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Please turn labels back off. They take a lot of the fun away.
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I last played DCS two weeks ago, went on vacation for christmas, and came back home to the "The Activation Key is not valid any more due to significant changes of the computer hardware" message. I clicked activate and it said it activated successfully, but then that window wouldn't close, proceed or launch DCS and I had to restart my computer to get control back. Now when I start DCS I get the "Unable to run the application due to integrity fault of the activation key" error. This is ridiculous.
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I still hope we see a Mig-23 or Su-22 enter development soon. As I've pointed out elsewhere, every single DCS aircraft out of ~20 currently in development is western/NATO.
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Mig-23 gets my vote as well. With their Mig expertise and swing-wing experience, they'd be perfect. After that, maybe an F-4...
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We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
If I had to guess he meant nondevelopers -
We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
We're not asking questions, we're expressing our desire for a product. I can only speculate on ED's business model but most companies that produce a consumer product (like video games) spend a lot of time doing market research and value community feedback, and recognize and respond to customer demand, because it helps them produce a more salable product and make more money. -
We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Well, I hope you're wrong, because that sounds like the absolute worst possible way to run a business. -
We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Did Mikoyan license the Mig-21? If so why wouldn't they approve a Mig-29? Or 27 or 23? At this point they're all obsolete aircraft. Did leatherneck receive any info from Mikoyan to make the Mig-21? I thought the whole reason it exists was because they had a open-source info in the form of an active duty mig pilot on staff. The Mig-29A's in the same position as the Mig-21bis, being an obsolete fighter long out of service with its home country, and even a lot of primary or secondary export countries. There's only about ten years between them. -
We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
Considering ED has indicated they would like to do a full-fidelity Su-27 eventually and the Mig-29 PFM is coming (after the Spitfire and F-18 ), it's more a question of priorities than technical ability. The only way to influence those priorities are if the community keeps clamoring for what they want. DCS devs do listen to the community (example: RAZBAM and the Pucara). I'm not saying drop the F-18 and the F-14 and do migs now, but they should be next in line. -
We desperately need more eastern bloc aircraft
desdinova replied to desdinova's topic in DCS Core Wish List
All of these aircraft (including the Mig-29 models we have in the game) are no longer in active Russian service, in some cases (Mig-23, Su-17) for decades. They were also all heavily exported in various configurations and information is widely available. The Mig-29G flight manual is available in english in thirty seconds on google. -
Of the ~20 DCS aircraft currently in development, all are Western. Every single one. There are no less than six western fourth gen. fighters (F/A-18, Typhoon, F-14A/B, M2000C, F-15E, AV-8B) in various stages of development, and possibly a seventh (Polychop Tornado), not to mention the third gen Viggen, Mirage F-1, and Mirage III. REDFOR's only full-fidelity fixed-wing options are the third gen. Mig-21Bis, first gen. Mig-15, and the L-39, a trainer with marginal combat capability. Right now the heart and soul of DCS gameplay is PvP multiplayer because of the lack of a single player or coop dynamic campaign. But the numbers have always skewed towards BLUFOR, and it's only going to get worse as high fidelity, heavily-hyped aircraft like the F-14 enter the scene. In a couple years, we'll be looking at an environment where we have a glut of relatively recent western aircraft and no one to fly them against. This will quickly become boring. DCS needs more full-fidelity Russian aircraft, especially: Mig-29 (we're already halfway there!) Mig-23 (historical rival to the F-14 and a huge part of basically all post-Vietnam air conflicts) Su-17/20/22 (supersonic 3rd gen. strike aircraft to complement the Viggen and Mirage F1) Aircraft like these would add tremendously to the DCS experience. Considering the success of the Mig-21, they'd probably also sell very well.
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IIRC LN stated at one point that the Mig-21bis and Mig-23ML(?) share something like 70% of systems modelling code. We already have a 70's Mig-21, if we had to get another one I'd rather see an early model for DCS: Vietnam purposes. The heart and soul of DCS to me is the multiplayer, and the most fun are servers like Mig-15 vs Sabre or Mig-21 vs F-5. If I was named emperor of DCS I'd focus on releasing roughly similar east vs. west pairs to keep the multiplayer fun and balanced, for example: Mig-19 vs F-100 Mig-23 vs F-4E Su-17/20/22 vs Viggen Ditto Mig-27 Clickable/advanced systems Mig-29 as a counterpoint to the M2000C Mig-25 by itself would be a fascinating addition, if I had to pick a western pair maybe the F-104G But the Su-17, Mig-23, Mig-25 and F-4E are at the top of my wishlist. With those we could wargame basically every air war from 1965 onward, from the arab-israeli wars to the gulf war.
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Every single DCS aircraft currently in progress is western. What we really need are more full-fidelity soviet aircraft, like the MIG-23.
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I was trying to be diplomatic, the implementation has some really serious issues. But if I have to pick a side I'd rather be able to see targets at 40km vs. not being able to see anything at 5km, because one is basically unplayable. And aside from the extreme range, there's nothing unrealistic about that scenario. In all forms of combat the side that can achieve surprise has a decisive advantage. Also, that's a bit of an exaggeration, because seeing a dot on the horizon doesn't give you speed, range, altitude, aspect, or identity of the target. In the F-5 vs Mig-21 grudge match where you only have two main groups of combatants who know generally where to look, yeah, you can tell pretty quickly where the enemy is, but that's a product of the scenario. In a 40-player server like blue flag that dot could be anything. That's what radar and IFF is for.
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AFAIK the server settings override client-side for impostors now
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Basically, the human eye can spot aircraft a lot better in real life than on a relatively tiny, 2d screen. Because of the way DCS renders objects, if a vehicle or aircraft would be less than a pixel wide, it's invisible. Because the resolution of a monitor is tiny compared to actual vision, this makes it unrealistically difficult to see anything. The problem is especially bad in VR because of the lower resolution, which is kind of like flying a plane while nearsighted and without any glasses on. Impostors are a compromise solution where a tiny, several pixel-wide sprite is drawn over the object's position to make it easier to see. Basically every flight sim uses them, but DCS didn't until relatively recently. They're a topic of controversy because the way DCS implements them isn't perfect, but also because they make a huge part of the game easier and a lot of people equate difficulty with realism.
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I'm in the impostors are realistic and necessary camp, but regardless of the state of the spotting system in DCS, I don't think it's unrealistic that a plane with a tiny frontal radar cross section could be spotted visually before being picked up on a 60's targeting radar designed to intercept bombers. But the truth is if you want to avoid detection visually or otherwise you have to show more tactical imagination than flying in a loose line straight towards the enemy base at angels 7
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I wanted to see the F-5s pull one out but it wasn't to be. The shortcomings of the AIM-9P didn't help but the teamwork and tactics of the red team were the decisive factor. They showed a lot more cunning and exploited the advantages of the Mig-21 to stay one step ahead at all times. Keep the teams the same and swap aircraft and I bet you'd see the same result.
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So, I was disappointed to find multiplayer basically unplayable with my current specs. I was excited to try Blue Flag only to find my FPS dropping to 4 and then my computer basically freezing for 5-15 seconds whenever an enemy aircraft came near. I gave up after being shot down a couple times with no way to defend myself. I replayed the multiplayer track while watching resmon.exe and found that my physical memory usage was shooting from 50% to 98% when an enemy F-15 came into guns range, and disk activity (mostly swap file but also just loading normal assets) was also killing my FPS, despite DCS being installed on an SSD. Here's my current specs: Intel i7 920 ASUS P6X58D-Premium 8GB DDR3-1600 GTX 650 Ti Boost SSDs What do I need to be able to play this in multiplayer? I already ordered 8 more gigs of memory, since DDR3 is dirt cheap. I'm not sure if my CPU or memory speed is part of the problem. I'm not currently overclocking but the chip and board are capable of it. I'm satisfied with my GPU performance, in single player I get about 60 fps with low(ish) settings.
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I booted up DCS after not playing for a year or so and decided to jump back in with the Huey. I'm experiencing a weird problem when I fly any instant action scenario that starts in mid-flight. Immediately after clicking fly the helicopter kicks to the right and I lose engine and rotor RPM. Without me making any control inputs. About half the time mast bumping follows immediately and I die. About thirty percent of the time this kills the engine but I'm able to enter autorotation. About twenty percent of the time I can recover. This never happened before updating DCS to the most recent version. I don't remember what version I was on before.