DCS

[nirvi]

On 3/25/2024 at 4:40 PM, Dagwoodyt said:

Ended up buying both FW190's during the sale. I just finished a nearly 30min. fight in an A8 v AI veteran Spitfire IX LF getting gradually shredded by the Spitfire. Takes over 3 min. to get enough separation to turn into the Spitfire with barely enough time to do so. Definitely have to do constant rudder management to keep straight line speed and be proficient with rolling once in range of the Spitfires guns. I survived because the AI Spitfire crashed while rolling. I suppose they do that to avoid overshoot, but several times i've seen them auger in that way. So thankful to have Tacview.

Unfortunately, the AI in DCS is absolute garbage. They can do maneuvers you would never be able to do in the same aircraft. 

Multiplayer is the only way to have "fair" fights. 

[Lusekofte]

4 hours ago, nirvi said:

Unfortunately, the AI in DCS is absolute garbage. They can do maneuvers you would never be able to do in the same aircraft. 

Multiplayer is the only way to have "fair" fights. 

I do enjoy the campaigns. 

[Dagwoodyt]

13 hours ago, nirvi said:

Unfortunately, the AI in DCS is absolute garbage. They can do maneuvers you would never be able to do in the same aircraft. 

Multiplayer is the only way to have "fair" fights. 

Ace  AI in P47, at least, seems to end up flying into the ground way too often and starts doing rolls for no apparent reason while on my six.

[Kapteeni]

I bought DCS Combined Arms. It is fun  Normandy Map is the best looking ww2 in flight sims. And Dynamic campaigns are fun. Kids love to fly modern jets. I just drive around Israel and Egypt with Willys Jeep and remember my youth. Tank battles are great, but not realistic. It is nice to add things on the maps and destroy them with nissiles and rockets. Like Angry Birds . Great fun. 

[Lusekofte]

For those not noticed there is a mission for civil sheriff flying with Huey I sincerely recommend 

 

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/302336-i-love-this-job-version-30/

 

you need to fly straight land and rescue people and easy navigate. Your officer deals with the missions and coms. Set your adf to 40,2 so you know where the hospital is. 3 difficult levels with or without timers. I always start or end a DCs session with this. It make me a better pilot

Edited March 28, 2024 by Lusekofte

[DD_fruitbat]

 

[Lusekofte]

I am looking forward to this mod. 

 

[AndyJWest]

Does look nice. 

[Dagwoodyt]

On 3/26/2024 at 11:38 PM, nirvi said:

Unfortunately, the AI in DCS is absolute garbage. They can do maneuvers you would never be able to do in the same aircraft. 

Multiplayer is the only way to have "fair" fights. 

I bought the 190 A8 and D9 during the recent sale. In 1v1 flying the A8 against "ace" AI in the P47D I'm able to hold my own most of the time and without any control assists. If the P47 AI is doing maneuvers I could never do IRL seems it does have weaknesses that can be exploited. The P47 AI seems to lawn dart a bit too often. Just for fun I tried the 109 K4 against the P47D AI. I had only flown the K4 a few times, more than a year ago. I bought it mainy because I had read  that the K4 is difficult to manage on TO. I had to set the controls for weapons and safety switch today since I hadn't done so previously. The K4 is easier than the A8 to fly against the P47 AI. I shot the AI down first try and landed without incident. So YMMV.

[Gambit21]

On 3/28/2024 at 11:55 AM, Lusekofte said:

For those not noticed there is a mission for civil sheriff flying with Huey I sincerely recommend 

 

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/302336-i-love-this-job-version-30/

 

you need to fly straight land and rescue people and easy navigate. Your officer deals with the missions and coms. Set your adf to 40,2 so you know where the hospital is. 3 difficult levels with or without timers. I always start or end a DCs session with this. It make me a better pilot

Thanks - I’m getting back into the Huey. 

[Lusekofte]

11 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Thanks - I’m getting back into the Huey. 

I am always getting back to it with confidence just to discover I fly it like a twat. It is tha hardest chopper I fly with dignity. 
I can do a lot with it , but it ain’t looking good

[Gambit21]

On 3/28/2024 at 12:37 PM, DD_fruitbat said:

 

It’s so on.

Helo ops!

[AndyJWest]

21 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

It’s so on.

Helo ops!

 

Hot and high. Be prepared to run out of grunt.

[Lusekofte]

This Halfghanistan thing is a pain in my ass. Well I could do Soviet vs Mujaheddin with my beloved MI 8 and get blasted by US made Stingers. Or I can do tedious hours trying to learn Viper or A 10 again and fight Taliban. But there is no A2A actions happening in a historical perspective. 
yet we all know no matter what we choose we will loose

[sevenless]

8 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

This Halfghanistan thing is a pain in my ass. Well I could do Soviet vs Mujaheddin with my beloved MI 8 and get blasted by US made Stingers. Or I can do tedious hours trying to learn Viper or A 10 again and fight Taliban. But there is no A2A actions happening in a historical perspective. 
yet we all know no matter what we choose we will loose

 

Well, I keep my wallet shut for Sinai, Afghanistan, Iraq until they manage to release at least one interesting campaign for the maps.

 

 

[Lusekofte]

Me too, I hold for the Kola peninsula Mostly because of my lack of disk space. Secondly I like to see what can be done. I already fly in mountains

[sevenless]

32 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

Me too, I hold for the Kola peninsula Mostly because of my lack of disk space. Secondly I like to see what can be done. I already fly in mountains

 

Yep. Kola is what I anticipate the most with the two campaigns by Baltic Dragon and Reflected for F-16 and F/A-18.

 

 

Edited April 3, 2024 by sevenless

[Lusekofte]

Razbam ?

hope they fix this

[AndyJWest]

ED's response to the above:

 

Regardless of who is in the right or in the wrong, ED is going to have real problems selling anything until this is sorted out.

[Aapje]

The part about legally protected IP rights suggests that they perhaps sold something they made for ED, to a third party as well, in breach of an agreement.

[Lusekofte]

Yeah I knew a one sided information would be half the truth. It always is. I guessed there where more to it. 
But I believe this will be solved pretty quick 

[sevenless]

They better get this sorted. I guess RazBam can easily live without DCS. Can ED?

 

[Gambit21]

 

Joke aside...

Was not handled well by either party...not good for anyone.

[Lusekofte]

One of the programmers in Razbam calling the quits. I really do not like this escalating any further. 
I have no means of saying who is right or wrong. All I know is that without Razbam product , DCS loose a leg or arm. Pretty good and many modules. Some favorites of mine

[DD_Arthur]

Oh dear. I rather think DCS would be up the creek without Razbam or Heatblur.

I'm sure a parting of the ways would be painful for all parties but these two devs have an escape route in the form of MSFS....

[AndyJWest]

2 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

Oh dear. I rather think DCS would be up the creek without Razbam or Heatblur.

I'm sure a parting of the ways would be painful for all parties but these two devs have an escape route in the form of MSFS....

 

Heatblur seem not to have appreciated having their name dropped, and have made it clear they aren't going to get involved.

[Blooddawn1942]

Omg... This is a complete mess... It's getting really nasty isn't it? 

Can't believe all that s**t... 

[Lusekofte]

26 minutes ago, AndyJWest said:

 

Heatblur seem not to have appreciated having their name dropped, and have made it clear they aren't going to get involved.

Thank god

1 minute ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

Omg... This is a complete mess... It's getting really nasty isn't it? 

Can't believe all that s**t... 

It is the way humans work. These things trigger the childish behaviour in all of us. And both feel they been treated unfair. 
the CEO in Razbam should not have gone public with his statement if and only if ED is telling the truth he has not approached them beforehand. Both act like victims and , well this is not ideal

36 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

escape route in the form of MSFS

Not without going A2A route and make them handle well in my opinion. But MSFS is in the league of car racing popularity. So you might be correct

[DD_Arthur]

44 minutes ago, AndyJWest said:

 

Heatblur seem not to have appreciated having their name dropped, and have made it clear they aren't going to get involved.

 

The plot thickens? Is there a link?

One things for sure; once they start instructing Briefs for a legal action they'll all end up out of pocket...

 

[Archie]

Can't see this ending well tbh, all trust will be gone.

[AndyJWest]

20 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

 

The plot thickens? Is there a link?

One things for sure; once they start instructing Briefs for a legal action they'll all end up out of pocket...

 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/1bw0w58/heatblur_response/

 

I think that's from Heatblur Discord. It is also mentioned in the Stormbirds summary:

https://stormbirds.blog/2024/04/04/eagle-dynamics-and-razbam-clash-in-public-statements/

 

As for legal action, that could get very messy very quickly, and more or less guarantee that the F-15E gets no further updates for years, if ever.

[BOO]

Never had the impression Razbam and ED had an easy relationship. Sucks that the ultimate losers may be those who have showed both companies the most trust. 
 

 

[Gambit21]

Metal just made another statement.

This crap is bad for everyone.

 

 

[AndyJWest]

10 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

Metal just made another statement.

This crap is bad for everyone.

 

 

 

How about either telling us what he said, or at least providing a link?

[Gambit21]

8 minutes ago, AndyJWest said:

 

How about either telling us what he said, or at least providing a link?

Disregard - same thing Luse posted above. 

[Lusekofte]

Well I can live with current state of Razbam product. But how long will it take before a patch screw them up?

I considered the mudhen in periods my optimism is on top. But luckily they never long enough to made me do it. I am full. I can’t learn another module , if I do I have to choose what module to pull out

[Boogdud]

4 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

One of the programmers in Razbam calling the quits. I really do not like this escalating any further. 
I have no means of saying who is right or wrong. All I know is that without Razbam product , DCS loose a leg or arm. Pretty good and many modules. Some favorites of mine

He's not just a programmer, he's their head modeler, and arguably the best one in all of DCS, the F-15E is his baby.

[Lusekofte]

2 minutes ago, Boogdud said:

He's not just a programmer, he's their head modeler, and arguably the best one in all of DCS, the F-15E is his baby.

Thank you for clarifying that. I am not very familiar with any of the dev teams. 
 

[Gambit21]

20 minutes ago, Boogdud said:

He's not just a programmer, he's their head modeler,

 

yep

 

20 minutes ago, Boogdud said:

 

and arguably the best one in all of DCS, 

Based on what exactly? Have you examined meshes from all of the 3D guys? If so, what is your criteria for the judgement call?

Full disclosure - I’m a 3D guy with some experience modeling for DCS, and have seen multiple meshes.
But yes his work (along with many others)  if not his behavior is top drawer.

 

Edited April 5, 2024 by Gambit21

[Lusekofte]

Kind of put things in perspective. ED would have to refund some modules to us. Maybe ED will claim that from Razbam. 
This can turn pretty ugly pretty fast if not some adults talk together