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Vahakyla posted:Hide your wives, invite your boyfriends! Bit late for me 
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May 27, 2014 23:47
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 Very helpful thanks!
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May 27, 2014 23:59
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^ Its purpose is to make people you should be able to see normally with no labels visible, whilst making the unrealistic stuff like look through your cockpit at planes more difficult. (unless that's what you were pointing out  )
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May 28, 2014 00:02
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Vahakyla posted:Hide your wives, invite your boyfriends! Cool. I can most likely take part in this.
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May 28, 2014 00:14
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mlmp08 posted:Cool. I can most likely take part in this. Too late :(
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May 28, 2014 00:18
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Heliosicle posted:^ Its purpose is to make people you should be able to see normally with no labels visible, whilst making the unrealistic stuff like look through your cockpit at planes more difficult. I was just showing what it does for anybody else interested, nothing sarky. I rather like being able to vaguely see it through the cockpit, which sorta makes up for not having 6dof.
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May 28, 2014 00:27
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Daimo posted:I was just showing what it does for anybody else interested, nothing sarky. Yeah there's no way to have cockpit obscure labels unfortunately (you can see default labels through the cockpit too), at least with the dot you have to be actively looking at instead of having it jump out at you like "!!! BLUE F-15C 6.2NM ENFIELD 4-2 !!!". You can try playing with the colors to make it a bit darker (lower numbers = darker), but if it's too dark then it looks too weird against the sky.
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May 28, 2014 00:37
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Time zones  I would love to join in and SEAD some missle slingin' baddies, but that's about 2.5 hrs into my working day. I probably would have remembered to turn on the ETS as well! Last night I spent 20 minutes flying above cloud to the target area trying to get a radar target for some sweet anti-radar justice. Shot down a bad right over it too (turns out he was actually a good). Proceed to drop through cloud and get destroyed by waiting AA batteries - someone forgot to press 'I'.
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May 28, 2014 00:40
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Yeah I have horrible times trying to spot anything without labels on that's not on my radar.
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May 28, 2014 00:45
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I suck and I haven't had time to play recently, sorry Vaha I shoot you down every time you ask Hopefully somehow I won't be busy tomorrow and I'll jump in and shoot some blues tomorrow.
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May 28, 2014 00:50
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah I have horrible times trying to spot anything without labels on that's not on my radar. Shame only the A10 is really JTAC compatible. They're a godsend really Could always include a slot or two for the guys who bought CA? Player JTAC's work totally fine.
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May 28, 2014 01:00
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Dandywalken posted:Shame only the A10 is really JTAC compatible. They're a godsend really They're all JTAC compatible. You have a pad of paper right?
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May 28, 2014 01:24
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah I have horrible times trying to spot anything without labels on that's not on my radar. Yes this is a modern air combat sim. I'm not being a dick, that is the point.
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May 28, 2014 03:01
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Vahakyla posted:Yes this is a modern air combat sim. One day they'll have a plane that has such a good autopilot that you can just sit there and play with your iPad app to target pixels and press the kill button. Then be like "Plane. I wish to land." at your monitor and it goes back to base.
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May 28, 2014 03:05
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Sounds like the F-15 honestly.
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May 28, 2014 03:07
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I know a few DCS purists that will insist that its the best flight sim around but refuse to even try other sims because you can't press the little buttons in the cockpit while the plane automatically flies itself to the next mission waypoint so you can focus on more important things like not looking out the window.
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May 28, 2014 03:13
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Thief posted:One day they'll have a plane that has such a good autopilot that you can just sit there and play with your iPad app to target pixels and press the kill button. The French Navy Dassault Rafale allows voice commands for pretty much everything else besides launching weapons or using the gun. It does allow arming weapons and selecting them, though.
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May 28, 2014 03:13
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Thief posted:One day they'll have a plane that has such a good autopilot that you can just sit there and play with your iPad app to target pixels and press the kill button. Hmm from the other flight sim thread: Dandywalken posted:So... DCS: MQ-9 Reaper could be a neat idea, I think :P
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May 28, 2014 03:26
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The eject button makes you jump out of the command connex to get a to-go plate from the chow hall.
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May 28, 2014 03:32
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Mike-o posted:The eject button makes you jump out of the command connex to get a to-go plate from the chow hall. One of the funniest briefings I've ever received was Brits telling us how much of a hardship tour it was to live in Vegas for 6 months flying drones. They were talking to a crowd that included people who'd no poo poo been blown up and woken up on another continent on life support.
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May 28, 2014 03:37
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The tea is horrible in Vegas.
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May 28, 2014 03:38
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imperialparadox posted:The tea is horrible in Vegas. Nothing good comes from having a string on your teabag.
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May 28, 2014 03:47
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I found a nice training mission/companion document for the Ka-50: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2626185/ If you don't have a second monitor, just open the companion site (or PDF) on your tablet or something. It's a basic "fly and shoot things" guide that skips a lot of detail, but will get you flying and shooting more quickly than the training missions. Put the mission in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircrafts\Ka-50\Missions\EN\Single\ I'm digging the ABRIS. I was messing with the waypoint/map editing and that seems like it'll be immensely useful in multiplayer, once I get a feel for using it on the fly.
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May 28, 2014 04:03
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So I was messing around with Nvidia Shadowplay and threw together a quick video tutorial on dogfighting, specifically the One Circle Fight. Hope this is helpful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcM3r2LZzs INTJ Mastermind fucked around with this message at 04:48 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 04:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pht5DFdEgBU I'm pretty hyped 
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May 28, 2014 07:42
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Red lights on blue paint looks really cool. Fun fact: R-Shift + H cycles HUD colors. Make sure you set yours to red when playing Russian planes.
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May 28, 2014 08:03
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Leo Showers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pht5DFdEgBU This is probably the most interesting module since the a-10, I can't wait.
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May 28, 2014 08:27
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Vahakyla posted:Hide your wives, invite your boyfriends! 
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May 28, 2014 09:14
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Leo Showers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pht5DFdEgBU  Daaaaaaaaaaamn. I'm so glad that didn't drop out of existence.
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May 28, 2014 10:51
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Vahakyla posted:Yes this is a modern air combat sim. Actual pilots that fly these things all have better than 20/20 vision and have trained about 4 years on spotting aircraft before they even get to fly the aircraft that are in the game (well, P-51 training was different). Never mind our computers likely not able to draw distant aircraft properly. (Now someone is going to post the class D simulator they use with the game)
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May 28, 2014 13:25
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Hadlock posted:Hmm from the other flight sim thread: You mean DCS: Ender's Game? (If you get to repost it I get to re tell my joke!)
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May 28, 2014 13:26
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hobbesmaster posted:Actual pilots that fly these things all have better than 20/20 vision and have trained about 4 years on spotting aircraft before they even get to fly the aircraft that are in the game (well, P-51 training was different). Never mind our computers likely not able to draw distant aircraft properly. DCS should really do smart scaling like falcon does. It would improve the game so much. I've tried various labels but it just makes units stand out way too much for me.
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May 28, 2014 13:31
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Reminder that today is some DCS. Starting at 9PM EST, 6PM PST. If you plan to fly Su25Ts, the required skill level is zero! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3633891&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=12#post430213709
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Ka-50 flyers, if you haven't yet mapped "collective brake" to something you can hold every time you're changing altitude, do so! This is the key that sets the altitude for the autopilot's Altitude Hold. Here's a writeup I found on the DCS forum:quote:The collective brake works exactly like the trimmer on the cyclic, but where the trimmer on the cyclic is for the PITCH, ROLL, and HEADING channels of the autopilot, the collective brake is for the ALTITUDE channel. And just like the other channels, the autopilot only has 20% authority over the controls. In practice, this means that if you don't use the collective brake button, you'll be fighting the autopilot the whole time that it's on, instead of having it help you. Think about if you turn on the bank/pitch/yaw autopilot and then you never hit the "trim" button again. The helicopter becomes a stupid pain in the rear end to fly because you want to go one direction and the autopilot wants to go another. If you never hit the collective brake, then you're doing the same, except it's loving with your autopilot's altitude hold; you want to go up or down, but the autopilot wants to do the opposite. IRL this isn't a problem, because the pilot must squeeze the collective brake to move the collective, but in the sim, you can move the collective without releasing the brake, and for some reason they didn't program it so that the brake automatically gets triggered when you move your throttle  .Long story short, bind collective brake (default "f") to a button you can press every single time you move your collective, hold it until you stabilize your altitude, and your Black Shark will be easier to fly.
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Does anyone still have one of those 60% off DCS coupons, I have a strong urge to upgrade my BS1 to Black Shark 2 and/or buy the Huey, but $50 is outrageous
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May 28, 2014 22:58
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Fredrik1 posted:DCS should really do smart scaling like falcon does. It would improve the game so much. Christ, agreed 1000%. Like... I can get by with just using red/blue dots, but even then it feels sorta lame.
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May 28, 2014 22:59
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Hadlock posted:Does anyone still have one of those 60% off DCS coupons, I have a strong urge to upgrade my BS1 to Black Shark 2 and/or buy the Huey, but $50 is outrageous Between the nonsense you have to deal with to install BS2, and the codes from the DCS store not working in Steam until like a week later, I just said "gently caress it" and bought BS2 instead of upgrading.
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May 28, 2014 23:00
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This is sort of off-topic but how is Falcon BMS and how does it compare to DCS? In particular, how's the availability of playable co-op content? I mainly wanna fly planes and shoot things with a friend or two and my eternal problem with DCS is it's a bitch to actually find stuff to play and I don't particularly feel like making my own.
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Falcon 4.0 has one amazing feature that no game Ive ever played has featured, and I never foresee happening again. You're in your F16 being a fucker, and eat an SA-13 and are going down. You call in to your base, give em your coordinates while you're riding 'er in, then tell em to launch search and rescue. You punch out. You start another mission (dynamic campaign of course) and are going to another target for whatever reason. You boredly cycle through the aircraft in-theatre to see how shits going, and YOU FIND THE loving BLACKHAWK GOING TO RESCUE YOUR DUDE FROM THE PREVIOUS MISSON. Just buzzing in there to do his task. The best dynamic campaign experience is in the small things. You'll never find a better campaign than Falcon BMS. Co-op though DCS may be better honestly. I've never heard a good thing said about Falcon's MP stability.
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Falcon was built to be an amazing game first. The clickable cockpits and all those realistic systems were modded into it afterwards. Companies often make flight simulators and forget the game. In Falcon, there was a solid game and the simulator was built into it. Some people jokingly call it Falcon DCS, and I can see why. Using the clickable cockpit is pretty much the same. Me and Burno have been warming the game and the mod up a bit and done some tests. Maybe we would have interest in making a group that plays the campaign every week?
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