Reflected

This is the intro video of Mission 1 of the MIG Killers DCS F-4 Campaign. In 1969 the first Topgun course began with a fam flight, where the instructor sat in the front with the student in the back. He demonstrated some confidence builder maneuvers, they landed, switched seats and then the student performed them. It's interesting to note that during the regular training course Naval aviators hadn't really been allowed to push their F-4s to the edge of the envelope, so some were taken by surprise when the instructors zoomed up until the jet ran out of airspeed and slid back tail first. Due to DCS limitations the players can go through the first part of the fam flight in the form of this video. The actual mission will start after the instructor and the student swapped seats, and the jet has been refueled. Enjoy!

This is the intro video of Mission 1 of the MIG Killers DCS F-4 Campaign. In 1969 the first Topgun course began with a fam flight, where the instructor sat in the front with the student in the back. He demonstrated some confidence builder maneuvers, they landed, switched seats and then the student performed them. It's interesting to note that during the regular training course Naval aviators hadn't really been allowed to push their F-4s to the edge of the envelope, so some were taken by surprise when the instructors zoomed up until the jet ran out of airspeed and slid back tail first. Due to DCS limitations the players can go through the first part of the fam flight in the form of this video. The actual mission will start after the instructor and the student swapped seats, and the jet has been refueled. Enjoy!

I noticed during testing this campaign but apparently it's not just me. One of the drop tanks empties much faster than the other one:

Yes this is a known workaround but still not OK having to do this on every mission. Also, yes, it's a VRAM issue, but if from one update to the next the game becomes nearly unplayable, yes of course it can be solved by buying even more and more VRAM and better gear, but it's not a real solution. The solution is to fix the code. Every time you mess it up you can't throw your hands up and tell everyone their PC is officially outdated from this day on.

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Is there any official word on this? Apparently the February update made it very bad for a lot of people, it's not like our hardware became outdated from one day to another. Something is really wrong with how DCS uses VRAM. Any plans or solutions in the pipeline please?

90% A2A, 10% A2G. But I have a future project that is just the opposite

The F-4 is basically a warbird with jet engines, that's why I love it

Wrong radio transmit button. You’re probably keying the front radio.

More details about the syllabus:

Let me share more details about the syllabus of my upcoming MIG Killers DCS campaign for the Heatblur F-4 Phantom. Its aim is to recreate the first class of Topgun in 1969 as realistically as possible.

Yes, it’s gonna be updated with the new Massun assets. But not with the FC4 Sabre

Thanks! Yepp, just what I thought. It's what I described in my post above yours.

Yes the campaign was 'rebalanced' for the new FM. You couldn't even use the old FM if you wanted to.

It means ED found the bug and fixed it, but since there hasn't been any public updates, we still don't have that fix in our installs.

I think I found the problem: To work around AI limitations and make sure bugs don't happen, there are 2 Pacos: one that launches then orbits, and on that orbits and then performs the mission. These 2 are swapped when the player is airborne, and these conditions are met: 1) you used the salute button and see the glove animation - like the briefing tells you to 2) you performed the takeoff checklist and you hear Slick say 'Alright, running up, here's the wipeout' (you need to be in mil power, hooked up to the cat, like IRL) 3) you're faster than 140 knots Apparently some player, for some reason are not meeting all conditions. If you're trying to join up on a unit called 'Pacodel', then it won't work for sure, because they haven't been swapped. If you follow procedures and checklists, they will.

Have you read the other thread? I even asked you a question there. Why does there need to be 2 separate threads so I can type the same thing twice and other people might get confused or lost? every time someone reports this problem I replay the mission and it works just fine. There are problems with the DCS core code but I have no access to that. But I already wrote this in the other thread. So please if next time it happens take that screenshot for me. Thanks.

@niksavv or anyone who has this issue can u do me a favor and when the bug happens, open the F10 map, ckick on the Paco who doesn’t want to stop orbiting and take a screenshot of the unit’s name?

I’m not sure how the store logic works, can you please ask ED’s customer support?

It’s all done, waiting for ED to release it.

It's happening to me on every mission, I can check the F10 map 2-3 times before my FPS drops to 5. It can be solved every time by alt tabbing out , opening something else, closing, alt tab back. Super annoying.

ED says it’s been fixed internally. Fingers crossed!

Yes I do. I mean the missions don't enforce anything, so where would the no labels setting even come from? Maybe try checking the 'override mission settings' box and see if that helps.

Hey thanks for the heads up, good catch. I've heard others report crashes too, but you nailed it with the missile impact - it happens for me too. Now next time please report it to ED in the game crashes section - I already have, because they don't check here. In the mission editor all I can do about this is to remove your missiles, but that's about as useful as telling you not to fire them Thanks again! Dakujem vam!