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Well, I am currently using a Cyborg X. It is pretty fair, and it gets the job done for $60, but up to this point, I wish I had spared no expense and went with all CH( Pro Pedals, Pro Throttle, Fighterstick), as I am about to upgrade anyway, and that would have been $60 more in my pocket. I can't in all good conscience recommend the Cyborg X, though, because I hate it so. for $106.10, you could get an X-52(regular) joystick, though I am sure there are plenty under $100 roaming about. I have heard a lot of good things about it, and it is pretty commonly used around here, and as such, there are plenty of pre-made profiles you can use. Other than that, I can't really say much, because I do not have much experience with a vast variety of joysticks. Also, keep in mind, if you are serious about the sims you might want to look into Track IR 4 or 5.

I hope you made the pilots black :lol:

I doubt DCS will ever be 'finished.' It is more of a wherever the wind takes me movement, which is obviously working well.

What's your price range, bro?

tbh, I didn't suffer a big FPS difference switching from BS1 to BS2.

Just got home and will try Alt + \ first before editing any of my files. Will get back to you with the results EDIT: Yes, Alt + \ worked. Thank you gentlemen. Singleplayer is fun again.

Thank you very much for the in depth response. I noticed something similar with your replays, took a look at your AtoA with guns, you slew to the ground and fired small bursts at nothing and let the apache blow you to bits. I have the HMS to center mod, which I see you have as well, so it is curious. I have heard that the mod messes up your replays. It is far indeed, I agree, but my reasoning is, in a normal AtoA you should fire your Vikhr at 7km, but if you fire far out of range, you can still get a hit/kill at that range if you are lucky, while being able to launch your next set within range. And yes, I noticed that after the first Apache goes down, they maneuver sideways, I would look for the fastest mover and attempt to lock him up before he fires upon me (also noticed they will shoot hellfires while flying sideways, and sometimes still hit you). Furthest I got was killing the second apache, fired 2 vikhrs at the 3rd one, while he fires his hellfires. I would hit him, but he stays up in the air (hence my frustration). :mad: . My ministick is 8 way, but the shkval is only 4 ways, so if I accidentally use anything other than those 4, which happens often, the slew will just stop while I readjust. With my track clip secured by tape, I don't see this happening soon :megalol: Do you know if there is any noticeable difference between Track IR 4 and 5 btw? I have everything I need mapped as well, maybe the replay is messed up. This is a possibility. It made for an impressive video, at least. I have experienced the same thing, which is why I turned on AA H/O to try and attempt a solution. I certainly hope there is something wrong with the game, for an apache should not be able to take 2 vikhrs and keep flying.

:thumbup: I learned that rather recently as well, always wondered why the repair would never work.

Kill your engines and repair? If not, it shouldnt be entirely too difficult to fly without that channel.

Ah, thanks for that clarification.

So, Bushmanni, I was trying out your track with 4 apaches, and all of my efforts were completely in vain. I have come to the point of anger and frustration, and as such, am now asking for someone's help. How in the hell do I kill these god damned Apaches? Note: Low quality HOTAS ministick Low quality joystick/cyclic No pedals too pissed i quit.trk bushmanni trk attempt.trk

I would be happy to play with you

Try diving behind cover, and making a flight plan that allows you to dive into cover

In essence, you can split a rotor into two sections; the advancing side and the retreating side. If you are going 200km/h, the speed of the advancing side will be 200km/h + the speed of the blade(because it is advancing with the aircraft), and it is the opposite with the retreating side (200km/h - speed of blade, because it travels in the opposite direction). If the sides do not equal the same speed, the helicopter will lift unevenly, so the blade will flap up on the retreating side to attempt to generate more lift on that side(engineers intentionally do this). Also, because of gyroscopic precesion(basically any force you put on a rotor/gyroscope will take 90 degrees to have an opposite force take effect. If you tilt over a vase from the top, it will tip 180 degrees from the force you exert on it, its just 90 degrees in the motion of the rotor instead) more lift is generated on the advancing side, and since the force takes 90 degrees to take effect, the helicopter pitches backward. A sort of natural speed limit.

I have linked your video, honourable Bushmanni and my less impressive video

If it says 12km, and you know the target is less than 1km away, just keep trying to lase it(by pressing your rangefinding button). To prevent burning out your laser 1) Use laser only when you're going to attack and require precice range measurement. The 'without laser' range is precise enough for most cases. 2) Wait for the countdown on hud to complete after each lase, before using the laser again.

One thing to remember; Take no risks. If you see some smoke out of the corner of your eye, and don't have a warning, chances are it is a radar or IR guided missile flying towards you so...don't think, just dive. Back in the day I'd be like "Hmm...wonder if that was a missile launch...maybe..hmmm...i should probably get moving in that case" and explode

It seems when I get into the air, I can no longer open up my communications menu to contact my wingmen. Also, I mapped "Flight attack ground targets," I press it and it does nothing whatsoever. My radios are properly adjusted, so what in the hell is the issue here? It has worked before, but not anymore, somehow. Until then, 36 Vikhrs unlaunched, 36 Americans unpunished.

Really? That is surprising. So is the AFM for us, or them?

Agreed. It would be a pretty smart move, and beneficial for everyone. Though, I am sure that there is a business side of it that we cannot see here, as I am sure ED has thought about this already.

AH-1 Cobra/SuperCobra sounds more reasonable. ED has plenty of projects to work on right now, though, so I don't see it happening unless a third party wants to jump in.

Well, the way I see it the P-51 and the Huey are extremely easy(the systems anyway). Both can be started within a minute, and armed even faster. The Huey flight model is certainly very challenging, however, and if you are a helicopter guy like me, I'd recommend learning to fly it, starting with in ground effect hovers, following flight plans, flying straight, turning, then out of ground effect hovering, etc(I say all this but I have not even taken the time to learn the huey's flight characteristics very well, as I am waiting for my pedals). If you get the feel for it, you will not only have a realistic feel of IRL helicopters(debatable, presuming you have pedals), you will be able control all of the aircraft far easier The P-51 is also quite simple, like the Huey, you can have the startup and weapons employment memorized in 5 minutes(but the flight manual itself is 200 pages). The Ka-50 is the module of my choice. I wouldn't call it difficult, but it takes a little bit of time to learn the systems, but on the other hand, the flight characteristics are much easier, so it is easier to bring it to a hover gracefully, fly with ease, etc, because the coaxial design allows for a more versatile, spry, powerful aircraft with less vibration. Anything you want to know about the Ka-50, I would be happy to teach you, just PM me. Been using the Ka-50 mainly for the last 6 months.

Is it really absolutely necessary to start the launcher.exe when the DCS application is closed? If we want to restart it, we just click the application again, if not, we have to wait for it to load again and close it, or ctrl+alt+delete to stop the launcher. Also, couldn't you just give us two seperate launchers for Multiplayer and Singleplayer?

lol sorry, it is all in good spirits. But what do you mean front light controls? What's wrong with them?

T.T so beautiful