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What's that round thing mounted below the SHKVAL?

The biggest influence on my FPS is water. Set it to high, twice less FPS then with it on normal. Doesn't seem to really change whether I look at it or no. And I don't see any difference in it's look. Maybe there is the same with LOMAC? Cyclic is in the middle, Collective on the left :)

So true... :( X-Plane 9 Linux fan here as well

You'll get it, you'll be disappointed at first, then you'll learn how to configure it properly for given game that it actually will start to be usefull, not disturbing and then you'll start to try to move everything that can be moved with your head, even if it doesn't support TIR or you don't have it on your head at the moment :lol:

I think that when you hit trimmer it picks a new heading for heading mode. You can see it by the dot on head line in the HUD.

Autopilot heading mode? Guess I somewhat figured a little how it works already.

Yeah, all the screenshots are made by me and me flying (except planes which how much I'd like I can't fly ;))

http://gallery.livecd.pl/v/blackshark Here are some screenshots of mine. Various planes and carrier including.

Some more screenshots. Planes, taxiing, take offs, landings, carrier ops. Some roof and mountain tops Black Shark landings. (Hi-Res versions available, just click the "Full-Size" icon above an image when in single image view) Black Shark Gallery Plus funny situation (starting around screenshot 100 in the above gallery). Squadron of F/A-18 taking off from carrier. Me flying towards carrier and trying to land on it: Well, had to fly a little forward, there at least carrier was solid. Anyway, waiting for the first F/A-18 to land (they all lower gear at the same time, just second later 3 of them decided no to land this time). The first F/A-18 landed and: The AI is not the smartest :lol: EDIT: Heh, nice one, just found it, it works. And EDIT2: Seeing how everything is done in LUA here I though that the above has to be configurable. It is! Scripts\World\Radio\Beacons.lua beacons[167]={} beacons[167]["name"]="Mayak" beacons[167]["type"] = BEACON_BROADCAST_STATION beacons[167]["position"]={} beacons[167]["position"]["latitude"] = 44.744348 beacons[167]["position"]["longitude"] = 40.093099 beacons[167]["position"]["height"]=220.0 beacons[167]["position"]["course"]=0 beacons[167]["frequency"]=125675000.0 beacons[167]["power"]=1500.0 beacons[167]["modulation"]="AM" beacons[167]["path"] = "RadioMayak" -- Для добавления новой широковещательной радиостанции пользователью нужно прописать в скрипте новую вещательную радиостанцию, -- при этом задав её координаты, частоту, модуляцию, мощность передатчика и каталог с плей-листом. -- Файлы будут проигрываться рандомно с контролем интервала между повторением композиций. --[[ beacons[168]={} beacons[168]["name"]="Maniac" beacons[168]["type"] = BEACON_BROADCAST_STATION beacons[168]["position"]={} beacons[168]["position"]["latitude"] = 44.740 beacons[168]["position"]["longitude"] = 40.09 beacons[168]["position"]["height"]=220.0 beacons[168]["position"]["course"]=0 beacons[168]["frequency"]=125675500.0 beacons[168]["power"]=1500.0 beacons[168]["modulation"]="AM" beacons[168]["path"] = "RadioManiac" --]] So we can add as many different radios as we want in different locations with different music! :thumbup:

Nope, didn't think of it at that point :cry: I'm able to read cyrylic but understand it only as long as it's similar to Polish :). No, I don't think they were shooting at it. Just though that maybe the construction didn't hold and the tail just fell apart during some manevours or something. That were flight tests as you wrote, so that might be possible.

I can't forgive myself I didn't try to lower the gear. I was too shocked that I still can fly. But if you look at those screenies notice that on the 3rd one rotors are not blured. Like I wrote, eventually I lost control. Power loss, some more parts started to break and I crashed. That's nice, I didn't know it. Explosive bolts? They did it on purpose? EDIT: BTW Namenlos, you live in the same city that my friend that got me BS ;)

I knew it had it's name ;)

Just a standard flying around an airport to practice handling the KA-50. I've noticed that when I keep too big descent rate (collector down all the way) and allow it to speed up too much vertically it enters some state where collector has no effect (it trembles then). The only way is to pitch down, lower AOA, get some speed and level. So I did. Unfortunately I was too low and hit the ground in the process. And now comes funny thing. The heli seems to be completely intact. Everything works, etc, I'm able to fly just fine. It just has a tendency to pitch down. Then I checked external and this is what I saw :) And I repeat, I was able to fly it for some time. But finally it tear itself apart without my intervention (just trying to keep it level). Hi-Res here

And how wrong you are here... If we're talking about "process" then yes, technically there is no such thing running in background in starforce. But it installs kernel level drivers that "run" in the background which is much worse than any background process.

I think he's referring to objects on the airport. There are several planes/helicopters that seems to be undestructable. I can confirm that. Just run Poligon mission for example and try to destroy nearby Hinds or Su-25. I didn't manage to.

Change that assumption to certainty and add a promise that you will remove that activation completely in an unfortunate situation that ED will go down. That might be a solution for us customers.

Thank you ED for keeping us updated. I really appreciate it. And as probably one of the few here I can already thank you for BlackShark. I already own my copy (have a luck to have a Russian friend) and I'm able to play it already (with small trick to turn on EN). But I need to stand with the people that refuse to buy anything that has a limited number of activations. I never did and never will. I was ready to buy english version the moment it is released. If it's going to have limited number of activations count me out. If the new patch will turn my DVD version into online activation check I'll probably stop playing it (or will refuse to patch and won't buy any other DCS modules). Someone said in this thread that it's almost a matter of ethics for the software to be able to be installed while offline. Ditto. It's all about Own vs. Rent for me as well. You say you make your decision based on previous experience with LOMAC and FC. You should also check the percentage of people here, on the forums, on this very thread that refuse to buy online activation version. We are to some degree a representative group of your customers (at least this more hardcore one). Anyway, keep up a good work and I hope you will make a good decision. And at the end to say something constructive, read this: http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5402 This is a copy protection that was supposed to be used in Sacred 2. I think it is really interesting. And while I'm against any form of online CP this is the only one I might consider fair and there would be some people here that'd agree with me. It's key points: - ONE activation at a time, ever. - always a chance to revoke, even without having previous install (computer burned) using net or phone. - revoke and reactivate process is UNLIMITED (only limits per day which is understandable) - promise by the publisher that if online servers go down they release a patch removing activation completely. This is a scheme that would be a compromise for me. If you're really into online activation I'd consider the above one if I were you. Talking about support and registration. Egosoft does the same. I've bought X3 Terran Conflict, it shows under my avatar and only this way I can write posts in all X3TC sections. That's good idea as well. And my DVD version has a key as well, so this one could be used to achieve that.

Neither of them has.

I don't know what that was in Longbow 2, never played it. Maybe there was a copilot shouting. But you refered to it as a Bithing... So I clarified what should that mean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty

By Bithing Mary or Bety you mean prerecorder voices that your avionics plays in moments of threat. You don't need a copilot to say that.

Apart from that... People die on wars, but apart from that wars are good, you know. They drive the industry, the technological advance, unemployement goes down... Sorry, couldn't resist.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5402 Have a look at this. If you really need to make an online activation system the one above is optimal IMO. You have no limit on reactivate process, still company has protection from you installing the game on many machines at once. You do not rely on any human support to provide you more activation if you used yours (doesn't matter if it's 3 like EA, or 10 like DCS, they might end eventually). Lastly they clearly state that if something goes wrong in the future (servers go down or something) they will give you a patch removing protection. This is how it should be done. I'll never buy anything that limits number of activations, let it be 100 of them. Luckily DVD version has nothing like that here.

I think he wanted to ask whether one dvd will include all 5 languages or there will be one dvd per language.

That is indeed very good news for me, thank you. Waiting for verification then :)

Fair enough. I wouldn't if you'd write that earlier :)