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Leo Showers posted:How feasible is it to fly a B-52 with a shitload of bombs? I've been meaning to make it to a couple of games but other things have been getting in the way. 100% doable. I've done it a few times offline in fact :P You'll have to make do with the F16's sensors/optics for setting up the attack though.
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Dandywalken posted:100% doable. I've done it a few times offline in fact :P That's fine, I've always been really interested in bombers so I'd love to try it out.
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The loading screen even supports loading mixes of ordinance in the bomb bay and such.
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Lockmart Lawndart posted:If your doing the campaign updates, a few suggestions: Should we give the DPRK some stuff?
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hey guys i've flown a virtual ef-111 from japan for 250 miles
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Should we give the DPRK some stuff? Give them at least a squadron a piece of the following...    Lets pretend our NK friends are getting a bit of much needed help. Also I love Foxbats/Foxhounds almost as much as I love the
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Should we give the DPRK some stuff? If we don't, this might be the campaign: 
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It'd make sense to give the norks more interceptor planes but 
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This was actually very spectacular from the AWACS screen and Tophats asking me every 30 seconds how far he still has to fly.  Protip: It's far from Japan to the buffer zone. Michaellaneous fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Michaellaneous posted:This was actually very spectacular from the AWACS screen and Tophats asking me every 30 seconds how far he still has to fly. Sorry Michael! I did want to blow my brains out by that point 
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So last night I briefly flew over North Korea in an EF-111A and thought it seemed like I was invulnerable, but then this morning I was trying to read more about how the ECM flights work while a player is flying and some BMS guys said it doesn't work when a player is in control of the plane. Well I just tried in a TE and approached an SA-10 at 40k feet and got this picture  So yes EF-111A does work for jamming while being flown by a player. There are some quirks to it though.
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Anyone running a Thrustmaster Warthog or the new Saitek X-55? Or a Cougar? Had the CH Fighterstick/Pro Throttle rig before I moved to Alaska, but going to get new gear in a few weeks then I'll come learn how to fly poo poo again with goons, cause goons in games are just too much fun to play with
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DSauer posted:"JDAMs at high speed" Something just randomly came to mind with the talk of JDAMs and those B61s. There was a tactic employed by SAC medium bombers carrying those things to basically lob them into a target zone by pulling an Immelmann and releasing the bomb at 45 degrees. They did that partly because the high speed of the bomber carrying it allowed it to throw it a fair distance to avoid the blast. It then occurred to me that you could probably do the same thing with some JDAMs at mach 2 and keep clear of areas with heavy AA. Anyone ever tried this?
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Lee Outrageous posted:Something just randomly came to mind with the talk of JDAMs and those B61s. There was a tactic employed by SAC medium bombers carrying those things to basically lob them into a target zone by pulling an Immelmann and releasing the bomb at 45 degrees. They did that partly because the high speed of the bomber carrying it allowed it to throw it a fair distance to avoid the blast. It then occurred to me that you could probably do the same thing with some JDAMs at mach 2 and keep clear of areas with heavy AA. Anyone ever tried this? You can use CCRP for toss bombing. It works pretty well. With the JDAMs you can use the ripple qty 4, impact spacing 999 ft and cycle steer points to throw 4 JDAMs on 4 different (nearby) steerpoints with a toss bombing.
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I've been lurking in this thread for a bit and all this Falcon stuff has me pretty interested in trying it out, but since the OP didn't mention it, I need the original Falcon 4.0 for this and not Allied Force correct?
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Falcon BMS requires you have the .exe as a proof of ownership. In any case, you should come on mumble.
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Wh1plash posted:Anyone running a Thrustmaster Warthog or the new Saitek X-55? Or a Cougar? Had the CH Fighterstick/Pro Throttle rig before I moved to Alaska, but going to get new gear in a few weeks then I'll come learn how to fly poo poo again with goons, cause goons in games are just too much fun to play with If you have the Ducats for a Warthog get a Warthog. I went from an X52 to one and it was a complete game changer for me.
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Leo Showers posted:Falcon BMS requires you have the .exe as a proof of ownership. In any case, you should come on mumble. You can get BMS on piratebay with the exe, then just grab the updates off BMS website. Wh1plash fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Oglogoth posted:If you have the Ducats for a Warthog get a Warthog. I went from an X52 to one and it was a complete game changer for me. The wife may strangle me but thats how I was leaning. X-55 looks pretty, but I've seen people with issues. Wondering if its isolated incidents, or common problems. Its been mostly key ghosting, or keystrokes not saving properly through the Saitek software. Other thing I've heard is the X-55 not working in BMS. Just wondering if Goons had one and had issues with it. Especially with it being a Benji or two cheaper
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In my curiosity, I was looking around for a peripheral to simulate the ICP in Falcon, because I'd really like to be able to operate that quickly while looking at other stuff in the cockpit, and I found this (requires BMS forum login): Smartphone/Tablet ICP + Radio Looks pretty cool, but I haven't actually tried it out, so no quality guarantees. I'll give it a try tonight. Looks like some people's don't work straight out of the box, but they have to reconfigure the keys.
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Wh1plash posted:Anyone running a Thrustmaster Warthog or the new Saitek X-55? Or a Cougar? Had the CH Fighterstick/Pro Throttle rig before I moved to Alaska, but going to get new gear in a few weeks then I'll come learn how to fly poo poo again with goons, cause goons in games are just too much fun to play with The Cougar, predictably, is perfect for BMS. Out of curiosity, have you found one at a reasonable price? I was looking around recently and they appear to be selling for roughly the same amount as a Warthog at this point.
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Roshnak posted:The Cougar, predictably, is perfect for BMS. There has been a few lurking around at the $350 mark. But if I was going that route I would get a modded one with the Hall Effect Sensors and the spring mod for 1k Edit: I did like my CH stuff, but I had config issues with it in F4:AF, but I think part of it was because I'm a stupid newbie. I'm on the line of if I'm shelling out, do it once, and enjoy it. Right now I'm leaning heavily to the Warthog stick, but I want to see how the x-55 rhino plays out, because initial reports love it but the few issues that are popping it up keep leaning me back to the warthog. Edit 2: Plus with the x-55 i can delay the rudder pedals. Even though the CH ones are dirt cheap. Wh1plash fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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You can get a force sensitive sensor mod for the warthog now which probably makes it the best stick out there if you are going that route. The warthog throttle works well enough in BMS w/morphine's profile. I was talking last night about moving the antenna elevation from the slider to the coolie hat which I may try to set up. Burno fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Burno posted:You can get an force sensitive sensor mod for the warthog now which probably makes it the best stick out there if you are going that route. I'm nowhere near advanced to that point yet, I'm lucky I don't break poo poo when I land still. :P I just never knew anyone that I normally played online with to go out and actually make it worthwhile to learn/play with at a decent level other than dicking around and blowing up stuff in instant action. Lo and behold I start digging deeper in the games forum instead of the usual MMO forum I sift through and came upon this and was like oh hell yes. I've wanted to get deeper into the sims, just never had the right motivation until I popped in here last night and spent 7hrs going through 32 pages of posts and baby duty  . Its like holy poo poo, flight sims with goons, this is going to be fun. MMO's have gotten redundant and same regurgitated poo poo, so I was looking to get back into getting into sims because I love playing poo poo, just didnt have like minded people that play the same poo poo usually. And the forgiveness/comedy level of goons is what brings the fun out of mistakes, and you learn a ton of poo poo at the same time because in the end, its just pure fun.That, and I can't wait to get enough skill to do poo poo like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-joHTlIyPQ
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So yeah, I can barely wait to play my first proper round with you guys on wednesday. After a lot of help from Tops and Balooga, and watching a few videos on how to properly create packages, flights, how to use the bulleye etc, I feel quite confident.
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Tomorrow BMS Gooncalypse Campaign starts at 9pm EST, 6pm PST, 3am[thursday] Central european time. I have nothing else to do and I host anyway. Depending how many people show up earlier, we might just do some light CAP and defensive missions and go balls-deep later when more people pop in. I will anyways sit here for loving forever, so no reason to artificially postpone something.
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I figured out how to rampstart the other day, and that was cool, and then got shotdown instantly. On my second go around I forgot something and I couldn't get anything to turn on  Theres that giant long Chuck Yeagar and Krause Tutorials, but does anyone have any other videos that helped them learn how to play? Longtiem fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Krause was better at 1.5x speed settings. He covers almost too much.
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Longtiem posted:I figured out how to rampstart the other day, and that was cool, and then got shotdown instantly. On my second go around I forgot something and I couldn't get anything to turn on Just flying with other goons and asking questions (not during the campaign). We did a few nights of "flight instruction" a few weeks ago and maybe we can get something like that going again.
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IceLicker posted:Just flying with other goons and asking questions (not during the campaign). We did a few nights of "flight instruction" a few weeks ago and maybe we can get something like that going again. If that would include a training spot for awacs that would be amazing as well. I am more than willing to set up stupidly difficult flights for new players  East pyongyang would be a good training ground for SEAD I feel.
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Tonight at 10pm EST, I am holding goon flight school for BMS in Mumble. If you need to learn your basics in F16, now it is time for that. Come prepared with the basic buttons mapped, please. See the Falcon OP. If you did your due diligence though and just could not do it, fine, we shall help. Anyone willing to co-teach is also appreciated to lower some workload and work more on individual problems. Tonight's instruction should enable you to take part in the campaign tomorrow evening.
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7pm PST. I am going to try my damnedest to make it.
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I know the CTS mumble is the official hangout for BMS folks, but if anyone else out there is like me and doesn't idle in mumble, Vahakyla and a few other BMS goons hang out in #flightsim in IRC. Also since search is broken here are some other threads you guys might be interested in for bookmarking, so you don't have to stumble on them in the Games forum accidentally.. Flight Sim IL-2 Warthunder Rise of Flight The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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The Ferret King posted:I know the CTS mumble is the official hangout for BMS folks, but if anyone else out there is like me and doesn't idle in mumble, Vahakyla and a few other BMS goons hang out in #flightsim in IRC. On SYNIrc.
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