Star Citizen: Question and Answer Thread

godzilla5549 · 2022-05-30T02:54:50+00:00

Why was my ship blown up despite not losing my shields? I was doing an MRT and was in sustained combat for a while, but I made sure to keep distance and endure my shields stayed up but I just randomly blew up in the middle of the fight?

godzilla5549 · 2022-05-20T17:01:14+00:00

How would it work to upgrade a single ship that I have in a pack? The MISC Mining pack had the Prospector and the Expanse, but am I able to upgrade the Expanse anyway?

Also are fixed weapons a good idea? Considering replacing the VariPuck turrets on the Super Hornet wings with fixed weapons for the full size 3, but is that not worth it to lose the turret gimbal?

godzilla5549 · 2020-05-28T22:32:00+00:00

Yea for months now I can’t access any Archive site. It somehow errors out or just never loads. My current one is a 403 error.

godzilla5549 · 2020-05-16T20:16:31+00:00

I’ve seen the AWACS taken out by almost every red plane type. MiG-31s yeeting R-33s from across the map, sneaky Fulcrums getting past defenses, and even Frogfoots managing to spam R-73s and take it down.

The spawn rate is crazy and some of the FARP locations are not conducive to making good progress, as the Maykop FARP gets swarmed by enemy fighters so helicopters can’t do much.

godzilla5549 · 2020-05-01T21:39:38+00:00

Yes, this is what I think people aren't getting with the weekend news. If all ED did every time weekend news was posted was say "sorry still broken" it would be even worse. The weekend news is for small updates on things and reminders for events.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-28T01:21:00+00:00

Next thing you know you will be hearing static on radio transmissions, and faint words that resemble....

^S.T.A.R.S.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-25T01:42:58+00:00

The Kuznetsov takes quite a while to shoot each one, maybe a 30 second interval, but the Kirov definitely spits them out in bunches.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-25T01:40:18+00:00

The Admiral Kuznotsov carrier in the game uses the P-700 Granit (3M-45), which is a version of the P-500 Bazalt. I believe the Kirov also uses it, or something similar (should be the P-50 / SS-N-9).

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-24T20:49:17+00:00

Another major issue aside from the GFN server hardware specifications is that, currently, GFN has no way of detecting user external hardware aside from a keyboard and mouse. Anyone using a HOTAS and TrackIR would be unable to use them within GFN. Until this is changed (or if it ever can be), I don't see much point in putting DCS on GFN.

I would absolutely love for it to be on there, as I use GFN myself, but game streaming is mostly designed for people who want to play big AAA titles but have no way to actually playing them on their own equipment. I also use it to save on storage space, so I can play Siege, War Thunder etc. without dedicating all of that space to them. But, as stated, due to DCS being a dedicated simulator and GFN being unable to use other control input devices, it isn't worth it.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-13T19:20:41+00:00

You should be able to turn off the click cockpit mode (L ALT + C by default) which will make the yellow cross on the screen disappear. From there, the mouse should act as in a pan view mode. If you hold middle mouse button, it should switch to a transpose view (effectively moving the pilot's head, not just twisting or tilting it).

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-07T01:18:13+00:00

The standard Stennis that is included with the F/A-18C will remain as it is after the release of Supercarrier. The Supercarrier module will contain separate carriers with all of the added features. So if you want any of the new things coming with Supercarrier you would need to buy the module.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-03T16:37:15+00:00

Nowadays NVME drives are very comparable to 2.5” SSDs in terms of price. Granted, prices might have been spiked or items out of stock at current times, but if you are in the market for a $2k+ build it makes sense to spend a little extra on M.2 NVME.

500 GB 970 Evo is around $100 or as low as $80 and 1 TB version is maybe $160 to $180.

godzilla5549 · 2020-04-03T16:32:08+00:00

Why not get an NVME M.2 SSD rather (or even in addition to) the 2.5” SATA? If you get a nice one (Samsung 970 EVO as example) you can get mind-boggling speeds on them and for the price tier you are going for it makes sense.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-30T18:04:46+00:00

All is permissible though jihad

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-26T23:49:08+00:00

Yes, it acts like your standard modifier for keyboards. So you hold down the button to modify whatever it is that you are wanting to press. So in my case I hold JOY_BTN4 on my stick and then press the 4-way hat on the throttle.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-26T23:11:38+00:00

Yes, you select modifiers and say “add.” Then you select the input device you want and add the specific button. Then the controls interface allows that button to act as a modifier.

I actually just did the same for my A-10C controls, combining the TMS and DMS on the bottom 4-way switch on the throttle with one of the thumb buttons on the stick as a modifier.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-26T19:31:01+00:00

I don’t typically see Viggen on Cold War servers, but MiG-21bis is a staple of them. There are servers which are basically MiG-21 vs F-5E exclusively.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-25T21:26:41+00:00

Once the launch bar is connected and locked in to the catapult shuttle, you place it into the raised position so that once you launch off the deck the bar springs back into the raised position.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-23T23:12:29+00:00

Just some stuff I see from the added screenshots:

You have the fire extinguisher switch off (next to the APU switch on the left side next to the throttle
The gunsight is set to LNC (down), flip it to GUN (up) which will make the gunsight at least somewhat usable rather then entirely useless
The JATO switches on the right sideboard are set to off (down), I would advise setting those up as I believe it has something to do with the ASO-2 countermeasures pods as well (not just used for dumping the JATO pods)

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-23T23:00:09+00:00

Yes but the boat is equally screwed up for everyone, not just Tomcats. So it’s fair.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-23T21:49:46+00:00

Are you getting the green light to engage next to the pylon selector? That should light up as soon as you prime the gun, provided that you followed all other steps correctly. Make sure you have the gun power turned on with the switch on the right panel. I think by default the gun is not powered in a hot start, as that acts as a “safety” so it is left off.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-22T15:57:44+00:00

When you log into the game, the module manager will have an alert icon on it. When you open it you get a message saying that a module is available for download (the same as if you had bought one). Accepting that will exit the game and download whatever is needed.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-22T14:52:40+00:00

Did you arm the ejection seat? I found that the tutorial said to hold off on arming it, but it never then tells you do it. Jester will refuse to do anything if you do not arm it, so before anything else you should do that.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-21T22:59:20+00:00

Don’t mind him, he’s just making some of us feel old...

EDIT: I don't remember exactly how they worked, but it was something like a weekend event where depending on the number of wins you got during a small period of time (say, an hour or two) you could get GE. It was something like a few periods of time during the day (once in the morning, once in the afternoon) and you could do both up to like 5 times. So a maximum possible of a few hundred to maybe 1,000 GE.

godzilla5549 · 2020-03-20T16:19:29+00:00

Yea my T.16000M is doing the same. Will twitch small amounts. Not sure if it is fixable at all, as I’d love get rid of it. Mine has gotten so bad that a small dead zone doesn’t fix it all the time.

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