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[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

Spitfire campaign summary

 

[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=177491&page=5

 

There is a small sh*tstorm on DCS forums about sound mod that makes you hear other players from far back and hear whether they fly towards you or away from you. It's interesting to see how widespread it is ... and how long its been around. 

[Jade_Monkey]

I never understood the fun on cheating. It can be entertaining but definitely not fulfilling or rewarding.

[Jaws2002]

I never understood the fun on cheating. It can be entertaining but definitely not fulfilling or rewarding.

 

 

As long as the developers are not harsh with cheaters, they always do that and come back. They can ruin any game. 

 

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Edited August 25, 2017 by SYN_Haashashin

[Trooper117]

The answer is an 'interview without coffee' with me... I guarantee they won't cheat again.

[9./JG27golani79]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=177491&page=5

 

There is a small sh*tstorm on DCS forums about sound mod that makes you hear other players from far back and hear whether they fly towards you or away from you. It's interesting to see how widespread it is ... and how long its been around.

I alwyas found the sound radar in DCS pretty annoying - you can also hear other planes without any mods.

Even worse if there are people using mods to amplify this ... -.-

[Jaws2002]

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Editing our posts just makes you look like you try to cover up that kind of lame behavior. Excuse me??? I just apply the rules, which you should know very well by now.

 

....got away with a warning. You dont even know 1/3 of the story so..

Edited August 26, 2017 by SYN_Haashashin

[ZachariasX]

Relax. This is about "news". The deleted section was clearly not of that category. We're not missing much here. And yes, you are right and yes, it is bad.

[SYN_Haashashin]

Guys,

 

You want to talk about DCS news, go ahead, all you want but keep it on topic.

 

Haash

[Lusekofte]

I never heard of this sound mod , very sad to hear about it, but this is the reason I am not that interested in MP anymore. It is all about finding ways to take advantages of weaknesses within the game. 

Not let it be played as developers intended. With DCS WW2 I really cannot blame this attitude , there is no logistics for a real war, only dogfight , airshow flying and free flight. 

Adding Normandy map with a very few numbers of objects and B 17 without the ability to defend themselves have not change this. I hope this will change in the future.

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

Wait, the B-17's gunners don't shoot back?

[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

They do. There were no gunners initially (for like a couple of weeks) but in one of subsequent patches they've added them, and if I may add, they are deadly accurate. Though that exists to compensate for lackluster damage model, since even a few 13 mm hits can bring a B-17 down. 

 

Now we are waiting for 109 G and 190 A ED plans to add as Ai. 

[Brano]

Now we are waiting for 109 G and 190 A ED plans to add as Ai.

I'd rather have them human controlled to have finally a good reason to buy Normandy map

[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

Then you would find no Luftwaffe guys, 3/4 of them fly exclusively 109 K and still complain. I'd also love to get the two above as flyable but it would probably take 1-2 years to deliver each by ED. Ai also has horrible flight models and virtually indestructible damage models (it can fly with no elevators, ailerons and other stuff) - until you literally remove its wing or kill engine that thing is going to fight you no matter what. Improved damage models cant come soon enough  

[Brano]

Yep,better focus on jets with DCS. I got a newsletter about Su-33 preorder.Also Phantom and Hind both seem worth waiting.

[Lusekofte]

The Hind is going to keep me busy for some month

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

I hope they don't lose focus beyond repair, because for a tactical modern combat simulator it had an excellent scope with the initial Russia-Georgia-Turkey map and the planeset that came with it. If they can focus on volatile zones where a handful of political what-ifs could lead to a non-nuclear conflict, it will thrive. I still think it was a ridiculous idea to omit Crimea from the Black Sea map, the range of scenarios it would open is beyond the limits of my imagination. Sure, the political aspect is complicated but they've had Abkhazia and South Ossetia there since forever without any problems

 

If they go down sightseeing switch-flicking however, it'll be more FSX than DCS.

Edited August 26, 2017 by 216th_Lucas_From_Hell

[Rolling_Thunder]

I never heard of this sound mod , It is all about finding ways to take advantages of weaknesses within the game.

 

Same can be said for graphical adjustments. 3rd party aps that allow the user to fiddle with graphics settings beyond what the developers had intended. I forget what they're called, reshade maybe one? Im sure some folk will defend those programs but gaining a graphics advantage, spotting, through the use of an outside program is no different than turning up the volume of ones peers engines. One mans meat etc.

Let the "But, but, but i use reshade and im not a cheat" excuses commence

[Tuesday]

I just started up DCS last night after leaving it alone for well over a month - there must have been some pretty serious optimization updates while I was gone, because 2.1 runs very smoothly for me now, and the load times are way down.

 

Was very happy to finally be able to create a fast mission with the MiG-15 and cruise around Normandy, too.  It does look very nice.

[JG5_Zesphr]

On a side note, air to air refuelling is going better than I thought 

 

 

  

 

 

However the response time of the throttle is still annoying 

[Gambit21]

I hope they don't lose focus beyond repair,

 

I would say not yet, but they seem to be trying as hard as they can.

One of the problems (key words 'one of') is the rate at which they produce/release content - which means even if there were a course correction meeting

on Monday, we wouldn't reap for benefits for who knows how many years.

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

Most definitely, but it goes beyond long term thinking. A good few studios jumped on the bandwagon and closed shortly thereafter. Planning, not production, was scattered to the four winds counting on what-if projects of different studios to create a coherent unit.

 

The Korean War aircraft are more or less lost for example.

 

Thankfully studios like Belsimtek are creating a good basis by modelling aircraft that served from the early 1960s until today. The MiG-21, F-4, UH-1, Mi-8 and Mi-24 are incredible aircraft which give context to all others, but ED needs to improve the maps department.

[CanadaOne]

Two questions, if I may:

 

Is there any consensus whether the NTTR map is really good or not, as far as eye candy goes?

 

Are Steam bought DCS planes installable on a non-Steam DCS install? (My guess is no.)

 

Thanks.

[coconut]

I have planes bought on steam inside a non-steam installation.

[CanadaOne]

Sweet, that means I won't lose what I bought. And the Steam installer will see the non-Steam DCS and just pop the plane in?

 

Thanks for the info.

[coconut]

You still have to enter the license key for the steam plane

[CanadaOne]

Okay, I think I can probably muddle through that. Thanks again for the info.

 

While I've got you here, any thoughts on the NTTR map?

[coconut]

Disclaimer: I don't fly much in DCS. For what it's worth, I don't like the Nevada map much. Training operations don't tickle my fantasy much. Desert isn't all that exciting either.

[ZachariasX]

Okay, I think I can probably muddle through that. Thanks again for the info.

While I've got you here, any thoughts on the NTTR map?

I don't fly that often in DCS, but when I do, it is always NTTR. I like the map. and having an "artificial" playpen, it makes it more convincing with the odd plane mix we have. Sorta "Fantasy of Flight" with bombs...

[CanadaOne]

I hear ya. I'm very much a sandbox flyer. I spend as much time just flying around for no reason at all as I do going to Point A to blow something up.

 

The NTTR map, expensive by my standards, is on sale/bundled with the F-5, that makes it a bit more interesting. And it does have some good sized airfields...

[BeastyBaiter]

NTTR is generally a good looking map, it also uses a more efficient graphics engine than the Caucuses does. At 1440p, I can run absolute max detail without any issues on an R5 1600x and GTX 1080 TI. And it's the 1080 TI that bottlenecks at about 70 fps with lots of CPU left over for AI units. In the Caucuses, I get as low as 40 fps in parts of the map with a completely empty mission on medium detail. Reason: 100% cpu usage on a single core, 20% gpu usage. And this isn't over a major city, it's looking at a whole lot of nothing that tends to do it.

 

In regards to the what the NTTR map brings, it is generic desert map #1 as far as I'm concerned. Sure it can be Nevada, but it could just as easily be Syria, Iraq, western Iran or Libya with even a hint of imagination. It doesn't have any worthwhile campaigns for it, but the mission editor in DCS is mostly idiot proof, so making your own stuff is trivial. The terrain also lends itself to interesting mission design.

 

Edit: You ninja'd me. The F-5E is my favorite fixed wing aircraft in DCS and given its long combat history in assorted desert areas, it's a good fit. I can wholeheartedly recommend that combo.

Edited August 27, 2017 by BeastyBaiter

[ZachariasX]

I'm rather fond of the F-5E as well. It's a great plane. Well made module.

[CanadaOne]

. . . but the mission editor in DCS is mostly idiot proof, so making your own stuff is trivial.

And being an idiot, I appreciate that triviality and the fun inherent to it. (Unlike the joyless Rube Goldberg device in BOX.)

 

Great post. Thank you.

[Guest deleted@30725]

Are there plans to fix the AI in DCS or a timeline? - Last time I played they could survive stupid amounts of damage and still land perfectly with bits of wing missing or broken propellers.

[nirvi]

Are there plans to fix the AI in DCS or a timeline? - Last time I played they could survive stupid amounts of damage and still land perfectly with bits of wing missing or broken propellers.

It's in progress, but no timeline.

New damage model: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3157299&postcount=90

Improved AI with blackout modelling and new AI dogfight system https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3212333#post3212333

(Post #1 and #4)

[JG5_Zesphr]

 

  

 

 

The next harrier in the works for DCS may be a sea variant 

[DD_Arthur]

Wow!  Where did that come from Zesphr?

[JG5_Zesphr]

Wow!  Where did that come from Zesphr?

https://www.facebook.com/pg/RazbamSims/posts/ 

[DD_Arthur]

And now they're showing a pic of a Mig 19 too!   Thanks Zesphr

[JG5_Zesphr]

np