Sephki

4 e-mails as well. I've changed my password not via the link, but the account management page, everything else looks fine.

I'd buy it!

I'm holding out for both EDGE and Oculus. Though, I don't quite understand the early notice. When it happens, it happens - right?

Apologies, I meant that the inability to pause is not an issue. I agree individual pausing would be game breaking.

It's something the user should figure when and if they need to change a binding. It can be handled whilst on ground or on autopilot. Lack of control configuration can also be really inconvenient for hosts that wish to fly a different aircraft but do not have a profile even half set up (or fix a single binding on one aircraft), it would require disconnection of all clients. The largest complaint I hear when introducing someone to DCS is that they need to quit out just to change a setting, "It's 2014!" they tell me. Setting up a profile before hand is the most obvious and logical decision but not everyone is willing or at times even understanding of what to bind. In the end, it is a feature of convenience more than necessity. Those of us who have played for a while may not be so worried by such a thing, though I certainly view pausing as a non-issue.

Ka-50. Less focus on the systems, more focus on flying and shooting. Looking forward to all upcoming modules, none in particular. EDGE, multiseat and Oculus Rift support are more exciting to me. ;) (also need an F-15C option on the poll!)

Sure, I'd love to see this feature but there is a lot of other things I'd like to see first. ;)

Is it possible to do multiplayer in the new TF-51D or is the backseat eye candy currently?

Strangely the update stopped downloading at 1.35gb/2.02gb and started installing everything. Seems to be in working order too..

Find out more here.

Create a shortcut to DCS_updater.exe, right click shortcut->properties and append to Target "update" (without quotations). It might look similar to this: "R:\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update

Jerks. :doh:

It's not a matter of fairness but more so developmental curves, additionally I don't think that PhysX is actually supported in DCS at this point in time. There are things with more relevant focuses, such as EDGE. PhysX and Mantle don't actually make as large of a difference as you might think.

I recommend Dxtory with UT Video Codec (or Lagarith) if you can afford the space. Your resulting frame rate should be higher by ignoring compression. Dxtory can be especially useful as well due to its ability to record multiple audio sources at once and keep them separated from another. Cheers

If you're using a more up to date operating system you should have ogg vorbis support out of the box. If not, I suggest foobar2000 for Windows, mplayer for *nix and OSX. Private message me if you have any further issues with it. Cheers

Here it is. If anyone wants to mirror it, go nuts.

Dimension was able to send me a full audio recording of the session. If we have people's consent we'd be happy to post publicly.

I'd like to participate, but it depends on the time. I'll let you know yay/nay when an agreed time is posted. Cheers.

Thanks again for running that! It was great learning the systems in a little more detail. I forgot to remind about Hydraulics though, my bad.

Obligatory Soon™.

Looks great, thanks. The document seems malformed on LibreOffice though, are you able to export to PDF?

Country Table Incomplete Country Table Missing 7 and 14. Please advise if you know which these numbers belong to. [TABLE]0|Russia 1|Ukraine 2|USA 3|Turkey 4|UK 5|France 6|Germany 7|UNKNOWN 8|Canada 9|Spain 10|The Netherlands 11|Belgium 12|Norway 13|Denmark 14|UNKNOWN 15|Israel 16|Georgia 17|Insurgents 18|Abkhazia 19|South Ossetia 20|Italy 21|Australia [/TABLE]

Ahoy, this is a guide I've written as I did not find one previously for switching a country to the opposite coalition. I'll keep it as simple as possible but some expertise and editing software (vim/notepad++/emacs/gedit) may be required. Hold on, why would I want to switch a country to another coalition? If you must ask, you need not read further! But, as kind (and modest) as I am, I will explain. It allows you to add more aircraft to a coalition should you have forgotten or not planned so far ahead, or - you may be modifying another map but it does not contain a desired aircraft on the side you want. What does this guide accomplish? The idea is to switch an empty country from red to blue or vice versa. The mission editor as of DCS version 1.2.7 does not have the functionality to switch a country after you have created a map. Unfortunately this would mean one of two things: remaking the entire map, or, the often more appealing route of editing your mission file itself. What doesn't this guide accomplish? At the moment, it is only written for switching a country that has zero units. If you have any units under the country you want to move, you may want to consider removing them and then re-adding them after you have made changes, I haven't tested changing coalitions with units but I was warned it may not always go flawlessly - your mileage may vary. This is not the most simplest of guides, consider it a crash course of introductory to computer science if you will. If you intentionally skip steps and ignore notes, I reserve the right to laugh at you and tell you to re-read it. This is because it can be just as frustrating for me as it is for you when myself or others are trying to assist you. Manual Method (utility may be written soon) As mentioned, you'll need a capable non-rich text editor. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Google and download Notepad++ if you do not have it already. Navigate to your mission file with your file manager/browser. Its extension should be ".miz". If it is not, you have a problem and may be on your own. See: How to enable extensions below if you do not see any extensions what so ever. Create a backup! I will not be held liable for any losses or issues you encounter. Change your mission file's extension to ".zip". Open it with windows explorer (or your favourite archival tool). You should see several files, but only one of them is relevant to us for this guide. Extract the file called "mission". If you do not see this file, ask for help. Open your freshly extracted "mission" file, if you are using Windows, it will most likely prompt you with an "open with" dialogue. Choose your preferred editor. (notepad++ if you just downloaded it) Now for the fun part. You'll see a lot of text, but we are only after two specific sections of it. Do not touch anything the guide doesn't say to! You can and will easily break your mission file and it'll be up to you to fix. Use the Find function of your editor, in most cases it is Control-F. Input the search phrase "coalitions" (with quotations). You should now be taken to a section that looks similar to this: If you're not taken to an area that looks like that, try to manually find it or post for help. Now it gets rather complicated, I'll keep it as simple as possible. Every single country is there on its own line closed in the braces of either red or blue (except neutral countries I believe). The numbers enclosed in square brackets are enumerators and so long as they go from 1 to # without skipping numbers they're working as intended. This is relevant because when we are ready to move a country we will be modifying several of these. The numbers after the equal sign indicate the internal country number. You can find a table in the post below this one. Finally each line ends with a comma, do not forget it when editing as your mission file will break if you forget even one of them. If you get lost, follow the same style quoted above or: "[OrderedNumber] = CountryNumber,". Now, using the list in the post below this guide: find the country you want to switch. For this example, I'll use country '12', Norway. Cut and paste the entire line that has your countries number on the right side, placing it in the opposite coalition, grouped with the other countries at the end. Like so: Now we need to re-enumerate the list. See how our example red side goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 10? We need to change that so it is counting properly from 1 to the total entries, in our case; that's 5. Change the square bracket enclosed number of the newly pasted country to the new number of total entries for that coalition. Do the same for other coalition, you might notice if you took it from the middle of the list that the list is now skipping a number. You may need to adjust them all so they count from 1 to the total entries for that coalition. Done right, it should look like this. Counting from 1 to the total entries of the coalition without skipping a number. Note that our examples highest square bracket enclosed number was 15, it is now down to 14 as we took an entry out of it. You can remove the blank line with nothing in it if you wish. Note the left hand number of your newly switched country! In our example case, country 12 has gone from [10] on blue to [5] on red. Write down the old number, new number and the number after the equals sign, which we'll refer to as the country number. Following the example: the old number is [10], the new number is [5] and the country number is 12. Adding The New Entry Open your editors find function again. This time, type "coalition" (with quotations). be very careful with this section, it is more difficult to explain and so you should triple check what you are doing. Ask questions if needed. Scroll down to the line that says ["country"]. See how there is a "[1]" below the brace? Remember those numbers from steps 8-12? Great! Now its time for a lot of scrolling and careful edits. If your newly moved country is now blue: Open your find function again and type "-- end of ["blue"]" (without the beginning and ending quotations). If your newly moved country is now red: Do the same thing only search for "--end of ["red"]" instead, following quotation note. Go up one line to where it has "}, -- end of ["country"]" and add a line above it. Copy and paste the below code into said line: Now, there are four things we must do. Replace the two YOUR_ENUMERATOR_NUMBER_HERE texts with the "new number" acquired in step 13. Replace COUNTRIES_ID_FROM_TABLE_HERE with the correct countries ID noted also in step 13. Also put the name as seen in the table after the end of this guide, in the place of "COUNTRIES_NAME_HERE" (inside the quotations). You might be able to use custom names but I haven't tried it. Feel free to let us know. Example: Removing The Old Entry Open your editors find function again. This time, type "coalition" (with quotations). If your newly moved country was red: Find function. Search for "["red"]" (with inner quotations). Scroll down to the line that says ["country"]. Now we need to find the old entry, remove it and then subtract 1 from the countries below it for re-enumeration purposes. If your old coalition was blue, make sure you don't accidentally go into red coalition when editing. To do this, take note of the 'old number' you should have wrote down in step 13. Depending on how many units are in the mission file, you may have quite a bit of scrolling ahead. Search will unlikely save you this time. So, start scrolling until you find something akin to Since this guide is editing Norway, I'll be looking for this: Now, delete that section starting from "[YOUR_OLD_NUMBER] =" down to "-- end of [YOUR_OLD_NUMBER]". If you're not deleting the last entry, continue below. If you are, lucky you, you're done here and can continue to the next section. You should see another country below where you just deleted. In this step you'll re-enumerate every single country below what you just deleted. A simple trick is n-1. So, with that in mind I had several countries below Norway, especially USA with a ["vehicle"] / ["plane"] field. It's important to not touch anything in the these fields, so when you find one, skip all of what you see until you find "-- end of ["field_name_here"]" as this guide does not cover these. Note how the example below omits these in the USA field; you should treat countries with units the same way mentally. So, bearing all of that in mind, our new example will look like this following bracket enclosed n-1: Note how the bracket enclosed numbers were reduced by 1. Denmark has taken Norway's place as entry 7. Re-archiving Pat yourself on the back, you're almost done. Save your "mission" file. (make sure it doesn't gain any extensions) If you didn't leave the .zip window open, re-open the .zip with Windows Explorer. (or your favourite archival tool) Drag the file into the zip archive, overwriting the old "mission" file. Close the archive. Rename your mission.zip file back to mission.miz. Finishing Notes Congratulations! You're finished, now you can go and test everything inside of DCS. Should everything be done right, your mission wont crash and when you add units, the changed country(s) should be blue instead of red or red instead of blue, depending on its' newly assigned coalition. If you didn't have such success and your map spawned mutants, try again from your backup file, making sure to make another backup and erasing the messed up attempt. Troubleshooting: Enabling File Extensions in Windows Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View Tab UNCHECK "Hide extensions for known file types" -> Apply.

I'm interested. Count me in.

They're working fine for me with latest version (1.2.7). Ensure you're firing them high enough, but not too high. Also, you can try cycle around with F6 if the camera option is enabled so you can see where the rockets and charges are going.