NELLUS

Two Towns is one of my favourite missions, but there is still a major FPS drop right around the bullseye. I wonder if it is the smoke or the ground troops that have the highest performance impact. It got to the stage that a dogfight was unplayable, with stutters that made me run for the hills.

Tonight's Desert has eyes:

I agree with you, the ground hugging is getting unrealistic and overdone. A lower cloud layer with sufficient elevation for strikers, but not enough for a dogfight would be a great solution. I think one of the reasons that flyers don't go on top is that they might be uncertain of their IMC flying skills. The cloud layers are usually broken, so pretty easy to descend thru, VFR on top conditions are possible.

Maybe it is my DCS, but I could not spawn the SU25/T’s on the Desert has eyes mission. All other units were spawnable.

Open Range

From today's Catch me if you can:

Well deserved win for Blue on Abu Dhabi, was a good fight

I was in the 19 tonight, can’t remember who that was in the F5.

Tonight's Hold the line:

The weather on the current mission Open Range is 10/10! Nothing like a good ol’ dogfight between the cloud layers..

Any chance we could get an airport traffic frequency so that departure and arrival callouts don't mix with combat chat?

I love the Syrian missions, but as mentioned the tanks are hard to spot.. unless they are driving and revealing their position with a dust cloud. It’s realistic, and looks great, but bloody hard to find them all. Maybe if the objective capture areas were tighter, and in an open area, it would be easier to spot them. The AAA units are easy to spot though, they just love revealing them selves.

Maybe a lower patchy/broken cloud layer would give the hilos an additional coverage from the fighters. We had to work hand in hand with the Hawk sites/few fighters to make the Hilo crossing a possibility.

I would have liked to, but I’m currently in Riga which is about 4000km from my PC. This laptop works well for GCi ops only. There were 16 Red and 6 Blue at a stage, it then moved towards 13 Red and 8 Blue.

Great work Alpenwolf on The Tunb Identity mission. Was ton of fun tonight Would there be a possibility to put out one or two Seawise giant tankers for the Hilo’s to rest on incase they get jumped on the way to the islands?

True, the RB24 is one finicky missile, one has to be in perfect parameters for a kill.

I think the Maverick and Vikhr is op. Both sides would be able to handle ground targets with rockets and bombs, as long as there is a small amount of heavy armoured units and no short range Sam’s. Medium to light armour will be a breeze. Mi24’s and Gazelles would play a more vital role when it comes to heavy tank hunting. A10 is powerful with the cannon, and can take out a T90 with a 1.5s burst from 0,5Nm distance, just incase the bombs miss. The SU25A has the S24/25 which hardly need an introduction. Viggen will do fine with the RB05 and rockets against the heavier units.

@Alpenwolf R-13M1's and R3S's vs AIM-9P's and RB-24's Will jump on that air to ground test wagon when back from travels. ..SU17

Any thoughts on going R3S/R13M for Red and Gar8/RB24 for Blue? It seems that we are heading in that direction anyway due to upcoming modules and existing ones. Planes like the MiG19/15 and Sabre would have a better chance of fighting among the later era MiG21 and F5/Viggen fighters.

Annoying thing happened today again, all my key settings for the P51 were back to reset.

Not sure I understand why the Viggen has a limited amount of RB24J sidewinders? Is this to force the Viggen to be purely a Striker? This is surely against what the plane actually did in real life. We had both fighter and striker wings for the Viggen.

I think BVR missiles should be skipped on every day missions, and leave the F14/Mig29 with their superior close range missiles. It honestly feels like shooting ducks in a barrel.. where is the fun in that?

Looking forward for some heavy weather and on top of the clouds dogfights. Aviators can finally fly higher up instead of sniffing the grass all day long

AJS37

Same here, the Cold War 1947 server has no one flying the Viggen. Crash happens to all flyers. Thank you for reporting it.