Mr_sukebe

Since 2016 with the Huey as my first module. Have been sidetracked with playing games like BG3, but never for long.

I was out in mine yesterday and regularly fly it. I don’t remember reading any plans about it getting an overhaul. Having said that, ED did suggest a couple of years ago that there was a need to redo pretty much everything in game to prepare them for Vulkan. My assumption is that this is one of the reasons as to why some of the older aircraft have been given a good going over, eg interiors for the Spitfire, updates to A10 and Ka50. If that is correct (which it might not be, it’s just me speculating), that would mean that the Mi8 would need to be on a roadmap to be updated at some point. Personally I don’t worry about it. It’s still ace to fly and if we get an upgrade, then great. its hardly as though ED don’t have enough on their plate already to deal with.

I’m going to start moving these onto EBay if there’s no interest in the next few days

Try turning master arm off then on again. Do ensure that pylon for the weapon is selected.

My opinion is: - If pilots want truly balanced, go fly the same aircraft against each other - part of the basis for DCS aircraft is to not consider balance, but to focus on accuracy - linked to the above, that’s only an issue if a player considers what might be historically accurate to be unfair. Personally, I don’t care. Last time I was multiplayer on open servers was using the 190A8. At the time, it was probably the worst dogfighter on the server. So what? I went off to conduct ground strikes. - if a server is trying to provide a vague level of balance, that can be done by restricting weapons, fuel and equipment available. That’s not a problem that sits with ED, it’s with the owners of the server - we talk about balance, but does that really exist in most wars? Usually not. In WW2, the Me262 might have made it to some squadrons, but it had an average engine life of just 25 hours and was ridiculously outnumbered

Eye tracking was its key redeeming feature (at least for non PS users). It’s a bit of a hard sell without.

Paw> can I suggest looking in the user files. I definitely have livery for an F16 for Norway. Sorry, can’t remember about the others, but new liveries tend to be release by users really fast once a new map arrives, and let’s face it, it takes less time to run a search in user files than it does to write this thread

I’ve been hitting some bridges in the last few days. Failed to destroy them with Mavs from a Viggen and HEAT rockets from a Mirage F1. Going to try some big boys toys tonight Update: well that's disappointing. Dropped x2 2000lb GBU31s on a bridge, and all it did was leave a big SPLAT graphic on it. So much for having a bunch of missions to disrupt logistics by blowing up bridges. Gotta laugh, as I must have several hours identifying and marking on the F10 map a bunch of juicy looking bridges. I assume it'll happen eventually, so all is not lost. Back to shooting up EWR sites.

I vaguely seem to remember that the Seacat was a bit "pap" during the Falklands war. That might be only anecdotal, based upon a few things that I've read.

+1 on that

I’ll go check, thanks. One point I spotted yesterday was that the GPU usage dropped whilst opening/leaving DCS. That suggests to me that the workload generated by the Dashboard outside of any games is disabled when jumping into a game. It would also explain why my frame rate is generally fine.

yep

The bad news is that your plan is unlikely to work. If you go for a newer CPU, it'll use a different socket type, so you'll need a new motherboard. It'll also address either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM, neither of which you probably have. In addition, the newest NVME2 drives are able to be faster, and with the power draw of the latest and greatest GPU, chances are you'll need a bigger PSU. Put all that together = get a new PC. On a positive note, you could use your existing PC for either your kids/friends or set it up to run a dedicated server.

Errrrr, yes Sweden…cough cough. Didn’t really mean Norway….

I was out on the Kola map over the weekend blowing up some bridges, or at least trying to. i was really struggling to get a lock using the TV Mav on a bridge. I’ve managed it against tanks. Anyone else noticed this? Is it something to do with the target type, maybe the map?

I’d apply some caution to the above method. Whilst it’s a way to replicate the theoretical visible resolution, the Quad views process does have an additional overhead that eats up some of the freed resources. Don’t get me wrong, DFR does work, use it with my Quest Pro, but it’s not quite as simply as saying “it’s only processing 1/3rd of the number of pixels, therefore…”.

The two in Norway were next to the Baltic. If you open ME,zoom in and put it in MAP view, you’ll find them really easily. They are marked with the usual airfield symbology. The others are just dotted around the map. The Russians had nearly as many as Norway, Sweden and Finland put together

I was updating my Kola 1984 map some more last night and switching between map views in the mission editor. Be default, I normally use the ALT option. Yesterday was looking around in the MAP view, and low and behold found something like another 15-20 airfields. I know that Orbx have already stated that they’re going to develop more of the airfields, so that’s cool. i did think that it was interesting that we could start populating them as FARPs in the meantime. To temper any expectations, the first two that I flew to were in southern Norway and were overgrown and grass covered, so inappropriate for jets. Having said that, they’d be fine for helicopters and maybe some warbirds.

Maybe we could be lucky and have the group currently working on the rather excellent Mirage F1, and end up with both versions…

Fair points. That'll teach me to read the book written by an ex Bucc pilot of the FAA. His story of flying to Guyana (IIRC) from the Ark Royal was an intriguing one.

A RN Bucc, oh yes please!

?? sorry, I’m a bit confused. Are you saying that none of the countries in Kola used aircraft that we have?

Do you have a link to the script? I don’t have VirtDesktop, so can’t test it. Quite happy using a link cable

Opening post updated with items sold.

I do have my Oculus home disabled. Task manager is showing the Oculus Dashboard as eating my GPU resources. Rather bizarrely, I was happily able to fly my Hind around the Kola map in VR. Hopefully the Oculus support team can shed some light on the findings from the Oculus log files that I sent them.