulcan (or Avenger), and then you go to something like an F-5 or something, it just seems wimpy, doesn’t it?

 

p.s. Miniguns on a UH-1, basically the same sound too.

 

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by SeaSerpent
I love the sound of Vulcans in the morning. It sounds like victory.

[Lusekofte]

 

[BOO]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

 

When you consider how much you can pay (and we do pay) for a throttle, joystick or heaven forbid a glorifed PCB with fans on, £1500 for some under bum fun isnt too bad

[Lusekofte]

I might consider it. I will adapt to pits into one and might find it affordable 

[sevenless]

 

[Trooper117]

Crikey... watched the video and almost fell into the trap of buying the F-14...

[sevenless]

46 minutes ago, Trooper117 said:

Crikey... watched the video and almost fell into the trap of buying the F-14...

You know you want it...

[Trooper117]

Just now, sevenless said:

You know you want it...

 

Hmm... maybe later, I'm into the Sabre and trying to 'git gud' with the F-5 at the moment so it will come to pass eventually I'm sure.

[DD_fruitbat]

4 minutes ago, Trooper117 said:

 

Hmm... maybe later, I'm into the Sabre and trying to 'git gud' with the F-5 at the moment so it will come to pass eventually I'm sure.

ED missed a trick imo, when they reworked the 50's in the WW2 planes, but forgot the Sabre.

 

I'm hoping they remember at some point!

[Trooper117]

5 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

I'm hoping they remember at some point!

 

Me too!... it get's mentioned on the forums so maybe, eventually, it will come to pass... the cockpit is pretty good, but it would be great to give that a makeover as well.

[Gambit21]

40 minutes ago, Trooper117 said:

 

Hmm... maybe later, I'm into the Sabre and trying to 'git gud' with the F-5 at the moment so it will come to pass eventually I'm sure.

You're good - might as well wait for Jester 2.0 at this point.

 

 

[Trooper117]

Yes, I will certainly get the  "World's Leading Distributor of MiG Parts"...