Rogue Trooper

WOW.... What a privilege to sit in that pit! Best Chopper graphics or what!!!! After my long a laborious graphics purge I flew the hind down the strip of las vegas and got no drop below 45 fps and no stutter looking left or right. Traffic on, just above the palm trees.... smooth and clean. KA-50 has the odd micro second glitch when looking left or right on this strip fly by.... Moved onto Syria and took of from Beirut airport, a full 360 degrees hover yaw turn was the best I have seen it for fps in the Hind.... it was really good!... not perfectly above 45 fps but REALLY GOOD! City flight was good, and better than the KA-50. Flying back out over the airport and along the coast heading southerly was the best I have seen since the new clouds came in. looking left into the buildings ran a clean smooth 45..... LOVELY! Leaving the outer boundaries of Beirut and pulling inland into the valleys was nice a clean, minimal stutter left and right and cleaning out to nothing the further in bound I travelled.. So far I have the Hind I am very happy with it. Tomorrow is all day Hind!... work be damned! But what a pit to sit in wearing VR..... What an experience!

I am about to finish down loading so I will purge the system and have a test.

you guys VR?

The Huey is the best performing chopper for FPS in all of DCS!.... ANY MAP, ANY CITY! The MI-8 and Gazelle are next best fps in DCS... they are about even. and the KA-50 is the worst... but not bad at all. If you guys are testing on Syria then this map just got a big extension. Open your test missions in syria and re save.

Try your Kamov, is it also suffering? What map are you on?

Remember a large update proceeded the Hind module download. Ensure you run your repairs and graphical sterilization protocols! Mine are extremely protracted and if I am a lucky boy I will sit in hind tonight.

Yes thank you Ugra, it really is a superb map.

It is very hard to replicate Hydraulic failure in a sim. For sure you would need to pull your joystick around with some incredible force to manhandle that 9,000 Kg chopper. That would be some serious FFB joystick.... I would love it if it was available and if I could afford it!

That sounds like a really good place to be!

How ever long it takes to get spot on. I am looking forward to it.

No they have to stay focussed on Choppers!

It is a big change. Ed will have to set up servers and they will probably need to be pay to use... which would work for me.

for sure, slow is the pace in which we move. It would be nice to drop into a dynamic live PVP/PVE online campaign though. I would rather pop a 30 MM Cap into some ones skull and worry about how bad it performs from there. Like starting from a new truth. Something not pre set, something random, chaotic, something where the attack chopper lives.

The 16 would be awesome with the pilots knees sticking up almost obscuring the MFDs. Such a reclined seating position should be enjoyed.

every time? Or this time Perhaps 30 mike mike took care of the man of iron at 3 klicks? Perhaps it is question of how and how often you rotate your skull to observe what is in the world around. Perhaps this statement does not apply to me! Perhaps.

Thanks Raptor9, good to know. It will be interesting to see what this chopper performs like in DCS. Every thing has surprised me so far in choppers DCS, will the apache be a slow dog to perform? Really looking forward to finding out!

There is nothing "quick fix" in DCS. We are aiming at a PVP/PVE online dynamic campaign.... and that is it. Live Coms will be open to all that want to partake and it will be full frequency. The massive global warfare will be cut down into sectors of operation to make them easier to handle for the servers, You will be assigned your designated area of operation, but cross sector travel will be possible. If a utility nut wants to move his MI-8 full of ammo from the rear section of a low intensity battlefield and move across 3 low intensity sectors of the rear in order to finally push into the back end of the most contested sector in the DCS online world... then good on him! The Hind will have plenty of room to manoeuvre in such a world.... everyone busy, no one looking hard...... this is where the attack chopper slips in. I just do not understand the arguement about the Hind, if we get left right door gunners.... then we got the best Hind... I am converted! Now we just need the world to operate it in.

What does FBW stand for hotrod525? Hopefully not Fly By Wire. Whats JTRS? A man who loves steam gauges is asking.

I saw that error once today. Are you using thrust master stuff by any chance and perhaps Target Gui? I have a feeling the target software "may" be causing problems with USB connections or direct X or something since a recent system update. My MFGs have dropped out, warthog stick could not be found and or dropped out, headset dropped out.... all works fine without target running.

Looks amazing. The BS3 cockpit is excellent in VR but the Hind and Apache will look awesome. Hind, Apache and BS3 coming.... I am sure I died and I am now living in the alternate heaven universe. Special attention given to the Pilot crew models and animations? Eds best pilot models are coming perhaps? ...... I must have died! The Apache will be very special me thinks.

Yes I agree, it is pretty damned good what they have achieved with so little.

glance was the word I used I believe.... In VR it is more the whole you take in.... very liberating.

Some videos of the MI-8 are also attempted flare stops. I find it harder to find videos of other makes of chopper dropping their weight into their own downwake... it just may be a trait of the chopper that you could be unaware of. I need to be really careless and flippant with my approach to even hint at VRS in the DCS MI-8, but again the vibrating jetseat just gives me a nice bit of feedback that aids my glancing of the instruments, especially the vertical velocity indicator.... surely the true god send instrument to the chopper pilot. The MI-8s VVI is very slow to respond in DCS mind.... it is also metric so a small needle deflection down is a whole hunk a drop. But she is slow to enter VRS and slow to get out, if you get into VRS in the hard flare then go sideways to get out of your down wake, it is simply the fastest way to get that big old girl moving quickly. Trying to pull the nose down to accelerate out of the flare during VRS is simply suicide and just too late in this girl.... she is no R22. The DCS MI-8 is the greatest chopper programmed into any sim.

The financial costing of a peer to peer protracted DCS dynamic campaign will favour the Huey, Gazelle and Bo-105 chopper boys very nicely. It would be interesting how that hits the jet boys, for ground pounders it must surely be rockets and iron bombs that are the most cost effective. Without doubt, the Hind must be right up there for cost effectiveness...... a lot of those bad boys sold globally. DCS Dynamic Campaign is gonna be a whole new world of pain.

Roll on the online dynamic campaign spread over a large land mass, lets see if they see us travelling through a large CAP area with Migs and Sus to contend with.