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sthompson

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  1. I hope they don't roll it out until the AI knows how to deal with it. This may not matter for immobile AAA defense units, but for airborne AI units its not enough to just block their vision through clouds. You need to change the way they approach engagements when clouds present potential challenges and opportunities, just as they affect the way human pilots fly against each other now that clouds are coordinated in MP. In other words, the technical challenges likely involve more than just making sure AI units can't see through clouds. That said, my experience so far flying missions against airborne AI enemies is that the clouds give them a real advantage. In missions where the AI is hidden by clouds, they know exactly where I am, have full SA, but I'm lucky if I can find them.
  2. You do realize you are complaining about a Microsoft feature, not VAICOM, right? When I got started with VAICOM I learned I needed to upgrade my microphone before I could start getting reliable voice recognition. Also, turn off your speakers and switch to headphones. The phrases that the voice recognition system is prompting in the example include the correct word "chief" echoed more than once. So I think you have a problem with echos being heard by the speech recognition software. It's not a VAICOM problem.
  3. Well that's how VAICOM version 1 worked. It's still available out there for free if you want to try to use it. But Hollywood created the PRO version in part because maintaining a version that used the menus directly required constant updating as well as some difficult mods that modified the menus themselves. (I know, because I contributed some of the mods.) The new system actually works a lot better.
  4. Unfortunately, that is correct behavior. You need to select the supercarrier as recipient before giving the inbound or marking moms call if there is another valid ATC that is closer. It was true before 2.7.
  5. When I played last night the second cloud layer topped out around 26,500 ft. They were definitely below that. And I'm impressed you found the bandits on radar. I was searching for them, but I've never had much luck with the F-5 radar. It sometimes seems blind even to planes I'm spotting visually right on my nose.
  6. There is a bug thread on the End Mission bug. See https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/192116-quotend-missionquot-button/. Someone has figured out the bug and posted a lua fix, but ED does not seem to have picked up on that.
  7. Mission 2 is, shall we say, interesting, with the new clouds. I've tried it once and never did see any of the enemy aircraft due to visibility issues.
  8. If you haven't tried the old Instant Action missions with the new 2.7 clouds system I recommend giving them a shot. The Caucacus Intercept and Ground Attack missions in particular. The intercept mission, which was too easy before, is still pretty easy, until you need to land in close to zero visibility! And Ground Attack in a winter snowstorm is a lot more challenging.
  9. I do have notifications for followed content turned on there. I don't see anything in those settings that distinguishes between followed threads and followed forums, however, and I am receiving notifications about new postings in followed threads, but not about new threads in followed forums. My Followed Content settings are as follows: [Edited because cut and paste didn't work very well. Here is a partial screenshot instead.]
  10. I've had this problem for a long long time. I've learned to live with it. I just push the \ key twice as needed. The usual shutdown VA, repair DCS, restart VA, restart DCS advice has no impact.
  11. If you are asking whether I resubscribed to the subforums, the answer is yes. When I select the profile dropdown at the top of the page and then click "Manage Followed Content" and then Forums on the left side, the subforums I am subscribed to are listed and the notification setting for each is "immediate." If you are asking about some more general setting that controls forum notifications, I have looked for such a setting and not found it.
  12. Sounds similar to the problems others have reported with tankers. VAICOM gets confused about units whose callsigns can change from mission to mission. You might try the AWACS, Options approach to give an initial command, and then see if it stays selected when you give later "bogey dope" commands.
  13. I run VA as an ordinary user typically without any problems. However, be aware that VAICOM wants to modify some of your DCS files and also its own files. If these are stored under c:\program files then an ordinary user will not have privileges to modify those files and this will cause failures under some circumstances. I found that if I modify Windows security to give me read/write privileges on the relevant directories then everything works fine running as an ordinary user. BTW, I have recently started seeing VA crashes too. Had one last night in the middle of giving VAICOM a command. I had gotten the "recipient recognized" beep but VA crashed during the short pause before I gave the rest of the command. So it's not just related to idle status. I'm wondering if anyone has brought this up in the VoiceAttack forums to see if there is a way to debug the cause. I do not run any plugins other than VAICOM PRO.
  14. This is probably the wrong place, but I can't find a forum to discuss problems with the forum software itself. I know we used to have such a place, but I can't find it. Moderators, please move as appropriate. In any event my issue is that ever since the new forum software was rolled out I get no notifications about new threads in forums or subforums that I am following. I do get notifications about new posts in threads I am following. I've searched the settings but have gotten nowhere in solving this problem. Can anyone advise on how to restore notifications when a new thread is created in a forum or subforum I'm following?
  15. Just flew Mission 5 and the wingman always replied "unable" or "negative" when I asked him to attack ground targets. I gather I should try "cover me." My work around was to land and rearm/refuel then go attack again myself. BTW, I got a "mission complete" message when flying near Krymsk on RTB but not yet on the ground. After I landed and shut down the plane I did the usual ESC Quit sequence, which brought up mission score window as usual. But the "End Mission" button wouldn't work. Nothing happened when I pushed it. Pretty frustrating.
  16. I'm wondering if fixing this will make it into the new versions you are rolling out with the new weather.
  17. Just experienced this for the first time after completing a mission in Black Sea Resolve (F-5E DLC campaign). This was the first time I flew a campaign mission after upgrading to OB 2.7.
  18. Just a guess, but I'll bet that Voice Attack is not installed in the usual location when you buy it through Steam. You might have to download the zip file version of VAICOM Pro and do a manual install. It's as simple as unzipping it to the correct directory and then importing a profile once you start VA.
  19. Can anyone please explain to me which sounds are controlled by the World, In-cockpit, and Helmet audio sliders? The others are obvious. Thanks.
  20. In my experience its better to get the DCS registry entries corrected and then turn off the custom path options in VAICOM config. The VAICOM options are needed only if your DCS registry entries are not pointing to the install locations for stable, OB, etc.
  21. This is a common problem with various solutions in other threads. For me the one that works is to turn off the option in SRS where the radio selection button also serves as PTT. Then when you push a VAICOM button it will also select an SRS radio but will not transmit on SRS. You then assign a new button for SRS PTT. There are other solutions in the VAICOM manual that do not require a separate button, but I find them rather awkward in practice.
  22. That's why I had an idea as to the answer. Flew an A2A mission recently with an in-air start and at the end wanted to land at Suhkomi. They wouldn't respond to my inbound but I was low on fuel and so decided to land anyhow. When the AAA protecting the base started blasting me in the face on short final I finally put two and two together about why the tower hadn't responded.
  23. You have them all set to the same coalition?
  24. Or maybe a newbie trying to figure things out? Was there any attempt to contact the person? First time on a server it can take some time to figure out what you should be doing, and someone might not realize they are screwing up the mission for others.
  25. And precious little of it about the newsletter. They should start a separate thread about the pros and cons of different date announcements so I wouldn't have to scroll past all this stuff in this thread.
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