"Buddy Spike" - DCS World Online Events

[VentZer0]

Maykop AD around 2000GMT yesterday looked like downtown Hanoi. Red Mi-8 guys are heroes.

 

Stopped our package cold.

 

Wasn't there T_T has to study for exams ._.

 

 

While your numbers are extremely lopsided I have seen five flankers in the air plenty of times during this testing phase. It's also worth mentioning we organized our group and got it together beforehand instead of waiting to see who showed up and then grabbing everybody. I think the message was planning beforehand is key.

 

I will grant you that the number disparity needs to be addressed somehow. I'll leave that up to the buddyspike team. I'm sure they'll ask the community when and if they want our input.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

 

Yes we had that a couple of times, because everyone will just go CAP in order to hold off the attack. Problem is, people are coming in and out like the wind and it really hard to get anything pre planned. We dont have a dedicated squad of 5+ people on red. Just a collection of lonewolfs and two ships. :P

[Beeroshima]

Wasn't there T_T has to study for exams ._.

 

 

 

 

Yes we had that a couple of times, because everyone will just go CAP in order to hold off the attack. Problem is, people are coming in and out like the wind and it really hard to get anything pre planned. We dont have a dedicated squad of 5+ people on red. Just a collection of lonewolfs and two ships. :P

 

Sounds like a void that needs to be filled! To be honest, i think when the aircraft get shuffled again, we will see faction populations change again. I'm missing the Ka-50, terribly.

[VentZer0]

Sounds like a void that needs to be filled! To be honest, i think when the aircraft get shuffled again, we will see faction populations change again. I'm missing the Ka-50, terribly.

 

Yeah man tell me about it, but nobody is joining red it seems. Only a handful. At least that is what is feels like to everyone on red I think.

 

In the last days people were talking a lot about which aircraft should be on which side and so on.

 

 

I will try to make a formal suggestion to be tested at some point in the future.

Which will hopefully be deemed fair by most people ^^

[Jman]

Yeah man tell me about it, but nobody is joining red it seems. Only a handful. At least that is what is feels like to everyone on red I think.

 

In the last days people were talking a lot about which aircraft should be on which side and so on.

 

 

I will try to make a formal suggestion to be tested at some point in the future.

Which will hopefully be deemed fair by most people ^^

 

I also miss flying flying the Flanker and Frogfoot, but for the time being I will stick to my M2K on BlueFor :pilotfly:

 

Regarding SR, I love it and would find it amazing to have it properly used by seperating the comms for each package. I'm guilty of using both comms unforutnately lol, seems that due to the lack of others being in I find myself also talking on TS.

[Panhead]

Which will hopefully be deemed fair by most people ^^

Keeping true to spirit of the forum, I will oppose any view on fairness you put forth. :thumbup:

 

 

But in all seriousness, I do not have a dog in this fight. I only fly A10C and more recently, Huey. I can't make an informed comment on anything outside of these two aircraft and certainly not their perceived counterpart(s).

 

What I can say, without any doubt, is that SA-6s are the devil's work, and anyone deploying them are sinners beyond redemption. :)

[BodyOrgan]

Keeping true to spirit of the forum, I will oppose any view on fairness you put forth. :thumbup:

 

 

But in all seriousness, I do not have a dog in this fight. I only fly A10C and more recently, Huey. I can't make an informed comment on anything outside of these two aircraft and certainly not their perceived counterpart(s).

 

What I can say, without any doubt, is that SA-6s are the devil's work, and anyone deploying them are sinners beyond redemption. :)

Oh boy, I have sinned a lot. :thumbup:

[Beeroshima]

Oh boy, I have sinned a lot.

Haha. Yeah you have. You and Nach are partners in crime. I've watched your paired kub deployments with envy and contempt.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

Edited July 25, 2016 by Beeroshima

[Jman]

Oh boy, I have sinned a lot. :thumbup:

 

Your are the devils son indead, priceless trying to find you in the mi8 while your setting up kubs.

 

What I will say is the most adrenaline rushed moment I've had in DCS was when you were chasing me down in your mi8 while I was in the JTAC :lol:

[BodyOrgan]

Your are the devils son indead, priceless trying to find you in the mi8 while your setting up kubs.

 

What I will say is the most adrenaline rushed moment I've had in DCS was when you were chasing me down in your mi8 while I was in the JTAC :lol:

Yep, Jman comes back from the lives grave by driving a JTAC :). I hope ours become driveable soon.

 

I think my most adrenaline rushed moment was Ether (Redfor defector) vectoring me into Snowman's Huey where I was firing at max range in a desperate attempt to prevent him from taking the Maykop-Sochi FARP. He was just several feet from the ground when I got a lucky UPK pod strike on his tail popping it off and I got to satisfyingly watch his fuselage slam into the ground and explode. Not long after the A-10 CAS found me.

[Sierra99]

I just find it amusing that people fly high fidelity systems aircraft where you even have to cool the damn sensor of your heatseeker, but apparently refuse to use the radios in their cockpits, I just can't come up with a logical explanation for that.

 

^^^ THIS ^^^

[Sierra99]

By asking nicely...? :)

 

There are ways to enforce it as there is an export from SimpleRadio which matches up with DCS players, hence the live map SRS indicator.

 

But I say again, we're not enforcing anything.... The round is in testing.

 

If as a community, you would like to be the most helpful, be in both TS and SRS during testing which is quite an ask I know.

 

Ciribob,

 

Can Simple Radio and Simple Radio Stand Alone be used together?

 

Sierra

[Sierra99]

This same thing happened with Yoda. He spent lots of hours with Leavu3 and the community went ape shit. The voice of the people against it was far more vocal than the guys for it. It drove him away from DCS all together :-(. Frankly I see the same guys in this thread doing the same thing.

 

Let's be clear about the concept...Leavu3 is a CHEAT. It provides capabilities that are NOT AVAILABLE To the various real aircraft. All simple radio does is activated the radios provided in each aircraft with as close to the correct capabilities of each as possible. Nothing more. Comparing apples and oranges helps nobody. If the radio capabilities simple radio provides were included with DCS, this wouldn't be a question.

 

Sierra

[D4n]

Question, why is my ping to OP BF game server even higher than 100 when my Ping from my computer to Athens is only 80 ms ? What is the BF server bandwidth and location (or ISP)?

[RPY Variable]

About the player on F10 view subject. I would say that the server is almost perfect! No external view, NATO vs Warsaw planes, CGI, etc. :thumbup: But the F10 subject it erases completely the simulation environment immersion. :cry:

 

 

1) I could decide not to open the F10 view, but someone else will and he will have an advantage over me.

 

2) This is not HWAKS, this is DCS. Navigation is a part of flying, and for a war machine and its pilots is as important as his combat capabilities.

 

3) If F10 player position was not available, it would be much harder to fly low through the mountain to surprise an enemy. You could do that, but you’ll have to pay the consequences of that tactic. (Getting lost, losing radio navigation signals, etc.)

 

4) There are people that say that aircraft like Mig-21 are difficult because they have a very poor navigation equipment. But I would say that is one of the easiest to navigate, just put the RSBN channel and you are done. You have the radial and distance from nearest airport. Then you can use the F10 view as a navigation chart just to calculate vectors and position.

 

5) It also serves as an advantage for dose who are in TS or SR and can use GCI as a navigation assistance. So it also will encourage lone wolfs to use TS or SR.

 

I could continue but I think my point is made.

Maybe is a difficult change for someone that is not use to using the aircraft instruments for navigation, but I there are a lot of thing that we don´t do because we think are difficult, and when we are forced to learn them we discover that they were not that hard as we thought.

 

Just my point of view.

[Enduro14]

Yes Body and I deployed some Devious anti Air machines of death trying to hold you guys off from taking Kras. Then the infamous attempted strike of Maykop we did with ka50's mi8 and Nach saving our ass for most of time in a su-25a. Coolest thing was getting that jtac forward deployed.. good times

But F-15 guys should know ramming a ka50 is not good for your health lol

Edited July 25, 2016 by Enduro14

[BSS_Sniper]

While your numbers are extremely lopsided I have seen five flankers in the air plenty of times during this testing phase. It's also worth mentioning we organized our group and got it together beforehand instead of waiting to see who showed up and then grabbing everybody. I think the message was planning beforehand is key.

 

I will grant you that the number disparity needs to be addressed somehow. I'll leave that up to the buddyspike team. I'm sure they'll ask the community when and if they want our input.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

 

That is the exception. I changed sides from Blue to Red because people literally have to flight for slots on missions the Blue side is doing most of the time.

[BSS_Sniper]

Let's be clear about the concept...Leavu3 is a CHEAT. It provides capabilities that are NOT AVAILABLE To the various real aircraft. All simple radio does is activated the radios provided in each aircraft with as close to the correct capabilities of each as possible. Nothing more. Comparing apples and oranges helps nobody. If the radio capabilities simple radio provides were included with DCS, this wouldn't be a question.

 

Sierra

 

This. There's a HUGE difference in the two.

[BSS_Sniper]

About the player on F10 view subject. I would say that the server is almost perfect! No external view, NATO vs Warsaw planes, CGI, etc. :thumbup: But the F10 subject it erases completely the simulation environment immersion. :cry:

 

 

1) I could decide not to open the F10 view, but someone else will and he will have an advantage over me.

 

2) This is not HWAKS, this is DCS. Navigation is a part of flying, and for a war machine and its pilots is as important as his combat capabilities.

 

3) If F10 player position was not available, it would be much harder to fly low through the mountain to surprise an enemy. You could do that, but you’ll have to pay the consequences of that tactic. (Getting lost, losing radio navigation signals, etc.)

 

4) There are people that say that aircraft like Mig-21 are difficult because they have a very poor navigation equipment. But I would say that is one of the easiest to navigate, just put the RSBN channel and you are done. You have the radial and distance from nearest airport. Then you can use the F10 view as a navigation chart just to calculate vectors and position.

 

5) It also serves as an advantage for dose who are in TS or SR and can use GCI as a navigation assistance. So it also will encourage lone wolfs to use TS or SR.

 

I could continue but I think my point is made.

Maybe is a difficult change for someone that is not use to using the aircraft instruments for navigation, but I there are a lot of thing that we don´t do because we think are difficult, and when we are forced to learn them we discover that they were not that hard as we thought.

 

Just my point of view.

 

Yeah but a line has to be drawn. Have you ever actually made a real flight plane for an actual flight? It takes a while. Now, instead of doing this for one mission for the day, you're going to be doing several times for several missions. You'll spend more time flight planning than flying. Personally, I like things the way they are. I have no interest in doing actual flight planning for this sim when people can't even be bothered to taxi correctly or even use the runway.

[VentZer0]

Yeah but a line has to be drawn. Have you ever actually made a real flight plane for an actual flight? It takes a while. Now, instead of doing this for one mission for the day, you're going to be doing several times for several missions. You'll spend more time flight planning than flying. Personally, I like things the way they are. I have no interest in doing actual flight planning for this sim when people can't even be bothered to taxi correctly or even use the runway.

 

I think you are overthinking this. You are making it sound like as if every flight plan must have a sophistication like one IRL. I disagree. I don't even think that most people would need a flight plan at all. Only ones that would are Ka50 and A10C pilots. And their nav systems are good enough that it is rather easy to plan anything and the nature of the craft basically forces you to anyways to some degree.

[RPY Variable]

Yeah but a line has to be drawn. Have you ever actually made a real flight plane for an actual flight? It takes a while. Now, instead of doing this for one mission for the day, you're going to be doing several times for several missions. You'll spend more time flight planning than flying. Personally, I like things the way they are. I have no interest in doing actual flight planning for this sim when people can't even be bothered to taxi correctly or even use the runway.

 

Yes I did and it wasn’t any nightmare. But I am not proposing making a flight plan, I´m only asking for the F10 player position to be deactivated. F10 view has all the frequencies, VOR, TACAN, Lat & Long, etc. There is no need of making a preflight briefing.

Following your line of reasoning let’s just spawn with airplanes running, instruments aligned, unlimited weapons, etc.

 

And I never saw anyone taking off from taxy roads in this server, is may be possible but not the rule. The idea is to raise the bar.

[Beeroshima]

There are certain aspects of the "game" that give additional perspective on what's going on around us. We can't feel momentum, g's, and deceleration. Depth perception is also hindered. I think the f10 map being there is an accepted trade off to give us all situational awareness that we lack from the fact we're playing a game on a 2 dimensional screen.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

[firmek]

Can I get switched to red... I can help setting up those annoying kubs, transport boots, do some CAS with Mig-21 or ground pounding with Su-25.

[Beeroshima]

I envy you guys having that mi8...if I was as proficient at the huey as I was the ka50 id be deploying Kubs everywhere. My huey ends up a burning wreck more than not with my limited skill so far.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

[mia389]

Let's be clear about the concept...Leavu3 is a CHEAT. It provides capabilities that are NOT AVAILABLE To the various real aircraft. All simple radio does is activated the radios provided in each aircraft with as close to the correct capabilities of each as possible. Nothing more. Comparing apples and oranges helps nobody. If the radio capabilities simple radio provides were included with DCS, this wouldn't be a question.

 

Sierra

 

I'm not debating what anything is. That is pointless and you missed my point completely. My point was guys spend lots of time making programs for the community and the community whines and crys when they do. I am not sure how SR hurts anyone but still people are against it in this thread. Nothing surprises me anymore in today's day and age. :pilotfly:

[BSS_Sniper]

There are certain aspects of the "game" that give additional perspective on what's going on around us. We can't feel momentum, g's, and deceleration. Depth perception is also hindered. I think the f10 map being there is an accepted trade off to give us all situational awareness that we lack from the fact we're playing a game on a 2 dimensional screen.

 

Sent while I should be working instead.

 

Very well said.