Patch Note Discussion December 2024

[Beirut]

Winter in the SA... 

 

 YES! 

[Qcumber]

Spotting dots for VR and adaption for QVFR periphery. Fantastic. 

[joker62]

Great update, with really nice improvements and additions. Can't wait to try them out. Just enough time to download and update DCS, then in flight ...

[EmJay22]

Crossing fingers and giving it a try. 

[RyanFlint]

Authorization failure on the latest update with the M-2000 ....

 

 

 

 

UPDATE: Had to contact support and they had reset something with the license, working again now. 

Edited December 24, 2024 by RyanFlint

[BIGNEWY]

2 minutes ago, RyanFlint said:

Authorization failure on the latest update with the M-2000 ....

check your antivirus isnt creating a problem, then run a repair or verify if steam. If you still have issues contact our support directly 

[RyanFlint]

9 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

check your antivirus isnt creating a problem, then run a repair or verify if steam. If you still have issues contact our support directly 

did all of the above, didn't dix it and only happens with the m-2000. none of the other modules

[British_Dragon_14]

What a nice surprise! I'm personally really looking forward to trying the updated F-16C flight model stall behavior and turn speed and the HUD update, plus the new spotting dots.

So many fixes for the F-16C FCR in the last few updates as well!

It's just a shame I can't try it out now. Maybe later or tomorrow. Thanks ED!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:

DCS: South Atlantic by RAZBAM Simulations

New:

• Introduction of Winter Textures with emphasis on providing Ultra-High detail around the Falklands Island
• High-detail custom normal maps for the entire Falkland Islands
• New Normal maps across Argentina / Chile

 

Great update, I love this map so much:

 

 

 

 

[Creampie]

What was the purpose of this?

These units already have a hard time tracking & turning.

Even outside of that, they don't even shoot 20% of the time..

null

• Weapons. SA-2. V-750 missile. Decreased G-limit from 17 to 6.
• Weapons. SA-3, 5V27 missile. Decreased G-limit from 16 to 6. Decreased counter-countermeasures level. Change liquid motor smoke tail to solid fuel. Decreased size of motor smoke plume.
• Weapons. SA-5, 5V28 missile. Slightly decreased G-limit from 12 to 10. Slightly decreased counter-countermeasures level. Decreased second stage smoke transparency.

[Gunfreak]

2 minutes ago, Creampie said:

What was the purpose of this?

These units already have a hard time tracking & turning.

Even outside of that, they don't even shoot 20% of the time..

null

• Weapons. SA-2. V-750 missile. Decreased G-limit from 17 to 6.
• Weapons. SA-3, 5V27 missile. Decreased G-limit from 16 to 6. Decreased counter-countermeasures level. Change liquid motor smoke tail to solid fuel. Decreased size of motor smoke plume.
• Weapons. SA-5, 5V28 missile. Slightly decreased G-limit from 12 to 10. Slightly decreased counter-countermeasures level. Decreased second stage smoke transparency.

These SAMs have over preformed in DCS for years. This is actually a major improvement!

[Shadok]

When launching the DCS_updater.exe, the windows suddenly close and launch the game without making the update.

A clean and repair (and restart) doesn't help. First time this append in my DCS life.

[Creampie]

10 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

These SAMs have over preformed in DCS for years. This is actually a major improvement!

 

 

As compared to what exactly?

[Red_Camarada]

So, the fog now blocks IR signature, why not the clouds?

[ouky1991]

Improvement for AH-64D flight model, YEEES! it's gonna take a while for me to test this but I'm cautiously optimistic. Very nice fixes in this one, good work ED and merry christmass

[Rudel_chw]

52 minutes ago, RyanFlint said:

did all of the above, didn't dix it and only happens with the m-2000. none of the other modules

 

On my updated DCS the Mirage still works fine:

 

 

so, it isnt a DCS problem ... you really need to inspect your install and make sure no user mod is conflicting and your antivirus is banned from touch the DCS files.

[Jayhawk1971]

Thanks for the huge Christmas patch! Landing the Viper on roads in Finland, here I come! (fixed excessive roll/yaw issue in landing config)! 

Just one question: did Santa forget Heatblur for this patch, or was Heatblur naughty and forgot to send the patchnotes?   

Nevermind, just saw on Discord that the changes apparently made it in, put patchnotes hadn't been written yet.

Edited December 24, 2024 by Jayhawk1971

[RyanFlint]

19 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

On my updated DCS the Mirage still works fine:

 

 

so, it isnt a DCS problem ... you really need to inspect your install and make sure no user mod is conflicting and your antivirus is banned from touch the DCS files.

I was a backend problem, not a user problem

38 minutes ago, ouky1991 said:

Improvement for AH-64D flight model, YEEES! it's gonna take a while for me to test this but I'm cautiously optimistic. Very nice fixes in this one, good work ED and merry christmass

Feels amazing so far. 

[Boosterdog]

Sorry, I've not been paying attention - Hi fidelity S3? didnt we already have that?  Anyhow it looks great albeit without any liveries provided. Seems to have broke the user made liveries (again) too.  ED giveth and ED taketh away. 

[Gunfreak]

10 minutes ago, Boosterdog said:

Sorry, I've not been paying attention - Hi fidelity S3? didnt we already have that?  Anyhow it looks great albeit without any liveries provided. Seems to have broke the user made liveries (again) too.  ED giveth and ED taketh away. 

Last year several updated models(S3, B52, B1) was released. Some were disappointed these didn't match the vidoes shown. Turned out they super high def models was supposed to come as a paid pack together with some super high quality ground assets) these seem to now have come out for free. Which is a fantastic gesture from ED.

[Rapax]

It works great now Kh25 missile in Ka 50 . Thank you

[Sandman11]

Oh boy, Rotorheads rejoice! Merry Christmas!

[Sunbather]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb Gunfreak:

Last year several updated models(S3, B52, B1) was released. Some were disappointed these didn't match the vidoes shown. Turned out they super high def models was supposed to come as a paid pack together with some super high quality ground assets) these seem to now have come out for free. Which is a fantastic gesture from ED.

As a newcomer to DCS, I approve of this kind of thing! Currently playing the Dragon's Fury campaign and it's just nice to have the Chinese assets pack and the Marianas map for free. I still am going to buy Kola and Syria and the Viggen and the Warthog and some campaigns during this sale --- it's just great not every piece of new content is a paid module!

The patch also rocks. I didn't expect that, today of all days!

[FZG_Immel]

Huge stutter issue with the F-5E after the patch. for you too =?

[Grodin]

5 hours ago, Shadok said:

When launching the DCS_updater.exe, the windows suddenly close and launch the game without making the update.

A clean and repair (and restart) doesn't help. First time this append in my DCS life.

One reason for that is when launching the updater from DCS launcher it does that if you dont have enough disk space for the update, happened to me a few times and didn't realize until i launched the updater manually and then it gave me a hard disk space error.

 

4 hours ago, Creampie said:

 

 

As compared to what exactly?

Real life.