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Server admin is checking site now, hopefully have some news soon. thank you threads merged

Morning all, Ive asked the team about the master server being down and as soon as I know more I will let you all know. thanks

Website is back up and we are monitoring performance. thank you

We had a database crash and recovery is currently in progress, thank you for your patience and reports.

Hi, the master server is currently down and the team are investigating currently. thank you

Very nice work guys. I did a "maximum effort" take off lua. Still needs a little work but everyone is making it off the deck at least, lol 2 on the cats and 32 parking hot

threads merged. team are working to restore the backup database. thank you

this is an open point I have discussed with many players and it applies to other sims. I am not real airplane pilot but I have experience in sports driving so I will use an analogy with track driving and racing sims. in real racing driving you drive a lot more with your seat of the pants than with your hands...and most corrections happen instinctively even before anything happens "visually". on the other hand, when we drive using our small screens all players will react to things "when they see it" and usually, in real life, this will be just too late...when you have enough oversteer to be visually seeing the oversteer, even if a few degrees, you have already lost control and at this point you are just a passenger. I'm talking about track prepared cars not your "out-of-the-dealer fast sedan bmw m3 or porsche 911". ffb steering wheels can mitigate this a lot but then you have the hardcore fanatics who will say that "car X usually should spin without warning because it was a b*tch and that's how it should be represented ingame and you need to learn to drive it and so this game is unrealistic and the devs are very bad and let's open bugz and let's youtube content about it etcetcetc", we know the drill. same applies to flight sims. When we read from pilots that "plane X did not give any stall warning" we will have hardcore fanatics asking for the plane to be modelled accordingly which from a computer game perspective makes things horrible, in my personal opinion. hard time for devs to balance playability and fidelity. at the very bottom, dcs is still a computer game. things get even more tricky when taking into account that a small movement on our plastic stick is equivalent to a large movement from a metal stick rooted at your feet with hydraulics, shaking with the plane, etc.

Too soon to tell. Still working on the Sensors section. I should be in a better position to have an accurate ETA once I'm done with the Weapons section.

Agreed. My attitude was to just get on with something else instead (like getting some exercise). So long as outages are not frequent occurrences (which they are not). And the communication was good while the problem was fixed so customers with paid software licences were aware that the problem was being addressed ASAP. Totally cool with this.

logins and servers are back online, some purchases from yesterday may not show for a day or two, but if you have problems please contact support directly they are ready to assist. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/ thank you

it works if you had saved auth before the server went down, but not if you did not. I have highlighted it to the team again. usually there is 3 day offline with saved auth, this is bugged currently and reported.

All my modules were deactivated - and I played just yesterday OK. I thought the connection/login problem should NOT make the game "vanilla DCS" anymore, but here we are again. Please, make the game playable at least offline and don't deactivate all the modules when my last successful login was mere hours ago. Naturally, there was no update of the game on my end in between. EDIT: I attached my log: 2024-02-12 08:57:11.049 ERROR ASYNCNET (16204): Login failed becase server returned invalid reply. 2024-02-12 08:57:11.432 INFO APP (Main): Loading cached auth data... 2024-02-12 08:57:11.475 WARNING APP (Main): Login failed, offline auth is not available. dcs.log

Heard a day ago that Kiowa has just started testing with ED's external test team... a good sign I'd say!!

OK so here is the Ford Class. Thanks again to FuryNZ1781 for the Texture fix ONE BIG ISSUE. This version of the Ford Class may not be compatible with Currenthill's latest US Navy ship updates. The Ford mod was working with the his Tico and Burke update before he "repacked" all of his asset together. The Ford Mod is still working with the older version and I just had to remove the ships from his US asset pack and use the old ones. I believe this is because I never really got his radar code modified for the Ford Class setup correctly. I will sort this out and I'm only posting this version is because I had a couple requests to post what I had for the Ford "As is". Please post any bug and fixes you may find and come up with here and I will try to update the Mod when can. There are still lots of little issues, like the Sea Sparrow hatch covers operate backward , catapult alignment is funky for some aircraft and can vary by parking space taxied from, etc... But it should make a decent ai asset and it looks like that maybe even the player damage on takeoff issue is fixed. but I most likely have the damage message disabled I will try and address any bone head download/install issue quickly but other update will come slowly until I can find someone that wants to work on the new model. Enjoy Tested mainly with ED F/A-18 lot20,CJS F/A18E, VSN F-35C and Rafale M E-2 and Greyhound can be used if some cases as well

nothing worse than having some incident like this and a bunch of people around "is it done yet? and now? and now?" fix will come. later there will be time for them to internally discuss what happened, why it did happen and how to avoid in the future.

yes there is an issue with offline auth currently, I have reported it. thanks

I wish our saved activation wasn't so short. It seems authentication is required every three days? Mine only gives me 1.5 day's of access since I didn't log in yesterday. Disconcerting when there's so much money invested in something that can disappear into the aether.

Offline mode issues have been reported to the team. We had a database fail, recovery is in progress currently. thank you

Six people have already tried to login and reported they could not. I tried and could not. I suspect the login server crashed. So, don't worry. It's not you.

Spoiler Alert Top Gun III Maverick steals another Iranian F-14 and lands back aboard CVN-81

Aloha les amis. A little "life-sign" from VSN. Here is the slightly updated VSN F-35 Lighning II (Ver. 1.9.1.103) with slightly tuned EFM and some added changes: EFM: - FBW switch (and Input/Command) added, which swiches FlyByWire on and off (you might want to leave it on) - changed pitch behaviour with FBW-ON (very slight pitch down, almost stable att-hold) - changed flight-behaviour in FBW-ON (I guess more like a lot of guys expect it to be) - camera-shaker slightly reduced - higher AoA in FBW-ON mode possible - changed bahaviour of VTOL-Mode for F-35B (added pitch-thrust for more stable flight) MissionEditor/Statics: - F-35 gets displayed with open Bay-Doors to see what yo are loading onto it F-35C and Carrier: - problems remain. Cable gets caught, but does not slow the plane down enough. SuperCarrier no response from DeckCrew: Force "Hook-to-Cat" is possible by rolling onto the cat, lowering the launch bar and pressing the "Hook-To-Cat" command more than once. Cat gets "fired" when reaching AB-RPM. (If somebody finds the cures to those problems, let me know and I'll update the mod.) https://drive.filen.io/d/75b7b60d-b94a-485d-bef0-2b7d2f3cf447#10i7zdbhjeYYFaGRezYlTPINyC2SR3Pt Since there is a comunity-F-35 Lightning II in the making, that will be a lot better than ours (if you can trust the devs), we will (most likely) halt the developement of the F-35 here. There is no use in developing the exact same plane in parallel, since somebody will eventually waste his or her time doing that, and time is to precious to be wasted. Cheers and enjoy the plane, PeeJott.

Thanks, I needed a good laugh

Amazed that this blip caused so much ruckus! Your login is not linked to your cardiac pacemaker it's just entertainment! (Many thanks to the ED team for a speedy fix)

great to hear, enjoy.

Хоть и не моя тема, но не могу не "впрячься" когда кому-то лень погуглить, но не лень шарахнуть пустой пост. Уверен разработчики имеют возможность уточнить этот момент более достоверно, вопрос в том на сколько это сейчас важно.

This phrasing puzzles me a bit as well, but I belive that "you" is not about YOU, it's more like "if auth HAS BEEN saved". I don't think there is something user can do about it.

Это у нас упало. Чиним.

Look at the last video, wake effect over a minute between landings. I've also noticed flying into turbulence when taking off behind other planes that have departed far ahead of me. DCS wake turbulence doesn't dissipate all that quickly. EDIT It also looks like helicopters are affected. I hadn't really ever tested them myself, but I stumbled upon a video:

I should bring this up in the industry I work in. To make sure nobody is re-selling our products we could go the license approach... Sounds like a brilliant business idea for anything from toasters, fridge, heating to cars, toilets etc. "To flush please ensure your loo has Internet connection" of course this is necessary for your own benefit, as it's required to optimize water usage in the flushing process... No, he had to have a very good reason, that could stand a trial. If you did not violate the terms of use, he wouldn't really have a leg to stand on and may even have to compensate your business for damages, caused by his actions...

I understand your question since DCS limitations requires me to be innovative. The DF-21D can be used in two ways. 1) With AWACS support. The DF-21D will launch at will if the target is within AWACS range. 2) With (imaginary) satellite support. The DF-21D will only launch if you give it a fire at group/unit order, but you can use it at its maximum range. This is my emulation of using satellites for targeting.

Just to clarify, you weren’t impressed?

This came up in conversation yesterday. I cancelled a couple of subscriptions on principle. Nothing DCS associated. When we used to pay for something we used to own it. You don’t buy a pair of boots and find when you want to put them on they’re unavailable or maybe being updated so they don’t fit properly anymore. It drives me nuts. - Same error here, no surprises. Sure it’ll be sorted soon but it does make me think about how things are set up.

I really don't understand why modules I have paid (a lot!) for are not available offline. So all my paid for content will just disappear if ED closes it's doors?

How is this related to CH mods? Or is just your spamming guilty pleasure?

You guys need to press and hold it for like 2 seconds. When you let go, it shuts everything off.

Team are recovering now with the backup. thank you

I haven't decided yet, we'll see. Thanks for the suggestions! I will look into cold war assets. It hasn't been a priority, but you never know. Do you mean the windows/glass on a lot of my assets? If so, the reason is because most of my asset don't have an actual interior and I don't want to spend too much time making stuff that doesn't really make any difference. I rather make more assets. Thanks! The DF-21D works fine for me and has been tested with all my other assets. Sounds like a conflict, remove all mods and test them in blocks to find the culprit.

1. Maybe the DCS server has gone into labor and is trying to give birth to a huge unified update ! 2. Ai Takeover - Maybe the DCS Ai and user Mods have locked us out and are playing the sim on their own !

Yup. Getting Hawk flashbacks. The list of modules that are not authorized and won't be available includes...all of them. Does expose the lie of ownership; we own nothing, we're renting it, and the moment EDs servers go down we're left with an Su-25 and a P-52. I'm in the software business and I do get licensing, but I also get the grace period when our licensing servers go down, and they do go down occasionally. The good news is we have plenty of time to fix them before it's customer impacting. Do we get scammed? Not really; the software is pretty bright, and an uninstall really doesn't uninstall everything. Really wish ED used the same philosophy... Of course you can land. Landing is mandatory. The only variable is the quality of the landing...

Sweeeeet! I just fired up DCS after a long hiatus. I purchased a next level flight seat pro to finally mount all my winwing goodies on so I can get flying again. I came to update everything and was told my FC3 wont activate because of login, at least its not just me, as long as I know everything should be up and running Tuesday when my chair arrives and I cat get crashing again (cant land)

We have one! And lots more! Gaz, Ford, GMC and a few others.

Might be time to migrate off that mission critical MySQL db that runs on the old machine under Jeff's desk in the corner... I know it comes down to money, but not having redundant and reliable data infrastructure that's corruption resistant in this day and age is a bit shoddy.

Thought about it, which led me to creating this thread. Do 1 frame at a time was not really worth the effort in the end. I was hoping this could be a future function ED could incorporate in to the ME for us.

For your Russian assets down the line, the T-80BVM would be a good addition.

Not sure what the issue was but I tried again after posting here and it worked fine. Maybe a glitch with my hardware? Anyway, all sorted now and I’m loving the F1!

это летчик моргает как в промо-ролике про ф4

Every time someone with very direct real world experience points out something contrary to popular flight simmer doctrine, the excuses fly as to why that couldn’t possibly be correct. Smartest thing to do is not waste your time.

Thanks! Yeah, I plan to make Chinese helicopters. But there were a lot of of additions and changes in this release, so it'll have to wait until the next one. Until then I would suggest using a Blackhawk with Chinese livery. Since the Z-20 is based on the 70s UH-60, that would be a reasonable analogue for now.