DCS Features Wish List

[Boberro]

Correct HUD, it shouldn't AFIK be larger when you use zoom.

[Bucic]

Correct HUD, it shouldn't AFIK be larger when you use zoom.

It shouldn't be when you move the camera closer to it but it should be when you are decreasing FOV. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

I know this isn't really important for many of you, but for me it makes all the difference...

 

Is it possible to implement a way to switch languages, at least for the menus, in the following DCS series and LO2.0? This is one of the main reasons I don't play DCS: Black Shark much. Bought it in Russian and can't get much of it. Sure, one or other word makes some sense, but the rest... It just kills the game for me. I can't get a thing from the "Training" section, "Mission Editor" is just one big map, and the "Options" screen is almost a no-go area, due to the high chance of me screwing some settings there.

 

Is it possible to alternate from one language to other? I know it's possible to change it from English to French/German/Spanish, why the same isn't true for Russian version? I don't think there are enough differences to make the translation impossible, and I don't see the point of not having it, specially when most Russian-made games are already switcheable, such as Rise of Flight.

 

Any possibility of having this (maybe even in DCS:BS)?

 

Thanks in advance.

[GGTharos]

Because the Russian version was meant for russia.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Yes, but I'm sort of inside and outside this group.

 

I am in Russia, but I don't speak much Russian. Hard to explain in details, so let's keep it simple like that.

 

Is there any chance of modifying some file here or there to make the menus show in English at least? It isn't a very nice thing to be unable to play such a great simulator as it was meant to be played because language problems :(

 

Is there any chance at all of replacing the files responsible for language with English/French/Spanish files? I don't really care for it in-flight, but away from the front-lines, I'm totally useless because of the language, and at least a menu translation would do wonders :).

[159th_Viper]

....Bought it in Russian and can't get much of it. Sure, one or other word makes some sense, but the rest... It just kills the game for me....

 

Change the Content to English - There are Mods/Tweaks that attend to this :)

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Thanks for the tip, Viper. Any links?

 

But to me the only thing would be the menu. I have no problem with names, reading and pronounciation of the words, so map-reading and cockpit instrument reading aren't really a problem. The main thing is when it comes to change an option, use the mission builder and etc. That's driving me mad.

[159th_Viper]

I'll search and get back to you :)

[Haukka81]

Yes, but I'm sort of inside and outside this group.

 

I am in Russia, but I don't speak much Russian. Hard to explain in details, so let's keep it simple like that.

 

Is there any chance of modifying some file here or there to make the menus show in English at least? It isn't a very nice thing to be unable to play such a great simulator as it was meant to be played because language problems :(

 

Is there any chance at all of replacing the files responsible for language with English/French/Spanish files? I don't really care for it in-flight, but away from the front-lines, I'm totally useless because of the language, and at least a menu translation would do wonders :).

 

 

PM sent :smilewink:

[liotczik]

I wish, that one of the next DCS modules would be centered around a relatively simple aircraft, which looks more like an armed version of a civilian a/c, than a heavy and mean flying predator. I think mostly of Aerospatiale Gazelle, Westland Lynx, OH-58, AH/MH-6. Anything light attack/recon with additional capability to deploy/retrieve specops team or perform SAR would make me really happy for a long time :)

 

My second wish is directly connected to the first one. Such an aircraft could be used in a theatre simulating local guerilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, rather than full scale military conflict (South America comes to my mind). I would love to look for tracers coming from under jungle trees canopy, rather than signs of missile launch on RWR :) Just like Hueys in Vietnam, but a little bit more current and modern, and therefore more justified as a DCS module.

 

One more wish, if I may. DCS: Harrier. Please... :D

[Lucas_From_Hell]

which looks more like an armed version of a civilian a/c, than a heavy and mean flying predator.

 

Totally agree. The satisfaction of saving a life, instead of taking one, is priceless. Now seriously, you on drugs :D? What in Earth can be better than a big heavy mean-looking badass predator?! It's Digital Combat Simulator, man! We want to blow things up, shoot missiles all around, destroy everything in our path :gun_smilie:

 

Just joking, don't take it seriously at all. But I still think this could get boring after a while, just flying from X to Y, land, drop the dudes, then fly from Y to X. Maybe this could be done with DCS: Mi-24. It can carry troops AND it also is a mean flying predator.

 

My second wish is directly connected to the first one. Such an aircraft could be used in a theatre simulating local guerilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, rather than full scale military conflict (South America comes to my mind). I would love to look for tracers coming from under jungle trees canopy, rather than signs of missile launch on RWR :) Just like Hueys in Vietnam, but a little bit more current and modern, and therefore more justified as a DCS module.

 

COIN in South America is not as easy as in an open area, such as Afghanistan or Iraq. The FARC hide in deep jungle areas. It's not just put a pair of guns in a light chopper and go hunting. Just check the inventories from South-American Air Forces and their solutions for COIN (I decided to ignore trainers with light attack capabilities, such as the EMB-312 and MB-339, and aircraft like the AMX and Su-25, as they're almost "overkill" in this situation).

 

 

• Brazil operates EMB-314 (A-29 Super Tucano) aircraft, and recently received Mi-35M (AH-2 Sabre) helicopters.
  
• Argentina operates IA-58 Pucará aircraft.
  
• Colombia operates EMB-314, A-37 and OV-10, plus AC-47 ("Spooky").
  
• Chile operates A-37, and has EMB-314 aircraft in order.
  
• Peru has A-37, and is interested in buying EMB-314 as well. It also operates Mi-24 (Mi-25D) helicopters.
  
• Ecuador is operating the A-37, and is going to replace these with EMB-314.
  
• Uruguay employs A-37 and IA-58 Pucará.
  
• Venezuela uses OV-10 aircraft.
  

 

IF, and I think it's really unprobable (almost impossible, actually), ED decides to go for South America (I support the idea, however :D), they would have to choose between these aircraft (or model some of the multi-role fighters or attack aircraft employed by local air forces), using some criteria so we wouldn't bitch much. It would need to be an aircraft with up-to-date systems, with good air-to-air capabilities and be operational in many countries. OV-10 and Spooky are ancient, IA-58 can't handle air-to-air, and all A-37 are being replaced by EMB-314 (except in Uruguay, where the F-5E is taking the position), and Mi-24 is only operational in Peru.

 

The EMB-314 would be the best option in this case.

 

But, a short-coming: carrying very modern systems, I wouldn't be surprised if many, or at least some of these, were classified, making it harder or even impossible to make a DCS-level title with it.

 

So taking things all round, we should probably stick with the Caucasus, as it's a way hotter area than America when it comes to politics, and it's easier to include NATO and Russia in a fictional conflict there.

 

Sorry if it makes no sense at all, just tried to give an opinion here but got lost in the middle of it :music_whistling:

[liotczik]

What in Earth can be better than a big heavy mean-looking badass predator?!

 

Tweety? :D Equally dangerous, yet so little and cute, just like all the 'little-birds' ;) Also negative on drugs, I'm normally like that :D

 

Yup, blowing stuff and bringing destruction is good and nice (at least in a sim), but I find it also amusing to serve for a taxi for someone going to blow stuff and bring destruction, as well as for the unfortunate guys, who were blown out of the sky instead of bringing destruction :D Simply I miss Jane's Longbow 2 planeset. However I would gladly hire some trigger happy pilot, like you, as my cover, whaddya say? :D We have a proverb here: "the wolf is fed, yet the sheep is intact".

 

Mi-24 was mentioned earlier and I wholeheartedly support the idea!

 

We already have British, French and American forces in our version of Crimea region, so why not to equip them with the helos mentioned earlier? South America, while highly desired, is another topic.

 

Tell me more abour Pucara, Bronco and the rest of the pack :P I was going to ask for the A-1 Skyraider in the first place, but I suffer from too few good helo sims on the market (so that's the priority) and also the old Able Dog is, well... old, so I don't even dream of a historic DCS module like Korea or Vietnam.

[DPS]

SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

 

How about some legacy - easy to dodge - SAMs for Warthog?

 

Here's one I made earlier:

 

 

DPS.

 

 

[shadowze]

The main wish I have regarding DCS (which I would think make things better) would be to change the way you can access the options.... I want to be able to, when in the middle of playing a game of DCS , hit escape get a menu so I can go in a modify for example a key binding , I mean its NOT rocket science even IL2 can do it , as can many other games. Come on it should be easy to fix , please for the love of god DONT ruin A-10 by having the options configured in such a half assed way

[EtherealN]

I mean its NOT rocket science

 

No, it's computer science, and how many rockets, missiles and space probes have died horrible deaths due to software issues? :P

 

But yeah, that would be kinda nice, even though I myself would probably not use the feature (I set my controls up once and when happy with them only touch them if I get a new stick or something like that).

[GGTharos]

Come on it should be easy to fix

 

It isn't.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Does it make much difference?

 

If you print a keycard with your assignments, it should be OK, as you'll be able to check the key while flying.

 

If you eventually change anything, just handwrite it on the paper and you're good to go :)

[joey45]

.... Come on it should be easy to fix ....

 

Famous Last Words...

[Warbird_242]

I wish, that one of the next DCS modules would be centered around a relatively simple aircraft, which looks more like an armed version of a civilian a/c, than a heavy and mean flying predator. I think mostly of Aerospatiale Gazelle, Westland Lynx, OH-58, AH/MH-6. Anything light attack/recon with additional capability to deploy/retrieve specops team or perform SAR would make me really happy for a long time :)

 

My second wish is directly connected to the first one. Such an aircraft could be used in a theatre simulating local guerilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, rather than full scale military conflict (South America comes to my mind). I would love to look for tracers coming from under jungle trees canopy, rather than signs of missile launch on RWR :) Just like Hueys in Vietnam, but a little bit more current and modern, and therefore more justified as a DCS module.

 

One more wish, if I may. DCS: Harrier. Please... :D

 

I have to say this is the most perfectly pitched idea I have seen - it just seems perfect!!!!! I'd love to have more 'flying' elements, such as, as you said, deploying troops. I can just picture two gazelles low level, dodging tracer to drop off marines ( I dont even care if the marines are imaginary :P ) and a light attack heli such as the lynx or gazelle would add a whole new dimention to the standard huge industrial warfare of black shark

[EtherealN]

DCS:Littlebird

 

There, I have to wipe saliva off my chin just from typing it. :P

Sadly though, the big question on ideas like liotczik's or my own weird fetish with the AT-802U is whether they'd sell enough to make it worth it. In the latter case I strongly doubt it, and in the former there would have to happen pretty radical things in the terrain engine for it to be feasible.

 

DCS:Harrier is a superb idea though. With that and a Malvinas/Falklands map all kinds of fun can be had. :D

[Lucas_From_Hell]

But the Harrier will be at Jet Thunder already, considering how much time it would take to model the Falklands, Malvinas and the inventories of the RAF and FAA at the time, plus the RN and ARA.

 

But that would open room for a personal wish: a Mirage III after the Harrier :D

[MBot]

DCS:Littlebird

 

Wouldn't that be a very fine choice for a professional 3rd party addon? Just like DCS: OV-10A Bronco :) DCS needs to become the MSFS of combat sims...

[Lucas_From_Hell]

But then the standard would probably drop, and no one would like it.

 

Maybe if we talked about add-ons to FC 2.0, then things would be different. But call it a DCS title, and I'd demand DCS precision :).

[Warbird_242]

DCS:Littlebird

 

There, I have to wipe saliva off my chin just from typing it. :P

Sadly though, the big question on ideas like liotczik's or my own weird fetish with the AT-802U is whether they'd sell enough to make it worth it. In the latter case I strongly doubt it, and in the former there would have to happen pretty radical things in the terrain engine for it to be feasible.

 

DCS:Harrier is a superb idea though. With that and a Malvinas/Falklands map all kinds of fun can be had. :D

 

 

Yes i agree with you on the terrain there - DCS is a bit for want of a better word lifeless, all very sterile and grey, but if we were to have, as I mentioned, low level escort/drop off missions etc I'm thinking heavy jungle :P . I know the devs must get fed up of guys like me saying that would be easy, but in this case, since a large jungle is, well, mostly jungle, couldn't it be a Il2 style texture rather than actual trees etc, with obstacles such as rivers and hills just cut out?

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Yeah, but if you only want to model jungle, there would be no airfields for the fighter boys to take-off, and probably most helicopters would be unable to operate as tell.

 

If ED was to model South-America, they would HAVE to model a pretty large area. Being Brazillian myself, and having lived in most regions there, I know that it isn't even close of being jungle all the way.

 

For example, it would need AT LEAST one Brazillian Air Force airbase (this would have to be either BAPV (located on Porto Velho, Rondônia. In Google Maps, search for "Aeroporto de Porto Velho-Belmont". For the military sector, check the northern parking area), as it's home for one EMB-314 unit, and now for the Mi-35 as well, and has structures to house one R-99 AWACS, or/and BACG ("Aeroporto de Campo Grande" at Google Maps, houses 1 EMB-314 squadron, one transport and one SAR squadron). These are on the western border of Brazil, but if we are to do COIN, I don't think it's viable at all for ED. Just check on the map the distance between both cities. They only have border with Bolivia and Paraguay, and these are barely target-free when we talk about COIN.

 

There's Boa Vista, house of one A-29 squadron as well, but its border is only with Venezuela, and that's no place to do "COINing" either.

 

So, taking things all round, I still think we should ask for a more viable option instead of South America :).