Getting Confused ?

[GAJ52]

Hi

 

I'm getting a little confused now with these simulation terms. When it was the A-10C and Blackshark I knew that the aircraft simulated was going to be a real study sim. Now with these 'dumbed down' Flaming Cliff derivatives that DCS is producing, I don't know if the F-15C AFM is off the A-10C standard or the lesser Flaming Cliffs offerings.

 

Can anyone enlighten me please.

[Revelation]

Say What?

 

How can you not understand something that has been clearly stated several times??? (sorry for that)

 

Bottom line is the AFM for the F-15 will be on par with the FM of the A-10C. It will not include clickable cockpits, this is simply a FM upgrade.

 

FC3 was released at the request of the community and as a way to generate some short term cash flow for ED. FC was around LONG before DCS was a wet dream....

[TurboHog]

It will be AFM with Flaming Cliffs style avionic modelling. Certain things like dynamic engine operation, fluid modelling, sub-systems and accurate damage modelling are left out.

 

So basicly an FC aircraft with AFM. Nothing more than that.

[Irregular programming]

DCS was never about being only study sims. It was about getting rid of any ties to ubisoft.

[GAJ52]

Say What?

 

How can you not understand something that has been clearly stated several times??? (sorry for that)

 

Bottom line is the AFM for the F-15 will be on par with the FM of the A-10C. It will not include clickable cockpits, this is simply a FM upgrade.

 

FC3 was released at the request of the community and as a way to generate some short term cash flow for ED. FC was around LONG before DCS was a wet dream....

 

If you can't answer without being rude don't bother answering mate.

 

For the others, many thanks for the explanation :thumbup:

[Vekkinho]

Yeah, it can get you confused in no time.

 

There's FC and there's DCS level of systems complexity. DCS has only few available study platforms (Ka-50, A-10C and P-51) none of which are BVR or dogfighters. So in order to have someone attacking and protecting those DCS:A-10C and DCS:Ka-50 pilots in the MP map ED had to bring FC and DCS a bit closer to eachother. So they made DCS:World that's free. It's a good way of getting into it as DCS-W can be used to see if you can at least run any of the payware stuff on your rig. It's a pretty much shareware thing with flyable Su-25T.

Now with DCS-W, FC3 users flying airdominance fighters (MiGs, Suhois, 15C) could play along DCS:A-10C and DCS:Ka-50 players. The only difference is that FC3 users don't spend so much time toggling switches as DCS:A-10C users do.

Players who have DCS-World installed can buy single modules of featured FC3 aircraft such as so far available Su-25: DCS-FC and A-10A: DCS-FC and soon to be F-15C:DCS-FC. This does not mean that F-15C:DCS-FC will have all of the features of DCS:A-10C like clickable cockpit, complex engine startup etc. It will only get similar FM (of a same level of complexity).

 

I believe this was a move ED had to come up with as a full blown DCS:F-15C is quite impossible due to classified avionic systems data. As you can see unclassified aircraft data available today are P-51D, Fw-190, Cessna 172 etc. C'mon, we want something from at least 1981...So simplyfied avionics / complex FM combo is the only way for ED to launch at least 2 DCS-FC modules a year.

 

With each new X-XX:DCS-FC module standalone FC3 users can patch up to a same AFM level.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Vekkinho
rephrasing