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Oh I'm buying BS3 they day its released, my comments are all about why add all this extra fluff as I would call it, that's pretty useless for a combat sim.

All the panels they show in the pictures they previewed are panels opened by the ground crew and show them opened as such, this is my point unless we are getting the ability to walk around the plane on the ground and open them to look into them or we are going to have ground crew doing pre start up process, then I cant see the point in using a 3d artists man hrs creating this for a module, its not like we are flying DCSS as a FS2020 type sim where this stuff is added eye candy as there is nothing else other than flying. My question would be why do it, what does it give us in a combat simulator. ???, it offers us nothing as far as game play goes, and there are many other things that need updating 3D wise

What they choose to model confuses me now more that ever with ED and what they do with the recourses, BS3 with loads of details yet low polygon ground assets we have had for years, I really believe that the PM's for ED have no idea on where to focus the 3D artist teams with what the user base would like, I bet if they ran some sort of polls about this stuff no one would care if 3d models behind panels that we never see would be important to most of the DCS players, we all hear how limited the ED resources are but are they being used in the right place, I dont belive so to give me the best game experience. But granted the BS3 model looks exceptional from the pics and small video of it shown.

Black Shark 3 is a day 1 buy for me as its my most flown helicopter in DCS over its life and my 10 years with the brand and don't mind these upgrade paths. But I do agree with Lace here , why bother spending thousands of hours 3D modeling internal parts of the KA50 that no one will look at or maybe will once or twice. I would rather the ED 3D modelers work go into the low poly assets DCS has in the game that I can see everyday as I play in this virtual battle field, there are plenty of them that are still needing a major update, I could understand if it was in FS2020 as they are a different target audience, but in DCS I don't see any value in having this detail. Still it looks great and im looking forward to getting it.

Unsure if this is a bug but sitting in the front seat letting George do they flying the information panel shows that the SAS is saturated all the time.

So do we get 2.8 this week as a post said this week we present 2.8, of was the presentation the 0.8 second video

Thanks just went and had a look, wow stunning, those videos would have been worth posting on the other ED media outlets, not everyone reads every sub forum here

A agree with you, any 3rd party module should adhere to the ED damage model that ED have so carefully put in place over the last 2 years, this should be part of the 3rd party devlopers presentation and acceptance by ED, its not like we pay any less for a 3rd party plane vs an ED plane. I watch the weather vid that @NineLineteased on Friday for the weather, is that the best ED could do to showcase this 0.08 seconds and looked like it had been recorded of a phone , I would have thought something as good as this is going to be a bit more of a teaser was needed.

Also what missions was used for the test ??

What were the stutter issues ??

Wow great news the weather system, it looks great in the photos, even though they are not new pics its great to hear its coming soon :), already loved the new clouds when they come out and they add so much to missions, when they are moving it will add so much more. LA-7 well I can give that a miss as it really doesn't have a theater to fly in, and I prefer my warbirds to be flown in a proper theater against proper time line AI, but the model looks nice and I'm sure plenty will enjoy it.

So it seems the Normandy 2 map will add another map to our server installs we need to have now along with the others that are in the pipeline.

We wont have a choice the dedicated server downloads every map.

We run 2 servers who uses both The Channel and Normandy for MP missions will I also have Normandy 2 as well or will it replace Normandy ??

AH ok cheers, that make sense

Can anyone explain why the DCS Discord bots are out of control, they seem to spam msgs every 2, 3 4, msg on every channel, to the point im starting to not frequent the ED Discord as much which is shame as I enjoy the chat from the Apache SMEs and the stuff they tell us about the Apache. ED any chance you can sort this out it really is stopping a great Discord experince.

Wouldn't you have had to have a second account for this to work and then have to of purchased the Syria map for that account, I can see the work around working if you just hosted Cacucus only. That's would mean with the free installed game you are now better off going the full client way and running the dedicated server from that install so its a much small footprint, but that defeats the point of having a dedicated server install, it would really help if we could get a comment from ED if this is being worked on @BIGNEWY any news on this ?? Im currently planning our server usage for next year and trying to figure out if we keep two servers or go to one to cut the cost back a little.

I agree with you Tbone, In the missions I have created for our guys I purposely have put man-pads in our missions to keep the Apaches low and in cover so they have to sneak about as it should be.

2 weeks along with everything else in the works

Does this mission have the Redfor trying to recapture the bases back or is all just one way ??

In real world environments I would guess the ground troops would be in touch with the air support via their commanders, in DCS we have no such luck with any AI on the ground in communication with the support the mission maker has put in, if in doubt don't fire until they fire at you

Great write up on your experiences and passing that information on here, unfortunately I really dont think it matter in DCS single player or PVE servers as the Ai are pretty lack luster against the AH64 and KA50 as we can sit 8kms from them so you can be at 500, 700 or 1000 feet and still be relatively safe against most of the ground AI in the game, this is based on missions we have flow on our servers, if its a PVP server though yes your advice is great to have and I stay as low as possible.

Yep us too so we dumped DCS voice because of this after trailing it as its feature incomplete and feels like its abandoned by the developer with no updates in a year.

With 3 new maps coming out in the next say 2 years we will need an additional lets say 100 gig of server space I'm thinking. If this feature is not implemented next year at least our team has already discussed removing 1 of the 2 servers we run for our group or even canning the servers all together due to the increased disk space cost to us from our provider. It would be rather helpful if ED could at least give us some comms on this and if its being implemented or not, I mean they would know at least by now if they are doing it or not.

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