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Well we are, and focus was on protecting our borders in case of an open conflict, but when you look at the equipment and tactics used by the swiss military from this period, we were clearly preparing to fight a soviet invasion more than any other scenario

Since everyone is asking for their favorite base I might aswel join in ! (jokingly, I know it won't happen and it's outside the scope of the map anyway) Dear Ugra, please expand the map to the south to cover airfields in Switzerland like LSMA, LSPM, LSMU, LSMD, LSME, LSFR, LSMI, LSMM, LSMF, LSPU, LSMP, LSMN, LSMH, LSMJ, LSMC to name only a few. These bases were home to Hunter and Tiger squadrons and I think they would add great value to the map On a more serious note, huge thank you for the work you have put in the map and all the great communication and video you shared over the last few weeks. I am eager to try this map and see it evolve with the different phases. Great job Ugra ! null

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You just gotta love the DCS community... Have a dev show little of their work as to not over hype everyone, people will complain that the project is dead and that they should share more news Have a dev post daily screenshot and videos updated of their work, people will complain that they should release it or show less and work more ... Respect to the devs for having to deal with this while creating a module/map from scratch

Soon enough the manual will have had a longer writing and proof reading time than the module's development time... This is getting seriously frustrating, just make what you have available to the community please, it can only be an improvement on what we have now and frankly no one is expecting it to be perfect anyway. Most of us would already be happy to have the Russian version and translate it ourselves.

Indeed but that is what they now have easy access to. Well actually it is not. I dont believe wags said they wanted to add those features to the current F-5E. Rather this would be a separate variant from my understanding (à la Aerges with their different variants of the Mirage F1). I wouldn't mind having a modernised brazilian F-5 I was expecting this argument to pop up a some point. I believe this is not relevant to this topic. I would wait and see what the F-35 product ends up looking like before waiving it around as an argument that they now can do anything in the sim. If it ends up being absolutely ridiculous then this argument does not stand. If it ends up working fine, then we can start lighting torches and asking ED "what about this and that". In the meantine it doesn't mean anything really. It's still there. It is a Livery argument. It appears on swiss and austrian skins and is removed on aggressors skins. Same goes for some antennas under the nose. This was mentionned in the last change log. Yeah we hear you loud and clear. And ED has replied by saying they're doing the Swiss spec variant (for now) they never said anything about a factory version. Could they have done it ? Maybe but they have easy access to the swiss ones so that's what they based their module on... It's the same story for every module in DCS

And I never implied that. The F-5 is/was one of those aircrafts that got a lot of variants and was sold to a lot of air forces. Each of those air force then adapted the aircraft for their individual needs, tried some stuff, and in the end Northrop had to validate some of it. Now I am no developer and I do not work at ED but the way they seem to go about it is that now that they have their headquarters in Switzerland, it's easy for them to go to our museums and take inspiration from our swiss F-5 (swiss military aviation museums are amazing, the jets there are looked after by qualified passionate personnel and the feel like they would be ready to start up any minute). I'm guessing that's where the argument of "were doing a swiss F-5" comes from. If they had to implement each subsystem that was ever put in an E-3 the jet would end up being a mess (also the more system/capabilities in a module the more prone to bugs it is) and people would be quick to request features from other variants than the E-3 (hell they already are ...) the line has to be drawn somewhere.

But that's the thing, they did not. If you start saying we should get everything that you can find in an picture, then I want a Phoenix on my Phantom. I get that people want more stuff on their plane and that's okay. But please do not use the argument "the swiss did it therefore we should have it"

We indeed tested those loadouts but they were never adopted with the fleet operationaly. I am almost certain you will not find an other picture of a swiss Tiger with 4 Siwa. The one you shared is the only one i'm aware where you see this loadout and I believe it date back from the early trials. (But hey, never say never. The internet always prooves you wrong) Nonetheless, claiming we should have 4 siwa on the tiger because the swiss did it would be missleading.

Does this mean it will be corrected in a hotfix sometime soon or we will have to wait for the next big DCS update ?

I do not use EDM, but I have managed to fix my problem with a quite extreme solution. I went across the whole install of DCS and deleted anything I saw that was linked to the mirage F1. And then ran a repair. This finally did it. I don't know what file was corrupt in the end but it was one of those. Thanks for you patience and help @grim_reaper68! Tu peux me trouver sur Discord sous le même nom qu'ici du jamais

18:50 for the BE and 20:13 for the BQ, both on the 31/10/2024 I deleted the folder and ran a deep repair and it didn't work ... it got reinstalled with the corrupted liveries I am running out of ideas ... I have no ideas why it does that on my build

@grim_reaper68I checked and my entry.lua looks fine I have already run a repair and nothing came out of it What really confuses me is that the exact same livery looks perfectly fine on the Mirage F1BQ (IA only), but is then corrupted in the BE. When checking the livery files themselves I find something that could be strange. The livery .zip in the BE folder contains only a description.lua nullBut the livery .zip for the BQ has two extra files inside it.null

This is really frustrating because it really feels like I'm the only one experiencing this issue and I have no idea why. I have done everything I could think of to investigate this and nothing came back... Could you maybe point me to the files that would cause my issues ? See if they are corrupted (I don't understand why the repair and reinstall didn't solve this ...)

Hi ! No, I do not have any mods installed for the F1, I also have no user files liveries. I have tried this, I also removed every mod from my install, and even reinstalled the F1 but the problem still persists.

Found a new problem with a F1EE IRIAF livery This one is the 6-6210_2021 Blue (EQ variant) Wings and fuselage are not the same color Also the Iraqi livery is missing for the F1EE

@fauseteAny ideas what might cause this ? I have asked some friends of mine and everything is fine on their side. I seem to be the only one having this issue. Also any idea how I might temporarly fix it on my side, while i wait for the next DCS update ?

So it somehow got worse with the latest patch

Below are the examples with the exact skin name as displayed in the ME

A good part of the Skins for the F1 BE have "missing texture" written all over them. It seems the roughmet is missing. I also noted the french skins use the old light blue color as opose to the new darker color on the F1 B. Skin impacted: F1 BE BA 118 Mont de Marsan / Old color EC 1/30 Alsace BA 132 Colmar Meyenheim / Old color EC 3/33 Lorraine 60 ans du D-day / Old color EC 3/33 Lorraine 60 ans des FAFL / Missing texture EC 3/33 Lorraine BA 112 Reims / Missing texture All of the IRIAF skins / Missing texture F1 BD Libya / Missing texture F1 BQ IRAQ / Missing texture I also spoted some mismatched drop tanks (color not matching one of the aircraft) on some of the other variants of the F1 Notably the darker F1 CZs, one of them has the tank matching the paint from the aircraft while the other has the tanks in a more generic light grey. I haven't checked all the drop tanks for all the skins for all the versions but it would be nice if they could be sorted

Hi cfrag ! This is completely understandable and the best way to deal with this new DCS update indeed. I guess this is just really bad timing on my part then, but I had a question regarding IADS, I was wondering if you were working or even planing on developing an IADS module to add to DML ? I know that right now everything is most likely on hold but this was just something I was wondering about already before the ED update. Cheers,

Sorry about that ! Should have made it clearer. It's for the Mirage F1 and the Gazelle helicopter and for the rocket I don't have the exact name in mind and no access to DCS right now, but I remember them having SNEB in the name. I think there is 3 color variants of the smoke ones

Hey ! While playing around with the WP module, I realized that the French smoke rockets are not recognized as a valid target marker by the script. I keep getting a message saying that no target has been marked. I was specifically trying to use the Red SNEB smoke. I haven't tried it yet but I think given that the Gazelles uses the same rockets it might not work for it either.

I get that ! But just to test I was flying nice and high and the transmission cut when I was approx 10nm from the downed pilot. And the screen you see is that very same pilot. I was on the ground next to him and no beacon sound on the ADF. I could still hear a Squelsh sound on the frequency but no homing info and no sound. I do not. But the mission contains quite a few DML modules. I will share it with you privately

Hello again @cfrag! I've come to this place with yet another problem ! I have put together a mission to try out the CSAR capabilities of DML and I ran into a few issues. First on some CSAR mission that are generated, the ELT signal will cut out randomly and i won't be able to home on the signal anymore. Other will be blasting away for hours ! But more interestingly when i arrive at the location of the csar missison and I land next to the guy, noting happens ... yet if I try hovering above him it works. Which really puzzles me ... Have you had anyone else report something similar ? If you need the miz file or something else let me know. As it's kind of a big project I work on I dont want to post it in a public forum Cheers, Chess