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In my panic, I began jinking and diving trying to gain energy and lose altitude into the hills and I didn't think to call the CAP. It happened so quickly that I don't think it would have mattered. It's moments like those that make this game great!

Been really busy this week. Hope to fly your 1.2(1) this weekend. Curiously, I tried the original release again earlier this week before the update, and wouldn't you know it. After link up with Tusk we headed towards the valley and a Mig 29 game out of nowhere and wiped us all out. Was a very intense and unexpected surprise, but alas, I was not able to evade and get into those valleys. I attribute it to me being in orbit too long while awaiting my wingman to catch up from the take off, perhaps I should have done that shortly after lift off...

Shaping up to be an awesome looking Beta. Thanks for the excellent work gents.

Okay, overall I am super happy. Took some finicking to get my Nvidia Surround to work, but now that it does it is awesome. Very immersive and I am very happy. I get decent frames with the landscape format, about 20 in the airfields or really heavy activity and 30 to 45 generally in the air. Pretty good for 6280 x 1080.

LOL. I personally don't consider this GAU-8 gun sound a little fix or change. It's awesome and worthy of bragging.

Great! I thought that it sounded fantastic in that vid. Much better than the old school digitized 8-bit bass sound currently.

I didn't see a GAU- 8 gun sound change in the Beta 5 change log. I did see this video released by Wags: Is this a change for Beta 5 or is that planned for a later update?

Yes, it is very doable. However, there are a multitude of complex controls to learn on the keyboard. It may take a bit of flight time to get used to and to understand the concepts of certain functions such as the DMS, TMS, Coolie Hat, Boat Switch, etc. I had a hard time grappling with those, until I got a real HOTAS setup (TM Warthog!). But, I was flying for about 3 or 4 weeks just as you are describing and it became quite natural. Just make sure your joystick w/throttle has plenty of extra buttons and not just the stick and throttle. Makes life easier.

80. Multiplayer client aerial refueling added. 81. Multiplayer client AWACS supported added. 83. Multiplayer client JTAC added. 84. Multiplayer client ATC added I worship thee for listening to your customer base. You guys are amazing and I can't wait for the continued evolution of this product. Going to buy Blackshark for giggles and to support your awesome work, and in anticipation of the eventual compatibility. Thanks again guys. I'm stoked!

Nice. Love the unexpected.

I agree with your thoughts on target 2. My rookie mistakes and I was making assumptions regarding the mission design, something a real pilot should never do. This exposed myself to unnecessary risks due to poor tactics based upon my thought of the "flow" of the battle. My specs are really decent for my PC as well in regards to that WP 6 hiccup. I am running 12 gigs of 2000 (OC) RAM on a Phenom x6 1100T @ 3.8, SSD RevoDrive, GTX 580's in SLI. Thanks again for a great mission addition. The data card and recon info was great to have and the voice overs add a lot to it.

Flew it, shot down. Some feedback with SPOILERS. First half went great, up to TGT 1. I still had that 5 to 6 second stutter passing waypoint 6 which almost puts me into the side of the valley. Once complete with TGT 1, the brief doesn't tell you what altitude you should flying at. I felt the mission was asking me to hug the deck and valleys still. Getting pinged by SA-6's along the way. No problem there. Buzzed passed the recce because I kept getting pinged by SA-6's again, didn't want to gain any altitude and be exposed. Got to target 2, still flying in the valley, F-15s cleared the IP and me and my wingie proceeded to get shot to shit by SAMs and Manpads. Was your intent for us to gain altitude for TGT 2 or maintain that low, in the valley, altitude. If so, tough cookie.

The actual acronyms are: IFR - Instrument Flight Rules VFR - Visual Flight Rules I guess there are "official" rules and procedures for each situation, but Greb provides the basic idea. Can't see shit, and can see shit.

Will check it out. I know that when I flew it, I took out my JTAC targets and those AH64s really wiped the remaining clean with extreme prejudice. Didn't have really any time to get some of those extras myself - there was a pretty light show below, however. Lots of tracers flying back and forth which was cool to watch.

Love DCS, but a Dynamic Campaign of some sort would make what it is 100 times better, even if implemented like F4 with odd missions.

How exactly do you deactivate? I used about half of mine during hardware issues and replacements.

Druid, immersion level in this mission is high. I love it. The air traffic at the airfield is great. The mission data card is awesome, the intel gave me a good picture of what needed to be done. I loved the surprise with Tusk. The added voice over provides great immersion and information to keep you into it as well. Problems. Maybe it is just me, by when I approached or was crossing waypoint 6, I encountered a huge freeze, probably 5 or 6 seconds. I almost at cliff, and barely recovered. This was maybe a large spawning or activation of TGT 1? Also, maybe it was totally coincidence, but upon arriving at TGT 1, Tusk calls out his targets spotted and begins to engage, probably 3 seconds into his first missile launch I get another big time freeze up, this one did not unfreeze. Still had mouse movement but couldn't hit esc or anything. Had to CTRL ALT DEL. Looking forward to giving it another go after I hit the gym, will let you know if this occurs twice. Very inspiring mission!

Excellent! I like the format of this post... seems more to follow? :thumbup: Edit to Add: Of course a rep for this also!

Beta 4 works great for me, I can wait a long time at this point. As long as ED can keep improving stuff in the meantime while Track IR is being investigated. Maybe even more polish for Beta 5 will be in the works. Either way, take your time... loving every minute of it.

Great, that will be nice. Currently hiding in the hills from Mig-29s in Southbound while taking a break for some chow. Thanks for these great missions.

Grebs, was thinking. Since your update and adapt your files to make corrections and updates, perhaps it would be useful to package up all of your latest mission versions into one zip file so I can just download the one zip file and unpack it and overwrite my previous Grebs missions with the newest version? Maybe not, but just a thought, not to replace the individual file list, but an additional zipped all inclusive latest versions would be nice.

I picked them up... pixel size seems a tad larger feeling than I am used to. I was using 1920 x 1200 on a 23", so upsizing to 27" and dropping to 1920 x 1080 will take a bit getting used to. The color isn't as deep as I hoped but, not a deal breaker. The bezels don't bother me now that I am set up. Problem is, I can't configure Nvidia Surround! Works great on desktop manipulating windows but all games default to using the center screen, left and right show the desktop background. I read something about some people not having the SLI configuration option in the control panel with the new drivers. That appears to be the case with mine, will have to check after classes tomorrow. Love those no bezel monitors.

Going triple monitor tomorrow, will save it till then!

Keep it up Greb. Loving your missions.

No, not this week but hopefully next.