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Beats me, unlike some people i don't have time to read through an 8-page thread, dude.

That's the most basic translation of the Russian alphabet ever. Also yeah i have the Russian version, i've imported most of the menus to make it English. I didn't realise the dialogue was just in a Russian accent in the English version, i assumed it was American and lame.

I actually didn't hit the mountain as such, i just sort of landed on it... and then rolled down it. There wasn't much left of me.

Alright Bob, chill out, it's just a forum.

How is this superior to DCS:BS Affinity Tool?

I would enjoy Black Shark a lot more with the option of having English dialogue but with a Russian accent i think, as it's such a hassle to pause and read the text in the heat of battle. Incidentally, that Viktor dude isn't really Russian, he's actually British, from a place an hour away from me. But he can speak 20 languages! He is a very amazing person.

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By the way, if you do decide to check out Viktor's youtube video that i linked to there, you should be observant of his very subtle, very tongue-in-cheek humour. It is quite random yet pretty fun. There is also one video i watched where the perspective suddenly flips upside down, and cycles through a few visual filters. he likes to play around with things like that.

It is extremely beneficial to try and get a good grasp of the alphabet, while also learning very basic things like greetings, simple questions, and my favourite - the basic numerical system. Once the alphabet is sorted, it should be a piece of cake as the entire language is largely phonetic, so everything is pronounced just as it's written. The tricky parts are the soft and hard signs, and making sure you know where the stress is on a word. The stress can alter the meaning of something entirely. There are probably good courses if you google search. This guy is absolutely fantastic, i highly recommend a watch if you are serious about learning: He has an entire course, which he makes fun and interesting. I have downloaded them as well as a very good podcast by Olga Mitchell onto my iPod touch. If you have an iphone or an itouch, you can get some good apps from the istore that can help you learn Russian. My favourite sites for learning the alphabet are as follows: http://learnrussian.elanguageschool.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=1 http://www.masterrussian.com/aa122599a.shtml All found through google. There are also some good pieces of software for your desktop or laptop that can assist you, but i am yet to really look into them. The biggest advice i can give you is to love the language. Immerse yourself in it. Speak it to your friends, they'll probably love it and give great opportunity to express your enjoyment in it.

Wicked i've been doing the very same! I plan to spend a year or so in Russia in a couple of years. Also it's extremely satisfying, exciting and fun to self-teach yourself a language for a country that you love. There are also excellent jobs in the Russian translating business, or for teaching English in Russia. Удачи!

That's splendid, cheers dude. I'm so shocked others have had this exact problem on this exact mission. I didn't search because i thought i'd be the only one :S Sorry for wasting your time!

Hey guys, i've been playing this game for ages now, and i've not encountered this issue before. There's this one mission that's really stupidly long, it's like an hour and a half. It takes like an hour just to fly from the base to the ingress point. As you near the ingress point, you have to climb over these huuuge snowy mountains, but i just cannot get enough altitude in order to do it. I get to the point where i am almost able to clear them, but then my ascension meter levels off, and starts to drop. The collective is at max, and the set limit warning lights are active. If i pull up on the collective any more the system starts beeping at me signaling a critical issue is occuring. If i force them too much of course the engine will fail and i'll come crashing down. This is undesirable considering how much time i've wasted just getting that far. (this has already killed me about 6 times and i'm so sick of how many hours i've lost as a result, as there's no way to save). Even if i am perfectly stationary i cannot gain altitude to the level required. I don't have this trouble at lower altitudes.

Yeah i hear you dude, having tried to create a tex for the BS i have had a lot of trouble not knowing which bit of the unwrap is which when applied to a model. I'd be interested in this as well.

Love it!

Yeah i know, just wanted to clarify. This thread should probably be deleted as it's not really a bug either. Whoopsies. Cheers

Is this a render or is it an in-game shot? http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/img/technology/HelModel_02_Big.jpg Because it looks a lot better than mine does in-game. Notice the reflective surface on the belly, and how that panel handle is mirrored. Also the shadows seem more crisp than mine. Just wonderin'

By PM he really means he wants to send you a Prime Minister! You can have ours (England)

Ohhhh of course, i should have thought of that. You legend, thankyou!

Yeah i already have that one actually, i had hoping it'd be the plain one. Thanks anyway mate

Anyone have the blank canvas version of the Ka-50 texture, including rivets and other details?

Shame we can't get mission-specific windows. I tried the water-droplets-on-canopy mod, but it looked ridiculous on sunny weather maps. It would be ace if it dynamically changed based on environment, but of course that's asking for the world really.

Hahaha, now you've said that it's quite tempting to do it just so i can fly online :P

Yeah actually i noticed this, but i wouldn't have described it as you have. Not sure if it's even the same problem. But when you're flying along over water, it's like the water is stationary below you, but everything else is moving. So when you fly from water to land, the water seems to fly 'under' the shore. It's quite odd and makes flying over water really hard at times, as you have no reference for speed or altitude

Hey there, i'm a huge fan of the Doragon from Battlefield 2142, and i'm quite a proficient texture artist. So i'd love to try my hand at making some textures for Black Shark. I thought it'd be quite fun and original to create a PAC texture for the Ka-50, and as an experiment i was wondering if it would be possible to make the windows of the chopper opaque metal from the outside, but so you can still see out from the inside. The PAC Type 4 Doragon has an armoured canopy, with a holographic projection of the world around it on the inside. Would this be viable? Thanks for any suggestions

I get occasions where the airspeed counter in the upper left of my HUD disappears, this can often be accompanied by other components of the HUD disappearing. this usually happens every time i minimise the game, which is something i am always having to do if freetrack becomes un-centered. (and i know i can assign a shortcut but my keyboard is so far away that it doesn't centre it as i have top lean forward. Also, i can never get Turn To Target to work. It works if i actually run the weapon employment tutorial. But in-game, it just will not work. Any thoughts?