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But that means we can't use the weapons, right?

I don't think the ground crew is new, I noticed it before and I haven't flown it since this last update.

Medal for watching AI I created a mission in the ME, just to do some skin watching with some SU27s. Had a few take off and land, nothing fancy. Just flicked through the F2 key to see the planes, all of them AI, and when I was done I exited the mission. Just a couple of minutes worth. I got a medal for watching planes. I don't remember which medal. There was no combat setup and I wasn't participating in any form. Every plane was an AI plane. I feel like a scout now for getting a medal for bird watching. EDIT: Ooops, wrong thread...

I noticed an issue with custom skins as well. I had a mission setup with a lot of SU27's as client. If I chose a custom skin, chances were it was displayed incorrectly, but in a regular single player mission, it was ok. UNLESS, there were other planes in the mission. I haven't ruled out if other custom skins were there or just the fact of another SU27 was in or another A/C altogether. I just thought it was weird, in SP the skin is ok, but in client it was not. I checked it with multiple skins in that aspect.

I noticed this too on one of my own customs missions. Although I had multiple flights going, but not that many where this was repeated "RTB at x". And it NEVER stopped once it started. But I noticed the radio is not very reliable in 1.5 it seems. So I thought it has something to do with that. But it is annoying.

I might just be missing this, but to make sure I understand: When 1.5 is out of beta and officially released, which will be updated? My 1.2 install or the 1.5 open beta install?

I think a simple dynamic campaign, like IL2, would work for me. I think I posted this before. A campaign that kept track of both sides vehicles, planes and supplies. A mission could be generated that would entail various goals. A strike, cas, escort or capture happening all at once. You choose the module you want to fly and it generates a mission for you based on that. Or perhaps you could control the type of mission generated. Your side running low on supplies? Supply ships and cargo planes can fill that role. Protect your supply lines and assets and destroy the enemies. Let's say each side gets x number of planes, tanks and fuel/supplies. You need to make it count. Lose a plane? It doesn't get replaced unless a resupply is met. Destroy some tanks? Fuel tanks? Ground vehicles? They are taken out of the overall count. The campaign could be won once the enemy is completely out of equipment or a certain point or points is captured/destroyed or whatever you want it. I don't think a full dynamic campaign like Falcon4 is needed, something simple like IL2 would be good. Just with a few more things going on. While on the DCS wishlist, here are some things I wish for outside the dynamic campaign: -Make it easier to assign what assets belong to what country. (Aircraft mostly). (Assigning/de-assigning assets in game would be LOVELY) Also ability to create "countries" easier. Maybe I want to create some mercenaries, or private military companies? Just a thought. -Change aircraft in SP. (Although "client" is a good work around) -See and change your livery in the armament screen and "rearm" screen. -Able to place "stationary" planes that you can walk to and fly, and they respawn after "x" time until assets have been depleted. (if desired) -Ability to control the aircraft hangar doors (sometimes they don't open for me on MP...ok it did it once) -Download liveries from servers/hosts/clients -Have AI fly in closer formation. edit: Also the ability for the game master to spawn units and tac commanders have "reserves" to pull from if units are destroyed. Plus the ability to make aircraft land/refuel/rearm. And ability to control ships. That about does it, I think. But overall, I fell completely in love with DCS again once 1.5 beta came out.

Civilian planes? Take all the ordnance off and voila! Civilian plane or "de-militarized". Honestly though, if true civilian planes were offered, I would hope that they wouldn't cost as much as full combat modules. I can see the true aerobatics teams enjoying that. Me personally not so much, I like the opportunity to blow stuff up. But aerobatics from time to time are fun for me.

So I did some double checking, and I noticed this problem whenever I used a client spot, either in SP or MP. If I used a player spot in SP, then all the lights worked. Just thought I would mention it.

I was wondering about this, to me, it wasn't made clear in the update post. I'm going to test this, does the AI give commands? (RTB, attack target, etc)

Oh yeah...AC-130! Take my money!

I didn't check to see if they have a glow, I didn't know if this is a 1.5 bug or not since I rarely used the Huey in 1.2. I'm just saying for me, they may or may not come on at all. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

I noticed that the external nav lights on my huey don't always work. I'm talking about the green/red lights that are on top of the rear doors. The ones on bottom work, but the ones on top do not always work. I have all of my lights on, (anti-collison, nav set to bright and steady, search etc etc etc). I had a mission setup and flew the huey, the top ones seem to work when I first started up and flew. But when I came back to land, shut-down, refuel and rearm and started back up again, those top lights weren't on. I didn't change my loadout or anything and kept all the switches on. Is there something I'm missing? Is this automatically controlled? The AI have all their lights working. All of my lights work except for those top two, which may or may not be on and I don't see anything for them. Thanks.

I would assume it means that you won't have to download both planes separately. They come in one package I would guess. :huh:

And the "50%" means, you can use your bonus to pay up to 50% of the module. For example, if I had 100 bonus dollars, and the module costs $50. I could use 50% (in this case $25 dollars) to pay for the module. If the module was $10, I would use $5 bonus dollars. etc... Usually it's a limit on the bonus dollars you could use. ($10 I think??) So if the module costs $50, I would use my limit of say $10 bonus dollars, and still pay $40.

Not every module is available for the bonus system. Certain modules, pre-sales or items already on sale do not participate in the bonus. To use your bonus, there's a check box that tells you if you can use your bonus money before you begin the purchase. If you don't click that box, you won't use your bonus. In my experience, I don't think any of the 3rd party devs participate in the bonus system. I could be wrong though.

This is STILL an issue for me. PayPal works SOMETIMES, I bought two modules with it, but now I'm trying and it's a no go. If I use my debit card I get "please use another card" message. I have NO PROBLEMS on other sites. Get with the program already. I thought this was fixed?

Well, my issue is now fixed. I upgraded from win7 to win10, and the activation worked! My activation was freezing after I clicked "OK". But now it works! I'm so pumped! I emailed Cobra to let him know. Maybe this will help someone in the troubleshooting area.

What do you mean?

I still can't get this stupid plane to work. In openbeta 1.5 activation STILL freezes on me. I give up. I'm looking forward to the Tomcat...but not from LN. :(

I tried entering the coupon on your site, but it says it's expired now. I thought it wasn't expiring until the 9th?

I noticed that on the F14 as well. In fact, the model they use is not the A model, but the D model. However, You are right about the store selection is messed up, I can't put an AIM9 on one of the wing pylon stations. I have to modify a default loadout and use that. As far as the belly stations, I haven't really messed with those too much.

It seems they are more worried about the F14 right now.

Me personally, I would like to see the fc3 a/c removed completely someday. I see enough modules inbound to keep me busy enough. When I want a FC a/c, I go to FC2. Just my 2 cents.

Many, many, many times.