Gorn557

Great work! What weapons does it have?

I haven't been able to get this to work at all with the current version of DCS and the latest version of the mod (1.11e), anyone have any luck with it?

Looking amazing! Keep it up!

Most every instructional video or manual I see for the Apache is very much focused on systems operation, rather than employment and tactics for real-world situations. I see discussion of how in real life the helicopter would be flying NOE and just peeking above the treeline for weapons employment, etc., but virtually 100% of the videos I see have pilots firing e.g. "Hellfires at guys with trucks" from 5000 ft altitude and 5 miles away, which is not how the helicopter would be employed in a non-COIN scenario . Are there any good either written or video tutorials for actual NOE-type tactics put to use (as opposed just a brief conceptual description or single diagram)?

Man, people sure love to complain. It looks like a great map. I bought the map. Done!

There's no legal requirement that you have to guarantee that another company (Microsoft) will continue to make their software compatible with your hardware indefinitely. What would be a reasonable time frame for such a guarantee? A year? Two years? Five? Ten? Does Microsoft pay for it or HP? It would get very messy very quickly. As pointed out above, in US law at least, caveat emptor almost always rules. If the hardware works within the warranty period (and in this context, "works" basically means "it powers on", not that it's compatible with X or Y version of Windows), then HP is free of liability. Do I like this? No, of course not, I absolutely hate it- but legally speaking HP has no obligations and will do nothing.

Unfortunately they have discontinued it. They're just trying to clear out stock. The Reverb subreddit is rife with HP employees who used to support Reverb (you can check their posting history) who will quite openly tell you HP has pulled the plug on VR and has zero people and dollars working on it. The chance that they're going to spend money to create new software to supplant a Windows function for a 3.5-year old product they're desperately trying to clear their stock of is nil. And I'm not happy about this; I own two Reverb G2s. It's just the reality.

I've been looking desperately, but not that I've seen. I hope one day someone does some conversions (there have been DCS conversions for the Jane's F-15 and USNF campaigns, for example).

It's all in your hardware setup- I get rock solid 90 fps with maxed out settings, though admittedly I have a 4090.

This! Heh, internet being what it is, on whatever the equivalent of forums is in 20 years, people will be typing via their neural interfaces to complain that the snow doesn't feel cold enough on their holodeck version of the Apache

It's definitely doable, though of course not ideal (same thing I say to people who want to fly without VR )

It's so easy here to get wrapped up in all the little details that can be improved or preferences we might have, so I just wanted to say how much I love the Apache and how much fun I'm having flying it. I've been flying virtual Apaches since Jane's Longbow almost 30 years ago (!!! - we're getting old) so I had very high expectations and hopes coming in, and they've been met and surpassed in spades. The joy and immersion I get out of flying the Apache and learning its systems is second to none. I find diving through the MFD pages to learn all the depth to which the subsystems have been simulated to be a joy. The feeling of being hunched over the TEDAC, lasing an enemy tank as George hides us behind a tree, hoping I nail the tank before it spots us and hits us with an AT-11 yields an immersion factor I've felt in no other video game - especially in VR. Sometimes I spawn myself on an aircraft carrier in the rain, in VR, and just watch flight operations as I sit in the cockpit ready for takeoff. It's pure bliss! So a lot of us get very "passionate" here about certain aspects of the game, but I just wanted to remind everyone what an amazing module we have here and how very far we've come from the pioneering flight sims of the late 1990s. The Apache has given me video gaming and simming enjoyment at a totally different level than I've ever before experienced. Now if I can just figure out how to consistently get myself lined up with that I-beam...

Thanks! That is helpful to give me a quick start.

Like I said, I am going to out my money where my mouth is and try it myself. Though I'm going to start small, maybe one mission first

Yeah, those tools exist and are fantastic- RotorOps, Briefing Room, Liberation. But still, it'll never quite reproduce a hand-crafted scripted mission. They have different strengths. And in any case, people are always going to be making scripted missions- I'm just suggesting creators push the envelope for variety and creativity.

Hello everyone: Just a thought on Apache missions and campaigns. There are so many wonderful user-created ones, but (anecdotally) 95% of the missions out there that I see always seem to be some variant of "fight insurgents with technicals in the desert or in a camp or town in Syria." So this is my little plea for creativity/variety in Apache missions. While the Apache has certainly been used in this way almsot exclusively for two decades- can't deny that- remember its original mission was to stop the advancing Soviet army rolling thousands of tanks through the Fulda gap. Where are my peer-on-peer conflicts? The desperate attempt to stop a brigade of T-72s before they can smash through the undermanned and unprepared NATO defenses on the first night of the invasion of West Germany (yes, I know we don't have a Fulda map, it would have to be a stand in). Combating the Iraqi army's hundreds of tanks on the road to Kuwait on the first night of the first Gulf War? Mounting a desperate struggle in the Pacific flying under IADS and trying to hit the landing craft as a peer adversary attempts to invade US territory with modern naval and air support? (And yes, I know there are a few like this, I'm not saying there are zero). Heck, even a conversion of the old Jane's Longbow campaigns. And yes, I'm going to try to put my money where my mouth is and make a few missions to this effect myself (though they'll be my first real foray into mission-making so they won't be any good), but I just wanted to put this thought out there in the community. The Apache was designed for a much different and higher intensity battlefield than most of the places it actually has operated in recent yyears-we should use DCS to stretch our creative muscles and explore some of those situations!

What GPU and settings?

Or if you're chugging along with a 4090 at 20 fps with comparable settings to what gets you a solid 90 fps in the G2 at the same resolution.

It's amazing how almost 3 years later no one has released anything that is definitively superior to the G2, which wasn't some sort of flagship premium product, and which HP has totally abandoned.

I unsubscribed from him for exactly this reason, endless videos breathlessly proclaiming "PIMAX IS TEH FUTURE" until you find out he's using special beta software given to him by the company and he never shows his settings or does any kind of meaningful, systematic benchmarking.

I guess his Pimax sponsorship deal ran out He's been shilling for the Crystal for months!

I've been very frustrated with the lack of showing any settings for all these YouTubers showing the Crystal. As far as I'm concerned any statements about performance are worthless in the absence of: 1) DCS settings 2) Whether it's the multithreaded version 3) Hardware specs And yet no one so far that I've seen has shown all three of these things.

Hello all: Tactical question for you. Apologies if this has been discussed a hundred times before as I'm sure it has. Basically it comes down to this: at what altitude should I be flying intercept missions- high or low? What did real pilots do? The source of the question is that I've been trying to get as high as possible, 25-30k feet, to give myself as long a horizon as I can for LOS to targets. But I'm finding I often don't see targets on the AWG-9 until they're right on top of me (this is over water), and I know the AWG-9 struggled a bit with clutter. So what this really boils down to is: I know the AWG-9 is 60s analog electronics, etc., highly susceptible to ECM, etc.- will I get better detection performance down at lower level because I'm losing targets in the clutter, or is the radar really "that bad" (and I mean in an historical sense, not criticizing the simulation of it). TL;DR: what's the best altitude for long-range detection and engagement of targets over water? High or low?

You don't have to want them. Actually if you read it I was very thorough about the status of each, which have mods, which we might get, etc. But this is the internet, so people tell you you're wrong even to wish you had something...

Gotta love internet culture... I leave a post of pure gratitude and joy and people immediately start telling you why you're wrong