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    Eurofighter 2026+ release?

    in DCS: Eurofighter

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    I feel like this module has been in development much longer than any other HB module. I'm still lurking, I don't actively play DCS anymore (burnt out by fighting with the software more than actually playing the game) but I will reinstall when or if the Eurofighter drops. Sorry for the rant, I'm just sad that this is taking so long. 

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    WMR dead on Win10?

    in Chit-Chat

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    So is it possible to get the HP Reverb G2 to work on Win11 (without WMR) or do I just throw my extremely expensive piece of plastic in the trash now? I don't really mean for DCS either, since I probably won't be playing DCS ever again, just in general.....

    F-35A Announcement discussion mega thread.

    in DCS: F-35A

    Posted · Edited by Lurker

    15 hours ago, polosat1y said:

    Wow. So, apparently there is not enough information to give FW-190 GM-1 system. All info is there, but one key peice is not documented enough to make simulation.

    But this is not the case with entire F-35 somehow.

    Eagle Dynamics will do whatever they want to do and use whatever rationale they need to. They don't need a bunch of keyboard warriors\airplane enthusiasts giving them a hard time, and rightfully so, they are the developer we aren't. No one really cares. The people who do represent a minor portion of their customer base. They need to make money, after all. 

    The fact of the matter is that DCS World has some serious issues, and a new module that's not really up to snuff with regards to modeling is the least of these. 

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    Now that the Phantom is released, what's the status on the Eurofighter

    in DCS: Eurofighter

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    They said that they are working on it. That's about as much info as you're going to get until they get close to release. It's the same MO they took after getting bit in the A$$ by releasing a lot of phantom footage early, and then no Phantom. Radio silence until they are almost ready is to be expected. Everything else is just too much of a hassle for a small studio that works on modules in their "spare" time. 

    I for one have moved away from DCS, it got to a point where it was stress inducing instead of stress relieving with the amount of tweaking I had to do just to get in the air and enjoy a module properly, not to mention the fact that some of my modules are unsupported and no longer even work. This is not a dig at Heatblur at all, they work within the confines set by Eagle Dynamics and with how DCS World is setup. I am now lurking and waiting of the EF, which I decided will be my last module I purchase and try in DCS World. 

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    Nukes, Please....

    in DCS Core Wish List

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    3 hours ago, Rex said:

    Nuclear weapons are destructive, obviously, but like almost everything, their destructive power is exaggerated.  Over 2,000 nuclear detonations have happened on earth (some quite large), and here we all are.  As it turns out, atmospheric ignition doesn't actually happen (fortunately for all of us).

    Despite these 2,000-ish detonations, instead of nuclear winter, people claim that we need to worry about global warming instead.

    The largest detonation ever, the Tsar Bomba, created a fireball with a radius  if about 3 miles.  Terrifying if you're in that three miles (or not since you won't know what hit you), but, for instance, the plane that dropped it landed safely.

    So while nuclear weapons are scary as hell, and they definitely will kill a massive number of people should they ever strike large cities en-masse, I don't think they will bring about the end of the world.

    Sure, they would end the mission in DCS, but who cares?  Watching an enormous explosion coalesce into a mushroom cloud in the DCS environment would be so cool, that it would totally be worth having to reset the mission. I mean, it's a hell of a climax to a mission, that's for sure.   It would be super-exciting to have them, and if you didn't immediately start creating missions for no other reason that to nuke random locations, then I weep for your loss of curiosity, creativity, and excitement.  If we ever got (real) nukes, dare I say that I wouldn't sleep for a month as I set about nuking every village, town, city and tree in the sim.  I'd make everyone I know watch along with me, and I would enjoy every single solitary last second of it.

    If anyone truly would not want it, I'd have to seriously question why they even use DCS in the first place, as the thing that sets DCS apart from MS Flight Sim, X-Plane, etc, is the fact that we can we can send our opponents hurtling toward the ground in a ball of fire, before turning his ground units into kindle and blowing nearby buildings to smithereens.

    Nukes are just a natural progression of this.  If you don't want them, fair enough, don't use them.   Don't take the option away from everyone else just because you don't see the point.   If I spend all day playing 5 minute missions that begin and end with me blowing my opponents to kingdom come with a single warhead, then it means that is what I want to do.  Yes, I'm still a 5 year-old mentally and I'm easily amused by things that go boom, but I already have a job and real-world problems, and if that's how I get my kicks then the more power to me, and you, and whomever else.

    DCS, make proper big nukes with the accompanying awe-inspiring visuals and I'll send you a blank check to fill in as you see fit.  (not really, I'm making a point, but I'd probably pay a relatively decent amount for the pleasure)

    Anyway, that's my two cents and it's worth every penny.

     

     

     

    eh, plans change

    I once swore to everyone who would listen that I'd never have kids. 

    Then I did.  More than one!  To be fair, the wife helped a little, but it goes to illustrate the point.  Plans change.

     

    There is too much rubbish in this post for me to make a rebuttal post by post, so I will try to use a bit of logic. How many of those 2000 nuclear warheads were exploded in almost "ideal" testing conditions, far from any population centers or even any real rural populations. How many of those 2000 warheads were tested underground? How many were detonated over farmland? Were any detonated simultaneously? 

    Just one ICBM missile submarine has enough firepower to strategically annihilate any single country state. Take note, these are weapons which would be fired AFTER the main nuclear exchange, intentionally targeting large population centers, just to make sure that the enemy does not have the chance to rebuild after any kind of initial exchange. You have heard of the term nuclear triad right? Well there is an entire arm of the nuclear triad (fielded by Russia and NATO) whose sole purpose is to inflict as much damage as possible on civilian targets and infrastructure after any nuclear exchange is actually won or lost. 

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    Intel 285K reviews going live...

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

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    9 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

    And yet here they are at the top of the charts. What do you make of these?

     

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    Synthetic benchmarks have always been "iffy" and very easily manipulated at the driver\bios level. You need real-world performance if you really want to benchmark anything properly. Please check out Gamer Nexus very in-depth performance and efficiency benchmarking of this CPU. 

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    Rudder to Break F-14 Intertia: Myth or Real?

    in DCS: F-14A & B

    Posted · Edited by Lurker

    10 hours ago, Horns said:

     

    Thanks for adding this. I was asking about this in part because my feet and legs aren’t good, so I wanted to check if I was mistaken about the value of using the rudder pedals (I don’t like twist sticks). While I’m now convinced that there is benefit to adding rudder (albeit not for the reasons I thought), it’s also good to know if it gets uncomfortable during a mission I might be able to eschew it without massive consequences.

    Cheers for the responses everyone, they are all appreciated.

    The Tomcat is a very Stick+Rudder jet. You can get away with flying it without rudder input as long as you are slow and deliberate, but as soon as you get into any kind of high G maneuvering (basically any kind of combat maneuvering) requiring both ROLL+TURN you will need a lot of rudder input to keep the jet stable without departing. When it was first released, suddenly there were a lot of virtual air jockeys who were used to fly by wire jets who couldn't wrap their heads around how to fly the tomcat without putting it into a spin as soon as they hit any kind of high AoA maneuvering. 

    It's very challenging to fly properly compared to FBW jets, but also a lot more rewarding. It's definitely my favorite fixed wing aircraft in DCS by a long mile. 

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    !!! Microsoft kills WMR with Windows 11 version 24H2 and newer !!!

    in Virtual Reality

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    4 minutes ago, Baldrick33 said:

    If you have no plans to change it then the amount of effort selling it will far exceed the effort to keep Windows 11 from updating to 24H2 sometime in the future, the update version prior to 24H2 will continue to receive security updates for quite some time.

    WMR always felt like a terrible idea, and was terribly implemented to boot. There is a reason why Microsoft is getting rid of it. I'm not using my G2 because it's a hassle to set up correctly and WMR is a big part of that. I was looking for an excuse to sell it, and this is as good as any. 

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