lucien

thought a thread dedicated to screenshots should be made for as they come along.

I wouldn't mind if they gave it away for free. The money I paid I feel like they deserved, simple as that. I'd pay it 50 times again.

Yes, I know. What I'm saying is the target is not constantly in the same place when maneuvering, and that is possible for the target to actually be below you, but still on the + only while maneuvering.

Not as fast, shorter range and don't turn as well.......is there any reason to take them other than giggles? Bigger warhead?

Well theres a 20 year difference between the missiles. Of course the R-73 is a better missile(of the IR variety), I can concede that, but what I mean is I prefer the radar guided missiles over IR missiles in the 21. They're growing on me :P Also, you have to keep in mind that the MiG 21 has an upward scanning radar that is already quite limited in the first place. Those a-10c have a pretty nasty bite too lol if you give them the opportunity they'll take it. If Ralfidude was in that a-10c for example, i'll be damned if I go in for a frontal guns kill f that. From what I found, I could only lock the a-10 at <2km, and if you launch it after that you're pretty much setting yourself up to waste a missile. Plus, those r-60m go for flares pretty readily, so if your opponent sees the launch you're pretty much going to miss him in an a-10. I've had more success with fighters in AFB, but at the end of the day not as good as R-3r hands down. If you want to put a replay I wouldn't mind watching it. Hard to tell where the + on the radar really is with a hard maneuvering target for me. Radar can detect target below you with the T symbol and it can still be near the + on the radar. Maybe I'm mistaken. Hope that made sense I'm not very good at explaining things. Best to get visual of the fighter. Now when an F-15 and Su-27 use ambush tactics and AWACS, that is a scary site.

lol thank you couldn't have done it without you. Still, it would have been a lot more difficult if the pilots actually pulled a few more g's you reminded me of this cool video i found don't think i'll be doing that in a mig 21 anytime soon.

fixed that, sorry.

Been busy with work :P MiG-21 is officially OP ED needs to nerf ASAP :megalol::lol: I was able to take out an F-15C and a Su-27 on 104. This is beginning to feel almost too easy. Love this bird so much. They didn't maneuver very much. Wish they had put up more of a fight. Both missiles hit at 5km+ though lol very good video but MiG is amphibious predator. All great Russian aircraft are named after fisheys. Fishbed? Duh I was thinking the same thing. The radar was giving me lots of problems when I first started. I guess its best to learn how to work with it. And all I'm taking now are R-3R tbh. Plan to try the other radar guided missiles a bit more but no time soon(having too much fun lol). R-55 specifically( I think they're called) tbh up to this point I'll take an R-3R over an R-73 anyday lol This thread has helped me tons as well.

I have a hard time believing that F-15 would have been able to catch me :lol: my ego in that mig is too big lol thats a very very good metaphor actually

I guessed the best thing to do was to just go defensive and dive for the closest mountain. I wasn't expecting him to lock me up, I thought that was just a buddy spike at first. At the time I was purely thinking re-position and ambush From what I could tell he fired a 120 and brought his attention to my ally. Ally told me I saved his ass because he had his back to him as I fired. I'll use your advice next flight. One thing I noticed was I seem to be more focused on the radar than the actual enemy. Need to work on that Yes this MiG is a lost art I suppose. Its like a classic car.

Yes you're right. On topic I'm having better luck with your strategy. Also turned HDR off and it looks a lot better imo. It seems like its only us in this thread =/

Yes I just turned the HDR off thank you very much. Helped a lot. Came close to killing a su-27 just now, 5km out had him defensive, just launched my second R-3R when a SA-15 site taught me a lesson lol. So disappointed. Do you figure you will be able to ID planes with the final version? I'd expect they're planning to optimize it a lot more before release. And 20 frames for GTX 780 is mind boggling, so once again I hope they optimize A LOT. Yes I wanted it more for the experience, but DCS is what consumes most of my time so I'd use it on that as well. Do you get motion sickness from it?

telekensis maybe $90 not bad. I'm fresh out of USB ports so I'd have to wait for my next hardware update to even think about that. and tbh I just don't have enough buttons for everything. If you can cram it all into your HOTAS I would. Problem is if I do it I'll leave some pieces out, so I may as well leave some of the less essential stuff off my stick and just click it. I know I need to map the 3 jammer buttons onto my stick, though. What GPU you running anyway?

I have HOTAS(CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Pedals), I just haven't thought of the way I want to map all of the weapons controls yet. I prefer to keep the HOTAS to what the pilots would use, but you're right, I'm not in an actual cockpit so I can't just click something. However, I was thinking to map them to the keyboard instead, a quick little hot key. Either that or get a switchboard. Also, I wanted to ask if you like Oculus Rift. I am going to pick up the finished product once it comes around. Can you dogfight with it?

I didn't even notice it while I was flying. Think I would have been a lot less disoriented if I had used it. Apparently its some sort of constant awacs picture that some missions use. This was on 159. And yeah lol I was out in the open with no mountains in sight, felt a little ballsy with an F-15 behind me I guess. Either that or my flight planner was trying to kill me :megalol: I wish my first fighter kill would have been a guns kill, that's a whole lot more impressive than blindly firing missiles like I. I grabbed my mouse so quick when I fired that last missile cause I was sure it was going to miss lol But yes, I made it back to my home plate safely.

Finally had my first fighter kill on 159 just now. Is there anyway to view the replay? There were 2 F-15s, and me with a friendly F-15. He fired an AIM-120 at me, from probably about 8nm, I went defensive and my F-15 got into a dogfight with his buddy, I turned back on the target as my F-15 splashed the other F-15. So I went into AFB to follow the other F-15 who thought he could escape me(lol), fired a couple R-3R to make him go defensive(didn't work, he ended up killing 2 of my allies), and fired my last missile in range. I was scared I was going to lose lock so I didn't use my first missiles effectively, so only my last missile I was sure of, though not really. It was a miracle that it hit. But it was fun. Very satisfying. so much adrenaline :joystick::joystick: PVP. Ikr, he's pretty amazing. EDIT: ok heres my go i admit its not pretty lol

that Tumansky sounds gorgeous IRL :D crappy video by me

yes. news. I'm in central timezone btw

Ahhh, I didn't know you were Scotty online. I'm JFET_Justo. I was playing with you on a few servers earlier. I see what you mean but I still can't seem to get a fighter kill whatsoever lol. Theres always something. Can still get a-10's :D. I think it would help a lot, though, if I set it up to where I can actually use the AWACS. Haven't been able to sneak up on any fighters, and when i bait them with my radar off(which I tried today) it seems like its a good way to go about it, but I was unable to get a kill from it(circumstances), though the strategy saved my hide several times. Maybe I could get one of your replays?

Maximum range is what, 4km? 3km effective? Generally just wait a second before launch and you'll be right on target. R-60M for a-10c? why? they have a pretty low heat signature, I can't even lock them until they're out of the missiles effective range.

I didn't like FaceTrack, but you could try it. Expect to spend a lot of time configuring it, though, I guess you do that with TrackIR too. Stable perhaps. But the avionics are all in favour of the sukhoi. Did you shoot most of them down from behind?

Don't disappoint us. Bury him. Show no mercy, comrade.

Anyone had any luck against the modern fighters yet? Closest I came was on 104, spotted an F-15 spike, pulled up behind him. Had him on my radar about 5km out, probably should have turned off my radar. I get 1km closer, it seems that he spots me and begins to bank, I launch my 2 R-60M out of effective range in my attempt, he flares and defeats 'em, now maneuvering too hard for me to lock him on the radar, I dive down back into the mountains and run away. 9 times out of 10 I get an AIM-120C to the face. So what luck have you guys had so far? Related video by AKATenn EDIT: and my go MiG-21 military combat record

would you be my mentor?

Excellent landing. I would have eaten it for sure.