Gunfreak

I light up a FW190A8 (Kraut-3) He then continues to fly his burning aircraft, for several miinutes, his props is feathered and he is happy sitting getting roasted. He then decided to try and land in the middle of Paris only to futilely attempt to bail out way way too late. good old combat-20240730-141822.rar

I assume DCS needs core updates for the flachetes to work. I assume DCS needs proper fragmentation effects for flachetes to work. There are many aircraft in DCS that did use flachetes. F4 used them liberally in Vietnam, so did AH-1(not that we have that in DCS, but one can hope)

I saw that easy com was on and turned it off. Problem was still there. But a restart fixed it. The odd thing is I flew the apache and F16 after the update and there everything was normal. No easy com. So it's all a bit confusing.

I've bound the Push to talk radio menu, the button on the throttle goes in as I push, but no menu comes up The Default communication button works, but I've always used the Push to talk (radio menu) and it has worked, now it dosn't

Bloody day in Lashkargah

Changing minor flight model stuff can't be that hard. Flight model changes each time you add or remove weapons from an aircraft, that happened in all DCS models all the time. The wing is still mostly the same shape. So nothing drastic is happening. It's mostly 3d work. Same with the gunsight. The Mk II gyro is basically the same the k14 in thr 47 and 51(k14 being just an American version of the mk ii) so it's mostly 3d work and some coding to adapt the gunsight to the ammo used by the spitfire. Not saying it can be done over a weekend. But hardly a new aircraft. From my understanding our spitfire is already a bit of a frankenbird. Originally being a MkV upgraded to MkIX. But missing many standard MkIX features both visual and practical (I've been told standard mk XIs had bomb arming switches etc)

A terrible and blood day in Lashkargah

Smoke should also be affected by jet wash and prop wash.

The E wing should be relatively easy to do. It's minor graphics fix. I don't think it changes flight modeling much. And they 20mm and .50 cals are already in game. However the .50 doesn't seem very effective in game. So I'm not sure 2 .50s will be any more effective than 4 .303s And I think most of Spitfires with E wing would also have the gyro gunsight.

Well DCS doesn't have proper ww2 forward air controller, not for US or Britain. But the warbirds do have British wingmen at least.

With Afghanistan and, particularly with Helmand. I feel we need British voiced JTAC and the call sign widow, which seems to have been almost universal JTAC callsign for the British in Afghanistan.

I tried to find a nice place to do some CAS. Placing some vehicles at various places on the map. In villages and towns. And after 10 minutes of doing this I found 1 place that looked nice. There were other places. But they had airfields. And so feel kinda odd taking off from one air field to drop bombs right next to another airfield. Those places that didn't have airfields were some buildings or towns. In decent quality, but surrounded by terrible flat low quality textures.

Cold war trouble. Norwegian F86s fight Soviet MiG15s over Norway. Causing a potential flash point for WW3.

Which is good news for Kola. Hope to see the same level of quality there after a while

See my previous reply. Nobody decides to play or not play DCS because of a save game feature. If they think modules are to expensive, they simply don't play DCS. If they think the game is too complex they simply won't play DCS. If they start to play DCS, then mabye after several months to several years they'll miss a saved game feature. But it won't stop them playing. We've already gone though several games that don't have it, including the majority of Flight sims. It's obviously not the easiest or most necessary since DCS and other flight sims are doing fine without it. If it was easy ED would have added it long ago.

It's an obstacle for those that has already invented lots of time to get into the game. New DCS players have way too many other things to get into an learn. To even think about "does this game have a save feature " it's way way down on the list of important things for new players. DCS will be better with a save feature, which is why they are adding it. But you make it sound like. 1. It's super easy to add 2. It's incredibly important. It's none of those things. It's one of many things that will improve DCS when it comes. But has very little effect on getting new players into DCS or keeping old players playing. It a quality of life feature.

I've never heard anyone say. They don't play DCS because of lack of save feature. The usual reasons are, 1. Expensive, both the module themselves and/or hardware equipment 2. Overly complex 3. Doesn't have the aircraft they want. As well as various silly reasons like it's a Russian company, or they are evil in one way or another. Never seen anyone say lack of save game feature is stopping them from playing DCS.

Excellent, there are definitely some units that take too much damage, like the previous mentioned uboat, but also the 3 other ww2 ships in the game. Also some stuff like ww2 AT guns, I assume if you just want them to take less punishment You just add "at mission start" and add UNIT AI SET LIFE. No need for anything else?

What does "UNIT AI SET LIFE" Does it what it sounds like. You can specify how much "health/life" an AI unit has? I'm asking as this sounds interesting, as some units have way too much health (like the German uboat that can take several 500lb bombs )

Do you mean the lack of conifers? It's related to preformance. But they have added more conifers to Kola.

I'm guessing it's because it will be released together with however many other new infantry models they are making.

Absolutely not. Both take place on small areas with limited number of units. Madden is very simple game. While in F1, it's the cars that are complex. But still few in numbers. Compare that to hundreds of complex aircraft. Over vast areas(destructable areas) that can fire hundreds of missiles and fire tens of thousands of bullets. And that just some of the stuff a DCS save had to keep track of. Some simple humans on a 100 meter field is nothing to that. Nor is 2 dozen cars on a small track.

Obviously you're gonna make the imagines 3d. Neither Kola or SA are flat. Nor is that other sim flat. So high resolution satellite imagines are of course not gonna be flat. Why ED decided to just add flat textures, you'll have to take up with them.

Either go back to hand crafted or massively improve the satellite imaging resolution. (Which according to Orbx needs to be an ED core update)

Probably turned on camera blur.