CE_Mikemonster

Going to give that a go, thanks a lot mate! Cheers Frederf, worked a treat. Takes a lot less concentration/feels more natural.

Children!

Nice, gonna try that now. I HATE babysitting wingmen though, makes it almost more hassle to have them sometimes. Fingers crossed the patch will sort it a bit. Btw, you want to be called Eric or SH? Been annoying me lol

Don't think so mate, nice thought though lol. Would it matter anyway? Mission would have already been successful or a failure right? obviously with a Dynamic Campaign it matters.. Hehehe .. in Falcon RESCAPs are mounted, SAR chopper etc.

To do this did you Send an Ingress Point and then tell him to attack, and he went to the IP and stood-off from target? Thanks, Mike

Brilliant, many thanks Z

Hahaha cheers Frederf, editing post to remove bold. I meant approach from downwind of the pad, towards the pad (advancing upwind) lol.

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Hahahaha, 'bet the farm'. I thought the Infantry are simulated as being 'dug in' which is why they are apparently nails hard.

The manual is a bit skimpy on landing, but I personally find that the easiest way to land is; 1) Remember wind direction ATC gives when clearing you to land. 2) Approach helipad from directly downwind (flying into the wind), at a good altitude (~250m). 3) Set yourself up from a long way out, and trim so that the only thing you have to worry about is descent rate (nose aligned with helipad and no sideways drift). 4) Set up a steady descent rate (~3m/s) from well outside the helipad vicinity. 5) Continue descending directly towards helipad in a straight line, and gradually pull back on cyclic to bleed speed (nose up). 6) When almost on the helipad, and trimmed and stable, perform one last gradual flare so that the helicopter is barely moving forward, then ease off the collective and settle down like a fat goose. Like when you drive a car, look where you want to go. If you're very low and slow there's almost no point looking in the instruments, use objects as 'reference points' (for instance the corner of a building in relation to the windscreen wiper). Probably not the textbook correct approach procedure! But the way I see it, hanging around in a hover over the helipad can end up in disaster because it's a pain in the arse and mostly improvised. If you properly plan and set up an approach it's a lot easier, and I reckon that sort of attitude is a lot more important than being able to hover for 3hrs. I'm no expert and still learning every time I fly, but I hope you pick up some points there. If anyone notices any bad tips please tell me, I don't want to be developing bad habits!

I can't see why it wouldn't be ok, there are a few of us using 3850's with 1900x1200 (like me) and they be fine! (I have mirrors off, mostly High settings, and up till about 3.6GHz on a Dual Core the CPU is a bottleneck, so if you're not going to OC past that the GPU isn't a huge concern[iMHO]) EDIT: For the monitor, make sure you read a lot of reviews by gamers! See what it is like for motion blurring, ghosting and input lag. Some screens don't perform so well for moving pictures, but can display very vibrant colours (so are good for image editing etc instead). It is very frustrating to have a large monitor and not be able to watch DVD's because faces blur, shadows remain etc. Regards MM

Yeah first rule of networking that I learned lol, KEEP THE RECEIPT hahahaha Those powerline things look great though, wish i'd thought of that.

Can the civilian traffic be made dynamic (slightly)? I'm a bit sick of civilian Ural trucks pootling along through a hot battlefield - The impression I get is that in low intensity conflicts at least, the civilians have a 6th sense about where NOT to drive (in a conventional war you'd be in your cellar I presume lol).

Good point, I did not. If I do command him to RTB will I have to follow him in or will he land in formation with me? I was assuming that asking permission to land was for my element, or whatever the Russians call it.

That's where Goose went wrong you see.. A shame really.

Annoying isn't it lol

I don't think we'll see anything like it again tbh Having said that, in 15 years time can't help wondering that graphics will have reached better than life, and (AI will be almost clever). [strokes proverbial beard]. Maybe then we'll see another high-budget effort eh?

Good stuff, i'm glad to hear it. I was transmitting through a couple of walls and floors when I was having issues, low signal and internet dropping out/slow etc. I think that I was using the Netgear card that you have - Is yours the 'G+' standard, or MIMO or anything like that?

I posted this in another thread in General Discussion but nobody commented, so I thought i'd try in here as it might be a bug. I started on a FARP in a campaign mission, and upon returning landed on the 'wrong one' of two helipads (the one my wingie started on). My reasoning was that there were two, and my wingman was behind me, so I approached into the wind and landed at the 'forward' one, thinking he'd land on the other (being behind me and all). Strangely enough he overflew ahead of me and hovered (until I quit the mission). The place he hovered meant that if I were on the 'correct' pad (that I took off from) his position (in relation to me) would have been above the other helipad. Any info? As far as i'm aware ATC don't give a specific pad to each chopper.

Yeah I was taking that as a given, seeing it was (10?) years old a few months back. Considering the resources it uses nowadays it has to have come along lol.

Not easy by any means of the imagination to make one, but I can't help wondering what games would be like if that side of gaming had been given a higher priority and had actually progressed. Is it true that it (sort of) bankrupted MicroProse?

I set up wireless in my house a few months back and had reception issues with 'G' cards in my house and my girlfriends house. At the mo i'm using a Belking N1 router with a matching Belkin N1 card (eBay), and no issues. Sometimes the problem is that the 'G' cards can receive a signal but can't muster enough strength to send a signal back. Obviously you can always just buy a massive length of Cat5 (ethernet) cable and route it through the house - this is what I would have done if it wasn't for the fact that I rent. It's really cheap to buy online and there's loads of threads on doing it.

That's true, i'm not old enough to have played the original Falcon 4.0 campaign.

Thanks for the heads up, might do the dishonest thing too and wait to see their impact.. lol