Vehicles Pass Right Through Each Other

[artao]

I only just discovered this yesterday while watching a large tank battle I'd set up. A tank gets destroyed and the rest in the column just drive right through it. Two opposing enemy columns pass each other on a bridge going opposite directions while fighting ... and pass right through each other.
I realize this is a flight sim, but seriously. WTAF.
I don't wanna hear "it's too hard" because simulations -- including flight sims -- have been able to deal with this fine for decades.
This behavior destroys legit common tactics. Something I learned from Jane's AH-64D Longbow was to first take out the lead and rear vehicles in an advancing column. This traps the rest of the vehicles between them and they become easy to pick off.
Not with THIS vehicle behavior.
Taking out vehicles on a bridge or intersection to clog it up. Not with this behavior.

The deeper I learn about some things in DCS the more disappointed and frustrated I get. Over a decade in development and THIS is still the vehicle behavior? How many more years will it take to correct this?
This seriously destroys tactically using weapons in many circumstances. I can't believe it's like this, I was stunned to a gaping mouth when I saw it happening. Very disappointed.

[bephanten]

i once set up a dusk ww2 mission. dark. german and american half tracks met face to face on the road with their headlights on. they decided to pass each other without firing. it could easily be a bloodbath. it was a gentleman's pass.

[waterman]

17 hours ago, artao said:

The deeper I learn about some things in DCS the more disappointed and frustrated I get. Over a decade in development and THIS is still the vehicle behavior? How many more years will it take to correct this?
This seriously destroys tactically using weapons in many circumstances. I can't believe it's like this, I was stunned to a gaping mouth when I saw it happening. Very disappointed.

I feel your disappointment - Users spend Thousands of Dollars on computer equipment and modules after watching one of the carefully staged and Edited DCS Beyond Video.

Some Users who shield DCS and pretend to be in authority here will be quick to dissmiss your complaint as your expecting too much and the Devs are too busy hey you can still get some great screen shots.

Just make sure there are no tanks stuck on top of plants - inverted taxiing aircraft spinning on their cockpit roofs - Dead Aircraft flying in endless loops - Trains going backwards or up in the sky out to sea - Trains passing through each other and bouncing back and forth between waypoints.

Some comical videoes showing the issues should be placed on YouTube. 

Hard to believe but no one Listens or is interested or fixes these problems.

Also its sad for the serious users who sit waiting minutes in an expensive home made cockpit for the pretend things to happen - oil temp - battery charging etc.

Then only to spin onto the Aircraft Cockpit roof taxiing !

Maybe Devs are too busy creating a white knuckle ride " scary hand cam "  from the 1960`s so you can watch your own joystick hand thunderbirds style on screen.

Maybe 4k Pilot eyebrows with growth control that are also affected by the inside rain effects.

Talented Mod Makers and Code Creators who used to give advice and feedback to Devs have pulled up stumps so will only get worse.

 

Edited Monday at 05:23 AM by waterman

[artao]

The fact that it destroys using real tactics is the real killer here. It's insane. Sims have been handling this just fine for over 20 years. Why can't DCS, in development over a decade, NOT handle this?
Devs? Crickets?
"Too hard" is not an answer unless your devs got Fs in school. This is unacceptable and totally breaks properly playing virtual war. May as well just dogfight. SAMs are also idiots unless you use scripting, YET AGAIN made by users.
Users have arguably advanced DCS more than the devs have.

Edited 11 hours ago by artao
typo

[TBarina]

Unfortunately, DCS is transitioning from a "cockpit simulator" to a "bug simulator."
Let's hope it doesn't become a "fraud simulator."

I don't understand how is it possible to discuss about Dynamic Campaign in the forum if users don't even care about the current bugs.

I'm moving to Falcon BMS, even if I'll miss the graphics.