Mars Exulte

I ordered one, just before the price dipped to $400. Mine's already here (shipped next day), but FedEx are being idiots, failed (or infamously never tried) to deliver, and now it's floating out in the void in some non-specific FedEx facility.

This just in... I'm being told video games make concessions for playability due to not being real life, more tonight at five. Shocking! Next up, really clean glass kills more pigeons annually than cats and what YOU can do to change this.

Guys, we've been over this. ED is based in Russia and the government there banned months that start with D from being exported. You'll never see December with current West/East tensions. Even winter is unlikely, the best you can really expect someday is March.

There are already games that do that, are focused on it, and do it better. I really don't get the mentality of everything needing to be identical. If you want simplified WWII planes, there's literally a myriad of choices going back decades. DCS does one thing that's actually unique, and it's what 95% of the population are here for. All of this marketing nonsense and ''think of the moneies11!!1!!'' is pointless. If they really wanted to focus on money they'd get out of flight sims altogether and go do something actually profitable.

These wheezing grognards worrying about trivia like this is always amusing. ''Muhhhh vidya game''

That's an often neglected aspect of testing, especially in the FM debates around here. Real life test results are not produced off a single experiment. If it's done less than 3 times, it's irrelevant, as you can't even generate the necessary statistics that way. The more times the test is performed, the more accurate the results become as they will tend to cumulatively smooth over individual inconsistencies. And that this process must be repeated every time a variable changes. Most people run out, perform a routine that confirms their opinion, and then call it a day.

This is 100% down to the individual, their controls, and how well they configured those controls. ''Real pilots'' you see taking off are properly trained, follow ideal procedure, and have optimised controls for the task. Many DCS pilot have none of that.

Based on my experience a few years back when I was buying a gaming laptop, Alienware is one of the worst value for money providers on the market.

Sounds like Il-2 to me.

Yes. By a LOT. You should basolutely consider an ssd a requirement for DCS. You don't need a NVMe though, you won't see much difference in load times (speaking from experience), just a SATA SSD. Depending on how many modules you've got and if you buy multiple maps, I'd suggest a dedicated 1TB drive for DCS. My 500gb one is very nearly full

Absolutely nothing. That's one of the most common rackets, in fact. Start new crypto, set a few million aside for yourself, publicise it and hope enough people buy it that it accumulates appreciable value (fractions of a cent is acceptable if you have several million/billion squirreled away), sell (crashing the market and rendering it worthless), and repeat. You mention how many there ARE, but there have been more Like... BitConneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect

It's not unaddressed now.

Hmmm. I've never used route mode, but I used to fight the autopilot all the time before I realised it was the autopilot and why it was doing it. I fly with pitch and roll, but never heading ever since and quit having the problem. I only activate the ones I want. Perhaps I missed something, then. As for the MBTs, yeah, hovering inside 4k is asking for a sabot, ATGM even further. Not a good idea.

It's well known ED have their own SMEs if people would stop bashing their face on the keyboard long enough to read anything about the very topic they're so passionate about, but then they'd have to come down from their fever dreams set to the Dangerzone soundtrack and accept it's not the jet's fault they get pwnd LOL

Or people could read the whole discussion before jumping on the bandwagon and accept that maybe things are being taken somewhat out of context with unrealistic expectations. Literally... every... single... fm thread ends up degenerating into a horde of armchair experts lamenting how it doesn't match their expectations because they're 1337 pilots and EVERYBODY KNOWS trivia. The whole mess tends to reek of crusty cheetos, flat mountain dew, and excess time.

Distinction noted, sorry. I've never used either, and thought it was variations of the same thing.

That does not exist. Everything is controlled or influenced by people. The whole crypto thing was an unrealistic pipedream and is doomed to either eventual irrelevance when the bubble bursts and everybody recognises it was just an avenue for scams OR it gets joined into the fold of regulations with everything else. The most likely outcome is a combination of the two. It will collapse into near irrelevance, but enough idiots will keep buying tulips that it will occasionally surge into public consciousness on the wave of the latest scam. Edgelords like Elon Musk having so much control over it really highlights that it is no different than any other commodity and people pretending otherwise are delusional.

Short version, a lot of the issues people have with the Ka-50 is not using the autopilot properly and creating their own issues. You do not casually fly around with all three ap channels engaged. When you trim, if you do, the whole idea is the helicopter always tries to bring you back to the heading, pitch, and altitude of YOUR LAST TRIM. Ever notice how when you're turning it goes real easy one direction and not the other, when logically, it should turn equally well either direction? THAT'S the heading channel. It's trying to bring you back one direction and using its full authority to fight you going the wrong way. Only use the channels you ACTUALLY DESIRE at that moment. If you're just following waypoints, yes, that may be all three + fd. But if you're cruising around, in combat, etc, you probably don't care about ''your last trim point''. As soon as I see somebody mention flying around ''with all three channels'' that's a big red flag they do not understand what they actually do. As for reseting trim, there's rarely ever a time you should need to do that (on the ground, maybe?). You just... retrim. There is zero need, pretty much EVER, to ''reset'' trim in flight.

I dunno what to say to that except the overwhelming majority of simmers are not using the FFB, so if the box is not checked in the game options, then they shouldn't be doing any wonky stuff to ''emulate'' it. I'll recheck the options when I get home, I have recently had a ghost altering settings, presumably after a patch, but I haven't thought to check that one specifically.

Mmm, I dunno. Like I said, it felt like a deadzone to me. I have a really long stick extension, so I can be very precise. In the very center, to me it feels like it doesn't do anything until I deflect ''more than usual''. I countered it with a -10 curve, which made it responsive to even very small movements in the center, but it has aggravated handling once you get farther out. Part of what's making maneuvering in the sweet spot hard for me is I'm only using a very, very small portion of my total range of motion in comparison to when I was flying the F-18 recently. It's like with the Viper, I'm flying with my fingertips for 9g turns and aggressive maneuvers. I dunno. I've only got a few hours messing with it, so I'm still adjusting settings and learning its characteristics. I know the drama about it is overblown, but it definitely has some things that feel wonky to me, but they're on the game UI side of things, not the modeling itself. -edit To clarify, I had more issue with how roll responded than pitch, but they both felt like they had a deadzone, just roll was worse.

Can confirm, it only took a few minutes of testing before I noticed I can pull permanent 8.5-9g turns if I'm in the sweet spot. Approximately 450-500kts. Thing is it requires a bit of maintenance, it seems to either want to keep building speed (in which case you're doing 600+ and getting waaaay too wide) or you pull a little too hard and it starts bleeding off. But yes, you can keep it in a constant turn where the only limiting factor is the ingame g-effect (which seems to start kicking in around 8.5g), but with a little modulation you can surge up into the 9s and then back off just a bit, repeat until target is ded. I'm increasingly of the opinion the reason RL fighter pilots aren't doing it is because they aren't used to the absence of g effects, are not ''pro gamers'' and are getting too heavy handed with our toylike controls. The DCS Viper will definitely pull steady 9gs without severely bleeding speed, but you have to work it a bit, not just ''yenk stik to win''. Only complaint I have about the Viper is the weird pseudo deadzone in the controls, which prompted me to assign a NEGATIVE curvature for the first time in gaming history to get rid of the mushy center. Now it's too twitchy on the outside, but meh. I'll take it.

This is an oldish topic, but still : This ain't magic. Anybody that wants to may submit their work to ED. As I understand it, some community members already help with AI models, etc. In short, their product, their choice how it's conducted. People who want to contribute can do so... via the provided channels. The end. Furthermore, there are only a relative few number of people who can even attempt to make use of what you're requesting and most of them have traditionally ended up becoming 3rd parties. People wanting to churn out simplistic mods can already do so, those people aren't magically going to be able to make use a development SDK, which I suspect you don't get what that actually means. It's not a password that unlocks hidden features, it's access to source code and internal resources, thus it being carefully guarded.

So you all know I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is, I'm taking the Viper for the FoH tournie and I've got a raging hardon for Hornets. Strap up tight, boys, I'm goin' in dry!

I know, but if they're going to nitpick over spreadsheets they at least need to use the right ones lol