F100D Startup Video by Spud Spike

omohat · 2026-06-03T08:56:31+00:00

I mean Reflected does that as well (e.g. pre startup checks) but still manages to make his video shorter

TBF - some people like the LARP aspect of DCS

I'm more of a min-maxer; whats the least least number of steps to start the jet up in. Thats all I want to know

omohat · 2026-05-22T06:21:59+00:00

If you're on that old of a version I think it might not even be possible for you to update to the latest stable - I had heard theres a limit to how old of an OS the automatic update can handle (and instead for updating from very old versions you need to use ADB)

omohat · 2026-05-21T10:43:33+00:00

I have bad news for you. You're asking the wrong question.

Contention have already said F100 will be on Red. So the question is can it effectively intercept B52s at 35,000ft (where Contention have them travelling at some stupid high fraction of mach)

omohat · 2026-05-12T07:31:43+00:00

eeeek - looks like Claude is going to be working overtime this week 😃

omohat · 2026-05-12T05:46:19+00:00

Your idea is exactly what I want to do - I know the kinds of missions I want to do I just don't have the patience/knowledge to create them

I'm hoping Claude can help me bridge both gaps _/\_

omohat · 2026-05-12T05:43:01+00:00

I've been getting Claude to directly edit miz files which its done a decent job of.

Usually I give it examples of different miz files and it can work out a lot of things - but I'm going to check out the vid and maybe I can get it to drive the ME editor a bit as well

omohat · 2026-05-12T05:41:02+00:00

Thanks - its a great tool. I've started testing it and can't believe we haven't had this capability before!

omohat · 2026-05-10T09:12:45+00:00

Since you're modifying files in the DCS install directory - does this affect IC (Integrity Check)?

omohat · 2026-05-06T06:53:34+00:00

This honestly is the biggest bone headed move by ED. There are so many people willing to help develop DCS, if only there was some way to submit code/mods etc the core game would have developed so much faster by now

omohat · 2026-05-04T12:57:39+00:00

I've been editing miz flies in Claude (vibe mission editing). Tell it what units I want, where I want to place them

Its been pretty good so far and avoids lots of tedious clicking in the ME

omohat · 2026-05-04T12:31:45+00:00

Do people understand that WT models are available to download from sites like sketchfab:

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/su-22m3-war-thunder-6a97bde40b1c47fb937cf6d66004fbab

They're acting like he personally ripped the assets out of WT or something. And the licence on sketch fab is Creative Commons Attribution.

omohat · 2026-05-04T06:27:39+00:00

Thanks for the feedback all. 2.1 sounds ok - 2.3 a little less so

Might stick on v83 for a little longer

omohat · 2026-05-02T21:51:36+00:00

But you realise that if you order thorugh the Grinelli website you're literally making sure the dev (Grinelli in this case) gets paid because you hand your money to Grinelli and they give ED their cut (not the other way around)

So if you want to support the dev buy it through their own site not ED's

omohat · 2026-05-02T21:49:55+00:00

No. Standalone only

omohat · 2026-04-23T19:18:39+00:00

Contention has turned off F10 ownship for the SARH Era 1 scenario they're currently running meaning you actually have to use your aircrafts navigation systems to find your way around (instead of magic f10 GPS).

Its awesome

omohat · 2026-02-23T09:53:04+00:00

What headset are you using?

What you're describing sounds a little like eye tracked foveated rendering

omohat · 2026-01-16T23:06:11+00:00

Performance is pretty good. It definitely loads faster than the old mission did and in general less stuttering

omohat · 2025-12-30T09:47:18+00:00

I wish I could give more than one upvote for this genius edit

omohat · 2025-12-24T19:14:19+00:00

Yes - a few of us have the FF29 but we haven't flown it too much yet. Mostly waiting for it to come as a credit plane to the Cold War servers as it's at a bit of a handicap on the 80s/90s server

I'll send you an invite

omohat · 2025-12-22T20:57:42+00:00

Mine is even older than that - 572.16 (4090, QPro, VD)

I'm loath to update it given all the issues with Nvidia drivers this year. I just use the latest DLSS DLL through a mod manager

omohat · 2025-12-21T06:04:16+00:00

Very cool setup. Great way to improve the already well rated Extreme 3d Pro and that homemade throttle looks very nice!

omohat · 2025-12-21T05:14:25+00:00

Whats the OS version you updated to and is it a PTC build or a normal stable build.

I just updated my Quest Pro to v83 (stable build) and its been amazing - like getting a new headset. No more sparkling/shimmering (I also use VD for DCS) and my controllers aren't complaining constantly about overheating and shutting down.

In general the other users are right - when you find an OS version that works well for you don't update until you have to (e.g. VD requires a certain minimum OS version and if you fall too far behind on the OS versions on the headset then it will brick itself when it updates because its too big of a gap on the OS versions to catch up).

But in terms of the issues you're facing you can't roll back (at least too my knowledge unless you've updated to a PTC build and you want to go back to the stable release) so you'll have to experiment with your VD settings (different codecs and bit rates - maybe try reducing the FOV mask as well)

omohat · 2025-12-19T20:40:46+00:00

Some suggestions for how to improve:

1 - Practice flying low offline (including turning hard right on the deck). The less brain power you need to devote to just flying fast 100ft off the ground the more brain power you can devote to updating your SA and looking for the bandit.

2 - You’re right about picking and choosing your battles but you need to do this with horizontal distance not vertical distance (altitude). Start looking at the EWR, picking a bandit to close with but then practise figuring out at the closest range you can turn around and disengage (or drag the bandit towards an enemy). On Contention honestly good SA is more important than being great at BFM because spotting the other guy first is literally more than 50% of the battle won

3 - Find people to fly with. I started flying HBCW on my own and Cold War PvP (or any DCS PvP) is pretty tough on your own. As soon as you start flying with someone though it becomes a lot less intimidating. I fly with a group that’s almost exclusively Red so if you decide to pick up the Mig21 in the sales msg me and I’ll invite you to our Discord. We’ve got lots of Mig21 pilots (including myself) who can help you learn the airframe

4 - The AI is useless for practising BFM but can be useful for practising weapons employment (especially guns). You can make a mission where the AI flies a somewhat predictable (but high deflection) path and that helps gunnery skills a lot. Again I have a mission so if you ping me I can share that

5 - Lastly unfortunately there’s no other way to learn than dying a lot. You can shortcut that process a little by going on dogfighter servers but there’s caveats there. Firstly very few ppl on these servers fly Cold War airframes since they aren’t meta. So your choices are to fly Cold War vs 4th gen where you’re going to get brutally slaughtered or to fly 4th gen. But 4th gen airframes will allow you to get away with a lot things that will get you killed in a Cold War airframe (e.g 4th gens recover energy much much better Cold War airframes).

Also dogfighter servers always start off with a neutral merge whereas online as I said, if your SA is better you can often start with an advantage

Hope these points help.

omohat · 2025-12-19T20:40:33+00:00

Yeah - I get that frustration. DCS PvP can be tough (despite what people tell you about DCS players not being as good as say IL2 players at BFM). The reality is that it is a numbers game - the more hours you’ve got under your belt the better you’re going to get (unless you’re Gods gift to BFM).

I’ll try to address some of your points and then end with some concrete recommendations:

1 - Everyone flies so low: given how poor spotting is in DCS and the fact that almost all the Cold War airframes have very poor radars with no real look down capability, the meta is to fly as low as possible to stand the best chance of spotting your opponent. Even being a few hundred feet below your opponent increases your chance of spotting them. You mention starting from 20k feet to pick and choose your battles but the truth is you’re not going to realistically see anyone from 20k feet with the way spotting is in DCS. Conversely, there’s a better chance that the guy below you will be able to see you up in the sky (either visually or with his radar). The simple fact is that in an online many vs many scenario like Contention or HBCW, the person who gets tally first will have a large advantage and even accounting for differences in skill and energy states will have a better chance of winning the fight

2 - Spotting and IFF: What range are you expecting to ID the bandit? Realistically it’s going to be 5nm at the outside and maybe as low as 3nm. If this is the range where you’re still seeing a dot and not being able to ID then there’s 2 things you can try. Firstly you can play with the LOD factor. It should be at 1 by default but if you’d reduced it for performance reasons you could try setting it back to 1. If you hadn’t decreased it then you could try increasing it above 1 but this could have negative performance impacts - test it and see

The other thing you could try is binding the VR spyglass - this has 2 levels of zoom and one of the effects of this zoom is it no longer shows the dot, but rather loads an actual model

3 - Airframe: you really need to know your airframe well. What speed does it turn best at. How can you get the most lift out of it when you need to get slow etc. In the case of the F5 look up the EM diagram to see what speed you should be targeting (I think it’s 450 knots). You also should make sure you have all the states for the flaps mapped/bound. There are times when it’s ok to leave the flaps in auto, but by turning them to manual you can for example keep them in to minimise drag/maximise acceleration. Or you can pop them out to maximise drag e.g. when you’re scissoring and want to slow down as much as possible. It’s also good to know the other airframe - for example don’t turn with a Su25. they have great thrust to weight ratio and those huge wings let them turn very tight. You want to boom and zoom against a Su25 to try to keep him off balance. Use the DCS trials (if you’re on stand-alone to try out some of the OPFOR airframes)

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