Shibbyland Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Just gave it a try on the free to fly. Seems pretty neat, simple but neat. Trying to decide between this and the P-47. I only play single player on stable and both aircraft are severely lacking in single player missions/campaigns. Any thoughts from people on why I should pick one over the other...or neither? I own the majority of modules including around half of the WW2 warbirds. No massive preference between air to air and air to ground, happy with either, just need decent missions. F-5e looks very dated graphically but I have heard that will be improved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fenton Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Great platform to learn core skills on. And bombing without computer calculations is a challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceptre Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 There is soon to be a DLC campaign for the P47 by reflected. neither come with a free campaign, but you can use DCS liberation, free dynamic campaign generator RTX 2070 8GB | 32GB DDR4 2666 RAM | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 4.2Ghz | Asrock X570 | CH Fighterstick/Pro Throttle | TM MFDs | TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibbyland Posted December 24, 2020 Author Share Posted December 24, 2020 Oh I haven’t heard of the liberation campaign. Is it in the user files downloads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbikkel Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I can only give you my own view, hope this helps in deciding. I chose the F-5 for nostalgic reasons and for now i will not buy any ww2 related planes for DCS. When it comes to ww2, i stick with il-2. I generally like a bit of "older" planes of days gone by. Our airforce had the NF-5 (a modified F-5) during the 70's/80's and this also adds to my nostalgia. The relative simplicity of the plane also spoke to me, the cockpit is much simpler than let's say an F-16. As a family dad, i didn't want to spend too much time learning the cockpit from scratch. The cockpit has quite good visibility allround. The graphics, you say they are not so good, i don't agree with that. But then again, this is not my focal point, i think im not so demanding here. Last thing, but not least, the F-5 is a bit of a niche plane to me, it is not so common in flightsims as an F-15 for example. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-II Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) Get the F-5. IMHO it doesn't look "dated", either simulation or otherwise. It's extremely functional, generally flies very well, and is a proper "old school" fighter. It has a great weapons capability, and pre-dates the glass-cockpit era of newer fighters, requiring actual pilot skills to score kills. I own nearly every other module in DCS, and the F-5 is up there as one of my favorites. All we're missing is an F-16A Block 10. Edited December 30, 2020 by Tiger-II 1 Motorola 68000 | 1 Mb | Debug port "When performing a forced landing, fly the aircraft as far into the crash as possible." - Bob Hoover. The JF-17 is not better than the F-16; it's different. It's how you fly that counts. "An average aircraft with a skilled pilot, will out-perform the superior aircraft with an average pilot." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibbyland Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 I bought it, I really like it, particularly when you start scoring reliable and accurate hits using the bombing tables. It's just the lack of content yet again that bugs me. I use the quick mission builder and then edit the mission to try give it a 1970s feel but it's not that great. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count von Altibar Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 There are some great mp servers where the F-5 plays a big role like the cold war server. I love this aircraft, probably the one I've used the most in DCS. Iron bombing having to nail the release altitude, dive angle & airspeed is a real challenge but fun. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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