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Yea, I'm most excited about this. Not too long ago I made a poll about the visibility issues in the current DCS build. It was like, 90% thought of it as at least an important issue, (70ish% as very important). I'm sooooo happy ED listened to their community. A vocal few were so against the idea. But scaling (w/e it's called) as an option is the perfect balance. Great job ED.

This is the most expensive app I've ever seen. If it's $10 bucks, sure. $30 for an application that serves one module is way too much for me.

KA-50 for me please! I wanna good excuse to start learning that little kitten.

Flying low is deadly enough. Especially with every BMP machine gunner with an Olympic Gold medal in shooting and nerves of steel to fire accurately under fire. I would be for more variety if the AI missed more. It seems like anything under 2000m and you get picked apart by ground MGs.

Dude, this guy lives on this board and trolls everyone who disagrees with him. Just ignore him. Thanks for voicing your opinion.

Not feeding the troll.

OK, at the time of this post I didn't consider other options. If I could change it to "How big do you think the problem of visibility in DCS:W?" I would. To everyone saying, why come up with solutions for an old engine: EDGE hasn't come out yet and won't for awhile. It may or may not have the same problems. It is nice to discuss solutions to these problems if the do exist. It is very clear that visibility needs work in ED. It is also clear that the community wants ED to do something about it. I know from my own experience and seeing other comments that the visibility problems have hurt ED's revenue. At the end of the day, DCS is a game that is played on many different displays and machines. And if you want people to buy said game, it needs to be fun. Improving visibility would drastically improve the fun factor in DCS:W which would increase sales, which would increase future development.

Yea, I wanted to change just 4 flight groups to average in the quick mission builder and just that was a pain in the ass. Definitely a good suggestion and quite basic.

Same with the Mig-21's campaign. The missions work but the way it tracks progress it really screwed up. It forced me to go through the mission editor too. I really want EDGE to come out ASAP. Not for the new engine, but so ED can concentrate on polishing up the rough edges. There's a pun in there somewhere...

Yea dude. Any tutorial will be helpful for years to come. Keep at it!!

I live in a different timezone so MP is rarely populated. Even if it is populated, getting into a good MP game takes time. Many times I just want to mess around for 30 minutes before dinner or the kid wakes up. Therefore SP and AI is extremely important to me. I imagine it's very important to many people playing this game. I would much rather have better AI than any new modules first. Better AI let's me enjoy all my modules much more. A-10s getting sniped by MGs from miles away...wingmen being totally useless...planes unable to land themselves. All big problems that everyone of my modules deal with.

Agreed. While the "game" severely struggles with AI, visibility, and the missile AFM, the flight model and weapon systems are pure joy. It's just so damn fun to have a couple of your drunk friends try to take off in a UH-1H Huey for example. "I bet you $10 you can't take off without crashing." "Pfffff, just tell me the controls and I'll do it. No problem." Easy money. Works 60% of the time...everytime :D

Grrr. I'm very frustrated :helpsmilie: The ATC is treating me like ever girl I've ever had a crush on. No matter what I try, I cannot get a response from the ATC tower. I tried in the cold start instant action and the campaign. I'm starting it up by the book and I've tried with both the engines on and engines off. I tried editing the mission and resaving to convert it to the newest DCS mission file. Nothing. The radio is set to the proper channel. I have no idea what to do :( Has anyone gotten in touch with the ATC in the MiG-21? If so, how and it there anyway to provide a track so I can see?? I'm so desperate...pls respond.

Can someone please, in the love of god, provide a track of how to communicate with the ATC in cold start? I tried the ME resave fix, engine start, and then nothing. I'm sooooo frustrated at this point. I just want to play the campaign with ATC :(

I think he would just like a confirmation that these specific things are being worked on since your answer to him was very vague. No need to be snippy.

How is this in anyway resolved? Some of you may have found a fix but it's still a really terrible bug, no? For one, I've yet to get the radio to work, and second, I don't want to have to open and resave every mission. Why are updates breaking missions??

The tutorial on taxiing also helps :D

Right but if you're training in a trainer plane and hopped into the D-9, I would think it would be way way different. Different enough to make you crash! I've taken off with a Cessna a few times and it was a piece of cake. I guarantee I would explode in a ball of flames if I tried with the Fw 190.

K well, I don't agree with the way you problem solve/analyse things so there is no point to discuss with you. A ton of marketing data, political date and scientific data is done by polling/surveys yet somehow you try discredit the results because it doesn't agree with your stance. Especially how heavily it leans to one side. That is ignorance in my opinion. So I'm done responding to you.

I am so curious how new German pilots did their training. I consider myself to be a not so dumb guy, I've read the manual, I've done the training, and watched Youtube videos. I crashed about ten times before taking off successfully and have landed about 1 out of 5 times lol. I'm great in a Cessna but this thing is so different! I know that's no substitute for official training but it's hard to imagine not crashing this thing at least once :megalol: Does anyone have any insight on how the Luftwaffe prepared their pilots??

I'm basing my figure from the vote from a sample size of 400 people. My monitor has nothing to do with the discussion as a 1024x768 monitor would have the same spotting difficulties as a 4k monitor. But since you asked it's a 24' running at 1920x1080 resolution. I'm not "all for scaling." I'm all for fixing the unrealistic/frustrating spotting difficulties in DCS:W. Whether it's a glimmer effect, better contrast, or scaling.

Wolf Rider, you are the king at making a non argument into an argument and totally shifting the discussion. First, they're using binoculars because why not? They have them. They help people see farther...that's their function. It has nothing to do with scaling or spotting in DCS which is the point of this topic. So please stay on topic. The photos give no clues or evidence about the visibility of planes in real life. It's too low res. and photos are not moving. You can debate how far you can see a plane in real life in another thread. This is about the importance of scaling or adding some sort of visual aspect to DCS because 90% of DCS players think it's a problem.

Wow, that's great news! Thanks so much. While were on the topic, we you recommend the download anyway against the AI? Does the mod even effect the AI? Finally, I also have FC3 but I haven't tried it out yet. If I hopped in the F-15 or Su-27, do you think it is necessary? Thanks again!

Interesting. So the MiG-21 uses LNS developed missiles with their own flight model??

This seems like a silly place to put this question, but... I bought the MiG-21 module about a week ago. I got all the main systems down and I am starting to get into A2A engagements (my god I'm terrible at hitting anything...it's not the missile's fault). I have read in these forums that the A2A missile are quite terrible and really need addressing. I know I can't use the missile mod on MP but I never play it because I live in Japan. Would you suggest I try the default missile flight model or just go right into the mod? I have pretty much 0 experience with A2A so everything is new. Thanks for the advice!