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Different. I encountered the issue yesterday, I am using a GTX770 The drop is pretty severe, much more than in earlier versions. I've always had little drops flying over towns, but (except low over Las Vegas) I had always over 30FPS over Batumi for example.

Amen brother! :D

They've learned. They normally don't give dates anymore, but say thing like "planned" or "we aim for" or "we hope to". Because it really got ridiculous. Also: Everything is subject to change. EVERYTHING!

@Hansolo: Interesting article!

Not trying to be too negative here, but end of the year could also mean January. Wouldn't be the first time. (It is software development after all).

I think he meant that the import isn't really cool if it doesn't develop dynamically, OR he meant that the weather engine has to have all the realistic features to make importing weather viable (such as all cloud types and so on). Not sure.

IIRC the vikhr in real life "barrel rolls" around the laser or something. If you move the laser during flight that could create some funny looking maneuvers. To be honst I didn't think about it much yet, but the movement in DCSW (at least last time I checked) did look like the vikhr videos I know and kinda fits the behaviour. [ame] [/ame]

Yeah. We talk about it from now and then, but AFAIK only one 3rd party really considered it until now, and they ended up not doing it because... reasons. License and such stuff. Also it is complex because it requires multicrew and so on. Would still be awesome.

Ok, thanks! But is that more realistic or less realistic?

I can try tonight. But I am not a good heli pilot to begin with, so I can't guarantee meaningful results! :D

I'd also agree that (for modern use!) two different ones (one western, one russian) are a good approximation. Not quite correct but good enough. For the WWII-scenario things get a bit more complicated. British and US procedures are often (but not always) similar, so maybe we could get away with using the same procedures and just swapping out a few words to get the British different to the US. And then of course the German is quite a bit different. I know we are stretching our sim comparison budget already a bit (thanks @moderators btw, for not killing this thread. I think we have a nice civil and helpful discussion here right now), but look at that older WWII sim with the russian plane name: They had the same procedures for all countries as far as I remember, just swapped the words out for different languages, even Japanese and so on. I liked it and it was immersive, even though I knew that technically half of the procedures were just wrong. I'd be as happy as a clam if ED did only such a simple ATC, largely disregarding the differences between countries. EDIT @NeilWillis: I'd love to have the voice thing (I think we had threads about that already), but honestly I am pretty content right now with using VoiceAttack and just saying "F1", "F2" and so on. Works well for me and is simple to set up.

I do the same. The only thing that might be left then is additional files that were manually added (happened to me and I didn't remember them), for example in "tech"

Mods can't add or modify weapons anyway without breaking the integrity check. The weapons used by 3rd parties are actually added by ED I think. As for your other question: I don't know. I asked about that possibility once or twice because that GBU-38 behaviour made me furious enough to try and change it myself, but I never got an answer. But just to make sure I'd like to stress again that an SFM is not necessarily bad. It is just simpler. If its parameters fit it can look believable if the weapon has a simple behaviour.

I agree with that. So much to learn with the F/A-18C before the first carrier landing. :)

Just tested it. CBU-97 and WCMD are fine already. That leaves only the JDAMs on the western side it seems.

this. :)

I'll probably jump into a fountain in a public park, naked, screaming "DCS ROCKS!!" (and get arrested) if they only implement HALF of that list, gospadin.

Correct about JDAMs. Those definitely need an overhaul, but are you sure about russian dumb bombs? Because IIRC last time I checked they did not have an AFM. I could be wrong though. The western ones are fine. ...and I have to check cluster bombs, because I don't remember if they have AFMs already.

Well, let's be a bit more precise: Bombs (in general, dumb or guided) need a realistic or at least believable flight model. An SFM is OK as long as it is realistic, which means correct ballistic curves, and terminal velocity, all that stuff. Example: GBU-38 It actually slows down while falling. And it gets nowhere near its terminal velocity, which is around the speed of sound when dropped from high altitude. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=120924 EDIT: And about the damage. Yes, that also needs some tweaking. But I think that would be too off-topic in this thread.

Haha, it was funny how Poly_Roie at one point said "over there, to the right" and pointed right with his finger, as if Pat could see it! :D Truly immmersive I guess. :) EDIT: We need hand tracking and pilot hand animations! On the other hand.... that would create an awful lot of NSFW DCS videos! ;D

Not sure if you are joking or not, so my stance on this: - too much work (too different) to be easy and quick to do for Belsimtek - Many people don't want more trainers - can't do much with it except training So bottom line IMO: No thanks. They should spend their time doing another plane or heli instead.

Please, guys. You know that ED don't like if we compare to other sims too much. I think we all have a rough idea how a good ATC could look like. I hope Wags or one of the coders finds the time to tell us what we can maybe expect in the future. :)

Absolutely! Right now the ATC is not very helpful at all in emergency situations.

This may sound really negative, sorry. But that's how I perceive it at the moment: That applies to most other flight sims released since the year 2000 or so. :( As for the dynamic campaign: I may actually disagree there, I don't find it convincing at all in that other sim. (also that's not the topic here, please keep this thread centered around the ATC)

me too!