dmatsch

...Dozens of people depend on ED for their livelihood. I would think that they "do" know how important DCS is. They also are keenly aware that they hold the top spot in a singularly niche market. They also realize that their original code base is going on 15 years old, and fixing anything major would involve a complete re-write of the game engine's core.

it's gone. I had zipped up the entire user folder, but it got corrupted on file copy. didn't realize until after I completely killed the original. I recovered everything except the FA-18 settings. Lost the TM Warthog stick, throttle and keyboard LUA files. if I could just get those from somebody with similar joystick AND find a way to import them. The "Load" and "Save" profile buttons in the game settings are disabled for me.

Hi, everyone. I've gone through a time today! All I wanted to do was just fly a bit while the wife was out... I was making a backup of my inputs folder and accidentally deleted my FA-18 TM Warthog inputs folder for the throttle, stick and keyboard. In trying to re-load a profile from here but all it gives me are two LUA files. **My Load/Save profile buttons in DCS options are disabled. I can't load anything. I've tried copying the two LUA files into the DCS game dir as well as my saved games folder, BOTH under /mods/aircraft/FA-18C/input/FA-18C/, but no profiles are loaded in DCS and the profile page for FA-18C SIM are blank. I've also tried removing and re-installing the module with same blank results. could someone please help with rebuilding this profile? It looks like I need to do all three sections: joy, throttle, keyboard.

Any dynamic campaigns (like Liberation) are and will be borked because of the atrocious AI. Liberation IS an effective start, though

everyone. including ED, please excuse any frustration on my part read into this thread. I have exactly one day per week (if I'm lucky) to spend no more than a few hours flying DCS. This is barely enough time for flight training, let alone ONE single extended mission. Please don't say "go MP" for training/realistic flights. I don't have the skills as of yet, or schedule. I've been finding that I spend most of this *precious* time off of work fiddling with the ME trying to get SP canned, user, and home-grown missions behaving in any sort of semblance of reality. I actually only get to fly about 1/3 the time as time spent on ME fiddling, LUA scripts, triggers, etc. I usually give up in frustration about 1.5 hours into the SIM (Load mission --> fly 5-10 min, AI borked --> back to ME --> fiddle AI --> fly 20 min to find AI borked --> back to ME, scripts, triggers, twiddling --> fly 10 min realize that didn't work --> give up and fly one of my generic free-fly's that have NO AI --> 20 minutes later give up in boredom. Day off over. Weeeeee, that was fun!) I'm saying this now, jump on me later: The only way to get DCS to perform realistically, consistently and intelligently is with one and only one player flight and some static objects. Please, please, please --- Eagle Dynamics. Fix.Your.Core.Sim.

I completely forgot about that. I got so used to ignoring night missions. I would categorize this as "moderately unplayable" as opposed to "I cannot fly this sim as intended" like AI issues. perhaps the more user input on this, the better. ED can't just keep selling incomplete modules without fixing the core sim*. *I understand that fixes are on the roadmap: There are bugs and game-breakers that have been "on the map" for a decade now while new revenue-generators have been released on a six-month cycle.

I'm having difficulties grasping how to manage TOT for any Liberation campaign. I've read the directions here. I'm having problems getting flights to take off on time so that the BARCAP is in place when ground pounders are in the air, AWACS and refuel flights are in the air and in formation when combat flights start running out of gas ("two, bingo fuel --> two, eject!"). I'm also not real thrilled about having to spend my flight time circling around a waypoint for up to 20 minutes, or sitting in an inactive cockpit for XX time. I am losing about 4-6 planes PER HOP because of this. I'm setting the ASAP flag on all flights, but they still aren't taking off on time -- or worse, they get in a major airport/carrier traffic jam. OR just simply ram you. Could someone please provide assistance?

If this thread catches on, I would hope ED would choose to pay attention... May I please ask everyone's opinion on what they think is the single-most game-breaking bug, feature or omission that they would like to see ED fix as a matter of priority. The ONE thing that takes your enjoyment out of DCS and makes you say to yourself, "oh, god, not again". I, for one think the game's AI is the most immersive-breaking pain of the whole simulation. So much user time and effort is taken just getting computer-controlled flights to do what you ask them that it takes away from the actual flight experience of the simulation. DCS is more like a "simulator of a flight simulator" where the actual game is making the software actually work correctly.

dude, this thread is like two years old. Don't feed the zombies

SWAPR

The airport traffic cops. Tickets are expensive. You might want to invest in a radar detector...

try to tell your wingman to go blow up the thing he's endlessly spamming you on... "Two, negative"

My father served on a Fletcher for WWII. DD500 USS Ringgold. We need more WWII ships. Oh, and better AI. Just sayin;

haven't changed anything since last patch, then this on night missions. NVIDIA had a patch last week too, but I'm not sure if that's the culprit or not.

interesting. Thank you. I'll try reseating the video card and try the mission again.

sorry to say this has happened to me several times. Trying to get a simple mission working through all of the core bugs is a nightmare. I spend more time fixing then flying dcs.log liberation_nextturn.miz

Trying to get some semblance of performance out of 2.7 and failing miserably. I can't get the sim to stabilize with more than about 2-3 active units on a given mission. Framerates slow to a crawl and flying on anything but an empty map becomes impossible. I have a very good setup as far as hardware, RAM and video, so it's not my machine. I've attached the missions. One is a simple hand-rolled practice mission with minimal active units, no scripts and a few triggers -- and the second mission is an Liberation-generated one (being heavily scripted). dcs.log DxDiag.txt liberation_nextturn.miz CAU - All Aircraft - Weapons Training.miz

Thank you, Rudel_chw. It was the historical filter. Apparently, it's a date range filter as it works backwards in time as well. I had the mission date set for 2021 and the filter on. I now see the T45 in my birds list.

hi, all. I've installed this mod correctly in my users folder with all the other (working) aircraft mods. It shows up as installed in Module Manager, and I see two instant action missions, but I still can't get this to show up in ME as a flyable aircraft OR an AI bird. I've got the latest 2.7 release, did a clean and repair. Could someone who got this working please lend a hand?

Thank you to everyone who responded for your help

Since 2.7 everything has gone haywire in such a way that I had to remove and reinstall DCS. I'm slowly rebuilding everything from scratch. I've saved the config/input folder and have most of my flight bindings back to where they were. However, I had cockpit free look bound to one of my mouse side buttons, and zoom set to the mouse wheel. These seem to have stopped working and I can't find the binding for either. Left Alt - C seems to have been defaulted to "clickable cockpit on/off", but all that does is turn off the cursor. I can't look around with mouse or zoom with wheel like I used to. Could someone show/tell me the binding names or give me some direction? Any help would be appreciated.

May I please ask how you got it working? Mine isn't showing up either dmatsch - update: I completely removed and reinstalled DCS. Everything was going haywire with the update.

try setting the AAA to ROA all, "red" alert state, and Engage AIr Weapons "on"

silly question, but doesn't military-grade cover smoke also block IR?

my mistake. sorry. Rudel, I'd like to thank you for your work on these templates all these years. They're fantastic and help out mission building greatly.