Dagger71

What release version is this FM update?????

I am trying to understand how the radar works and why I cannot spot su27 at BVR. Doesn't this radar have a limit of 120nm??? I cannot even attempt to play with this plane outside of single player, as anything better than mig21/F4 doesn't appear on my radar and I am engaged from extreme distances while I am blind my training consisted of videos like and currently using Chuck's guide for reference. I haven't attempted the campaign as I cannot even complete the " Through the inferno" single mission on normal difficulty. My radar setup is Using B Scan set to 2 Radar lines at 30 degree Scan. I've approached from almost NOE altitude, I've approach from higher and I've approached from same alt, and see them on my RWR at my 12 o'clock. I have the antenna raised or lowered as needed, and nothing. I then start a climb or dive towards the contacts until I am seeing their labels and nothing on radar. Also I believe there is still a bug where a contact disappears from radar (regardless of modes), so when firing one of only 2 530s, loosing contact, missile is useless, then you must go defensive which happens in 1/4 to 1/3 encounters. It has made for some extremely frustrating sessions, not to mention the low speed drag issues. How do any of you fly the M2K against Su27s? Are you constantly loosing radar contacts? Are you entering an encounter and your radar screen is completely blank from 60+nm right to overshoot?

Ok I'm done with your childish condescending tone. You don't represent Buddy Spike nor Blue Flag. So run along back to your mom's basement.

+1000 This isn't the BlueFlag server I know. It's unrecognizable. I don't know if there was a physical turnover of people managing the server but regardless, this server is now nothing more than a shooting gallery for the blue side and enforcing preposterous game changes. . Server has been empty for a few hours now, due to the blue on red gangbang thats been going for days ( I work 2 weeks out of town and only get 1 week to play more or less), so I can't confirm how long its been like this. Regardless of what some people say, these changes are (YES they are changes on the server!!!) not going to last. I give it even before round 10 goes live before the changes are reversed. No one who's been around since Round 1 can say this is a good start to round 10. Well sorry maybe a bunch on the blue side might say its great like this. On that note, I will say, I do love the unit count changes. When I was once able to get within 10 km of a FARP 4 days ago, before getting shot of the sky (or maybe I was rammed by enemy or friendly, or maybe it was ground units, maybe air units,or maybe it was some new bug, unfortunately I don't know), I did get to see lots of new ground units all around the FARP. But that was 4 days ago, and haven't been able to get close to any city, farp or comm array since to see what other unit changes were implemented.

again you are making assumptions, this time that we all flying aicraft with RWR. this is also useless when one side is massively outnumbered

But there's the catch 22!! GCI is useless without having helos drop off radar sites and helos can't fly when they have no idea what is flying on opposite side. So we are stuck in a circle with no way of getting out.

Ok from your condesending reply I am understanding that the new direction BF is taking is now 1 You want to fly a specific aircraft? too bad, we force you to take a side 2 Your side is massively underpop?, too bad, you must scramble with what you have and don't complain 3 no GCI? too bad suck it up and face the wrath of the opposition with superior air power, and don't even think of using A/G aircraft Understood loud and clear

Was playing last night and auto start was working. Today auto start is not working. why was it turned off?

Ok well looks like this is turning into an insult/pissing contest so I'll just leave it. Yes its my fault for flying a helo on a combined arms server. sorry for even thinking I could do that. Also, I've been on the red side for a few days now and haven't seen any GCI, so your assumption that the server will be full of comms with fighter vectoring, bogey calls and ingress/egress flight assignment is completely false. BF was one of the best events going for DCS. It was full of very helpful, cordial members who saw the need to balance server accessibility, fun with changes to create false sense of realism. Again though, when did Buddy Spike/BF so radically change??? I do not remember when this complete transformation occurred. Not to mention the hostility shown by these so called Buddy Spike spokesmen. What happened??

So I guess you don't want ANY helos flying on BF?? What happened, why the sudden radical change from previous versions???

Let's just agree to disagree. Flying anything that doesn't have A2A radar or missile launch warning system is no fun at all. In the real world, AWACS or other assets would be telling the helo exactly what other aircraft is in the area, at what alt and heading. KA50 has no SA (neither does the other helos, but I only fly KA50 atm), when only the underpop side has the KA, then it makes it unplayable since you cannot rely on other players. I'd come back to play underpop if we at least got some server feedback.

I'm really sorry to hear that. Unfortunately since I'm currently only flying the Ka50, I'm stuck on a massively underpop side with little to no GCI or comms. So I doubt I will take part anymore. This is a really radical change from previous versions (I am positive I played on BF a little during round 9 and server feedback was turned on.), since I think I played since BF2. The underpop desperately needs some sort of feedback as to when fighters are in the area or something to make it even worth playing. I hope it will change before round 10 starts. good luck with the server!

But what about Team killing?? That's more important than any server feedback. How does the server track TK? What is the threshold for kick/ban?

How does the server handle TK? Currently there is no way to know if it was Player or AI who killed a unit. In fact there is zero feedback from any kills across the map. Unfortunately this just exponentially raised the difficulty for helos in the game unless you are on the overpop side. Under this new change it's even be possible for someone to go around TK without as much as a warning. This is going to lead to massive griefing I fear. Hopefully saner heads prevail and at least bring back some of the unit kill feedback.

As title says the new Track IR update will recognize buttons from different devices separately and I can confirm it works as intended. ei: pinky switches on TM warthog can be used without conflicting with buttons 12/13/14 on joystick! Previously had to use JoytoKey or spend countless effort using the target software to separate the key bindings between the two to avoid conflict. Only downside is Trck IR will no longer work with win XP, though I doubt this will affect many people here.

How hard would it be to model repair convoys starting from say 20miles from an AO once a unit is destroyed and when it reaches the AO, it will repair according to the percentage of the convoy still intact? Give like 10 trucks for a city, 10 trucks (including fuel trucks) and 2 Zsus for a Farp, and for airfield, the above but with an SA9-SA13 as well. Make it so such convoy will continue to respawn from origin until the AO is either fully repaired or taken over by enemy. As convoy units are destroyed in transit, it will reduce the overall fuel and munitions available at the FARP or AF. Allowing hueys to drop repair crates would also help rebuild. This would add to the dynamic feel of such a great campaign model. Currently the dynamic flowing frontline feel is kind of ruined with this respawn timer.. seems almost War Thunderesque in an otherwise dynamic battleground. It seems so out of place. It would also give something for the Huey pilots to hunt while CAS pilots are busy taking out units in the AO. I realize this can't be implemented for the current campaign, but just a suggestion to make a future campaign actually feel like a frontline battle, and not a 15 minute zerg/airquake to capture an AO. This way even if you are only 2 people on one side at 3am, you can contribute to the overall battle and not be hampered by magically respawning AOs.

The respawn is a total immersion killer. You spawn in run start ups, plan your flight, your payload. Join a flight, circle the AO to find ever single unit (because if you start attacking too soon without eyes on every single unit, they will all magically respawn by the time you do find each and every single one) After marking each unit and praying that you will be able to get them all before even a single unit respawns, you must have the Huey within mins away waiting for you and your flight to completely clear the AO.

Looks like you hit the Brightness or Contrast button on the lower right side of the mfd.It's annoying because there is no way to turn it off.. have to wait for it to disappear on its own.

I have tried this and the NTTR version and they seem to work bug free. Only issue is debrief and in game scorecard only display the unit ID number and not the name of the unit. Also in debrief it will always show 0 units destroyed by myself.

Yes I meant TAD... that is the easiest start point, but can be quite imprecise, unless you get more detailed directions to target.

No such thing as snapview on the pod. It's a sensor and you will be required to slew to the target all the time. But you can set your gun piper as SPI allowing you to slew where you are flying essentially. If your HUD is is SOI and you have guns selected you can do TMS down short to make IFCC SPI. Now where the gun piper points, your TGP will follow. Drop mark points when you are near targets, then switch to TGP to fine tune your search and tracking. One other option is using your TAD as reference and drop mark points at approximate locations on the map. This method however can lead to dropping marks all over the place so use sparingly. Also if your orbit diameter is equal to your altitude, then you will have a nice 45 degree angle using a clockwise turn. This of course is much more difficult to do then it sounds.

Looks like server is offline. can't connect to IP

My wife's pregnant, I don't have the money to buy it. I want to go to Las Vegas:)