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Will the Hook ever be functionally implemented ?
SharpeXB replied to Shrike88's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Of course. DCS has a random failures setting you can enable now. If they're done realistically they’d be extremely rare though. At the rate most people play games they’d likely never experience one. I had a bird strike and engine failure on takeoff in the A-10C. It was awesome! I got to pull the fire extinguisher and abort the takeoff. But that’s once in 12 years of playing the game. Again, exceedingly rare. Cool. But rare. -
Will the Hook ever be functionally implemented ?
SharpeXB replied to Shrike88's topic in DCS Core Wish List
A Saber. Sure. Again you probably aren’t getting hit by missiles. WWII aircraft you get to land damaged all the time. Really that’s the best fun you can have in a flight sim. But getting to do that in 4th gen jets is exceedingly rare. Plus you have an ejection seat so odds are you’d just eject vs trying to land with damage. I would guess the hook is for system failures like hydraulics when you have no flaps or brakes. It’s also used for rejected takeoffs. I’m not really against the feature since again I’m all up for emergency landings. But I can see why this would be a low priority. Oh yeah. I did the Maple Flag A-10 course which takes you through all that. It’s great. The Hog is definitely a plane you can get the chance to bring home all full of holes. -
It’s a nice touch of authenticity but hey maintenance guys, can you fix this?
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I’m not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the centered “normal” zoom value can be set by pressing RAlt+Num0. This command “save cockpit view angles” will save head position and zoom level per aircraft as a default.
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Will the Hook ever be functionally implemented ?
SharpeXB replied to Shrike88's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Sorta off topic but… I’m not necessarily saying this is incorrect, a modern jet fighter is by design not too survivable. It’s a fuel tank wrapped around a jet engine. Plus you’re usually getting hit in the game by a missile warhead. The state of the systems modeling certainly varies by module and their state of completion. But the bottom line is landing a damaged jet is something that will very rarely happen in DCS. I understand though that’s not the only use case for this system. -
Will the Hook ever be functionally implemented ?
SharpeXB replied to Shrike88's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Cool. The video said “emergency” landing. I figured that was the use case for these. I guess the “emergency” is a short runway -
Will the Hook ever be functionally implemented ?
SharpeXB replied to Shrike88's topic in DCS Core Wish List
I can’t quite see how you’d ever get the chance to use this in DCS. Unless you had random system failures enabled and just happened to have one that required this. The nature of combat damage in the sim is that you’re just completely destroyed nearly all the time. You wouldn’t get the chance to bring in a damaged jet. Unless it’s an A-10 which doesn’t have a hook. That’s the only DCS jet which I think combines survivability with a really accurate damage model. I really dig crash landings though so I’m all for it the Hog is the only modern plane I’ve done that in here and it was awesome! -
Ok I can try that. The crash only happened that once and hasn’t repeated. I don’t experience that very often at all. Thanks
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Was that response intended for me? I don’t understand what any of that means.
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report and system info attached https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a4ky43s5kl4lbzy11agzx/dcs.log-20240324-223730.zip?rlkey=cbq1s4fuuwvmlsrtvfk4nzykl&dl=0 DxDiag.txt
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Another error on the same server, in this case it awarded a kill which did not occur. The game scoreboard showed a kill for me against Sting 1-1 who was actually downed by a SAM. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y61o8cmd2zjdmf6iidkt0/Tacview-20240324-140448-DCS-BLUE-FLAG.80s.miz-dynamic.zip.zip?rlkey=olgd1bc7zqov4gly8aedcscfv&dl=0
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I have read that the DCS frame limiter can cause problems. You could try disabling it by raising it to the max value. In any case you don’t need both limiters enabled. The NCP one is enough.
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That will never happen. There have always been continual improvements, it’s not necessary or possible to just redo everything from scratch. DCS runs fine for the vast majority of players. There’s nothing to worry about when upgrading hardware in this regard.
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It keeps the room cooleronce long ago I had two SLI cards blowing 180d air out of my case.
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Not sure what temps you get but a GPU can run at about 80d C with no trouble. But yeah the reason DLSS looks good for you is you’re already getting a high frame rate. In DCS it’s hard for me to evaluate DLSS because I’m overkill on GPU. But in MSFS where that game will tax even my specs DLSS looks freakin awful! No thanks. It might be a ok way to boost from 80FPS to 120. But trying to use it to get from say 30 to 60 is pointless. Now the frame doubling feature (DCS does not have) can kinda look ok depending on the situation. I hate the idea of games being designed to be unplayable without resorting to DLSS.