lanmancz

If this again leads to yet another blunder it would be, to put it mildly, very unprofessional.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=147040

Well of course we try to stay optimistic and still hope for September release but one can't help oneself to wonder when the statements in the Q&A videos went from "despite the snarky comments we are well on track for September release" to "we still hope to release in September" in the last video. Such statement just a few days before planned release raises an eyebrow. Frankly I was expecting more concrete statement considering the fact that we are literally just a few days to end of September. PS: To add to the bugs discussion - it seems to be working well enough on the recent Russian streams.

AFAIK FreeTrack is pretty much dead project for years now (last version is from 2008 ). However there is a point tracker plugin for FaceTrackNOIR which I can recommend. I've been using FreeTrack for years but about a year ago I switched to FaceTrackNOIR with that point tracker plugin and it works great. Much better than FreeTrack. It can even emulate TrackIR so it works just fine in any game that supports TrackIR. For example I used to have this problem with FreeTrack that after a couple of minutes the view movement started to lag behind my head movements and it needed constant resetting. I have no such problems with FTNOIR. I can really recommend to anyone using FreeTrack to get FTNOIR and the point tracker plugin and spend one afternoon getting it setup, I think you won't regret it. http://sourceforge.net/p/facetracknoir/wiki/PointTracker/

True dat! I am hoping for a 1.5 release by the end of this week so I can fly during the upcoming weekend (and we will even have public holiday on next Monday here:-)) but Wags didn't sound very confident in the last Q&A video :cry:

Or turned off hopefully. I don't see myself using this feature in my SP or MP missions at all. Waiting around 60+ seconds for respawn is neither fun nor realistic and thus pointless in my opinion. This whole thread is a bit pointless in my opinion. Some "realistic repair times" might be useful if DCS was a grand war strategy game like Hearts of iron with a dynamic campaign where you as a commander had limited resources to reach your goals but in a mission based flight sim I don't see any use of such feature.

I don't know the technical details, but Wags mentioned this in one of his recent Q&A videos. Not sure which one of them exactly was it though. But everything is subject to change, says it right in his sig so I hope they figure it out.

Unfortunately no. Wags mentioned in one of his recent videos that the main problem is that changing the key binding requires a simulation to be paused which is a problem in multiplayer for obvious reasons. Although I still think it would be nice if they added this feature as a server option ("allow clients to pause the simulation" checkbox when creating server or something like that). This would be probably disabled on large public servers but when I'm flying on my private server with my friends I would enable it for sure so anyone can change their keys if they need to. So yeah, +1 from me, I'd like to see this feature implemented.

Well don't press G then :lol:

Try lowering scenes and visibility distance to medium to get the object count down, that should help most I'd say. I realize that your rig is pretty powerful but the bottleneck is the age old DirectX 9 that the current engine is using that does not play well with high object counts. Been discussed many times here. That's why everyone is looking forward to the 1.5 version that should be released later this month. The new engine will run under DirectX 11 which should provide major FPS increase compared to the current engine.

Well Matt also mentioned in one of his videos that the main problem stopping them implementing this is the amount of calculations required to make hundreds of thousands of trees collidable and block AI line of sight, which would have unacceptable impact on performance of the sim. So unless they find some clever trick to make it way less demanding on CPU it's unlikely that it's going to change soon.

1.5 beta will be released later this month (yay!) and 2.0 probably in November I'd assume as Nevada should be released in November.

Yes, it even has 4 seasons. I can recommend opening a mission editor and creating some simple custom training missions while you're learning new aircraft. Always works for me.

Sold! Can't wait! :pilotfly:

Quite true. Also I'm not a big fan of their "beta" strategy. The Sabre has been in "beta" for more than a year now. The Mi8 has been in beta for 2 years. The Huey still does not get the engine overheat modeled and that is out for more than 2 years. Actually, looking at their products, everything they made, except the Huey, is in this never ending beta stage. I hope they will finish all their modules (which I all have btw) first before releasing a 5th unfinished beta module, which I would probably not buy anymore (unless it was something irresistible like F16 or Mig29).

You can always add DCS into steam as a non-Steam game. That way you will see it in your game list, you can launch DCS under steam and use all the steam overlay functions while in-game but still have technically a separate copy of DCS outside steam.

Flash sales on ED store never apply to steam and as far as I know modules purchased on ED store cannot be activated on Steam. It makes sense really and personally I buy directly from ED. I hope they make more money that way. Plus you get faster updates I guess. But one thing caught my eye when I checked the ED store today - I see all modules at the full price. What's going on ? And then I noticed in the newsletter : does not apply to former Soviet Union countries Why is that ? PS: Personally I don't really mind as I pretty much have almost all DCS modules anyway (mostly purchased at full price) and the last few I don't have I'm not really interested in at all. But I wanted to send the link to friends that I'm infecting with the sim bug so they can grab some stuff on sale but I guess no luck this time. edit: Now, couple hours later, however I see all prices discounted as they should be in the sale so it does actually apply to former SU countries as well after all ? I guess it does.

I already bought the L39 module but I'd like to ask one thing. When the campaign will be developed, whatever form it's going to be (training or combat), please make the voice overs in English. Or perhaps create 2 voice over localizations if you still want "authentic" voice overs.

Can we next time please see some night/bad weather flying ?

Ah, it was the fullscreen option. I missed that. Thanks guys for quick reply.

Hello, I recently purchased a second monitor (exactly the same model as my first monitor) so naturally I wanted to give DCS a try but the mouse clicks are not registering at all. When I go to external view I can still rotate around the plane with the mouse but I cannot click anything. I did some googling around the forum and found some older threads about this issue which were resolved by disabling aero. Not in my case though. I can also alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del out and switch back into sim but still no luck. Any ideas how to solve this please ? When I switch my settings back to a single monitor setup the mouse works fine. I use a modified version of the "3Cameras.lua" script, which I changed to fit my configuration. 2Cameras.lua

Get the FC3 package. If you do not require advanced system modeling it has the biggest bang for your buck.

Oh wow, that's great news. I'm actually more excited about that second bit than the Albatros itself :lol::thumbup:

Sold! Can't wait! :pilotfly:

Nah, twitch is probably actually the best for such quick updates and show and tells. Matt has probably better things to do than spend the whole weekend recording and editing proper videos. This way he can just sit down when he has time, show us some of the good stuff and if there is some quirk or hickup nobody cares cause its a live stream.