davek1979

Last weekend I joined a russian server "Osa", pure flight and aerobatics, no targets, was minding my own business and some idiot called [EDIT BY MOD: RULE 1.6] came in, started to vulch like hell... had to leave as noone tried to kick him. Unbelievable.

"... you are flying a (comparatively) slow-moving helicopter the demands to update the outside world are reduced." So in Ed Macy's world there is a simple equation: The slower the simulated vehicle, the higher the FPS. Can anyone from ED confirm this so that my understanding of computer simulation gets to new depths ?

In my last few flights I avoided using auto hover. I'll only get back to cockpit in about 2 days, so if it happens again, I'll post the track.

• Looooooooooong after take-off. • Altitude was fine. • Power was fine. Does continuous and gentle slowing down to about 12 kmph count as a violent maneuver ? :-)

Yesterday I visited the Panzertard's Midget Tossers to have some fun. And fun I did have. Thumbs up for that great server!!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: However someone else as well as me ran into an interesting thing. The auto hover function seemed to mess up the stability of the heli. I've never had a problem with this function in SP. Yesterday in MP, after engaging this function under normal circumstances what I got was a spinning to the right, completely out-of-control heli. After a few episodes of this, next time I started spinning I checked the dampeners and they were all switched off, just the altitude hold was lit. Are they not supposed to be on when auto hover is engaged ?

Scorpion: Thanx man, I didn't know things happen for reasons. :) All: Yes, it was the issue with rotating knobs. I personally use click and drag to turn them and so overlooked the mousewheel turning. :doh: However I rise the suggestion to include a switch somewhere that would allow mousewheel action on knobs to be turned off while in the rotate/zoom/click mouse mode, as it can potentially badly influence your mission outcome. Thank you guys, may the Gods of rotors bless your flights! (back to the cockpit)

Thanx Mokem, this might very well be my answer. :thumbup: Will check ASAP to confirm it!

Hi, this is my track file. It's probably not the most graceful flight ever, so please do not comment on that part, I'm still learning. :) Near the end you will notice the Shkval going all dark. If all you see is total black, adjust your brightness on your monitors, you will see Shkval still operates, just lost the brightness and/or contrast. I'm not aware of any weird key combinations I pressed at that specific moment nor of any important changes on the battlefield. That's it - I'm not sure what happened. Any suggestions welcome. Thanx! Near Gundelen - coop 2.miz.trk

I read you guys loud and clear. - No, it's a day mission. - RPM is fine. - Throttle is fine. - Wipers play no role in this. - No other software running (except XP and its own stuff). - I'll post track if I encounter the same problem tomorrow night. Thanx for your answers.

Hi guys, I'm not sure whether I'm doing something wrong here, but yesterday I started a multiplayer server just for myself to try some of the MP maps. Now after a while on every flight I made - the Shkval just suddenly blackened out. The effect is best described as a black filter in front of the Shkval camera. You still can see through, but it's all extremely dark. I still could mess with contrast and brightness and it helped. The rest of the mission was fine. On next flight, the same happened. Will investigate it further this weekend to give you exact procedure that led me into it. Did anyone experience anything like that ? Maybe there is some key command I happened to press ? Is it something I'm missing or a bug ?

Does the explosion affect nearby units ? I mean I exploded 10000 units of explosives and a Predator, roughly 10m away from the explosion centre didn't show any signs of destruction...

Because of archivation/safety reasons. What if my HDD breaks ? What if my internet connection gets unreliable ? What if something happens to the database up there on the server and you won't be recognized the next time you would want to re-download this ? The DVD is something I can have safely stored for the next reinstall.

Sod'em all the GAME lot, I cancelled and ordered from FLIGHTSTORE, will arrive tomorrow as a special delivery. Cool stuff.

BAD NEWS GUYS! Apparently GAME has NOT RECEIVED the DCS:BS from the supplier, i.e. whoever that is, ED, FC or someone else. So tomorrow's release date is a bogus and I asked GAME to remove the misleading info from BS's page. I don't know now what to do, why does noone from ED comment on this ? WHO ELSE SELLS THIS GAME ? WHO ELSE SELLS THIS GAME ? WHO ELSE SELLS THIS GAME ?

Apache, just to keep this thing slowmo for a bit longer.

Hi guys, 1, are Predators linked to their GCSs ? 2, if GCS is destroyed, is Predator going down or linked to surviving GCS ?

Yeah, but I can't wait 12 more days to lay my hands on THE DISC. :)

UPDATED! £34.99 Already pre-ordered and waiting.

I've just endured about 6 minutes of nice 60's music while the girl at GAME helpdesk was trying to find out why is the DCS:BS page incomplete. She said the web team are tremendously sorry and everything should be up-and-running in a matter of hours. If it's not done by 1300, I'll call'em back again. In the meantime, if you guys have free minutes or so, why not do the same to speed things up ? :-)

FINALLY victory of reason over madness! Now only if they had the Pre-order button working... :)

Sorry man, didn't want to assume you can't use Wiki, my sincere apologies. Although I still think I answered your question correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50 Russian Air Force operates 19 Ka-50s[6] and 10 Ka-52s as of October 2008[7]

Wait until the disgruntled kid next door gives it to you for free. Waste of money. Well I do admire your "She who must be obeyed" for sticking with your foot odour for 6 months! :) My "She who must be obeyed" wouldn't wait but drag me into the store and force me to buy it at the very first sign of any possible odour. :) ANYWAY: I went into GAME in Tunbridge Wells yesterday and obviously, no dice, but I got the number for their Customer Service. Have to put more effort into this I guess. :-) Jim, do you have any info WHERE to buy BS on 3rd April ? I can't remember anyone saying anything specific about this. Surely if the DATE is known, the SELLER must be known as well. On Amazon, this beauty is still listed for the 15th...:huh:

We also need more triggers for ME, unit based ones, to be triggered when a certain unit or unit type locks on/engages/fires on other unit/unit type. For the hell of it can't do my mission as I intend to when all I get to play with is UNIT DAMAGED trigger, but cannot tell the difference between fire from infantry and fire from AAA.