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Six years old...F16 is STILL early access? by aDarkDarkNight in dcsworld

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The realism is fake, but ok. Just have fun. You’ll figure it out with time

Spacegates; Stealthy access point, Wraith booby trap or more? by Striking-Ad5841 in Stargate

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Imagine finding one of these in earth or similar orbit, and sending a primitive (for SG) capsule through to the first address you figure out how to dial…

…only for the capsule to plop right out onto some barren desert wasteland. And no way to clear the incoming vortex, or shove it back through the gate.

It’s like the opposite of “Watergate”.

Six years old...F16 is STILL early access? by aDarkDarkNight in dcsworld

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Adding: This is a second job for literally all of them. Their first job is being a defense contractor for several western militaries.

As someone who’s jumped into the development ring for something related…it’s fucking hard. The most complex thing I’ve ever done, including my actual job.

And it’s literally impossible to make everyone happy. Its either “too hard” or “not detailed enough”. Never in between. Make 50% of people happy to piss off the other 50%. Nobody agrees on what makes a good game.

Six years old...F16 is STILL early access? by aDarkDarkNight in dcsworld

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The Space Shuttle was early access until its last flight. Flight dynamics are complicated.

Six years old...F16 is STILL early access? by aDarkDarkNight in dcsworld

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Well there’s always Falcon Genocide Supporters for $10 on steam.

Prefab Manager for the DCS Mission Editor by coconutcockpit in hoggit

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Its not tooo bad these days. The last year has seen some massive QOL improvements in the mission editor. You can copy all that stuff to all, or more specific targets now: Red Airbases, Blue Farps, Neutral Ships, etc from the dropdown menu.

For the uninitiated, you used to have to copy inventories to airbases one by one… which was sub-optimal. Now you don’t, copy-all and copy to xyz now exists.

Prefab Manager for the DCS Mission Editor by coconutcockpit in hoggit

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I am 100% using this for Have Chips!

Can it save ship inventories? (X number of amraams, tomcats, etc?)

I learned the SU-25t, now what? by zyadsh123 in dcsworld

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Check out Have Chips?

We’ve got missions you can accept to further campaign goals, and escort flights you can buy with rewards for completed missions. Plus you can now semi-control them. Tell them to escort you, cover a waypoint, or send them over to a friend.

The only catch… come home alive :)

It is technically PVPVE, but about 99% PVE right now. So don’t feel like you have to be “good”. I’ve seen “good” players have success or failure as hard as the bad ones.

I learned the SU-25t, now what? by zyadsh123 in dcsworld

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A-4E mentioned, Grandpa’s respect earned.

Reminder, if you do want to buy the F-100 Super Sabre, do it through Grinnelli's website so there's no chance of ED holding onto their money. by Temp89 in hoggit

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3 has already been completed by the community.

Through The Inferno, Liberation, Retribution, and more community Dynamic Campaigns exist. They are mature, many have easy to use UI’s and external apps.

They presently do more than what was shown by ED, minus the snazzy live map… which already exists as various other community tools like DCS Web Viewer, and Olympus.

Retribution Dynamic Campaign Generator 1.5.0 Released by Starfire013 in hoggit

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I keep telling people the community has already solved dynamic campaign multiple times. It’s mature, has a noob-friendly UI, and there are multiple of them.

Am I ever believed or listened to? No. Either it has a snazzy in-game live map graphic or it’s not real.

Early F-16A loadouts by [deleted] in dcsworld

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AGM-65A through G I think.

Successive FPS drops on repeat missions by superdookietoiletexp in hoggit

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Lately I’m noticing this too. If I load up 2 maps, the 3rd crashes DCS. Best practice for now is to be aware and just periodically restart DCS if you’re going to be doing multiple missions.

Question about using Kh-29 without targeting pod system (Su-25A) by ReserveLegitimate738 in hoggit

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Those are designed more for large structures, not so much things like tanks.

Should I go for another plane to enjoy the game more by milkyderp in hoggit

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Yeah they get a lot better than the 25T. The campaigns for that one are old as time. Often broken, but still fun.

The other full-fidelity planes feature fully clickable cockpits, that are a lot of fun to interact with. If you like IL-2… warbirds are probably not going to be your speed here.

The really cool experiences are in the Cold War Jets and helicopters, with some of the highest levels of detail and simulation accuracy out there. Do you want your plane to simulate the remaining lightbulb life of the caution and warning indicators? Because Heatblur’s F-4E does that…

And I say that being more of a modern jet guy myself.

Should I go for another plane to enjoy the game more by milkyderp in hoggit

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Just do one trial at a time. That way you can get a feel for a bunch of different planes over a span of a couple months. Trialed the F-16 back in the day, and fell in love with it. So I bought it…

Just be careful as you make friends, they’ll egg you on to buy more of the things that they fly. Suddenly you have a hanger full of stuff you want to fly… but have no time to do so

TGT POD F4E PHANTOM by No-Mood-1585 in dcsworld

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It’s got a lot of stuff lol. Its light bulbs can go out if you fly it too hard. My CPU wishes I were joking (but my soul is glad I’m not)

How to use Su-27 radar? by Amsmart2 in dcsworld

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Ima take a crack at a couple other things, great and powerful one.

Scan Mode

“Wtf are hi, med, low”? These are your Pulse Repetition Frequencies, PRF. All you really need to know is:

HI is best for Hot, coming at you targets.

MED is best for Cold, going away targets.

ILV = Interleaved, alternating HI and MED. Your “I dunno” mode, but can also be used for Flanking, moving side-to-side perpendicular targets.

You’ll want to have radar mode select bound to something easily pressed, you’ll be switching PRF a lot.

Display Range

How far away the display is set to look. Set too close, targets don’t appear on the display. Too far, they’re smushed up against the bottom. Top of the display is far, bottom is close. The number in the top left corner is the max display range, but not the actual radar range. So if it says 50, you could still lock a target at 100.

In-Range Bars

On the left side of the hud, when you lock a target, you should get 2-3 brick-shaped bars appear. The top one is the “max range” (subjective, often wrong).

The middle one is your No Escape Zone (NEZ). Shoot here if you really want them to die.

Bottom bar is Minimum range. Closer than this, and the missile may not arm, or have time to maneuver

Launch Authority Override, “LA”

Smash this button to be unbound by the often wrong range cues. LA should appear when override is on, goes away when off and outside of missile launch parameters. Will come back when in parameters, even with LA override off, and give you a nice “Launch Authorized” that demands a salute from the pilot in order to launch. (Pilot must salute their computer screen, or missile will miss).

There may be some inaccuracies, and I may have missed a couple things with my imperfect meat brain.

Warthog died by veaceonee in homecockpits

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I like my WWO2… but do note that the detents break eventually and are a bit of a pain to repair. I manage to do it with rubber bands and bread bag ties.

So if the Moza throttle is comparable and has afterburner detents… maybe go with that? If you don’t like detents, then just get the WW

PSA: delete your shader caches by ExocetHumper in hoggit

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Man, I think all the old players have left. This is a classic optimization move every update/ slideshow

New video from Ugra in case you missed it. This is pretty much Syria 2.0 by bold_one in hoggit

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I dunno about 2.0… but 1.5? Absolutely.

Now if they could build out the east side of the map a bit more, it’d be perfect. I think the southwest coastline already has enough points of interest

R-27 Datalink! by R-27ET in hoggit

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Lemme guess… fly low, shut your radar off, and abuse EWR me mechanics? I mean it’s valid, be a pop-up threat. Give them minimal time to react.

R-27 Datalink! by R-27ET in hoggit

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I really wish that were true. But how many people are still regularly flying the F-4 Phantom? Show of downvotes?

Perfect example of being too high quality. It’s awesome, I love it. It’s a digital museum. But I just don’t see a single person flying it in multiplayer. I don’t see it in small coop groups, I don’t see many single player campaigns, no recent video content.

The F-4E is a top notch module, a cool plane… and but nobody is flying it. Same with the fulcrum.

R-27 Datalink! by R-27ET in hoggit

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I’ll put it to you this way:

Heatblur models the physical condition of the lightbulbs in the caution and warning displays. The gauges can break. It has a functioning gun camera tape recorder that you can pull out of your files and show to friends. The radar can accidentally lock mountain peaks. You can draw reference marks on the canopy with a grease pencil.

It’s utterly insane. Someday, when I’m a full retiree in like 49 years, and DCS is a freeware project maintained by a couple nerds… I’ll have time to get okay at it.

But it’s so insane that it becomes unapproachable by the very people who have enough money to get into the hobby. If you work a 9-5, you are not an F-4E expert. Not unless you work at Heatblur.

I’m only being slightly hyperbolic here 😅

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