JimMack

Any campaigns, whether created by ED or users are of course freely available to any user. We will be creating a section for campaign/mission downloads. But give us a few days - it has been a bit busy in the last 24 hours!

There will be an announcement on this forum one week before the English DVD is available in retail stores.

As has been stated before, the DVD boxed version will not include the hardcopy manual. The hardcopy manual will be a separate purchase.

When landing, look out and down from the left window. There is a reason it is bigger than the right window!

The announcement contains an error. It should read "The English Version of DCS: Black Shark", with english manuals as pdfs, an additional campaign etc is now available for downloading at the E-shop" The boxed version will become available in retail shops in the early part of 2009." The hardcopy manual will be sold separately. Date to be announced.

I've been doing most of my testing with a standard Saitek gamepad!

I am sure we all have eaten a Big Mac. See http://www.economist.com/markets/rankings/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11819910

I strongly suggest those with the Russian version hold off downloading English version. The ED team should now be asleep as it is 3 am in the morning for them. I am sure they will give answers on Thursday morning!

Remember it well. When PapaDoc became a proud father of a daughter, and ED built him a pink skin in celebration!

try http://www.rcsimulations.com/

FC is an add-on to LockOn. You have to first purchase LockOn.

This is the true Caspian Sea monster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing-In-Ground_effect_vehicle A very clever design, that was not needed after the cold war ended

Here: http://lockon.co.uk/index.php?end_pos=1322&scr=shop&lang=en You can buy LockOn, Flaming Cliffs and manual They are shipped from our hanger at Duxford Airfield UK, so you will have to pay shipping costs. Business Development TFC/ED

Grisha has given a clear technical explanation of the tree collidable problem. You will just have to live with this situation, whether you like it or not. I really do not think any further posts on this subject are necessary. Go and enjoy flying Black Shark. Most military sims are not up to the fidelity that you have in this consumer product.

Please note the following:- Distributors worldwide have been chosen to distribute the boxed version of DCS:Black Shark. We will in the next few weeks go code final with the English version, then German, French and Spanish. We then need to get Age Rating cerificates fron ESRB (USA), PEGI (Europe) and USK (Germany). We then need to manufacture, based on sales forecasts from distributors. So realistically we are looking at a launch in Feb/March, depending on which part of the world you live in.

Having demonstrated DCS:Black Shark at shows that were predominately for users of Microsoft Flight Sim, my impression is that these users are highly likely to buy DCS:Black Shark. They like the switchology, correct procedures etc, but will probably not bother with combat. Also, I think it is well known that the helo flight model in Microsoft FSX leaves something to be desired. So those of you who frequent Microsoft FSX communities, please pass the message!.

Yes, the controls were the Copy Cat MRVC see http://www.simcontrol.co.uk/rcp.htm However some modifications were made for the pedals, and the platform above the standard configuration D-Box (see http://www.rcsimulations.com/) in order for it all to be up to military specifications (in other words, squaddies with size 12 combat boots!)

Superb - needs to be loaded on youtube.

You are going to take off and fly your Black Shark to destroy the insurgents before they destroy the ships!

Insurgents attacking shipping

For the test to be accurate for comparison purposes. Do not change views during the track. Let it play as seen.

Oops! Let us check!

It is very common. It just so happens that in the default day and time in Black Shark, in the Caucasus, both the moon and sun are visible. In the UK we had the same situation 3 weeks ago at around 09.00 GMT

This is the test we used to evaluate graphic and activity tuning, across all the different PC configurations that the Beta testers are using. It is a combination of graphics views and heavy AI activity. It runs for 15 minutes. Using FRAPS, we evaluated min/max/av fps, then looked at the log by each second to evaluate what was causing a slowdown. Please note: As we continue to fine tune the English version of Black Shark, tracks do not always play back the same in the English version as the Russian version. So if you are posting any comments, identify if you are using the current Russian version, or the forthcoming English version. This track does show some different views between the Russian and English versions. Note to Mission Builders:- If you have too much AI combat within a particular second then any system will crash. To explain: If at the start of a mission, you have 400 tanks immediately firing at each other, the system will crash (unless you are running on a mainframe!). So fine tune your combat at any one point in time. This is the elegance of the "trigger and events" system developed by Wags. It enables activity to be fine tuned as experienced by the player. It overcomes the problems of the "bubble" system in Falcon, which tried to overcome the excessive activity problem by only showing events close to the player. As you know, in the DCS engine one can observe events that are taking place 200 kms away. Hope this helps Jim

OK - give me 24hrs as I am travelling at the moment, and I'll upload test track. It does not test everything, but was a benchmark for optimising graphics.