firmek

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Great picture but you draw a totally opposite conclusions: 1. BLUE gets the F-15, star-fighter missile truck with uber radar, which can just spam opposition with missiles without a need to manage systems whatsoever. First thing that only blue can bring to the table. 2. Su-27 and 27R can only eat chaffs. Generally the Su-27 is close to being useless at the moment. So a big minues for RED. 3. Red could get the ET. It is after all a real thing that would be used in a real scenario. But no, for a sake of gaming balancing lets remove it. First example when distinctive feature is removed from red to make it easier for blue. 4. Blue gets the A-10 which obviously is extremely capable striker. Su-25T is good but A-10C it's just better especially that it comes with a full systems modeling 5. Su-25T distinctive feature is that it can do a DEAD. Hold on - it has a distinctive feature - it can't be red only then, blue needs to get it. Please spare comments that Georgia has it. First Georgia has as much as 11 of Su-25 where actually 6 are upgraded. This doesn't matter anyway as a real usage is something that BF takes into consideration on the bottom of the priority list. 6. Transport helicopters - At least the Mi-8 is fast and can deliver final punch to the airport when AA defenses are gone. Wait.. did I just write that its a bit better in BF application then Huey, no it has to be on both sides then. Again, red can't get even a slightest advantage. Yes the Mi-8 serves generally everywhere but again at least for BF it could be a red distinctive to give this 0,1% of something better. 7. Ok then, the Ka-50, now this one is red only and actually can deliver a punch that blue don't have a counterpart for. Can't be this way, lets give Gazelle ability to transport troops and spam call the bombers! Yeap, another red distinctive feature obliterated in a spectacular way. Now its "fair" as blue has a platform that can take a whole AB on its own!. Take mortar squad, call bombers, drop mortar and kill remaining things. Ka-50 in good hands can deal a lot of damage but come on, it's not able to capture a target on its own. And then coming back to point no 1 - try to go higher than 5-8 meters above the ground in Ka-50 = missile from F-15 to your face. 8. MiG-21 vs F-5 - the second at least has a working RWR which makes a big difference when flying in a sky full of modern jets. MiG-21 can use radar to lock targets, but hell yea - turn your radar on = missile from F-15 to your face. 9. Red has the M2kC and Viggen but the only reason for it was to bring people to the other side, not to give any advantage. 10. Eastern block generally has more and better air defenses in terms of SAM systems. Nope, both sides have to have the same. Sorry but the complains about red having an advantages are just ridiculous. Blue gets a higher numbers, better and actually working equipment while all distinctive features that red would have in real scenario are either just disabled or mitigated buy giving them also to blue. On the other blue keeps the advantages only for their side. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some red fanatic. When I play BF I generally switch between teams for different rounds. But the complains that blue is in a disadvantage compared to red team is just absolutely crazy. Aside of everything above. DCS should be about a simulation after all, which in reality will always have an asymmetry. All of this gaming balancing is just hurting the experience. It still has to be reasonable so that both sides have chances (that is again not a exactly given by default in real word) but it doesn't mean that it has to be purely just gaming balancing that brings the DCS closer to the Battlefield than simulation.

I have the same issue. At mission start the aircraft is always rotated North, regardless if it's started cold or hot on parking and even when on the runway. To be more specific however, the plane initially spawns aligned correctly on the briefing screen. After hitting the "fly" button it's immediately rotated to the North. Interesting is that when spawning on the airport the fuel doesn't always get empty. Another thing is that altimeter and speed indicator are also not working. Ive tried to run a repair but ground crew acknowledges the request but does nothing. As for the air start I didn't manage to get a single successful one. In all cases the fuel was empty. Apart of that the low engine oil pressure and radar altitude warning lights are lit up already on the briefing screen. I've checked all of the modules which I have. Only L-39 has this problem. I don't see why the problem should be connected with Windows 10. I'm running DCS since the release of Windows 10 and never had a problem like this one.

Well, without going to the details I guess we should be happy and grateful that the history turned out the way it did and Nazis lost the war ;)

That was also my understanding. Basically NTTR obviously is using desert textures which makes the targets stand out more from the ground compared to Caucasus. Anyway, once Normandy is out we'll have some good indication if spotting targets is easier. Though I wouldn't expect a proper FLIR yet.

The unit will transmit on the frequeny assigned to it. If the unit doesn't have the active frequency property in the mission editor, the frequency can be set using the advanced waypoint actions (IIRC perform command, set frequency). The other thing is even if you set a text for the message you still need to attach a sound file - transmit messate will not work otherwise! The sound file doesn't have to actually include any audio - it can be just a one second muted recording.

Since we're discussing targetting the Rb-75, the vertical slew control for missile and radar are inverted. Is it something wrong with my install or is it just an early access bug or one of those things as mentioned that Saab did their own way?

"sooo"... was it really worth to clutter just freshly created forum sub-section with a thread related to questions that has been clearly already answered before? +1.

There are a few exceptions but generally every full fidelity aircraft has it's own separate bindings list. If you want to clear all binding for all of your aircrafts delete the content of the input folder in the DCS user settings folders. I would have to check which exactly folder it is but if I recall correctly its in user saved games, DCS.openbeta (or DCS.openalpha for 2.0.x), and then config\input. This way you can also delete a folder only for a specific module which will erase all of your bindings for it. By the way, you can also make backups and restore your settings or even (may be risky) copy them from 1.5.x to 2.0.x thus saving some time on having to reconfigure bindings for the module from scratch. I think if you do clear without selecting a category it'll clear everything apart of axis. Well, at least everything for a selected controller. If a category is selected it'll clear only a bindings from selected cateogry.

Great choice. I was considering PG348Q but got Acer X34 instead, mostly due to ascethics and more stable stand. Other then that both are generally the same quality panels. You'll love it! It's a beast! Apart of the size the first most positive impression was the crystal clear image. Make sure to connect it with display port cable, set the max refresh rate and enable the g-sync. Yeap, it's really one of those things that you don't appreciate if you don't try it. After using g-sync monitor there is no going back. I had drivers auto-update screwing g-sync - I've noticed that something is wrong just imediatelly, the screen tearing was ruining the whole impression.

1. As mentioned, don't buy a laptop. Apart of worse performance you'll really appreciate a proper monitor when playing DCS. The bigger the better as spotting targets in DCS is not an easy thing. But then a good monitor is a topic on its own. IMO don't get anything less then 27'' but don't go for 4K without a high end graphics card. 2. GPU is the priority, GTX 1060 should be minimum and better the GTX 1070. It's quite a big step from 1060 to 1070, noticably more then from 1070 to 1080. 1070 is probably the best value for monay at the moment. 3. 16 GB RAM at minimum 4. CPU, save on the i7, get i5 and put the savings into better GPU. Don't get a K version if you're not going to overclock it. Don't assume that you'll overlock a CPU without any experience just by reading some quick tutorials. 5. SSD is nice but if I would have to choose between better GPU and SSD i would again recomend to get a better GPU. Nowadays however, at least the operating system should be run from SSD drive.

Had the same situation just recently on BF server. I was in M2000C going after A10-C. Interesting is that when I was approaching him everything was fine, he was flying steady and smoothly even being locked in TWS. Once I've got close and fired fox 2 on him, he started to teleport all over the place. Obviously the missile missed. Then I've went for a guns but after making bunch of holes in the air trying to hit a bunny hopping A-10 teleporting all over the place, when I was about to gave up the guy disconnected. I'm not saying that A-10 was deliberately cheating as I don't have any prove for that but it was extremely comfortable coincidence for him to start teleporting exactly at the time as I've got close to him. Anyway, I'm quite sure ED is also aware about the problem. Dedicated servers may help but are rather addressing symptoms by putting more steam to the hardware rather than addressing the core issue. IRC, DCS already can be run on servers with graphics engine disabled. The main problem is the overall optimization topic of the code in DCS and not only the net code but also the internal engine. Note also that BF is heavily scripted and scripting language by their nature are a performance disaster.

I did a short test at 10000 m - fuel regulator AUTO: RPM 80%, EPR 1,6 - fuel regulator MANUAL: RPM ~92%, EPR, 2,4 As mentioned, in AUTO mode it's not possible to maintain a level flight at that altitude, nor actually get to it without using AB. Really guessing right now but maybe the switch works in reverse way and modes are replaced.

More information in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=180042

Great observation :thumbup: (unfortunatelly forum doesn't allow me to add you reputation). I've also noticed that it's not possible to maintain a level flight with Viggen on high altitudes without using AB but I didn't notice that the engine output is reduced in max MP throttle position. I'll do some more testing today evening but I would assume that this behavior isn't fully correct as manual states the economic speeds up to 10km. I guess if such altitude would be too high for Viggen it wouldn't be listed in the economic speeds table. Anyway, switching the fuel regulator into manual mode is only mentioned in the emergency procedures section of the flight manual.

C'mon guys, as much as I would also love to have the Su-22 or Su-24, sometimes the wish threads go out of control. Especially that the more misleading title they have (like this one) and the longer they go-on the more people may get confused that the module is actually a real project. Anyway, at the moment the only officially announced as planned (actually probably under development) Russian aircrafts are MiG-19 made by RAZBAM and correct me if I'm wrong also Mi-24 by Belsimtek. EDIT: Maybe Mods could move wish threads from 3'rd party developpers forum to DCS wish list section.

Few tutorials that may be helpfull: Side question, how to include the youtube videos in the post? I can't make the "youtube" tags to work.

C'mon, for sure you must be wrong ;). Last time I've checked many of the MP servers have scenarios with those aircrafts. Actually all of them, WW2, 1'st to 4'th gen jets at the same time and obviously F-15 and Su-27 fighting side by side on both sides. Being serious however. Just recently I've been collecting information for mission building. There are no fighters in Georgian AF. As for strikers - 11 Su-25, 6 of them modernized, trainers - four L-39 and four L-29, 12 Mi-24 (some modernized), a number of Mi-8 and UH-1H and then a number of transport aircrafts and search and rescue helicopters. The only one fighter, a single MiG-21 was rumored to be in service of Abkhazian air forces. By the way, interesting fact is that after collecting some brief information about the region one call easily learn how far the Caucasus map is from reality. Some of the airfields, AB that we currently have don't exist anymore. On the other hand some important locations (airbases, harbours, etc..) are not modeled. Really looking forward to the upgraded version of the map. Coming back to the topic, the map is not the main constraint but the lack of AI units from the era is. Having units from Korean conflict period it would be possible to setup interesting missions for 1'st gen jets even over Caucasus. In opposite situation, without units and with Korea map not much could be achieved apart of some dog-fighting.

It does work with 1.5 and 2.0 - link

1. Bk90 is not fully finished yet and does not work correctly in MP. Devs have stated that Bk90 is a work in progress. In SP I didn't had much issues with it - provided that it's released within the parameters. 2. The volume knob for RWR is not working yet. I just got an idea to try out as a temporary workaround - reducing the volume of in-cockpit sounds in main DCS options menu. Otherwise use the lights only mode when in safe area. 3. I guess that you need to on a correct glideslope and maintain steady AoA to safely land using automatic throttle control.

+1000000. Couldn't agree more. There are still a lot of planes ahead of us that for many people will be a must have but I could imagine that the community will shift more towards buying selected planes rather then everything that comes out. At least I’ve promised myself to get only the Normandy, F-18, Harrier (if it's close to complete, got tired with constant development of M2kC), MiG-19 (any other Russian plane if it comes out), Eurofighter Typhoon (not being mean but I don’t have high hopes for actually seeing it out, better to be positively suppressed). It's not really about money (hopefully my Wife will not see my ED orders summary :)) but mostly about the time. Already having a majority of the modules it’s just not enough time that I could devote to learn and get a proper experience with all of them. This is including only modules that for whatever reason I just really like a lot, not even mentioning to have a time for those that I’ve just got because of sales or support the dev’s but didn’t really got too much in love with them. There are also modules which I would love to fly more but there is not much content for them (MiG-21, MiG-15, F-86F). It’s not only about campaigns nor even a map but about a basic lack of AI units from the era. WWII is getting some attention with Normandy map but still there is a big gap for 1'st to early 3'rd gen jets.

It's an absolute speculation but it may be that LN (M3) are going to work on MiG-23. Just really guessing but some facts may be indicating this: - Razbam has just recently announced that they've dropped the MiG-23 project and are developping MiG-19. They have clearly indicated that they can't share the background of this decision. - a lot of experience and probably some features from MiG-21 could be used in MiG-23 - vice versa, developing MiG-23 would allow to incorporate back improvements to MiG-21. Again guessing but probably MiG-21 as not so new module might be generating more maintenance cost ATM than revenues. Support has to be done anyway but having both MiG-21 and MiG-23 would probably allow to mitigate it. - Heatblur has Viggen and are working on F-14 while the only new project from LN (M3) is Corsair. LN (M3) has a good experience but they probably need a good project with a popular plane to get a boost. Again those are all speculations. Lets see what future will show. Regardless which module both companies are working on, I'll for sure get it.

Was 37 vs 8, now 26 vs 5. It's just ridiculous. I've joined the server to setup some air defenses. It's a fun for few times, after that it just turns into a hopeless full time work. Especially that air defenses are not saved after server restart. Gave up and disconnected, enjoy easy wins without any opposition blue. Same was on Friday (or Saturday morning), just watch the video from Ralfidude . Looks like a great coordination from blue – in reality red didn’t had numbers to even stand a chance against the horde going to Maykop. Before server restarted Krasnodar-P also went down. Few reds in the area were constantly being shoot down after taking-off from Krasnodar-C, including transports trying to desperately setup air defenses. As it looks like that any balancing system isn't going to happen could it be at least possible to have the air defenses saved? This would give more chances to outnumbered team and bring more reason for setting them up to heli pilots. There will be no AA stacking problems as the limits are already in place. Just make it that AA unit is destroyed after some time after running out of ammo. Lets say MANPAD after 10 min and KUB after 30 – just in case someone is flying repair create to it.

You need to download VC++ redistributable package separately. Information was included in the latest NTTR update - though it could have been made more visible. Get the files from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587

Good luck!