Zimmerdylan

Flares were used to mark locations and basic info on what was at that location to near by allied aircraft. I imagine each color was assigned whatever fit the mission or scenario. In DCS, people use them to find each other.

As of several updates ago, the embark feature no longer works in the Huey or the Mi8. As of now, there has been no information on when or if it will ever get fixed.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=165068

Yeah.....but this issue did not exist until an update or two ago. I never had this problem before.

I do have Nevada, and it runs fine. But the Normandy map looks a whole lot more detailed and I cannot see how it won't consume a lot more resources. I have read that it isn't going to be any worse than Nevada, but I'm skeptical about it. ED has always come through when it comes to performance. More so than any other sim that I've owned. But Normandy looks pretty impressive. I'll be pretty bummed if I have to upgrade my system because it will be a while before I'm able to do that.

I'm wondering if it will require some folks to have to upgrade their computers. It seems to be quite an upgrade with all of the forests, and the buildings. The map is quite beautiful and I'm eager to see it. I'm holding off on the purchase though because if it does require a lot more than my system can deliver, I'm not in a position to run out and upgrade, and I don't want a map that I cannot use at this point. I hope this won't be the case.

Yeah....I hope that they fix the new reflection that they implemented the last update. It effects all of the aircraft and it's quite distracting and in the way. I understand the effect that they're shooting for but it's grossly overstated.

I get what both Lemeon, and Gunfighter6 are saying. I too keep the ball centered while in flight. However, when the aircraft is off center and the ball is perfectly centered, it feels counter intuitive and unnatural and my natural instinct is to straighten it out. So, the easiest way for me to do that is to use the collective to change the torque. So what Gunfighter is saying is that the "crabbing" is just a simple fact of flying and so long as the ball is centered, all is well no matter how awkward it may seem?

From all that I have heard from Steam users, the disadvantages of using it are never outweighed by the benefits. I hear complaint after complaint from it's users about update issues, compatibility issues, late release issues, serial number issues, etc. There always seems to be problems. For the life of me I could never see why anyone would go through a middle man when you can go directly to the source. I think that a lot of the younger folks use steam because it's sold in a shiny package with a bunch of "perks". Many of the older people prefer to just do it the simple way.

Here is a documentary about the allied bombing campaign during WWII. Very interesting and enlightening movie. It gives perspective as to how realistic a flight sim is not. There is no way I will ever know how hard these guy's lives were during this time. Whew!!!! I'm thankful for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olsAMx0fPq0

I just gave it a quick look. This video has been around for a while and most have seen it, so I would say yes it's been seen by pretty much everyone around.

This may sound harsh or like I am knocking your point. But all I am really doing is showing you another side of this thing. There are other flight sims out there that cost much more than DCS and charge more for the terrain and it's still not of DCS quality. I have another sim that was mentioned earlier in this thread that I had been flying for several years before I started getting into DCS. Just like everything you are saying, rivers were terrible, terrain (even in well marked cities like Chicago, Paris, and Las vegas) was all generic with minimal or in most cases no landmarks, and very unrealistic. Empty airports everywhere. I even purchased their las Vegas terrain and it was much more of a circus cartoon than the DCS NTTR map. It got to the point to where I just hated using it. As of a few months ago this other Sim company released their newest version with all new updated tech and terrain generators, blah blah blah yet it still looks like a cartoon and you still have to invest hundreds of dollars to get anything out of it that as realistic as DCS is putting out. I too have been and will be in Vegas many many times. I know the place very well, and much is missing from DCS's version. But still....much more is missing from the other pay version. And honestly, I don't think that you are going to find any version in a sim that's as accurate as reality for countless reasons. It's just silly to think that your going to get that kind of detail. The other sim that I am talking about gets a lot of complaints about the graphics and how a lot of people cannot use it because their computer cannot handle the mass amounts of (albeit) generic scenery. Many people have to run the sim at minimum settings. And the creators of the sim readily admit that there is no computer out there that is capable of running it at max settings. I for one believe that. And yet again, it's still not as attractive as DCS is. Not to mention that the flight model isn't even in the same class as DCS (we could go on for days about it's terrible flight model), and it's clouds and weather isn't as good as DCS. Yet it has been updated to a new and better version that'll set you back $60, and still hundreds more if you want to make it worth flying. Noooo thanks. The detail (as vague as it may seem to some) in DCS is plenty fine with me and I'm happy to pay for it because I've owned the other software, and it's no better than DCS. In fact....I don't fly the other any more. DCS is so much better on all levels. I believe that there are people who have an unrealistic expectations of computer games and simulators. I use to be one of them. The day I started realizing that it's a computer and not reality, and started understanding that there are limitations on both my side and the developer's side and stopped trying to compare 0's and 1's to reality. That was the day that I really started enjoying my flight sim. It's just not real, and we cannot expect it to be.

Doesn't sound to me like the clip wing had any real advantages. If this is the case, I'm not really in any hurry to try it out.

Really? I didn't know that. Now I'm wondering why.:dunno::dunno:

I don't know....I don't see a whole lot of vegetation. The vegetation that you see when you get close to the ground is so small and similar to the ground in color that it quickly dissappears when you get to any height. Whatever trees may be in the desert are rarely ever as big as an orange tree and the leaves are very small. When you get rain on the average of every 180 days, things get small. Google can show all it wants to show. When you live here, it's another story. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67226801?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com# https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi16fzTifjSAhXlgFQKHet6D9IQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shutterstock.com%2Fvideo%2Fclip-4242749-stock-footage-aerial-view-desert-rocky-landscape-in-hot-arid-climate-nr-las-vegas-nevada-usa.html&psig=AFQjCNHL6XKHZD32j34a_e7xWgihuFu_VQ&ust=1490751876286749

LOL.....I get where you are coming from. I purchased Combined Arms some years ago and found it to be pretty much a bust. Although I know how to use it and have on occasion, I found the whole M.E. to be counter intuitive, and probably the buggiest thing about DCS as a whole. Whenever I have tried to set up elaborate missions, I found that it took so much effort, trial and error, and messing with things to get past the downright bugginess of the whole thing that I just don't bother with it. Now a days all I ever do is create very simple mission where I don't have to expect much from any AI, and I never use the Combined Arms stuff at all any more. Too much hassle. Honestly, I'm glad I got it on sale for like $10. Nothing personal E.D. Combined Arms just wasn't one of your better modules.

EXACTLY!! The deserts in Nevada are actually very barren. If you have never been there and seen them, you probably can not imagine just how empty they are.

With the last update, several of the modules had serious bugs that pretty much put them out of commission. Unfortunately, the 190 was one such casualty. In the 2.0 section of the forums, there are fixes you can download for every plane but the 190. I am not sure why it has not been addressed but I'm fairly certain that there must be a reason. I guess all I can tell you is to hang in there and it'll get fixed. My 190 module suffers the same problems so you aren't alone. Here is a link to the downloads for fixes in case you have any other bugged up modules, and to check and see when the 190 fix gets released: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=184537 Good Luck!!

If you want a very effective way of knowing when it goes in and out of auto hover, use Rctrl+Enter to bring up the controls indicator. When you go into auto hover, it says "auto hover" in the box in large white letters. This way you can instantly see if you were successful at getting it switched on.

This is the solution. It use to happen to me. I filled out a ticket with ED on it and they had me reset my resolution to match my monitor. Problem was solved at that point.

Guys...For many of us it just doesn't work period. We can do any and all of the things that all of you are suggesting, but it's just broken. Unfortunately, those of us who are suffering this bug are just going to have to wait for the fix to come out. It's not looking to promising at this moment.

Very good point

I believe that DCS has got a bright future also. But I think that in the short term, it's going to get much rockier and harder before it gets better. They've bitten off an awful lot for anyone to chew and it's just now starting to come down to the wire. I'm battening down the hatches for a stormy year or so of bugs, updates, and frustrations due to the both of them. Although most of us here know and understand the nature of this beast, it doesn't make it any less frustrating when we get into the the eye of the storm. We all really appreciate you ED, and we tend to forget the 100 good days when we have a few bad ones. It's human nature I suppose.

Yep! I always worry that even though I'm not fond of our clouds as they are now that my frame rate is going to take a huge hit when they implement the new ones.

Thanks for bringing this up guys. I have been trying to explain this issue as it exists in 2.0 also. They told me to post a track but the tracks are terminally toast in DCS so it's not an option for me. But this issue also exists in 2.o