Lonecrow66

Wish you could turn off labels at will.. Whenever I go to strafe they just get in the way.

Anyone actually have any success with the ILS at batumi? In the campaigns? This release I've never been able to get it to work. In training and single players it seems to work.

I don't think the bugs are as bad as when F4 was released. That was pretty bad.

Yeah thats cool. I don't have anything behind me though. But I think I figured out my problem. Two of the dots will actually touch and that messes things up totally when I look down and to the left. I just need to decrease the range I need to look so I don't get the dots touching..

What I'd like to know is how the heck do you identify targets? I mean even with the TGP you need to be pretty much right on them and even then the resolution is pretty crappy. But you order your wingman to take out air defenses and he locks on right away and makes his runs.. This is the part of the sim that makes it hard not having human eyes. I mean EW radar is easy to spot.. some things are. You can tell tanks pretty easy but some other things are very difficult unless you are already inside their shooting range. JTAC will tell you there are air defenses nearby but never really a good indication of where they are. So using labels is really the only key and you still need to get close enough to see them. I wish you could toggle labels on and off as needed in the game.

uGH another perfect mission.. 6 JTAC aided mav kills, managed to weave my way around the air defenses and about to be on target for killing the HQ with my JDAM but I need to get low. I get locked up by some SA8's which take out my wingman. I drop my cluster bombs on both groups of SA 8s.. just as they are about to be destroyed they launch and get me... I have to eject.. SPLAT Crash... All for naught again.

That was just roll rate at very fast speeds. Did you see that 360 degree turn he did? Our warning tone would be going off the whole time and we would have bled all out speed out easily.

Oh come on.. I've played a thousand sims and games from the Vic-20 onward. 95% of the games out there MAY have a minor patch, but it seems simulations especially flight sims are always rushed out and never finished. This was that case. I've rarely been able to finish a mission without a bug or a glitch of some sort. I would have rather got the next beta first and then worked on the bugs first and even another beta first before you call something an official release. What use is it flying for 30 mins when you lose everything you just did almost every time? I'm willing to be perfectly patient with a beta .. but unfortunately I think this still was rushed out the door. It made a huge step from the last beta but it really needed another round of people looking at it.

Yeah W7 64bit with SP1. Actually it seems to be worse after SP1.. maybe that is the problem.

Yeah I have to admit that is some badass explosions .. but did you look at the rest of the sim? Pretty crappy looking compared to DCS A10..

Also why did the data always used to come up before? I checked all the mission parameters in the actual campaign notes and it never tells you what your group ID is supposed to be.. so I never knew what to c hange it to. You'd think with a campaign mission where start on the runway that might have been set up ahead of time. It was in the beta but not now..

Very cool.. but is it me or does this thing seem to have a better angle of attack then the sim? I mean I'll have to take one up with a clean config and see how it performs like this. This A10 seemed very agile and a very fast roll rate compared to what we are used to.

If that is the case then why is the actual DLZ range bracket longer ? I've had it down below half way and it wouldn't lock. But if I manually slew myself I can lock things up further range than slaving the mav to the TGP SPI.

I just ran another campaign mission that froze out of the blue again .. it seems like you can't go more than 30 mins in a mission. This time I had the track file proof of the maverick bug, and the data point from jtac not showing up... AND the ability of an SA 8 to track and lock and shoot at something that is behind a mountain.. Then I fired two sidewinders at two hinds.. heard the noise, but didnt see the missiles go anywhere. So I finished them off with guns. I saw the missiles were gone off the rails. I look back later on in the mission and they are BACK ON THE RAILS! So yeah there are some issues. Just getting frustrated is all. This is the sort of thing that sort of drove me away from F4.. it took years before it was playable. I don't want to wait that long for something like this.. I don't think that will be the case, but just another case of "rushed out the door" as per usual when it comes to Sims..

No get the standby for data plenty of times mainly in campaigns and no triangle pops up. I thought it might have to do with a group ID. I am not quite that far into the manual yet. Still working on why the mavericks will not lock with TMS up SHORT while inside the DLZ half the time even though they are slaved to the SPI and on the right target. Works sometimes and other times it doesnt.. you ahve to get really close before it will lock.

I haven't had a triangle in a while. I was going to ask that question as well. I just got used to inputting the coords manually ahead of time instead of waiting for it.

Good to know :) Just that sometimes its sooooo fun I mean this is the best sim to date in the history of sims. Just gets frustrating at times.

As much as I love this sim, it just seems that the long missions I fly end up crashing. This time I crashed just doing the instant action and managing to take out everything except 3 tanks.. was shot up to hell because all I had was guns left, lost one engine and was looking forward to limping back to base and trying to land it most likely on stilts.. I had "message" flashing so I went to clear it and that is when it crashed.. well it was more of a freeze.. had to CTRL ALT DEL. Checked my logs dir from all the other crashes I was going to actually post this one but there is none. This time. Sometimes it just doesn't dump the crash info. Just getting frustrating sometimes having spent a lot of time running a mission only to have to do it again or losing all those stats, or looking forward to watching the track. So when can we expect a patch?

Yeah thats not the problem I'm having though. I didnt know they had a forum though thanks I'll check things out there. It seems beta 5.1.2 worked perfect.. now 5.1.3 does not. I just need to find a copy somewhere of 5.1.2!!

Yeah you are right.. it was working perfect in the track IR software but won't work in A10. I finally loaded it up. Damn. I have to use the beta..

Got an email back from support right away (those guys are good) to try a few things, but since i reverted back to a non beta version this is working fine now.

Yeah I do..

I think it might have been the new software.. I removed the beta and did the normal software and it sorta seems ok.. I'm going to have to test it more. So far it hasn't done it.

Yep it still sees it.. it just freezes everything in the software and the orange light goes off.. Like I said the only thing I changed was Windows 7 SP1 and the new A10, so I updated to the latest beta track IR software as well. No positions of my chair or anything have taken place.. I'm centered and it can see the 3 little lights in the software. Just bizzare.. It does it sometimes and sometimes it doesnt..

Was trying to make a mission but now my track IR is giving me headaches.. ugh.. so I can't even look down to the left I'll have to get that sorted first.