Zimmerdylan

Actually, the guy you are addressing isn't too far from the truth as far as I know. I only say as far as I know because I've been out of the military for 30 years and don't keep up on the modern tanks. But when I was in the Army, we use to go out and watch A10's obliterate T55's in just a few short seconds. The T55 tank was like warm butter being pummeled with a BB gun. I do remember seeing what the A-10 cannon did to a T-72, not as it happened but we looked at one and it was pretty messy also. No tank could have survived that kind of damage. Never seen a T-80 as there were no captured ones on the range that I knew of. As for T-90, past my time. The A10 also has trouble with the German WWII tanks in DCS and that's just out and out silly. There are some issues that ED never seems interested in addressing, and this is one of them. And you can say that the new damage model is coming all day long. With ED, I believe it when it gets here, not before. Sun rises in the East..........:music_whistling:

wow....I thought at was just me. I set up a bunch of T55 tanks just for target practice and really had to hammer em to get any kills. 2 or 3 passes. It never use to be like that.

I have always come back to the A10. It's the only AC I fly missions in outside of the P-51. I own 2/3rds of the modules here but those two planes are the ones I fly.

Day one problem, and it seems that ED isn't in a hurry to fix it. One of the most frustrating issues in the sim. To get good tracks you can download 3rd party software and use it to record. Nvidia use to have it built into their stock download, I don't know if they still do.

I have had this issue before. I do not know how, but it seems to come and go from time to time. I wish I could help but I'm more interested in finding the solution. It was very frustrating when it was happening. It has been a while since the last time it's happened. But it was pretty consistently occurring for a time.

I pre purchased the Sabre when it was first announced. I have owned both it and the Mig15 from their release dates. Honestly, I have never particularly enjoyed flying either of them. I may take a cruise around once in a while in one of them but I fly no missions or do any kind of challenge in them. When the Hawk was released I purchased it. The plane was full of problems but I preferred it to the F86. All of the control issues with the Hawk that people seemed to have didn't hold a candle to the issues I have always had with the F86 and the Mig15. It seemed odd to me that people were shredding VEAO and the Hawk, when the F86 and Mig had what I saw as a very flawed flight model. More so than the Hawk. Today, after a long absence from DCS, I flew the F86. All of those terrible issues that I had with it came rushing back like flood waters from a broken levy. It didn't take long before I was so frustrated that I shut down DCS and am shelving Belsimtek planes once again. Maybe some of you feel my pain, maybe some of you don't see or understand what I dislike about these two planes. What I can tell you is that I do not plan on purchasing any Belsimtek modules down the line because of these issues. So I am going to state my issues here and then maybe some of you can offer solutions or insight to me. Belsimtek has become my VEAO. 1. The nose of both of these planes is all over the screen. Controlling either plane is terrible. When you are trying to do anything requiring precision, it's like balancing a marble on the tip of a needle. The plane bounces like crazy with the smallest of movement. I have set my axis curve up to 30% and it has never helped. The plane just becomes sluggish on top of sloppy. No other module that I own acts like this. These two planes have always been this way and I absolutely dread doing anything in either of them. 2. I spend 90% of my time fighting the trim. The trim in these planes is horrible. There is no sweet spot. And by this I mean that there is no 100% sweet spot in any plane. But you can get relative stability to where you aren't fighting to keep the nose down or up. These planes don't trim worth a damn. You are either fighting going completely nose up, or into the ground. No plane in any sim that I fly is this bad. And yes, I know how to balance my trim with the throttle and all of that. These Belsimtek modules don't seem to be capable of trimming well. I spend more time fighting the plane than performing tasks in missions. 3. There just is no stability in general. When I have an easier time flying WWII planes that have no trim. There's a problem with the flight model of a modern jet IMO. Keep in mind that I know about speed issues with both planes and how they become difficult to manage at higher speeds. These planes fly like crap at any speed. I have always disliked these two planes for these reasons only. I want to fly and enjoy them but they're just no fun. So........To that end. How do people who find these planes enjoyable feel about my issues. Am I crazy? Or am I just doing something wrong? Is there some secret to the trim? Do you find the nose of these planes to bounce like a rubber ball? If not, please share what you may be doing that I am not. I personally find them less likable than the Hawk. I don't care if the cockpit textures aren't perfect as long as I can keep the plane steady. In my opinion, the Hawk was head over heels to Belsimtek in this area. This is a constant struggle in the Belsimtek panes and I let them sit on the shelf because of it. Thanks

I tried to watch a playback track the other day for the first time in maybe a year. They never worked for spit so I just never used it. But I figured that maybe they may have patched it. But it seems to have gotten worse. I could only watch it from the initial views that I played the mission in. I was not able to do any external views or even turn my head to see or check anything. So OP.....I understand your plight. Oh....and no I did not save the track first.

Too glitchy, lots of bugs, no improvement for years, it's not worth it in my book. I got it and found it un user friendly, and it never really performed as it was suppose to unless you could figure out a ton of work arounds, and even then it still had issues. CA and thus far the WWII assets pack are both just not worth the money at this point.

Only a couple of weeks before we get the popping Christmas lights for the holidays. Woohoo!!!:thumbup:

I have a modest rig that runs 2.5 okay. It wasn't great with the Persian Gulf map. It was a bit hard on my FPS. But I have not flown in 6 or 7 months now. I just ordered a new HOTAS and was wondering if updates have helped with 2.5's performance and if they've optimized things a little to boost it a bit. I have nearly all of the modules and have been flying DCS for many years. With Nvidia and the other hardware companies jacking their prices out of control, I would hate to have to Stop flying and waste all that I have invested in DCS due to hardware inferiority. I was hoping that ED were working on streamlining things a bit so that those of us with older rigs can enjoy flying for a bit longer.

I have and do run a business, for 30 years now. My business is one of the hardest to be successful at than any other on the planet yet I have done it very successfully for all of this time. I did not get where I am by fluffing my customers. If there are issues that need addressed, I pull my resources and address them because the success of any given project for a client demands it in order to maintain the high level of professional service that I do. My reputation precedes me in my industry. Do my clients know and understand the nuts and bolts of what I do for them? Most of the time absolutely not. What they do understand is that when something isn't working, they need it fixed. They don't care how, or what I have to do to get it done. They Don't want fluff. They want the issues fixed with no excuses. I give them just that or I offer them another viable alternative. So this whole argument getting old attitude is nothing to the oldness of the years long issues that seem to hinder DCS. That is old. Really old. Years old. My business absolutely would not have survived a year if did not understand how it all worked. I'm going on year 33. On a final note: My personal work is at least on the same level as ED's. I am in media and entertainment. You and almost everyone who has ever been on these forums has experienced my personal work at one time or another. That's pretty much on par with the size and scope of DCS.

It's all about priorities. It's clear where they lie at this point. So you are saying that the engine doesn't run so I'll paint the hood. If the engine doesn't run, what good is the hood? Looks real pretty just sitting in the garage doing no good for anyone. I personally would sell a car if the engine ran like crap for years, no matter how many bells and whistles it had. Two sided coin my friend.

I was on a Facebook page the other day and saw that ED had implemented cows into the Normandy map meanwhile, the map still flickers, has shadow issues, and is still plagued with issues that get complained about all of the time. This whole civilian casualty thing goes right along those lines. All I can say is, "What a complete waste of resources". Cows? People in civilian clothes? As if ED doesn't already suffer from FPS and memory problems. All of the time people are on these threads complaining that they cannot find vehicles, other planes, targets of all sizes and shapes. It's brought up all of the time and has been from day one. Now we have cows? Something that we really aren't looking for to begin with and will not see anyway? And now people are asking for civilians? Blood? Seriously folks. Go play Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 where they show exploding heads if you want to see that kind of stuff. To my mind, ED is costing my rig resources already by adding things that I'm never going to see to begin with. No A10 or F18 pilot is ever going to see a cow (much less a civilian) unless he's getting ready to crash into it. The only time you'd be seeing them is in the WWII planes strafing at ground level. And even then, I'm to busy setting up my target to care about a cow, and people are almost impossible to see even that close in DCS. And if you are just shooting cows....go buy a hunting game because you just spent a hell of a lot of money to use DCS for all the wrong reasons. I rarely fly DCS these days because ED seems to be focusing too much on dazzling us with silly toys rather than working on problems that they have not been able to solve now for years. I don't want people that I'm never going to see on the ground, or cows that I could care less about. It's all just fluff that takes precious memory that ED cannot seem to fix to begin with. Modules that have been broken for years. Promises that never get kept. Projects that will never get out of Beta. Assets packs where the few assets that are there do not work. I'm not trying to undermine ED but this is years of stuff. Not a few months here and there......Years. And now, cows? It seems to me that ED is focusing on the silly stuff and not on what needs to be taken care of. I am not complaining, I'm spilling the facts as I have seen them on these forums and in game. I purchased this software and am happy to abide by it's terms. So.....Since I'm becoming less and less enchanted with the terms. I'll fly less and less, and also purchase less and less. In my mind, ED has lost sight of what they originally got into this game for. As far as collateral damage, it can be included in the debriefing like it usually is in the real world. No pilot really ever sees or knows what damage outside of his intended target is until after the mission. This has been stated time and time and time again in soooo many documentaries dating back to WWI. There is no need to go blowing civilian memory hogs just to see the gore and their lovely clothing all over the battlefield. There are plenty of GAMES where you can see that.

Mostly this! You will find a little later that once you get the hang of taking off, you won't really even need to hold it back at all. I never lock the the tail wheel any more. I usually forget that it even works most of the time. For take off, if you learn how to use the right rudder and wheel brakes (in extreme situations) when you first start to roll upon throttle up, the tail wheel can easily be left alone. Was this SOP back in the day? I can't say but most people who fly the Mustang that I know don't use the lock. The Spitfire has no tail wheel lock at all and it's squirlier than the P-51, so that should tell you that it isn't really a big deal when you get use to it. If the damn video actually worked in DCS I would post a track for you.

I think that it's very much a matter of opinion. I have not really noticed any difference in the buildings from 1.5. Mountains, trees, and other stuff, but not really buildings other than there are a few more in places. As I said, it's probably opinion though. I know others who seem to see a difference, and still others that don't see the differences that I have noticed.

Yup.....flack is a bust. Also the armor that takes direct hits from A10 rockets and suffers almost no damage. Aircraft that never flies right, and no enemy assets to speak of outside of indistructable tanks. Assets pack is the biggest disappointment that I have ever purchased from ED, or any of it's 3rd party devs. Gives me pause to purchase new stuff until it's complete.

There has actually been research done on this and in every case the answer was no. I believe that there was a Mythbuster's episode about this also. They were pretty easy on the people they tested and gave them leeway but it still came up that there were just too many factors involved for a sim enthusiast to actually fly a plane. I can further make the case through my own experience. I had a friend who maintained multi million dollar simulators for a company named Flight Safety International. He booked me and a pilot friend of mine into the sim rooms for a few hours. I "flew" several commercial aircraft. I was able to get the planes off the ground with a ton of help. But a good example of why I would have killed everyone on board was as soon as the planes leave the ground, they bank up at what seems like 45%. The instructor was yelling at me "trim the aircraft!" Well.......my trim on my computer and the trim on a real AC were in two different places. As were a boatload of other very important things. I had my pilot buddy land the AC as it was much harder. He was not a commercial pilot and was use to single engine AC and he had to have instruction to get the planes down. To be fair. That experience was based on Xplane more than DCS. But none the less. I was glad the it was only a simulator. To be clear. The sim I was flying was a full cockpit with hydraulic lifts. It is used to train RL pilots. They are so closely maintained to the real AC that we had to log everything. Had I crashed the plane, they would have had to make a report. In conclusion, I wouldn't want to try and fly a real AC without extensive training.

Wow....I keep getting knocked down a grade or two. Those pesky court marshals and article 15's.

I took that off my machine over a year ago. Useless software. Of the years I had it, I may have used it 2 or 3 times. No one was ever on. Now since I can't even get on line in DCS any more, who really cares?

It's your money. Spend it any way you want. Letting a lot of complete strangers tell you what to do with it is a bit like asking them if you like chicken, or fish. I mean.....You have already pretty much made up your mind. The validation of strangers isn't going to change that............

All said and done....The DCS Mustang is about as real as it gets folks. No other sim that I have ever flown is 95% accurate to the real thing.

For the life of me I will never understand why anyone would go through steam for any game. Some games require Steam....I played one of them and ended up taking it and Steam off of my computer. Steam just seems counter common sense to me.........

First day my a$$....I'm trying to cram the money into my computer right now!!!

I have been doing this DCS thing for a long time now. I have put in a lot of time and money. I own all but a couple of the modules. The Mig21, M2000, Harrier, and C101 are the only ones I don't have. Every time I boot my DCS up, I am faced with a dilemma. What to fly? what to fly? As I tap my fingers on my desk while scanning through all my planes. I'll tell ya. It has been a real problem. I love flying all of them.......sometimes....well maybe all the time. I don't friggin know. It has led me down this path of being pretty good with some aircraft, kind of good on others, and just overwhelmed on others because I forgot some of the complicated procedures because I don't fly them enough. I'll tell ya, it gets on my nerves! So......I have resolved to become proficient on just 3 aircraft. Not that I'll give up on the others, but I'll concentrate my efforts and devote more of my time to just 3 aircraft. I will break it into three categories: WWII, Jet aircraft, and of course....helicopters. I'll do all of the training, purchase campaigns, and really work at them. OK....now what???? I have been pondering this for months. I keep changing my mind. One thing I do know is that I am leaning heavily (and always have) toward the A10C as the jet. What's not to like? There's nothing better than pounding enemy targets into the ground. And the detailed cockpit is just awesome to me. But then again...That F-18 is looking pretty serious. And the F-5 with it's simplicity. See my problem??? I could go on and on about all of the modules. But one thing I know is that I am a jack of all modules but no where near a master of any of them. I want to change this. But it seems I'll just keep tossing it all around in my head and never make the decision to really become great at any of them..........Sigh.:joystick:

Wow!! My wife is happy when I'm playing DCS. It means I'm not in her way, or pestering her about trivial stuff. Basically it keeps me out of her hair.