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Hey guys, my rocket keeps launching then immediately crashing into the ground. Any ideas?

Does anyone else have to suppress a childish laugh every time they hear "Biggen Hill" mentioned? Or rather, would anyone else admit to it?

These are awesome! Thank you!

I know that the Reich had control of the field with ground units, but were Luftwaffe planes actually based at Carpiquet in June 1944? It seems unlikely that they would be flying planes in and out of the field once the ALG B-x fields started being built nearby. Although it would have been interesting if the Germans were flying out of Carpiquet while the Allies were flying out of Rucqueville. It would have been like, instant AA engagement, and you'd practically be in each other's FLAK range as soon as you got airborne. I've studied everything I could get my hands on, and from my non-expert analysis, the Normandy 2.0 Map is showing a representation of Normandy as it existed somewhere between July 20 - August 31 1944. I found a few online resources but I still struggle to find a good accounting of which and how many planes were operating where in June 1944, and this is especially true of German planes. Does anyone know of any good books or resources I could get my hands on? Thanks.

I got "scammed" (I guess opinions will vary on the definition) via Steam, and they didn't do a thing for me. Basically, someone was selling an app, and I thought it was mostly complete, albeit in Early Access. Turns out it was a "developer preview" that was being launched in "a year or so", and they were offering it up at the outset to raise funds. I was really annoyed, but they assured everyone that we were getting a big loyalty discount by purchasing early and that it would be way more on official launch, yada yada. Well, after taking my money (and lots of others I'm sure), they simply walked away from the project, leaving us with, essentially, nothing. It took several months until we realize it had been abandoned, though, and Steam said that since it was over 30 days from purchase, I could go <evacuate> in my hat. Even though it was clearly a ruse. From their perspective, the dev may have made a legitimate effort to finish it, but honestly, not much of one. Some devs are using Steam as essentially a Kickstarter clone, but as it stands, Steam won't do a damn thing for you. Personally, I've always bought direct from ED because I don't want to give ED 30% less for their products. That's a significant slice of the pie. Also, ED has always had great sales, and have been generous with the Frequent Flyer Miles, and over the years they've given me a couple of really good models, completely for free. Yet another reason I would never refund a plane. They've already given me a couple of free ones. Even if I lose on the F-15E, I still come out ahead. I do take your point, though. It is a person-by-person thing.

Whoa, with 10 choices, I didn't think one map would get over 50%. That's decisive. I like Syria too. I think it's a great map. I like pretty much all of them, though. What is it about Syria that makes it so many people's favorite?

Refunds? Geez, has it gotten that bad already? I just learned about all of this today and it breaks my heart. That said, even if they never release another update for it, I've gotten my money's worth from the F-15E this past year, and I wouldn't accept a refund if ED begged me to take it. There is no other company that does was ED does and if anything happened to them, it would significantly impact the quality of my life. They could send me a bucket of dog turds and I wouldn't refund it. Anyway, you realize that if you get a refund, you may not be able to get the plane back? I mean, even if development stops, it's already pretty damn good, and it'll continue working for probably quite some time, and if you refund it, and they pull it from the store, you have no Strike Eagle. Not trying to be flippant, I grew up poor and I well know what it's like not to have money, but we're not talking enough money to pay the rent with. What's the rush? Right now, it's just a possibility that you'll lose the plane. If you refund it, it's a guarantee. Food for thought I suppose. I really hope this can be resolved. I sure hope it's not hopeless.

I have a 5120 x 1440 monitor, and anytime I want to view something in the mission editor, external view, or encyclopedia, it feels like my face is mashed up against it. I've always been perplex as to why everything is so incredibly zoomed in to the point that you don't always know what you're looking at. They have these beautiful models, but you can't easily see the whole thing. "What is this? Hmmmm, let me scroll right for awhile .... more .... more .... (one week later) ... I see a win .... keep scrolling .... Christmas comes around, oh look, it's a Mig29, how lovely!" Okay, I exaggerate, slightly, but you get the point. Fellas, if you need to be that close to things to see then, it may be time to schedule an eye appointment. Alas, it's not a one time thing. After scrolling out, the moment you change units, it automatically switches back to Mister Magoo mode, and you have to start all over again. I have to scroll out out out each and every time. I set the default to 140 degrees in the settings, but this has had no effect. Sweet mother of mercy, please tell me there is a way to permanently set the field of view to something a little more sane. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to do this.

I know the KDO.G.40 does, but does adding a RADAR unit help matters at all?

I just created a mission where the AI was ordered to drop a nuclear bomb, and while he did drop it, and it did "explode" weakly, it was less powerful than a 50kg WW2 Bomb, starting a fire about the size of a large-ish campfire. Now, I'm no expert on nuclear fission, but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn Express. While there, the knowledge I accumulated makes me somewhat confident that nuclear warheads should have a little bit more of a ... you know ... Nuclear Holocaust vibe. Either that, or the people of Hiroshima are a bunch of drama queens. Will somebody be so kind as explain to me what I need to do in order to vaporize entire cities, or at least commit atrocities against human-kind on a scale that's a bit more satisfying? As you shiver in the nuclear winter that I will no doubt cause, you will have my appreciation to warm your freezing heart, not to mention, the satisfaction of knowing that the contaminated food and water supply is at least partly your doing.

I periodically get hit with a bug in the ME where the ME thinks the right mouse button is being held down, when it is not. How do I know it's not a problem with the mouse? Because I swap out mice and it doesn't change. Also, if the right mouse button was stuck, I would have trouble doing most anything in Windows. When this happens, I have to switch tasks and kill -9 the DCS task from the task manager. I can't select menu items properly, but I CAN CTL+S, and the mouse briefly goes back to normal for about .5 seconds as the disk write is actually taking place. Very strange. As bugs go, it's perhaps the most uncommon one I've encountered. Over the past 4 years, this bug has bitten me between 10-15 times, but it's not been frequent enough where I could spot a correlation with a particular action on my part. Just FYI.

May I please have the 109 that this guy gets?

It doesn't really matter how much I like or don't like it, if you call people unmanly for using MW-50, it's probably fair game. If you want a "historically accurate" Normandy Summer 1944 mission, you'll be flying around Normandy largely unopposed, mostly strafing ground targets. If the point is to fly against other humans, outnumbered and with disadvantaged DCS planes will be a tough sell to motivate them to provide that opposition for you. As regardless how historically-accurate it is, most people just don't relish being cannon-fodder for other people. And while I get what you're going for, insulting you potential opponents is likely not going to make a lot of them want to give it a try. Especially when a large percentage of the DCS community is already too intimated to fly MP as it is. Fair enough, but who are you going to get to fly them? Newsflash, you aren't the only one who enjoys prevailing every now and then, and I think you're seriously overestimating the number of DCS pilots who are chomping at the bit to be your foil. Hell, with the K-4 we can barely get a decent Axis side going for very long, how do you think it's going to be with an older 109? Again, I get what you're saying, but the Axis in DCS isn't being forced to fly under threat of being court martialed. They'll only do it if they enjoy it. This is the achilles heel of "historical realism". Everyone trips over themselves to be on the winning side, leaving very unbalanced contests. I doubt making it even more unbalanced is going to improve this. You'll probably have to be content with flying against AI planes, which I suppose isn't always terrible, but there likely won't be enough Axis planes on SRS to team up, and after getting shot down three times in a row by Allied team tactics, chances are, you'll see a disconnect message and never see that pilot again. At least on the Axis side. We can argue all day whether this is right or wrong, or represents character flaws in these Axis pilots, but it doesn't matter. It's what will likely happen, and efforts to shame them in the forums for doing so will likely be unsuccessful. Of course, I could be wrong, but you might at least want to consider it. Careful now, it sounds like I may not be the only one obsessed with make appendages. DCS folks skew significantly older than games in general, and most of them have wives, kids, jobs, etc. They don't care if they're "called out". I'm sure some do, but generally speaking. With the exception of certain hours during the weekend, you've pretty much summed up the current reality of the WW2 server situation. People have already taken your advice. You win. Well done. LOL, original. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? I'm just curious. See you're the one who began whining about your outnumbered opponents having an advantage. If anyone else does the same, it's a "skill issue", but somehow, your whining is an example of impeccable skill, and you seem to be completely unaware of the weird self-serving hypocrisy. And once again, I just offer my own observation. People who are genuinely skilled in any given endeavor tend to have humility, not all, but probably most. Perhaps you're a rare exception, but I reiterate, I've never encountered anyone who uses phrases like "get good" who was anywhere as good as they wanted people to think. If I'm wrong, then I'm happy for your skill, but the fact is, most people aren't good at flying planes that were made 50 years before they were born, and aren't really motivated to do so with people like you running around saying "get good" because frankly, they can be challenging planes to fly well, and not much fun when people are crapping on you. One has to start somewhere, though, and in my humble opinion, people like you are chronic repellents to that potential. Which is kind of a shame. Unless you really, really love flying against AI. Yeah, what DD_Fruitbat said. Nobody wants to fly with me. Thanks for rubbing it in Fruitbat, if that is your real name. P.S. Nobody reads my posts. Unless they're severely mentally disturbed.

Well sure, when the opportunity presents itself I do exactly that. Participation can get really low, though, Axis is typically worse than allies, and often he few people on aren't using SRS. But the times they are (which also happens), all of the MW50 planes tend to get snapped up first. And why wouldn't they? Why would I not want to use MW50? Why would I NOT want the 400 extra horsepower? Group tactics vs MW-50 ... what does one have to do with the other? Most pilots do both when they can. They're not really related. As far as not using MW-50, I could dogfight in the F/A-18 without using afterburner too, I'm just not sure what the point would be. Because some guy on the forums says I have a small willy if I use afterburner? I gotta be honest with you, it's just not a compelling enough reason. What do I care if my opponent doesn't like what I do? That's a good thing. And if we ever hope to attract more people to the WW2 servers, chances are, they're going to probably use MW50. I'm not going to come on the forums and insult them. I'd hope the rest of you wouldn't either. Every really really good DCS pilot I've met has had humility. I haven't met one that's worth a damn who insults the less skilled pilots. They certainly don't hang out on the forums telling other people how <profanity>ty and unmanly they are. That's just not something that skilled people tend to do.

LOL, yeah, no kidding Einstein, you really cracked this case wide open <shrug> Although then again, not really. I suck with our without WEP. WEP just makes me suck a little less, and it allows me to keep my engine running based on the fact that I practice with it. We didn't all pop out of our mothers baby makers with the innate skills of flying a WW2 fighter, and there weren't many WW2 pilots with 70 hour/week jobs in a completely separate area, so yeah ... undoubtedly a skill issue. Hell, who am I kidding, if I did this full time I would still suck. I have the gonads of a mere mortal. It could also be my frilly pink dress dampening my coordination. But seriously, preferring the ability to have WEP if needed is a "skill issue"? I would imagine that the best pilot in the world would prefer to have it. Yeah, it's about 250 extra kg, akin to carrying a medium-sized bomb, but it gets lighter as it's used and it's also 400 extra HP. I understand why the Allies don't want us to have it ... but then again, that's a skill issue on their side. (which you neglected to mention ... oversight I'm sure) You know, I always wondered the WW2 servers were so terribly underpopulated, but in the course of one thread, you solved this mystery as well. There are just not enough manly men like yourselves out there to fill out both sides. Oh well, at least you have each other to play with. By the way, which one of you is in charge of bringing the ruler? Sorry, I meant, yardstick, I totally meant yardstick. There's not a ruler been made that could measure the meat sabres on you guys. Oh dear, somewhere in this world there's a middle-aged woman (or man) who's in for the 45-second ride of her (or his) life tonight. Be gentle, fellas, Martha (or Mitch) is not as young as she (or he) used to be. "WEP? WEP? I don't need no steeeeeeeenking WEP!!!! I can take on any comer at half throttle! Quarter throttle! Hell, as a glider! Just give me two or three wingmen, and we'll totally take the enemy down! That guy doesn't have the skill or testosterone to defeat the four of us! It's historically accurate you know!" - Skewgear (slightly paraphrased)

Never played War Thunder a single time, but even if I had, you're spouting rules you have no ability to enforce. You'll get the mentality you get, and beyond whining about it online, will be powerless to change it. I fly DCS for enjoyment. You're the one crying because Bf-109 pilots use MW-50. "Waaaaah, the enemy uses War Emergency Power, they're not manly like me, waaah, it's all because they're unskilled, waaah, and they deserve to be outnumbered because I'm me and they're not, waaaah" ... yeah, real manly. Sorry ladies, he's taken! I'll continue to use MW-50, because I get more enjoyment out of being able to use WEP ... especially when I'm outnumbered. Historical accuracy always comes second to my personal enjoyment, because, fortunately, I fly as a hobby on my free time, and not in defense of a nation in a war. Of course, it's always the guys who always had the enemy outnumbered during the war that are always the ones screaming "historical accuracy" because it favors you. Not really a complex psychological profile. Real Jagdwaffe veterans flew outnumbered because they had no choice. Exactly zero of them would have done so on their free time for their personal enjoyment. I'm very confident that they would understand perfectly. And if your really going for historical accuracy, you probably shouldn't have any opponents at all since the Luftwaffe wasn't around much during the Battle of Normandy. Hey, that should be fun for you! You can win every battle! Or just spawn all of the Luftwaffe planes pre-crashed, and you guys could spend the session bragging over SRS about how you totally wiped out the enemy just like in real life! GOOD TIMES! I mean, why re-fight it, it's already been decided, amirite? And you won! YAY! Historical accuracy for the martha focking win!!!! USA! USA! Come on, everybody now, USA! USA! you folks in the back I can't HEAR YOU! USA! USA! USA! USA! Ah yeah, that's the shiznit right there! But get down on your hands and knees and thank your creator the Allies had the enemy outnumber because pilot vs pilot, the Luftwaffe waxed Allied fanny to a fine mirror polish. Now, look, you're wasting valuable time that could be spent for making excuses for the top allied ace having only 40 kills while the Luftwaffe had 77 pilots with 100 or more kills. "They had more enemies to shoot! uh uh, the soviet pilots were bad!, oh wait there were triple-digit german aces in the west too, um, it was MW-50, yeah, that's it, the MW-50 did it which means the Krauts were actually girls!, real men would have flown without MW-50, and without wings too! ... uh wait, the Allies only went after bombers, uh, uh different tactics yeah different tactics, uh uh look over there, a bear in a tutu doing the Macarena ... yoink, haha I win! made you look! ..." Egads man, come on, we need you here DD_Fendrir (if that is your real name). What we need is a historian like yourself to straighten this mess out!

I think it has more to do with always being significantly outnumbered on MP servers. I fly the 109 and cannot remember the last time I fought 1 vs 1, it’s usually me vs 2 or 3, and we need all the HP we can just to survive. Then you always have some Douche screaming “coward! He’s running away! Man up and fight fair and square ’ Because in real life all Luftwaffe pilots gladly participated in 3 vs 1 fights If Red ever gets numbers, Blue disconnects en-massse. You oh-so-brave uber-fighters who need travel pods just to hold your testes only get mouthy when you have numbers. “No thanks, I don’t want 400 extra HP, I’m a real man!” I guess real manly fighters in your world are mentally challenged. Real men argue that his opponents should give up benefits to make it easier for the real man to win. As if you’d willingly do the same. Hey, you want us to refuse to re-arm too? Is more than half a tank of fuel unmanly? How about we only fight with flare guns? I bet real men could fight with nothing but their flares. ‘Not self-serving at all. Should we all ask our opponent’s advice on how to configure our airplanes? I mean, it’s always the other guy that has too much power, right? You ever hear anyone say ‘dammit, I have too much power and it’s unfair to my opponents”? If you can’t win in the current Spit, and win often, with or without your opponent using MW50, the problem is you, not us feminine 109 pilots. There’s two dozen Spit guys out there that make minced meat out of every 109 that has the misfortune of crossing their path. Don’t ask me how I know. Count me as one who will ALWAYS take an Mw50 plane if one is available, and hate it if I have to fly one without. Main reason is I fly with it 99% of the time, and have little experience without it, so I end up blowing up my engine. There are only so many hours ins day, I don’t get to fly full time like a real pilot, and I simply lack the requisite time to brassily my testicles to your clearly-high standards.

I'm more partial to sed and awk, but I understood your point and it worked. Thank you very much!

It would greatly help if we could abort a load that was just not happening. For instance, I've been stuck here for 20 minutes: 2024-04-08 04:24:05.236 WARNING BACKENDCOMMON (12032): Need to reprocess [DDS] image '/textures/land_rover_101_fc_exterior_Normal.dds' 2024-04-08 04:24:12.595 ERROR LUA-TERRAIN (Main): getObjectPosition: object is not exists 2024-04-08 04:24:12.687 WARNING LOG (28412): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2024-04-08 04:24:12.687 ALERT LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:1996: bad argument #1 to 'loadstring' (string expected, got nil) GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback: [C]: ? [C]: in function 'loadstring' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:1996: in function 'load' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:594: in function 'func' [string "./Scripts/UI/ProgressBarDialog.lua"]:140: in function 'updater' [string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40> And I'm going to have to change tasks and kill -9 the DCS task. It would help if we could just exit out of a load that wasn't working ... for whatever reason. Or better yet, the load itself should time out after a sane amount of time, 90 or whatever, instead of hanging for eternity.

This is the error I see in the logs when trying to save it (I tried 3 times in succession): 2024-04-08 00:50:17.065 INFO EDTERRAIN4 (21900): ITerrainContextImpl4::setTrafficDecimation(0) 2024-04-08 00:50:17.065 INFO EDTERRAIN4 (21900): ITerrainContextImpl4::setDate( day=1, month=7) 2024-04-08 00:50:17.065 INFO EDTERRAIN4 (21900): ITerrainContextImpl4::setTextureMode(full=1) 2024-04-08 00:50:17.066 WARNING SCENE (21900): Scene was removed with 102 alive objects 2024-04-08 00:50:17.081 ERROR LUA-TERRAIN (Main): getObjectPosition: object is not exists 2024-04-08 00:50:17.169 WARNING LOG (20056): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2024-04-08 00:50:17.169 WARNING VISUALIZER (21900): terrainSampleOptions aren't set for DemoScene with terrain rendering 2024-04-08 00:50:34.943 WARNING LOG (20056): 2 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2024-04-08 00:50:34.943 INFO LuaGUI (Main): Loading Static Template: Ships - Post-Invasion.stm 2024-04-08 00:50:51.308 ALERT LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback: [C]: ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: in function 'unload_static_groups' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4282: in function 'unload' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4445: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4432> (tail call): ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:767: in function 'saveMission' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:777: in function 'func' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:261: in function 'onChange' [string "./dxgui/bind/Menu.lua"]:26: in function 'callback' [string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:368: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:363> 2024-04-08 00:53:02.590 ALERT LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback: [C]: ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: in function 'unload_static_groups' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4282: in function 'unload' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4445: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4432> (tail call): ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:767: in function 'saveMission' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:777: in function 'a_fun' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:222: in function 'hotCallback' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:229: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:229> 2024-04-08 00:53:06.290 ALERT LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback: [C]: ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3955: in function 'unload_static_groups' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4282: in function 'unload' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4445: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:4432> (tail call): ? [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:767: in function 'saveMission' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:777: in function 'func' [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_menubar.lua"]:261: in function 'onChange' [string "./dxgui/bind/Menu.lua"]:26: in function 'callback' [string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:368: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:363> 2024-04-08 00:55:14.900 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND (20444): texture 'soldier_wwii_us_spec' not found. Asked from '' 2024-04-08 00:55:14.903 WARNING BACKENDCOMMON (20236): Need to reprocess [DDS] image '/textures/shovel_summer_normal.dds' 2024-04-08 00:55:14.907 WARNING BACKENDCOMMON (20448): Need to reprocess [DDS] image '/textures/jerrycan_summer_normal.dds' I obviously can't attach the mission file since it's an empty file.

I've been playing with manual prop pitch, trying to eek outa bit more speed, but I'm a little confused. Everything I read says higher RPM = more power = faster, but given that the blade bites less of the air, I don't understand why this is. Does anyone know how to use the manual prop pitch to get more speed than you can get with the auto setting? I keep thinking back to this excerpt I snipped a couple of years ago (from where I forgot to record):

Do yourself a favor. Get this tool called "JoyPro": https://github.com/Holdi601/JoystickProfiler Grim Reapers has a YouTube video on how to use it, but you can use it to configure all of your devices for all of your planes at once, and backup the config. It will save you a ton of time and effort. P.S. Here is the GR video. I love this guy's videos. He's made DCS so much more of a joy to fly for me.

Awesome, thank you!

I don't think they lowered the resolution on 1.0, but you're doing yourself a significant disservice by not upgrading to 2.0 Not trying to be flippant about finances, I'm not rich and I know budgets can be tight, but the upgrade is grossly underpriced IMHO. The addition of London and Paris alone is worth three times the upgrade price. The level of detail is so different we're lucky to even get an "upgrade" price. Get it, quick, before they realize their mistake. When I was a small child, my mother used to tell me, "Rex, some day you must avenge Germany's terribly loss, but you must do it virtually, using the technology of days to come." It wasn't until Normandy 2.0 came out that I truly understood just what she meant. Now, I drop Spitfires like Dave Chapelle drop microphones ... I drop Thunderbolts like well-fed horses drop road apples ... I drop Mustangs like Justin Timberlake drops panties ... I drop ... well, you get the idea. Join us, and may the force be with you!

I make labels for all of the airfields in Normandy 2.0, and I had Biggin Hill labelled as having 14 slots for AI fighters, but I just used it today and found that it has 20 slots. That's still quite a bit fewer Manston, Kenley, Lymington, Gravesend, etc, but it's still more than I thought. With that said, Biggin Hill does have a whopping 10 ammo stations, which is massive, and speaks to a possible greater importance. I am admittedly quite new to WWII history, so forgive the likely-stupid question, but how major of an airfield was Biggin Hill in reality? I always thought Manston swung the biggest beef jerky in Southern England given it's location to the mainland, but I could be wrong.