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I think if weapons malfunction are to be added. Do it to AI weapons first. Hung bomb, air to air missiles engine failing to start. SAM missiles going off, or even exploding right after launch (particularly older SAMs like SA-2 to SA-6) this will add some variation to the missions. Without directly causing annoyance to the players.

in the track my wingman Apache attacks all kinda odd stuff, firing rockets, or firing hundreds of 30mm at enemies doing to damage. It does not attack any of the units it attacked in the mission, those just fall over dead at the correct time, with no weapons used on them track in link https://drive.google.com/file/d/12K0lo9K7YMp55Fo5fOJX3fpyotDpqtxv/view?usp=sharing

I wasn't being rude. It was a joke.

Become a billionaire, and instead of doing drugs and hanging out on twitter, use the money to fund a giant WW2 team for ED, like 2000+ new people just for WW2

Interesting. I thought they were just gonna release basic US and basic "insurgent" models. But that is very cool that they plan on releasing several factions at once.

Indeed, while the Solomons would be awesome. Since ED has gone hard for 1944. The Philippines would be a better match, but also a lot more work. A LOT more land to model.

This was supposed to be my 800th subscriber special. I had it made some time ago. Waiting for the sniper pod. It came and also came with a bug. Causing GBUs not hitting moving targets. So I had to make a new video for that. Now that the sniper pod can guide moving targets. I can finally do this mission. Truck broken down, Taliban out in force to take advantage. Some bombing. Finding a moving column. Some gun guns guns. I had not paid attention, and was not aware that AI can't use sniper pod. So my useless wingman didn't do much. Except a single gun run at the very end.

This was supposed to be my 800th subscriber special. I had it made some time ago. Waiting for the sniper pod. It came and also came with a bug. Causing GBUs not hitting moving targets. So I had to make a new video for that. Now that the sniper pod can guide moving targets. I can finally do this mission. Truck broken down, Taliban out in force to take advantage. Some bombing. Finding a moving column. Some gun guns guns. I had not paid attention, and was not aware that AI can't use sniper pod. So my useless wingman didn't do much. Except a single gun run at the very end.

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Not sure if this is AI or Afghanistan bug. But after hitting the front of a column. Several vehicles run for it. 3 drive off the road to an open place. But 3 drove straight into a canal. Out the other side. Then inside several buildings. Naturally I can't see them inside inside those buildings and so i assumed they were dead. Also not directly a bug. But more damage modeling inconsistency. The new upgraded bombs are cool and can now kill infantry from a very long range, even mk82. However this damage does not translate well into some soft skin vehicles. There's no logic that a mk82 can kill infantry from 400 meters. But a guy standing on the back of a technical 75 meters from bomb impact is fine. Until shrapnel is modeled correctly, mabye have so unarmoured vehicles within deadly blast radius for infantry would be disabled. So cars, jeeps, pickups. Unarmoured moble AAA, won't blow it. But they'll be disabled. Track is in this post

Double bug. Simple mission 2 flight F16 baddy taliban in afganistan, ordering the AI to attack it first refuses many times, finally it attacks and goes in guns gun, even though it has 4 GBU12s Even though this is a small simple mission with less than 100 units, the sniper pod tracking breaks, and on the track the pod is a very diffrent place than it was during the mission, I have no had this happen to Lantirn or lieting pod. Norwegian sniper-20250817-114109.trk

It's bad enough you can't ditch in the channel in ETO. It will be even worse in ETO. It you were in doubt you could do the landing on the boat (damage, visibility, etc) you ditched close to a destroyer in the fleet and got picked up. I also hope they fix the instant death of ejection into the sea. This is needed both both for Korea and Vietnam. Untold number of pilots got saved by barely making it feet wet in a damaged jet and ejecting into the water. Some times so close to shore the north Vietnamese tried to get the pilots by sending patrol boats after them

The Americans became experts at picking up downed pilots in the Pacific. One was the destroyer around the fleet. But Americans submarines picked up hundreds of pilots the last few years of the war. Then you have the sea planes that also picked up hundreds. In some cases both subs and sea planes would pick up pilots just a few hundred meters of Japanese held island. Bullets and shells churning up the sea as the planes landed and grabbed the pilots aboard.

I wanted to test the corsair after the update that improved the flight model(no not yesterday's patch, the one before that) I set up an enemy unknown. Random German ace aircraft would show up. Typical with my luck i got the 109 twice, the first round was in many ways the best one. 10 minute long dogfight. I could have won it if I was a better shot. Second round, managed to get behind it, and used the Corsair AIs playbook, just hold in the trigger and hope to hit. And I did. Took out the radiator. Got a few more hits in. The 3rd round I got an Anton(which i somehow imagined was a Dora until I got very close. The AI Anton is useless, and even with my terrible shooting, it was never much in doubt what would happen.

I wanted to test the corsair after the update that improved the flight model(no not yesterday's patch, the one before that) I set up an enemy unknown. Random German ace aircraft would show up. Typical with my luck i got the 109 twice, the first round was in many ways the best one. 10 minute long dogfight. I could have won it if I was a better shot. Second round, managed to get behind it, and used the Corsair AIs playbook, just hold in the trigger and hope to hit. And I did. Took out the radiator. Got a few more hits in. The 3rd round I got an Anton(which i somehow imagined was a Dora until I got very close. The AI Anton is useless, and even with my terrible shooting, it was never much in doubt what would happen.

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it won't happen. It's a known bug https://forum.dcs.world/topic/285558-warbird-tail-oblomok-shapes-with-desynced-argument-values-regrowing-warbird-tails/

All warbirds do this. Even the AI aircraft like A20 does it. Not a Corsair spesific

Yay! I've not used it much because of the not being able to laze moving targets.

Fix for sniperpod?

Yet again, I have a plan for a mission, yet again it doesn't seem possible to do. I have a nice factory building on Saipan, perfect place for the Japanese to hold up and fire on the advancing Americans. I want that building to fire on the enemy, to simulate some MGs holding up there, however that doesn't seem possible. as any units I put there will just be on the roof and look ridiculous. I can hide it for infantry or the map, but I can't make it truly invisible. So that is a core feature I request. Even better, if I can simply make static buildings on them map fire guns. Like Add a zone over the building and have bullets come out of the zone.

Part 7 of the Saipan Saga continues, Aslito Airfield is about to be captured and there is very little danger to the Corsairs, some angry tanks do try and shoot me, but that’s about it. 4 AT guns, a truck, 2 tanks and a crap load of infantry became the victims of my bombs, rockets and guns. As I headed home for the boat, the few remaining Japanese did a banzai attack, but had little effect. My wingpeople fly several miles out to sea, during their attack runs, then lose track of whatever they were supposed to attack, and then refuse to attack, even after repeated orders for them to attack, by the time i landed both of them were still far out to sea with all weapons attached.

Part 7 of the Saipan Saga continues, Aslito Airfield is about to be captured and there is very little danger to the Corsairs, some angry tanks do try and shoot me, but that’s about it. 4 AT guns, a truck, 2 tanks and a crap load of infantry became the victims of my bombs, rockets and guns. As I headed home for the boat, the few remaining Japanese did a banzai attack, but had little effect. My wingpeople fly several miles out to sea, during their attack runs, then lose track of whatever they were supposed to attack, and then refuse to attack, even after repeated orders for them to attack, by the time i landed both of them were still far out to sea with all weapons attached.

Also the exact same problem can be said about the Spitfire vs the D9 and K4. In theory a Spitfire should never win against those two in DCS. As long as they never get involved in a turn fight. Yet we known the Spitfire shoots them down plenty in DCS. Same for the Zero vs F4U and F6F.