mdmasters Posted February 28, 2024 Posted February 28, 2024 After 10 years with DCS, I've just started to look into multiplayer. I have no idea which airfields to spawn at because I don't memorize all of their locations, and I don't know where the front lines are at any particular time, so I am guessing at an airfield spawn, and often I find that I am far away from the front lines. This really sucks when flying helos. Is there some way to see the server's map after I join a server and before I choose a slot? Thanks, MM
Maverick87Shaka Posted February 28, 2024 Posted February 28, 2024 (edited) This is not your fault, but I guess some pain point of DCS that can be improvement in the next upcoming release (not short term unfortunately) The only way to enable player to show maps in game (F10) is to enable observer slot, but it's something that on 95% of the server will be disable to avoid unbalance PvP, or get PvE to much easy, since with observer slot enabled, you'll be able to see all units, red and blue, no matters what the maps settings is (fog of war, allied only etc...,doesn't apply to observer slot). Some more advanced server typically had a website where you can check "realtime" map, airfield status, etc, so you can get idea of what is happening. We ware usual to have this method in place, but since it's really complicated develop this feature, it's currently offline (the map) for code refactoring. The only "workaround" or suggestion that I can tell you, is keep a slot of the same type that you want fly, don't start-up, open map and then check what is going on server. Then change slot in the appropriate airfield. It's annoying, but as soon as you keep the same aircraft type, it's not wasting too much memory, and switch should be "faster" than keep a module for the first time. Edited May 19, 2024 by Maverick87Shaka FlighRIG => CPU: RyZen 5900x | RAM: 64GB Corsair 3000Mhz | GPU: nVIDIA RTX 4090 FE | OS Storage: SSD NVMe Samsung 850 Pro 512GB, DCS Storage: SSD NVMe Sabrent 1TB | Device: Multipurpose-UFC, VirPil T-50, TM WARTHOG Throttle, TrackHat, MFD Cougar with screen. Our Servers => [ITA] Banshee | Krasnodar - PvE | PersianConquest PvE Live Map&Stats | Syria Liberation PvE Conquest Support us on twitch subscribing with amazon prime account linked, it's free!
DutchJackal Posted May 19, 2024 Posted May 19, 2024 On 2/28/2024 at 1:09 AM, mdmasters said: After 10 years with DCS, I've just started to look into multiplayer. I have no idea which airfields to spawn at because I don't memorize all of their locations, and I don't know where the front lines are at any particular time, so I am guessing at an airfield spawn, and often I find that I am far away from the front lines. This really sucks when flying helos. Is there some way to see the server's map after I join a server and before I choose a slot? Thanks, MM Came looking exactly for this! I'm a long time DCS player and occasionally play on MP. But I only recently noticed that MP servers started blocking the F10 map. I join a server. Pick an Apache slot and start up the helo. I then look for a mission and set the coordinates. Only to find out it hundreds of miles away! This is getting depressing... Its great ED created filters in the slot screen and it would be even better if they would plot them on the map!
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