Hi everyone and thanks in advance for taking the time to reply to this thread!
I guess I just wanted to ask some general questions as a newcomer to DCs. I've been fooling around with the multiplayer functionality of the game, and I think it's really awesome or at least has an amazing potential. I'm flying to new F-18 Hornet and using it with VR Oculus Rift and it's just unbelievable how immersive all of this is. I downloaded the simple radio, and I've spent the last two weeks making some custom missions for myself to play on my own to get used to the mission editor and so far it's all working pretty well.
The part where I'm really getting frustrated and Confused is when I want to go and join a multiplayer game. For example on the Phoenix server or any of them really I join in and I just don't know what to do. After I spool up my airplane and take off I just feel so lost. The mission briefing is very vague and basically just says that there are some targets somewhere and the two forces are fighting. But it's very difficult to figure out who's on what team, and what the point of the mission really is and what I should be doing specifically.
I've read some other General posts when trying to do my own research on Google to try to educate myself on how to use the multiplayer more effectively. And it seems that I'm not alone in this thought. So rather than asking for general advice let me try and be more specific.
When I join a multiplayer server like the 107 Squadron or any of them for that matter and I spawn and start up my airplane and I pick my team then I take off, what's the next thing I should be doing?. I know about requesting for bogey dope and getting vectors to the nearest threat in the sky, but this also is very annoying because they might tell me that it's a hundred miles away and then I have to keep pushing the buttons to get the updates as I get closer and closer and this seems a little counter intuitive. Then I have no idea about how to find the ground targets or how to work with any of the other players in the mission on accomplishing any of that
It's cleared to have the best experience I myself would personally need to know individual people in which I would then go and create my own map and then I would have like a very lockdown server and we would use the voice SRS chat and it would be more like a real life scenario. In this sense I think the game would be amazing. And when I watch videos on YouTube such as the Grim Reapers which by the way is just absolutely unbelievable that's made very clear. But I guess it's very unrealistic to expect any type of consistent experience by just going and joining a public server and thinking that I'm going to know what to do?
Thanks so much for any advice that you have.
