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Rogue Trooper

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  1. Reading through the responses to the OP, there is some pain I need to pay for the choices I made. Setting up looks like it could be a bitch! ..... or does it? Gotta get the glasses sorted fast by the sounds of things..... perhaps. The reverb is inbound this week and will be tested for my glasses, the DCS driver system is inbound just before Christmas.... GRRRRRR! God I am looking forward to this hard work! :)
  2. So it is finally time to jump into VR. The Reverb is my weapon of choice as it surpasses one of my red lines for VR (one red line is resolution and the other is FOV). I can handle one out of two red lines. I think the software in the reverb needs fine tuning but Hewlet Packard is a big old company and once they realise that they have caught the wave at just the right time then their software should be perfected quickly.... Off course we all seen dip stick A holes in charge of mega digital companies screw it up and screw it up royally.... but regardless, the time is now for me. A beast of a system will be ordered this Friday and I will simply throw a very large hammer at a big problem.... with the way DCS is I see no other alternative! In the next 2 -3 weeks I am going to get on the communities nerves when it comes to VR questions so I apologies in advance.... probably all in the week before Christmas ( I hope). P.S. I see the reverb on Hewlet Packard's web site but it does not say "pro". The bumf does say pro but when you go to the sales page it does not say PRO and is around £500 (give or take £100, monkey nuts in comparison to my total DCS system investment)! Should I be weary of this?
  3. Superb looking grip. I think the OH58D collective would probably be the best collective for VR headset users, 5 hats offers a lot of hotas!
  4. I reckon these fellas have moved past the initial forum backlash, they have tasted the vile tongue of the forum and are moving forward. They are here to stay. I am looking forward to their future.
  5. If it was for a massive online dynamic campaign that is constantly changing tactics, supplies and increases/decreases AI pilot presence depending on real user online usage on a top notch server then yes I would pay a subscription for this and this only. This would pay for the dynamic campaign for offline users quickly. I think the current DCS model is good as it is, the free ware brings in new users and can keep them interested with little additional cost as they progress. It also looks after our offline/casual users. The mass of subscription games online causes a massive drain on user finances, £10 here and £10 there mounts up into a massive payment per month and DCS is not obviously the greatest game that ever existed... it does not catch the imagination instantly... only with time and use does the user realise that it is indeed the greatest game that ever existed. I would say more diverse paid for modules, Coms for example. You get superb interactive ATC communications that are controlled by keys and/or voice. superior Awacs and AI coms. Additionally it would include a live online coms system that works via the planes coms panels settings. Noise, squelch and line of sight problems (pending on the frequency and mode of coms used) could also be modelled. Commercial Radio stations that offer easy use of your favourite music, played by tuning into your local radio station and easily played from your favourite (saved) play list... perfect for those days when you go off cruising and sight seeing the newest/oldest map.
  6. The first Multi Function Display equipped cockpit chopper in DCS, another polychops mile stone event. Really looking forward to this piece of kit and I truly hope it is fully modelled! Every radio and every laser frequency designator must be modelled in this girl, she must be the first chopper designed to integrate with all future DCS world releases. Polychops seem to have an ability to pick the machines that I love, they are agile recon machines that are filthy backstabbing snipers... I like it... I like it alot!
  7. Great news. Looking forward to the update of this superb machine!
  8. This will be an instant buy for me!
  9. This release needs to be top notch mind! The modelling must be perfect! You are moving into the realm of top notch rotary weapons. It is the OH-58D and it demands all the love and care to reach our required level of desire and need! This is emotional now!
  10. Done it! Been there! got the T-shirt! you got the free graphic update dude! What else you want..... blood. Christ! bitchin or what! Roll on the pay to use upgrade, bitches gonna learn em some pain! F%*^in A! if the upgrade is balanced right and the lady walks out of the hangar hot to trot and able to defend her honour in the modern battlefield... then this will be the greatest attack chopper in DCS and she will be Quen for many years to come. I may think the apache AH-64A will only beat it by a pair of eyeballs.... but not through pulling a corner. Such a weapon is worth every penny, the proof of our desire is in the very post the original poster submitted. it shows dedication and expenditure for a weapon that delivers the ultimate machine that our minds eye desires..... every aching inch of pulling the weapon into the low level merge. lets see what Ed deliveres
  11. Lots of patience. That is all that is needed with the KA-50, move around the target area and choose a position that has a height advantage over your opponents. maintain maximum attack range. I suggest ensuring you are set to high resolution on the shkval camera in the options menu. lots of hover time, lots of looking and lots of moving around the target area is the order of the day here. the work load is exhausting.... you will be swinging your skull around the pit like crazy, looking for targets and constantly zooming in and out, like a sniper, you work very hard for one kill. DCS is not a game. DCS is moving towards perfection.
  12. An accurately modelled Apache with its single eye monocle giving flight information/night vision images to one single eye will indeed cause Elf and Safety concerns, if the sim is smack on, the problems of the real world will hopefully be faithfully modelled and this will hopefully be totally represented in DCS VR world..... the rest is just the human race moving forward into the virtual world and how their bodies will need to adapt to the future.
  13. YEEEEEEEEEEES! Yes you do speak for us! You speak for us and you need to speak louder brother! There are not enough choppers in DCS!
  14. Would an AH-1W suit you grimm862? It would fit me perfectly.....like a glove. An AH-1Z would be nice.... but us chopper boys can only dream of such advanced weaponry in DCS world.
  15. yes weather makes a big difference, wind especially. It is best to roughly trim the airframe to hover in the current wind direction and then enable the auto hover. If the auto hover starts to drift with wind direction then off set your cyclic a tiny amount into the wind to hold the hover better and re-trim.
  16. Each module requires a specific setup and pilot discipline is required when used. Enjoy.
  17. she will be a sweet machine. I cannot wait to redo the missions again, it will be a whole new game re-born.. solid trees, new defences. Hopefully she will clear the way for an European/US attack chopper, and then there finally will be a true balance! A late production Apache AH64A would be about right or and European Tiger. Then we just gotta get that clutter right on the jets radar.
  18. indeed, perfectly thought out and a simple joy to use.
  19. What we need is a massive DCS online pay to use battlefield where the whole lot is thrown into the mix all at once, do or die, better dead than red war. (better Red than Dead for our large Russian users). A real time, real weather mass war where jet pilots are just to busy fighting for air supremacy to care about the choppers! Where logistics and ground force moral is just as important as kills.... basically, a real simulated war segmented into smaller areas for each and all of us to play in. Or a complex one sided but highly realistic online battle field that mimics recent western battlefields in the middle east.
  20. Attack choppers move into the massive merge... peer to peer. There is nothing like this in DCS at the moment. As mentioned before, the CAP needs to be busy on both sides to allow the attack chopper to do its job. There is nothing in DCS that has the massive clash of steel coming together on a broad massive frontline, it is all tooo controlled and blue sided heavy. Once the online DCS battle field becomes massive in both scale and numbers then this is where the Attack chopper starts to do its work. There are a whole bunch of regimented dudes out there that got the talk..... but a true peer to peer war would see an end to such control and calm.
  21. Yeah! Zip ties and duct tape would finalyze my love for this machine. Good defence is all that is needed with this girl.
  22. The warthog is as good as it gets at this price point. But more importantly it is popular and this means software and hardware updates in the community are far more numerous than the lesser known devices. Its grip locking system is becoming a standard with the smaller more expensive boutique manufacturers which allows for superb (but expensive) upgradability. What you get with the thrustmaster, whether you like it or not, is a slowly growing way of gradually moving into the upper echelons of flight sim controllers... and there are some superb base units out there that can be used with the TH warthog joystick/cyclic. Even a simple steel gimbal replacement bearing, created in the community, would elevate this joystick into legendary status! The throttle is simply great and there are upgrades out there that make it superb, the throttle is just great/superb out of the box/modded..... it will do just fine. Regarding the F-18 grip, The momentary rotary that TH added to this grip would have been sublime if this was an analogue rotary with a centre detent, this would have been an incredibly tactile zoom function that ALL hunters would have loved. It would have been an insta flip of the wallet from this sim pilot.
  23. The Huey is an excellent choice for a first chopper. Always remember that the main body swings under the blades, an adjustment in the cyclic may instantaneous change the blades but the body of the chopper will swing its weight in the direction it was travelling. Learn to think ahead and compensate for this lag of input to reaction. The MI-8 is as good as it gets in DCS, full study sim perfection. cockpit needs a revamp to the current graphics engine but it is coming. the KA-50 is a sublime Attack chopper in DCS and it will just get better. This module pulled me back into sims and then some! When you are moving fast and need to manoeuvre, go left lad... go left. It is predictable but you can out turn anything.... anytime! The pedals are equally as important as any other controller in this machine. The Gazelle sets a new standard in any combat helicopter simulator in my book and in my book, I played it all. I started when microprose gunship was first released and apart from a gap of 10 - 15 years (nothing of interest was around) I played everything chopper. Only team apache came close to what the gazelle achieves now. The flight model is not perfect but the limitations of the machine and how you have to crawl well within the range of the fabulously superior Russian air defences is simply pure bliss! This nasty little French girl belongs in the top echelon of hunters, and boy does she have what she needs to do her job. Not enough weapons, not enough power, but you will learn very quickly how a roof mounted optical sight is just the bonus a true hunter requires. Looking forward to the little guys (OH-58D, OH-6 - AH6 littlebird, Lynx AH-7).
  24. The AP system should be a part of your Hotas system. Each and every AP is engaged as required. Pulling a high G curve through the centre of a high threat battlefield whilst swinging the HMS and 30 mike mike onto targets is a very high work load environment... having only the altitude hold AP on at this time Will work to your advantage.. it will not cure your altitude problems as you roll and drop violently to avoid ground fire, but it will move the collective in the right direction when such a dynamic violent encounter is experienced.... it will be fighting your fight. During an ingress into a tight housing estate to find a missile release solution on a well defended enemy position some 5 klicks outa town then all and every AP mode is a critical asset. There is no fat on this girl.... nothing is wasted. She must be mastered AP off and AP on in every mode of flight or engagement.
  25. Dirty glazing are an essential part of chopper operations. Dirty glazing is a tool that the operator uses. The MI-8 has the option to choose dirty windows instead of unrealistic "childish gamer" crystal clear windows. We need this option on all choppers. I have never been in a chopper with such crystal clear glazing.............. NEVER!
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