Raven (Elysian Angel)

A few remarks: - Yes the training missions have been broken for years now. This doesn't have anything to do with the current disagreement, but is because the training missions and the included campaign are made/maintained by a single person who simply put has too much weight on his shoulders. It's not the fault of that one person, but of whomever decided it was a good idea to put that responsibility solely in the basket of one person, without a contingency plan. - I fully agree that the bare minimum of support any module should get is to make sure the training missions/tutorials are 100% in working order. "Onboarding" matters and "quit moments" are a very real thing. I understand this is a very dynamic process for an Early Access module since things can and do change, but I myself have requested before that both ED and 3rd parties check their own modules at least once or twice per year to make sure the training missions still work as they should to help not only those who recently purchased said module, but also those who decide to revisit it after a (long) break.

During an interview with Simon a number of years ago (5-6 or so), he said that the new version of EDGE (then under development) would benefit from 64GB of RAM, so when I upgraded my PC in 2020, that’s what I got. Flight sims are hungry beasts (I have seen DCS use 48GB of RAM on multiple occasions - that’s just 1 single application).

Same setup I have, then! You’ll be in sim heaven once you do. Even though I only use the R3L for the F-16, it’s been quite worth the expense! @Chops Feel free to let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

Sure but there’s little I can add really. It works the exact same way as with any other module in DCS. By the way, I find Virpil gear to be hilariously superior to Thrustmaster, but that’s just my experience. The software isn’t that easy to figure out but once you do, it’s very powerful There are YT guides that help a lot!

They don’t have buttons/switches no, but that only really matters for the F-15E. For everything else I do the same thing: axes as slider, invert and deadzone of 5 to account for the physical detent, and then bind 0% for each throttle to a button. It works flawlessly in each and every module

On FB they commented on why that is: because they’re incorporating the feedback they got after the initial release.

Ordered and paid: just under 38 euro thanks to some miles I had left... Not too shabby for such an interesting and significant map I wouldn't mind some Iranian airbases to be included at some point, so we can recreate the Iran-Iraq war of the '80s

Yes? Disputes like this probably happen a LOT more frequently than any of us realise, and yet the world is still turning. The only difference here is that it didn’t stay behind closed doors. That alone probably makes things quite a bit more complicated. I for one still fly the F-15E, and I’m having a lot of fun with it - despite the obvious bugs that show up when you spend any time with that module. It’s a superb aircraft, probably my favourite among the more modern ones

Not being able to turn off those huge blobs is quite annoying...

The above screenshot is a teaser (taken from the F-4E release trailer) about what's to come when Heatblur's character customisation will be released. We don't have it yet, but we will have it at some point since it's one of the features of the F-4E. I for one am going to make use of it (I know I said earlier in this thread I don't really care that much, but I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth )

I have no idea about real aircraft (I am just an armchair geek), but pitching down to remain level after rolling out after heavy manoeuvring is pretty common in DCS. Off the top of my head, the F-14 requires it, the F-15E too... Those are aircraft I did canyon runs with recently and in that scenario it's pretty obvious. There are probably more examples

What Heatblur is doing is pretty awesome. We'll see if that sets a trend:

That’s what I thought as well: that ED removed the Vinson and just kept the (updated) Stennis as the free carrier

Could it be possible even a clean MiG-21 would act as if it was carrying a jamming pod? We know an AI MiG-21 can spam flares even when it’s not carrying a countermeasure pod… AI F-5s also often throw out millions of flares even though it can carry a maximum of 15…

Seems like you got your wish, then

Yes: look on page 2 of this thread for example.

A new version of the Caucasus map would likely use a (much) higher resolution terrain mesh, which would by definition break all user-created campaigns and missions in that map that use custom placement/movement of ground objects. The update ED did for DCS 2.5 was likely the extent of what was possible in that regard. It is still one of my favourites areas to fly over and I'd love to see an updated version of it (that looks more true to life than our current version, especially the mountains and dried up river beds), but the amount of work it would take is something most people underestimate I think. We're better off using custom terrain textures such as Barthek's.

I tried again a few times, decided to log into my google account and then for some reason it worked. Cheers!

Hey, was this taken offline?

Well, there's zero-point energy but we're not quite there yet (at least in the public domain) /offtopic

None of the DCS maps looks gorgeous at 200ft. That will only be fixed by someone developing a (much) smaller map specifically for helicopter operations. I have been very critical of the SA map for a long time, but now I am very happy with how it looks - and performs.

It has been discussed ad nauseum already, and it comes down to how much understanding people have of the English language. But I do agree it could have been worded better That trailer isn’t saying the MiG-29 is coming in 2024. What it does say, is twofold: - coming in 2024: Iraq - joining RedFor: MiG-29 When it comes to the latter, there is no defined time included in the announcement.

Yes so am I, but I still have hope for the future given what happened to the South Atlantic map: that one looks gorgeous now

Superb effort, thanks a lot!