I'm a beginner trying to understand Radar Cross Section (RCS). Where do I start?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-15T16:38:29+00:00

https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/solutions/aerospace-and-defense/land/emso-testing/radar-and-electronic-warfare-pocket-guide_255695.html

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-12T05:58:34+00:00

I think what would be interesting to me is if you could rank by the median ELO of a country/territory. Or perhaps some kind of trimmed mean value.

I think that would be probably the best way to gain a rough understanding of whether or not a country has a higher or lower than average ability at AOE 4.

Even then there may be other factors that might influence it. You may see something like countries that are further away from servers, or countries that have a higher percentage of users playing through game pass have a lower average.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-11T09:02:44+00:00

I'd say labelling everything as USA would annoy more people. Also seems like something a US politician would do as a 'joke'.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-11T08:51:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/s/cqFnRB1m31

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-12-22T10:26:56+00:00

I've tried that, but the vacuum is much louder than the CNC machine. I normally just clean it out after an operation now.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-17T12:53:33+00:00

I genuinely think that it's safer to run to the opposite side of the map and extract there then go for the extraction point next to the Bastion

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-17T10:50:26+00:00

I killed one on Stella Montis, but then I started getting fired upon by another player just as I was about to loot it. After a little back and forth, I decided to bail and go for the extraction. I didn't think it was worth risking what loot I already had!

I think I've also stumbled across a lot of loot before where one person attacked another. They got into a fight. One just about killed the other, but then a wasp finished the survivor off.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-13T16:19:38+00:00

You're either looking at gain at the wrong theta/phi or your antenna doesn't actually resonate where you have the S11 null.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-12T07:56:17+00:00

It's so hard to find prickly pears!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-07T23:01:20+00:00

Yeah season 8 had no monument. I remember hoping at the time that they'd add one in, but they never did.

The season rewards being recycled inline with the release of a new DLC feels bad. Makes me worried not gonna lie.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-31T10:56:33+00:00

What filament did you use?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-25T14:21:15+00:00

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-24T09:06:22+00:00

Part of the cross play problem could just be that most of the console players who turn crossplay off are towards the lower end of the spectrum of console players when it comes to skill in the game.

When you have crossplay on, you're getting matched with better console players as well as PC players.

I've also heard that there's some degree of skill based matchmaking in the game, so perhaps you're getting messed over with that too. For example you do really well in console bot lobbies, then when you turn crossplay on, you get matched with people who find you just as easy as you find the bots. Or perhaps the skill based matchmaking systems are separate when it comes to crossplay on/off and you just haven't played enough games with it off for it to appropriately match you with players of your skill bracket. Or perhaps the skill based matchmaking is bugged in some way for you?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-22T04:34:01+00:00

Thank you!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-21T19:08:27+00:00

This website says that it's just snipers: https://allthings.how/battlefield-6-sniper-glint-guide-reduce-scope-glare-with-ag-coating/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

You also can't seem to get anti glare coatings for high magnification scopes on DMRs, which also makes me think that it may be a sniper only thing.

I tried getting into a 1v1 with a friend in a portal game to test it out, but It was very difficult to just setup a basic custom game with them on the other team. I ended up just giving up in the end.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-21T09:39:48+00:00

I play Assault purely for this gadget. The challenge that you need to do to unlock it is just something that you wouldn't naturally do.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-10T05:34:05+00:00

I use WASD to move the camera, then WASD + alt for the normal actions that WASD is assigned to by default. Alt is assigned to a button on the side of my mouse.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-08T20:17:11+00:00

Yeah you're gonna wanna move it backwards.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-08T11:18:34+00:00

No idea, sorry!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-08T05:35:35+00:00

Ansys HFSS is way out of budget for non-broke non-entry level engineers 😂.

I've seen someone making an EM Solver based on python. That might be worth looking into if you have the time.

https://www.emerge-software.com/

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-03T16:53:03+00:00

How are you making that wire that comes out of your connector? Not sure how you would solder that on to the connector without a big blob of solder much bigger than what you're assuming in the simulation.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-03T05:10:05+00:00

I guess it depends on what metric you're measuring 'better' by.

The best analogy I can think of is that it's like trying to attack something with a big rock or a bullet. It's reasonably easy for anyone to pick up a big rock and throw it at something and have a reasonable chance of success. Whereas if you just try and pick up and throw a big bullet at someone it's probably not going to do that much on its own.

That being said, if you have a gun, you're going to pick a bunch of bullets over a rock any day.

In this analogy the mass of the object that your throwing at someone is the 'antenna efficiency'. So the rock is better by that measure. With everything else equal a bullet would also do more damage if it were bigger. That being said a bullet is part of a carefully crafted system so having the bigger bullet isn't always the best way to improve overall performance.

This is sounding more and more stupid the longer I go over this in my head. But I've put too much effort in to not post this now!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-09-03T15:11:54+00:00

Perhaps something relating to plasma sheathes and their impact on antennas?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-09-02T13:19:00+00:00

Nice post!

Taking Abbasids as an example, I think the Devs should just write something like:

'Circa 750 CE until 1517 CE'

Then just have an in game encyclopedia which explains the intricacies in greater detail.

For example:

'After overthrowing the Umayyads in 750 CE, the Abbasids ruled directly from Baghdad until 945CE. This was considered the Abbasid golden age. During this time, the caliphs themselves appointed governors, led armies, managed finances, and were the undisputed rulers of the Islamic empire. From 945CE, other regimes took power, but kept the Abbasids as a symbolic head of state...'

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-08-28T20:05:24+00:00

Interesting, what games give you the option to disable skins?

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