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  1. It's almost non existing. Systems don't fail, you can't degrade stores, nada.

    But I think that's the case for the Hornet also, so .. taking the Hornet as the elder brother .. it's going to be quite some time before we see that .. if we ever do that is.

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  2. On 6/26/2021 at 3:30 PM, Harlikwin said:

     

    Yeah, HB did some good work modeling some of that on the 14. The jeff has some of this as well, you can get hung stores if you do stupid stuff. But sadly not the viper at this point, I can happily pull 9G with 2 bags and 0 consequences. I can go supersonic with bags, no problem, I can go way faster than I should with a DI of 50 etc etc.

     

    So half the problem with the viper is that it overperforms in some areas.

     

    And then the other half of the problem is that it underperforms in other (G onset, rates, etc). 

     

    From my experience ED seems to always be more willing fix the "underperformance"  rather than try to model any actual limits to systems. Be that FM's or Radars or whatnot. 

     

    The two big ED birds have none of that modelled.

    Hornet, Viper, ... you can fly inverted for as long as you like .. push negative Gs until you can see your bloodtype as clear as day .. whatever .. 

     

    I was really surprised when I flew the JF17 with a centerline tank in a dogfight (and it HAS a g limiter) and saw the centerline tank keep flying straight when I was pulling .. I was smiling 🙂

    8 hours ago, Fri13 said:

     

    That is what I would like to see, it would change a lot about the multiplayer how people fly, but only on servers that would activate a such "Hard Core" system mode (so all those who want to lose a plane due flameout, can keep doing so on servers that doesn't have such mode enabled).

     

     

    Of course many is always against the whole idea because their fun would be taken away, if they would need to fly to action from 200 M distance each time they die, they would just start to feel bad about the mission, and not because their habits to fly. 

     

    The sad thing in "Air Quake" servers is that they are heavily DM oriented, instead at least TDM or more preferable CTF where teamwork matters far more than individual performance. 

     

     

    This is the problem:

    what's the target audience? WWII people? Airquakers? Realism-oriented folks?

     

    When you advertise something with: "the most realistic ... yada yada" then it hints at the last group. And then you shouldn't need a Hardcore mode...

    If you want to do Airquake, fly one of the other games that have that as target audience.

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  3. What I am not getting is that they will not have any documents on the AIM-120 or the ECM pods .. yet they just model that .. guesstimates etc.

     

    Now my curiosity and frustration gets poked when suddenly the rules change.

    How dire!!! must the paper-front be for them to not guesstimate the pod .. 

    To me it sounds like they couldn't even get their hands on footage on youtube or whatnot. And *this* then further means that there was *nothing* on the pod when they announced it originally. And that's horrible sales behaviour.

    I find it amazing at what lax realism some of the hornets toys (and yes .. given that you get the walleye, which will never see the light of day in a 2005 conflict (from the time perioud it's supposed to be in)) are in .. and the sheer quantity .. 

    this is adding insult to injury. But it has been for quite some time. The F-16 in DCS should be a warning to everyone on how you botch a product launch and drag it through the dirt. And since there are no competitors, they get away with it. It's unfair, I wish it was different, but here we are.

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  4. 12 hours ago, Versor said:

    Very important thing in the f-18 is the ability to use the paddle at higher speeds. Thanks to this, the F-18 can achieve overloads much higher than the permissible ones. This makes F-18 an unbeatable dogfighter.

    I don't know how it is in reality and what would happen if the pilot used a paddle and reached, say, 9 g in the F-18

     

    He would most likely have to justify this usage as it wears out the jet quite a bit. Better than getting shot down and bringing no jet home though.

     

    I guess in reality you would work more with your wingman to switch in dire situations to generate the best outcome at least wear to the machinery and pilot. 

    7 hours ago, Spurts said:

    you need to quantify that.  ~1.05 in Mil is possible with a clean F-16 blk 50

    DCS doesn't model the transonic wall of draghell. Flying just above or below M1 isn't economic. 

  5. 21 minutes ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    Nah, notching shouldn't work very well in lookup, but its a function of main lobe clutter, which in lookdown is the main issue, in look up its significantly less depending on how far above the horizon as I understand it and also ownship altitude but its not entirely gone. DCS models this very simply as above horizon or not AFAIK so not sure why it was doing that maybe its more complicated. 

     

    From what little I understand distant ground clutter is also less of a problem. Look up would be mainly influenced by bloomed chaff and ECM, I understand.

    1 minute ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    Yeah, thats weird broken if its notchable in lookup, but how much look up are we talking? 3 degrees above the horizon, or 45? The second half of that 100kph is lik 53kts which is about right from what I've read. 

     

     

    15-20nm distance, he at 21000 me at 20000 .. I'd need to do trigonometry .. but it should be workable .. but especially with the curvature .. ground was a nofactor .. I have little faith in what ED passes for radar stuff tbh.

  6. 20 minutes ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    What mode were you in, and yeah in a notch its reflecting energy, but the radar is filtering it out thats the defenition of "the notch". 

     

    Mode: STT (and after lost lock, RWS with a blip there, but "locking it" would just reset the cursor .. )

     

    The AN/AWG9 was able to automatically deactivate the MLC filter when the target was above the horizon. 

    That what you want to filter out should not be there at this altitude in a look-up condition. Or with range gating .. or whatever ..

    So the USAF .. years later .. tossed that capability away? I am unconvinced.

  7. My tip: Dig through Newspaper reportings and other public sources about shots fired in anger by F-16s (say Pakistan) .. look at the distances involved .. come to your own conclusion.

    And bare in mind that the USAF didn't upgrade the F-16s they had to the (9) radars, because they were happy with what they had. Is that something that has a range equal to my car reverse-gear distance-warn-beeper? ... I am sceptical.

    Why am I defensive about this? Because of things like how Chaff is modelled, because of things like how SAM magically makes RWRs not give a dime is modelled, etc. etc. all of it yells: "I don't understand radar or at least can't explain obvious weird things to others" (which I don't either) ..

     

    I wanted to rejoin with a tanker in DCS at 20.000ft (tanker was at 21.000ft) and it was notching me at around 15-20 nm .. I could see it .. it was big .. it was surely reflecting some of that magic radar-stuff.

     

    So yeah ..

    1.) Whatever ED does .. we will have to love it, change it or leave it.

    2.) ED should explain very very detailed why they came to whatever conclusion.

  8. 18 hours ago, Ignition said:

     

    I didn't watch the track but he may had hit the osb trying to turn it on, as in the track it was already on it may have turned it off.
    Track replays are useless 99% of the time, they NEVER work for me, never. The only thing that works are videos and tacview.

     

    We (my friends and I) made a SEAD mission this saturday and we had no major issue with them.

     

    Furiz is just trying to be a smarty pants. 

     

    I pressed the DL button in the mode selection of the WPN page and that turns the weapon off. 

    I consider that a defective behaviour (as for example no reaction when pressing a non implemented feature might be better), Furiz apparently considers me to blame. 

    I don't really care but provided the trackfile so that ED can make up their own mind. 

    End of story. No drama. Nothing to see. 🙂

  9. 4 hours ago, Mover said:

    You're hearing CHAFF/FLARE even when you're not dropping anything?

     

    Affirm. I got a CHAFF callout even with chaff's deactivated.

    As far as I researched that wasn't correct. But I will believe you if you tell me otherwise.

    4 hours ago, cofcorpse said:

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see some of the issues reported in the bugs section. I only see "HARM switching itself off during flight".

    Could you make reports with tracks?

     

    Edit: Track file uploaded to the bugthread

  10. 15 minutes ago, Beirut said:

     

    You may be right, but for me it has a lot to do with the cockpit layout. I just don't like it. I may be the only one, but there it is. I find it a bit too minimal out front and the MFDs are hard to see with my 50+ year-old eyes. I find the Harrier cockpit to be just about perfect, and the Hornet is very good, even with the canopy bar in front. The F-16 makes me feel like I will forever be squinting.  

     

    Steam approved my refund in about an hour, but they always make you wait a day or two to put the cash back in your wallet. Punishment and deterrence I guess.  :laugh:

     

    To each their own. Thanks for giving the Viper a try!

    But one thing I can say for your eyes. It might not be their fault. The MFDs are just very hard to see in DCS at the moment 🙂

    I guess it's easier to hide incomplete bits when you can't read them 😜

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  11. 1 minute ago, Ignition said:

    I guided GBU-12 droped from a F-16 while I was on a tank (jtac), I saw the bomb hit the ground like 400ft away from the objective BUT the target was destroyed. My friend was watching the target from the TGP and he said the bomb went right on the top of the target. His tacview showed the bomb hit the target but mine didn't.

     

    So it was a problem of network synchronization.

     

    ED should fix this, its really bad for buddy lasing.

     

    This has been an issue for months sadly, I am not sure where it's reported, but it doesn't really impair buddy lasing, even though it looks weird. You'll still destroy the targets, it's just that your bomb looks to fall weird to anyone but you.

  12. 1 hour ago, Furiz said:

    You said you had the HSD page open and it turned off, now you are saying it turns off when you press DL. DL is located on the WPN page in the mode menu. So you see you pressed something;P

     

    Yep DL does turn it off, but I thought it was WIP still.

     

    Who do you think you are and how are you helping this thread?

     

    Let me tell you are about "contributions" to this thread:

     

    On 5/31/2021 at 7:38 AM, Furiz said:

    Check if you by any chance have some key or hotas button bound to the stores switch, you might have turn it off. This never hapened to me and I fly in the Viper a lot.

     

    "Check if you by any chance have some key or hotas button bound to the stores switch, you might have turn it off."

    - Now this is the actual only helpful input from you in your two posts. And even though someone who flies the F-16 "a lot" might know that it does not have a "stores switch" I get by what you mean by that.

    "This never hapened to me and I fly in the Viper a lot."

    - Category: Captain Obvious. For this statement not to be true bugs in DCS would have to happen often enough so that people "flying a lot" would all have encountered them. I suggest you imagine saying a statement like that in a nother low chance situation. A car accident, "This never happened to me and I drive car a lot" etc. It is a superfluous statement at best.

    "You said you had the HSD page open and it turned off".

    - Category: Parrot.

    "now you are saying it turns off when you press DL."

    - Category: Parrot. 

    "DL is located on the WPN page in the mode menu."

    - Category: Capain Obvious.

    "So you see you pressed something;P"

    - Category: Capain Obvious.

    "Yep DL does turn it off, but I thought it was WIP still."

    - I don't really care for your thoughts on this point. I am reporting a defect to ED here with something that is available and can be a big nuisance in a high pressure environment (switch modes during SEAD operations). 

     

    As you can see you repeated a lot of the things I wrote and tried to gaslight me into thinking that it was my fault to get an unwanted outcome.

    I am seriously not sure what you do here in these defect threads, Furiz. But I hope that you can find something else in life that gives you validation and self-esteem. I don't need you to reply to this as it's not productive to this - or any other defect - minus the very first sentence you wrote, which I have acknowledged and stated. Thank you.

  13. 8 minutes ago, Greg B said:

    Nope, if you look at the last major weapons system for the Viper - Maverick. Expected April 2020, delivered August 2020. Its June 2021 and we have seen screenshots of the JDAM but nothing else. Look at the work on the Hornet through the Open Beta updates and the depth of implementation of systems and bug fixes, then look at the Viper. I'm not even going to bother posting a comparison list because the last time it was removed and the familiar explanation rolled out before the whole thread was culled:

     

    And those major improvements are not really working. Mavericks have a load of problems. HARMs do. 

    And they differ from existing implementations. The Mavericks and HARMs in the F-16 are more realistic than those on the other platforms. Why did they not build them that realistic in the first place? No idea.

     

    Now JDAM seems to be delayed because the SPI system needs to be overhauled for the F-16. My questions is:

    How does it need "overhauling"? It's brand new .. We had a big overhaul when we got the ability to create waypoints last year, which broke everything. We got another overhaul when the "real" LITENING pod came out and CZ was a thing now.

     

    How can there be another need for a rework now? Why are things not build with some foresight?

     

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    As for the amount of developers, etc. Now we have been told there are developers working on the weapons for the F-16. But as Greg rightfully said, it has been almost a year .. no update to the Maverick in terms of bugs. No new weapons. I hope ED knows that we kind of expect JDAMS to work perfectly now, right? Even with all the options you can set on a JDAM this is a long time for essentially just something that the A-10 already has. Also .. why do we have the only plane where laser guided GBUs don't track for anyone but our own plane? Is this going to hit us with the JDAMs as well?

     

    If you took one of the hornet developers and had them work on the F-16 one day per week. You can bet that you would have minor improvements. Bullseye on FCR and HSD cursor for example. Just low hanging fruits that would at least make the F-16 folks feel less than completely ignored.

     

    I'm at a point where I am just waiting for VR in that other SIM and then I'm happy.

     

     

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  14. 1 hour ago, Furiz said:

    Check if you by any chance have some key or hotas button bound to the stores switch, you might have turn it off. This never hapened to me and I fly in the Viper a lot.

    I fly the Viper a lot as well, and I have nothing bound to the MFD buttons. The stores page was not even open when it happened. I had the HSD open on that side.

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