schurem

I use dot labels. They overcome the limitations of technology (resolution mostly). Fair has little to do with it. Why didn't you make a poll?

That'd be great, thanks in advance!

What are ED planning when it comes to clouds and how far away are the improvements?

Hi @baltic_dragon, I have just finished with the Mirage training and was going to enjoy your work in the campaign (already bought part2; red flag as well). But I think I've hit a snag quite early on: At the end of the flight, the instructor tells me to do a touch and go at Viziani and then land. The game tells me to use the F10 menu and not the F5 one for contacting the tower. I do as instructed and land twice, coming to a full stop on the 2nd one. I park it where its supposed to go in the briefing and the game tells me mission complete you may leave. Now when I click the end mission button and start the next mission, I get the 1st one again. Have I failed it somehow? It didnt tell me I had. There's also a suspicious lack of chatter after I get permission from tower to go shoot some approaches. Do you need a track? cheers, schurem.

Eh, there's worse things in the world. Fix would be nice tho.

Alas, not fixed as per ver. 2.5.3.21016

It does open but only after a LOOOOOONG while and then breaks the oculus rift.

About a minute into the mission, having just told the wing to go hot and active. The RWR just started screaming incoming radar missile... dcs.log-20180827-174408.zip

HaHa funny That should do it. Perhaps there are more ways?

ACM mode are a couple of radar modes that are meant for Air Combat Maneouvering. They are short range and lock automatically the first target that enters the search area. Most common are Boresight (narrow circle), HUD seek (large circle) and Vertical Scan (two vertical lines on HUD). Hope this helps. I usually can get back to search mode by punching my "unlock target" button.

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We will see them in our SIM someday. Two more weeks, be sure.

But how do I optimise if I am happy with the performance for flight nr1 and flight nr2 but nr3 and on get progressively worse?

Hi guys, For a while now I have been getting fine performance in DCS. 2.5 has been good to me. However, since june or so, this has become brittle. For the first flight, its as sweet as it ever was. But if I re-fly (ctrl-R due to hot flaming death or otherwise), start another a mission or have another go after tweaking the mission a bit, it often becomes chugville after the second or third start. Quitting out of the sim and re-starting it makes it run sweet again, for one or two flights. This suggests to me the problem is not that my PC lacks the power to run the settings I have the sim on. If that were the case, the first flight would be as bad as the third. I have looked at the sims memory usage, and it never fills out my 32gb. It should clear the video cards RAM, shouldn't it? Might it be that this bit is broken a little? Might there be some threads or processes that remain from the first flight and keep running and clogging up the pipes? Might there be a workaround to get things smooth again without having to reload the entire sim? Help me Obi Wan KeForum, you are my only hope! Another forum's poster came up with this: And it did. So here's the admittedly weird solution to my problem: hit F-11 a bunch of times, then back to the pit with F-1.

Holy Spamraam batman! WHat a fun loadout this :D

It's the kind of missile that does great harm to opposing air defences, yea?

Get tacview. Its free to try. Fight a 1v1. Look at your flight in tacview and see what you could have done differently. repeat the process until you make no more discernible errors. As for gunnery... well I used to suck very badly at it (despite doing combat flight games for over 30 years now!) until last year when I got a rift. And suddenly I could blast things even in high-deflection snap shots across a scissors. Other than that (and even if) you need to practice. A lot. Combat flying is something that takes about three to ten hours to learn, but about a thousand to become good at and another couple thousand to master.

I play with easy radio and lacking NDB skills. Campaign is gobs of fun so far.

For the small ones (FFAR or hydra) firing the entire pod in one go is OK. For Zuni rockets its feels like a waste to fire them all at once. Perhaps they were a tad too accurate, but in my Harrier I could plink APC's with them like a boss, allowing me to take out a whole freaking company singlehandedly.

Like heck they don't. They don't really need to do anything. As for want? well I rather have more 80s and 90s stuff than 2000s. For me, the fulda gap scenario is where its at, all that happened after was horrible misuse of machinery, like shooting a gnat with a cannon.

could it be you did a cold start and forgot to turn on the oxygen?

isnt nvgs or helmet mounted designator a toggle in the mission editor or ground crew menu?

Dudes chill. this is all very much WiP. Of course there's going to be distortion filters over the sounds to add a mask and crappy intercom. Of course it won't be all hollywood "yeehaw!" nor will it be like a robot, which imo is awesome. I for one want the more colourful stuff in there. Even if it is a tad more colourful than a RL experienced RIO would be.

Is this thing as close as it smells? I am really looking forward to it, the fun you guys are having building it is showing so clearly :)