Boris

Thanks for the great event yesterday Mav! (Despite the hiccups and delay). I was one of the first to get shot down, but I really enjoyed the live stream and your commentary. It was probably an M2000 that took me down. I was caught unprepared by their high altitude tactics. This is vastly different to the ACG Cold War server I usually fly on, where most are down in the dirt to not expose themselves. I was hesitant to go afterburner and meet the M2000s at their level for fear of being spotted by the lower flying MiG-21s. The M2000 radar is very capable acquiring targets on the deck, while the F-5 and MiG-21 radars are almost useless in fighter engagement (the F-5 radar even more so due to lack of IFF). This led to the M2000 consistently having the upper hand in all engagements as they had much better situational awareness and were able to come in from high altitude with high energy, allowing them to escape the fight if any shots happen to miss. The only hope for team blue was to defend, successfully deploy countermeasures and hope the M2000 makes a mistake in order to get a shot in. Really goes to show what an advantage superior sensors give. I'd prefer for the next Red flag in this category not to have M2000s. Perhaps pair the MiG-21s with Viggens (Finno-Swedish alliance?) or, dare I say it, with the L-39, to keep things eastern block? Greatly looking forward to the helicopter rumble too!

I find the effect way overdone, not to mention the wrong colour. It should be more subtle and suit the terrain.

+1 on getting online. Get on the ACG Cold War server and go up against some MiG-21s. They have similar problems in terms of energy loss.

The only reason I'd ever get the FSSB R3 is if an F-16 Module is launched. I prefer my controllers being as close as possible to the real thing. All of the DCS aircraft so far have a free moving stick between the legs. Also, I bet the RS F-18 Grip is going to be expensive. I'm sure Thrustmaster's offering will be cheaper.

With all the buttons on the oculus touch controllers it's a wonder they didn't implement right click. What about rotary knobs? Does scroll somehow work?

The MiG-21 is hardly "broken" though. You can start the bird up, take off, navigate with the working on board equipment, fire the working ordinance and land with working landing gear and slow down with a working parachute. The only thing I can think of that's truly broken is the cockpit lighting in 2.5 And 2.5 is still in beta. The lighting works fine in what is still the release version. Everything else is just stuff that can be improved upon an doesn't work exactly the same as in the real aircraft. I do look forward to the module being improved of course.

Cockfighter MiG-21 (or F-5 if needed)

Haha, looking to buy a Subaru? :D There has been nothing about the memory leak in the patch notes so far (correct me if I'm wrong).

And that's saying something, considering blue has many more options.

8700k also overclocks extremely well. You should be able to do 5GHz on air cooling.

I tried it again last night, cycling through the different settings: CTRL+NumPad 1 - ASW off CTRL+NumPad 2 - Force 45 fps, ASW off CTRL+NumPad 3 - Force 45 fps, ASW on CTRL+NumPad 4 - ASW auto I can confirm I get artifacting as described by others with any ASW on setting. ASW off will give me motion blur if I'm below 90 fps (which is most of the time). Neither setting is ideal, so I turn ASW on/off as needed or depending on which aircraft I'm flying.

I'll certainly try it, but I think you can count yourself lucky. Do you get the tearing of the gunsight in the spitfire?

This just isn't true. You were talking about the UFC numbers in the A-10C. When I have ASW enabled I see some annoying artifacting here. It's gone with ASW off. Other places it's noticeable is the canopy frame, where you sometimes get a blurred edge. I've also seen strange behaviour on building windows where they tend to warp with ASW on. Hud elements are also prone to warping. This is especially noticeable in the Spitfire. The gunsight is completely unusable with ASW. What ASW does tend to mitigate, is ghosting and blur when looking out at the terrain. Especially when looking to the side going at high speed, ASW provides a clearer picture.

"prefer maximum performance" tends to help. All the other settings don't take hold.

Higher frequency and lower CL (CAS Latency) is better. Differences are fairly negligible and not proportional to price differences though.

I think it's safe to bet that the performance on this map will be at least as good as in the existing maps. Maybe better, as it'll be newer and some things will may have been done more efficiently. That said, ED surely won't be compromising on quality. The great thing is that they're giving us much better quality at pretty much no cost in performance. ED have mentioned they are implementing the Vulcan API, which will give a performance increase on all maps.

The Pakistani Air Force allows civilians into F-16s? Wow, that's pretty awesome.

Noticed the missing ship textures too. Repair had no effect.

Here's hoping for a fix when 2.5 comes out of beta...

I'm also kind of hoping the Q2 delay of the Pimax 8k will buy some more time for the market to come out with a next generation graphics card. It'll be sorely needed.

Good move. Many airfields don't have TACAN, but I guess a vector to home plate from ATC is enough. I love this server.

Not sure if DCS or Fallout 4...

I can also confirm the 1.2 PD 2x MSAA combination as working really well. I was a little disappointed with 2.5 at the start, but now having tweaked everything I'm getting very nice performance with reasonably good graphics settings, including deferred shading. Definitely looks much nicer than 1.5, with at least the same performance, if not better. I'm looking forward to the further gains with the Vulcan API implementation.

Nice, I'm greatly looking forward to this!

I too have been waiting for 2.5 to get stuck back into the Ka-50 and other helicopters. The trees are a real game changer. Not only to they make low flying look amazing, but they finally block enemy line of