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Sorry but I don´t know.

Fair enough, maybe I underastimated the variety of flown sorties. In my mind I only see red glidebomb runs and blue interceptions.

I think you did not understand what I wanted to express. Its not that I want to have a specific kind of those weapons in the game. Just the fact, that the air war in ukrain is dominated by remotly operatet systems. I just don´t see that there is much content for realistic sorties, other than scrambling to destroy incomming drones and missiles. The engagements over kiev in the early days of the war aside it could get quite repetitive quickly. When I think of the possibilities for Korea, Vietnam or any cold war to early 2000s setting would offer to use our modules in every kind of way a jet or piston engine warplane is capable of, I don´t believe a ukrain theatre yould keep up with that. Maybe that will change in the future, if ukrain realy gets super gripens. And maybe someday we will get a super gripen in DCS and who knows someone makes a urkain map but on the short run, what would you expect to do on a ukrain map?

Totally realistic! Prove me wrong...

Trackfiles are basically a record of your inputs. When you play a trackfile a new DCS Session with the mission you have played beginns and the records starts repeating all inputs you made while flying the actual mission. As soon as you cutoff anything at the beginning, your replay aircraft doesn´t even start. So the situation you want to review just never happens. So with the replay system we have now, this is truly impossible. You could only think about adding a feature cut whats after the desired situation. This replay system has a lot of shortcommings but it has also the advantage, that you can track every input and therefore recreate the exact situation what makes it easy to identifiy user errors, or to find a bug. I would love to see another system, maybe as a second one. Because for other implications the system is a problem up to the point were it becomnes useless. When you want to replay a mission in a Tomcat or F4 to make some nice screenshots or a video the replay system gets stuck in the jester wheel, for example.

Why only for cold starts. I think it should be mandatory for hot starts as well. You could spawn in active pause and then "walk" around the jet using for example a jetpack like they use in paw patrol to remove the safety pins. It would be much more immersive and I think everyone should be forced to take the time. Attention: May contain traces of sarcasm.

which is technically impossibly due to how a trickfile works.

I think the escalation comes from two triggering factors. First there is literally no point in defending the casual gamers approach since no one ever said it would be mandatory and we even have such fancy things like hotstarts, so there is no way one could seriously believe that the normal way of starting in an aircraft would be cut out the game. So the question rises, why you are argueing that hard with everyone about how unusual their sim approach to dcs is and even clarifying that dcs is not a simulator but a game, regardless how weird our perspective is: This part for example is quite offending since you seem to believe we all are geeky idiots which have lost their sence of reality. Or why would you feel compelled to tell us this? You even got to the point were you insulted the developer for no reason at all. And all that although you were fully aware of the fact that this feature is not beeing planed to become mandatory. When I take a look at this thread, it felt like you just wanted to tell us nerds what you think about us. So this may give you a hint why there is so much headwind for you.

I´ll just purchase the C130! Hilarious!

I have that problem on every airfield als long as there is noticable wind. Yesterday two suqadron mates and I got to fly the corsair in a training mission (without any wind). Taxiing was not an issue. Besides the lag of wind and turbulences, which I realy like while flying warbirds, it was great fun. Managing the engine with the cowl flaps felt a bit off, since the slightest opening cooled the enging down below the blue corridor but I don´t have real live experience so I can´t tell if that is correct and it didn´t bother me at all. It´s a great module over all, and I can´t wait for them to get rid of the taxi bug, so that we can fly her in actual missions with realistic weather. I love the corsair.

Yeah, I don´t find it interesting at all for various reasons. If ED does a new map, I strongly hope for some early cold war stuff. Vietnam and Korea must come to DSC asap. Its a shame they are not in the sim allready. And as I said in my opinion the air war over russia and ukrain doesn´t attract me much, since we cannot fly drones nor ballistic missiles or cruise missiles.

That doesn´t need to be the case. Think about it. If you´re high enough, you don´t need that highly detailed trees and if you are flying close to the cround, for example in the UH-1 you don´t need that much of render distance. When I fly over Mariannes with my UH-1 I barely see the edge of the island I am flying over. And at the end I can turn down the graphic settings, like I did, when CW Germany fist came out.

I don´t realy see why the political situation prevents them from making an Ukrain map, since the Syria map also covers some active conflict zones and the syrian civil war lastet till december last year. The conflicts in this region also included the participation of both Russia and the US and even consisted a direct engagement bethween US troops and Wagner. So I would asume that a Ukrain theatre would not overcome the Syria map neither by political nor by humanitarian concerns. But I´m not sure if the russia-urkain war would be a the right thing to experiance in DCS, since this war is widely dominated by drones which we just not have in DCS. And great air campaigns just don´t seem to happen there. Other maps like Korea and of course Vietnam or even the upcoming Balkans would make much more sence in my opinion. And of course finishing Iraq for finally getting some serious desert storm and iraqi freedom content on the road.

Congratulations! God knows the release of a child takes all the time of the developer.

Yeah I don´t think so either. But I don´t realy understand why the jungle should be a valid reason not to do a vietnam map. Vietnam is not only jungle. And the trees of the Mariannas map would serve well enough for me. You could improve those jungle areas later on, but in the meantime we could fly hundrets of combat sorties in this iconic conflict, where airmenship was way more important than in a F35 or even in not so modern jets like Viper and Hornet. And the vegetation is only a small portion of the work that has to be done for a living, breathing south east asia theatre. We need a ton of assets, weapons, visual effects, some additional modules (F4B, F100, F105, A4, A7, midway and kitty hawk classes) which are partly already in development. But it would be a good start to just make the map with its geographically landmarks, rivers, cities, roads, TRAILS and so on. To populate this with forrests like on caucasus and mariannas wouldn´t be a gamebreaker for me. Someone should just make it happen.

Although I don´t have the same issues I would support htat request. If someone feels uncomfortable in VR this can break the whole game.

Ok, since I don´t own this campaign, I can´t tell you the actual code either but I also would asume 1688 if nothing else is mentioned. But you can check this by using the LST button in the FLIR page. The image turns all green and there is a jumping crosshair in the display to indicate the search. You have to roughly point your nose, or the FLIR-pod to the area where the target is located (you mentioned a smoke indication). If the laser is sparkeling on 1688 the LST finds it. Now you can drop the GBU as you would without LST, using your own laser. This is especially necessary if the code of your GBUs and your FLIR is not 1688. There might be some missconception of what LST is. LST is not the same as buddylasing. LST is only a tool to point your FLIR to a location someone else is lasing on. Buddylasing is when you drop on someone elses laser. Therefore you can set two different laser codes in your FLIR. Your bomb allways has only one Laser Code and this can only be changed at the ground by the groundcrew (loadout menu). If both codes are the same and your buddy (Wingman, FAC, JTAC) continues lasing the whole time, you can combine both and find the location first by using LST and after that you drop your GBU without your own laser. But if the codes don´t match, your bomb goes dump. I hope that helps. To valid if 1688 is the right code of the JTAC as I said just use LST. If your FLIR finds something, 1688 is the correct code, but if not, there must be another one.

So you have selected LST in the FLIR Page on your MFD? If the ground unit is sparkeling you should find the target. From here on you can use your own laser or if the ground unit continues sparkeling, you can drop on his laser but only if the Lasercode of your GBU matches his. The commen case would be him marking the target with laser, you findig it with LST and then firing your own laser to guide your bomb.

I´m realy hyped by the fact, that we are getting a ff Eagle. I hope it will be next year. But the F35?

Good point.

So now it happend. I have to make you personally accountable for my newly risen interesst in FFB. My wife will hate you.

Absolutely! Since Mig Killers starting and flying the F4 is a flawless experience for me. And when you progress with Redflag 81-2 you will also learn a lot about package tactics and procedures. While Mig Killers teaches you a lot of the A/A basics but still sticks to the Phantom and how you actually fly it, Redflag makes you truely combat ready even for other modules. The focus on TOT or pushtimes and the procedures for the marshal stack for example also aply to jets like the F16. That said, my next recommendation after Refdlag would be Arctic Thunder. For me AT felt like the deployment I trained for in Mig Killers and especially Redflag 81-2.

Und noch was zu eurem kleinen Beef bezüglich des saved games ordners. Die einfachste Variante ist. DCS Folder kopieren -> Spiel starten (DCS legt einen neuen Safed Games Ordner an) -> Den Inhalt des alten Safed Games Ordner in den neuen reinkopieren und die Dateien darin ersetzen. Das Funktioniert immer und es sollte keinerlei Routing oder Registry Probleme geben. Bisher hat es bei mir auch immer funktioniert, die Keybindings zu kopieren. Das Problem mit veränderten USB-Geräte-IDs hat sich bei mir noch nicht gezeigt. Einmal war es eine komplette Neuinstallation auf einer anderen SSD mit neuem Mainboard. Keine Ahnung warum.

Noch ein Tipp dazu. Erstelle eine Systempartition, auf der du nur Windows installierst und deine Benutzerdaten wie Savedgames etc. Alles andere, also Programme, Steam-Bibliothek, Daten, Bilder, Videos, DCS Installationsordner etc. kommt auf eine andere Partition oder ggf. auch Festplatte. Wenn du Windows neu aufsetzen musst, egal aus welchem Grund, bleiben alle anderen Daten und Ihre Ordnerstruktur erhalten. Du kannst so zum Beispiel deine Steam-Bibliothek nach der Neuinstallation von Steam (habe ich auch auf der Systempartition) dort neu verknüpfen und alle Spiele sind sofort verfügbar. Beim ersten Start legt er die nötigen Einträge an und macht quasi eine Schnellinstallation ohne jedoch hunderte GB runterladen zu müssen. Auf diese Weise dauert ein komplettes Neuaufsetzen von Windows bis zum Cold Start auf Nellis bei mir selten länger als 2 bis 3 Stunden und der Großteil davon ist einfach die Windows Installation. Ich habe einen Private Dateien Ordner, der in seiner Grundform so schon seit 25 Jahren existiert und erst einmal die Festplatte gewechselt hat. Du musst halt nur aufpassen, dass Spiele wie DCS die viel Speicher benötigen und diesen schnell abrufen müssen, auf entsprechend schnellen SSDs liegen, die auch eine potente Anbindung auf dem Mainboard haben, während ein Landwirtschaftssimulator 2019 auf gerne mal auf einer krüppeligen HDD wohnen kann. Daten, die dir was bedeuten musst du halt stets auf eine andere Partion als die Systempartition ablegen. Weniger wichtige Daten bleiben beispielsweise im Downloads-Ordner von Windows und sind dann nach jedem Neuaufsetzen auch gleich bereinigt...

50 % off for the some dead modules like AV8B and M2000 would fit the theme.