SonofEil

A good test is when flying toward a mountain with the radar off. Betty will give you a shout as you approach terrain indicating the F-18 has imbedded elevation data. Another test is to fly toward a mountain with both radar and INS off/unaligned. If she still bitches at you then it’s either a bug or a DCS ‘cheat’. I’m away for a couple days so can’t try it myself but I’m curious about the results.

The placement of aircraft also perfectly mimics the current google maps image. (Almost, wags’ screenshot includes some alert F-16’s at the SW corner of the runway that aren’t in the satellite image.)

A Syria map was confirmed, this post gives us a much better idea of the area.

Wow, good eye. I just assumed Caucuses, but nope, that’s something we haven’t seen before. Wags, you scoundrel. Edit: confirmed the airport in the first pic is Incirlik AFB, Turkey.

A hundred years ago. If it helps the poor folks that can’t wait, the Tomcat is guaranteed to be released by March 7, 2018. . . . . (on the Julian Calendar)

Well I learned something. It looks like you’re technically correct, which is the best kind of correct of course. Though from what I’ve now read the meteorological seasons are almost exclusively a statistical tool used for consistency in record keeping by a single profession. Even being peripherally associated with meteorology via professional aviation I’d never heard of their use. In regards to the F-14 release I believe HB has stated, possibly in this very thread, that they regard end of winter as March 20th.

What?! No, there is one date that is subject to minor variation year to year. This year winter ends and spring begins on March 20 at precisely 21:58 UTC, also known as earth’s Vernal Equinox.

agree 100%.

Considering DCS doesn’t simulate humidity or icing to begin with the inlet ice warning should've never been coded in the first place. At the very least it should’ve been disabled when it started popping up last summer.

I do see what you’re talking about, but the biggest difference I noticed is HARM is vitually smokeless irl. It almost looked liquid fueled. The in-game version looks to produce quite a bit more smoke.

Jesus, really? It wouldn't be able to survive a summer afternoon in Texas! A thermal or two and those exposed rivets would pop like popcorn! Erm, what?

It's only the static version of the flyable plane that causes the performance issues. I had a boat full of static Lot 20's and any time I looked towards them I'd get the jitters. Changed them all to DCS's old generic F-18C, directly above the Lot 20 on the static aircraft list, and poof, smooth as butter!

I mean, in my fantasy version of game death you'd still be able to Function key to another view. If the first thing someone does is reset their PC instead of hitting an F key then...actually yeah, looking around the forums that's probably what would happen. Fine, I don't know, put "YOU DEAD" in the center of the blank view. I had a NDE a few years ago, bad car accident. I was very quickly losing blood, vision got fuzzy, went black, woke up two days later. I was told that my heart had stopped beating in the ambulance. The actual experience of death is the result of the brain being starved of oxygen, whether due to low/no blood pressure, low blood oxygen levels, etc. This can easily (though inadvisably) be simulated by hyperventilating and clasping your hands to the sides of your neck. Most people report this as blacking out. I've never died from having a rocket explode up my bum though, maybe that one is white. Why don't we meet in the middle and say grey then.

Sure, that's what I'm saying. It's not unrealistic at all, there are certainly all sorts of clauses, restrictions, amendments, and so on in their military contracts. But no one here has any clue what they are unless the information came directly from Wags or another higher-up in the organization. Correct, the A-10C originating with the ANG is about the only thing we do know. Everything else is just forum speculation run amuck.

If you mean physical screen "pixel density", you still need full screen high resolution hardware. FR uses eye tracking to render the periphery image in a significantly lower resolution than your eyes focal center. It's the eye tracking hardware that's been missing in current gen VR headsets. If you move your eyes (not your head) to the side, FR is supposed to move the focal center of the image to the side as well, directly in front of where your eyes are now looking. The 'old' high resolution center on the hardware screen is now rendered with a much lower resolution image. Because your eyeballs only 'see' a 10-20 degree circle in the center of your vision in high detail, FR should be totally invisible to the user while significantly reducing GPU loading.

There's something other than F-18 optimizations causing your performance issues. We have similar system specs and in-game settings and I get better performance in VR, with mirrors and shadows on, than you're having on a monitor. When I was on a monitor I had most settings maxed and would only see a performance impact over 3D intensive areas, central Dubai etc. Your system should be doing much better. I'd look again at power management, NVIDIA Control Panel and drivers, maybe have a look in your BIOS (or whatever it's called now), but I doubt the F-18 is the cause of the poor performance. EDIT: Also if you're overclocked, CPU or 1080, revert to stock speeds and see what difference that makes. I've heard of overclocks causing similar issues.

Yep, cautiously optimistic about this also. It’d be great if we could walk out to and climb in our jets.

Two things. First, a huge reason for the uncluttered cockpit is FADEC. Engine instrumentation takes up a lot of cockpit real estate on non-FADEC aircraft (obviously the A-10 is a prime example). Second, as a minor defense of the Hog, a lot of the ‘looking around’ required inside the cockpit is a direct result of this being a computer simulation. You’ll notice on the A-10, as an example, that all the switches and dials are different shapes. Irl, once you’ve learned the layout you actually don’t have to look at the consoles much at all. We don’t have tactile feedback (yet!) so we have to look every time. While this makes it more difficult for us, I’d argue that proficient real life pilots can do things like change radio freqs with similar speed between the A-10 and F-18.

I’ve never particularly liked the F2 view death either, always wanted a ‘screen goes black’ death. I’ve also wondered if such a mod is possible or exists.

Also never heard of this, is it buried somewhere in the unofficial roadmap?

Wish I’d seen this months ago. Also wish ED would’ve fixed this months ago.

Sure you did, kiddo. :thumbup:

I wouldn’t want this OB pushed to stable if I were you. There are some pretty annoying and persistent graphical glitches, and the crash boards have been lit up for weeks though I’ve yet to experience one.

I think Jabbers said (either here or in the youtube comments) he has a VR review coming up. He wanted it to be part of the currently released video but the vid was already running too long. He said performance is great and that HB is very much developing the Cat with VR in mind.

This also sounds to me like something born from forum speculation that eventually morphed into 'community knowledge' over the last decade. Besides telling us that the original C was developed as a cockpit orientation trainer for the ANG they've never been prone to revealing military contract specifics, for obvious reasons. Basically if anyone other than Wags or Chizh or a select few others say "according to the contract...", they're blowing smoke, whether they know it or not.