Raven (Elysian Angel)

They already are as far as I have seen.

Fair enough. I assumed there would be a library of pre-rendered reflections, and then they would show in your cockpit depending on the circumstances... I'm happy to be wrong, and even more happy that they don't seem to have a noticeable performance impact!

Now I have to try that! I'm not sure about the wingtip missiles btw: I think I heard somewhere that wingtip mounted missiles can actually *reduce* drag, because of the funny interaction they have with wingtip vortices. But I'm not an aeronautic engineer, so I'm just conveying what I heard

But aren’t they pre-rendered? I seem to remember a comment from ED a while back (a year or more) that they would be pre-rendered - for performance reasons.

I'll have to pass. Luckily HB's got me covered: null

I’m glad you got it sorted!

Try turning MSAA off. That kills performance when there are lots of other planes taxiing. I noticed that the hard way…

Even in light missions such as free flights? Because that way you can tell if any performance problem is caused by the map itself (or your settings) or is due to heavy scripting / lots of AI units in the particular mission you're trying to run.

Fair enough, let's add "UI" in general, then it will also display for example in the campaign menu. Any menu while you're not actually flying, would be grand. Sure, but that's an overlay that also shows in flight. I'm not a fan of overlays personally

The F-86, MiG-15, UH-1, Mi-8, L-39, F-5, MiG-21 and the FC3 birds would like a word When it comes to textures, while they looked incredible in 2018 when the Hornet launched they do indeed look a bit low-res and dated compared to more recent modules. That is the natural way of things: graphics improve over time. I'm sure the Hornet will get some love later on but I'd like the other modules (which don't even support the graphics that were introduced in DCS in 2017 with v2.5) to go first. There are some really high quality liveries available in the User Files. I recommend the work of "lee1hy", though sadly he doesn't have too many squadrons covered.

Hey, Lots of games sport a clock (displaying RL local time) on their main menu, and in my opinion DCS could also use one. Especially in VR it is really easy to completely lose yourself and any awareness of the outside world. A clock would help with reminding us to take a break now and then for example, as flights tend to last quite a bit longer than you realise (at least mine do): "time flies when you're having fun!". So there goes, my wish for a (digital) clock on the DCS main menu Thanks!

It took ED some time too to get the F-18's HUD tint dialled in Patience, young Padawan.

I used to have a deadzone of 1 for both pitch and roll, but I removed that after the FM update: to me it feels better without those. The AP engagement no longer requires deadzones: mine works just fine but there still is a predefined deadzone in the Virpil software so it might depend on your setup…

Perhaps wake turbulence was disabled?

Yes you can: Make sure the little tank icon (show models) is ticked in the Mission Editor

I finally managed to damage the landing gear - after trying harder to damage it on purpose. I had to maintain a 5-degree glideslope all throughout the approach until I smacked down on the tarmac at around 1200fpm. I really don't understand why so many people complain about broken landing gear: simply land within parameters (lower than max landing weight) and maintain a proper glidepath and you won't have any issues To be fair, I always found the Tomcat easier exactly because of that roll behaviour: having to maintain lateral stick pressure all the way until contact with the basket - when you suddenly have to return the stick to neutral quickly always seemed odd to me...

It's the one in the doc folder, using the latest patch - so as far as I'm concerned it's the latest official version. The bar settings will probably get explained as soon they are implemented.

Chapter 9 of the manual: null

Don't confuse mod (=modification) with module They are VERY different. There are no free modules in DCS except for the TF-51 (I don't really consider the Su-25T to be a "module" either even though it's the best we can get for now).

We all do. Sadly the circumstances won't allow that to change any time soon (with the exception of the upcoming MiG-29 - so at least we have that).

Sorry but that's nonsense. Our friendly neighbourhood community managers at ED have stated several times they want a FF Su-25 even more than we do. But their hands are tied - at least for the moment.

Well, no you didn't... The MDD/Boeing merger happened in 1997 so that was well after the legacy Hornet was designed.

Or just fire the Sparrow and the radar will automatically go into STT

Sure, put in a request to McDonnell Douglas and I’m sure they’ll accommodate you