DCS

[nirvi]

In depth P-51 Tutorial by Reflected, including an Normandy 2 Teaser:

 

 

[Gambit21]

5 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

 

JF-17 is an underrepresented gem. I bought it on sale about a year ago and it's been collecting dust ever since. I got tired of waiting around for the F-15 so I picked up the JF-17 randomly and started learning it. The Jeff is quickly becoming one of my favorites jets in DCS. 

It's not the fastest, doesn't have the longest legs, and can't carry the most munitions but it's an absolute pleasure to fly and one of the most polished modules hands-down. It has the most modern cockpit/systems in DCS, a fantastic TGP, great ground radar, functioning data cartridge, a huge suit of different weapons for any scenario, and tons of small details absent from other modules like glass fogging, hypoxia effects, system malfunctions, and stores that you can over-g. 

Deka Ironworks did a fantastic job and delivered one of the most, if not the most, polished and feature-complete modules in all of DCS. I highly recommend trialing it if you have the time.

quote from FB

 

Sea serpent probably right. Everyone taking time on it say the same. It seems like a real good module

It’s an aircraft full of problems in real life - otherwise known as the “Blunder”

 

You just like it temporarily, just as you like other aircraft temporarily. Your fondness if the aircraft is a transient state of affairs, soon to wither once you realize that there’s nothing much to do with it, it has no soul, no mystique no history, and it’s really just a less capable Nota-Viper.

 

Have fun though.

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

You clearly hate the JF-17, but Lusekofte is right about me being right though! It’s a great module, a light, but genuine “strike fighter” with lots of bang for the buck, and imho a significantly lower learning curve than the Hornet/Viper alternatives.  That’s what the real plane is supposed to be, right(?) and that’s what the module reflects.  FWIW, I had not actually heard of the airplane prior to this module, so no, it’s not going to give you that childhood nostalgia of playing with your Tomcat toy in the sandbox, but it is what it is.

[Gambit21]

9 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

You clearly hate the JF-17, but Lusekofte is right about me being right though! It’s a great module, a light, but genuine “strike fighter” with lots of bang for the buck, and imho a significantly lower learning curve than the Hornet/Viper alternatives.  That’s what the real plane is supposed to be, right(?) and that’s what the module reflects.  FWIW, I had not actually heard of the airplane prior to this module, so no, it’s not going to give you that childhood nostalgia of playing with your Tomcat toy in the sandbox, but it is what it is.

 

Dammit! I'm trying to mess with Luse's head...play along.

 

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

7 hours ago, Art-J said:

SeaSerpent, are you a Brit by any chance? Only a Brit would call this unergonomic clusterfeck of things stuffed wherever engineer felt like it an "intuitive" cockpit ;). But that's the way things were done on that side of the Channel back then before they finally started learning how to design cockpits in '60s. 

Not dissing the airplane though, I love flying it despite its "underperforming" compared to GB rendition.

 

 

Instead of saying intuitive, maybe I should have just said “shallow learning curve”.  Wasn’t necessarily talking about cockpit layout.  I mean, it’s a straightforward plane, with pretty easily understandable switches, and you can be flying around and destroying things quickly, with little tutorial.  No having to go to back to page 650 of a Chucks guide 10 times to figure something out that you already learned last week, so by comparison it struck me as “intuitive”.

[Lusekofte]

I won’t buy it, like I won’t buy Strike Eagle. Because they do not appeal to me. A6 Intruder is my next jet, I have decided. 
Hornet training gave me a real wake up. I hardly manage to start the game and escaped to AN 2 in msfs. I pushed too hard on the Hornet and got rewarded by fatigue on the whole franchise. I guess long and hard tutorials in the Apache followed up with same routine in Hornet killed the joy. 
So I stay away for a while just to get the fun back

[Guest deleted@83466]

You obviously know you can enjoy the sim without ever touching a 4th Gen plane…Those are clearly not your thing.

[Gambit21]

58 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

I won’t buy it, like I won’t buy Strike Eagle. Because they do not appeal to me. A6 Intruder is my next jet, I have decided. 
Hornet training gave me a real wake up. I hardly manage to start the game and escaped to AN 2 in msfs. I pushed too hard on the Hornet and got rewarded by fatigue on the whole franchise. I guess long and hard tutorials in the Apache followed up with same routine in Hornet killed the joy. 
So I stay away for a while just to get the fun back

Based on your many previous posts, I could have instantly arrived at this conclusion for you. For a small fee I’d be happy to tell you your opinion and feelings on anything DCS related going forward.

 

 

[Lusekofte]

18 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

Based on your many previous posts, I could have instantly arrived at this conclusion for you. For a small fee I’d be happy to tell you your opinion and feelings on anything DCS related going forward.

 

 

? It is a general fatigue. I have overdone this hobby too long. Now I stayed away from  my rig since Sunday. 
Could you believe it there is a life outside sim. 
Fortunately Easter is up and several days of skiing the mountains ahead. Fresh air clears the mind and sooner or later one find the joy in it again. 

[dburne]

3 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

? It is a general fatigue. I have overdone this hobby too long. Now I stayed away from  my rig since Sunday. 
Could you believe it there is a life outside sim. 
Fortunately Easter is up and several days of skiing the mountains ahead. Fresh air clears the mind and sooner or later one find the joy in it again. 

 

I have been doign this since the mid 90's, DCS since 2008 - have yet to tire of any of it. Both flying and racing early on, mainly just flying now.

What is even worse is I am retired now and do this every day for a few hours at a  time. Still have not tired of it.

[Trooper117]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

A6 Intruder is my next jet, I have decided. 

 

Ah, but the F-4, the F-4 could change your life...

[Lusekofte]

2 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

 

Ah, but the F-4, the F-4 could change your life...

I will consider it. I forgot all about that one. Deadly sin, that is

[SCG_motoadve]

3 hours ago, dburne said:

 

I have been doign this since the mid 90's, DCS since 2008 - have yet to tire of any of it. Both flying and racing early on, mainly just flying now.

What is even worse is I am retired now and do this every day for a few hours at a  time. Still have not tired of it.

DCS with Varjo now with FDR with a 4090 , No one will get tired of it ?

[Lusekofte]

46 minutes ago, SCG_motoadve said:

DCS with Varjo now with FDR with a 4090 , No one will get tired of it ?

VR will not make any improvements, your joystick and hardware count more. 
I bet no one beat my joystick 

That is where I put my money. I hate Virpil buttons and hat switches and selling my collective and go back to max flight stick. Doing pit changes is great when not flying. I might buy Brünner ffbs but not decided yet

Edited March 28, 2023 by Lusekofte

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

? It is a general fatigue.

 

Get ready for a shocker...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....we know...do you want to guess how we know? ?

 

 

 

[SCG_motoadve]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

VR will not make any improvements, your joystick and hardware count more. 
I bet no one beat my joystick 

That is where I put my money. I hate Virpil buttons and hat switches and selling my collective and go back to max flight stick. Doing pit changes is great when not flying. I might buy Brünner ffbs but not decided yet

What joystick do you have?

 

[dburne]

1 hour ago, SCG_motoadve said:

DCS with Varjo now with FDR with a 4090 , No one will get tired of it ?

 

That is for sure! Awesome combo and I am loving it!

[dburne]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

VR will not make any improvements, your joystick and hardware count more. 
I bet no one beat my joystick 

That is where I put my money. I hate Virpil buttons and hat switches and selling my collective and go back to max flight stick. Doing pit changes is great when not flying. I might buy Brünner ffbs but not decided yet

 

I am pretty sure no one here wants to "beat your joystick".

Loving my Virpil equipment. Got their CM3 throttle over 2 years ago now, and just recently added the new Virpil CM3 base with Alpha Prime metal grip. So far loving it as well. Also have a Virpil Rotor collective for my Apache flying.

 

VR has nothing to do with joystick hardware and vice versa.

Edited March 29, 2023 by dburne

[BladeMeister]

 

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[Lusekofte]

4 hours ago, SCG_motoadve said:

What joystick do you have?

 

It is custom built a polish guy made it for me. Hydrolic damped with regulated resistance 

optional self centering.  
But that was meant as a joke. , I have fulcrum yoke. 
But to me it is more important to have good controls than vr at all. I rather have multiple screens and gauges and fly 2 D for immersion in some modules, or have the option like in msfs to switch from 2d to vr in flight. 
I am not tempted to optimise any flight gear at all. It is all good. What one need is a good fun module

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

What one need is a good fun module

 

Well then I guess you're F%^&#d

[Art-J]

18 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

 

 

Instead of saying intuitive, maybe I should have just said “shallow learning curve”.  Wasn’t necessarily talking about cockpit layout.  I mean, it’s a straightforward plane, with pretty easily understandable switches, and you can be flying around and destroying things quickly, with little tutorial.  No having to go to back to page 650 of a Chucks guide 10 times to figure something out that you already learned last week, so by comparison it struck me as “intuitive”.

 

Roger that! I don't do modern planes in any flight sim (DCS MiG-21 and L-39 were as "modern" modules as I ever went for), so for me other warbirds are a reference point and compared to these, Mossie is a mess. A charming mess in its own right, though!

[Robli]

I think hobbies are supposed to be fun? If flying starts to feel like a burden, can always try some other games or sims for a change. Racing (Dirty Rally 2 for me currently), some tactical games or just trying out something completely new, just for the sake of it, could ventilate your mind a bit. Some outside or other off the screen activities are even better. Sooner or later will get the itch to take a warbird, helicopter or jet to the virtual sky again. Probably sooner, if you did not force yourself to do something that you did not enjoy for too long in the first place. 

 

Maybe frustration is part of the fun for some people, though. I know a guy that is doing very detailed small scale models and sometimes he is so frustrated with tiny and totally insignificant details (very-super-extra significant for him) that you can see his frustration a mile away and he has had urges to through his almost-ready models out of the window in frustration - but he has kept his hobby alive for decades now and keeps finding smaller and smaller "super significant" details to rage about. 

[Lusekofte]

I have enough with all I have to do. Sim is   thief of time. I manage. After a while I find the fun in it again. ( A6 Intruder and Chinook) 

I fly msfs if urge demand. No problem. 
It is one of those things, you hope to enjoy Hornet but don’t 

Edited March 29, 2023 by Lusekofte

[ROCKET_KNUT]

  Dunno about you but that face looks a bit familiar... Nice touch Eagle Dynamics! ?

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

That is f&#)ing AWESOME.  Love it.

[Trooper117]

As above... what a tribute to the man!

[Lusekofte]

Well F 4 Phantom is going to be a ? winner ? 

And I gonna buy it for sure

[Gambit21]

Yep

Cobra posted this on the HB testing Discord some weeks back. Just amazing.

 

 

[Archie]

Don't know about a day one buy, that'll be a first minute buy. Hopefully it's not too far out now.

[Rjel]

4 hours ago, ROCKET_KNUT said:

 

Heroic, dashing, married a beautiful movie star. That was a life well lived.

[Trooper117]

Everyone should read his book... that's all I'll say.

[DBFlyguy]

4 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

Everyone should read his book... that's all I'll say.

It's definitely a great read! it's on my list to re-read eventually.  His daughter did a really good presentation a few years ago which gives a bit more detail about him and the book:

 

 

[ST_Catchov]

Nice 'tache. Good to see some traditions are kept. Tom Cruise take note for Top Gun III & IV.

[dburne]

 

[BladeMeister]

Dropping Normandy 2 on Friday would be a nice Easter present.

 

S!Blade<><

[71st_AH_Rob_XR-R]

10 minutes ago, BladeMeister said:

Dropping Normandy 2 on Friday would be a nice Easter present.

 

S!Blade<><

IT will be Wednesday the 12th as per the next scheduled patch release on the DCS forums, I was hoping it would be yesterday.

[nirvi]

 

[dburne]

Little suprised he ran that in ST rather than the newer Multi-Threaded executable. It does make a nice difference in performance in most cases.

edit: Map sure is looking great though!

 

I have to wonder though - with this new map, will there even be a need for us to have both the original 1944 Normandy and The Channel Map on our system still?

Edited April 7, 2023 by dburne

[SCG_motoadve]

2 hours ago, dburne said:

I have to wonder though - with this new map, will there even be a need for us to have both the original 1944 Normandy and The Channel Map on our system still?

Normandy 1944 I don't see a reason to keep it once the new campaigns are modified to use the new map, and servers move to new map,, but The Channel map yes, since there are some campaigns that uses that map, and wont be modified since  in Normandy 2 map the Channel map area will be low resolution