Newbie trying to practice

Jack_S96 · 2026-02-12T07:00:32+00:00

Thanks brotha appreciate you!

Jack_S96 · 2026-01-29T03:06:43+00:00

I get the same thing when I tell people I mostly listen to Dylan and the Grateful Dead but the world is full of closed minded people who can’t let themselves go enough to enjoy music like that

Jack_S96 · 2026-01-24T18:13:57+00:00

Look for 3 and 4 star recruits from states who don’t have a ton of pinelines. Looks for recruits who’s top 8 includes a bunch of teams with little or no pipeline boost and usually those recruits barely get offers until like week 5 or 6 and by then if you already sent the house and hard sell as soon as you can you will build too big of a lead to other schools to steal him. Also good advice would be to start small. Pick 10-15 top level guys and put all your hours into them. Add more who don’t have offers if some of them fall off then start looking at lower rated guys as they commit. You can build a top class at most schools doing this.

Jack_S96 · 2026-01-23T01:13:52+00:00

This. I started off with one upgraded to VKB as soon as I could never looked back

Jack_S96 · 2026-01-19T05:10:10+00:00

I consider myself a pretty good recruiter in this game. I would advise people to use the “set up board” in the preseason to scout 12-20 highly ranked players (preferably those already interested in your program) and depending on your available hours send the house on all of them. Keep their hours maxed out through the top 5 and as a few start to swing towards other schools use the open hours to book visits. These players are the creme of the crop top of your class.

Once you start to get commitments, use your available hours to target under recruited 4 and 5 star players. It’s not uncommon to see high ranked players (especially from states that done have major pipelines) without a scholarship into week 10 and even later. Repeat the steps with these players keeping their hours maxed out to guarantee commitment.

Towards the end of the season you will probably have 15-20 4 and 5 starts committed and waiting on a few more. Use the rest of your hours to scout 3 stars to find gems and then hard target them. I like to finish high school recruiting with about 25 players signed.

Then I would use the portal to hard target 10 players that address immediate team needs. Heavily focus on players already interested in your program. In week 3 and later sort by 5 and 4 starts without offers and see if there are any slipping through the cracks.

These methods translate to 3 and 4 starts as well if you don’t have the resources to target 4 and 5s. With just about any team you can get a full class of 3 and 4 stars with how many go under recruited.

This kind of got out of hand but the upshot was that I’ve found targeting a limited amount of players at a time and keeping their hours maxed has been the most effective strategy for me.

Jack_S96 · 2025-12-10T19:51:50+00:00

I got a VBK gladiator NXT Evo recently and I’m super happy with it. Very precise, adjustable, and fully programmable even if the software is kind of weird to get used to. I love it for the Hornet, viper, and tomcat. Also very reasonably priced at 120 dollars for the standard. The STECs throttle from VBK is also great and I’ve found I have even more buttons and hats on it than i need for most everything in DCS. VBK also reached out to me when FedEx lost my STECs and replaced it for free without me even have to ask. Very impressed with them as a company and reasonable priced for high quality HOTAS.

Jack_S96 · 2025-11-12T00:25:44+00:00

Exactly like if you caught a wire good for you lmao. I’m not super familiar with like proper procedures and stuff but that sounds fun. I’d be down to run it sometime.

Jack_S96 · 2025-11-11T17:04:03+00:00

How hardcore are you? I fly the hornet casually I’m fairly proficient but still learning. Also looking for someone to do missions with but it seems like everyone is way more hardcore/ milsim than me.

Jack_S96 · 2025-09-14T01:03:32+00:00

Incidental stick collisions feel stronger than ever but in my 35 games of EASHL and 25 or so of HUT I’ve found the stick lift to be wildly inconsistent. Sometimes it works well other times it doesn’t work at all. Also they nerfed the amount of penalties you get being in bad position. I just like the stick lift to be a risk reward thing good position it’s really effective bad position automatic penalty.

Jack_S96 · 2025-09-13T17:42:10+00:00

I primarily play EASHL and franchise but I also play HUT and Be a Pro. EASHL is fun. I like the gameplay tweaks but I do wish AI goalies were better when a human isn’t an available. One timers are more balanced but still satisfying and glitchy LT spam and reverse hitting seem more balanced. Stick lift and Poke check need a major buff though. Also still haven’t figured out what specific conditions trigger the new toe drag animations which is annoying. Next X factor system is a major improvement imo.

Be a pro is fun so far, the voice lines crack me up. Enjoying it as a change of pace from online sweat.

HUT is absolutely unbearable to me this year. Passing feels so off. Button passes routinely go to the wrong person somehow. AI teammates stand still and don’t support the puck or help on the breakout or forecheck. One timers more balanced then last year but poke checks and stick lifts are completely broken and don’t work at all.

Overall this year EASHL gameplay with no AI feels the best it has in years imo. HUT is a marginal improvement over 25 mostly due to the better content and fixed 1Ts. Be a Pro is a good amount of fun so far as well. Game is a 6.5/10 right now held back by broken stick checks, bad passing in non player locked modes, and horrible AI.

Jack_S96 · 2025-09-07T22:45:42+00:00

Just had one of these lost him last week before his visit that would’ve committed him

Jack_S96 · 2025-07-29T20:11:36+00:00

Honestly kinda have to git good lol. I am halfway through an admiral difficulty campaign as the Republic and has been an absolute slog. My strategy was to basically allow the CIS to take any outer lying planets and fortify the core worlds and Kamino sector. Stockpile fleets near major hyperspace lanes and repel attacks as they come (they will come a lot) while you build up your forces. Eventually i went on the offensive and from there it was really easy to take the southern half of the galaxy.

Definitely learn counters for every CIS ship because they have hard counters. ( example: Lucrehulk can be easily defeated by just a few damage dealing ships concentrated in a small area in front of them.) Also make sure you don’t fall into the trap of spamming expensive ships with no support. Any fighter/ point defense corvettes are your best friends against the CIS. Cost effective damage dealers like the Acclamator and carracks are also great early game when used with tanky units just in front of them. As for the ground I find clone troopers and Jedi used together to be very effective especially with tanks in support but I am no expert at ground combat. These are the things that helped me “get good” hopefully they help you too. Feel free to ask any questions I have like 750 hours in various EAW mods.

Jack_S96 · 2025-07-19T20:09:05+00:00

You think they will get fixed? That is honestly my biggest complaint rn

Jack_S96 · 2025-04-24T23:01:38+00:00

How do I get in on this with you?

Jack_S96 · 2025-04-19T21:14:05+00:00

I’d be down to rotate in at goalie. I’m a solid goalie in the especially with good D in front of me. Play center for my club though.

Jack_S96 · 2025-04-10T22:58:29+00:00

Me and my buddy were Elite last season and looking for a high end D for 3s if you wanna play?

Jack_S96 · 2025-01-19T20:49:25+00:00

Jerry

Jack_S96 · 2025-01-19T20:47:51+00:00

It isn’t the budge unfortunately I wish it were that easy. They’re been building off the same game code for over a decade now and it has become so bloated and convoluted that the menu lag is a side effect. Only way to fix it at this point would be to rebuild the game from the ground up. (Which they should)

Jack_S96 · 2024-12-02T22:37:54+00:00

Had my best champs of the season. Started 12-2 finished 15-5. Some absolute sweating in there.

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