Jayhawk1971

But do you like movies about Gladiators?

I assume the same, but I hope it's the subesquent delivery of the third-party fixes that couldn't make the deadline for yesterday's patch (that apparently was moved ahead on short notice).

I don't know/ have forgotten if there was a "regular" (= Jester Wheel) way, but using VAICOM with AIRIO, I say "open canopy", and Jester does just that. So there definitely is a command there, somewhere.

I believe Reflected posted on one of his social media channels that he's already sent all the files to ED, so the ball is completely in ED's court.

Good luck! I hope you can find a fix. Reflected is off surfing for two weeks, without in internet connection, so it may take a while before he can react to your post.

Did you check in your settings if your space bar is bound to fire (forward-firing weapons)? If it is, unbind or bind another key to that function. Reflected uses "press space" to trigger certain events, so that could cause a conflict with the settings, which would also explain why everything works fine outside of this campaign.

I actually did check if I was still on the same freq a couple of times (I was). I also tried via all three radios numerous times, just to make sure. I did remain in orbit pretty much over the base when looking for that position, though. Could it be that I wasn't in the correct "zone" for the trigger? I'll try the mission again tonight, see if it works. Maybe I just ran into a glitch. And, since I have VAICOM installed (albeit it wasn't running when I played the mission), I wouldn't rule out possible interference from that program. Otherwise, great campaign so far! If all else fails, I'll just skip and push on. I've watched Lankypilot's video (to see if I did anything wrong), so I know how the mission ends now, anyway. In his case, not so well due to a slight booboo he's made.

Hi Chris, ran into a problem in mission 3. The mission won't progress, as clicking/ keypressing the option in the F10 menu unfortunately does nothing. I'll put the context in spoiler tags, just in case: Could you check if 2.8 maybe messed with one of the triggers? The first two missions went without a hitch, and up to that point mission 3 worked fine as well. Thanks!

This is the quintessence of what I have distilled for myself, from reading and listening to hours worth of pilot interviews, many of whom flew both aircraft during their careers: "An average pilot in a Tomcat is more likely to lose against an average pilot in a Hornet, whereas an expert Tomcat pilot is more likely to win against an equally experienced Hornet pilot."

I ran into the exact same problem. It seems to be a re-occurring old one, as this has apparently been around since after version 2.5.24. I opened a bug report over at GitHub, hopefully someone from the awesome Discord community will have a look at it. In the meantime, the workaround is to press and hold the TX button in question and wait for the beep, then release the button. That way, commands are being executed. Not the most elegant solution, but better than nothing I suppose. Still doesn't help with ICS hot mic in the Tomcat, as I like to "talk" to Jester without pressing a button.

I'm now confronted with the same issue, with the 2.8.0 community fix. Also, your tip with holding the PTT button until the confirmation beep can be heard seems to work. I tested it only now, 5 minutes ago "dry" (=without DCS running), but VA acknowledges and executes the command, and the dreaded "is currently disabled for this session and was not executed" disappeared. Still, would be nice if the awesome volunteer group could maybe look into the issue?

I don't know if you're already aware (or even better, already a happy customer ), but just in case: On the 3rd-party side, @Reflected has released two great DLC SP campaigns for the Tomcat: "Zone 5" (which he made together with "Bio" Baranek , that emulates a TOPGUN training detachment), and "Fear the Bones", which is more like a Hollywood action film (story wise), albeit with realistic procedures and tactics. He also already submitted the files for his upcoming "Speed and Angels" campaign to ED, which he made with "Paco" Chierici, a "training campaign" which basically adapts the stories from both Paco's documentary "Speed and Angels" as well as his novel "Lions of the Sky" into DCS: so about half the campaign will be spent in the RAG, where you learn the basics of Tomcat operations from a real former F-14 pilot, and the other half is with the Fleet. Also, check out the voice actors for this campaign! Further down the road, @baltic_dragon is working with Mooch on a Tomcat campaign as well. But that's still a long while off, I believe.

Any chance of getting a checkbox in the Tomcat "special" tab for "realistic seating position" for VR users later down the road? I mean I can position my virtual head at approximately the correct height, but then the HUD projection is not optimized/ calibrated for that angle.

Flew this mission a couple of minutes ago, same thing happened to me. I was in the observation position and about to slot into pre-contact when Biff took my tail off while banking hard left. After 2+ hours of mission time that's a bit of an anticlimactic letdown. Never trust an AI! @baltic_dragon Maybe if you could put Biff into an echelon left formation after hitting waypoint 5? That way the player would definitely be safe from rogue AI. I tried the AAR part of the mission again, and this time I was ready for Biff. He's in a very close right fingertip, and suddenly banks hard to the left, into the player. I was anticipating this move and pushed the nose down hard, avoiding a midair by a hair's breadth. The rest of the mission worked flawlessly.

Maybe you can try the link Convexrook posted? That should definitely lead you to the Discord community.

If I click on the link I've provided, it's an invitation to the Vaicom Discord community. What landing page are you seeing when you click on the link?

https://discord.gg/mFjqn4Za

@IronMike Something just hit me (figuratively ) : Assuming that HB and True Grit are going to implement DVI on the Eurofighter, couldn't that underlying voice-recognition technology potentially be used for Jester and Jester's Dad (in the Phantom), as well as Jester's Cousin (Intruder)? I mean, giving verbal commands to your RIO basically is "proto-DVI". Because even if some of the tech savvy people over at the VAICOM Discord find a way to undo what ED has decided to plague us with, I fear this will not be a long-term solution. Edit: overtaken by recent, very promising events. Thanks Vaicom Discord community, and thanks @Hollywood_315 for releasing it under GPL! Still, IMO a native solution directly from the dev would be preferable for these module-specific inter-cockpit comms, because it could be much more "custom" and streamlined. Oh, and could you make the Eurofighter respond to my voice inputs with "By your command!" ?

Weird that it does not seem to work globally, but only for select modules. For me it worked with the Viper and the A-10 II. Haven't tried the Hornet yet. I hope you'll get it to work. I'm still reluctant to completely delete Vaicom from my system, in the (perhaps misguided) hope that either some coding hero finds a solution, or ED sees reason and fine-tunes what I assume was some sort of extremely broad-stroked anti-cheating measure which would restore Vaicom functionality.

Hi Bones, I'm on standalone, not Steam, so I don't know if this would be helpful to you. Anyway, I went into my saved games -> dcs -> scripts folder and edited the export.lua (nothing fancy, just opened it in notepad and deleted the Vaicom entry - I did this every time after a patch, because this prevented the comms menu from popping up again and again in the past). Next, I did a "slow" repair (repair all files). Either one of the two, or both, worked in so far as I can again fully use the comms menu. As long as I don't start Vaicom. Since my Tomcat is grounded for the time being, I've moved on to the Viper and am in the process of re-learning the A-10, and I can do this with the comms menu (even though it's a hassle in VR). I hope someone can fix the Vaicom hook into DCS, soon.

Here you go: https://discord.gg/mFjqn4Za

I hope someone will step up and create something similar. From reading these forums, isn't everybody and their moms in IT? Surely (not Shirley!) someone has the necessary skills to access DCS like Hollywood did.

Slow repair, maybe also deleting the vaicom entry in the export.lua in your saved games - scripts folder is supposed to fix that,

Apparently whatever ED did also affected SRS. Now this is a different league altogether, given the size of the online user base that rely on SRS. Maybe that'll make ED reconsider and revert back? As long as the fix is not something that the creators have to do on their side....