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The Soviets always bought knock off dollar store type fans for aircrews

Basically what I thought. All good advice. I asked because K specifically told me to 'improve my SA instead of focussing on kills' But I frankly don't know any method to 'exercise' my SA to grow it like a muscle as it were, except by online trying to get kills

So Fri if Jester had been done before where? Just because you explained the concept to someone whenever and used a similar method is miles away from implementing this in practice! Note it's *not* just the menus. It's also things like him ejecting himself; knowing how to hook tws targets; iff and label without being commanded is impressive. Nevermind the Iceman commands - Iceman is fairly weak and jester was always supposed to be the primary thing.

Let's hold off on declaring anything 'easier or better' than jester until it's actually here. All this is purely hypothetical on our end. Jester is already out and working and was from EA first release as well (!!) Until Petrov. Shows up and indeed IS better I'll reserve judgement. People are too quick to wave away what jester can do or the fact there never was an analogue to jester before the fact. Nevermind the fact that the implementation may well be clunkier ; or the AI may be inept in comparison. I hope not we will see. This is why I want him to be able to shoot them. It's a 2 person job. Period. Rockets etc aren't really. But there's no if ands or buts about it

I'd never heard him get wounded before. He said something about his eyes and being hit. That was interesting. Also I saw a clip online where someone got the plane to 100 knots and jester said '100 knots and you wonder why I keep ejecting on you!'

I think you misunderstand me asking questions about your post for hostility. It's not hostility. Are your aim 7s working? Oh I am working to stay alive. The focus isn't on kills for kills sake but killing the things that are killing me. For example most the sorties the other day jester was already yelling 'here we go again' before I even took off. The SA definitely could use improvement. But how do you suggest improving the SA?

I just watched a long walk around vid by a private hind owner in Texas. Was interesting. The wings have a hell of a slant in real life.. I wonder how hard she will be to move side to side once she gets going to line up attacks.

Thing is this definitely does alert the average player with a solid lock warning. Its a bit more than one second if you're using Jester. Also since the last patch or two sparrows don't work in practice. Maybe they do for you but for me Ive used 7 with zero hits and most not even seeming to track before I stopped using them. That's against ai! You're still hitting with sparrows? I used to all the time but the last couple months. I don't even take em. Indeed instead of pulse it seems instead of doing a lock the ideal way to get the result you describe is when you're sure a target you're going to lock and fire immediately at(only way to even get close to what you describe) and in that case maybe an aim54 with the ACM switch up is the best bet. Also - I'm posting asking about tactics. I'm not stupid or new- I don't think there's a 'best way' as all the situations are different; but there definitely will be better ways than others especially when I note I'm flying alone. SA and air quake players is one thing - a strong RWR warning is another and isn't asking much of a players. The later jets like f16 and f18 also raise holy hell more than some others ISTR. If they can figure out how to use SRS and fly their f16 or f18 over and be a threat to me than Ill be safe and wager they'll be hip to a lock on. Nevermind also I'm hardly a Richthofen and part of my problem in this situation is lack of SA too. And though I probably have fairly bad SA often; I can guarantee that I'll know if something gets a hard lock on me. I'm really getting hammered mostly by *pitbull aim120s that seem to go pitbull and hit within a second. * Off boresight Aim9xs.. I'll get a few kills but meh..

Interesting. Note however I'm specifically talking about multiplayer. I don't know what mentioning the AI has to do with it? The ai cheats..

I mean I'm still gonna get it I'm too pumped. But it'll be module breaking for me if they don't get the ai to guide weapons etc. I won't lie - I agree with what others thought reading between the lines (the explanation IS how ED thinks) and I'm pretty disappointed at the thought that they seemingly are going to have an AI that just auto hovers and flies in a straight line. In the F14 Iceman can do all that and he's definitely considered the dumbass AI. The autohover.. I mean they had autopilot auto hovers in other modules - this in practice would be really close. To me it's like the f14 if jester couldn't use the radar. It'd be a "wtf' moment. The hinds guided weapons.. are the reason that guy is there. I'm still really pumped. But I got a gnawing bad feeling

Yeah man this is why in my post after the simplified start up I said I was sorta worried. When the F14 came out we had already heard jester do stuff and say a ton of stuff. They couldn't really hide him at all. I didn't even notice the ai in this till someone said he said one line. Still hoping I was wrong when I urged then to adapt jester and lease him from HB

Those are my favorites too. Along with the p51/f86

How can I provide the complete log? I just copied the file I saw? Maybe running dcs again and exiting? This is what's happening regardless of what kneeboard is bound to but I've always kept it at the default until trying it with this and switching it back. Including reverting to defaults. I press and nothing happens except it looks almost how like it'd look if a program opened outside dcs. I.e. the cursor reverts to a windows cursor yet theres nothing to see. The cursor changes back when I hit the key again to 'close' it. I'll add before it vanished the kneeboard looked very odd in the mig 21 though not other planes - it opened up huge; unbordered and near unusable. It was really odd. I haven't added any missions in weeks mods in several months..

Thanks dude. Ya I don't want any of the say cold war servers that have warbirds. I want a pure ww2 servers. Besides being trounced by jets it doesn't feel like ww2 with any modern stuff obv. I really was hoping to fly some channel on it. I'm really not trying to buy the Normandy map.. money is tight; I want the hind ... Bla bla. Shame SOW is pretty populated most the time. I bet eventually someone will start running regular channel ww2 stuff.. I hope.

I try to but jester imo sucks at it. It's verrry ironic you asked this.. I got two kills doing mostly the same stuff. 2 f18s one phoenix one aim9 the last killed me before my missile killed him. The next sortie I locked a friendly. Unlocked. There was a enemy near and I locked the friendly again unwittingly. This time jester didn't say anything. Friendly kill I didn't even get to type in 'sorry' and he had punished me and I got autobooted to spectators. I felt bad too.. This is why I keep asking HB for a jester IFF int command. Yeah. I'm not doing that BS. I already thought of doing that or using a CV group to go up extend launch and dive and run into the umbrella. If this was IRL it'd be totally different lol No balls no fun IMO. Especially when I'm playing PvE alone it's basically air quake. So many of my missions are 90% odds of death. I enjoy the raising tension as I rocket into the enemy territory and the threats stack. That said I also want a fighting chance. I gotta say the 2 kills I got in Growling Sidewinder were very close to my airfield not by choice but what are you gonna do if jesters yelling ,"it's game time" when you're still on the apron? I took off and engaged maybe ~ 30 miles from base. First kill was 1 of 4 aim54s rippled... I never got very high but was probably at my apex at 10k. Going defensive especially after the missiles went active got me to about 1-2k and totally disoriented frankly. I couldn't honestly tell you how much I moved laterally; I just know I had threats and missile beeps everywhere. I had a constant PAL lock (pretty sure) and it got a contact . I couldn't see it and another warning. Fire 2 and go defensive..got the diamond scrolling looking and it gets another. This one I can see. I get him at 12 level and fire 2 sidewinders. I get a missile warning and almost immediately killed by a amraam. One of the 2 aim9ms (or both) hit em though and he ate it too.

Ohh I see because the launch distance. I usually fire around 35-30 miles. 15 is close.. AMRAAMs range. I'm sure much more if the problem is I'm not spotting enemies when they're super far out (mostly me perhaps partially hardware) and im not some l33t ace. Maybe I should take my ass over to the cold war server. Lmao an A model there is probably king. Well.. somewhat. Ive flown MP solo F14 before; but muuuuch more as a RIO or a crew. I can't overstate how much it helps to have a GIB. Not just the extra eyes. The extra brain especially focussed on the radar RWR and able to focus on the ground stab is priceless. It really makes the F14 that much more deadly IMO. I was also pretty concerned about friendly fire. When flying with a squad even in a crew we had to be really careful of that. I ended up throwing caution to the wind and didn't hit anything anyways; I fired too far. 60 miles (I knew it was stupid..). 40 miles I hoped but should have known better. The last sortie I flew I took off from Gaudata and headed northeast. AWACs was manic calling contacts that it lost and at first I was like a leashed dog lunging this way and that. Eventually I tired of this and decided to go really low towards the enemy bases.. then I did a pop up and jester tells me enemy gorilla group. Not good! I look and yeah there's 8 contacts . High and hot. I'm low. I'm heading towards them and I suddenly got a spike from my 3 where there weren't supposed to be bandits. I got alarmed and went down. When I reappeared there seemed to be now 10+ bandits! Now they were about 40 to 60m.. I grew concerned by the unexpected spike and some AWACS calls behind me. I remembered the sortie before I had checked out a friendly f18 on TCS and then got the aim9x up my tailpipe. I rippled my phoenixes. Sparrows haven't worked for a damn against the AI so I've been taking 4 aim9ms.. After rippling the phoenixes I cranked for a couple minutes. All missiles missed. I started getting missile warnings and dodged at least 3 missiles; one VERY close over my cockpit that luckily didn't detonate then. Wildly thinking around; pulse racing I started doing PAL locks (or plm? The longer ranged one) and I got a couple locks up high. Nothing about friendlies from jester so 2 sidewinders . Nada :/. Tried it on another.. hopeful but nothing.. then as I fired the last two a f16 screamed past me at head on; trailed by a sidewinder it just fired that went into my face. Didn't kill me surprisingly; but the bird was on the way down. Jester got wounded -heard a couple voice lines I never heard before. The end. Lol Question - on the countermeasures thing for jester I genuinely do the fence in option with auto chaff. Then I also turn music on right at take off if totally alone and leave it. Thoughts?

What?? Really?? I thought TWS meant they got no warning just like how AMRAAMs don't give a launch warning until the missiles pitbull?? ∆∆

Normandy didn't have the best rep when it came out and the channel seemed a better map to get. However the only populated ww2 mp server seems to be SOW and it's always using Normandy... Any servers using Caucasus; Channel; Syria or Nevada? (For ww2)

So ACLS is used when you tell Jester to use carrier as a datalink or the RIO puts the carrier datalink into the datalink box and that's different than the channel you input on a knob in the front seat? Didn't know this. I thought it was all the same system just with use of AP landing being a choice.

Interested why you said lock in pulse? Wouldn't TWS be better? Yes the Aim9xs are a problem. As is SA. It seems without a wingman or RIO you really gotta be good to stand up to the newer airframes

Incomplete how? Is there a way to get a 'complete' version then?

But alone..? What about alone? Do people lean towards mach 1 at 40k ft or canyon running for pop up attacks? Going high and fast seems to really make one a target and against seem pretty potent modern airframes; and alone I'm starting to wonder if that's not the best strategy.

I just figured I'd discuss what's on my mind but also other tips would be good to pool knowledge. In other planes notably the Russian ones with good IRST I often would turn my radar off and use the IRST + AWACs to ambush hunt enemy planes. The F14s radar is famous but I wonder in a multiplayer environment if that radar may not be a little on the losing side as far as its age and using it draws attention to you in a big way. So then I started thinking how could one use the F14 alone well in multiplayer? Obviously the Phoenix's are a huge strength and to not take advantage would be dumb. However to get their best use you've got that blaring radar so to speak and I get my best bvr kills with it at height and speed to help the missile too.. With multicrew to divide the work and a good RIO I suppose you could use AWACs calls and datalink to try to pop out of places; turn on the radar launch and run; but alone that'd be a bit harder with jester. Not to mention the AWACs can be spotty especially in multiplayer - just yesterday I got a bogey dope for 45 miles away. As I was turning to try to find the contact I got a missile call and an aim9x up my tailpipe. Some f16 jock snuck in... Forgive my rambling stream of consciousness I'm just spitballing ideas

Sorry I couldn't really think of where else to ask people and since I'm using the F14.. I've gotten SRS to work numerous times. On growling sidewinder I connect.. I see there's other clients. With the overlay I could even see there were 4 others on the red team AWACs channel. I could hear the mike click but I couldn't hear anyone nor it seems could they hear me? Is it my SRS is outdated? I admit it is but I figured if it 'saw' other users and connected I'd be fine? I also tuned to the 'common' channel (261.00) nada.

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