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Chuck's Guide to the AH-64D is finally available! *** Link: https://chucksguides.com/aircraft/dcs/ah-64d/ *** I am a few months behind schedule and I apologize to all of you for that. This project was a huge undertaking, and I still have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I started working on it back in March of this year... 9 months ago. As they say in the business, I was stuck in scope creep hell for a while. The Apache is one of the most complex modules in DCS, but I do not think it is prohibitively difficult to learn. The page count (770) might seem daunting at first, but keep in mind that the operation of the AH-64 is overall not that complicated once you understand the basics. It's a machine of war with modern capabilities that can do many, many things in all sorts of environments. As some of you may know, the Mudspike website is shutting down. With the help of a kind and generous soul, I have found a new home at https://chucksguides.com/, which is where you will find the latest versions of my guides. The next few weeks will be a kind of "test run" to work out the kinks and see what works (or not) with the website. Expect some changes/improvements down the line, but I believe what we have now is functional enough to be useful to the community. Happy reading and Merry Christmas to all of you! Chuck

"I LOVE THIS JOB" will be release on January the 1st, 2023!!

Version 2.5.8 – beta release Added - DCS: Support for KA50 III (BlackShark 3) - Feedback is welcome Changed Fixed - DCS: FC3 support fixed

RE: 2023 and beyond video, from the creator... could it be?

Not the point. Nobody has a problem if the F4 is not released this year. Nobody questioning the hard work of HB. But from my point of view it’s bad communication not to tell us that’s it not gonna happen 8 days before 2023. If they told us end of November, “sorry guys we probably not gonna make it in 2022, but Q1 2023 should be possible”, completely fine.

Casmo AH-64D Rapid fire

I think it came with the halloween update. The deck is now walking and taking all the time in the world. Can we make them run again (not necessarily all the time, but not 0% of the time either)

USS America (CV 66); Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Pruitt. Dear all, we would like to thank you all for a great 2022, for your neverending support and feedback, for great moments shared, for all the lows and highs a year can bring, for your joy with our modules, for your thoughtfulness, for your investment into helping us improve, and above all for your caring about us and our products. We hope 2022 has been kind to you and your loved ones, we hope it brought you happiness and success and that you stayed healthy throughout. We wish you as much for 2023, that you may prosper and have a year filled with lightness, laughter and love. As a small thank you, we thought it was time to do a small competition again, and what better occasion can there be than Holiday Season? The USS Forrestal's crew needs your help! They are not at home for Christmas this year, and would kindly like you to help them get a more festive feeling! Submit a Screenshot preferably including the USS Forrestal with a "winter-like" or "Christmas-like" theme. Be creative, use your imagination, use mods if you like. Can you get the deck to look ready for Christmas and New Year? Or will you solve the problem and lift the crew's spirits with a festive fly-by? Or will you fotograph a reindeer cow under a Christmas pine tree, with the Forrestal seen in the far distance, from the slope of a snowy mountain? The Forrestal's crew appreciates all your ideas to help them find that loving feeling, whether you decorate the deck for them or capture an image that sets the mood in the ready room - it is up to you. Winner gets: 1. Place: A lifetime supply of free Heatblur DCS modules, past, present and future. You get two copies of each module we release as long as you (and us and DCS) live, including existing and future modules, by Heatblur Simulations for DCS. 2. Place: Two copies of the upcoming DCS: F-4 Phantom by Heatblur Simulations (or two existing modules by Heatblur Simulations of your choice). 3. Place: One copy of your choice between the DCS: Viggen, DCS: Tomcat and DCS: Phantom by Heatblur Simulations. Everybody else: a place in our hearts and a warm thank you from the Forrestal's crew. Winners will be announced after January 6th, 2023. EDIT: Winners will be announced after January 11th, 2023 (due to the extended deadline). ---------------------------------- Rules: 1. Submit 1 screenshot per person. Multiple accounts are not allowed. Allowed are also self-made drawings or paintings "à la mode DCS". You can use photoshop for screenshots in a creative way, but please stay as close to DCS as possible - for example we prefer to see you capture lighting and effects in game rather than adding them afterwards, etc. - unless it is a "creative expansion" (like painting in a christmas tree, etc). No need to overthink it, feel free and be creative. 2. Competition dead line for submissions: January 3rd 2023, 0100Zulu. EDIT: DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL JAN 8th, 2400Zulu. You can edit your submissions until that time. Posts submitted or edited past that time, will not be eligible for participation. Feel free to add a few words to your submission, from thoughts to quotes to poetic lines... Whatever you want to share with us and your fellow community. Whatever you think will help get the Forrestal's crew in the mood. This is completely optional. ----------------------------------- We're looking very much forward to your entries! GOOD LUCK! We wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2023! The Heatblur Team Disclaimer: We reserve ourselves the right to exclude from the competition without explanation, verdicts are final and cannot be challenged. Winners will be chosen only from screenshots submitted to this thread by members of the Heatblur Team. Prizes will be distributed in the form of (a) digital key(s), when or once available. Keys need to be bound to an existing DCS account via this coupon link - click here . Winners can gift their keys to a third party. Modules won in this competition are not steam compatible and need the DCS standalone version to be used (and cannot be transfered) - you can register here. No cash disbursement and/or any replacement of the prizes is possible. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Well new in this case could be referring to an unannounced module. Possibly similar to how the F-4 gun sight was teased in the last one.

И что ж такого глобального было накручено в этих профилях?

It's all we can do, really. With them stating it's super close to finished, I'm sure it's close. Whether that close is relative to a human life time or some form of cosmic ageless being? That is the real question.

Its right around the corner guys, do not stress it.

Vielleicht kommt ED ja mal auf die gloriöse Idee, dass man einfach mit einem Tastendruck ingame zwischen VR und 2D hin und her switchen kann. Ist bei den Mitbewerbern längst Standard.

Remember they didn't specify in which Universe. The Phantom could very well have been released in a couple of thousand different timelines already. It's just our crappy one that gets snubbed....

Полный гайд по режиму TWS Хорнета, со всеми тонкостями и особенностями: Гайд по применению ложных целей ADM-141 TALD:

I wonder how development is going. Perhaps there will be an update in the new year.

In order to entertain you while you are expecting the new DCS: La-7 module, we have prepared for you a series of short notes about the module development, about the aircraft and its elements, about personalities associated with the aircraft. Let's start with a little comparison. Against the I-16, a representative of the fighter aviation of the beginning of World War II, the La-7 aircraft is significantly more advanced not only as a combat vehicle, but also as an aircraft to pilot. The first thing to note is the chassis of course. Those painful multi-stage manual procedures to raise and lower the landing gear are left behind. From now on, the landing gear is just controlled by setting the hydraulic handle to the appropriate position, which allows the pilot to focus on the task. In addition, the aircraft has pitch and yaw trimmers that reduces pilot fatigue during flying, increasing the feeling of comfort. The motor start-up procedure no longer requires external electrical power or manual spinning of the starter. The autonomy of the procedure is ensured by the onboard compressed air system. The closed cockpit is also an important element in terms of flight comfort. The only thing that differed the aircraft for the pilot in a negative direction was the presence of suffocating heat in this cockpit from a powerful engine, which the conditioning system could not cope. Fortunately, this aspect will not physically affect our virtual pilots. Of course, these minimal conveniences were the undisputed norm of that time, but truly comfortable times are coming for connoisseurs of red piston aviation!

"I LOVE THIS JOB" is an free mission pack for DCS. An innovative civil operation module for the UH-1 "Huey" helicopter in Syria. Module will be release on January the 1st, 2023. I hope you like it!

Right now for large missions I have to write down every groups radio frequency and then add it to the presets manually. Would be nice if there was a drop down next to each preset where I could select the group and it would auto fill the correct frequency. Just a QOL improvement

Hi. This mod is adapted from KA-50_2 to display the HUD, PUI-800 Weapon Display and Shkval screens in English. This is the list of translations: HUD: Auto-Tracking: ТА to AT Memory Mode: П to M Laser Range-Finder Active: ИД to LA Beam-Riding Laser Channel Active: ИУ to LC Pause: ПАУЗА to PAUSE R-ALT Symbol: Р to R INU Normal Warm-up: ИКВ НВ to INU/NW Processing Target Point: ОТ to PT Updating Coordinates: КОРР to COOR Launch Authorized (Shoot): С to S Training Mode: ТРЕНАЖ to TRAINING Ground Collision: H to G Weapon Types: IGLA, RKT and AT (Anti-Tank) SHKVAL: TG Symbol (Ground stabilized): ТГ to ST TA Symbol (Auto-Tracking): ТA to AT P Symbol (Memory mode): П to M C Symbol (Launch Authorized): С to S Ground Collision: H to G PUI-800 Rockets: НР to RK Anti-tank Missiles: ПС to AT Bombs: 6Б to BB Gun Pod: ПП to CP Missiles: supposed to be "AA" but there's a little bug there. You'll see "AM" or something like that. SOME IMAGES: And a sample video from Black Shark 2 (Duration 4:49) NOTE: This mod will not pass the Integrity Check! DOWNLOAD: DCS: BS3 (KA-50_3) English HUD, Shkval & PUI-800 Mod v1.0 | Released: 12/2022

As part of the F-5E improvements coming this year, I would humbly like to request the following: Optional Air Refueling Probe, as this was a purchasable option for the F-5E, and would allow for more variety with mission planning Raw scan or measurements of interior cockpit dimensions, for those of us (like me!) who wish to build an F-5E sim pit Thank you for your consideration!

DCS Newsletter discussion 23rd December 2022 - Winter savings | Warbird Cooling | Merry Christmas

So a clean mission doesnt seem to have an issue. I have asked Reflected to send me that mission resaved and will test again. Cleaning the plugs is as simple as increasing the power for a short period of time. (when I was a kid my Dad had a 69 Impala, he used to stomp on the gas occasionally, when my mom gave him a nasty look he said he was just cleaning the plugs ) I also asked Nick "20C Oil is the critical one, coolant can be on or around 60, doesn't really matter. Oil is life... 40 for run up and takeoff" Anyways I think there is something else at play right now so I will let you know. Thanks all.

Undecided. I have a bunch of updates to do before either of those (F-16, Mosquito, Hind, etc.).

I am able to cope with playing another particular aircraft game for the F-4 while I wait for a better representation to come out, but I would definitely like to play a more realistic game with the F-4. I'm quite excited to see what all the community makes revolving around the F-4 (livery, mods, missions).

My pleasure!

All WWII planes.

"sold with content being 90% pure invention." "It's the same level of what if than attaching Rafale wings on a Mirage 3 expecting it to work properly" "This is an upgrade which is sold as something realistic while nothing about it ever existed" These statements are simply not true sir. I know you know the arguments so I won't belabor them here but these statements go too far. 90% pure invention?? Swapping wings? Nothin about it ever existed??? WUT? There isn't a SINGLE module in this game that is "perfectly" real sir. You may as well stop acting like there are... and just enjoy what we have. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face friend ;). There is clearly enough evidence to indicate that this was the direction the aircraft was going had development continued.

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Ive run win 11 since the day they let you download it. Never had any issues with dcs, stemming from win 11 itself.

Things change, delays happen, and the globalized nature of this biz can be interrupted by things like, oh I don't know, war. It's time to stop trying to unravel the mystery, time to stop explaining how HB can still totally release in '22, or find some nefarious plot that doesn't exist, and accept reality: They tried their damnedest. That's all they can really promise. Oh no, our toy is a few weeks or months late, whatever shall we do? Wait. That's all we can do.

„Q: When will the DCS: F-4 Phantom by Heatblur Simulations release? A: DCS: F-4E has been in development for some time and will be released later in 2022. Stay tuned for our full unveiling closer to launch day!“

The launch tubes stay tilted downwards (even) after pressing the targeting reset button. I.e., they don't retract upwards.

My Pico arrived. I do not know how image looks like in G1/G2/8kx, but I can compare with Pimax Artisan. It is day and night. DCS + Virtual Desktop + 150MB. On Ultra(even not god mod) text on MFDs in F16 are easily readable. I do not see any compression artifacts. Definitely need to print new facial interface with slim profile. Original facial interface is weird. FOV with original interface is just not on par. But! I've checked how FOV looks like when to remove face mask and put lenses closer to the eyes. WOW! I was impressed. FOV becomes closer to something in between Atisan's small and medium settings. And picture is clear at 90% of all the FOV as for me. I was very impressed. I think with custom facial interface it would be unbeatable option for the money.

A fix is in the making.

I hear this since 4 years, 3 graphic cards and 3 CPU's............ Guess what it never got its promised performance patch. I do not believe in this promises anymore, I only believe when and what I see it in the Sim - and at the moment I see an up to 4ms CPU frametime increase, which means a big performance loss

Release in December 2022 - confirmed

Rudel; no offense but... I've been around here longer than you might think, I'm hardly "new" around here. I just don't spam every thread I can find, despite not having a clue what the topic is. And clearly... you don't have a clue what the topic is or how this works; as you've clarified in your final sentence about how much would need a rework. But the reality is, your "stuck in the past" prior to dediserver support is bogus and has no context here.... Just because that's how it had to be done back then doesn't mean that's how it should be going forward, that's stupid. Meanwhile, it seems rather odd that every other video game company that has mass multiplayer and custom dediserver support seems to be able to handle this stuff just fine ED has had relatively solid updates, and actually makes running a dediserver.... quite easy, practically more easy than any other game I've ever hosted before to be quite frank. That said.... it doesn't mean that they should continue to go down this rabbit hole of not doing things the right way. Which would specifically be: the unoptimized, non-future-proof way. If DCS gets to the point where dediserver owners have to start shutting down their servers, because all of the stupid textures that aren't even being used by a server have to be stored on their drives and it ends up being over 1TB with maps like SA, Kola, Syria, Australia, Sinai.... It's ED's best interest to make the playerbase happy, and optimize things where and how they can always. Otherwise, they're cutting out their own customerbase for... quite literally something that every normal gaming company does.... regardless of whether the customerbase even exists or not....

Attached is a track of the Spitfire engine degrading and failing at around +4 boost, 2200rpm while crossing the Channel at 20,000' with +1 degree surface temperature. This is with DCS 2.8.1.34667.1 Open Beta in Beware Beware Beware sortie #6. I don't know much about historic accuracy of the thermostats in these planes, but if they behaved like it's modeled, the war would have had a different outcome. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plguA4p1LcXSquDVHZbm6z6uGsITS1kd/view?usp=share_link

The issue is reported already and I bumped the report with @MrSmithCZ's data. Devs acknowledged the issue.

Кстати, мне кажется хорошо бы зашел какой нить быстрый редактор. Где просто выбираешь противника, ... ну собственно это и так все знают ... это было и в Ил-2 и в РОФ .. Довольно занимательная штука всегда была. Можно было часами зависать. Моделируя простыми действиями различные ситуации. это было бы куда восстребованней чем генератор миссий, в который никто не летает ( хотя может показаться то это вроде как оно и есть, но - нет). Вот бывает долго на каком то модуле не летаешь и забывашь все . Приходится что то сидеть запиливать. А тут бы как раз, включил быстренько выбрал нужные параметры и вперед, освежать в памяти, так сказать. Да и для тренировок с обучением вполне бы подошло.

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Take another little piece of my VR performance now, baby (whoa, break it) Break another little bit of my VR performance, now darling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (whoa, have a) Have another little piece of my VR performance now, baby, hey You know you got it, ED, if it makes you feel good

Happy Holidays Everyone !!!!!!!

Eurofighter is well underway; and the F-4 is nearing completion. Temporary silence does not imply anything regarding development.