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Less workload for the systems yes. Not the same about the piloting. You'll learn to mainly fly with your cyclic instead of the collective. For example, if you dive in Kamov, you'll use a lot the collective to recover, then you'll adjust with the cyclic. if you do this in Gazelle... Ehehehehe boum.

Yeah, with the current net code, I don't think you may have a really better result.

Yes you ! :D

Ehehehe vade retro :megalol:

The 104th is IMO quite good in teamplay. There too is the TAW.net server, which is quite similar to the 104th, but with external views (I prefer it, not because I use them, but because I can take screenshots) Nicolas

For the trees in Caucasus, it's quite simple to understand. When the Caucasus was firstly designed, there only were planes, so the collision with trees wasn't so important. So, in order to model trees without needing too much resources, instead of 1 tree = 1 object, you have 1 forest = 1 object. So, the tree doesn't technically exist in DCS as a tree. And it's only a whole transparent texture. The only way to give real trees to the Caucasus is to replace them all by a new type of unit. And seeing the high amount of them, it's quite possible that your computer may not be able to follow.

To answer your question : 1) The Viviane hasn't an auto-tracking, it will "lock on" the ground below the target, so if your target doesn't move (currently 99% of the 104th targets), you will be able to keep it centered whatever could be your evolutions (except over the camera gimbal limits). It's a gyro-stabilized camera. 2) In order to fire the HOT3, you need a +-3° azimut on the target. (4300 m range) 3) ATGM from tanks won't be shot if the target flyies over 100 km/h, so it's a "false" problem. AI shoots ATGM at low speed targets. It's too a problem for the Kamov-50 as long as you don't always have the possibility to keep enough distance between you and him. And havinh 2k hours on the Kamov, I can confirm you that Vikhr doesn't like lateral at all too (>50 km/h), and that, in mountains for example, ATGM too are a real problem for him. And anyway, the Gazelle doesn't perform lateral as well as the Kamov, (his speciality) The Gazelle is perfectly able to destroy threats going from the Btr to the Strela-10, you only need skill. You could even destroy Heavy Radar SAM with it if you're able to fly constantly below 10m/ground. This is why, for example, it is not suggested to try the campaign if you're a complete rookie, you will get killed very fast. But it's precisly what I personnally like with it. Kamov-50 forgives mistakes. Tonight, was on the 104th, I got hit by Btr, and didn't loose anything (which is rare I admit). With the Gazelle, it's far more complicated, but far from being impossible. Its best playground is at night. There, you have a far more efficient helicopter than the Kamov-50. I'd say that the main point of the Gazelle flight, compared to the Kamov-50, is that you don't have any chance of survival if you don't prepare your flight. With it, you will learn how to use ground cover, how to find good spot positions, where to place yourself... While in Kamov-50, you theoritically can remain in AH during the whole flight and act as a "Death space station". That's not the case of all simmers, but many play like this (And when I'm on PVP servers, I find them and kill them quite easily with my 2A42 :p ) This is what I like with it, you learn about survival, and to say "No" when a target is too dangerous, instead of unrealistically trying to destroy it. And most of all, you will have to build a real teamplay, and that's IMO the first time in DCS history that another aircraft can be useful when playing with the Kamov. I mean : A Mi-8 won't be useful for a Kamov, same for a Huey, same for a Mig-21, a Su-##, for an A-10 (Same job, slower rate of fire). The Gazelle can fill many gaps of the Kamov, and more is coming with the Mistral version. Nicolas

About the use of the Gazelle, after having flown it a bit, here is my opinion in DCS : - Multi-player is its perfect ground. - Cooperation with kamov-50 too. An example of cooperation. You are 3 gazelles, and 1 kamov-50. Your goal is to destroy a Sa-15 Tor battery, protected by several Sa-13 Strela-10, and Shilkas. The Gazelle won't be able to treat the threat, and the kamov-50 won't be able to find the Tors unless it fires. The Gazelle features the DRAX 33 RWR. - Find a good spot position. - Get the Tor on the RWR. - If possible, make a triangulation. - Use your Viviane Camera to search in the RWR spike region. - Find the Tor (IR vision is a real plus). - Grab the distance via your telemeter. Now, you have, thanks to your camera : a bearing, and a distance to the Tor. Just get on your Nadir Navigation system, grab your own coordinates (happily, Degree/Minute/Decimals, like in the Kamov-50 Pvi-800). Send your coordinates to the Kamov-50. He creates a target point. Then you give to him the bearing from your position to the target, and the distance. The Kamov-50 displays the target point on his Abris, and uses the ERBL function to have the precise position of the target. Repeat this for each Tor. And you're able to destroy a full battery of Tor in less than 5 minutes with enough training. So IMO, the Gazelle is more a very efficient recon helicopter (RWR, and better, reaaaaaaally better camera than the kamov-50) than an attacker. Except if you're part of a big squad which is able to deploy 10 Gazelles, one Kamov-50 will be more efficient than you for AT destruction.So the goal is to find a way of completing both modules, and not to try to make them concurrents. If you're an adept of SEAD in helicopter, then it's going to be very useful, if you like PVP flights with enemy fighters in the area, then it's made for you. If you're an adept of destroying 40 vehicles in a game just with one payload, then no, sure, that's not the philosophy. Stealth, and efficient, not ramming and burn. Ambush, no frontal attack, one 14.5 mm shell will kill your crew ;) And contrarily yo what I read, I think that with 4 HOT missiles, your main targets are heavy tanks, and not Btr-80 or other light vehicles. For three reasons : - First : A T-80 is harder to destroy by friendly ground units than a Btr, while the HOT3 will one shot him. - Second : T-80 A/A capabilities are very poor, compared to a Btr or worse, Bmp-2 ones. One 30 mm shell in a kamov-50 won't destroy the aircraft... On the Gazelle... - Third : 4 missiles, it's not too much, but on many missions, you won't be able to carry more than 2 because of fuel and weight limitations. The goal of the Gazelle is to destroy defined targets with 100% hit, and if possible by night for the Viviane version. Nicolas

Let's say that contrarily to the Mi-8, removing the Camera and the tv is a nonsense on the Sa-342M. That's because the specifications of the SA-342M1 are drastically different from the others ALAT versions : - Not the same main Rotor - Not the same engine - Doppler radar system - DRAX33 EWR system with its detectors (perhaps too on other versions this one). - ....... So removing the camera device, the pylons, and the tv srcreen would lead to a non existent version of the helicopter, because it would still feature a different engine and other stuff exclusive to this version. That's not the goal of the team, I hope you will understand :) Nicolas

rofl, he says this, he wanted me to talk with you about a Jtac who trained doplhins on his free time :megalol:

:megalol:

Such a perfect day for announcements !

John, do you even say ingame that you are British ? I mean, it's quite obvious no ? I am kidding OLD CHAP ! :megalol:

For a post Cold War European Army, honestly, it's quite good. @Souporsonic : be patient, I understand that it's a bit sadistic to give you images and videos every weeks. But communication on ED forums is not simple ^^If you don't give anything, people tell you that you ignore them, if you give them something, people accuse you of excessive teasing :D Anyway, not a complaint, I'm just the mission maker :megalol:

Yep error on the forum, not very important ^^

I think I summed up quite well your character john :p

I don't know, I guess it's the standard one, I don't have access to the developper versions of DCS World itself, just the Gazelle ones ;) Perhaps it's modded, I didn't mod my ground textures a lot since all these DCS versions... But I notice that I post you some images of the gazelle, and you stare at the ground . . . :megalol:

[HIGH RES PICTURES, LET IT LOAD ;) ] At least, was authorized to give you some screens. Some will introduce you some characters of the campaign : Phoenix-1 (You), Phoenix-2, and Meatboy-1 (British RAF Apache), plus some screens from a mission of the campaign (with the Mi-24 and Leclercs). Most of them are random screens I took while editing the campaign or just having fun on little improvised trainings...

Mmmmmh False :)

For this question... Well, multi-pit is planned, but will be on the module once the ED code is really ready.

Should have kept silent. Now I have some little pressure ^^

IMO, and speaking for myself, you should consider that less time is spent on the forums, more is spent on the development. It's understandable to disapprove the lack of informations. But it's really not a "plan" to rise up the hype, just that the goal is to release a complete product, and it's done for you :) Once it'll be released, you'll learn a lot more in few hours by yourself than with any videos which could have been made. So in these conditions, it's up to you to choose : a lot of time spent on the forums by the devs, and a half finished product, or the opposite. ;) Nicolas

I really hope you will enjoy this one, it was a very long work. Again, don't consider it as a training, but as a goal ;) Back to work ;)

Hi :) Yes you will have a fully voiced campaign with the Gazelle. It's called Operation Dixmude. It features : 400 audios and 1000 triggers (for the ones who like numbers ;) ) 12 missions Complete pdf scenario and briefing, with maps and all the stuff. The first chapter (7 first missions) will too be playable in multiplayer up to 4 gazelles. It's a fully scripted and scenarized campaign, was quite hard to edit. 80% of the missions are night ops missions. Type of missions : Night helicopter assault with up to 20 helicopters (french gazelles and UK apache) Some T/O from the fleet Covering of an allied armored assault. Few urban combat Very low altitude insertion inside the ENI lines, below their SAM radar, in order to strike a precise target. Recon missions Escort missions Daily patrol missions Special "Survive" missions (you'll see ^^) Well, everything you can do with the Gazelle is currently in it. You'll work in pair with an UK apache, callsign Meatboy-1, and will be part of the command wing of the helicopter deployment. By the way, having created it, I urge you to read twice the pdf and mission briefings, and more than all to already know how to use all your Gazelle systems. It's not a rookie campaign, and missions are not linear at all, which means that a mission won't usually be : T/O from A, destroy on B, come back on A. Many surprises, scenario tricks etc etc. Your really need to know how to fly the helicopter to have a chance to finish the missions. Many beta testers died to provide you this campaign, the goal was to provide you an immersive and (relatively) hard experience. Missions are quite complicated, so again, study your briefings pdf ;) Sorry for my bad english, happily, I didn't make the translation from french to english ;) Nicolas