cknight5464 Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 Good morning to all. I've up to this point been a strictly single player DCS pilot. I've been tinkering with the idea of getting online, and have a few questions. 1st...What does everyone recommend I communicate on? Ive seen SRS and Discord. Any other systems I haven't read about yet? 2nd...What is the protocol, if one were to join a given open server at some random time, for asking to be included in another pilot (squad, section, flight, ect.) activities?
ak12546 Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 To my knowledge, SRS is effectively the de-facto communication method, apart from Discord and text chat. Concerning etiquette when trying to fly in coordination with others, in my experience it has been very spontaneous. In every case I will usually use text to ask a specific pilot or group of pilots what their objective is, and how I could help. On some servers, especially the Hoggit servers Human Ground Control Intercept/AWACS are pretty easy to coordinate with using SRS, usually it goes like this: “[AWACS Callsign] this is [Your Callsign] [Your Airframe] loaded for CAP, ready for tasking.”. AWACS will usually respond and task you how they see fit based on your load out, be it CAS,CAP, SEAD etc. Modules Combined Arms, Super Carrier, A-10A, A-10C, A-10C II, F-14, ,F-15C, F-16C, F/A-18C, P-51, Su-25, Su-27, MiG-21, MiG-29, Ajs-37, UH-1H, Ka-50, Sa-342 Terrains Nevada Test and Training Range, The Persian Gulf, Normandy 1944, Syria
QuiGon Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 2 hours ago, ak12546 said: To my knowledge, SRS is effectively the de-facto communication method, apart from Discord and text chat. *apart from Discord, Teamspeak and text chat. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing!
ChuckIV Posted December 13, 2020 Posted December 13, 2020 Welcome cknight5464! SRS is a great way to communicate for full immersion. You have to press a button to speak with your squadron members. SRS even has sound effects so that the transmission sounds "radio-like". Discord is also an excellent tool for comms. DCS provides it's own "radio" as well I believe. Our Spitfire squadron uses both SRS and Discord depending on what we're doing that evening. Discord is great when you have a connection problem with a DCS server and end up losing the connection. Discord continues to work so you can still speak with your members while you reboot and get back online. SRS, I believe is only connected WHILE in a DCS server. Anyone, chime in if I'm missing something. ChuckIV "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill SYSTEM: Processor - Intel® Core i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz 3600MHz water-cooled Installed memory (RAM) - 32.0 GB 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor Windows 10 & DCS on SSD Video Card - water-cooled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Internet: Cable 200Mbps 12Mbps
ak12546 Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 On 12/11/2020 at 1:05 PM, QuiGon said: *apart from Discord, Teamspeak and text chat. Ah, fair enough. Personally I like TeamSpeak, I just don’t see many people using it. Modules Combined Arms, Super Carrier, A-10A, A-10C, A-10C II, F-14, ,F-15C, F-16C, F/A-18C, P-51, Su-25, Su-27, MiG-21, MiG-29, Ajs-37, UH-1H, Ka-50, Sa-342 Terrains Nevada Test and Training Range, The Persian Gulf, Normandy 1944, Syria
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