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Situation is like this: Yes, and the game has now changed the model of the pyramids, I will explain why. Some beta testers started to experience fps drops to 0 when flying through the pyramids. But this does not happen in our tests. We are solving this issue, as soon as we deal with this bug, we will return the models to their place, thanks for your patience

Not only is it a fantastic map, but you are earning a loyal - and hopefully patient - customer base with your community interaction. Hopefully other devs are taking notes.

Yes, I absolutely agree. Initially, we did not plan to make Haifa and northern Israel in high detail. And they did not plan to make the Ramat David airport. But we read the reviews and there is already a plan on how to improve Israel and what needs to be added there. Thanks for the feedback!

Dear Mirage F1 virtual pilots, After this last DCS Open Beta update we want to provide you some feedback, to give you a better idea of what our changelog is about. This update has been centered in bug fixing and overhauling some systems and behaviours. The multiple issues with the AP have been corrected and the turbulence behaviour and the response of the yaw damper has been further adjusted. The first stage of the INS overhaul has taken place, with a focus on fixing and completing the alignment logic. More work in better modeling of the drift behaviour is already underway. Another area where we are moving forward with this update is the implementation of cage/uncage functions for the Sidewinder missiles, as well as other updates in the short range IR missiles logic. Of course, work in improving other aspects, such as the oxygen or the gyroscope systems has continued. Finally, we are glad to announce that, major effort is being put in the development of the upcoming F1BE two-seater version.

Login issues and downloads are working correctly now. again thank you for your patience.

ZBD-04A AT 1.0.0 released! Changelog Version 1.0.0 Release version

Nobody read the patch notes then? "SA342 Known issues and work in progress Auto-hover (CVS and ALV modes) are work in progress and may not function reliably yet"

So what makes a good map great? It's the small things. Sinai by itself is a very good map. But there are the small things that show that the people who designed the map go the extra mile to make it better. Things that aren't revolutionary by itself, and that other people simply did not bother to do. One such thing is the "H"-Mark. It simply sits on the map and silently, unassumingly tells everyone that there is a helicopter port here. That's the difference between good and great. Thinking about your users, and making simple, mundane things even simpler. If I now go back to other good maps (e.g. Syria), the difference is obvious, and I'm suddenly annoyed that I don't have that simple, static information as readily available as in Sinai. Sure, I could add all those marks myself. OnReTech went that mile for me, and I'm really glad they did. Fantastic work, @OnReTech, thank you. When you wake up after not sleeping for the past few weeks, and are done counting the (hopefully mountains of) cash from your release - please accept this "THANK YOU" from a satisfied customer for delivering a GREAT map.

As a backbone engineer, building networks that span continents, working with AWS and Azure Data Centers, ATT, Level 3 and other Tier 1 through 3 providers, even they fail and have issues and outages. If you subscribe to Cisco on Twitter's BGP feeds, there are daily outages globally on major BGP backbone hosts and routing tables. Every single day. How do you know DCS isn't multi-hosted with content servers spread out? That is not the magic pill that fixes all service delivery interruptions that you think it might be. Been with DCS for over a decade, so my response to you is mainly out of curiosity as you level a lot at them, while ignoring companies and game developers many times larger that have the exact same issues. All I can tell you is, ED always gets it fixed, and the product is best in class, nothing comes close. I offer that you give it a bit, and ED will get things straightened out. Fairly certain you will be pleased with the results.

It's not a a graphics settings issue or a HDD/SSD issue...it's obviously a different model. I’ve no idea why, nor am I going to judge, but it's pretty obvious. Perhaps the LODs weren't included in the release by accident? Who knows.

The first thing I did when testing the sim, was to check out the pyramids. Very disappointing. I hate it when the do trailers and depict it as in-game footage and it looks nothing like the game.

Hello, yes, I'm still working on the summer palette. Had to put the project on hold for a while, waiting for Ugra to fix their spring splatmaps. The newest patch seems to have fixed the issue. I've just released another WIP version for internal tests, so I hope it won't take much time before I make it public.

Hello, as some of you may know, over the past two years I've been working on making Egyptian Liveries for DCS, so far a good majority of this has been completed, but a few aircraft remain missing. I figured with the release of the Sinai map this would be a good time to catalog these liveries as they finally have a place where they can be flown. Egyptian F-16: 9934: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321815/ 9507: WIP Egyptian MiG-21: Red Ident. markers post 1980 (1): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322497/ Red Ident. Markets post 1980 (2): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322497/ PFS Nile Valley Camo scheme: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331333/ Early Nile Valley camo: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3332551/ Egyptian Air Force Mirage 2000: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321638/ Egyptian Air Force Mirage V (on Mirage 2000): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321638/ Egyptian MiG-15: Pre-1958: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318498/ Post-1958: WIP Egyptian J-6 (on MiG-19): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318497/ Egyptian F-5 (3503): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318348/ Egyptian Ka-52 (on Ka-50): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331040/ Egyptian Spitfire: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331343/ Egyptian Gazelle: Tan Camo: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331358/ Red Ident. Markers: WIP Egyptian Mi-8: Tan standard camo: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331394/ Nile Valley 1482: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331394/ FICTIONAL LIVERIES AV-8b: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3319512/ F-14A & B: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318476/ F-15: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318305/ AI Assets: IL-76 & IL-78: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331359/ TO DO : Egyptian Mi-24 Egyptian MiG-29 AI Assets TO DO: C-130 E-2 THIS LIST IS BEING UPDATED FREQUENTLY Feel free to check in every once in a while, especially if there is a livery that you are waiting for

I know the technical part very well, in theory it is possible with some refinement of the TDC. I have never raised this issue with either Ugra or ED. There are a lot of similar comments, so I think that we will return to this issue. Thank you There is still a lot of work in Jerusalem, I agree that this is not even Jerusalem. But plans change and we decided to finalize it in the future. Thank you

Frankly, they look like completely different models!

If it's not going to look the same, the trailer should have a footnote saying 'rendered with non-EA models' or something. If it said that, cool. BTW I think the map looks great. Just bits do seem to jar against the trailer.....

Hi! First of all thanks for your feedback and SNR figures. I should clarify things a bit because phrase about azimuth/bar settings caused a misleading. This does not mean we are going to use cumulative detection probability in our radar model. This only means that we have plans to introdice realstic detection probabilitiy calculations based on SNR. Indeed, in general case azimuth/bar setting may affect detection range only because of more frequent sweeps. BTW Today will be published a new paper about our approach to APG-65/73 detection range estimation. It will be interesting to hear your thoughts on that. Perhaps this paper is a bit sketchy, but we still gathering information and refining our estimation.

Arrogant? Narrow minded?! Dude. Seriously? For the 927562836th time: complex missions such as my campaigns CANNOT be turned into MP/ COOP easily/at all. Tried it, failed. MP missions have to be built as such from the start. Therefore, I COULD spend a year building a MP campaign from scratch, but I, a free man, DON'T WANT TO make MP missions. Like I don't want to design helicopter modules or maps either. It's not my area of expertise. I'm a friggin SP content creator. I make whatever I want to, and you - as another free man - decide whether it's something you like or not. Nobody is 'insisting' on anything. If it's such a huge business opportunity why don't you make one? It's like complaining that Luigi's Pizzas doesn't sell Hamburgers, even though it would be a golden business opportunity. It's a Pizzeria for crying out loud...

Lots of people support the Sinai map. Not his fault RAZBAM can’t get their act together. Picking up the map straight away, kind dumb to punish a different company for the in action of another. SMH at some of your reasoning.

These are what's changed in today's patch. Update Core 6-8-23 (448MB) Optimized FA-18C (133MB)

The Israeli community have been given permission by the IAF to use declassified pages from the Approach and Departure Notes volume of the IAF bases. These are mostly the approach and departure charts. The airbase schematic charts remain classified so they are not allowed to be shared and therefore not included in this link, with an exception given by the IAF to share airport schematic charts of Ovda and Sde-Dov which have or used to have both military and civilian traffic so these two are allowed to be shared and included in the link. The following have been uploaded: Ovda, Sde-Dov. I have also included the ISRAEL AIP which is a very good civilian resource for all the enroute charts, navaids, details of major landmarks, and it has very detailed civilian schematics of Haifa, Eilat (the new one) and Ben Gurion airport. This doc is very good for checking all the small details of the civilian airports, especialy Ben-Gurion airport. I have uploaded to the following link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l5l29BGmDb-hgvnv74WJsf_YZ7vN6ImP?usp=sharing Additionaly, the full Domestic AIP of Israel with more details and maps is available but it is mostly in Hebrew: https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/guide/aip/he/aip_Full Pamat 1-23.pdf Cheers!

Against a non-maneuvering contact, LOST is displayed despite missile still intercepting at Mach 2.25 Hopefully this can be fixed during radar rework. In its current state it does nothing useful except block important TTA/TTG information with inaccurate LOST cue. Additionally, think of all of the new & learning players to DCS who are incorrectly informed their missiles are considered lost, it is very confusing for them (I have had countless questions of people asking me why their missile says LOST but still hits) What LOST cue means: LOST cue should be displayed if a Sparrow or AMRAAM is launched outside of R-max, or the target maneuvers out of R-max after launch. LOST-DLZ.trk

More F-4 radar! A video this time. https://twitter.com/HBSimulations/status/1667208929527382018?s=20

cheers and thanks for the patience with this issue. the team continue to monitor.

First off, I really like the mathematical approach ED is taking. So kudos to you and the team. 2. My APG-63 analysis has the figures you were missing (Pavg, (S/N)req, and L). Pavg is calculated from Ppeak (found in the CP-140 document) * duty cycle (Intro to airborne radar 1st edition mentions that the APG-63 in HPRF uses 1 range bin (ie 50% duty cycle; which I made 45% to account for receiver recovery time). SNR was difficult, but I calculated everything you would need here. SNR is key to understanding Probability of detection. Scroll to the bottom of that excel I made, you will see a chart I made that shows SNR per mode for any given pulse doppler Air radar. In my APG-63 analysis, you can see my losses chart. Using generic information from various radar sources I estimated about 10.5dB of losses in the APG-63 for HPRF. (ex radome losses are typically 0.5 dB per path, ie 1dB of loss to the radome in total) 3. Without seeing your full equation, the SNR and losses you chose, I cannot fully compare our two papers. 4. I suspect you may be using the full time on target (tot) in your equation. Keep in mind that in HPRF RWS/TWS, 3 stage FMR is used to range doppler targets. Thus the integration time for the equation is actually ToT/3. In MPRF, 7-9 PRFs may be used (radar dependent), in which case integration time would actually be ToT/8. I look forward to continued discussion on this. EDIT: I am willing to share my google sheets that I've built up over a year or so. However, I'd like to share it in a way so that each individual gets a copy without effecting someone else's copy (ie I don't want a single shared copy/link). If anyone knows google sheets, please PM me the correct way to do this. Converting to excel disrupts my graphs.. I already tried that.

When you've created your first campaign you can talk about the business sense of it. I know...like those short-sighted Porsche engineers only making Porsches and not Ferraris too. Again, when you make your first SP campaign you can come on here and talk about "options" How dare someone who's spending hundreds of hours building something that due to the framework of the sim can only be utilized in a given fashion deem that it will only be used in that given fashion. Unintentionally ironic post of the year. Yes he does...you should have stopped your typing there. I'm sure the feeling is mutual. I'm sure he'll be up at night worrying.

Hi In this topic, we will separately talk about lighting. We carefully approached the fact that flights at night would be interesting and tried to create a balance between the complete darkness that was during the war and peacetime, when Paris and London at night were the most beautiful cities in the world. Light is important, it creates atmosphere. When creating airfields, various types of airfield lighting systems were used. Germany and the Allies used different systems. If on the original objects the light emphasizes the beauty and visibility of the building, then in the ports it shows what hard and continuous work goes on when loading goods and equipment. Lighthouses and railway stations are brightly lit and you can navigate them. 1944 - war, so blackout rules were applied on the territory. To accommodate various scenarios, we have made it so that the night lighting is turned on by setting the date in the mission: June 1945 and later. Keep this in mind when creating missions and when creating a free flight. ---- before June 1945 - lights OFF after June 1945 - lights ON ---- We use "dynamic light" that illuminates objects in real time, it gives a little more realism and is just beautiful. The main types of light sources are omni and spotlights with physically correct attenuation. To reduce the load on the GPU, working distances were assigned to each type of light source: -City lights 3-6km -Searchlights on towers 8km -Lighthouse 42km -Lights on the runway 15km -Airfield lights 30km So, if you want to implement a scenario of approaching territories that have not yet introduced a blackout mode or just want to fly over a cozy night city - choose the date "June 1945 and later" and Normandy will light up with lights. We read all your messages and appreciate your comments and ratings. Beauvais-Tille airfield. France Orly airfield. France West Malling Airfield. UK Kenley airfield. UK Port of Dover Port of Le Havre Victoria Station London Paris Gare du Nord City lights in France City lights in UK

While I think the map looks great and runs extremely well, I am curious about this too. On mine I get : which looks pretty good to my eyes, but nothing like the trailer. I would rather see trailers show what the game actually looks like in use, not choosing a slo-mo shot at the perfect angle, at the perfect time of day, for a view that we will never see in the game. Even given those conditions, I don't see how this shot in the trailer could have been done. Edit: While my shot is further away, the closer I get the worse it looks.

Surely thats not the point, if you see something in a release video, you kind of expect it to be in the initial release. As a previous visitor to the pyramids, it was one of the reasons I bought the map - the pyramids in the trailer look very impressive - I assumed reading the post that it was a scenery level of detail issue, but it doesn't appear to be judging by the distances involved. Little bit disappointing! But not the end of the world, unless the rest is that poor too!!

Hello, We are sorry for the inconvenience, but the module is still in intensive development, and we have had to manipulate command ranges, to keep things consistent internally. In particular, the last massive change was necessary to prepare for the F1 BE. And of course, later on, things will settle down.

this issue was resolved thank you for your patience.

I just flew from West Cairo to Cairo Int in the Ah-64… WOW. I set the date for April 1st at 0600 and amazing. I’ve never been to Cairo but spent plenty of time in ME and seeing the dusty haze in the rising sun (which I think is beautiful) and the Apache shadow across the Pyramids was just stunning. Amazing job @OnReTech with everything and integration into ED’s system. I fly in VR and as I hit the Nile in downtown and banked left I got that familiar feeling in my stomach of flying low and hard in a helo. Absolutely great experience for the digital landscape. Now time to get to do some combat

I think this "server outage" is a blessing in disguise. We should be able to use what we paid for regardless of whether some server is working or not. Now ED can get to fixing this so that we never have this problem again.

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In this last update, the radar track files seem completely broken. After some testing, it looks like the track files are being dropped within 6 seconds, ignoring age setting. (EDIT: age setting is unrelated to this. However, the "new" 6 seconds are still wrong and result in anything with a frame time greater than 6 seconds being unable to generate/keep a track file. This processing is at the very least performed after one full frame). This means that only very small search volumes (az/bar/prf setting) will result in a track file being generated and maintained in this DCS update... and severely affect Hornet air-to-air performance in SP and MP. Track attached. rdr.trk

We continue to monitor fluctuation with the server, so thank you for the reports

Hi @jaguara5, No, no changes made in the FM apart from the yaw damper and the turbulence behaviour. I've quickly tested the turn rates and they coincide with the data we have and the behaviour shown in the last adjustment early this year. If you feel the behaviour different, it might come down to the changes to the yaw damper (obviously depending on the maneuvers you were testing).

I simply don't think it's the same model.....

Which part of „Every individual 3rd party developer is FREE to participate in the miles-program OR NOT to“ you don’t understand? Grow up.

I'm here, yesterday was a hard day! I read the reviews, thanks everyone! Today I will start answering the forum and questions. The weekend is coming up so there will be plenty of time!

I didnt notice any bug yet, but probably its a good idea to create corner for bugs and problems. Thank You.

Dear everyone, please accept our apologies, we made a mistake in uploading the build as we run several branches simultaneously, and as a result unfortunately the RB-05 fixes are not included in this patch. They are however done and working and will be in the next patch or hotfix. Thank you for your very kind patience and for bringing the issue to our attention. Our sincere apologies again, we hope you enjoy this patch nonetheless.

We are aware and will look to make the offline more robust in the future. The situation occurred due to the update and version change. The current offline mode works to give you auth on the version number it is using. In the recent update and server login issues it was not possible to grant auth as the version number had changed and you could not login. we have passed the feedback to the team thank you

I had a flight over Cairo in both the AH-64D and the F-16 yesterday (Offline mode since servers where down). I´m really surprised to see such great performance with the high detail and density of objects. Compared to the newly released Normandy 2.0 map, performance is better, view distance much higher and, objects density seems also higher (especially over Cairo) and lot's of details. On the Normandy 2.0 Map objects seems to pop in from a much closer distance and textures only get's detailed at much closer distance too. On the Sinai map, even flying at high altitudes, objects and details down on the ground is very high. Is the Sinai map made with a different technic than Normandy 2.0 ?

Ohh, on the TTI Sinai Server, the Handy Wind is handily parked exactly like this too!

I applied this hotfix, released just a couple of hours ago: and now DCS works for me, including Sinai

Can't access the Sinai Map. The server can't handle the load. They need to install more load balancers to handle the usage of more people. Running Sea Trials on the USS Mercy.

Login issues have been fixed. Please accept our apologies for the delay and enjoy the Sinai terrain. edit: Server load is very heavy at this time and while login issues have been fixed the server is having issues.