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Troops and crates is normal, Gazelle can't either. About the rearming/refueling check last page.

Looking forward to it: - Please check your mic & audio output. People are often either too loud (mic level heavily distorted) or too quiet. You can always ask people in ingame chat to quickly help out. - Don't mic check on GCI, or rather please don't 'start fixing issues' on 257.8! Use RADIO overlay with L-CTRL+L-SHIFT + ESC, especially if it is your first time using SR. That way you can see if you are transmitting/receiving, on what frequency & accidental push 2 talk presses. - Remember you can have multiple radio frequencys (if you are not a harrier^^) & push to talk keys at the same time. Interflight coms don't need to be on global frequency, use a second radio for that. - ATC please state intentions via ATC frequency, if you are unsure about it, no worries, simply knowing somebody is landing & taking off saves a lot of grief. - CALLSIGNS for GCI: You can not give yourself some kind of fancy callsigns ingame (I am not Apo, I am DODGE 1-1 now!) and expect the GCI to remember that. If you change your callsigns PLEASE edit your Nickname in the Server browser to reflect this. If you have a complex name or if it is hard to understand/pronounce in english, PLEASE make use of this. BOAR 1-1 vs. Düsenjägersuperpilot38... :D

:music_whistling: By request: To clarify this point: No! The Harrier was simply gone from the lists, if the ED login servers are down you are not able to play any of the listed modules with new DRM. This is unbelieveable and undefendable, I was initially under the impression I still could play offline but this really bursts my bubble. Honestly, stick with Starforce, this just doesn't work. To reiterate the point, ED has server issues, not even the user, so playing future DCS modules will simply not be possible under that scenario. And yes, if I have time to fly some DCS, it is a HUGE issue for me if I can't, even if it's "only" for one or two hours. So please nobody dare bring that up now, it will just further enrage the customer who suffered this problem. There was the argument when this started "b-b-but you have stable internet, this does not concern you!11", clearly even ED is not above issues in the infrastructure and that line of argument does not hold up. So please spare us the platitudes, we need a real statement by ED that truly acknowledges & addresses these concerns, not some non committal PR defusal.

I ordered new RAM, next week I am gonna let you guys know if it helps. Btw. try reducing texture quality, I can load in 5/10 times now. i7 4970k, 16gb Ram, gtx 760 4gb @ 1920x1080

Now we have it black and white, ED servers having some kind of issue... Not able to fly Harrier.

Wie siehts mit den üblichen MP missionen und RAM bei euch aus? Habe zu meinem erschrecken auch gelesen das ich ich mittlerweile unter specs bin. SP läuft noch sehr gut (aber auch nur wirklich kurz in freeflight mission getestet), aber MP kann ich nichtmal flüssig einen slot auswählen. Kurzer blick in den rescourcen monitor zeigt den RAM voll belegt, ich habe jetzt aber auch noch nicht mit den einstellungen rum gespielt. i7 4970k @4,00, 16GB RAM, nvidia 760 GTX 4gb, 1920x1080p Monitor. Grafikkarten minimum sind wohl jetzt 770+, meint ihr das ist noch zu machen? Mir ist schon klar das ich aufrüsten muss, aber der Zeitpunkt ist doch gerade etwas ungünstig für mich. :D

Yes it's getting a bit silly. :) Is this some kind of issue for you guys? Lost the notes? Lot's of work to recreate it? :D Please, just an official thread with all feature improvements/ fixes.

To clarify, I don't need to break my F5 button now? We are still set for tomorrow?

Actually about this, if you have a buddy ingame at the chat, you can sometime see the other timing out while he still is on the loading screen. That is the point, I assume, that you can safely kill the game. He is waiting for it it to connect for some minutes until something happens most of the time. I have 'some trouble' connecting like everyone else from time to time, but nothing like him. He did get on the server and it was stable (until server crashed^^) a few times.

SOP link down

I have a buddy who consistently has issues connecting to the server, is the old network.cfg edit still a thing? Would that help? (I think I still have it in my config folder) Mav you said you had some voodoo stuff going with ALT+ENTER, can you write that up?

I tend to go into the SR priority channel (chatter from people not on the SR channels annoys me since they don't know when to just up^^) and so far it worked very well for me.

1 & 2. you are fine, the law has an extra exception for the swastika/nazi stuff, for everything to do with art. Art is very protected in germany. There is one court case where a neo nazi build a very offensive game, and the courts decided that video games are not protected like common art. (This was in the 90ies I believe, so perceptions indeed have changed by now) This law is only for the publishers etc. not for you as consumer. On the law itself, it would probably fall in court, with a very high chance, because Video games are promoted and sponsored as art by the german state. The only reason this has not happened yet, is because major publisher simply are too afraid of initial sale losses after first release in germany. Remember such court cases can take many years. 3. No it's not. It's a little complicated, but basically very violent games simply can only be sold 'under the counter' but it's legal. They just can't put them on display. 4. No you are good. In german law (as I understand it, not a lawyer!) you can't really get into trouble for downloading stuff. (Major exception would be child pornography, bomb building instructions etc.) But even than it's not the downloading part but the owning it on your computer. --- If I am writing bullshit please correct me guys!

Changelog thread is urgently needed.

@Reaper, maybe somebody can digg up his posts from the Blueflag thread, where he explained his tactics. Might give people a chance. :)

Today there is a lot of team killing on the server, could maybe autokick be reduced to one TK? Really telling when people comment on their own TK but don't even have the character to say 'sorry'. Right after I wrote that an A10 gunned people, but autokick worked there. :D Right now the F10 Quick Target location menu doesn't work, but we can still see the TA's via JTAC menu. Edit2: One of the F15's that got autokicked earlier is right back in to TK. :(

Just now with OP Liberty there is somekind of problem with the JTAC drone. We got the message of the cleared SAMs and after a moment that it's on station. But no laze on the ground and only a Humvee 'looking for targets' in the CTLD menu. Could it be that a player build JTAC caused problems? Awesome with the SR freqs, sadly nobody uses them yet. But I am going to promote it next time I do GCI.

This really has gone long enough, please fix this for 2.5 alteast. Actually searched for this today, found a few other threads about the same problem (not quite as old as this one).

Planes not having IFF aren't supposed to shoot at people, and if they do, they bloody own their shot. No excuse really! This is an issue, striker jokeys? Where are we going? An A-10C can't teamkill and afterwards cry about missing IFF. If you do, you're the douche.

The world is too big, community too small. :(

SR Idea: How about establishing some common freqs (say from Blueflag) on the briefings? All flights reachable via. GCI or even rifle/pickle calls on common frequencys could help a lot especially if you take the new confusion by JTAC into consideration. (Ammo waste) People could still have their flight coordination and chatter via TS while doing general GCI & important calls via. simpleradio. edit: Sorry if this a typical 'only Apo has this problem...'-thing. :D I keep trying to find FARPS to land on in my Harrier that are shown on the picture briefings but are not there ingame. I know this is probably a lot of work, but could all FARP's be noted in the briefing with a Grid/small discription? If I have the choice between wobbling down on a farp or flying 10nm to the next airbase I will always chose the cute heli pad. I know for a fact that you guys fly for miles to land on a boat, so I know we are on the same page. <3 edit2: I have noted that the tanker tracks are now shown in the briefings and it's a great help and appreciated. :)

Briefing OP Leopard, blue: FARP Dublin is in LP09, which is not indicated in the briefing. In fact the picture briefing shows me another FARP location that I was unable to find. Would be cool if it can be added.

As stated in my post, I did this already. I use OvGME, deleted module via. module manager, manually deleted all relevant folders, reinstalled etc. Got it, that only the one version worked should have rung alarm bells, of course there went something wrong with the .bat. Re extracted .rar, redid .bat file and we work again. :)

I have texture error (placeholder) with the Mistral&M, but L works fine. :( Deleted (via module manager) and made sure user/dcs world main folders were cleaned up. Reinstalled Gazelle, reactivated with OvGME, same problem.

So it's been running a few days and here is a bit of feedback from me. No major show stoppers, no lags (but I fly no A2A), few small capture troubles but nothing that didn't get fixed after restart. Harrier: It has to be on both sides, even only for balancing. The quick rearming & refueling at farps is awesome but is too good to be only available for one side. Not to mention all the missing players, I am not going one day without my harrier!11 :D Are Sidearms intentionally left out of Airfield warehouses? If yes, they are still on the farps. Makes no sense to keep them out since they are way worse than Su-25T anti radiation missiles. I want to note here that some AGM variants are also missing, most notable the G, which has quite a bit more punch but is heavier. Harriers also want ships! =) Heli ground spawns on farps etc. this is generally very good for not having the exploding spawns anymore, but often you can't rearm at a FARP. Now if the Huey has full weapons loadout, I as a Huey failure are unable to fly that thing anywhere. I miss my Mi8 on blue, but if it had all stations full of rocket pods I wouldn't be very good with it either. My suggestion have them naked. After capturing one FARP (I believe it was Saratovskay) and feeding it with a repair crate, the right units spawned, but very far away near the bunkers/towers, preventing us from rearming. Was fixed directly after server restart ~20mins later, making me believe there might be something wrong with the trigger there. If you are supposed to be able to rearm/refuel at SAM site Gele, it has the same issue. We weren't sure if you were supposed to be able to rearm there or if the fuel amount shown in PAK is just for show or a left over. Today I captured my first fuelbase and it was very fun and a great change of pace. Initially despairstruck when it became clear my 4 mavericks were dead weight but it was a blast. :) Infantry defending FARPs, these defenders, are really annoying. Do they have to be infantry? Can they be marked some how? Sometimes they are nearly impossible to see on the background. If those defenders maybe fortify with some barricades or something... There is probably more but I have to go... The server restarted! :) P.S. Thanks to all the reds who held the line the last few days and fought fierce battles while heavily outnumbered and executed some very very mean ambushes.