Gunfreak

Would be interesting to read a book by a real plot in what they actually did. None of the P47 war memories I've read go into such detail. On the other hand it seems real pilots mostly just floored it until the combat was over. And did stuff to the engine that would kill it in seconds in DCS.

I have no statistical evidence. But seems that there more corrupt and problem patching on stand alone than steam. And it is hard to judge if its the ED updater or just terrible American internet coverage when people complain about slow downloads. But steam is known for having the fastest downloads in gaming. 40gb patches takes me a few minutes. And even a full download of DCS(which for me now is 600gb) takes like 30-40 minutes. And I also like having steam telling me how much DCS I've played total and last two weeks. I'm coming up to 1000 hours soon. But that has no real benefit, except I find it interesting.

Faster download and less troublesome updates. Also stream refunds apply. So if you buy a module that just doesn't work or something. As long as you've used it less than 2 hours or had it for less than 2 weeks you can get a refund.

You can use South Atlantic map and the upcoming Kola for ww2 stuff. Both Corsair and Hellcat flew over Norway. And Mossie did attacks in the fjords.

Given the scarcity of the Lima in the 80s. I doubt the export F16 were delivered with them in the period 80-84. Does anyone know what they were delivered with? Js? Ps? If Ps, would it be the improved all aspects P5s?

ED having butterfly syndrome when it comes to finishing their products is well know. Just ask any of us that fly WW2 DCS. I'll use the Chinnock the same way as I've used the Huey. Doing troop transport in and out of hot LZs or Medivac under fire. The difference is that unlike the Huey the Chinnock actually did this in a modern combat environment. It fits great into Syria map, it will fit perfectly into Afghanistan and Iraq maps. I would rather have a full fidelity blackhawk that let's me drop soldiers by rope or do Medivacs. But Chinnock is still far more useful for this vs Huey. Huey will come into it's own with Vietnam map(which I hope will lead to a Huey face lift) or on the central Europe cold war map that may or may not have been teased in the Chinnock trailer.

This one. Of all the dozens upon dozens aviation books I've read/listened too. No other book has impressed me more in pure fly skill. https://www.amazon.com/Limit-Air-Huey-Pilot-Vietnam/dp/0451222180 And this one is excellent, very good self-deprecating humour. https://www.amazon.com/This-Minuteman-Two-Three-Helicopter-Afghanistan/dp/1946875511

I would love for a cold war map. I think it's a bit of a waste that Sinai was modern. Same with Kola. Historic maps that match a conflict or a period further back seems much more useful since the full earth map will cover current stuff anyway.

Rally don't get the "no boom boom is boring " I recommend people read books by Huey pilots in Vietnam. What they did was at least as skillful and daring as any fighter pilot (maybe even more so) Same goes for Chinnock pilots.

The Chinnock was shown surprisingly little before we had pre-order. Same with Afghanistan. It might be a new strategy. To avoid hype for 2 years. They show a little and then bam! Might be the same with PTO project.

Given all other helicopters with gunners can(Huey, HIP, Hind) which are from ED i assume the Hook will have it too.

Yes, I'm saying if the brits used the M60 on their Hooks even through they normally don't even have that weapon in their inventory. Then there's probably a reason both the Americans and brits used them on the hooks so long. That's actually an excellent way to get flight time and hone skills. Instead of just burning taxpayer bought fuel to get flight hours. They help while getting training.

To make close air support or similar missions in DCS. You have to do all kinda stuff to make battles last longer. Use immortal, triggers to AI off etc But I would like an ME setting were ground units are immortal from other ground units. But not aircraft. That way the AI can fight it out as long as you want. And you can simply use 1 trigger were if enemy units are within a trigger zone. The defender die. Also I'm unsure if this is an option. But if not. The ability to give ground units infinite ammo.

The British ones as late as 2007 used M60s or Miniguns. Which is odd as M60s were never a gun used by the British in an infantry capacity but the FN MAG was.

Same is true for the Huey. Reading books about Vietnam War. The crew chief and M60 gunner would call out obstacles, trees. When troops are off or on.

What exactly are those rules? And why didn't they apply to the Apache or Mossie? As far as I know that other flight sim. Won't let you land troops on the roof of a building while machine gun fire and RPGs come towards you.

Steam allows pre order and always have. The Apache, Hind, Mossie are all recent modules that have been in pre order on steam from DCS

So since there is a set date. I assume where won't be a problem to get the pre order bonus on steam?

Marines in trouble, F16 close air support and Queen

Coming soon or DCS Coming Soon™ Because those are to very different meanings of coming soon

Very cool teaser/troll if the map is released this week, if it comes in a few months, that it wasn't a particularly good thing hype/selling point vise.

A lot of our F4s are gonna look like that.

My most Hollywood action movie video so far, well, at least the end is pure Michael Bay

I wanna fly low through the valleys in my F16 and have it look good. Not sit there in VR with ugly low resolution textures thrown in my face.