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Since DCS has made their modules free to play through this weekend, now is a great time for anyone on the fence to get a taste of what DCS, and flight simming is all about! Who the gently caress are Airgoons? We are a chill group of goon flight sim nerds who organize multiplayer missions each weekend and create content for DCS, IL2, and other flight sims to collectively enjoy. We primarily fly DCS missions each Saturday at 20:00UTC, with smaller missions Sunday at 20:00UTC. Okay, but what is DCS? DCS is a military flight sim that features some of the most realistic depictions of real fighter aircraft ever to be found on the consumer market. If you ever wanted to get a taste of how real military pilots do their thing, this will get you there. Or you can be like most goons and find new and clever ways to break your aircraft without dying in a multi-million dollar fireball. This sounds hard. There is a learning curve, but learning how to fly with and from goons is a big part of what makes DCS and flying with Airgoons fun. Even our most experienced goon pilots have rather silly incidents on occasion. https://i.imgur.com/SZAAf9O.mp4 The only requirement for joining our missions is that you have your controls set up beforehand and know how to take off. So what is happening this weekend? Thanks to the Lunar New Year, there is a big sale going on with a free trial available for all aircraft, so if there is anything you want to toy with, download DCS, join Airgoons discord and we can help you learn the ropes. On Saturday 20:00UTC, we are running a mission featuring the F-14 Tomcat, F-16 Viper, F/A-18 Hornet, and AV-8B Harrier, which will be great for learning how to fly, bomb a large runway, and maybe shoot down a hostile plane or two. On Sunday 20:00UTC, we are running a mission featuring the P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang, Spitfire, and I-16 to try out all the WWII content DCS has been adding lately. This will feature shooting literal Nazis, both in the air and on the ground. BurntCornMuffin fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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are the free modules only available through the standalone version? I have DCS World installed through Steam. I've done their free play in the past but it doesn't seem to be an option through Steam this time around. In any case, I signed up as an F/A-18 and would be excited to join in (first time!) but I don't know that I'll be able to access the Persian Gulf map.
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Feb 12, 2021 02:01
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Teeter posted:are the free modules only available through the standalone version? It appears Steam did not have free to play this time. HOWEVER Owning the Gulf is pretty near mandatory for max fun these days, and it's on sale.
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Feb 12, 2021 03:05
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Vahakyla posted:It appears Steam did not have free to play this time. I just installed the standalone version so I'm set for this weekend. I'll look in to getting the PG map afterwards though, if I stick around with multiplayer then I'm sure it'd be a good pickup.
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Feb 12, 2021 03:37
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Teeter posted:I just installed the standalone version so I'm set for this weekend. I'll look in to getting the PG map afterwards though, if I stick around with multiplayer then I'm sure it'd be a good pickup. If you need help with simpleradiostandalone or anything, just ask in discord!
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Feb 12, 2021 03:38
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After doing a lot of VFR sightseeing flights I started to get into airliners. Besides the long boring bits in the middle I'm enjoying flying the big planes now.
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Feb 12, 2021 18:18
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I think I'm going to start playing Flight Sim again and just have to fly with low settings on. I was hoping I'd get a video card but it just looks like its not going to happen anytime soon. I am looking forward to crashing my Cessna repeatedly in dangerous weather.
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Feb 12, 2021 19:43
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My heart is currently torn between MSFS2020 and X-plane 11 for VR Cessna stuff. I've managed to just about get the settings to where FS2020 VR is at a viable framerate for most environments, and it's obscenely pretty (well, except for the eldritch geometric horror that arises from the lake next to my home airport when I get a certain distance away from it, but I know that's part of the deal). X-plane VR gets a much better framerate, and can look really nice in certain weather and lighting settings, but the ground textures and other environmental assets seem to be like, early 2000s level. I like how it flies a lot better though, at least for the 172. I'm not sure how much of that is X-plane having a Super Serious Science flight model vs. simple preferences on my part for the X-plane 172's flight characteristics. I would say the X-plane one feels a lot weightier and kind of... swingier somehow? Having started in pre-VR MSFS and then hopping over to X-plane for VR, I'm finding it tough to hop back now, at least on the Cessnas. Not sure if anyone else noticed the same or if I'm being overly picky.
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Feb 12, 2021 22:01
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Tactical Unicorn posted:(well, except for the eldritch geometric horror that arises from the lake next to my home airport when I get a certain distance away from it, but I know that's part of the deal). If you're talking about the huge terrain spikes that came with the December patch there's a mod that fixed it. Link
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Feb 12, 2021 23:31
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Thats supposed to be officially done in the next patch isn't it? Other than... thread title...
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Feb 13, 2021 06:17
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I was doing some flying in Sri Lanka and I saw what looked like a weird set of buildings on top of a rock. That whacky algorithm I thought, until I found out it was actually Sigiriya.
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Feb 13, 2021 08:00
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I'm getting increasingly charmed by flying around tubeliners under the night sky while listening to podcasts about the creepy and weird. It's kinda cushy and comforting, especially with a beer or glass of wine.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:44
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There is a great charm to it, even if they're easy to automate most things. I really like to either do short hops along the East Coast if I don't want to wait for long cruise periods, or I'll try to plan on doing some house chores during a cruise. It's a cheap way to feel like you're gaming when really you're folding laundry. 
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Feb 13, 2021 23:25
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Anime Store Adventure posted:There is a great charm to it, even if they're easy to automate most things. I really like to either do short hops along the East Coast if I don't want to wait for long cruise periods, or I'll try to plan on doing some house chores during a cruise. It's a cheap way to feel like you're gaming when really you're folding laundry. That too! Didn't understand how people could like games where you basically had to walk away from it but it is a little bit suspenseful leaving your plane in the hands of the autopilot while you go take a walk.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:30
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Lord Stimperor posted:That too! Didn't understand how people could like games where you basically had to walk away from it but it is a little bit suspenseful leaving your plane in the hands of the autopilot while you go take a walk. I've taken a bathroom break while flying the Ka-50 in DCS World (in a non-combat free flight, of course). Considering that helicopters are impossible in the best of cases, it's amazing how capable that thing's autopilot is.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:54
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I know I shouldn't be surprised, but the Vimy Ridge memorial in France looks like a Soviet era apartment block and the park looks like a roman amphitheatre. 
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Feb 14, 2021 02:26
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slidebite posted:I know I shouldn't be surprised, but the Vimy Ridge memorial in France looks like a Soviet era apartment block and the park looks like a roman amphitheatre. And those surrounding squares make it look like an unbuilt residential grid from Cities: Skylines. I checked both Bing and Google maps and neither have anything like those weird stripey squares. Bing maps doesn't even have that circular park nearby.
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Feb 14, 2021 08:10
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Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of cemeteries and memorials in that area. The one in your screenshot is Notre Dame de Lorette/Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery; the "weird stripey squares" are full of
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Feb 14, 2021 08:51
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uvar posted:Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of cemeteries and memorials in that area. The one in your screenshot is Notre Dame de Lorette/Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery; the "weird stripey squares" are full of This appears to be the correct answer. There's the "amphitheatre" next to it also. 
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Feb 14, 2021 09:01
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slidebite posted:I know I shouldn't be surprised, but the Vimy Ridge memorial in France looks like a Soviet era apartment block and the park looks like a roman amphitheatre.
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Feb 14, 2021 15:43
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Hello, I'd like to report icing conditions over New Zealand this morning...
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Feb 14, 2021 17:25
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uvar posted:Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of cemeteries and memorials in that area. The one in your screenshot is Notre Dame de Lorette/Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery; the "weird stripey squares" are full of  Thanks
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Feb 14, 2021 19:37
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The black blue MSFS alpha tester skin doesn't show on other systems >:[ Only noticed after I wondered why that airport is so superbusy and looked on Twitch for giggles, just to find this. --edit: Wait, this isn't even a 787 in the stream? Cheapskates without the Premium edition don't see my big plane? 
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Feb 14, 2021 21:13
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I had no idea AirGoons had been around for this long
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Feb 14, 2021 23:12
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Combat Pretzel posted:The black blue MSFS alpha tester skin doesn't show on other systems >:[ Probably has "Use Generic Planes for other players" checked or whatever.
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All the other planes and liveries seem to match, tho. I guess the Premium planes aren't shipped with the other editions. I once read the claim about the packages being encrypted, so I figured they're there and the game would use them. I guess not.
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Feb 15, 2021 10:49
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I have the basic version and the only AI / player tubeliner I've seen is the A320. I'll check my settings when I get a chance, I can understand the premium planes being missing but thinking about it I've never seen a 747 either.
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Feb 15, 2021 13:42
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The 747 is in the middle edition of MSFS, so if you're not seeing that one either, I guess they're not included on disk either. Ah too bad. Would be nice if they had a system in place where it could optionally download models on the fly. For all I care, they could let plane developers specify a separate model. I heard through the grapevine that Asobo wants real-time AI traffic to represent the sky more accurately and are working on a lot of different low(er) resolution 3D models of common plane types to enable that. Same thing for third parties would be nice.
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This whole story is stupid as gently caress. Somewhere else I'm a two-seater prop plane while in the 787, and I'm looking at another two-seater in-game that's a jetliner on stream. You'd figure the game would the very least sync the general plane type across multiplayer. --edit: Trying to fix some networking poo poo here, maybe it's related to that. Microsoft is apparently using IPv6 transition technology to guarantee end-to-end connectivity across protocols and boundaries. That stuff gets blocked by my router, if there's native IPv6, so it might explain why a lot of things don't work right, because P2P and poo poo. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 17:41
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Combat Pretzel posted:The 747 is in the middle edition of MSFS, so if you're not seeing that one either, I guess they're not included on disk either. Ah too bad. The 747-8? I only have the gamepass version and it's in that, I've flown it, but I've never seen the AI use it.
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Feb 15, 2021 20:53
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Weren't we supposed to get monthly updates for MSFS2020? What happened to that? Or did I read wrong?
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I only recall a 10 year support road map. MSFS2020 still needs tons of work, so I hope updates will be big and include lots of fixes and optimization. We know the devs are at least busy with the Xbox Series X port, and fixing up all of the really inaccurate landmarks and terrain that still exists. Some of it will take a very long time to complete. We know there is also co-op multiplayer coming too. Hoping for better SSD usage for faster load times, and better optimization for frame rate, but I have a feeling we are going to just have to wait a few more graphic card generations before we can play this with acceptable frame rate.
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I said come in! posted:I only recall a 10 year support road map. MSFS2020 still needs tons of work, so I hope updates will be big and include lots of fixes and optimization. We know the devs are at least busy with the Xbox Series X port, and fixing up all of the really inaccurate landmarks and terrain that still exists. Some of it will take a very long time to complete. We know there is also co-op multiplayer coming too. Hoping for better SSD usage for faster load times, and better optimization for frame rate, but I have a feeling we are going to just have to wait a few more graphic card generations before we can play this with acceptable frame rate.
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sigher posted:Weren't we supposed to get monthly updates for MSFS2020? What happened to that? Or did I read wrong? The update schedule was delayed a bit when the late jan update was pushed to mid february. That update (the UK world update) is coming tomorrow. The explanation for the delay is that they've started to use some new data sources for their world data and it took them some extra time to integrate the data sources into their development process. According to their development roadmap, the next update after tomorrow's is scheduled to come out on March 4th, with the France update scheduled to come out on March 30th after that. These dates are subject to change, of course. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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This saturday, the A-mission for Air Goons, is a low risk strike near Beslan with choppers and planes. B-mission on sunday at the same time is an ATC-practice oriented get-together. Anyone can, and should, sign up.  Two airports, likely Tbilisi and something else. You can fly freely, land and take off, with goons being human ATC. This is meant to be a get-together practice event if you want to try DCS with bunch of people with SimpleRadio. You don't have to know anything, this will be very basic air traffic control, and we'll quickly run a quick lesson beforehand. Sign up to any slot, and choose any plane you want from drop down yourself. We will make sure there's enough of all kinds of planes on both airfields we will be using. There's no weapons needed or anything. It's peace time. If you want to be be a controller, lower right box has slots for them. Huey choppa? That's fine. Want to fly the Spitfire? Sure. Hornet? Send it. Viper? Why not. We will likely have Tower and App-Dep on both airfields. Charts will be provided in a timely manner once we settle on the airports. Before you partake in this mission, you should know how to tune radios in your plane, and how to use SimpleRadioStandalone. You don't have to know much else, you'll basically be hand walked through it. If you don't know proper procedure, worry not, help shall be given since it is learning. Our controllers are likely to not be the most impeccable, so it's a wash anyway. We'll get the general streaks right. Signups here, ask questions in discord https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Grz7yEp70GOFfjch3zD1mp2TpDStdapDdqNVTAOu6c/edit#gid=763897715
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quote:Take flight into a region rich with tradition, culture and heritage — not to mention a fair share of myth and legend. From seats of royalty to centers of finance, bustling metropolitan hubs to sprawling farmsteads and cliffside villages, the splendor of the United Kingdom and Ireland is on full display with new dramatic upgrades and visual enhancements.
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Feb 16, 2021 20:47
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Not nearly enough Ireland. Croke Park should be an enhanced landmark.
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I see that the hardware market has bounced back to normal and I'm looking to sell off my T16000.m throttle/stick set with desk mounts, would any goons be interested? I'll just toss them up on eBay tomorrow if not.
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Neat little thing they changed in the new update is the size of taxi signs. Extremely noticable in VR, it's great! Might be a bit too big for realism but I don't care, realistic size was unreadable to me even on a monitor. They still glow too much at night though, washes out the lettering almost completely. But I'm tickled pink I can follow taxi instructions in VR now
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Updated now the game won't connect to the Internet. Firewall is letting it so who knows. Good job asobo. Good job.
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