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Nothing exists in DCS until it's released. Not aircraft, not maps, not core updates.

So the great battle video is done, 98 Cold war western aircraft attack Murmansk, defended by a dozen MiG-21s and 100 AAA and Sams. Southern force will attack the SA-5 and SA-6 batteries at the Murmansk international airport, this is Swedish Viggen, USAF F-4s and Mirage F-1s. The center force is British Harriers with British F-4s as TARCAP. The Northern force consists of Norwegian and Luftwaffe F-104 on TARCAP. USASF and Luftwaffe F-4s on fighter bomber mission, Luftaffe F-104 fighter bombers. And Norwegian F-5s on Fighter bombers and SEAD/DEAD. I’m apparently a better ground pounder when I can’t see the targets, my 4 Mk83s dropped at Severomorsk 1 took out 4 TU--95 bombers and a whole SA-2 battery. I just dropped in the general direction and couldn’t see anything. I drop another 3 Mk82s blind and somehow hit a S-60 AAA and ammo truck. My blind firing of 20mm into the dark ground, took out more ammo trucks, 2 SA-2 missiles and 2 SA-2 radars. By the end of the 15 minute engagement, all enemy aircraft in the air or ground were taken out, all SAM batteries spread out across the city were taken out, about half the AAA got blown up too and a few random tanks had to go boom. We lost 10 aircraft, several to SAMs, a couple to MiG-21s, and 3 Harriers blew themselves up when dropping Mk20s

I agree with you, but that's how ED treats ww2. We not only paid for the aircraft and maps. But also spent money on a paid asset pack. Yet we are treated as second class citizens. ED doesn't make moeny on WW2, so ww2 is the lowest of lowest priority. I have everything ww2, but honestly don't play much any more as I'm tired of the only thing ww2 gets is bugs. Nothing of major importance has come to ww2 dcs since the Mossie and the Mossie itself is mostly left for dead. Jets got BVR AI updates and BFM AI updates. But ww2 AI is the same it has been for 10 years.

I've wanted to do a helicopter landing to take back oil rig captured by terrorists. But can't have infantry on oil rigs. And can't have them disembark on oil rig from the helicopter

They would still have it tested. The new animations for modern infantry won't come untill the new 3d models are ready. And i guess they aren't ready.

Since ww2 is low priority, they use ww2 as a test bed, so if anything breaks. It only affects ww2 which isn't a big deal. They seriously broke the Mossie with the new landing gear physics. But since the number of people that own and fly the Mossie is miniscule vs F16 or F18, It's not a big deal. And once all the bug are fixed they'll add the new physics to the important modules.

I don't usually do many night vidoes, because 1. People aren't interested in watching mosty black video. But we do have some illumination flares to there is some visual action going on. 2. I'm a terrible night driver. In the F16 it's no problem, night or day, mostly the same. But in stuff like the F4, with just your old cockpit gauges to go by, flying instruments only, man it's terrifying. I practiced night landing a few times, as the Swedish through it was smart to have lots of trees right in front of the runway. On my second practice landing it went great, naturally in the mission, I lost control, I came in way to low buzzing the tress I could barely make out in my taxi lights (of course I forgot to turn on landing lights) after missing the tree tops by a couple of meters, I made a terrible landing and Jester let me know it. But all in all, mission was completed. And no losses on our side. Should teach the Soviets to not make helicopter FOB on West German territory(using Sweden as stand in for North Central Germany) .

I don't usually do many night vidoes, because 1. People aren't interested in watching mosty black video. But we do have some illumination flares to there is some visual action going on. 2. I'm a terrible night driver. In the F16 it's no problem, night or day, mostly the same. But in stuff like the F4, with just your old cockpit gauges to go by, flying instruments only, man it's terrifying. I practiced night landing a few times, as the Swedish through it was smart to have lots of trees right in front of the runway. On my second practice landing it went great, naturally in the mission, I lost control, I came in way to low buzzing the tress I could barely make out in my taxi lights (of course I forgot to turn on landing lights) after missing the tree tops by a couple of meters, I made a terrible landing and Jester let me know it. But all in all, mission was completed. And no losses on our side. Should teach the Soviets to not make helicopter FOB on West German territory

@BIGNEWY Can you into detail on the ww2 infantry animations and damage model fixes? This wasn't in the change log as far as I saw

Can you into detail on the ww2 infantry animations and damage model fixes? This wasn't in the change log as far as I saw.

Now I got it on a multiplayer track in my regular DCS track folder, but the dedicated server track works..

Finally once we get north end Australia. We can simulate the great Kiwi-Emu war.

Absolutely, very surprising but very welcomed, some very good fixes there, and new stuff too. Well the F-4 seems to have gotten some improvements, like F-4 Ai lofting and using Mavericks

I assume some basic bug fixed. Which is always good.

So I do a yearly "stress test" of DCS, and I don't mean a highly scientific one with FPS and CPU timings etc., just to test for myself. So don't except much useful info. But you do get to see a massive missile spam, some 111 AMRAAMS fired off in about 2 minutes. I also do some low and high level playing with the F-16

I would like info on the new General Flight Model that, was shown 2-3 years ago and then never again. Fragmentation simulation would be nice too. Secondary explosions based on unit type (ammo, fuel, explosives) Mk20/Napalm for the F18, so other modules can get Napalm (F4, F5, upcoming A6, A7, Corsair)

The A8 is about a ton heavier then the early A1-A4. But without any noticeable improvement in power. Imagine the Spitfire Mk XIV with 1100 horses from the Mk I instead of the 2000HP it did have. In real life those A8s not tasked with bomber attacks would remove the outer 20mm to save some weight (like we have in the D9) it's also possible they removed some of the armor stuff. When it comes to the AI the P51 is best. It doesn't seem to over preform. The A8, D9 and P47 AI is generally not very good. They all seem to just dive down to ground level and generally the only problem you'll encounter when fighting the A8 is it's ability to soak up huge amount of damage, far more then what a real aircraft could do. The Spitfire and 109K4 AI is generally insane, the AI can fly infinite WEP. And can't break their own engines. So the Spitfire can fly vertically up forever (while a human player would brick it's engine after about 10 seconds) making the Mk IX behave more like a Mk XIV. The 109k4 can do a super high G turn, turn 180 degrees and then easily overtake a P47 flying in the opposite direction at 350mph at 30 000 feet. The trick to beating any WW2 AI in 1 v 1 is to simply out turn them. This will activate it "defense AI" which is lazy turns. So in the Spitfire or I16. Simply out turn the AI and they'll do lazy turns and you'll just reel them in until you can blast them. Since the Fw190 can't really out turn anything. You won't easily get them to go stupid. And they'll be in offensive AI mode, which is far more difficult to deal with.

Jupp, ATC sends you and your wingpeople on different altitudes and headings and the AI complies. And communicate back. Imagine what those guys could accomplish with a large game budget.

I get it from my own dedicated server track. No fancy stuff or mods in use. Ran the mission twice and both times i get mission load fail. Never had that before

I ran my mission with the dedicated server like I always do. But on this mission, I can not open the dedicated server track, it says mission load fail, never had this before, I ran the mission twice and it happened both times. Kola map, with no mods used, server-20241027-161936.trk

Well, Jester got cancelled after some Metoo problematic photos showed up from his AI collage days.

In DCS once you "eject " the aircraft is dead. So not sure how easy it would be to fix what appears to be a core thing.

Having recently tried that other sim with fully working ATC and com ladders. It would massively improve DCS. Following the directions of ATC sets you up for perfectly lined up landing. Even in full VFR, you don't have to see the runway. Just follow directions of speed, attitude and heading and you end up on final with the runway a head of you.

I want an F-16 to suddenly get hit by a missile in a sneak attack, once I cross into a zone. but if I set explode unit, the pilot dies no matter how small the explosion is. if I set the unit AI life to 3, he does eject, but no explosion trigger activates(I assume because the unit is dead by that point as soon at the ejection is activated.