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Fly ond the DDCS or the Cold war servers, lots of nice people.

Remember what the Mig 21 controlls feel like if you are in the air and go super slow like 400 km per hour. She does not react well and wobbles a lot. You can pull on the stick pretty hard with almost no reaction due to the slow airflow. At touchdown speed its the same. Key is to pull the stick back, almost full backwards, then you enter the window were you can touch town and the nosewheel stays up. Too much and you scratch the end of the 21. Good luck, it is difficult but rewarding if you mastered it.

It's time to raise your game ED ! No offence but the core stuff needs some love. AI, weather, ATC, .... all abysmal. Sad but true.

Me too but I think connecting via IP may solve your problem.

Edit: seems 59 frames is also not as good as I thought (((

A hard +1 for a new weather !!! The weathercas of now is way too simple, clouds look terrible and there is just not enough variety. It's actually that bad (((

I testet a cap with 59 frames this afternoon, it was a hefty MP session and I was busy not getting shot but I could not detect any frame drops like I used to get with the 60 frame cap. With a cap at 60 fps I always get those weird drops to 59 frames. I used Riva to cap the frames and currently I use a Full HD TV at 60hz. Will test again the next days ... One more thing, if I raise my TrackIR speed from lets say 1.4 up to 2, it seems to give me less stutter. It seems smoother to me. Has anybody checked different / higher TrackIR speed settings ?

I did the update right away, running open beta, no server showed up. Buddy spike for example shows up and a lot of others too. I'll give the SRS connect first a try tomorrow. Fly on my team 1Shot or get ready to eject :-)

Can't see the server too, no DDCS, no Burning Skies, nada, zero, ...

First two days I got sick using TrackIR, now there is no way back. Buy it, close thread :-)

The F5 is a great trainer too. Cold war server and DDCS server only allow rear aspect missiles which is giving us longer dogfights. Don't be afraid, those IR missiles are easy to counter as long as you see them coming. The Mig 21, the Sabre, the Mig 15 are also pilots planes. The worst thing is probably using a fly by wire aircraft exclusively. They are fun and the systems keep you busy for years but at the end they do all the flying for you.

Yap exactely, thx Sarge.

Logging off is a pretty bad way to get more experienced I'd say.

Grab or buy a WWII prop plane and fly against other players in MP like Burning Skies for example. These planes teach you everything you need to know when it comes to aerial combat. Can't stress this enough mate. A few sessions WWII a week and you'll get so much better.

Perfect landing means your nosewheel doesn't drop imediately on touchdown. This is quite tricky and I just mastered it a few times. If you float over the runway and your wingtips wobble left and right because you try to touchdown very gentle thats a good indicator that you try it the right way. Everybody says for example the F 5 is a breeze to land. Very easy to land yes, not dropping the nose on touchdown is a whole different story.

They just need to give us a checkbox in the special options for a clear or a weathered canopy glass, problem solved. Let us choose period ! Spotting in the Mig is a pain and a huge disadvantage in MP.

same here, you can hang your head outside the canopy glass, no trackir issue, works fine with all other modules. is this bug reported?

+1

thx mate, see you in the air :-)

May I ask what size your current TV screen is ? The 55" 4k I used was too big to set it up properly in front of my desk. But I may go that route and change my whole desk / room layout. 4k is stunning, almost no need for AA if the distance to your eyes is set up right. Wish there were TVs with Gsync. And by the way, the chasing example was actually meant to describe loosing a target by just looking away from it for a second. Nothing to do with how fast or what direction an enemy aircraft goes. Even if the target has never left its initial position, we often just don't pick it up again or at least don't see it right away. We start to pan for it, check six again, move our heads arround to get rid of the canopy frames, we start to bank and turn, you name it ... That tiny DCS bandit has never left, is flying the same speed, the same heading right where we picked him up for the first time. We just overlook those little spots, assume too much which makes things even worse. And we really need no coloured labels. I don't get it. Identifying is hard and tricky, even harder for VR users ok. But we have all kinds of different liveries, red tails, yellow noses etc The spitfire prop is quite a label I'd say, her wings too. P 51 liveries flicker and so on ... It's pure fun to check out who is who. Where is he heading, where did he came from, what altitude, what speed, how many are there, are they climbing a lot or stick to turning ... we already get a pretty good picture what's going on. And there is voice chat, wingmen, training and experience. Think we have enough tools to fight the right guy.

My car is unfortunately pretty small but I get your point :-) Probably that FOV problem is much more difficult than I thought. Lots to learn but one thing remains: by zooming in, one can make a small target appear much larger right ? Just not happening in a real cockpit, it's a cheat. With just a screen in front of us we will never get an ultra realistc 3D immersion like the VR users have. Spotting in this game might be terrible but I tested almost every screen size and resolution. 1080p up to 4k, 27" gaming monitors up to a 55" Oled TV, labels off and on in all kinds of variations ... It is harder the higher the resolution is and bigger is better yes but the difference is in no way THE game changer. Look at a target you are chasing, check your six, look at the target again ... gone ! Happens to us all the time. But more often than not, we can see it again after loosing track. Sometimes we just go WTF and blame the entire universe for it. Enemy aircraft is still there, hard to see but still there, we overlook a lot. Dark blue sky, forrest, those nasty waves, flickering textures, stress, fatigue, etc ... We really just overlook a lot in this game !!! Can't imagine how much targets people miss because of zooming in and out all the time. If we are honest we can see a lot and miss a lot which brings joy and frustration. Spotting is bad as of now but constant zooming would make my head explode. Labels make a difference ! I don't like labels but BS has done a good job so far. Way better than a month or two ago.

I do not use zoom at all, it's not even mapped to my hotas. Spawn in, press enter once and thats about it. TrackIR here, so no VR experience. The zooming option is killing a lot realism in that sim, I wish it could or would be turned off for everybody like the 3rd person view and other arcade stuff. Zooming in a WWII plane didn't happen in real life except the very rare use of rifle scopes at ultra long distances to find enemy formations. Sadly the zoom in and out option is like scanning the battlefield like in an a10. The if, who and how many should play a bigger part in DCS WWII. What's wrong with chasing an aircraft that turns out to be friendly ? Happens, happened an will happen again. Rather have a 100% rate at picking the next target ? Thanks no ... Red n blue labels to make ultra clear who is who ? Glad the server host declined that already. And by the way, folks who ask for bigger labels, red n blue, whatever ... there will be no advantage for anybody except the already skilled pilots. I don't think they will have much trouble shooting big blue or red targets that pop up across the map.

What price hike ?

Just buy it !

Like the new sound too.