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Perhaps this should be in a new topic, but it sure seems related. Not me, a video that YouTube popped at me. Dude is going against a swarm of SAMs no problem. Ridiculous. I commonly see people defeating missiles way too easily in DCS. Roll Defeating SAM Swarm

Yeah chump. Look here. I own FC okay. I play plenty of it. The F-15C is one of my fave planes. And no, the MiG-21bis isn't much better than it. My advice is questionable? Your entire comment is questionable. What is your point child? Did you just come here to be a prick or what? Nothing constructive to say at all. Just want to dis me, that's the ONLY reason you commented. Ready to throw your mouth open and spew out massive pointless BS just to hear yourself. (in this case read yourself) Going over your other comments, that seems to be all you've got in general. Get bent schmuck. Suck rotten eggs. Blocked.

It's fun, but don't be thinking it's particularly realistic. At Full Fidelity prices, you're getting pretty much (at this point) a Flaming Cliffs level module.

Emphasis mine. 2022 update. ........ yeaahhh

All I know is this isn't a good look for Magnitude 3. I for one have total 100% lack of confidence in them doing ... well ...... ANYTHING really. The F-4 Corsair is still vaporware after how long now? It sure seems like they're defunct, or at least rapidly headed that way. Their interest in maintaining regular development seems nil to non-existent. If they read these forums they've seen this thread. But any actual word? No, not really. One inconsequential post from one guy. Once. Which addresssed nothing and only reenforced my feeling that they don't really care anymore. They're not into it, I doubt anything even gets worked on weekly, maybe monthly. And have zero business sense or they'd be on top of the MiG-21 situation. I enjoy the module. I fly it plenty. It's one of my faves. I can overlook the foibles, but sometimes they just rear up in your face and you can't ingnore it. <cough>RSBN<cough>engine power<cough> We won't be getting a better MiG-21 of any sort until some other company picks it up or the user community tackles it. Either way, it's years away. Still tho, sooner than Mag 3 would do it. I've been thinking that maybe part of the problem is the focus on the details of the model. Which really isn't important at all to playing the game. The FM, DM, avionics, etc ... THOSE are all the most important things. I'd rather fly a box with a totally accurate systems and flight and damage model then an aircraft that looks exactly like the real thing but has a crappy FM etc. We don't need nuts and bolts and rivets modeled. No one cares if the cockpits are freakin laser-scanned. (Cleaning up a laser scan is a serious time consuming PITA as well). No one cares of the dials and switches are accurate to the milimeter. If they do, they're playing the wrong game/simulator. Early access would be a lot cooler if the avionics and such were the detailed focus with crappy looking models and textures.

Okay. I have become influenced to accept that it might be possible for a Huey to do these things.

First let me say, I don't often get so into a campaign as to play only it fully to the finish. But this is mostly what I did with Paradise Lost. EXCELLENT campaign. I did play UN Pilot a bit here and there (as well as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis) but mostly have just been trying to get thru Paradise Lost. The campaign SERIOUSLY improved my Huey flying. If only ED would address the performance issues of the Marianas map, but they get no money out of it so that's unlikely <sigh> Mission 9 tho. ... Mission 9 ... I've been thinking about what to say about mission 9. I flew ahead of the convoy, not just orbited overhead. If I saw a good likely ambush spot I'd zip ahead and check it out then zip back to the convoy. Well, I checked out the woods around those warehouses and saw nothing, so proceeded further ahead. When I got the call about the ambush I was pretty surprised and figured I'd missed something. But finding out where they were? I was like like, "Uh, why didn't I see them when I flew over a moment ago?" Roof colored tarps over themselves maybe? I dunno. <shrug> lol At any rate, they got very very rapidly slaughtered by my gunners. I took almost no hits. SO! Thinking this may be a decoy ambush since it was rather weak, I rushed as fast as I could to catch back up with the rest of the convoy, which was approaching heavy jungle areas where larger ambushes would be easy. I got to them, but was exceedingly surprised to be called back to orbit over the casualties to protect them, even tho I'd already taken care of that. At any rate, proceeding on ... Went to FSB Berlin. .. Let me tell you, I freakin HATE FSB Berlin!! LOL (not complaining, it's the pilot) Landing there is the worst. Took mortar rounds to the face. .............. I crashed there trying to land. Suffice to say I crashed several times not just at FSB B but before and after that as well. Which meant I had to replay that beginning convoy protection over and over. IIRC five times. And obviously, I knew each time exactly where the convoy would get attacked. I decided not to "cheat" and preteneded I didnt' know that at first, and did my escort patrol as normal. But eventually that became tiresome so I'd just wait at the buildings til the bad guys popped into existence then annihilate them immediately. Pehaps it would be possible to randomize the location of the ambush so the player doesn't end up in a situation like I did? Of course, with ED's "save mid-mission" feature upcoming, that will be less needed. But still. ... Gotta say, I was VERY surprised there wasn't a further, larger ambush waiting .... Thanks for a great campaign! I'll definitely be considering your others. I'm likely to create a new mortal pilot to see if I can get thru the campaign without dying. (only 20 deaths registered, 68% mission success .. but easily twice that many including "refly"ing missions) But I would say in general that if you can finish Paradise Lost then you can fly the Huey. It was also during this campaign + UN Pilot that I realized that DCS's logbook is f-ed up. For one thing, it doesn't record flight hours and other stats if you "Refly" a mission. You have to end the mission and then fly it again as the next campaign mission. 76 campaign missions but only 36 flight hours? uhhhhh no LOL Far more deaths as well.

I like how you think, great ideas!! Now if only Mag3 saw this ........ Indeed. Do they even care? Would users approaching them even matter?

Extremely irritating indeed. Paradise Lost campaign is where I also discovered this. I just turned rain off, sadly, as you just can't fly right with the windscreen covered in rain drops. Don't worry tho, there's not rain in most missions. (I have two missions left)

So for fun the other day, just to see, I tried to do a full loop at low altitude in my Huey and .......... ........ It worked. The helo didn't break. I also almost did a low altitude barrel roll but crashed before I could complete it. But could have. Something is not right with the flight model. A Huey doing a full loop or barrel roll? I think not.

We need to convince the companies making all the combat planes for MSFS to come on over and get 'em runnin in DCS as well. LOL .. As if

True. It would be a nice head start tho eh. And some good will, ya know? "The first module released for DCS is now open to the community" Dreams. heheh. It's a source of income for M3 AND ED. so yeah no. <shrug> But a man can dream, can't he?

I ended up setting it to -6. Much better.

AH! So you mean like the co-pilot in the Huey actually acting like a co-pilot, being able to follow a route accurately and set the radios up like they're supposed to .....

I was only just informed of this via Discord. So cool, at least there's that. Does lower or higher move it down tho? Degrees? Why is that the unit? How about simply "displacement" with no units, that starts at 0 and goes both positive and negative? Makes way more sense. HOWEVER! That isn't accessible while playing. So it's a matter of trial-and-error entering a scenario in the helo, checking the position, exiting the scenario, changing the parameter, repeat and repeat and repeat until it's right. Would be MUCH better to have an in-game adjustment.

What is "the GMF?"

I honestly don't think Magnitude 3 cares. I get the feeling they think it'd be a chore to work on, and then only begrudgeingly. HECK!! They haven't even released anything yet, and the Fishbed is 3rd on their "to do" list, at best. It's time for them to let it go so the community can work on it. They clearly don't care anymore.

In VR, the helmet mounted sight sits around my right eyebrow, causing me to have to have to tilt my head down and awkwardly look up with my eye to see thru the freakin sight. This can't possibly be the correct placment of the sight. It makes it awkard to use, at best. And bugs my eyes at worst, with neck crick. Please move it to the right spot, or allow users to reposition it. Did anyone actually test this in VR? I gotta wonder sometimes, as some issues are simply too obvious to have been missed by testers. How long has this been like this with no one doing anything about it? I can't be the only one to notice this and bring it up. It's ridiculously irritating seeing such a glaringly wrong thing still existing. Don't even TRY to tell me it's in the right position. It's literally over my eyebrow. 100% user-unfriendly. No one would design something like this. Vive Cosmos. I tried adjusting the headset, but no. That doesn't help. The sight is where it is regardless how I position my headset.

Wow. Ten freakin years?

Playing mission 6 here you're supposed to follow flight leader. The problem is he can't seem to maintain a constant speed or altitude. I'm constantly having to slow down or speed up. He says to fly at 100kts, but then flies at 80kts himself. At turns he'll often slow down to 40kts or less. Then, when it gets to the waypoint where the player is supposed to drop off troops and you're supposed to land within 40m of the flight leader, he just kinda meanders along low to the ground and ridiculously slow. I'm just like, "Will you please just show me where to freakin land already?!" Is this campaign broken? When was it last checked against updates?

GOOD GOD Relative position would be awesome. I find it very frustrating that the cursor moves with where I look. Cursor color and transparency I hadn't considered, but that indeed would be very nice. Thank you much. I'm certainly going to try this.

Ha ha. A lot of times I have to wiggle the mouse to get it to move or even appear, and I accidentally hit the left mouse button while it was over "Quit."

Anyone got any tips on tuning? In particular for helos. Settings relationships between the Logitech software, DCS, and simFFB ....... I'm just not getting it; thus haven't been using simFFB. Largely cuz I feel like I'm just blindly groping around.

I was playing a campaign mission yesterday, in VR, and opened the ESC menu to check on a key binding. I accidentally hit Quit instead, immediately dumping me out of the mission I'd been in for over 30 minutes already. "Quit To Desktop" has a confirmation dialog. Pretty please add one to the "Quit" as well. I just sat there with my face in my hands for like 10 minutes afterward. This isn't the first time I've done this, but it's the worst time.

Anything done about this yet? Seems not too difficult a solution. Swap the binds.