peakfirearm

DCS World: "Our flight models are the most realistic ever created" but also DCS World: *dramatically changes flight models of simulated aircraft and missiles like it's call of duty modern warfare on console bc people cried on forums about a specific ac/missile being too good in multiplayer*

well with hb taking 70% of f110 ab thrust away below m0.7, decreasing lift, and adding a bunch of airframe drag making F14B "a grape" seems like a fairly reasonable hypothesis you say this like you know with absolute certainty I have spent zero time doing bfm vs AI recently

I'd love to see Ward Carroll or some fmr F14 guy like that fly a HBF-14B go up against some high middle tier F15, F16, F18, M2KC, Su27 guy from pvp guns only guy that only flies 1v1 pvp guns bfm in config you find in a mission for a server like something JustDogfight 1v1 slots or DCS Dogfighters 1v1 slots then broadcast it live. it'll never happen. clean light f15, f16, f18, etc vs F14B at 12.0 internal fuel and no aim54 rails. those videos were either made 3+ years ago or are canned not out in the wild of dcs multiplayer

This is maybe the least adversarial least derogatory least derisive most reasonable sounding thing I've ever heard anyone respond to me within the various flavors of DCS themed forums/discussion boards/discords. The most frustrating thing about the last sentence you wrote is the claims by HB/ED/Razbam/Deka that the F14,F15,F16, F18, Su27, M2KC, JF17, whatever module is released into the future is the most accurate realistic in a sim ever the closest they all can be to reality. they existed for years a certain way then with a single update, boom paradigm shift as far as how massively dramatic the changes are and the inversion reshuffling of things while HB/ED/Razbam/3pd's still continue their claims of accuracy, realism, concern for detail. "You can tell 100 truths, yet if you tell a single lie..."

AI is a joke dude. It has no relevance or carryover to PVP BFM

not an ounce actionable advice. just a simple "stop sucking at flying dcs BFM" ahktually, hb flight model panders to F15, F16, F18, M2KC, Su27 crowd but what is there to learn from someone saying "practice more learn to fly better"? not like anyone threw the "Comprehensive F14B DACT 1v1 guns BFM playbook" at me. I just get a bunch of meaningless nebulous passive aggressive internet forum guy gitgud nonsense about get better/don't suck like you do now

it's like airframe capability is a nonfactor airframe capability accounts for nothing "just don't suck at life" essentially same thing as telling a hobo to stop being poor

nope 1v1 guns pvp in F14B vs competent DACT 4G opponents not winning in any regime at any speed at any altitude. have no advantage anywhere at any time in any configuration. not out climbing out turning out accelerating out retaining energy out less dragging anyone. hence the asking different ways my specific F14B module flight model is broken or seems to significantly differ from claims of the masses(whether that is bc dev, bc mission design, bc biased realtime server admin actions within mp session) when everyone else seems to think it's the greatest performing thing of all time My F14B flight model is just a eagle dynamics heatblur razbam deka mk-ultra psyop experiment

man I'd love to have that evidence so my F14B could be awesome again in my lil crappy worthless departed reality but it's like hunting bigfoot

Did HB trade HBF14B 2019 flight model with ED 2019 Hornet flight model? So now the present day HB F14B FM has 2019 Hornet FM and present day Hornet has 2019 HBF14B flight model?

maybe it'll help me improve in different module with more capable performance?

IMHO BFM vs AI isn't even remotely in the same ballpark as pvp 1v1 guns. Yeah, I can drop the flaps in F14B. Yeah it breaks the jet. In pvp multiplayer, no it doesn't help me as far as getting me a competitive/slightly superior rate/radius/slow speed maneuvering advantage/pointability. Maybe if HB hadn't have decreased F110 ab thrust below M0.7, decreased lift, and increased airframe drag F14B would still have a chance with only maneuver flaps the way it used to. like if a 4G DACT opponent can turn tighter faster with higher sustained g with less drag while losing less energy than me in every regime/bfm gameplan what am I supposed to do? isn't that the entire name of the game of 1v1 guns bfm? IMHO cashing everything in burning all my energy for a snapshot is a last ditch desperation move where I have a high chance of missing then winding up low slow and dead

I mean I could merge faster fly faster whatever, but what am I supposed to do if whatever 4G DACT opponent is still wrecking me from a energy retention/cleaner aero FM/less draggy FM/radius/rate etc? sure I guess I could just try to cash in everything I have for a snapshot, in my experience that's a 1/100 chance I connect on that gunshot. In guns DACT if the opponent can "keep me G'd up" then bleed me down to nothing every time whether it be in the horizontal/vertical/some combo of both and can also outrate me 2C out point me 1C out pipper me with laser accurate gunsight, what are my options? Throw in the towel? Give up on F14 BFM? In F14B I used to be able to control the fight, now in F14B I'm the fish in the barrel.

Has the ED damage model guy been permanently out to lunch for the past few years? Countless times I've been outrated by a F15, F16, F18, Su-27 lacking an H-stab or other critical control surface that seemingly should dramatically decrease controllability/performance in a dogfight.

I still run into a lot of people in multiplayer that say in server chat claiming or thinking the HBF14B is amazing from a performance perspective at 1v1 guns BFM. That has not been my personal experience for nearly 3 years now. Seems I get outrated by everything, I can’t energy fight can’t do anything where I have an edge or advantage in HBF14B. You name the BFM DACT gameplan, I’m gonna be outperformed in HBF14B where prior to 3 years ago, it was a completely different story. Am I living in some kind of alternate reality compared to every other person who flies the HBF14B DACT 1v1 guns? Beyond HB significantly decreasing F110 afterburner thrust below mach 0.7(right in the heart of F14B ideal maximal turnrate corner speed), decreasing lift, and significantly increasing F14 airframe drag, what are the possible reasons for this? Is it possible I have been sentenced to my individual F14B module having an especially terribly underperfroming HBF14B flight model for my being such a “detestable insufferable thorn” in the side of everyone in DCS? Is it possible the flight model of the specific HBF14B module I own is different than that of every other person’s HBF14B module’s flight model? Is it possible another party I'm unaware of has altered my HBF14B flight model in some aspect or capacity? Is it possible that server admins are able to alter a specific module’s performance within their mission design? Is it possible that multiplayer server admins are able to dynamically selectively change flight model characteristics within a multiplayer session for clients within their server they favor and those that they despise? When I get salty at 1v1 guns the high and mighty people I’m flying against say to me all the time “just fly your jet better…” which doesn’t make sense to me because if I’m flying my best corner speed/ideal turnrate speed doing every thing I can to survive/get the kill/win yet I’m still being outrated by 5 degrees per second what else can I do?(you’d think hornet/eagle/viper/mirage/flanker bois would remember being in a similar position in 2019 seems no one has any recollection of that must be conveniently selective memory) Or I’m in the vertical trying to energy fight somebody in multiplayer that’s doing simple flight model AI boomerang loop garbage what am I supposed to do?