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Ok, that makes sense for me now. Although it is still not the exact discount like for normal E-shop-buyers, because on steam the calculation of the discount is 50$ * 0.7 * 0.8 = 28 $ wheareas on the E-shop it is probably 50$ * 0.5 = 25$ That is just a small difference, so I do not want to complain. The price is still very fair. Thanks ED! :thumbup:

Thanks for your reply. I own the Hornet on Steam, but I only have the -20%-Prepurchase-Discount in my inventory. When I add the Supercarrier to my shopping cart, then the final price is 26,39€, so there is no Hornet-discount for me. Only the pre-order-discount.

If it is ED's decision not giving the discount to Steam-users of the Hornet, then I respect that. I just would like to to know if this is really an intentional decision or a technical problem. If it is a technical problem, then maybe it can be solved in a few weeks, in which case I would wait before pre-ordering. So is there any official statement from ED about this? Can Hornet-owners get a second discount on Steam?

Yes, and in addition to that I think the enivronment should have an increases blue tone dependent on how much bright blue sky is available. In real life the light from the blue sky makes the ground look more blue-ish. I have found a workaround to get that blue-ish tone with ReShade, which makes DCS look better during day (not at night of course).

No, it is not camouflage. The same holds true for aircraft skins with a good visibility.

+1

The skycolors seem to be too dark even on low altitudes, when you are looking up at high angles. Maybe the Rayleigh scattering of the atmosphere needs some rework in DCS. It would certainly make dogfights easier, if we do not loose our targets against the dark blue sky so easily. Currently I have set my gamma value at max to see bandits above me.

On Steam it is possible to grant owners of a product a price reduction for another product. It happened to owners of CMANO, who were able to buy CMO for half the price. Maybe you could ask Valve about how they made it happen.

I also wonder what trigger.action.rectToAll is good for. It seems like you can send some circles or rectangles to all players, but I have no clue, what that could mean.

Any idea what trigger.action.circleToAll is good for? This function is not documented on Hoggit.

It is unfortunate, that we can only respawn Player-slots, but no Client-slots. I did a test-mission in multiplayer and my script was able to respawn my own Player-slot, but I think this would not work with more than one player. I wonder how DCS is deciding which player is in the Player-slot. Is it the host of the server? If it was possible to convert a Client-slot to the new Player-slot during the mission, then this would allow a workaround for Client-respawns.

Finally, ED takes a look at this. :thumbup::thumbup:

It depends. Which FC3 module was your favorite? If it was the A-10A, then go for the Viggen. If you liked air combat more, then go for the Mirage. However, it takes some time to learn the weapon systems of the Mirage. The Viggen is easier to learn and in the right hands it can also shoot down enemy fighters. Actually I found the Viggen to be more fun, but do not expect to shoot down 4th-gen fighters with it. What the Mirage and the Viggen have in common is their deltawing design. That means they are very maneuverable at high speeds, but they struggle very hard at low speeds, so you have to manage your energy well.

Höchstwahrscheinlich schon. Als ich z.B. Command Modern Air gekauft hatte, war es für mich 50% billiger, weil ich den Vorgänger CMANO bereits besaß. Solche Upgrades sind technisch gesehen in Steam auf jeden Fall möglich.

Yes of course, but I meant repeated friendly fire that becomes obvious. E.g. when multiple teamkills took place within a short time. If you do not like autoban, then you could make your script collect data from every friendly fire occurence, so you can decide yourself who you want to ban. Alternatively you could automatically send warn messages to players who made teamkills. Every teamkill increases the warn-score and that score only reduces slowly over time. Once the score hits a certain treshold, the player will be autobanned.

I have read somewhere that the JF-17 is so easy to use that you can do everything with HOTAS commands. So I am a bit disappointed that you have to use MFCD-bindings for important basic functions. I had a similar problems with the guns, because you need the MFCD to feed them. Imho everything that requires a quick action during combat should be doable with the HOTAS, but I understand that it is not Deka's fault.

Thanks for sharing! I will definitely watch this instead of the silly Top Gun sequel.

So the clan abused friendly fire to give the red team an unfair advantage? Can't you just use a script to autoban people, who repeatedly use friendly fire?

Meh, just because unsatisfied customers post more often does not mean that they are the majority. It is more tempting to write something, when you want to complain than when you just want to thank the team for their work. :D Anyway, I am really happy to see the announcement. Hope they will finish it in Q1 2020.

German Bombers and Flakscheinwerfer. I like it very much. :thumbup:

Zumindest kann man die GB-6 für die JF-17 verwenden laut https://de-de.facebook.com/pakistanidefence/photos/gb-6-joint-stand-off-weapon-jsow-is-a-gpsins-guided-air-launched-sub-munitions-d/10152598598682663/. Das sollte eigentlich ausreichen, um die GB-6 in DCS zu rechtfertigen. Ob sie bisher wirklich im Einsatz mit der JF-17 verwendet wurde, weiß ich nicht. Das kommt vielleicht noch in zukünftigen Konflikten mit Indien. Ansonsten kannst du mal im Pakistan Defence Forum suchen. Die haben dort sogar einen Thread zur JF-17 in DCS, wo auch die GB-6 diskutiert wird: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/jf-17-thunder-by-deka-ironwork-for-dcs.521087/page-5

In Chucks Guide habe ich gerade eben die Bezeichnung GB-6 JSOW für die GB-6 gefunden. Wenn du danach googelst, findest einige passende Treffer. Z.B. https://quwa.org/2016/07/09/pakistans-force-multipliers-part-3-cruise-missiles-sub-munitions/ Laut https://www.popsci.com/missiles-zhuhai-china-displays-new-strike-arsenal/ soll die GB-6 sogar eine "stealthy glide bomb" sein. Es würde mich interessieren, ob die KI SAM diese Bombe nicht so leicht abschießen kann. Bzw. müsste ich mal in Combined Arms das selber probieren, wie früh man die GB-6 auf dem Radar sehen kann.

Selbst wenn ich hinter dem feindlichen Flugzeug bin, dauert es manchmal ziemlich lange, bis die IR-Rakete einen Lock hat. Manchmal geht es zwar recht schnell, aber irgendwie scheint das nicht ganz zuverlässig zu funktionieren. Beim Uncagen sucht der Seeker zwar in der Richtung in der sich das andere Flugzeug befindet, aber es kann relativ lange dauern bis der Piepton erscheint. Auch der Radarlock dauert recht lange, selbst wenn ich im Boresightmode bin und mein Ziel innerhalb des Kreises auf dem HUD. Ich frage mich, ob die echte JF-17 ähnliche Probleme hat.

Hey, thanks for the update! It is good to see this bugfix, but it only works if Tacview is not already running. When it is running, then you still cannot open new acmi-files automatically by double clicking on them in the explorer. For me this is sometimes a problem, because Steam takes quite a while to close Tacview properly. I have written a programm in C# to fix those problems even when tacview is running. If anyone is interested, you can see my code here and run it as a windows application (you would have to change the directories though, if you want to use it for your PC): Btw. is there a way to use the steam-license to unlock the non-steam-license? I would like to display my flights in realtime on my notebook while DCS is running on my PC, because my PC has problems running Tacview and DCS at the same time and I would also like to use the second screen from my notebook. I am not sure how I could do that with the steamversion of tacview, because my DCS is also using Steam. Thanks.

Is there a time schedule when German bombers are coming for WW2 Assets? I consider that to be pretty important for setting up missions. At least Ju-87 should be added imo. The damage model really needs some fix. It made me a bit sad, that WW2 vehicles almost cannot be killed. :(