noted Lack of female pilot models?

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

26 minutes ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

Having pilot customization, period, would be cool. Nothing too indepth, we definitely don't need much. Maybe a motopatch or two. Nothing those who are insecure would erect as a strawman.

 

What Heatblur is doing is pretty awesome. We'll see if that sets a trend:

 

[Gierasimov]

2 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

What Heatblur is doing is pretty awesome. We'll see if that sets a trend:

 

Hold on so female pilots are in DCS already (via Heatlblur) 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

5 minutes ago, Gierasimov said:

Hold on so female pilots are in DCS already (via Heatlblur) 

The above screenshot is a teaser (taken from the F-4E release trailer) about what's to come when Heatblur's character customisation will be released. We don't have it yet, but we will have it at some point since it's one of the features of the F-4E.
I for one am going to make use of it  (I know I said earlier in this thread I don't really care that much, but I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth )

Edited October 16, 2024 by Raven (Elysian Angel)
minor grammar fix

[Ramstein]

On 9/10/2024 at 1:48 AM, Dragon1-1 said:

Well, I'd argue that as far as campaigns go, it'd be nice to have the pilot body actually look female in Speed and Angels, when playing as a female character. Subtle stuff like smaller hands and narrower shoulders, mostly, you can see that when looking around the cockpit. So campaign creators would be able to take advantage of it, too.

the ai pilot in the chinook looks just like that!

[SharpeXB]

I’m curious how many actual women are on this thread

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

[Starfall116]

On 1/30/2023 at 4:39 AM, buceador said:

A female friend of mine who has recently got into DCS was astonished that are no female pilot models available for any of the aircraft!
20.0% of USAF pilots are female

Even the Russian Federation has its  ‘angels of death’, female pilots!
ED?  

 

I think this is a great idea, regardless of when an aircraft was made.  Women have been flying planes since the very earliest days, and they should be represented.  At the end of the day this is a simulator flown during modern times, and if people don't like the idea of female pilots on historical grounds I think that's hogwash, go make a server that you can put a No Girls sign up and keep to yourselves :).

-Chris

[Gun Jam]

lol thats one more than I was expecting.

[BIGNEWY]

Folks I have had a clean up. 

Please ensure you read the rules, I don't care where you come from or your views on the sexes debate, here you treat everyone with respect. 

If you can not do that please post somewhere else. 

thank you 

[SharpeXB]

18 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

[AvgeekJoe]

I just think we need some more realism in the sim.

[Dangerzone]

13 hours ago, buceador said:

apart from bitchin' betty, everything in DCS was male. 

Not true. I get a female voice whenever I'm inbound for carrier landings as well. Want another lady? Fly Navy. 

I also get a female voice with overlordBot, but I get that's not ED/DCS but 3rd party. 

I don't have a problem with introducing more variety into the simulator, but I'm also glad that ED doesn't feel the need to raise this item to the top of the pile because of politically correct pressures, etc, and is rather concentrating on more important items first, letting this will come when it comes. As for 'realism', there's plenty of areas where realism can be increased beyond an avatar, so I'd hate to get tunnel visioned with realism just focusing on sex.

Edited October 17, 2024 by Dangerzone

[Slippa]

That’s settled then. We all get a moustache .

[freehand]

14 hours ago, buceador said:

Hi Rudel_ch!
This was referred to in the original post, inclusivity was never the issue, for me it was all about / immersion / realism, as for my female friend's original comment, she was simply stating a fact, that apart from bitchin' betty, everything in DCS was male. 

Still not sure how it relates to the given context?

Ask your friend to join the forum so we can read her input.

Edited October 17, 2024 by freehand

[Dangerzone]

If we're talking about realism, and variety - one of the things that gets me is that it's the same voice each time for each radio call. Whether female/male/etc, doesn't matter - just having different voices would be great - but while we're doing it - it would make sense to have a mix of options both male and female, so people have a choice of choosing which voice would play for their own radio calls.  

Currently I hear 3 other planes call inbound for a carrier landing - and each with the exact same voice, the exact same phrase. How good would it be if there were 4 or 5 different variations of the voices where pilots could select which iteration of the voice they want used when they're calling inbound in a setting - including male and female.

Or even better, if voices could be done like plane liveries - so we can add them to the saved games directory and choose our own voices for our own calls. Then people who want this feature can share voice 'liveries' like we currently can do with the plane skins. 

For me - this would be far more immersive changing than changing a pilot model that we rarely would see anyway because we're in the seat when we're flying. I would also think it could be an easier change than doing a bunch of different models with animations for the cockpit. (I'm no animator so I don't know, but I would imagine there's more work than that, than having a setting that determines which version of a sound file is played when triggered?)

I know one way to achieve this already is to have all players use VAICOM, and disable the voice in game, and just use your own voice, and have it transmit over SRS at the same time - so we can hear each other's own unique voices for the call. But this does require all players to use VAICOM. Still - maybe this could be a big help for your female friend @buceador if you haven't considered VAICOM and how it could completely change the immersion on that level?

Edited October 17, 2024 by Dangerzone

[Starfall116]

@dangerzone definitely well put! I wonder if ED put together a script then the community could submit their voice acting skillz and sound files and we could have a bunch of voices and personalities that could be part of the game!

[ShroomSister]

Adding support, as a girl who flies this sim. Thanks!

[Dangerzone]

On 10/17/2024 at 1:26 PM, Starfall116 said:

@dangerzone definitely well put! I wonder if ED put together a script then the community could submit their voice acting skillz and sound files and we could have a bunch of voices and personalities that could be part of the game!

Thanks. I know this probably won't get seen here. (One of the mods said they only read the first one of the request), so I'll add this as a new request feature. Never know, it might get a look-in.

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

On 10/16/2024 at 7:41 PM, Slippa said:

That’s settled then. We all get a moustache .

I'll take it, mine sucks in real life.

[Kappa-131st]

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by Kappa-131st