Devil 505

Had a great time flying with you gents! Hands down the best mission so far flying the Apache with you guys. I am digging the effect with the NOD's on and the fire fight that broke out over the compound. Really hoping ED starts focusing more on some realistic looking ground AI units. Some that actually look like Seals and SF ect... M05 with the boys. We had a storm roll through town just before the flight and I had a few drinks to ride it out with the wife. Completely forgot when we cranked up to unmute OBS so no voice chatter from me. Mistermann caught though on his video. Great job on this mission! Absolutely had a blast with it.

Mission 03 From the Campaign. I accidentally listed my last video as M03. It was M02. I forgot the first mission was listed as 00, a transit flight.

I have this listed as mission 3 but it is actually M02 CSAR. I will label last nights per the way you have them in the campaign. Another great flight. We are getting better at working together. Last nights went even better. A long transit but had a blast.

This got me excited when I saw the photos on the road map today! Love this helo.

Another good time running the second mission. A few issues with the convoy triggering correctly but all in all a blast. Already did the third mission. I will be getting be getting a video up soon. I will go in and add time stamps as well. I messed up on the first run and did not have Channel bravo selected. My Hellfire's were going off into space and it cost me my first helo.

You know what I find ironic about all this noise? At the end of the day, every single person on this thread will have purchased the F-15E because its an addiction none of us can shake, no matter how much noise we make about the pre sale. I would be shocked if one person on the last 6 pages did not buy the Strike Eagle to make a point. You want to know why? Because everyone else will be buzzing you online day 1 of the launch while you watch from another module. That is an itch none of us who fly in DCS can resist. Appreciate the single fact you have a company that is bringing us what we always wanted out of a Strike Eagle. Presale discounts are a luxury, not a right. If it released full price on presale, it still would have been a day one buy for me. And who cares what day the presale falls on for all of us, we all get it at the same time on release. Think bigger picture ladies and gents and stop convincing yourself RAZBAM and ED do not care about their customers. If that was the case, we would all be flying War........... wait I probably cannot say that.

100% Agree about both. I am sure at the rate we are going they will both evnetually make the scene. But as is with every DCS module, they can never come fast enough to feed the wolves.

I agree! Here is another video of me flying the MSFS one the other night in Norway. ED or a third party really needs to pick this one up at some point.

I think its fair to say and not needed every time an aircraft releases, that steam has always had these complications for customers and it has been well documented on the DCS forums. If you are new to DCS world, maybe there should be a steam forum explaining all the complications of playing on steam. I would venture to guess it would still not stop the complaining and the vast amount of people playing on steam would just start complaining on that forum to. If you have been flying DCS long enough, these comments are clearly emotionally driven because you chose to go the steam route instead of the dedicated route of running DCS as a standalone. If you downloaded DCS and purchased your first module on Steam thats the way she goes. Somehow you found your way to this forum which means you discovered a lot of us run the dedciated standalone version for a reason, aka not steam. You and you alone made the call to play via steam, not ED or Razbams fault. They are a business and make business decisions so they can provide the best to their customers. My suggestion, stop whining and go the dedicated route, or continue to abuse yourself and stick with steam. If this causes you to ditch DCS because it was not on Steam for early access, your a failure in life.

Really appreciate the heads up! I transitioned over to that thread. Funny enough, my buddy was already posting on there. LOL.

Just recently started the campaign with the guys. Really enjoying it so far! We are all recording in VR. This was the first mission/transit flight to the FARP. We are looking forward to the next mission this Thursday. I would be lying if I did not admit it will be a replay. We missed the instructions where we had to give the convoy the green light to move out. All 3 of us are fired up to get it on again.

I wanted to start a thread on a user campaign one of our virtual pilots found on the DCS user files page. It is the "Griffin Campaign". It is coop multiplayer and we have had a blast so far playing through it. Below is a video of the first mission which was supposed to be a transit from the ship to the FARP. There was a little unexpected deviation before arriving. Anyone flying coop or with friends in the Apache should give this a shot. I would love to see more coop campaigns for us virtual pilots that like to fly together. My friends and I plan on posting future videos to this thread as we record through the campaign. Whoever made this, good job! We are enjoying it.

I think the same can be said right now about the Huey. Probably my favorite Helo in the game still to fly. Sure it can sling load but the troop transport needs some work and to be honest, she needs a facelift to. I think bringing the Cayuse to DCS would compliment the Huey for a number of scenarios once the infantry animations and AI are reworked. In multiplayer it could easily perform recon, observation, and target designation roles. Not to mention they had door gunners and were armed at times. The role of the OH-6 would bring life to the Huey. I cannot recommend enough purchasing the book "Gunslingers in Action" by Squadron /signal publications. This particular book was written by a pilot who flew the Huey, Cobras, and Cayuse. His stories were beyond insane. The missions we could recreate in DCS using this book would be beyond impressive. All we need he the Huey Cobra and Cayuse. He goes into great detail about each helicopters function, callsigns, operations, ect.... You can find it on Ebay or Amazon. Well worth the money. null At the end of the day, I feel like the Cayuse would become another classic that many would purchase and enjoy flying. It would lead to other more current day(hopefully declassfied) variants and provide a broader scope of mission capabilities for DCS world.

So we got the Huey "hoping for a big update some day in the future like the Black Shark", the CH-47 coming and a multitude of Vietnam Era fixed wing inbound, but no mention of the Cobra again and I have never heard anyone mention the OH-6. Just throwing a proposal out there to the 3rd party Devs and ED, why not make the Cayuse. I have seen the comments on the little bird and classification of current equipment prevents a modern module, but the OH-6 was more than capable and has many roles we could use it in within DCS. Below is a video I shot yesterday flying Cowan Sim's new 500E. I think the Cayuse would sell like crazy given its service record and the coop missions it could fly with Huey's and other aircraft. Curious to hear if the community would be interested in the older version of the little bird.

Just saw Devotion for the first time. Outstanding movie. We need the ETA Magnitude! Another unique thing to add, ED confirmed a Korea Map is coming along with the Vietnam map at some point. Looks like we will have room for your Whistling Death and the Skyraider that is coming as well. Any status updates you can give us on release?

No apologies needed. This may be the case as to why I am having issues. I just remember before, it was not this sensitive. If this is the case with the real aircraft, then I would want nothing changed. I just saw people complaining about needing to adjust the sensitivity on the axis controls when it should not need to be adjusted. This is turn was making AAR harder. I can manage with the way it is, just have to be more aware of the stick moving.

Bignewy or anyone from the ED team, any word on a possible full fidelity armored module down the road? It seemed like there were a couple times in the 2023 and Beyond video where the focus was on a tank. The maps are more than large enough for tank warfare and obviously cover a vast time period. Just curious with the CH-47 coming, C-130, and Dynamic campaign, it would seem more interest and focus would start to surface on ground units. I would not be disappointed if you started out easy with some WW2 stuff. I still feel there is an untapped market there for ED and the ground pounders.

As requested, track file attached. With hands off and directly on the horizon line on the HUD, the BALT AP would engage, but it still gave me issues being the slightest bit off the artificial horizon line. A lot of master cautions. I am ok if it is user error, but it seems off to me. This was the F-18 free flight instant mission on the Caucus map. Really appreciate the help Bigs. Seems like I am not the only one with this issue. SHL 2.trk

Rog, I am trackin. Just need to save a track when I am done. I never save them.

Will do Bignewy. I will knock out the video as requested after work.

BigNewy, As promised here is the track I uploaded today. I flew this morning and had the same issue again with the BALT AP. For reference, my hands were off the stick and there was no movement when I was getting the master caution when trying to activate the BALT AP. The video shows my issue pretty clearly. I also time stamped the video for ease of locating where I am having trouble in the flight and you can bounce right to it. 11:00 minutes in it does not work and I finally get it activated at 11:40. If this is user error and I appear to be doing something wrong, please let me know. I only started noticing this a while back several patches ago (not sure how many back). It never use to give me this problem. One of the guys I fly with is experiencing the same issue when he fly's the Hornet. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have not adjusted curves or dead zones. I typically avoid that if at all possible.

So this was performance after I started using PimaxXR combined with SteamVR as stated in the article I attached to this thread. I personally saw a significant improvement now that DCS is running OpenXR natively. I know this is subjective, but with PIMAX, I walked my wingman through the same way I did it and he to has now observed significant improvements. Prior to the update, there is no way the below video would have been captured without stutter or or at minimum, some lag. Now it runs smooth as glass. I too had issues with performance degradation when the patch released until I redownloaded PimaxXR and started running with SteamVR. This is now the way. More videos to come. For anyone with a PIMAX having issues, please hit me up and I would be glad to assist if possible.

Working on the track now BigNewy. It will take a minute to export. Going to throw this video up in the patch section as well. Ironed out the new OpenVR issue with PimaxXR. Runs GREAT. Better than SteamVR did before. You will see the issues I am having with the BALT hold when I get the video up.

Keep up the out standing work and do not let a few irritated people distract you. My old man worked for Aerospatiale (Air Bus Helicopters) and I remember when MBB became a part of Eurocopter. They had the one they used in Mission Impossible out at the Grand Prairie plant. I remember as a kid going out there and watching them fly. Also went up a few times (back then you could). I am very much looking forward to this Helo and very excited with all the hard work you have done. We have plenty coming and plenty to keep us busy with DCS until you finish her. This will be a day 1 for me. Brings back very fond memories of growing up around the flight deck with my Dad.

Are people still having trouble with this? I sure as hell am. It seem like when I am flying straight and level, I am still getting a master caution when trying to enable the BALT. I have not tried letting go of the stick yet or adjusting the dead zone. I will do this today. I do not remember what patch started this, but this was not a problem in the past. 98% of the time I try to to enable BALT hold, I get a master caution and it will not enable. Very frustrating.