Fishbreath

DCS World, which is free, is the base game which modules like Black Shark 2 plug into. You'll be able to play in any server in multiplayer which has Ka-50 slots.

It's a shame. During the run-up to 1.2.6, Wags did mention that one of the things they're working on is separate code for IRST and radar; I'd expect some fixes/improvements at that point. Hopefully.

Yes.

It's on my list, but I need to learn the Huey first, and I'd like some fast movers, so it's Flaming Cliffs 3 for me next. :P

This already happens all the time. On your other post on trust: that's immaterial. Either you thought it was worth $50 or you didn't. If you didn't think it was worth $50, you shouldn't have paid $50, and insisting that everyone else who didn't think it was worth $50 should also have to pay $50 is silly.

I paid full price for my candy, and it's very disappointing that Wal-mart would treat consumers so badly as to let these uppity newcomers get in almost for free.

If you respect your money as much as you say you do, you would have waited for a sale. If you wanted the Mi-8 at or close to release and you were willing to pay full price for it then, you have no grounds for complaint: having it immediately was more important to you than price. If you're complaining now, you obviously didn't actually consider the Mi-8 to be worth the full price when you paid for it, and you should have been prepared to wait for a sale (or for your opinions to change), whether it took two weeks or two years.

Working as designed, I'm pretty sure: if you have a point selected in the PVI, the datalink will prioritize that.

Great! This means you've evaluated your preferences and decided that having a DCS module the moment it's released is less important to you than having it for a discounted price. In the future, with respect to ED, you'll be making more informed decisions as a consumer, and this is good. It's the market working, and in the same manner, if enough people change their buying behavior as a result of ED's sales policies, ED might change them someday. I, too, tend to wait for sales, because I don't have a ton of time for flight simming these days, and I find that having a game soon is less important to me than having a game for a lower price. (Except for the Hornet, which I'm going to preorder for beta access as soon as ED lets me.)

And the fact that they've done it twice now suggests that people complaining on the forums are vastly outnumbered by people who are willing to jump into DCS during sales. Speaking of which, I'm looking to snag FC3 tomorrow when the sale starts. Is Ubi's shop the best place to get a copy of LOMAC to put beneath it?

I'm down-repping anyone who starts a sale-whining thread today Because if you do, you deserve it. I'm not going to beat around the bush; we've been over this during every sale I've been at these forums for. Let's look at a few of your (referring only to the people complaining) arguments: 1) It's bad business sense! Evidently not, because Eagle Dynamics keeps on running them, and Belsimtek is in with a second recently-released beta module after already doing it once. The upshot is clear: the sales are great for business in spite of the sky-is-falling forum whiners. It's not even an unexpected result from a microeconomics standpoint. There exists a class of people for whom a utility helicopter does not represent $50 of fun (I count myself among them), but who do consider a utility helicopter at least $20 of fun (me again). By dropping the price, the developers pull in a bunch of people at $20 who wouldn't have ever paid the undiscounted price. 1a) The Mi-8 was just released two weeks ago! Why is it on sale already? You're cheapening your product! Apparently, it worked well enough for the Huey that BST decided they should do it again. "You're cheapening your product" is another terrible argument, one I only really see in the flight simming and wargaming communities. A game's worth doesn't come from its price, it comes from how good a product it is. People view the goodness of a product differently, and from there they decide what value to attach to it. The goal of any developer should be to make a game appealing, and to price it so that the product of price and people who will buy at that price comes to the largest number. 2) I paid full price a week ago, and now I'm angry that it's on sale! This doesn't make you special, except insofar as it makes you irrational. Consider: I go to see a movie on release night and pay $15 for a ticket. That doesn't mean I'm going to rage at people who go see a Sunday matinee next month: the utility of seeing the movie as soon as I could was, to me, worth paying twice the ticket price. In the same sense, I paid full price for Black Shark 2, because having it immediately was more important to me than the money I would save by waiting for a discount. If you paid full price and are angry when it goes on sale, that's on you: you didn't think hard enough about your preferences and what they're worth to you, and you paid more for a module than the value you actually assigned to it, even knowing as you probably did that there would be another sale soon. Your impatience is not ED's fault.

Oh man. I don't know if I'm going to be able to ignore Flaming Cliffs 3 when I can get it for $10 (LOMAC from Ubi) + $20 (FC3 from ED).

An autostart sequence would literally compress three key-presses to one, or two if it's in the radio menu. Much better would be distributing one of the various quickstart guides from these forums with the Steam download.

I reinstalled, and still no joy. Hoping for a fix or workaround soon.

Helo damage models are a little broken—full-fidelity choppers crumble when hit by pretty much any missile, but other helos take an absurd number of Vikhrs to drop.

I tried a repair install and resetting my Saved Games/DCS folder. Neither fixed it; I still can't change the interface in DCS away from my external IP, and hand-edits to network.cfg still don't do anything.

RoF fast-forwards by playing the track sans graphics, and 'rewinds' by playing the track sans graphics from the beginning to the point you picked to rewind to. As I understand it, DCS's simulation engine is tied so closely to the graphics engine that it can't be decoupled like that (which is why we don't have a dedicated, no-graphics server, either). Among other things, EDGE, I think, is supposed to fix that.

Generally speaking, I unbind everything when setting up a new controller—you can clear all the assignments for a given column by highlighting that column and hitting 'Clear Category'.

I'm all for the autopilot, as I've said in multiple other threads, but I do actually think there's some value to flight director mode for transitioning fixed-wing pilots to the Ka-50. If you look at it in terms of layering additional functionality onto raw control inputs, it goes like this: No autopilot channels->pitch, bank, yaw channels and FD->three/all channels and autopilot->all channels and route mode There's not really any value at all to the first layer unless you're training for flight control system failures, but flight director mode puts a trainee a lot closer to the basics of helicopter flight dynamics, and that's a critical thing for said trainee to understand before he starts on the autopilot.

I can't say I've seen that (using a CH setup here).

To be clear, the problem isn't that the server doesn't show up, or that it can't be connected to-- my friend can see my server and connect to it, and I see the diagnostic information when he connects, but he immediately gets "connection interrupted". The only things which have changed are 1.2.6 and the interface setting being broken. Are there any network config files to delete besides network.cfg and .bault under Saved Games/DCS/Config?

Yes, I obviously already tried that—how would I know it didn't work if I hadn't had a friend try and fail to join?

I'm having a similar problem—the UI shows my external IP address in the Interface field, I can't change it, deleting my 1.2.5 network.cfg yielded a network.cfg with no interface entry, and adding an interface entry by hand, either with my local IP address or * as c0ff suggested, does nothing. I can still connect fine as a client. Ports are forwarded properly. Any ideas?

This is all true, but I would add one caveat: the moment-to-moment airmanship in the Ka-50 is more exciting with flight director mode than with the autopilot, and more exciting with no stability channels than with flight director mode. That said, the more autopilots you have off, the less effective you are as a combat pilot (and that includes the unchain-rudder-trim crutch, unless you have non-centering pedals!), and since I don't fly the Ka-50 a lot out of combat (the Mustang is the bird for that), I won't consider it.

I just use the palm button on my throttle.