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Good Questions, I'll have have a look at tis - not sure exactly how but will investigate Thanks

The update today did this to me. Not impressed nor pleased by ED doing such to my pc without my permission. Wrong on so many levels.

When zooming out the external camera, a part of the inside textures dissappears on the starboard wing, see screenshot. When zooming back in it reappears. Happening now since the last update! Track file included: https://mega.nz/file/zNAXBJqD#_a423Qrdxx16-Nkf9fiMLaNYB5csHqbU_MIlM4-Hb2A Other than that, I love the update, the FM refinements feel great and the new cockpit textures are looking really realistic!

A quick question: the CPU has 10 cores, is it right? Another question, what was the memory usage while running DCS since there is 32G memory? Have tried to increase the size of the paging size?

You have absolutely no evidence to sustain that. It can absolutely be a bug.

If you have something other than "logic" to describe how the Sniper should be operating than feel free to share. Otherwise, it's working as expected.

How can I know what those "server", "mission", "scripting", "gui", "export", "config", "zone" mean and what they can do? I hope the answer won't be "guessing", "trying" and "testing". Is there a doc to explain this api?

As I already told you: being a newer pod with better optics, it would be expected that the Sniper would have greater zoom. There would be no reason to reduce the digital zoom capabilities to a point where it has less overall zoom than previous generations of pods. If older generations of pods could get that level of digital zoom, newer generations will obviously use at least that much digital zoom, if not more, coupled with the better optics.

Many thanks for the advice!

Finally got my first chance to try her out, and I answered my own question. ADI is now working and generating full MAP. Handling is MUCH improved, and she no longer bounces all over (I may even turn down my curves/saturation a bit) so gunnery is cleaner. Oh, and THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for having Quick Action start with guns hot and sight on. I WOULD like an option to set convergence from the Quick Action loadout, unless I'm missing it somewhere.

XR mode is not just digital zoom. It is also an image processing technique as evidenced by the unique way it interacts with slewing of the pod and time it takes for the clearer picture to come in. Again, the level of digital zoom available is completely up to whoever programs the software in the pod or aircraft. It has nothing to do with the capabilities of the pods themselves. IRL, the 4x-9x range in the LITENING would be mostly useless as the pixelation would be terrible. Even the 4x in the Sniper also seems pretty useless from the one screenshot I have seen of it.

Again, that doesn't mean the Litening would have greater zoom. The Sniper can have digital zoom too (in fact, the XR mode is a digital zoom). Both have optical and digital zoom, and the Sniper is a newer pod with more powerful optics, so the most logical thing would be for it to have greater zoom overall (for instance, same level of digital amplification over a greater optical zoom, would yield a greater final zoom).

If we get the air-to-air only EF next year (and it's as polished as the F-14 was on release) I'll be happy, I figured it was further away than that. @baltic_dragon I noticed your roadmap says 'Eurofighter Tranche 1' - has HB said anything more about which tranche we get, or is this just a 'worst case'?

It's just software zoom. The Sniper is more powerful as far as Analog optics, and it's XR mode. The digital zoom is just a number that's programmed into the pod and/or aircraft software with some max ceiling. If you really want to compare them properly, it would be with the LITENING at the same 1x level in its narrow mode.

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Ivandrov: I can imagine that's the case, but that doesn't explain why the Sniper would have less zoom than the Litening, it should still be the other way around.

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More options for AI tasking would be nice. Along with different shapes, being able to edit the 50% disengage radius is needed. The logic behind having is sound but for large zones it quickly becomes too big and for small zones it becomes too small. The existing other engage tasks also need some tweaking.

The LITENING has always not suffered from any image degradation from the digital zoom in-game. In reality, the 9x digital zoom would allow you to count the pixels almost on your hands. It's incredibly bad. I believe ED still plans to downgrade the LITENING on the -16 to the LANTIRN and this visual fidelity will disappear.

Its very hard to find. The idiotic thing is it only shows up when its hovering over the clickable part of the UI, which is very small when the Grease Pencil window is closed. Its bad enough with the Radio menu but this is worse.

Shut down George from the rear seat using the the new controls an i started shutting down the rear i killed the power ie shut off engines before he could finish an he got stuck in an aircraft armed voice loop

[this was merged here from another thread] Litening pod in max zoom (TV, MAN RNG knob all the way and expand active): Sniper pod in max zoom (TV, MAN RNG knob all the way, and TVXR active): The ATP is known for having way more definition than previous generations of pods, so this doesn't make much sense. Am I missing something? One thing I noticed is that in TVXR, the MAN RNG knob doesn't change the zoom, it's always at 1.0X. Maybe that's the reason and it should be able to go to 4.0X like in the other modes? The same happens in IR, with an even greater difference in favor of the Litening. Thanks in advance for the help!

Yep, that's a 2 lines change which totally ruins our newly introduced enhanced security. I have finally decided to shut down my server since the dispute between 15E. Many things have totally dampened my enthusiasm at DCS, and my trust to ED.

Some people are, as seen above. Anyway, I took it for a spin. Was able to identify vehicle types well before getting into Maverick range using the TV Narrow XR mode. So, as far as in-game utility goes, seems fine to me. Will be taking it instead of the LITENING if I'm flying the -16 from now on.

I don't like the fm change, feels like there is an auto-rudder on now which I wish I could remove. I get that this is probably very personal and hardware dependent, I have a LOT of experience in DCS warbirds and MFG crosswind pedals, but I wish I could get the old model back even as a selectable option, it was the only warbird that felt right to me.