Vakarian

Thanks a lot for the changes to the mission editor. It takes a little to make me happy with regards to the ME improvements Not trying to be the "give a finger, take a hand" guys, but I'm hoping the improvements won't stop there. Keep it going as this was an update sorely needed.

@BIGNEWY Is there any new info about getting this documentation done? I mean, IRL docs are all fine and dandy, but unless DCS has them implemented exactly like that, those are of little to no use. What would be appreciated is what combinations are working within DCS and with which aircraft so we know what can and more specifically, what shouldn't be used so when missions are flown there are no bad outcomes due to incorrect fusing options. Within my group there are still questions marks over our heads why a certain combo works on Viper, but doesn't on Hornet and it would be really nice if we had some document from ED to use as a reference on do's and don'ts.

Yes, this exactly. It's perfectly fine to express your own opinion, good or bad. The moment someone starts a post with "we" or "it's a consensus", I immediately discard that person's opinion. Ofc it's a lot easier to moan about the bad sides, they are easier to spot as they do have a direct negative impact on your gameplay, but very rarely you see people praising the good sides. I see a lot of people here just listing all the bad things with DCS, everything that bugs them, but very few make contrasting notes of how much time they have spent playing and how much enjoyment DCS have brought to them. After all, you wouldn't notice all of the bad stuff if you haven't spent enough time. Personally, I do think ED might have stretched themselves a bit thin with just how many modules they do have in active development as after all they do have a finite amount of developers. They don't grow on trees, they can't work 24/7 and with ever increasing amount of scrutiny and I would say overly pedantic reviews from players, they sure as hell do need to spend awful lot of time just learning the matter and then they have to teach computers to do that stuff. It seems a lot of people are forgetting that when coding things, unless you program something, that doesn't happen. IRL dependencies do not automagically translate into the computer world, someone has to code it. On the other hand, I know that ED doesn't particularly care what I think and they are correct to think that way. They have a vision for DCS (rather, I really hope they do) and they should stick to it. Sure, every now and then put out a feelers with the community, see what they are most excited for, but they should never budge from their plans just because the community thinks otherwise. The community doesn't know all that's going on behind the scenes (nor should they), but they want everything and want it now. You obviously can't please that, so stick to your plans and ensure you do them. To wrap it up, DCS has brought me far more enjoyable hours of my life than the miserable ones due to bugs or whatnot, so hats off to that and I hope for many more to come.

Well sure, but it's one thing to read between the lines and another to get an official confirmation on the subject. First can be interpreted in a multiple ways, second is a lot more specific and allows one to be hopeful that the project will actually see the light of the day. Until it's officially announced it's all in the ether, can disappear due to whichever reason and that it.

Yeah, those are in-engine screenshots, you can clearly see from the textures if nothing else which means there's already some work done to the map. Can't wait to see the official announcement, mainly regarding the map borders, to see what will be included. It could make it for some really interesting scenarios, even if you disregard what happened there IRL as that's still a very hot topic here unfortunately.

Except anything online related as the download process is hogging all the bandwidth. That's what OP is asking, to limit how much the download process can allocate so you can still leave some percentage of your bandwidth for other things

So, this is like confirming it, but still no announcement? I'm really looking forward to this map

Eh, this is only partially true. There are people that aren't happy but they still continue to support because they think things will improve eventually (I'm one of those "suckers"). It is however disheartening to see previous mistakes not being improved on. First example being SA map. It's just awful down low, it was supposed to get better but it really didn't. Next comes Kola, pretty much the same thing and in the hindsight it shouldn't have been as surprise as the devs are the same. After that here comes Afghanistan and the same thing happens again. Good looking from high up, but down low there are still awful textures, object popping in ~100m in front of me despite having all graphic settings maxed out. It feels like if there is some technical improvement it's not showing or it's not producing the effect you hope for. I love Kiowa, I love flying it more than anything else, but it's also very bad experience when I fly low and then I see the bushes and small rock appearing just in front of me like we're back in early 2000s. After SA, Kola and Afghanistan I'm really hesitant to buy Iraq. I know I will get it next month, but it's definitely gonna leave a sour taste if the same thing happens again as if no lessons were learned from more than a couple of previous releases. No one can argue that EA takes time and that things aren't complete when they launch in EA. However, you really can't expect people to be fine with EA lasting years (a lot of modules are 5+ years in EA). How long until we start measuring progress in percentage of a human lifespan? This is an exaggeration ofc, but you have to admit it's not that far from the truth.

It's just how Tacview counts hits. If the object flies close enough to another it counts it as the hit, regardless if that happened in DCS or not. It's all an approximation

Why are you being a "something that I'm not allowed to say per rules"?

You sure about that? Most of the stuff I order for my electronic projects come directly from Poland. You do know about https://www.tme.eu? Between Mouser and TME, we have quite the nice selection in the EU

Yes, please. Good suggestion

Honestly, as long as those callsigns don't get their respective voiceovers, I don't see the use other than looking nice on the F10 map. Viper, Apache, Mudhen and Kiowa all have custom callsigns, but then when it comes to radio transmissions, those callsigns are ommited as "something" is not working so they don't get pronounced.

IIRC it means that in the frame the MMS has detected multiple targets

Oh, I understood it and didn't comment on the optimization side of it (ask 10 people in the industry how to optimize stuff, you'll get at least 10 different answers). I was mainly talking about the "looks" as that's what most people care about and I'd say it's far from unusable as some people would like to portray it. Can it be better, sure it can. Everything can be made better with some time put into it, question is is it worth it at that particular point in time.

It's a tool to get me where I want to go and carry stuff I don't want to carry by hand, not an object that I'll slave over

I paid for a product and I'm using it every day. Just because there are bugs doesn't mean I cannot fly it. EA is a frigging label that means absolutely nothing anymore. I don't need reminders, I was here and been through it. Oh my, I can't explain how little I care about this. Maybe I can. For starters, my GPU is happy because it doesn't have to load 10+ GB of textures so I have some space for other things like when Apache, Chinook, Phantom and Tomcat comes into play with their textures like they are the only module that exists. Their comment is correct, we fly from the inside and that is pretty solid enough for what we use. Maybe if they add in MipMaps so the bit of AA gets removed but honestly what else do you need? Chinook level textures so that I have to wait for 5 minutes to load in and murder my GPU for the one minute of jaw dropping details and then for few hours of ignoring such details because I'm focused on flying that thing, not looking if the scratches are visible and every individual flecks of paint are here. I play DCS to fly combat machines, play army men and shoot stuff at virtual enemies. I don't care if the enemy is Hi-rez or Low-rez, it makes no frigging difference at all for my experience as I'll likely see it through a sensor from far away.

So the bottom line is, if the module was 10-20$ cheaper, most of people wouldn't complain about the bugs? Yeah right, I don't believe that for a second. Call me however you want, but it just looks to me most of the people are rear-end hurt because they had to pay full price outright.

Not EA release != bug-free release. There will never be a bug free state of software and people need to get down to earth if they think they'll get a bug free module no matter how many years it's in development and no matter who develops it.

Interesting to see both "Fulda Gap" and Kosovo mentioned. Unless they are doing it on maps that would allow a look-alike (highly likely), this is a serious breach of NDA

Ah, I see now. Yeah, if you have external views on, but map settings are on "map only", you cannot cycle other units in F2 or F3 view. However, you can cycle through them with F4 view. externalViews.trk

Aren't those things already two separate options in the mission option screen? One is something along "Allow external views" and is a checkbox and another is a group of radio buttons which selects how much of the stuff is visible on the F10 map.

This. If next update is again one year away, that doesn't bode well for the expected cadence of updates. Sure, map updates don't happen every update, but waiting a year for a bugfixes is really asking a lot as that timeframe was not clearly communicated when the map was released. So I'm really hoping that after this update, next one is only a couple of months away. Let's be honest, there's no way every single bug is going to get fixed in this update which is why it would be prudent from the devs to set expectations on when the next update might be happening. A quarter, half a year, year?

Yeah, you can save them. Just have to do a bit of browsing to get to them