Oscar Juliet

I was crashing constantly with the latest OB update. I'm updating to v21. I only use this mod and improved dot spotting mod. I even redid my graphics drivers and everything. I really hope this fixes it. EDIT: -Multithreading is not happy with my system as the latest OB update. I've done a bunch of troubleshooting. I played non MT and had no issues. I turned on this mod and it crashes randomly and inconsistently when weapons impact targets. Can't pin it down. No other mods.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm in Texas, buddy in Arizona. He has a second gaming rig he hosts DCS server on. We use it to play liberation. We both jump into the server, slot into F18s on the super carrier. I can startup and start to taxi. That is usually about the time I disconnect. A few times I've made it to hook up for launch and get disconnected. Nothing appears in the logs and nothing other than the generic disconnect message. It can happen over and over. I can jump into hoggit training and get in the air no issue. It points that there is a server problem with my buddy. Yet the other pilots are not being ejected. The usual number of pilots are 2-4. So it isn't player overload. We've had even the largest liberation maps work flawless. I don't know if it is DCS related or internet. I ran ping tests today. 6p-12a during peak hours for most customers on at the same time. 0% packet loss. A guy in the DCS discord suggests disabling IPV6 and I'm not sure why. Hopefully enough people chime in they can find a solution. I don't think there is any protection for any kind of loss. You either have perfect connection or you get dropped. This is all over my head. I have cable internet, I'm wired into my box, 105mbps internet.

Sounds good! Got a buddy who is tempted to get the G2. Just PM me when you're ready to go.

A bump, since it got moved to a new location. I've helped many pilots in the past and love to teach. I recently watched spudknocker for the first time. I teach in a similar manner. Casual, fun, and I'm very patient with people.

Back in 2016 I started a thread to help teach other pilots the basics of the A10c. I had put it off for a long time and thought it was impossible to learn such an aircraft. I thought my flight equipment wasn’t good enough and I thought I couldn’t possibly learn it on my own. I dedicated two weeks to training missions and A10c online videos. I learned the aircraft and started to teach others. I was a member of the 107th with the Through the Inferno servers. I led the A10c flight, Pandion, for almost a year. I ended up getting burnt out from DCS. I came back to fly the A10c II and I’m not disappointed. I enjoy it very much and picked it all back up quickly. The A10c II is one of my favorite aircraft and I want to help make it one of your favorite. GETTING STARTED: IL2 Cliffs of Dover was where I learned how to fly in a sim environment. I quickly ended up on DCS with the F15c. I destroyed myself many times while trying to master basic flight. I want to teach you how to destroy things with the A10c and be an effective pilot. All I ask is that you have some experience flying sim aircraft so we can focus on the harder stuff. If you can fly, but are new to the A10c or combat aircraft in general, start with Chucks Guide. This will familiarize you with the A10c. Try to bind your keys to match the real A10c HOTAS as much as possible. That way if you buy new equipment, you can change out the key binds and still keep most of your muscle memory. Make sure you memorize your key binds. The major ones are TMS, DMS, CMS, Coolie Hat, China Hat, Boat Switch, Pinkie Switch, and Mic Switch. If you forget a control, someone can call it out, and you’ll know which button to push. If all else fails, get on youtube and start watching videos until something makes sense. Try to learn one thing at a time. Take notes on things you fail and specifically learn how to fix them. TACVIEW will help you get another point of view on your situation and what went wrong or right. WHAT NEXT?: So you can fly a plane and you’ve got your HOTAS setup. Now it is time to learn how to deploy basic weapons. Learn how to fire the D model maverick, the GBU-12, and GBU-38 at minimum. This will give you some foundation to build on when we fly together. If you take a moment to learn the basics of the editor, you can make some basic training missions. Otherwise I’ve linked my training mission here. If you have any issues learning these, I can help teach you. There are some great tutorials out there but sometimes you just need some extra help. That is what I'm here for. My training mission has slots for the A10c II, A10c, and A10a. You start at Batumi and the small training airfield North of Batumi is the target area. The mission brief explains the rest. If you can survive that mission, you’re ahead of the game. We will use that mission for a lot of the training. It is subject to change and updates. Surrounded is a DCS mission. I’ve modified it for slots for the A10c II, A10c, and A10a. If you can do this mission you have situational awareness. This is the hardest mission for a new pilot to do. You have to find targets, which are called out to you. There is a friendly force at a T intersection. They tell you which direction the enemy is approaching from. You need to kill that enemy before they reach the friendly forces. If you can do this mission with ease, you’re just about ready for anything. Ready?: If you’ve read this far, then you’re ready to get some help. Reply or send me a PM. I’ll get with you as soon as I can. USA central time

Any negative discussion is usually met with swift punishment. As a community we should be able to voice ourselves accordingly. Eagle Dynamics should desire to make something better based on community feedback. The online community is huge and does continue to grow. I was a flight lead and mission dev for Through The Inferno for a year. I resigned because of the lack of online support from Eagle Dynamics. The online has significant flaws that need to be addressed. There is only so much development work that a server owner can do on this platform. There are still significant issues with lag, performance, and hosting. None of which can be solved by a server owner. Through The Inferno has done a great job over the last two years working on ways to solve issues. Without proper dedicated multiplayer support from Eagle Dynamics the online portion is doomed. I will never buy another product from Eagle Dynamics until they show some sort of good faith they will be fixing those issues. I don't play games solo. I play online with people I know. 1.5.7 was the last time I ever enjoyed DCS online.

A tip i always give is tap the lock button once every second. It will lock at the maximum range if you have it. If not it usually pilot error.

There a new problem. In MP only the host can see certain ground units.

I always use guns against ZU-23 threats. 2nm ish range. Small burst and its gone.

bump since the new update.

Yeah its a problem on 2.1 for sure.

Nevada and our 2.1 server.

You're a bit late to the 'party' No they don't work anymore. None of them and no the people can't fix them or update them to make them work.

My ticket with ED auto-closed itself. I'm not sure the status of the situation. I've personally not seen it since. Though that doesn't mean it still can't happen. We've done a lot of work on figuring out how to bypass the spawn lag and what not on our server. Maybe our tactics have helped remedy other issues. Either way I hope they use all I gave them to work on the issue. If it comes up again and I have logs, files, ect I will resubmit that information.

Probably not. It works on 1.5 and 2.1 keeps getting new updates. So it has to be annoying to constantly fix 2.1 stuff.

Well you asked and answered your question at the same time. If that is how he is giving it to you that is correct. JTAC in DCS is also extremely buggy. You'll find out the more you use it. One moment it works perfect and the next it won't. We use to use it on our server and thought for the longest time inexperienced pilot's were the cause of it not working. Turns out its just bugged and will not work for random reasons. So now we use a JTAC script. But that has nothing to do with your question.

Yeah so if you haven't got the memo yet the A10c autopilot doesn't work the way you think it does. Simply different modes for holding a course so you can go heads down in the cockpit. Not fly a route for you.

ED has our server log, my log, track of the server and now the mission file. That should be more than sufficient for them to solve the problem. Right now they are telling me they need more time to solve it.

Wouldn't say dead. 4 months ago was the last beta update. He doesn't get paid for his work so he is allowed to work on it when and where he pleases. Seems like there is a goal to be a paid program and in that case would required more dedicated time and updates. Until then can do whatever.

When explaining it to people I've had more than several say oh yeah I had that happen before on 1.5. Not just our server either. Now to get these people to pull out tracks and what not. That won't be able to happen. It also doesn't happen every day. Just once in a while this pops up at random and people start exploding. It is a very odd thing. So far I've seen it happen twice within a week and it has been the only time that I've personally seen it. I don't have time to frequent other 2.1 servers so I wouldn't know if they experience the same issues or not. Which was the purpose of this thread. To find others who could give input.

2.1 has a small section leftover of what 1.5 offers in the southern portion of the map. The northern part of the map is for the more hardcore people as you put it. The reason for this is that is what the people wanted after a lot of discussion, voting, and hard work to get it there. Really no need for two identical servers especially when they combined together and the graphics are overhauled in 1.5.

Oh i understand how they are placed. Heli pilot's love to place them. Still if there could be a small modification that would deploy a manpad with a truck next to it would help visually as well. Also a limit on how many one heli pilot could place in 24 hours.

Several from my squadron joined the red side last night and decided to go fly on your server. I figured I'd give a small review of our experience with you to do as you please. We had 2x A10c, 2x Mirage 2000, and 1x viggen. The enemy team was almost non existent. Occasionally someone would get on come out to us and we'd shoot them down. We neutralized a lot of blue targets a long the way. The first shock to the system was the number of Manpads that were put down by the enemy forces. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=192952 Manpads wouldn't be so bad except for the fact they are hard to see and highly bugged out. We figured out our own tactics for avoiding these though overall it was really annoying to be CAS with so many of these around. The idea of the mission is great and I highly dislike the manpads since we have no warning and no way to detect them. It wouldn't be so bad if we got missile warnings and could pop flares. Another small problem with manpads is they don't generate a lot of smoke. I've seen that mentioned on the forums before. Once again makes it hard to find them. On our server we don't eliminate them but we make sure for 'balance' purposes that a manpad team will be standing near a bunker, a truck, some other structure that helps you find it with the eye. Small note about hawks: Testing on our 2.1 NTTR server they don't seem to want to work properly. I saw someone above saying they won't fire. Even on excellent difficulty in our testing and all the proper hardware they do not want to fire on easy to hit shots. Sometimes they will and other times they won't do anything. If you figure it out let me know. I'm not sure the status of hawks on our 1.5 server. Last i knew any CTLD built ones worked just fine.

We've been working on the 2.1 server and right now it is strictly up for testing. We apologize if it comes down randomly for updates. The stability on 2.1 isn't as good as it is on 1.5 so we're working on the perfect balance. Especially with our new frontlines mode. Glad you got the help you needed. Our Viggen flight is vargar flight. Maybe it was one of them.

I wasn't interested in people who didn't have those problems. I've already taken this to Eagle Dynamics. They have all the logs, tracks, and files they could ever need to see this is a problem.