Getting bored with DCS

[tonym]

Is anyone else getting bored with DCS. When it first came out I thought it was the greatest sim ever, to the extent that I completely abandoned FSX. Now however, having mastered the various aircraft & being tired of the same old limited scenery, I have returned to FSX, to experience different aircraft & a whole world to fly in.

I am fed up with the never ending promises of new scenery i.e. Nevada, that never happens. New aircraft that only appear as vague promises of arriving (with the exception of Belsimtek). A lack of new missions is also apparent, no doubt mission writers are fed up with the constant changes that make earlier missions unplayable and are not prepared to rewrite them.

Sorry for the rant, but I wonder how many others are feeling the same way.

[shagrat]

Well, just the F-15C AFM opens a whole new flying experience. UH-1H gets Sling loads, also quite a thing to master... and all this needs to be integrated in my dynamic, ever growing and evolving missions.

 

So plain and simple. No! Not at all. Lots of fun since DCS A-10C beta and still more to come...

 

Oh forgot the Hawk to be released next! A nice plane as well.

[SyntaxError]

Nevada, EDGE, and the Cobra should refresh things for everyone. I can understand how people who have been flying in DCS for a while are getting bored. We haven't seen any new aircraft aside from the Mi-8 for a while and it's been the same terrain for like 8+ years now or something but that is well documented. The time we have spent waiting will be time well spent I can assure you.

[NineLine]

If you are bored with DCS, you are doing it wrong.

[TeeJay82]

Id say just play something else... this kind of post does not help anyone or anything... look at where the dcs series started... bs1 standalone i can see you probably started when i did.. look at what it has become :D just give it time

[ben_der]

The most annoying thing for me is that I don't have the space & money for the right controls.

I have an X52 Pro but after I saw this video yesterday:

 

I just want that Max Flight Stick thing + Oculus Rift so bad...but the price for it both, oh boy :cry:

 

For me it's like I get into DCS for some time, then I loose interest in it because I mostly don't have that much time to get super into it...and then after 2-3 Months I come back and I'm like: YEAH it's still my favourite flight sim! :joystick:

I wish I just had a buddy to fly & mess around with in DCS as all of my friends don't do any Simulators at all :noexpression:

[blkspade]

Yeah what SithSpawn said. If FSX is in anyway the solution to boredom from DCS, then I really don't know what you have been doing in DCS. The terrain is something I care about the least in DCS, as it means next to nothing for what the sim is about. Which is of course about a realistic representation of aircraft designed to blow stuff up, or in the case of CA, vehicles designed to blow stuff up. So one patch of digital dirt is as good as the next in that respect. DCS ain't about sight seeing. Doing that with human opponents make the experience so much better. That said the one thing that has bothered me since Lomac is the limited flyable aircraft, particularly US aircraft. There could be more space in which to blow stuff up, but lengthening the time between human interaction could be a turn off to some. That basically makes using tankers pretty much useless, outside of just because you can. Unless I've opted to specifically spend time escorting an AI asset, anytime I need fuel I also need weapons and an airfield is right there. Half the people online would sooner respawn than wait to R&R on the ground.

[Bucic]

One question. What set of controls do you use?

[Slipp]

Is anyone else getting bored with DCS. When it first came out I thought it was the greatest sim ever, to the extent that I completely abandoned FSX. Now however, having mastered the various aircraft & being tired of the same old limited scenery, I have returned to FSX, to experience different aircraft & a whole world to fly in.

I am fed up with the never ending promises of new scenery i.e. Nevada, that never happens. New aircraft that only appear as vague promises of arriving (with the exception of Belsimtek). A lack of new missions is also apparent, no doubt mission writers are fed up with the constant changes that make earlier missions unplayable and are not prepared to rewrite them.

Sorry for the rant, but I wonder how many others are feeling the same way.

 

I get what you're saying. I also feel the same sometimes, but then I go play some other games and forget about DCS for a while. Makes the waiting for new content much easier. :)

[eurofor]

Have you tried using it as the sandbox that it is? Perhaps your own interest is narrower and shallower than the width and depth of DCS?

[NeilWillis]

If you are bored, just change your objectives a little, and raise the bar for yourself by finding something more challenging to do. One thing I have always found with DCS is that if you delve a little deeper, you'll find stuff you never knew existed. Plus of course there is always multi player immersion.

 

You're not bored, you're just not challenging yourself enough. Dig deeper, find a different approach.

[DUSTY]

+1 Neil, well said.

 

Tony, if you aren't already in one, have you considered joining a virtual squadron?

 

I can understand playing DCS as a single player could eventually get repetitive. However if you put yourself out there and find a squadron, the joys of flying any of the DCS modules as a group will add a whole new dimension to your experience of the DCS World.

[Blooze]

Although I am as impatient as anyone about future developments, what keeps me enthusiastic is the multiplayer aspect of DCS. When I am flying a well made coop mission with other experienced pilots I become engrossed in the mission and don't really think about the fact that it's the same ol' map any more. So....what has taken the shine off my apple are the update bugs that have broken many of the MP missions and have frustrated the talented mission designers that have created them, causing them to stop production. Good quality MP missions are the life blood of the MP community and I fear that by the time new product arrives and a revival occurs many of the members will have exited. There are many that have already become conspicuous by their absence.

Edited April 16, 2014 by Blooze

[SkateZilla]

If you are bored, just change your objectives a little, and raise the bar for yourself by finding something more challenging to do. One thing I have always found with DCS is that if you delve a little deeper, you'll find stuff you never knew existed. Plus of course there is always multi player immersion.

 

You're not bored, you're just not challenging yourself enough. Dig deeper, find a different approach.

 

 

After Back to back nights of 6+ hour sessions with at least 6 wingmen on custom missions,

 

Hitting the Quick Mission with AI just seems dull.... I end up doing a majority of the work myself, and find myself talking to myself on multiple occasions... :music_whistling:

[blkspade]

I hit the DACT missions pretty hard after every patch to evaluate what i can/need to do versus the enemy's capabilities and how that may have changed. This is pretty much the only function of the single player for me. I convert that into great K/D ratios in MP.

[Lizzard]

Na getting bored with some stuff is pretty normal..at some point..so it doesn`t matter whether it is DCS, FSX or playin Tennis..it heavily depends on how you do things and how much you are "into" something..I also take a DCS break from time to time..and do some of this mysterious RL Stuff..but then when I come back I simply love it

[Devrim]

It seems that you are bored with "flying" not DCS... In my opinion, I "can not" be bored with flying a Huey (for example). But I can be bored with bugs and endless updates (this is another case though...)

[VincentLaw]

New aircraft that only appear as vague promises of arriving (with the exception of Belsimtek).

I might have a new flyable airplane coming soon, but this is DCS, so you never know ;)

[westr]

I actually think the terrain in DCS isn't anywhere near as bad as people make out. In fact at low level with high settings I think it looks really clean and the trees are much better than in FSX. FSX look good at high alt but low alt it really shows its age.

[Yurgon]

The most annoying thing for me is that I don't have the space & money for the right controls.

I have an X52 Pro but after I saw this video yesterday:

 

Well, top-notch controls and stuff surely add to the immersion. But it's not like the controls keep people from doing some awesome flying, like this ancient demo from the BS1 days shows:

 

 

Same pilot, different demo:

 

 

Back on topic, I think it's more or less natural to lose interest in DCS every now and then. But I don't blame ED for taking their time. While I'm eagerly waiting for Nevada and F/A-18C, they did bring us DCS World and tons of updates, including the work necessary for BST to add Sling Loads. I'd say that right now is a pretty good time for us DCS addicts, with all the 3rd party modules and the work on Nevada the future does look pretty bright IMHO.

[outlawal2]

"Now however, having mastered the various aircraft & being tired of the same old limited scenery, I have returned to FSX, to experience different aircraft & a whole world to fly in."

 

Riiight... Mastered all of the aircraft... I stopped reading right about there..

[MegOhm_SD]

Maybe try the Nice Terrain & Sound Mods that are out there. Helps alot.

[WildBillKelsoe]

I totally understand your frustration, but you should know that flight sim industry has a niche of people with shades of grey (enthusiasm).

 

ED as a company chose wisely to involve 3rd party developers to keep the franchise going while they continuously polish and upgrade existing modules. So in 2012 we had the P-51, in 2013 we had the Huey, and in 2014 we should have newer modules.

 

For the terrain I'm eager for the NTTR map as it matches partly my peninsular landscape, so its a good practice for simulated and actual historical combat scenarios.

 

To make it short, you want a product, while others want the same product with less bugs, while others want a bug-free product. It takes time to fully perfect a product, and you just have to be patient. Imaging you were the owner of ED. You wouldn't want your company reputation to be tarnished by faulty or buggy products. So you sincerely try to push things in a sensible manner and in doing so, you keep the niche market running and build upon your reputation, thereby attracting more consumers to your niche. I know alot of my friends previously pig-headed about even touching a simulator, pro-PS3/4/Xbox guys, that now can't do anything without having a fully documented simulator that is as good. Hell some of them abandoned arcade stuff and fully embraced DCS.

[javelina1]

has a niche of people with shades of grey (enthusiasm).

 

the 50 "sim's of grey!" Love it Bill! nice! :thumbup: We could list the top 50 missions, as our "grey" list. ;)

 

If you are true learning flight sim enthusiast, you've hit the home run here. I love the A-10C, it can give you the total immersion. As others have said, the MP component & missions, give you that dynamic component. :)

 

I own all of the other modules, and have yet to master the A-10C. So my work is cut out for me, with regards to the other mod's. So plenty, plenty of time to work through those.

[WildBillKelsoe]

meh.. 'true' is a big word for me.. you can call me a button-maniac. So when the Mig-21 gets released for example, I would load a cold start and start to toggle switches just to see what each one does (without reading the manual). Then when I get frustrated I break the manual down to bits and start to come to my senses ;)