Patch notes discussion February 2025

[Tobse]

5 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Pilots fatten up to 1000 kilos in some cases.

Is it just me, or is this a remarkably weird bug fix related to pilot obesity?

[Vakarian]

2 minutes ago, Hotdognz said:

Was Afghanistan East put out in the update, the video BN pointed too in this thread seemed to tell us it was, I see no ref to it in the patch notes.

Thanks

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Literally the first line in the changelog

Edited February 19 by Vakarian

[virgo47]

1 minute ago, Vakarian said:

Literally the first line in the changelog

I totally understand the guy missed it, it was just with "normal". Everything else was bigger. But yeah, new releases are always there in not so big font. I'm so glad it wasn't me wrongly nitpicking this one.

[Moxica]

Where is that mountain in the video?
Because I still fly within these pyramid-shaped polygons, like it is the 90's
 

[Esac_mirmidon]

Next to Bagram AB

[Boosterdog]

4 hours ago, Razorback said:

Yessss...finally the release of the AFG map...
Sad to see that the video doesn't include more low-level views of the terrain (especially in urban areas). Not everyone flies an F-18...
So in future videos, please incorporate more low-altitude shots, as it was the case for the IRAQ map video.
 

 

Probably a good reason for that 

The Afghanistan update is a really good step forward but it still has a way to go to be without a WTF moment every 5 minutes of play.   

[virgo47]

I love to see some L-39 love after a long time, especially the fix to the target Gunsight Target Distance regression introduced in the first 2.9 (Oct 2023).

Are there any details about this other point?

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Fixed: Some errors in the cockpit clickable.

 

[Razorback]

2 hours ago, Hotdognz said:

Where did you see that news??

Thanks

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[Hotdognz]

Literally the first line in the changelog

Thanks, totally missed it.

Also thanks for update ED, and especially the Yak 52 fixes which have been long overdue

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[Hotdognz]

Wow update wont download keep getting a msg "Server Capacity Reached, Try Again Later", never seen that before

Update, its all done finally connected

 

Edited February 20 by Hotdognz

[sirrah]

I know you don't fancy giving dates ED, but...

When?

 

[Hotdognz]

1 minute ago, sirrah said:

I know you don't fancy giving dates ED, but...

When?

 

I have seen these in so many release videos now yet we are still waiting for the new ground troops to show up, be really nice to have them to use in the editor.

[pimp]

In the Beyond videos I get it, but showing things not yet available in these types of videos is hard to comprehend. Maybe it's a marketing tactic.

[draconus]

Really nice to see so many improvements and fixes for AI and some old modules

Can't say the same about F-14... so neglected.

[bruto12]

Great work, ED.

I found that TACAN for airbase of Kabul is not working, at least on the f16. It's me or it is a little bug?

[sirrah]

5 hours ago, pimp said:

In the Beyond videos I get it, but showing things not yet available in these types of videos is hard to comprehend. Maybe it's a marketing tactic.

I hate to be pessimistic (and I realize that some of my recent posts might be), but in my opinion this is indeed misleading marketing.

I know we're talking about a small detail here, newcomers might not even notice and all the veterans here know how to look past these kind of "yet to be added" features. But, details eventually add up and might give newcomers a false impression.

Again, in my opinion, showing features that are simply not there in the game, are ok for a teaser video on what's to come, but this is literally called a "release video"

At least then put some sort of a disclaimer in the text, that the video has been "enhanced" for marketing purposes. (edit: I completely missed the disclaimer at the end of the video)

 

Sorry for perhaps being a bit nitpicky here. I still love DCS

 

Edited February 20 by sirrah

[Vakarian]

nullLike this one?

[AdrianL]

13 minutes ago, sirrah said:

but this is literally called a "release video"

It is the release video for the map. Not for vehicles, aircraft and other assets.

So they can tease what they like, provided that the map features are all correct

 

[draconus]

3 minutes ago, sirrah said:

I hate to be pessimistic (and I realize that some of my recent posts might be), but in my opinion this is indeed misleading marketing.

I know we're talking about a small detail here, newcomers might not even notice and all the veterans here know how to look past these kind of "yet to be added" features. But, details eventually add up and might give newcomers a false impression.

Again, in my opinion, showing features that are simply not there in the game, are ok for a teaser video on what's to come, but this is literally called a "release video"

At least then put some sort of a disclaimer in the text, that the video has been "enhanced" for marketing purposes.

Totally agree. It's one thing to show off pretty spots of released map (that's understandable, you want to show your product the best way*) but when they look much different on users' computers it's false marketing. I heard it was that way with SA and Kola. It was also a case with Giza pyramids. Afair they used to show new Kuznetsov in many videos years before it was finally released.

* That usually means 90% shots are at sun set, showing actually black shadowed ground. Add fog, clouds and rain mixed with sunny places and you have a beautyful shot.

1 minute ago, AdrianL said:

It is the release video for the map. Not for vehicles, aircraft and other assets.

So they can tease what they like, provided that the map features are all correct

Fair enough.

[sirrah]

28 minutes ago, Vakarian said:

nullLike this one?

Ok, my bad..
People often tell me I'm too fast in my reactions.. I suppose this is a good example  (I probably stopped the video before that message showed up)

[bruto12]

but Tacan in the new Afg airports seems out of order... Taliban attack?

 

[Actium]

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Scripting API. Added possibility to pass args and return values from mission scripting a_do_script() and a_do_file() APIs.

This is an awesome, albeit belated, feature addition! Any documentation available on this? What's the function signature? I just toyed around with it and managed to crash DCS (segfault).

[Convoy]

Can we have a "bullet in moving zone" trigger? We have missiles and bombs triggers, I'd like bullets so I can have AI react to warning shots across the nose. 

[draconus]

2 hours ago, Convoy said:

I'd like bullets so I can have AI react to warning shots across the nose

They could make it to trigger AI ROE - as a threat/attack.

[Bucic]

Any info on the timeline for implementation of the Tire Strut Suspension Modelling? I'm most interested in F-5E of course