DCS World Patch Notes Discussion Thread

[Northstar98]

8 hours ago, Nealius said:

It isn't spherical? Illumination appears to replicate a spherical model, since you can take off in darkness and as you climb to altitude you get lit up by the sunset as if you wound back time.

I know the map is definitely flat, there is a shader at high altitude that gives you the illusion that it's spherical.

But if you can climb and be illuminated by the sun, then perhaps they've modelled the sun and the moon as it would be expected on a spherical Earth.

I don't know, just a hunch.

[Lange_666]

5 hours ago, Nealius said:

Those aren't the standard wand-styled controllers, are they?

Wand-style? What do you mean by that?

It are the standard hand controllers.

Edited October 23, 2021 by Lange_666

[Nealius]

3 minutes ago, Lange_666 said:

Wand-style? What do you mean by that?

It are the standard had controllers.

The things you hold like a wand with buttons....I thought "touch controller" meant gloves that enable you to actually "touch" things in the game rather than point a laser pointer at it and press a button.

[Lange_666]

No no, the regular hand controllers that come standard with the headset.

[Dragon1-1]

They're called "touch controllers" because the first ones were called Oculus Touch. There appears to be Capto glove support in DCS, but I don't know if it works, and from what I've heard the gloves aren't that great, anyway.

[nrosko]

spitfire bindings are wiped, I really hope its not all aircraft

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

Any idea anything major we would see tomorrow update?

[Boosterdog]

10 minutes ago, VFGiPJP said:

Any idea anything major we would see tomorrow update?

about 10 fps hopefully

[Hiob]

37 minutes ago, VFGiPJP said:

Any idea anything major we would see tomorrow update?

After a big patch, there are typically some minor hotfix/troubleshooting patches.

Don‘t expect something big, and don’t expect the fps-issue to be solved, yet. (no one is against positive surprises of course)

[Uxi]

Lighting was screwed up on the F-14, so hopefully that's fixed.  

[hasole]

There is this for the Tomcat

 

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

Expect no AH-64D either...

[draconus]

Patch notes needs correction - it's a Hornet campaign:

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DCS: F-14 Rising Squall Campaign by INVERTED

 

[Melitara]

Is there a fix for F-16 CBU-97 in last hotfix?

[Marklar]

I hope it's this (from today's changelog)

• WCMD CBUs ballistic data upgrade (bomblets chute).

Edited October 28, 2021 by Marklar

[Dauntless]

• Taught Jester that you do not need an ejection to climb up in life, even when spawning low. 

[hreich]

Didnt get that last one?

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[M1Combat]

On 10/23/2021 at 2:05 AM, Northstar98 said:

I know the map is definitely flat, there is a shader at high altitude that gives you the illusion that it's spherical.

But if you can climb and be illuminated by the sun, then perhaps they've modelled the sun and the moon as it would be expected on a spherical Earth.

I don't know, just a hunch.

I'm pretty sure they edge update refigured their system and the maps are now modeled based on a spherical earth.  I think they also mentioned that they didn't or maybe wouldn't re-model Caucasus to take advantage...  but as I recall all other maps save maybe Nevada are spherical.

[hein22]

11 minutes ago, M1Combat said:

I'm pretty sure they edge update refigured their system and the maps are now modeled based on a spherical earth.  I think they also mentioned that they didn't or maybe wouldn't re-model Caucasus to take advantage...  but as I recall all other maps save maybe Nevada are spherical.

The coordinates system leaves in evidence that none of the maps are spherical.

I might be wrong but that's how I see it.

[draconus]

7 hours ago, M1Combat said:

I'm pretty sure they edge update refigured their system and the maps are now modeled based on a spherical earth.

Any source or even a sign to confirm your theory?

[Northstar98]

11 hours ago, M1Combat said:

I'm pretty sure they edge update refigured their system and the maps are now modeled based on a spherical earth.  I think they also mentioned that they didn't or maybe wouldn't re-model Caucasus to take advantage...  but as I recall all other maps save maybe Nevada are spherical.

All I've seen so far is that EDGE might support spherical maps, but current maps are flat, and as such things like vectors (for things like forces) will reference a cartesian coordinate system, they would need to reference a spherical coordinate system to work on a spherical Earth.

There are workarounds employed to replicate certain effects to simulate a spherical Earth, such as RADAR LOS and a shader at high altitude, and maybe things like the moon, sun and stars, but the maps themselves are all shaped as if the Earth was flat.

One of NineLine's comments seems to confirm this.

Edited October 29, 2021 by Northstar98

[Eldur]

On 10/28/2021 at 5:32 PM, Dauntless said:

• Taught Jester that you do not need an ejection to climb up in life, even when spawning low. 

That line caught me pants down and immediately had me dying, not gonna lie!

Classic Heatblur

[M1Combat]

I likely mis-understood what I read then.

[gulredrel]

Looks like the stable changelog on the website (DCS 2.7.7.15038 - 03.11.2021) is a copy of the old stable changelog and not the merge of the latest open beta changelogs

DCS 2.7.7.15038 Open Beta - 28.10.2021 and DCS 2.7.7.14727 Open Beta - 20.10.2021

Regards

Jens

[falcon_120]

We are supposed to receive a patch today if testing goes well...