Growling Sidewinder

did this and it seems to be updating to something lol. much appreciated i'll report back if it doesnt work. thanks for your help man. had me really worried i wasnt going to get to fly over the PG today.

thanks for quick reply it doesnt offer me that option. if theres an update I open DCS and it says theres an update before the game even loads up. it doesnt do that this time it just goes into the game doesnt offer me an update

hey guys i'm getting an error when trying to download the PG map, I open DCS it tells me theres a new module to install i say do it, and it exits the sim and gives me the following error message....see attached pics. and this notepad error page thing... can someone help me out here ? 00000.159 --- Log file: D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\autoupdate_log.txt 00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2018-05-23 12:49:12 00000.052 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.7.1.49 (Windows NT 10.0.16299; Win64; en-CA) 00000.052 INFO : cmdline: "D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\bin\dcs_updater.exe" --apply install PERSIANGULF_terrain 00000.055 STATUS: Initializing... 00000.058 INFO : basedir: D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha 00000.059 INFO : dcs_variant.txt: openalpha 00000.160 INFO : DCS/2.5.1.16978.361 (x86_64; EN; WORLD,FC3,NEVADA_terrain,FC3_video_EN,A-10C,F-5E,MIG-21BIS,CA,P-51D,WWII-ARMOUR,BF-109K4,NORMANDY_terrain,KA-50,POLYCHOPSIM_SA342,RAZBAM_AV8BNA,FW-190D9,SPITFIRE-MKIX) 00000.160 INFO : branch: openbeta 00000.160 STATUS: Connecting to update servers... 00001.125 INFO : Got reply from http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com 00001.948 INFO : Got reply from srv11update.digitalcombatsimulator.com 00001.950 ERROR: Version 2.5.1.16978.361 is not available. 00057.376 === Log closed.

nah dude ur crazy. i'm grabbing an iranian mig29 the first moment and tearing up those skies

lolol. well either way I hope ur gut feeling is right. i'm dying waiting for the PG map release and hornet obvs

well the Iranian air force has f14s obvs and they were trained by the Americans and I've met some and seen many documentaries they use a mix of Persian and american lingo while speaking over comms. everything in Persian but they use terms such as "take off" "bearing" "target" "bingo" numbers are generally communicated in English from what i've seen and heard. "bug out" "lead" "wingman" these are spoken in English for comms for IRIAF. so technical terms seem to be in English but general communication is Persian or farsi to be accurate.

ya they added Chinese ATC for the J11....why wouldnt they add persian ATC etc ? would be really cool and immersive.

deff not, if they did that they'd have to include the extensive Iranian s300 air defenses too and you wouldn't be able to just mess around on the map free of threats cuz the every 2 seconds an s300 would be painting you. map will deff come without air defenses and mission creators will have to populate the map.

ya exactly this for me. I tried to do some pretend ISIS bombing in the desert but I could never get into it in the back of my mind I always knew it was nevada and theres no ISIS there. now I just use it as a training map. low fly bys scaring some civis etc

Didnt ED say Persian gulf and Hornet were being released at the end of spring? or am i wrong on this assumption I could have sworn I read that somewhere

when can we expect the next update tho

I held off on my purchase of the av8b until recently, not for any particular reason there was just other stuff I wanted first... and now I have it, and....man is it fun. shes a beaut. deff one of my fav modules. top 3 for me for sure.

so i just tried it on mine, mk-82 fuse IN, CCIP, no DMT, and it worked fine I had full detonation. Id say try it again and see if it was just a one time bug maybe you didnt notice you did something differently I dont know But it works fine for me.

ohh this is the new version. thanks so much for your help man.

not sure why ur bombs didn't explode if you put the fuse in, but I've dropped many bombs without DMT and they've all detonated. which bombs did u drop? possibly the practice smoke ones ?

thats what I thought it was originally but when I youtube it they all have this black and white projection on their HUDS where as this is almost like a blue turquoise color. is this the same mode? there a way to change the color it projects ?

What is this mode ? and how does one get to it? Tried looking in the manual and didnt see anything. looked all over youtube nothing. i'm assuming its some sort of night mode thing? If I knew what it was at least called I could do some research on how to use it. Thanks in advance guys

I can confirm I've seen weird flight behavior under 300 knots. I just got the module tho so I don't know how it was before I just thought that was normal. at low speeds with risk of hitting trees I've just been throwing the nozzle down to 60-82 degrees to get that elevation and clear the trees and then quickly dropping back to 0 degrees. some thrust vectoring if you will.

hey man appreciate the response. ya the image I see in the MFCD is the one the box is pointed at. I actually figured out why the NWS wasnt working. I only have 1 window button on my keyboard and its on the left. I dont even know what a RIGHT win button is. anyway I bound it to a different key and its working now. Only question now is does the DMT camera provide target altitude information for the CCIP solution? making the CCIP solution more accurate if I have a DMT lock on the ground around the target ?

OK so i'm new at the AV8B so please correct me if anything i'm saying is complete hog wash. OK so since mavericks are out right now due to the bug, I been working on my CCIP dumb bomb drop. I've gotten decent at it I think. However I experienced a new thing last time out. I noticed all of a sudden all my bombs were falling waaaay short. like were talking 40-100meters short. This was weird as I was doing it just fine a few minutes ago. I go to circle around and come back for another pass and as I complete my turn I see theres a box in my hud bearing 130 on a hill off in the distance like 200km away. I ignored it and come in for my pass and again the bombs were wayy off target. My guess is that the box in the distance is my "DMT" that I accidentally somehow locked into the distance? and its affecting the CCIP calculations by feeding it incorrect target altitude levels (I'm thinking its using the hills altitude?) I'm assuming this is correct as I read somewhere CCIP drops are more accurate if you can point ur DMT at the target... Anyway so I come to Turn off the DMT lock on the hill and the command for "AG target Undesignate / NWS / FOV toggle" is LWIN+N. So I hit this and nothing happened. I tried a bunch of commands and basically could not get this DMT TV thing to turn off or reset. Is any of this correct? and if so how do I turn off or reset the TV? (assuming my assumption that it affects CCIP is correct) thanks in advance guys

Yup I can confirm I also have little to no sound when firing the gun on the av8b

I have the same problem but I just got the module yesterday so i was following all these tutorials and it was getting very frustrating thinking I was missing something only to find out it's a bug. Would love it if they got this feature working again as im stuck only dropping bombs on guys right now and letting off a juciy maverick is half the fun with the av8b

perfect thanks brother. and thanks to everyone else who helped me out with this issue. DCS community is :thumbup:

Can i delete those videos off my channel now or do u think they will need to see them ?

will do man, interesting little problem i'm sure the dev team knows about this issue? i know its probably not a priority for them but it would be nice if they sorted it out. I just remembered why I even had it on, was cuz I can't play the ka50 without game mode, its still a little too complicated for me to fly.