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DCS: Hawk Merry Xmas all

Just rummaging around Saitek's official blog and noticed this picture of their 'testing bench' from August this year. See the throttle unit on the far right? Looks as if a 65F and Warthog units had a baby...anyone able to shed more light on that?

Supposedly to be called 'the Rhino' (you can see a little Rhino head in the logo). It's a tusk-based naming war, maybe the next challenger will be the 'Walrus'. I suspect we'll be getting the 65F's throttle unit or something similar. Will be attractive for the prop heads who like a few rotaries.

It's like I was never away from the bar debate.

Racing? Ground combat with the crunchies? Bah, I try do what a real airman would do; straighten out his flight suit, slick back his hair and try to find the nearest farmhouse with a symapthetic owner, a surfeit of attractive but lonely daughters and a shortage of American chocolate and haystacks :devil_2:

You could swap over the 97's for 105s and stay high.

Do you own an iPad? Apps such a iControl are brilliant, giving you touchscreen CDU UFC and MFD complete with OSBs.

Pedantically speaking (1) is inaccurate. That sound is of the supersonic shockwave generated by the rounds passing the observer. The bullets are only ever slowing down once they exit the barrel and are therefore any initial "boom" as they "go supersonic" in the barrel merely forms part of the noise generated by the action of the gun. :smartass:

F22 from this mob is HIGHLY unlikely as DCS prefer to work on unclassified official sources. It'll be the LOMAC favourite F-15C unless the guys bite the bullet and simulate crewmen and give us the Mudhen (which I doubt). If it is the 15C then I guess the money would be on an OPFOR fighter to be next, Su-35?

That SFX could only be better if pressing the trigger also played a wavfile of Ricardo Montalban saying "from hell's heart I stab at thee" :thumbup:

I've leaked this thread's URL to Julian Assange.

Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to post this info in such a clear and concise form.

Open the mission in the mission editor rather than using the Mission Planner within the campaign. Then you'll be able to change between runway, taxiway and ramp.

The implementation of blast effect of weapons is one of the more problematic issues in BS IMHO

Are you running RC1 with an admin account? Have you checked that the BS folder is not write-protected?

But on the flipside there are 100's of buildings and static objects strewn across the map that can be locked up at any time, they're not invested with AI. If optimising the engine was the reason then why leave that in?

Multiplayer Datalink FTW!

Check the support forums, you'll see a few threads here and there about random kb dropout. I get it, especially when I respawn in multiplayer. Usually (but not always) alt-tabbing "wakes" it up.

I have this, in multiplayer only. Win7, X52, Dell USB kb, TrackIR. It will work for the first spawn but when I try to respawn in the same slot BS ceases to recognise the keystrokes. BUT Windows still does, I can get back to desktop with Ctrl-Esc etc...then tried yanking USB cables and restarting joystick software with no luck. Only seems to happen in multi and only after I respawn.

Wow, +rep inbound. Exactly what I need. Best combined with RCN_Moose's skinning install tutorial available at LockonFiles.

Played it online the other night, very good. but no RAT BASTARD ever bothers to properly set up their datalinks!! arrrghh

Does it accept Google Mars data? :ufo:

This is merely part of a wider issue with area effect weapons, hopefully will be addressed in 1.01

If you're having "jerky" zoom syndrome, I suggest unbinding all other zoom controls in options. Works for me.

Hi guys, I used to do a bit of skinning for IL2 and having gotten into BS I'd like to do a little skinning. My question is can I use the included Modelviewer.exe as a skin previewer and if so how? I've had a little muck round, a bit of a google and haven't been able to work it out myself. Considering the loadtime and resource-useage, it's just not feasible to alt-tab between BS and a seriously large Photoshop scratchfile simultaneously (as I did with IL2) without things getting flakey on me. Cheers in advance.