Wrightie

I have decided to say goodbye to the DCS community and DCS as a whole. I have been playing DCS for 2 years now and have enjoyed being able to fly the various modules, Tomcat, F18, Huey, Gazelle, F16 to name a few but unfortunately some elitist members of this “community” make it not a nice, actually extremely toxic place to be. I have seen it time and time again whenever anyone voices a legitimate grievance (Usually comes down to a complete lack of communication) there are a selection of White Knights and apologists who will take it upon themselves to ridicule, belittle and attack this customer for even daring to voice their grievance. We saw it with the debacle that was the Supercarriers launch back in April. People were understandably aggrieved that not only was the module that they’d paid for delayed (This is understandable in software development I know) ED left it until a few hours before launch to communicate that. Even when customers were asking outright about a delay the day before, members of the ED team were evasive and told their customers “Don’t overthink it, it’s not as bad as you might think”. Once it was delayed any customer who dare put their head above the parapet was rounded on by a vocal few members. I read over and over “I’m glad I’ve brought popcorn” or replies from these, frankly Assholes aggressively defending ED and saying it’s an early access module and to get over it. As paying customers these people are well within their rights to complain at ED but no they were bashed by ED apologists for even daring to be miffed by the contemptuous communication shown. Again last week we saw the same when one of Heatblur’s customers voiced his opinion that he was miffed because HB waited until the day of the patch to actually announce that the F14A won’t be included and will be released on the 18th instead. As pointed out by Mike, Heatblur never announced that the -A was part of the patch but they were well aware that they’d stated it would be in the October patch which lead people to think it was going to come in the November one as there was no patch in October. HB knew that people were expecting the launch on that day but again chose to wait until the 11th hour to actually communicate that it wouldn’t be releasing to their customers. This customer mentioned that he’d taken the following day off work as he was excited to fly the A. (Everyone takes time off work to enjoy their hobbies even all you white knights) again this customer was attacked, ridiculed and belittled for daring to point out that HB should’ve communicated the A wasn’t going to be included in the Patch earlier as they knew people had expectations as it had been a buzz in the forums for several weeks. To all you apologists out there. These people are customers of Eagle Dynamics, Heatblur or any other DCS developer. They have invested their money into DCS. Who are you to tell these customers that they can’t voice their opinion, as paying customers this is their right, Early Access is not an excuse for a lack of transparency or abysmal communication and you DCS apologists would all do well to remember that. Eagle Dynamics you have a good product, a product that I have spent well over £1000 on not to mention the peripherals I’ve purchased to play it but I will not be supporting you any longer people always say “Vote with your wallet” so that is what I’m doing by not purchasing any new modules for your sim. It is 100% solely due to this awful, toxic, elitist community, who knows how many customers you’ve lost because of it. Hopefully you will start to clamp down on this behaviour and maybe learn yourselves to communicate better or at least learn to manage customer expectations but even if you don’t, I will no longer be around to witness it.

That skin looks amazing Reflected.

Here's a great documentary shot aboard U.S.S. Constellation in the late 80's featuring VF-21. My mate in secondary who introduced me to the F-14 had this on VHS after watching this I was hooked.

Thanks Taz

On the old forum i used to open the forum, then could go to Official Updates for example and with a glace you could see if the thread you were interested in had been updated as the heading was bold and then jump straight to the last page. Is this possible here? Atm i'm seeing Sticky's highlighted (in yellow) but cannot tell if the thread has been updated and can't see if it's possible to quickly go to the last page. Anyone know if this is doable on the new forum.

Thanks for the update Mike and thanks to you and your team for making my Top Gun dreams a reality.

Thanks Mike. When Cobra stated you'd start "discussing the sweeping changes next week" I took that to mean you'd start to show more of, the A in particular the week commencing 14th September.

Have i missed posts from HB relating to the F14. Cobra said in the F14 Priority post on the 8th September "Stay tuned as we begin discussing the sweeping changes to the F-14 coming in October next week!" As of yet i haven't seen anything relating to the A at all. I've only seen the changelogs so far. Have i missed some posts somewhere?

In RL this has happened. There was a particular incident in the 80's where an airliner was witnessed by the radar operator breaking into several pieces. He called "I've got multiple returns, It's showing 5 returns!!" Or words to that affect as he watched this happen.

IronMike posted this a few days ago. Doesn't sound like it's coming in the next patch sadly.

For christmas my nephew wanted a VR ready gaming PC. My sister gave me a budget and asked me to build it. To the best of my recollection this is what i put in it. I7 4790k, Corsair H100i, 16gb Corsair Vengeance ram and MOBO bundle £300 EVGA 600W PSU £50 Asus Strix 1070 £210 1gb SSD £100 500gb SSD £30 NZXT H500i £90 Oculus Rift CV1 & Touch £230 This machine runs DCS in VR on medium-high settings without any issue at all, more importantly though only cost a grand. I got a DK2 in 2014 and cannot imagine playing a vehicle sim on a monitor anymore. I've found that muscle memory has taken over, i'm able to use my HOTAS, mouse/Keyboard but also the MFD Cougars with the headset on. Good luck with your build.

I've tried but no joy. I'll try reinstalling the Cat and see if that helps

I'm no longer able to turn on the lights on the Tomcat. Prior to last weeks update i would set my lights using the right side panel and hit a button on my throttle i'd set as the master toggle. This no longer works. I'm unable to get any lights except for cockpit lights.

Ah thanks for the info Quid

I know this sounds like a daft question but i always thought the Tomcat first flew on the 21st December 1970. Did the Tomcat fly before that?

It has made such a difference. I really struggled to fly Helicopters with anything close to competence. This has changed that, I have already seen massive improvement. Pretty amazed really.

I've been enjoying the Huey for several months now but there was a pretty major aspect that, no matter what i tried i just couldn't master. Of course i'm talking about hovering. While i saw a little improvement I couldn't keep anything like a steady, stable hover or transition back to, erm what i could do in the way of hovering. I have been using a HOTAS Warthog just sat on my desk, today i received a Helicopter extension from a UK seller on ebay. What can I say but WOW!!!! Last night i was unable to hold a hover 3 feet off the tarmac, today - 10 minutes after installing the extension i was about 20 feet off the deck at Nellis holding a steady hover, I then flew over to the race track and flew a circuit, landed pretty much where i planned to before flying back entering another hover and landing back on the helipad where i took off from. I was sceptical that this extension would have little, if any bearing on my (lack of) flying prowess but instead i'm flying better than i ever have after having it for less than an hour. Money well spent. [/url][/img]

Can you help with this at all please. I purchased Nevada and the A10C this morning. Once installed i tried to launch DCS and got the following error message Failed to request product key from steam, please try again in a few minutes. I have verified the integrity of the game files, cleared the download cache, restarted Steam, my PC several times and my router but nothing has worked. I have logged a support ticket 96003, hoping to get this sorted soon i was hoping to do a bit of flying this weekend. Thanks

???? Since i transitioned from ACLS this Jester callout would be perfect for most of my traps.... He did say something like "hey nice landing man" last week but he may have meant it sarcastically though.

Need a 2080ti or above is a bit excessive. I originally ran DCS World with an EVGA 980 with 4gb vram. I'm now using a Strix 1080 paired with a 4790k using the high settings preset. It runs flawlessly. A, 2080ti would be a luxury but by no means a minimum.

My first experience with VR was Euro Truck Sim 2 in 2014 with an OR DK2 and my system was an off the shelf PC World (UK Electronics store) POS. I7 860 @3ghz, Nvidia GT260, 8GB ram. I got used to VR after a few hours although the Nausea at first was pretty pants. However i have never looked back. The immersion offered, particularly for simulation games cannot be matched, even the reduced visual fidelity of VR headsets is worth the trade off in my opinion. My point is, get the Rift S, take A2597's advice and build tolerance slowly you will not be sorry. You can upgrade your system when you can to make DCS perform even better.

I was also having this problem, was due to having a steering wheel, pedals and SKRS shifter plugged in also (see the thread "pitching up problem") I unplug these now while playing DCS and touch wood haven't experienced the issue since. Have you got anything plugged in that could be interfering with your control axis?

The SU-33 installed straight away when i pre-ordered the SC