Mars Exulte

I had a lot of fun driving around in one in Arma. I remember one time airlifting a Zsu-23 gun-toyota with an Osprey, seeing a convoy of idiot noobs jammed up in the middle of a bridge spanning two islands. Set it down at one end, backed up till just the gun was peaking and opened fire. Much explosion, much wow later they started jumping off the bridge, where they apparently had stashed a RHIB. Raced down to the shore and ''vigorously perforated'' their boat with 23mm shells. *sigh* It's the little things in life...

That is an excellent painting, great attention to detail. Immediately noticed the very clear, high glossiness of a well waxed aircraft. Very, very talented.

I think it would be cool if they someday made a documentary taking a module from concept through release, just showing the process. You could probably hit the highlights with a 30-40 minute YouTube special. They always say the stuff they use is ''publicly accessible'', but that's a gray area, too. For example, lots of pilot manuals are openly accessible here on the US (I have a Harrier manual), but crossing state borders is strictly prohibited. So, they may have a guy in Russia who gathers docs and gives them the ''cliffnotes'', a guy in the US who gathers docs and gives them ''cliffnotes'' etc. Knowing the info, or knowing a guy that knows the info is ok, or writing a summary of the contents is ok. You just can't distribute the document itself. So, kind of a loophole arrangement.

I vaguely remember on the old Hawk module, I think you could accidentally take it out of idle detent too soon. Also the HYD reset, but you mentioned that so I assume it's working properly. I dunno how much crossover there even is between T1 and T45 though.

I thought we had placeable unpaved ''improvised runways''? Or are they part of the WWII assets? Or am I just misremembering. Sucks not having a pc right now...

Damn Germans, who could have expected them to do the same thing multiple times in a row like that! It's unheard of!

Then we get threads demanding to know what's happening, accusing them of laziness and abandoning the game, blah blah blah. It hasn't cost anything, and provided somebody isn't a spastic compulsive personality, they should be able to live with ''there is something happening in the world, yet it is not available for my instant gratification''

Yeah, he put a lot of time and money into it ultimately for nothing. My takeaway was that nearly anything is ''possible'', but people really underestimate exactly how much bs and negotiation goes into getting the permission to do all this stuff we take for granted. The more likely something is regarded as 'sensitive' (which varies from contact to contact) the more trouble it is, and the more you're exposing yourself to possible ''blowback'' if something goes wrong or suddenly somebody decides they don't like you asking these kind of questions afterall. It can get into a situation of diminishing returns, as appears to have happened with BlackCat, where there are so many obstacles to going ahead that it just becomes ''Screw it, I'll do something else''. This is a business, afterall, they don't want legal trouble, and there's a limit to how many palms they can grease to move things along before it just isn't worth it anymore. -edit I also thought it was interesting his final conclusion was that ED's approach to handling licensing was reasonable and correct. -edit2 It also brings to mind how sometimes certain features get quietly dropped. I remember the explanation for why the SPO-15 is used on all the FC3 planes was not because it's used on them (it isn't) but because that's what they could comfortably get before things started getting sketchy. -edit3 If I remember correctly, I also recall his efforts resulted in burned bridges with his old job and some security sector stuff. Asking too many questions and spending time around the wrong people, and he wasn't ''trusted'' anymore. That's got to also be a factor when doing all this stuff. Paint yourself into a corner if you're not careful.

For entry level stuff that's about the best one, imo. The stick and base itself are sub-optimal, but it's a pretty well designed throttle unit.

I think somebody looked up some of the legalese stuff a couple months ago, but you'd have to go trawling through the relevant threads to find it again, or ask on the Russian forums (as most of us over here can't read it well enough to find that sort of details). It's basically their equivalent of ITARS, though. If you go digging for the thread about the Tu-22M by BlackCat that was stillborn, that guy wrote extensively about some of the stuff he encountered about developing a module, working with Russian government contacts, licensing, and the general headache that eventually resulted in him giving up. He went into a lot of detail about it all and was a very interesting read.

That's more of an AI issue, though, tbh. I'd rather fix the AI than try to wind my way through a rationalisation of anything else. I don't get the constant ''Ka-50s are fantasy prototypes'' mentality of some of the people whinging around here. 25 airframes is NOT ''prototype'' (that is the first half dozen or so airframes in a given line). It was low rate initial production, prior to hitting full scale mass production. It was no more a ''prototype'' at that point than the F-15 is. They didn't ''choose'' to build anything. The country collapsed and it ''doomed'' a half dozen projects in various stages of completion and/or production with others like the Havoc and Alligator going into very drug out, prolonged development/production cycles that didn't finish wringing out until the 2000s. The Ka-50 is in many ways ''fantasy'' from the standpoint they play a much bigger role in DCS than they ever did in reality, but they weren't ''prototypes'' (although they did end up serving as testbeds for various systems, they themselves were not ''prototypes''). Nor were they particularly ''developed into'' the 52s. They were developed concurrently (side by side as separate platforms).

At a museum near my home, they have an OV-10 Bronco, one of the curators said the plane got damaged back in its service years because a pilot decided to reverse the blade pitch for a more dramatic, shorter landing. The abrupt and unexpectedly violent drop out of the sky badly damaged the undercarriage... and was a direct influence on them putting a weight on wheels sensor on the OV-10's prop pitch to prevent future ''bright ideas''. Just cause something's dangerous and/or stupid doesn't mean somebody won't do it If anything, it may increase the likelihood of them doing it!

Insanity. I've already written off the 3000/6000 series. I'll try again in a bit when the 4000/7000s are launching lol Hopefully by then we'll be back to something approaching normalcy. My 1080ti and Rift S will tide me over till then.

Ugh. Ugly bastard. Alligator is def the hot cousin. Also... Yeeet!!1! We're back in bidness, boyos! That was pretty much acknowledged a long time ago. Weren't you the one ranting about wanting Iglas to compete with the uber1337 Apache for AirQuake? Make up your mind. See every thread on modern RedFor ever created. It's going to be missing most of the stuff that actually makes a 52 unique, and is at best a ''lightly modified'' variation of what we already have. It changes relatively little. A 52 would change quite a lot.

Very true, in real conflicts aircraft are a strategic level asset. @Baaz In Desert Storm, as I recall the majority of the Iraqi Air Force fled well ahead of allied arrival to foreign countries. They didn't stand much chance against the numerically and technologically overwhelming coalition forces and would have been doing little more than feeding them kills. Basically, the Apaches were operating in conditions of more or less unchallenged air dominance. SAMs and AAA were a threat, but flying 10-15ft off the ground is a pretty viable defense against them up til you get right on top of them, at least. Even if they Iraqis didn't flee and came out to engage the Apaches, they'd have been almost immediately swept up. ''Heading out first'' and ''completely unsupported'' are not the same thing.

This old wives tale again? That's not how guns work, generally speaking. There's a lot more to it than the diameter of the round. Being able to chamber a round does not mean it will cycle, won't damage the gun, or won't blow up and kill you. It's not. At all. I would say safely he has not operated, or likely even seen the weapon systems on it, which means he has no idea what he's talking about. And since he was repeating known wives tales, he probably also didn't spend much time studying them. The video about the Hind and MiG-23 both are both very interesting and informative, but they also have a lot of utter garbage in them, a lot of which can be dispelled with minimal effort or in some cases actually looking at the things in question. Example MiG-23 intakes were not copied from the F-4. You can easily see this by... looking at them.

The good news is with that being the last US teen fighter lacking major representation, it entering service greatly increases the odds of future modules being based on either European, Soviet, or early Cold War designs, maybe some more WWII stuff

My wife's laptop has a 2060 and has played every game I installed on it at max settings at 1080p. For 1080, I would safely assume anything over a 2060 is overkill, except for DCS which of course will take whatever you can throw at it. I have no idea whatsoever where the 1660 fits in to the current hierarchy, tbh, and avoided it due to uncertainty.

You'll have to go elsewhere if you want an echo chamber, I'm afraid. I did not try to shut him down. However, the ''besides the obvious'' part is silly, the ''obvious'' part IS the reason. Real life helicopters operate as a group and don't yolo off by themselves where they can get farmed. They survive and accomplish their mission by working together with a larger force, and by actively avoiding getting themselves in that situation. DCS diverges because helo pilots do the exact opposite of what they should be doing in a great many cases and operate alone without coordination with others, as a result... they get farmed by fast movers. Just like would happen in real life if they did that.

Yeah, that's that good ol' exploit lovin' gamer mentality. ''Sure, my plane would be permanently grounded in real life, but I got the kill, hurdur! RTB and spawn a new plane!'' @@ This from the same people obsessively quibbling over fm charts. They want ''realizm and immurzun'' then proceed to immediately throw it out the window @@ And concur about the lucky shot. Physics don't suddenly change because you're flying a hornet, the tomcat got shot because he flew in a straight enough line for long enough to actually get hit from ''a mile away'', bullets still have travel time, even in DCS, the only way you get ''sniped'' at long range is by holding still for it.

Tldr version Results in DCS do not match with real life in ANY topic, because there is absolutely nothing about it that resembles real life. Not the behavior of the pilots, the objectives of the missions, the cooperation between units, the layout of the combat environment, etc etc etc. There is almost nothing about how anything is done in this game that even remotely resembles what you would see in real life... So, unsurprisingly, the results do not resemble real life, either.

Unfortunately true. I read/watch a lot of accident studies. I noticed early on the most common causes of fatalities is flying when they're not qualified to fly and indecision at critical phases. You don't get to have ''oops lol'' moments in the real thing.

Having gone the SLI route myself in the past with dual 980ti, it is usually not all it's cracked up to be. It also doesn't work with VR at all, or DCS (at least not reliably). You are pretty much always better off having one better card than two SLI'd cards. It's likely the whole concept will die off within the next few years anyway from how it sounds.

From DX12 to Vulkan, probably not, because they're both hardware level apis. DCS uses DX11 though, which is still the older software level api, so it will be a more significant difference, although I really won't be expecting ''30%''. Who knows, though, we'll find out eventually. Better to keep low expectations and be pleasantly surprised!