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TOP GUN - January 19th and 26th, 2019 Brought to you by 51st PVO, in conjunction with TAW and 104th Phoenix POWERED BY HEATBLUR WHO CAN SIGN UP This event is open to anyone; squadrons, lonewolves, noobs and pros. If you want to get in on the action, sign on up! SCHEDULE The schedule for matches, including times, will be finalized once signups have closed and can be found at The Merge website. All matches are currently set to take place on January 19th and 26th 2019. To check what Zulu time is for you, see here. WHAT IS TOP GUN The 51st PVO Regiment, in conjunction with TAW and the 104th Phoenix are proud to announce TOP GUN! TOP GUN is an event dedicated to the merge and BFM fighting. If you want hot close in DCS action TOP GUN is the event for you. PRIZES 1v1 Chamipion - 1x Heatblur Module 2v2 Chamipion - 2x Heatblur Module 4v4 Chamipion - 4x Heatblur Module TIMETABLE AND INITIALS - December 3rd, 2018 - TOP GUN signups open for 1v1, 2v2, and 4v4 brackets. - December 31st, 2018 - TOP GUN signups close for all brackets. - Brackets will depend on the number of teams at signup. - Only certain matches will be streamed, but all matches will be track-able on The Merge and ED forum thread. - Future DCS modules will be included in the tournament automatically. - January 19th, 2019 - 1v1 entry rounds take place. - January 26th, 2019 - 1v1 quarterfinals/semifinals take place as well as the full 2v2 and 4v4 brackets. RULES 1V1* - 1v1 matches consist of 1 pilot per team attempting to eliminate their opponent. - Starts will be air start. - Starting distance will be 50km from each other head-on at 10000ft 400kts. - Fuel dumping is allowed. - Weapons hold until after the first pass. Definition of merge: when EITHER fighter passes the other fighter's 3/9 line and the fighters are within 1 nm from each other (within weapons range). - Combatants must fly towards each other before merge. Maximum nose deviation from the opponent must be kept within 70 degrees until the first pass/merge. - Within these parameters maneuvering before the merge is FREE - for example, steep dives to the ground are allowed to force the merge lower. - Extending away from the fight for the purpose of resetting to a new merge, or to attempt to reacquire a lost tally, is allowed. However, extending purely to drag out the fight and play fuel games is highly discouraged and such passive tactics may up in disqualification, this will ultimately be decided by the referee and/or review from the Tacview file. - If there is significant damage to your jet, fully passive and defensive tactics are OK. - After eliminating your opponent, the combatant must land at the designated airfield inside the bubble. - There is a bubble that will simulate an arena. This bubble is 66km across. - If you come within 16km of bubble edge you will receive a warning that you are leaving the bubble. - If you exit the bubble completely you will self-destruct. RULES 2V2 AND 4V4* - 2v2 and 4v4 matches consist of 2-4 pilots per team attempting to eliminate their opponents. - Starts will be air start. - Starting distance will be 50km from each other head-on at 10000ft 400kts. - Fuel dumping is allowed. - Weapons are free and maneuvering is unrestricted from the very start of the round. There are no tactical limitations to what each team does. Everything is allowed. - If the situation deteriorates to 1v1, with no damage to either fighter, passive tactics are discouraged similarly to the 1v1 rounds. Fight like a man, don't run away! - If the situation is 1v2, or 1v1 and there is significant damage to your jet, fully passive and defensive tactics are OK. - After eliminating your opponent, the combatant must land at the designated airfield inside the bubble. - There is a bubble that will simulate an arena. This bubble is 66km across. - If you come within 16km of bubble edge you will receive a warning that you are leaving the bubble. - If you exit the bubble completely you will self-destruct. WEAPONS/FUEL/AVAILABLE AIRCRAFT 1V1* - All aircraft will start with full internal gun and no other weapons. - Fuel for each aircraft has been calculated based on time maintaining max AoA sustained turns at low altitude. These fuel loads will allow all aircraft to stay gate for similar time frames. - F-15 75% - Su-27 50% - F-18 57% - Mirage 48% - Mig29A 100% - Su33 59% - F14 (TBD) WEAPONS/FUEL/AVAILABLE AIRCRAFT 2V2 AND 4V4* - Aircraft selection is permanent per class. You are allowed to change aircraft up until the official event start of January 19th. However, once the event has started you will be required to fly in the aircraft you first flew in per class. - You are allowed to fly in different aircraft per class. For example, you can fly the F15 for the 1v1 class and the Su27 for 2v2. - All aircraft will start with full internal gun, 60 flares, and 2 short range IR missiles. - The AIM 9X is banned. - Fuel for each aircraft has been calculated based on time maintaining max AoA sustained turns at low altitude. These fuel loads will allow all aircraft to state in gate for similar time frames. - F-15 75% - Su-27 50% - F-18 57% - Mirage 48% - Mig29A 100% - Su33 59% - F14 (TBD) SERVER MISSION & WEATHER* - 51st Bisons server and TAW servers will be used. We will try to accommodate for ping issues, however it is not garunteed. - Map is Persian Gulf. - Ping limit of 250 will be strictly enforced. - Arena location is North West of Dubai along the coast line. - Weather will be clear. *Note: Tournament rules, weapons and missions are subject to change REGISTRATION Only one member of a team needs to sign them up. Please use the below example and template to model your signup posts. Please remember that if you signup and do NOT show up for your designated match time you will be barred from future competitions and events. It is crucial for both the event and to the viewers that you show up for your matches at the designated times and dates. The schedule will be available well in advance for competitors to make preparations for needed time. Example 1v1: Event: 1v1 Squadron Name: 51st PVO Teamspeak/Discord: 96.43.128.170 Contact person: <51>Moltar Aircraft Selection. Su-27 Pilots: USA - <51>Moltar Example 2v2: Event: 2v2 Squadron Name: 51st PVO and 104th Phoenix Teamspeak/Discord: 96.43.128.170 Contact person: <51>Moltar Aircraft Selection. 2x Su-27 Pilots: USA - <51>Moltar and FINLAND - 104th_Stuge Example 4v4: Event: 4v4 Squadron Name: 51st PVO and 104th Phoenix Teamspeak/Discord: 96.43.128.170 Contact person: <51>Moltar Aircraft Selection. 3x Su-27 and 1x F-15 Pilots: USA - <51>Moltar and USA - <51>YAGA FINLAND - 104th_Stuge USA - 104th_Fallen

Issue is still present after the update today.

I was running your mod for PG textures and removed it. Still same issue. Its something with the graphics engine it seems. I have an open ticket with ED so hopefully we can figure it out. Seems to have started last patch or maybe the one before it.

Just tested again and I confirm that this is happening in every pit in every module no matter if cockpit mods are used or not. I have tried clearing shaders and FXO and no change.

Here is a video of the issue too that should help people see it. Watch especially when I look out the right side of my pit. You can see that the bottom half of the video has lighter water than the top and it moves with my head.

Trying to figure out what is causing this issue. I know I am not the only one that is having it as I have talk to a couple of the other guys I fly with and they are experiencing the same thing. I started to notice it after the last update. Example Screenshot It seems like its cutting my monitor in half and changing the brightness. I can also see, in other lighting, instead of it only being half my monitor will be broken in to 4 zones of different color. This only happen on PG over water and only happens in DCS. I have recalibrated my monitor, turned my GPU OC off, benchmarked my GPU, everything. It is NOT my PC or monitor. It is something to do with PG and DCS and I, for the life of my, cannot figure out what is causing it. Any ideas?

Today is the day! Its FINALS day for SATAL! The last stream of the year. We start here in 30 min with the 3rd place match between 104th and inSKY. The Finals will follow at 1800z between 51st Bisons and SF. Also, don't forget that Heatblur will be here after the finals match to talk about the Tomcat and giveaway a ton of swag including a T16000M hotas, Warthog throttle detents, Tomcat modules, Su33 and KA50 modules, Tacview Pro licenses, and Sky Knights Steam keys. Going to be an awesome time! See you in 30!

Thank you for all the input! Alot of those sounds were orphaned sounds that I had forgotten about, so thank you for highlighting them. As for the Mig21... Leatherneck has that thing butchered in the sound department. For whatever reason it is using the Su25 sounds instead of the Mig21 sounds that are in the DCS directory. I guess when I figured this out I removed the sounds I had, but forgot to remove the folders. While Jafa's sounds are awesome, they overlap with the jet sounds which is why they are not included. I wanted to intiially, but due to conflicts with other modules it just didn't work. Do you have a link to the Spitfire's gun mod?

Squadron Air to Air League 2018 - Runners-Up, Finals, Heatblur Interview and Giveaways October 27th @ 1500z and 1800z The time has come when SATAL must wrap for this season. The Finals are upon us and the culmination of a fantastic year is coming quickly. Since this is going to be the last stream of the season it goes with out saying that we need to go out with a bang. To make that happen we have Heatblur joining us to co-commentate, provide an interview about the upcoming Tomcat, and giveaway a Tomcat module for DCS World to a lucky viewer. To go along with the Heatblur festivities, we also have several other giveaways to send out that include Sky Knights game keys, Thrustmaster Warthog push-through detents, a DCS World Su-33 and KA-50 module, and a Thrustmaster T16000M Hotas. The Stream will be taking place on the DCSWorldEvents Twitch channel. All of this will be taking place during the SATAL Finals stream that will be taking place on October 27th starting with the Runners-up match, 104th vs inSKY, at 1500z and the Finals match, 51st Bisons vs SF, at 1800z. Both of these matches pit some of the, if not THE, best squadrons in DCS World and should be very exciting to watch. Mark your calendars and tell your wife you're single for the weekend. Also, be sure to follow the DCSWorldEvents channel to enable alerts to make sure you don't miss the action. SATAL 2018 Twitch If you are unfamiliar with SATAL you can get all of the needed information, rules, stats, and past schedules from the sites below. If you have never watched a SATAL match before I highly suggest you give this weekend a shot. It is very exciting and some of the best DCS action you will ever see. Every matchup seems to outdue the last in excitement, skill, and immersion. It has been a wild ride and Im already looking forward to next year and the new things to come. SATAL Rules and Information SATAL Schedule and Stats SATAL Past Broadcasts If you are thinking about joining the SATAL 2019 season, make sure you're on the lookout for information and signups that should be coming around the Christmas holiday season. The most exciting proposed change will be the possible inclusion of an amateur league that will provide a more accessible competitive experience for new emerging and/or squadrons. The new league will follow a very similar format to the premiership, but will feature 4v4 instead of the current 6v6 to again make the league more accessible for teams just entering the competitive scene in DCS World. Again, if you are looking to compete in the Premiership or the proposed Amateur league make sure to be on the lookout for news and signups that will be coming in the near future. Also, be on the lookout for a brand new guns event that will be announced shortly after the completion of the SATAL 2018 season. To wrap this up, I never thought SATAL would be this popular or have this much of a following, but it has been quite the experience and I and the rest of the 51st Bisons team are so very happy that we got to experience it all with the DCS World Community. A special thank you to all of our sponsors and contributors! Dart/LotATC for allowing SATAL teams to use licenses for LotATC to give SATAL the best most realistic experience possible. Tacview for its continuous help in helping me improve the quality of the Tacview segment on stream as well as the contributions of licenses to the prize pool and the awesome software that allows us to brief and debrief from flights with ease. Finally, Heatblur for its generous contributions of prizes (500 euros) and modules (12 Tomcat modules), mentorship, and continued commitment to making this possible. Without them this whole event would not be possible. Heatblur has shown their continued commitment to both the event and the community and that is something rarely seen and it has been a real pleasure to be able to work with them. If you were not mentioned in this list do not fret. There are many that helped make this possible and I personally would like to extend a very heartfelt thank you to each and everyone of you. I hope that next year we will be able to all come together again to make SATAL even better than before.

Happy to announce that the mod pack now includes ECHO19's FA-18 Hornet Sound Mod that was released today by I_Gamer! New version of the my Moltar's Mod - Sound will be 1.6.0, can be downloaded directly or through OvGME and will include ECHO19's I_Gamer's awesome mod.

Is this an issue that you are getting in OVGME itself or when you try to go to the download links on the website?

They should be installed in the DCS main folder. However. I would highly suggest you download OVGME to handle mod installs as it will allow you to install and uninstall the mods without overwriting files. A link to it should be in the OP.

SATAL back in action tomorrow at 1500z and 1800z. All matches will take place using Sochi vs Senaki with Clear weather.

SATAL is back in action tomorrow morning at 1500zwith a second match at 1800z! We are in the end game now and tomorrow is the start of the end of the year tournament so if a team loses that's the end of the story for them until next years league. For those that don't know, SATAL is a squadron league that pits the very best pilots in DCS World against one another. This league has run from February to October with 1 match a week. This weekends matchups CNF vs RvE at 1500z and 36th Stormo vs 104th Phoenix at 1800z. If this is not something you have watched before I would highly recommend you check it out. If you want to see rules and what SATAL is, take a look at the ED forums thread. If you want to see stats for individuals and teams as well as schedules for past and upcoming matches check out Splash One Gaming's The Merge. ED Forums Splash One Gaming's The Merge This weekends, as well as all past and future streams, will be taking place on both Twitch. There will also be a live Tacview that you will be able to view on the DCSWorldEvents sister stream, DCSWorldEvents2. Twitch

Here is the RWR mod that is being used in the pack. I just checked the latest version and I am not getting this issue. How long has it been since you updated my mod pack?

All start times are in Zulu time.

You only responded or read part of what I said. I said that you could see airliners that high, but they are much much larger than fighters and are painted white or other high contrast colors that do not try and hide them for camo purposes. I even admit that I can see airliners at 30k feet, but and airliner is very different to a jet fighter.

I agree with you completely! Something along the lines of 4-5nm to reliably spot an aircraft sounds completely reasonable. Maybe ED needs to implement something along the lines of sun glint off aircraft or something that makes spotting a bit easier. There are plenty of accounts during Vietnam that that was used to spot Migs. The spotting distances and the dots that were created were a blemish to me in my DCS flying experience. These people saying that you should be able to see a fighter from 10 miles is crazy. That is 65k feet. I get that you can see jet airliners flying at 30-40 feet if you follow their contrails to their position, but they are much much larger than a fighter sized object and are painted in hi contrast colors like white that make them stand out against the sky and you most likely used a contrail to determine their position. Good luck scanning the entire sky and finding them reliably. 65k foot spotting is like saying that you would be able to see a fighter sized object from one side of the English Channel to the other. I really think people forget how far these distances are. This is not me saying that it should be invisible, but that the aircraft would be next to impossible to spot unless you knew exactly where to look and even then it would be so small that it would be very hard to see. On top of that camo is designed to make it even harder to spot. One thing I would like changed however is the pop-in of the contrails. Is it possible to maybe make an options slider that allows us to change how far the contrails are rendered. Contrails, in contrast with actual aircraft are easily visible from very very far away. EDit: NineLine, Ive uploaded some pictures of what I see at 3840x1600. I agree with others that planes are hard to spot and should be addressed and slightly increased. Its really hard to see a full sized F15 at 2km without zooming in. However, I do NOT want this to become something where we can reliably spot from 10nm or greater. That just becomes fake and does not help with immersion. Yes it makes flying and dog fighting easier, but it becomes a handicap. Hopefully these images help you out. Moltar's Spotting Distance Test at 3840x1600 Zoomed and Not Zoomed

Should be fixed. Webserver for the website that I host the files on went down after a Windows update.

Schedule is up on The Merge for the tournament.

Heatblur will be on tomorrow to both update us on the Tomcat and to give a module away to a viewer. This module can be any module that Heatblur offers including the Tomcat. The giveaway will be taking place tomorrow, September 8th following the SATAL match between TAW and CNF at 1300z. If you are unfamiliar with Zulu time click here to see what time it is locally. The giveaway will use the following format. Participants will be notified of a keyword needed to enter the giveaway at some point during the live broadcast. This could happen at any time. You MUST have this keyword in order to enter. For those that don't know, SATAL is a squadron league that pits the very best pilots in DCS World against one another. This league has run from February to October with 1 match a week. This weekends matchup is between TAW and CNF. If this is not something you have watched before I would highly recommend you check it out. If you want to see rules and what SATAL is, take a look at the ED forums thread. If you want to see stats for individuals and teams as well as schedules for past and upcoming matches check out Splash One Gaming's The Merge. ED Forums Splash One Gaming's The Merge This weekends, as well as all past and future streams, will be taking place on both Twitch. There will also be a live Tacview that you will be able to view on the DCSWorldEvents sister stream, DCSWorldEvents2. Twitch Main Twitch Tacview

As the title says, Heatblur will be on tomorrow to both update us on the Tomcat and to give a module away to a viewer. This module can be any module that Heatblur offers including the Tomcat. The giveaway will be taking place tomorrow, September 8th following the SATAL match between TAW and CNF at 1300z. If you are unfamiliar with Zulu time click here to see what time it is locally. The giveaway will use the following format. Participants will be notified of a keyword needed to enter the giveaway at some point during the live broadcast. This could happen at any time. You MUST have this keyword in order to enter. For those that don't know, SATAL is a squadron league that pits the very best pilots in DCS World against one another. This league has run from February to October with 1 match a week. This weekends matchup is between TAW and CNF. If this is not something you have watched before I would highly recommend you check it out. If you want to see rules and what SATAL is, take a look at the ED forums thread. If you want to see stats for individuals and teams as well as schedules for past and upcoming matches check out Splash One Gaming's The Merge. ED Forums Splash One Gaming's The Merge This weekends, as well as all past and future streams, will be taking place on both Twitch. There will also be a live Tacview that you will be able to view on the DCSWorldEvents sister stream, DCSWorldEvents2. Twitch Main Twitch Tacview

Looks like the latest hotfix solves the issue of the modified terrain textures getting blasted by IC even when the setting for pure textures was off.

Indeed it does. Just kind of a hassle having to restart if you leave a server for any reason.

While the textures work in the 104th server, when I leave I am getting a red IC shield with it complaining about the caucuses terrain files. I dont get kicked from the server. Only getting the IC error after leaving.