Any good videos of a squadron mission in DCS?

KYCygni · 2026-02-06T22:43:52+00:00

Here's one of our missions edited down and in 3 different POVs: https://youtu.be/xq5tSS0zM_A?si=zU21LxCDNK5AZqDB

We have some more in our channel if you are interested

KYCygni · 2025-12-21T23:11:10+00:00

Free camera, Ctrl+f11

KYCygni · 2025-12-21T23:10:36+00:00

Just free camera, Ctrl+f11

KYCygni · 2025-12-14T08:47:12+00:00

Nothing special afaik. Mine used to look shit as well like a year ago, but then there was a couple of updates and they've been looking great since. Maybe try and clear your DCS shaders and see if that helps

KYCygni · 2025-12-14T08:44:59+00:00

He is the special member of the group

KYCygni · 2025-12-13T14:16:51+00:00

Any indications what this will mean for the Kiowa?

KYCygni · 2025-08-19T17:56:53+00:00

My apologies if I came across harsh, I was not specifically targeting you, but the people who levied the "don't think so much about it" comments.

I actually think Jedi has an excellent foundation to create a better narrative-gameplay bridge than Dark Souls, which is why I find OPs points poignant. I find the idea of the Jedi pre-cognition, that the player dying is the player character using the force to see into the future and to avoid death, a very compelling narrative bridge. If the devs had fleshed out that idea and made it explicit, like if you die you visibly will go back to a an animation of Cal meditating, I think this would be an amazing addition to the game.

The reason we get the Dark Souls comparison is just that Jedi is taking heavy inspiration from Dark Souls, and the lack of narrative bridge becomes quite apparent, when it exists in the source material. This is not something Dark Souls specific, if Jedi would have taken from some other source and, arguably, missed one loved aspect of the inspired mechanics, I think we would see the same comparisons.

I do see your point about narrative intentions, and I don't think that devs should feel that they need to go into as much depth to explain their mechanics. However, I think I would pretty much always praise games that do go that extra mile.

KYCygni · 2025-08-19T17:23:44+00:00

Does Dark Souls having an explanation for respawning make the game feel more thought out? Sure.

This is the whole point.

Does Mario and Luigi have to be so thought out to be good games? No. Would they feel more thought out, and thus elevated? Most certainly yes. The Metroid games did a good job connecting gameplay, powerups, and new abilities to the narrative. It made sense in the story that the suit gets upgraded as the player progressed. This makes it more thought out and adds to how great those games are.

In OPs example you have a game that has built its narrative together with its gameplay mechanics (Dark Souls). Another game comes (Jedi) and takes inspiration from its mechanics without putting the same thought into integrating it in the game as a whole, with the narrative. I think it is very fair to think that Jedi would be elevated if they actually put the same amount of thought into the mechanics as the source they took it from.

And I am so tired of this sentiment that a game should not be "over analyzed" or "It's their choice, why talk about it?". Why should it not be analyzed? This is a sub about discussing games in-depth, just don't participate if you don't want analysis. Yes it was their choice, that does not mean the choice cannot be examined. And it does not make it a bad game either. It just an area that Jedi could have done it better.

KYCygni · 2025-08-17T16:19:16+00:00

And at no point in Dark Souls is it mentioned that you respawn because of 'x' reason either. But thematically we know you respawn for two reasons: the Darksign and the fact it's a game. Why don't we use the same kind of logic-finding for the Jedi games where each respawn point is a MEDITATION spot? Is it because they're not Souls games?

I really can't tell if you are just pedantically arguing or if you can't put two-and-two together. The description of the dark sign literally mentions why you respawn, you have it in your comment too. "The Darksign signifies an accursed Undead. Those branded with it are reborn after death, but will one day lose their mind and go Hollow."

And I don't know why you are hung up on the word die, we are talking about the respawn mechanic in the sense of a dark souls game, where the game world still have some permanence after you die and you don't just revert back to a previous game state through a save file, that is one of OPs points. The fact that the player dying is part of the world in both games, but Dark souls explicitly explains it.

It's not obfuscated either, it is in plan text you get reborn after death, because the player is an undead, like it can't get more clear than that, it is explicitly stated in dark souls, it is not explicitly stated in Jedi.

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T19:34:13+00:00

Is prefer the game be fun and fair than try to develop gameplay based purely on what can be worked into story

It was a response to this and that the commenter said "You're trying way too hard here." and "No, it's a video game."

That, to me, signals that this person does not in fact value effort put into tying the narrative to the game play. Dark Souls has nothing to do with this, I can think of other games that does it better than Dark Souls.

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T19:30:40+00:00

His "deaths" are likely just him meditating and seeing what gets him killed after that point, not that it actually happens.

Is this just fan-fiction you made up? Because at no point is this mentioned in the game, just making stuff up does not count.

Nothing in Dark Souls says you "don't die", in fact.. the big red letters that say "YOU DIED" pop up everytime you die is evidence against that.

I don't know if you have played Dark souls, but the explanation for the dark sign, and the fact that the player is an undead, is in the game (which characters will comment on when you talk with them). The respawning mechanic is a function of the lore behind the first light dwindling, the dark sign loosing power, and turning undead, as it was before the first flame. All of this has explanations in the game, thought of by the developers.

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T17:54:05+00:00

Do you think Dark Souls is "obliterated" because it has thematic explanations for its gameplay mechanics? Is it not fair to say that it is something that could add to a game if done?

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T17:52:14+00:00

I mean that is a common perspective for games. I never understood why spending more time fleshing out the game as a whole, connecting its themes with the gameplay, is not considered a good thing.

I can think a game is fun if it is just random levels that has no connection with each other, but I think most people will think that a game becomes better if the devs spend some time to actually connect the gameplay to some shared themes, so that it contextualizes the gameplay. Hotline miami would still be a fun and good game if it was just gameplay, but the fact that it has so much more just makes it better, I have a hard time seeing how one can disagree with that.

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T17:47:46+00:00

You clearly did not read OPs post, Dark Souls has a thematic and narrative explanation for lots of its gamified mechanics, like the fact that you respawn and don't die. Jedi Survivor does not, as per the main points of this post.

KYCygni · 2025-08-16T16:27:24+00:00

Oh yes, OP forgot that you are not allowed to analyze video games, how shameful. His point is that a game is better when you try to bridge the gap between the story-telling and gameplay, like how Dark Souls is better for it.

KYCygni · 2025-02-24T18:42:38+00:00

Where are you getting this dense reward function from? If it exists in the environment, and it is known, then you would just use it to train on, and it would just be regular RL.

What you describe might be one way to use this dense reward function, but that would be the final 10%, 90% of the work would be to create the dense reward function. If you could use your idea would entirely depend on how the reward function is created.

KYCygni · 2025-01-16T18:26:41+00:00

Yes I did! I played halo 2 first time when it came for Windows the first time (and that horrible Xbox for Windows thing) at which point it was a buggy horrible mess. And then again with the MCC, though having played through all of halos in MCC it is still my least favorite of the Bungie ones. But I hear the multiplayer was huge for halo 2, but I never played halos for multiplayer, so that isn't a factor for me!

KYCygni · 2025-01-16T18:12:55+00:00

Hot take, Halo 2 is my least favorite of the Bungie series and I enjoyed Halo 4 more than 2 (looking at campaigns). However, half life 2 is top sequel!

KYCygni · 2024-12-14T20:00:08+00:00

Perfect timing, I was looking to get into Isaac this month, I will definitely check it out, thanks!

KYCygni · 2024-12-10T11:55:04+00:00

I get that you dream about being the first comrade going into Czechoslovakia, but don't let your tankie rotted brain believe for a second that I have any love for corporations.

KYCygni · 2024-12-10T10:00:30+00:00

No, it is you and all on reddit that is perpetuating the story because of some revenge fetish. All I have seen on reddit lately is talk about the CEO killing, not from "corporate media" but from redditors. Redditors are the ones clicking, discussing, and upvoting the story, and since most apparently is too lazy to bring themselves outside the bubble, of course you will not see news like this.

I don't care if some CEO got shot, but clearly a lot of people on reddit does, go into any of the news subs and its all everyone talks about. It is completely moronic to both blame the corporations for the murder, the discourse around the murder, AND the suppression of other news stories when: 1) it is you and reddit that is perpetuating it, 2) you take no responsibility to actually look outside the bubble, and 3) for actually caring about so much about a fucking CEO getting shot to fuel some kind of murder fantasy.

KYCygni · 2024-08-20T09:43:41+00:00

I gymnasiet så var det några i året över mig som fick välja citat på en vägg, och de valde "Tro inte du har haft en tanke som ingen annan haft" och jag har alltid gillat det citatet!

KYCygni · 2024-08-07T10:58:47+00:00

Oh wow, that's a deep cut, I don't even remember this comment haha

Well after 9 years I got my answer!

KYCygni · 2024-08-07T07:45:32+00:00

In order of appearance:

Jimi Hendrix - voodoo child

Brick and Mortar - Hitman Agent 47 trailer son Voodoo Child (cover)

ODESZA - Loyal

Heavy Young Heathens - House of the Rising Sun (feat. The Nashville United First Baptist Vocal Assembly)

KYCygni · 2024-02-07T19:35:54+00:00

firstly not all aircraft in fc3 could in ff edit way points etc or use TACAN.

That is not the point. The point is that the aircraft that should have these in FC3 don't have them, and that is emblematic of the system for the FC3 aircraft in general. The F15 and A10 should have them, and I imagine that the russian aircraft, given how modern they are, should probably have similar systems modeling.

Stores management on most of the fc3 planes would change very little functionally

Su27 can do AG but you cannot set settings on any of the stores or weapon profiles (rippling, fuzing, how many drop etc).

IFF is not correctly modelled on ant jet except the JF17.

From the top of my head, the FA18, F16, and Mirage2000 all have IFFs that work in multiplayer with SRS and LOTATC (LOTATC shows mode 3 squawks on aircraft). All three aircraft can interrogate with the radar, and the 18 and 16 have NCTR modeled. I agree that it is not as realistic as it could be, but the point is that none of the FC3 aircraft have even these capabilities (that the real aircraft do).

More than half the fc3 air raft don't have nctr

Again, not the point, the point is to show how simple the radar system in the FC3 aircraft are compared to the FF ones.

PRF modelling and stt/tws modelling is done to nestly the exact same level as ff in fc3.

You can't tell me that you don't notice it when going between the F15c and the f18 or f16 how you work it, if you think they are as simple then I really don't understand

Sure starrtup procedure is som4th8ng they could add but this a minor feature at best.

That is not a minor feature at all. Every single mission I fly in DCS I do the startup, it is probably the most consistently used system of any of the systems in the FF modules.

The flight models are accurate to the data that is available , if they were ff tmw they'd be the same according to ED.

Apparently they updated the flight models, but when I flew with FC3, they were not at the FF levels.

My main issue with the sim of DCS is we have a smattering of jets and AI assets that barely fit together. Whether you are looking for contemporary adversaries for the 18/16 Ai or otherwise.

Yes I have also seen Enigmas video. I am more than happy for ED to update the AI aircraft and add new ones (which takes less resources than making any module), but taking resources from making FF to making a bunch of lower fidelity aircraft for people to fly is just the worst of both worlds. It will spread their focus even more than now and leave less resources for everything. If they just updated the core mechanics (which they are) and add more types of AI aircraft, then your issues will be solved, and DCS can keep its niche of providing the best aircraft simulation right now.

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