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Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Do you think there is any chance of Falcon BMS getting VR support? It's hard for me to go back to simming on a monitor after DCSing on the rift.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 16:55

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 15:58

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

mlmp08 posted:

Me doing weird nacelles poo poo in a "run what you brung" goon BS fighter day. Someone (Bonkers?) is in a Gazelle shooting down fighters who are failing to kill me for reasons I don't understand.

https://giant.gfycat.com/FlusteredGroundedKookaburra.webm

God, I love the Gazelle. I know there are rumbles of it "not being accurate" but whatever. That little helicopter is an absolute dream to fly. My favorite A/A engagement came on the 104th server. I spent an hour snooping and pooping in the A/A Gazelle. I dropped off a SAM Team on one hilltop and hung out behind another. Two F-15s came roaring past, I pinged one with my heater and the SAM team got the other.

I've been learning the F/A 18 the past few days. The Aim-9X and HMD are dirty.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 21:15

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

does the NS430 2d overlay work in VR?

# ¿ Feb 9, 2019 19:34

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

hobbesmaster posted:

Theres no nukes though?

Mig21 can fit a nuke. It's extremely janky.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2019 21:27

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

What�s the procedure for getting the Viggen to recognize F10 markers? Is it listed in the manual?

I got the Viggen a while back before this was possible. This new feature is new (and exciting) to me.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2019 23:16

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Shine posted:

Helicopter love would draw me in, too. I will haplessly attempt to funnel attack tanks in the Ka-50 until I accidentally hit the trim reset and flip into the ground. I also have the Huey, so ferrying troops or whatever would be neat.

I'd happily get way too close to tanks/APCs in my gazelle and eat a wireguided missile to the face while trying to hit them with my own wire-guided missile.

Also, you haven't lived until an A-10 lazes you in a Ka-50 and hits you with a GBU-12. The helo rightfully freaks out with laser warnings.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 16:26

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

mlmp08 posted:

The F-5 is the only DCS plane where I sometimes find myself just turning on music and flying all over the map with no actual mission in mind, just zipping about at extremely dangerously low altitudes.

The Mirage is like that for me. I love that strange Gallic jet for some reason. Take off, get up to altitude and just look out the window in VR.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 16:29

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Burno posted:

Harrier: The Best Module Not in Missions by Vaha

For real though the Harrier is my favorite module at the moment and I look forward to any and all improvements/additions.

Harrier has a lot of capabilities. With that being said, WTB targeting pod for Hornet.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 22:02

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Shine posted:

CH pedals have toe brakes, yes. The VKB pedals don't, so maybe they were thinking of those.

The CH pedals are clunky and their internals aren't terribly precise (it's hella old tech), which are the reasons why I recently dumped them for a set of MFG Crosswinds. My CH's still work as well now as they did when I bought them in 2007, so I can't say enough good things about their durability. They're just clunky and imprecise.

E: this goes for CH products in general. I love them for the time in which I bought them, and I don't doubt they'd last another 5-10 years if I needed them to, but drat, going from those to MFG and VKB poo poo was night and loving day.

I have CH Pedals and the Fighterstick. I lust after more precises peripherals.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 16:12

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Vahakyla posted:

I can't decide if goongame on 16th MAR will be a free-for-all gently caress-around with no ultimate goal or not.

So, without being able to use the F-14 yet, I am, however, making the mission.

16 March, tentatively 1900 UTC.

Planes to include F-18, AV-8, F-14B, and possibly SU-33. It'll be carrier poo poo solely. It'll be fairly easy strike on an airbase, with some minor suppression of enemy air defences to start out with. Skill requirement: to be able to take off from carrier.

The Harriers will do the strike itself, with hornets tasked for SEAD and DEAD, and F-14s are for escort.

I guess I'll fly an F-18 or the F-14. Agggh decisions are hard!!

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 15:51

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I've never done any carrier operations. I think I'll just land at sea if I can even take off lol

Just ditch and the non-included choppers will pick you up.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 16:05

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I have no idea how to fly IL2 planes. Be me, be in the He-111.

"Your engines are damaged"

ok reduce throttle to "continuous mode"

"Increase Speed!"

Ok, increase throttle to 50%.

"Your engines are damaged."

:smithicide:

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 16:14

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Wooper posted:

You need to lower prop pitch/rpm so you can increase throttle and still be in continuous mode.

Engine modes:
Nominal (unlimited time): 2250 RPM, 1.15 ata
Climb power (up to 30 minutes): 2400 RPM, 1.25 ata
Take-off power (up to 1 minute): 2600 RPM, 1.42 ata
https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/25993-aircraft-flight-and-technical-specifications-and-operational-details/

Thanks. That's good info. Last night was the first time I've really played Il2, it's been sitting in my library for a while. It was a absolute blast.

If I get the early access Battle of Bodenplatte, will I be able to use those planes on an Eastern Front server like we were on last night?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 16:40

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

holocaust bloopers posted:

Those German Migs are freaking gorgeous.

Yes.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 22:57

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I swear the HUD only shows 27 for the one type. I'll check tonight as my friend is busy so I can practice instead of getting sweaty in apex legends. Also got the 2080 in so I should be able to maybe hit 60 fps in game now lol

Get VR.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2019 17:59

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Mirage has a Missile launch warning system. It works really well.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2019 02:48

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sagebrush posted:

e: which planes in DCS have some kind of MAWS?

To give a little more info about Mirage MLWS. Chuck has a decent guide on the Mirage. Here is the relevant slide for the MLWS.

https://www.mudspike.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/DCS-Mirage-2000C-Guide.pdf

The switch position looks off in his slide. You want it in the middle position for it to be on. There are lights that illuminate under the RWR display that show the various counter measures and defensive sensors online. You want the one under D2M to be illuminated.

It is quite effective. It gives a high pitch trilling sound and shows a line along the azimuth of the detected missile launch. It detects really any missile and was going off when a hornet was launching HARMs the other night beside me.

Saul Kain fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Mar 8, 2019

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 15:40

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

DCS: Tigershark when ED?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 15:59

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

mlmp08 posted:

Or just a MiG-25 for those who want a weird red-team plane.

Dat rear end.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 16:03

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Mig-31 would be better.

https://theaviationist.com/2013/12/11/sr-71-vs-mig-31/

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 16:06

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Minto Took posted:

A more capable Mirage would definitely be welcome, though fix the current one first, plz.

An Su-17/20/22 would also be cool for another redfor SEAD aircraft.

Razbam has hinted the 2000-5. I look forward to flying it in a 20% state 5 years from now.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 03:04

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Listen to this thing. Heatblur have really outdone themselves with the sound design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTx1nLq8iM

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 14:12

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

my kinda ape posted:

Just received my free F-14 key Heatblur is good people.

How?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 19:14

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sagebrush posted:

Well, it doesn't really cost them anything and it's insanely good goodwill.

I know the F-14 isn't even out yet and they have hinted at an A-6 and whatnot but goddamnit I really want a Draken. It's a real simple plane compared to everything else they've done and they already know Swedish soooooooo

I took the viggen for a spin last night. I want a Draken too, they remade the AI model and released it with the Viggen.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 00:03

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'm at worrrrrrk. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 18:25

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Succulent Sukhoi

# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 13:17

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sparrows and Aim-9Xs for life.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 20:19

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Tythas posted:

Killing Goons is a Time Honored tradition nothing to be sorry for, besides it's not like my plane was really working at the point anyways after getting hit by a Russian heater and surviving with no hud/radar and trying to dogfight blind

Some of my best kills have been on Goons. (Sorry Jae) :downsgun:

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 15:44

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Gooch181 posted:

Anyone with WMR motion controllers that doesn't find themself using them? I got a Lenovo Explorer for real cheap without them since I only use it for simming, but find myself wanting to try VTOL VR. I keep vulching Ebay for a set but haven't had any luck.
I'll buy them shits off you, hit me up here or in the discord.

VTOL VR is pretty nifty.

# ¿ May 8, 2019 21:09

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Let's BOYCOTT DCS and play the OTHER high-fidelity modern military flight sim with VR.

# ¿ May 22, 2019 16:13

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'll throw in a plug for the Mirage or F-18. Mirage is just a joy to fly. Its systems are complex without being overly burdensome to learn. It's the plane I consistently come back to when I want something fun to fly.

If you are only thinking of buying one plane, the F-18 is the one to get. You can do absolutely everything in it. It's easy to learn but the systems are complex enough to keep you busy learning.

For your reading pleasure, have a look at Chuck's guides on each. These guides are a little more accessible than the customary 500 page manual which accompanies each plane. They will also give you a feel for what and how each plane does a task. There is no Chuck's guide for the F-14 however because loliran.

Mirage: https://www.mudspike.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DCS-Mirage-2000C-Guide.pdf

F-18: https://www.mudspike.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DCS-FA-18C-Hornet-Guide.pdf

# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 19:50

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Hace posted:

Funny you mention this, I was actually just thinking of doing this and getting both haha. I've always loved the Mirage and it sounds like it's pretty rewarding to learn. The F-18 just seems like it's good at everything, and will probably have tons of content made for it in the future, either by ED or users.

also unrelated, but I'm learning the do's and do nots of how to use flaps

Just in time to make bad decisions. Get both!

# ¿ Jun 21, 2019 03:54

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sagebrush posted:

at no point did the question of "what's more fun?" come up

Fun is for the weak-willed.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 21:57

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

ZekeNY posted:

Get your Hornet porn fix: the Top Gun 2 trailer is out (with a Tomcat cameo at the end)

That actually looked pretty good. What is this madness?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 14:24

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

quote:

DCS: F/A-18C

The initial release of the AA/ANQ-28 Litening Targeting Pod (WIP). Other modes like air-to-air mode, INR tracking, additional HUD symbology, and slave to target point, and other functions will be added later in early access.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2019 15:13

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

slight right pressure on the stick. :v:

(there is also a level autopilot cheat thing as well)

# ¿ Oct 9, 2019 00:59

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Carth Dookie posted:

Finally caved and bought some rudder pedals.

Need a smiley but instead of blood splatter, money flies out.

Rubber pedals were one of the best unnecessary purchases I have made. If you have any interest what-so-ever in flying choppers in DCS they are amazing. They are also great for WW2 sims where you need to compensate for torque on takeoff.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2019 01:04

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'm not sure if it came through via his posts or not. I'll clarify. Tippis really likes the JF-17.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 15:07

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

The whole missile debate made me really like Deka. �Um, no, our missile is correct. Here, look at all this data from the manufacturer and actual military tests.� :science:

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 19:16

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 15:58

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

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Gooch181 posted:

Normandy is completely unnecessary to own, but drat it if it isn't a pretty map that's my favorite for going on chill joyrides.

And the viggen can use the airbases if you feel like jetting around.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2020 00:19

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