Mogster

ED have repeatedly cited real world politics as the reason for not including tge often requested China Sea map. It seems humans have been fighting over Crimea since the start of recorded history. The current conflict is just a continuation.

In nearly all DCS missions currently the weather is hardly a factor. It’s nearly always noon, broken clouds, no wind… Weather is hugely important in real world civilian and combat aviation and it needs to be better represented in DCS. Having real world dynamic historical weather available would mean mission designers could still choose the conditions they wanted.

Is that for the production La-5FN or some factory test aircraft though? Russia had frequent quality control problems. Serial production aircraft were often poorer performing than factory prototypes. Untreated wooden construction meant aircraft would deteriorate quickly in squadron use. It’s part of the reason front line pilots liked the P39 so much. Some discussion here. https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/la-5-la-5f-la-5fn-la-7-la-7b-20.53351/

Are the panels part of the damage model? Could hits or object contact remove them exposing the internals? Unless that’s the case I don’t really understand why they’d model so much of the internal structure.

For DCS that’s a vast map area. Approx 1000x2000mi There is lots of ocean though and no major cities. I have doubts about performance over the PNG mountain jungle though. Lots of trees…

It’s a fascinating aircraft, it would be great to have an original Devastator in a museum. Hendon has a Fairey Battle, Pensacola should have a Devastator but they were all used up. From a sim point of view it seems there’s very little to go on. No accessible good condition original airframes, very few interior photos from in service examples.

Good luck with the Devastator. Unless you count the known airframes 2 miles down under the Coral Sea the things are pretty much extinct.

The G-91 was announced by the dev’s themselves a year ago?

I wonder if we’ll get the JP233 sub munition dispenser with the Tornado? Would be almost rude not to…

Matt W did say ED are working on a “secret helicopter” in his ACS podcast interview a few months ago. If the 3rd party projects are being revealed then will the ED projects be also?

Yes I did notice his involvement. As you say I assume ED will continue reviewing these projects before commercial 3rd party release as happens currently.

Yes. I think it’s better to be honest and if development is at a very early stage then that should be made clear. It seems that most of the 3rd party efforts are part time projects between a few people and completion can take several years. There seems to have been a move towards only announcing projects that are reasonably close to release so that has raised expectations. If this policy has now changed again then the community needs to be aware to manage expectations if nothing else.

The “tumbleweed” regarding DCS WW2 content is quite noticeable. It’s been a year since the EA launch of the Mosquito. I expected at least a WW2 announcement from ED to keep the ball rolling.

Yes. NP suggest not using hub ports (as most hardware vendors tend to do) but it’s always worked fine for me. YMMV.

Moar maps??? Razbam are working on a Tucano. However from Razbam Ron’s ACS podcast I got the impression it’s part of a private contract and that has caused problems.

I thought too many of the AH-6 systems were classified to make a credible DCS module.

No, in the podcast he refers to it as the “secret helicopter”… I’d imagine its some flavour of AH-1

Matt W did say on his last ACS podcast that ED are working on another helicopter.

Jeez it’s a new content waterfall... A weekly newsletter without a new map and flyable aircraft announcement is going to feel like a serious disappointment

Maybe this is obvious but it’s worth being aware of the heat output of these current high end GPU and CPUs. I went from an I7 and 1080 to an I9 and 3080 and the heat output change is very noticeable, these components generate a prodigious amount of heat, your PC will become a fan heater. If your gaming rig is in a small room then unless it’s the depths of winter your going to have to make additional arrangements, extra ventilation, you may be even looking ar AC. You won’t need to worry about heating lol, not at all…

Everyone had the Ka 50 back in the day, there was nothing else.

Interesting. I hadn’t occurred to me that multithreading would be DCS V3.

Razbam have been saying the same thing. Less variants in future.

Discord is a piece of trash. The interface looks like it’s been designed by a pre teenage child with ADD. First it was Facebook, now Discord. Why can’t the dev’s just post regular updates in the forum…