Gunfreak

No front aspect, can't bend as much as the regular AIM9Ls. Gets easier spoofed by flare than the regular Ls. My guess is that the Rb74 uses the stats of a P3 or J and not the P5 or L.

It's early access. Syria has had like 5 years of improvement. In 5 months Kola has had 4 major update with huge improvement. Kola looks really good now. And it looks good from quite low. Still needs work for it to be helo heaven like Syria or Normandy 2. The map isn't even half done when it comes to infrastructure like towns, cities and air bases. And we can continue to see improvements to textures, colours, performance etc.

I've now spent several hours on the new textures and the improvement are massive. The main jarring thing is the ground textures not covered by trees. They have very low textures when seen from above. But is just grass once you get low enough. And so looks fine when you put the camera at eye height. Yes hopefully ED can fix their engine to allow for bigger texture files. But even now, overall it the 3rd best looking map. After Syria and Normandy 2. Those are still king of the hill down low. It's far more jarring trying to fly on Afghanistan. Where there's just a few square meters you can use for anything. As even the "high quality" parts has only a few pieces of ground that doesn't look terrible anywhere you look. On Kola I can plopp down ground units almost anywhere and it will look fine at ground units height. Not so on Afghanistan.

The latest patch made some amazing improvements to the mountains. Yes within 1000 meters you'll see the bad textures. But you don't have to be at 15 000 feet anymore

I tried to use the Ls on the Viggen for the first time. And I never got close to a front aspect lock. The missile bends far less than the standard Ls and the get easily spoofed by flares. This is completely different from the Ls I've used on the F16, F14 etc. So is there a historical basis for the Swedish missiles being worse? Or are the default Ls over preforming? In the F16 there is very little difference between the Ls and Ms.

I'm always hitting Preview TM. But I've had serous preformance drop after the patch. A good 10+fps less.

When doing my tour of the new Kola textures. Flying from Bodø to Kiruna. I found a nice valley on the Swedish side. Typical wide valley, in those parts. Could almost see people fishing salmon along the river. The textures aren't fantastic. Though once you get low enough, and the textures become grass. It looks much like any map in DCS. If they could improve the ground and mountain textures. This valley would be absolutely stunning. I have several plans to use this place for various missions/vidoes. So I decided to do a test mission, a highly realistic scenario. The mid 80s, two Norwegian F16s are vectored into Sweden to look for some unidentified aircraft spotted on Swedish radar, Norwegians happened to be in the neighbourhood so easier for them to do a 5 minute detour, then scramble Viggens from a far away base. It's probably some kids joyriding a Cessna or something.

Woosh!

I'm curious, what made it that best thing to tank from?

Honestly, they should spend a year finishing the south east part of the map.

I get far worse performance now then before the patch with my Pimax crystal. I have Quadview and eye tracking on in DCS, yet i still have like 10-15FPS less then before that patch, and this patch was supposed to include various performance improvements. Looking at the VR capture I did in OBS, it seems my quad view settings from quad view companions aren't working.

I know a guy that knows a guy, that can remedy that.

So how do I make sure DCS is using mbucchia quad view and not pimaxes own quadview?

Tour of new Kola summer textures, some still from my video. A short hop from Bodø to Kiruna. Looking at the new stuff, colours have improved massively, it looks much better, close up textures on the mountains still aren't great(much better than Afghanistan) the but the worst stuff is the ground textures of stuff not covered in trees. Between 200 feet and 2000 feet, these are at maximum ugly, imagine if you take the fields on Normandy 2 but make them very low textures and you got the general feel. Below 200 feet and the grass actually covers this and it just looks like.. grass. above 2000 feet, it's less noticeable. And now instead of flying 15 000 feet above the terrain for it too look good, now a good 3-4000 feet is enough, I was flying at 7000 feet over the mountains and most of the time it looked very good. Only when you got within 1000-2000 feet of a mountain top did the low textures become very obvious.

FU4 Corsair... Nah just kidding. Probably 3 more 20xx and beyond vidoes until we might see it for more than 3 seconds. I would like new infantry with the new animations. But most of all that long ago mentioned general flight model thing. That supposedly should fix so many AI aircraft problems. Any major improvement to ww2 DCS would be cool to.

I did some replay recording. And once the camera is all the way down. It's mostly covered in grass and looks OK. The absolute worst place to be in regards to ground textures in in-between 200 feet and 2000 feet. When you don't see the grass but the low quality textures of odd colours and patterns. But once you put the camera at head hight it looks quite a bit better then I thought it would

It looks better lower down yes. At ground level, no not really. Instead of flying 15 000 feet over the mountains. It's noe good enough to fly 3-4000 feet over the mountains. The main changes is much better colours. The mountains are a much better, darker gray, With lighter gray speckeling, you have permanent snow on some mountain tops. The green is much much better. Generally darker. All this makes it look much more realistic. And perfect fine flying at 3-4000 feet over the nearest terrain. But still not helicopter play land. The ground textures not covered with rock or trees are particularly bad. It looks like it's trying to representanter fields of some kind? But don't look good at all. Not a place you want to land a helicopter or have a ground fight.

Been asked several times (including from me at least once) would make it much easier to make night time vidoes.

Doesn't affect AI I'm afraid. Reflected tried to make the 109s behave better in his campaign. But whenever they climed, they climbed at full power with MW50, even if he had removed the MW50. But it works great for players.

How do you even turn on pimax Quadview? I've basically set up my piamx crystal, and Quadview a year ago and not touched anything since.

Haven't flown yet. Have to wait until tomorrow. But doing a free cam flight over Kola. I get this thing. Never seen that before. Don't know if it's related to Kola or the "terrain optimisations " from ED.

Curious about the new summer textures I made a mission and did a F11 free flight and this is what I get, never seen that ever before in any map while moving about in free cam

Nope. I didn't have those extra skins until I added it recently. So not part of default DCS. But as skins they are not considered mods. And can't br removed by removing mods and run a repair.

As long as there is just 1 model of one aircraft. That model should represent all versions. If they somehow makes earlier MIG21 versions that is fine. I would prefer that the historical filter filtered weapons more than aircraft models. It's easy enough to find when certain aircraft started to be used. But finding out exactly what bombs and missiles a specific country had access to in a time period can be much harder to find an answer too.

Except it doesn't work right. As its to specific. You can't give Libya MIG21s in 1975 because Libya didn't have the Bis until the 80s. And that goes for a lot of stuff. So that makes the historical filter next to useless. Edit. Damn sorry. Didn’t see this was a major necro post.