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Its relatively OK. If you look at the bigger picture, that in order to play DCS you need a high-end gaming PC, decent HOTAS, a headtracking device, plus a few modules its OK for a hobby that can offer thousands of hours of unlimited gameplay PLUS it continually adds more content and improvements. My brother in law has one of the most expensive hobbies - hunting. A decent hunting rifle can cost up to 12,000+ euros, plus licences, maintenance equipment, ammo, hunting dog, etc, etc... Now that is an expensive hobby!

Viper is shorter and easier to remember. However!!! A fighting falcon eats Vipers IRL sooooo....

Usually about 7-15 seconds initial loading time depending on whether I have updated graphics drivers. In-game loading seems about the same with other modules. It helps if I load encyclopedia and view the F-14 model.. makes loading times faster afterwards in mission editor. Specs: i7 - 6700k 4.0Ghz GTX-1080 (1440p res) 32GB Ram Samsung M.2 970 evo 500Gb Win 10 1809 More detailed specs in my sig.

HAF block 52+ADV carry SLAM/ER IIRC, or maybe earlier versions... and with the new block 70/72+ upgrade should have more advance antiship capabilities.

Exactly my wish +1 :thumbup:

Crimea might be the free map. Makes sense since they have plans to expand the caucasus region and its also the original region since Flanker in 95'.

No kids here yet but very limited time availability as well due to work and girlfriend. It is understandable that some missions need to be that long because realism. But, devs need to find a way to create a save function or a jump to a certain point ahead in time or something close to that.

I found the IFF interrogation doesn't work on AI with jamming pods. But I'm not sure about it. It might be something else.

A lot of improvement has been done and a lot more still need to be done. Explosions, smoke and dust effects are an immersion booster when are done right.

Would like to see the AI in soldiers become more alive than static. Same with ground vehicles. But especially infantry should have a lot more autonomy in movement and posture.

Thanks for the update :)

Yeah same here.

Bought it yesterday and flew around a bit with it. Its actually quite easy to fly with. A perfect aircraft for newcomers to DCS world and high-fidelity modules. The only thing that needs is that extra love with the new graphics upgrade.

Thats why this is OPEN beta. Beta for the masses :)

Well, its an open beta... so I would expect at some point in the not so distant future ED will resolve this. But I would like to know if updating DCS Open Beta with the updater is better in terms of performance and bug free (if its a rather big update) or simply do a clean install a better solution?

I have 32GB and it crashes. Its very random. You don't know when its going to happen.

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That explains it. I thought it was weird there was no flaps axis.

New found level of respect to real F-14 pilots out there. They sure had their hands full with it.

It will certainly keep us busy until F-16 :)

Boom!!!

I'm gonna need a new F5 key :p

I think I'll sit in the cold and dark pit for a good 10 minutes and just try to absorb as much awesomeness as possible before even clicking anywhere. Just like I would in real life :p

Don't know if this has already been reported but I can clearly hear C-130 engine running on some occasions when I press F2 and move my viewport in front the f-18. I can't reproduce it easily but I think it happens after a ground attack. I'll investigate more. Should you need any logs or tracks feel free to ask. If this bug has been reported feel free to delete.