Worrazen

The busyness probably exhausted you, but food/diet plays a major role in the mood, and don't eat large meal before playing. I had medical stuff for the past year and I played it safe staying off the PC more, only digging into DCS sporadically, basically when I'm not occupied by any other thing, it's comes and goes naturally, so I don't have to force myself to play, but I would play more if I had better control gear and trackIR, which I would already have if it wasn't more than a year of medical bills, probably next year! But none of this stopped me from hanging out and buying more modules and keeping updated, and I managed to figure out some bugs along the way too, it's fun enoguh, it doesn't have to be crazy explosive fun all the time. I'm simply taking it easy looking ahead when I get the other stuff out of the way I'll be able to sit down with DCS a bit more, the major thing with getting into this game is we probably need a big Mission Editor overhaul, I did my own fun missions, but boy, I spent more in ME than actually playing sometimes hehe, it takes nerves and motivation that one just needs to have for this game/sim, far more than any other game, but as we heard, ME is getting an upgrade. And for the common scadinavian depression in winter, that's easy, it's lack of vitamin D3 and other things like lack of activity to get lymph to eliminate waste and less activity means less oxygen due to less breathing. Due to modern diets probably not getting enough D3 through fish and other sea food, which traditional arctic tribes would get, very little D3 in the other foods as it is. Maximize exposure to the sun by keeping schedule and planning ahead to catch every bit of those rays, even eyes need it for vitamin conversion (a form of photosynthesis in the eyes), but that doesn't mean to look into the sun, and also limits still hold, an hour of hot sun exposure is more than enough for a day, if full body then 30 mins is enough and the maximum D3 will be generated, after that it will not help, D3 becomes toxis in higher amounts so the body will not produce more, in north the UV index is much lower so it may take 3 times as much, that still ends up 1.5 to 3 hours max so that doesn't sound impossible, besides, even if it's cloudy a bit, UVB which is necessary for vitamin D3 generation also goes through the clouds and is most potent when the sun is at it's peak point on the sky, exposing your skin in morning or late afternoon will only feed your skin the carcinogenic UVA which is more leveled through the day without getting the benefits of the UVB, and UVB is the one which causes sunburn, so you wouldn't feel anything from just UVA damage directly. Don't feel bad about it, but it's hard to suggest more since we don't know the details, but we may not need to as it may be your own stuff outside DCS, you may need to dig a bit to figure out, but I'd suggest to start with the diet, the studies in recent years discovered a big link between the gut and brains, and if you eat something unhealthy like pure white bread or just cheap food, especially sugars of all kinds which mostly are in most foods, the partially digested foods and other non-foods irritates the gut bacteria for various reasons or it makes them produce wrong substances (toxins) which affects your mood as long as those aren't cleaned out of the bloodstream or the body completely, those bacteria have to go to the toilet and they can't go outside your body so guess what happens ... so if you feed them wrong stuff they're going to put out bad stuff and be annoyed instead of some key nutrients like vitamin K and short -chain fatty acids. Digestion is about steps and conversions, if you introduce a stage of food that the part of the digestive system isn't designed for it'll take it more time/energy(resources) to do but also it will not be optimal which makes sideeffects, some types of artificial sugars basically can't be properly digested and when they come undigested into the later stages they just cause problems. Here's an extremely effective and quick rule on what took me many months of first hand trial and error to figure out, without taking anything for granted or just repeating what anyone else said, I tested all foods myself, but I do have intolerances (egg, wheat) which other people don't have so it may or may not be fully applicable ofcourse, but it should help even healthy people, so basically I figured out pretty much the whole spectrum is just bad, it's all the cool looking packaging and marketing. Food ingredients on the chart are presented in the highest amount first order, so the first one is the main ingredient, if either first second or third ingredient is any type of sugar/sucralose/high fructose corn syrup(HFCS) then stay clear of that product. Now ingredient labels are all to be taken separately, because they usually have many different names for the same exact ingredient so the naming may vary, some labels are more descriptive than others, some labels are obfuscated with a codeword (CI77947) or E number, not all of them are bad ofcourse it depends. But on the ingredients label it would never say "carbohydrate" because all sugars, starches, all count to the carbohydrate section, but they're the worst kinds of them, you need to be very careful with the labels/names, it's very tricky, sugar is a general term for many of them, it could be either one, but usually glucose, it's usually some artificial sugar, saharose, sucralose, white sugar, high quality products started using brown sugar or cane sugar which is better but still sugar so you can't eat it like it's nothing, Same goes for protein and fat, there's many kinds of protein and fat, and not all proteins are needed for humans to get the necessary amino acids. You don't necessairly need casein, the milk protein, it's not required for survival, nor is lactose the milk sugar, because blood sugar is glucose and nothing else, everything that counts into the carbohydrates gets converted to glucose and it's glucose that flows in the blood, some types of carbohydrates aren't meant to be digested/eaten by humans, some types due to chemistry release/digest way too easily/fast causing a blood sugar spike that has to be balanced by insulin, too much of this roallercoaster of sugar spikes and you end up with diabetes when the insulin mechanism malfunctions or insulin is simply depleted (body can't produce enough, also adding to the problem may be lack of vanadium/chromium trace minerals) If you must have sugary snacks, on holidays, make sure you don't eat anything except neutral foods such as green vegetables, digestion depends on type of food, protein and fat need more acid, but carbs do want much lower acid level so don't mix the types or it'll be very hard to digest and food will sit in stomach for hours, you may feel very tired at the same time, I had that before and I felt super sleepy. Green vegetables are carbohydrates themselfs but nothing like fruit or potatoes, and with varying amounts of fiber, flour has no fiber, because the shell is discarded. Fibers will help the food to move and mitigate the bad things in the gut in many different ways, by helping the gut bacteria because that's their food firstly, they also provide a bit of a shield from direct contact of the gut lining, fibers absorb toxins so if toxins do happen they stick to fibers which will remain in the gut until the end and won't go into bloodstream. That's why sugary soft drinks are the words, they're like dropping a nuke down on the gut bacteria, because there's no fibers to act as a layer between the gut barrier and the toxic sugar. Fruit also has glucose, but another fruit-only sugar called fructose, this one is extremely toxic to the gut lining and the gut bacteria, fruit is extremely overrated and I do not recommend eating more than 1 apple or 1 banana per day, the benefits of fruit with it's great content of certain vitamins, vast spectrum of subsugars and other bioflavonoids and very powerful antioxidands, which are all concentrated usually in the peel, is all counter-balanced with the huge sugar content, two big doses of two sugars, no fat nor protein. So when you eat apple, about one third to a half of the good stuff is in the peel, not in the sweet contents, which contains over 50% fructose in an apple, with fiber, and fructose is only required in small amounts AFAIK, probably could go months without it, the body does not need that much fructose that people usually eat. Most chocolates are mostly sugar with added cacao and milk, stay clear. But here's the "magnificent 5" that I called them, the 5 key worst ingredients that are the most common out of all and are in pretty much all snack/pastry/cookie/etc products: Flour (usually wheat, gluten, it's for birds and ducks, not humans IMO) Milk (low quality processed pr powdered without natural enzyme lactase that breaks down milk sugar lactose, your body only has minimal amount of lactase on it's own, not designed to eat milk in adulthood) Sugar (garbage you never need, it's not glucose, get glucose from potatoes, and subsugars from fruit) Oil (usually vegetable, which is overrated even if correct, other things may be okay, but it only has one omega3 component which is ALA, the other much more important two DHA and EPA come from animal source only, these oils aren't treated well, all oils are very unstable and need very care, probably becomes rancid due to processing and time it spent on air, it's been heated and thus damaged, is not being refrigerated, it probably goes through violent mixers, moreover you can't expect to just take a random plant or one that's not even eaten and make oil out of it and it becomes food, people ask is that real food or biodiesel?) Starch (just more garbage, get the natural one from potatoes and vegetables) This is basically 90% of the food products in a store, if we don't count things that aren't processed/packaged, it's all sugar and bad fat without much proteins. I would also avoid most milk products except the best quality natural butter you can find, but depending on your case you may have to avoid that as well. When I say potato, I mean the ones you actually get whole from the ground and you boil them in water, not too much, if they're super soft or even darkened and crumbling that means they overcooked and turned into sugar and it'll work as a sugar spike, need to be careful, just the right spot, if not cooked it's toxic, or sweet potatoes (the red ones), exclusively, all other potato products aren't comparable in any way, french fries, snacks. Cooking works like pre-digesting, the more you cook the more you pre-digest but also degrade the value, some nutrition gets lost, some vitamins get destroyed like C-vitamin, heat and air just destroys it simply, it's gone, so the common thing of putting lemon juice into very hot tea is unfortunately the worst thing to do, so it's vital to also mix with fresh raw food, the less cooked the higher value but harder to digest, healthy people can tolerate and are able, if cooked too much it practically disappears, you'd be eating dead food, void of any nutrition but also overcooking produces toxins, most notably with fats, unsaturated fat is very unstable and not tolerant to heat and air, it will turn rancid fast and it's one of the most toxic things ever, that's why fried foods and barbecue are so unhealthy, it's not the meat, it's the oils that turn deadly, that's why I always slow-boil meat without any vegetable oil at all, for saturated fat, I replaced lard/pork fat with the highest quality virgin coconut oil, on special occasion you can cook with coconut oil, as it is "saturated" type, it's stable and won't change it's chemical property when cooked usually, but still not a good idea to try to heat it up too much on purpose (over 300C, tolerance only goes up to some point)

RMA 3 months? WTF? We have a 45 day law if the product is not repaired it must be replaced immediately. Maybe you should look at the PSU, I suggest getting a wall wattage meter, then if you have multiple rails on the PSU you should check the specs, this isn't that simple as one needs a bit of familiarity with how electricity works in this way and I was under the impression my PSU was ok but I figured out I was totally overloading the +12V line for years and that's why the PC acted erratic, it would sometimes lose output to the monitor and lock up even if the CPU was still working in the background, 120mm fans would quit working randomly and other little clues. I ended up with a 750W Corsair HX or what it was the newer models, in single-rail mode (can switch), the outter label of the final wattage doesn't really matter that much as everyone thinks, the amps matter and specs on each of the voltage segments, as well as the rails if more than one.

16GB of ram is at the edge. IMO the CPU and RAM are the most important because GPU is most easily replacible/upgradable, however VRAM amount still matters, a GPU with the highest VRAM is also the best even if it's performance may not be it should matter that much since DCS isn't about the bleeding edge of cinematics (even tho it's trying to up the fidelity which I certainly welcome) Ofcourse after Vulkan API hits it may enable lower CPUs to do as good of a job but still the simulation will take it's toll far higher than other games.

Vesti claims the Su-57 can perform a "midair corkscrew flat spin" ... apparently not a one where you lose control but I'm not sure if it's special or not, I've seen Grim Reapers do it with F-14, but it's said to allow it to change direction instantly, giving it an advantage, I guess I need to look more into flatspin stuff to understand this one properly.

Honestly I still think some of the terrain LODs are off, particularly in Nevada, it should look more high-def, ... althought I don't have visibility range on max, but that setting shouldn't affect terrain texture LODs, needs to be separate if it does.

I don't necessairly want money to be poured into speed of development of the number of things we already know and make sense to be developed, these things take time and even if 10x the people look at it they can't all holdy 10 mouses and 10 keyboard or all help holding one mouse and 1 keyboard It only scales up to some point. I would wish some of these upgrade dollars to go directly to maintenance of all the other areas of DCS overall, things which aren't regularly touched, to be freshened up, modernising other parts of the program. I tried recently enabling some of the dev/debug options and I wasn't able to get much to show up, there are many references to "dev console" but I couldn't open it, while editing the LUAs. There's also the internal inconsistency of namings, particularly with F-18C I seen the names of the folders differ significantly for liveries/cockpit/shared stuff, i think the name is like "f18c_hornet" or something. It's not that big of a thing but as I get more into DCS my self I start caring for it like it's my house, want to keep things organized even if it's won't change much in practice heh. There could be a livery manager perhaps, which would be helpful to just view all the detected custom liveries for an overview (without having to place each unit in ME and select loadout and open the livery combo box and scroll). Since this sim is ought to be highly moddable there could be some cleanups there as well particularly in the filesystem structure so that everything that's part of the core is nicely segregated and/or labeled away from the so that it's clear and organized. I'd probably list this into a wislist thread along with the other things I discussed in the newsletter thread just a moment ago.

There is so much going on actually, I think everyone should be pleased, the fact that things are happening even if you don't hear about it is making me calm, and thing will be great for the next 5 years however I think that later on it'll really be key milestone and that is the fact that there's other tech that graphically may outpace DCS yet again by a lot, the competitiveness will get bigger, as the big engine houses of the software world will become bigger and bigger and more complicated, UE4 still isn't that keen for huge open-world sets but still the biggest thing would be whether DCS retains it's own in-house engine, and I'm all for it, but it would probably need that another develpment office opened, perhaps even in UK or US, or hiring some contractors to give the whole program a refresh, perhaps new eyes to go through it and see what, I still think sometimes some keys don't register on first hit, that could be some thing with the input stuff perhaps bottlenecked in a way, perhaps putting input on it's own thread may help, USB/controller stuff that could be improved internally so that controls are as low latency and as stable as possible. The core upgrades are indeed happening in many way, but there's some other parts of the whole package I still feel they need an overall touchup, the alt-tab or minimize to taskbar still isn't working right completely, it switches to conditionally-always-on-top maximized windowed mode. Conditionally because it's a bit weird, you can put in-focus windows on top of it, but as you click some other taskbar area or neutral areas including deselect, DCS will spring in front so it's quite sticky. I could go on a bit but it would be more suitable for a wishlist thread.

Yes there was an update about it AFAIK on the newsletter.

That manual excerpt says in the end "Distance to the airfield 120 km/h" ... per hour? That's not right is it.

Just let it not depend on some Microsoft/Subscription service that everyone would need to install.

Some kind of automation tool to detect that, doing it manually would take a ton of time, people sending exact coordinates would also help.

Right, there could be more finesse with graphics options, cockpit and environment/world/terrain split away and separately adjustable.

Yeah, I'm so stoked for the emergency part to be supported, I just think that's cool if an damaged AI has to go back to base, actually gets priority from other AIs to land first and you would have some minor animations/trucks being rolled and would it (it would start repair in hangar/park as per normal) as ATC instructs other AI's trying to land to either go to alternate or wait, and that would be cool for AI to have this "landing logic" so they really do decide on their own what's best, as well as ATC also messaging to all the AI's that try to land what the status of the airfield is, the queue, so even if they wait they may not get a slot The thing that could be of benefit to be simulated, is the trucks actually dousing water and killing fire, if the new damage models actually support realistic fire to some degree. So not just ATC for us, but there also should be an ATC AI that manages the AIs and ofcourse AIs can override if they really have to like if they don't hear the comms for some reason, but ofcourse ATC would realize there's an aircraft not listening to so it would handle the situation differently again.

The camera that follows a launched weapon seems to have it's audio messed up, it's either muffled or audio is completely missing, or it seems to fade down very fast, depending on the situation, but after a few hours of more testing what I think is going on. It only happens if the player launched the weapon while in F1 cockpit view mode, because with exactly the same circumstances except by starting from an F2 or other non-cockpit view mode, the LWT view sounds okay and the sound is the same as with the sister F6 Launched Weapon View (LWV) mode. The tracked object transitional death camera that I call it, seems to be yet another another kind view, this broken audio effect is also carried over to the this "death camera", so when the object, in this case the launched weapon is destroyed, the audio is also broken or completely missing. The tracked object transitional death camera appears to start from a slightly different position/angle from the last view (barely noticable sometimes, few frames) And it usually has an automatic upward motion away from the terrain, and thirdly it automatically switches back to the previous View Mode after a few moments. It appears that LWT isn't applying correct non-cockpit audio cirumstances when it activates from the F1 cockpit view. Because there is sound if the any object producing sound is very close, and it's a different kind of sound, suggesting it's passing through cockpit-sound simulation filters. Also this seems to be a rough translation from Russian. I suggest "Toggle Tracking Launched Weapon" be renamed to "Toggle Launched Weapon Tracking"

Let's hope DCS: A-10C gets updated with a newer variant/upgrade suite, but IDK about Link-16 or the HMCS (even tho F-18 has it?) but the stuff in between, so we could play the current variant and let's say 2013 level variant, that would be awesome. Whatever A-10C gets, it's day 1 purchase from me!

Update: Lower Tree Visibility settings also create "2D Sprite" effect on the trees, making weird circle artifacts as well as shadow flickering can be seen. The low quality models are seen that close, closer, this is definitely not the optimal way LODs should work. LODs should be optimally set and fixed (but editable in lua just like other stuff) while only the visibility radius would be changed, then the trees would be full-quality at the same distance no matter the total radius size. Also they don't turn, so if those 2D "sprites" (models that keep turning to camera orientation) are suppose to replace models, they aren't, they seem to be put ontop so it kinda negates the purpose (performance) so that's a separate bug IMO.

Wanted to add more here since I whizzed by this story too fast. Why is this good news: Continued service means continued use and perhaps newer software for training just like devs did before, easier to continue on existing prior contracts Which in turn means we could get the public version of some of the stuff, easier than public only I guess. More upgrades to A-10C means some of the existing stuff will be less sensetive, easier to be negotiated for DCS Continued service means A-10C might get more upgrades in future, like engines, topping off this legendary airplane in it's best light prior to retirement. The communities, and the military spirit around this airplane will continue to live and extend into the future, means more DCS A-10C fliers An upgrade to DCS: A-10C besides the textures just gotta happen, it's a perfect plane that will benefit from the new damage model the most, with it's redundancy and recovery options, I just love that aspect a lot!!! I've grown up in a garage taking things apart and repairing them, most likely that's the root of the interest. Except what "Russian" troops are we talking about? Because the area is highly complicated with many Russians living all over the place, Donbass is over half Russians AFAIK but not Russian Federation Citizens, then Crimea, it's over 70% Russian people AFAIK, but were not Russian Federation Citizens, they are now, and I'm following the construction of Crimean highways and railroads and if there was tension or protests I would know about it, if the people actually genuinely want it then that's all okay according to UN charter of self determination. So which Russians does the Doctor mean? Russians in Donbass, Russians in Crimea, Russians in Russian Federation, Russians elsewhere in Ukraine? You got to be more specific than that. I mean, that's a huge difference, the Donbass self defense forces most likely don't have all the past ukrainian equipment and certainly not the modern equipment of the Russian Federation, nor the expertise and skill of the modern Russian Federation military. And you know, the Ukrainian weapons look very similar, they're usually the same or slightly different, that's another whole mix of factors, so when "an igla MANPAD has struck a Helicopter ..." it's WHO DUN IT? It's irresponsible to point to a specific group without a load of context behind it, that's my point.

Oooooh I'll be darn!

Then I found this, An AC-130 Mod https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303367/

Acquiring New Target It's a bit of an exaggerated version in that game, with jet engines. Looks more realistic in one of the mods: But that's where I got the idea as a kid of the AC-130, and C-130 as a supply dropper.

I guess that's something specific and one of the things, but MP in general, is a process that'll take time to perfect. I got into Destiny 2 a bit since I got it for free during the Blizzcon in 2018, the latency compensation there is extreme, there's almost a 40% chance of simultaneous kills on both ends by either shooting or bashing, whenever the two people are shooting at each other in roghly the same moment, so even the so called top AAA games can't get it right, because there is no way around it, the network latency is many times bigger than anything else. 60 fps is 16.6 miliseconds and chances are ping is far higher most of the time, unless both users have the best FTTH internet service and happen to be in a geographic location where the infrastructure is good so there is as less routing as possible. But still, frame rate is only visual, your inputs, the physics and the engine, all that runs on microseconds level if not less I would guess, it wouldn't be as smoot if it wouldn't.

Except, forget about multiplayer, realtime gaming network code is most difficult.

Active Pause doesn't work in A-10C Georgian Hammer campaign mission ... dunno which one exactly right now, but it's the night time with JTAC. I didn't try any other campain mission, this intended?

This is more like movie making, ofcourse all the other games "have" it already, it's not an advancement, it's a compromise.

Nod32 Cleanup only found my custom liveries and some leftovers from modding. I left the liveries alone. I intentionally modified some other HLSL files and they don't appear as modified on the cleanup report, but they do get overwritten when repairing.