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Bubbacub posted:Does the offset gunsight in the Bf-109 and FW-190 work like it does in real life if you use VR? I haven’t checked them specifically, but the gyro gunsight in the P-51 and P-47 do.
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DeathSandwich posted:Man I'm really itching to get an upgraded PC with a HOTAS rig again so I can tool around in goon multiplayer. For the first one, the mission designer could spawn the units when the objective is met. Labels would technically always be on, but no danger to the player from unlabeled units. For the second, playing with no labels and using targeting pod laser search feature to find the JTAC laser spotting the targets for you.
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Bubbacub posted:Does the offset gunsight in the Bf-109 and FW-190 work like it does in real life if you use VR? You mean the refraction from the thick bulletproof glass?
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Advertisement for this saturday's, tomorrow's Goon DCS mission, especially now that there is a sale going on. Time: 2000 UTC, saturday the 24th. Signup sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Grz7yEp70GOFfjch3zD1mp2TpDStdapDdqNVTAOu6c/edit#gid=0 Discord: https://discord.gg/Vx4qqGyb We will be using SRS, SimpleRadioStandalone, to simulate the radios. It is not hard to use, and works through the in-game radios. Long story short: This is a peacekeeping/asymmetric warfare scenario in the Caucasus mountains, with no hostile enemy air. Human Airborne Forward Air Controllers in A-10C's will fly to their IP's to get taskings from groundborne JTACs, and will then try to resolve situations on the ground, like troops in contact and convoy ambushes, by utilizing fast moving jets with laser guided bombs and rockets, and possibly gun runs. They will call for fast movers, F-14s, F-16s, and F-18s that orbit the area, and then guide them as needed. For the fast moving jets, the skills you need are pretty simple. You can drop an LGB, and you can punch in a waypoint to the plane, so that you can fly to it when the AFAC gives you coordinates. You should probably also be able to take off and land. This scenario emphasizes fuel management, and voluntary Aerial Refuel, rather than lots of weapons. More tanks, less bombs. If you want to fly, you should hop on discord, get set up, and ask questions. Easy peasy.  F-14s refueling last weekend. 
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quote:As our online community grows and grows, we recognise that ensuring a level playing field for all has become an important matter and therefore, on popular demand we have locked the LUA files relating to weapon systems. So I guess that's why all the database files are no longer available in source form. Sucks for you if you wanted to compare the numbers, I guess, now they are ED secrets.
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THEYLL NEVER SUSPECT OUR MISSILE KINEMATICS ARE WRONG IF THEY CANT READ THE SECRET MISSILE FILES Seriously, why does ED insist on fighting this so hard? They got missile kinematics wrong a long time ago. Fix them and move the gently caress on. This is a real dumb hill to die on.
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Apr 23, 2021 18:06
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Honestly I haven't flown with labels for a long while and I find them kinda jarring when I hop on a server with them on. The spyglass zoom they added in a patch last year get me to the point that I could get by fine enough without them.
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I just treat DCS as a RPG where my character class is "Military Pilot". The labels are not a cheating option, they're a class proficiency.
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MrYenko posted:THEYLL NEVER SUSPECT OUR MISSILE KINEMATICS ARE WRONG IF THEY CANT READ THE SECRET MISSILE FILES Their stance in the newsletter amuses me greatly because if it was actually about modifying missile stats for cheating reasons A: they already had integrity checks on some of the lua scripts that would make the game fail to start if you messed with them and there's no reason they couldn't just do that here too and B: they nuked everything, not just the weapon files, even like the list of callsigns is gone. 1000:1 this is about them being pissy about missile kinematics and people being able to call them on their poo poo. e: also if you wanted to make units for DCS uh hope you weren't using any of theirs as a reference, I guess
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power crystals posted:Their stance in the newsletter amuses me greatly... 1000:1 this is about them being pissy about missile kinematics and people being able to call them on their poo poo. Might also be the weapon damage mod for dcs that happened around the time SAW went live.
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Snapshot posted:Might also be the weapon damage mod for dcs that happened around the time SAW went live. I'll admit I'm not familiar with either of those, or at least I don't recognize "SAW" as an acronym here (aside from the gun which I assume is not what you're talking about).
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power crystals posted:I'll admit I'm not familiar with either of those, or at least I don't recognize "SAW" as an acronym here (aside from the gun which I assume is not what you're talking about). *AW is a series of servers run by r/Hoggit, each named after the terrain they use. GAW — Georgia at War PGAW — Persian Gulf at War SAW — Syria at War
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airquake and kdr sperging (which is the only plausible reason that people whine about keeping the lovely current missile kinematics) is the dumbest poo poo. just remove pvp entirely.
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Sagebrush posted:airquake and kdr sperging (which is the only plausible reason that people whine about keeping the lovely current missile kinematics) is the dumbest poo poo. just remove pvp entirely. I mean, missiles doing wrong things also happens to be an issue for PvE scenarios.
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Yeah but in co-op you can just chalk it up to DCS being DCS and not lose your mind about your gamerscore.
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So a bunch of campaigns are pretty cheap right now. Are any of the campaigns for the F-16, F-18, or A-10C... or any of the Flaming Cliffs planes, particularly good at teaching you all of the plane's systems? Youtube is ok for googling every little thing but it would be nice to be taken through planes tutorial style in a more competent way than the default training missions which maybe give you like 8% of the info you need.
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GreatGreen posted:So a bunch of campaigns are pretty cheap right now. Are any of the campaigns for the F-16, F-18, or A-10C... or any of the Flaming Cliffs planes, particularly good at teaching you all of the plane's systems? I believe Rising Squall for F-18 takes you step by step to learn parts of the plane. For FC3 planes, F-15 has a campaign called Georgian War. It's well voice acted, well done, and just overall really good fun. It also doesn't become super hard, but gradually increases in intensity. I thoroughly recommend it for 5 dollars. The F-14 has two excellent campaigns that are free, both Cage the Bear and Operation Reforger. They come with the plane. For A-10C, the Enemy Within is a really good campaign. I enjoyed it a lot, but I think it is somewhat challenging compared to the average. The FC3 planes each do come with their freebie campaigns, too, by the way.
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Thanks for the info! I'll try out Georgian War and I think I'll go for the Rising Squall campaign too, even though it's $20. It looks like it's been done up to be cheesy and Ace Combat-styled with dramatic music and horrific voice acting, which sounds fun.
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Oh gently caress I'm looking at vr headsets again, exclusively for flight sims. Any recommendations? The oculus quest 2 seems to be coming up top as cheap and reliable?
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Communist Bear posted:Oh gently caress I'm looking at vr headsets again, exclusively for flight sims. Reverb G2’s clarity is unbeatable.
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GreatGreen posted:Thanks for the info! Rising Squall is loving wonderful, be sure to check their website for the Chuck's Guide pages so you can read up on what you need to know for each mission. Also check the carrier ops section for Mission 4.
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Vahakyla posted:Reverb G2’s clarity is unbeatable. If you’re primarily shopping for VR for seated experiences like flight sims or racing, you can stop searching; The G2 is the king of that market. It loses out in a couple of ways if you’re also planning on doing room scale (I loving hate the controllers) stuff, but is still a super solid choice.
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Yes but it seems to be utterly impossible to buy the G2 at the moment, or at least in Britland it is.
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Make sure you give Zucky all your data if you plan on getting a Quest.
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Communist Bear posted:Yes but it seems to be utterly impossible to buy the G2 at the moment, or at least in Britland it is. I know two eurogoons who got this: https://bestware.com/en/hp-reverb-g2.html
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Vahakyla posted:I know two eurogoons who got this: Thank you! I'll keep an eye out. It's admittedly a bit more expensive than I would like, but I can certainly appreciate better lenses for vr.
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Communist Bear posted:Thank you! I'll keep an eye out. It's admittedly a bit more expensive than I would like, but I can certainly appreciate better lenses for vr. It is. I can’t make your money judgement for you, but as a G2 owner with O+ and Dell Visor before it, I can say that it is immensely accuracyte. I run 1.0 pixel density in DCS and I can read anything in the cockpit with ease including MFD’s and the moving map of F-18. It is a phenomenal headset.
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PenisMonkey posted:Make sure you give Zucky all your data if you plan on getting a Quest. I thought I heard that whole facebook requirement got dropped? Maybe I'm thinking of something else?
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Gewehr 43 posted:I thought I heard that whole facebook requirement got dropped? Maybe I'm thinking of something else? The opposite actually. Grandfathered Oculus accounts will be dropped in the future and Facebook account will be mandatory.
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GreatGreen posted:Thanks for the info! Rising Squall was pretty fun. It doesn't directly teach you, but it does make use of less frequently used systems/weapons. There are some cutscenes you need to access through your desktop file explorer, not 100% necessary but fill in some character and plot.
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Rising Squall was pretty fun. It doesn't directly teach you, but it does make use of less frequently used systems/weapons. There are some cutscenes you need to access through your desktop file explorer, not 100% necessary but fill in some character and plot. It does! Their website has relevant links and chuck’s guide steps for each mission to walk you in.
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Saukkis posted:The opposite actually. Grandfathered Oculus accounts will be dropped in the future and Facebook account will be mandatory.  Wow. Thanks for clarifying that for me. Unbelievable.
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Oh. Oh wow. I just did my first familiarization flight in an F/A-18. My usual routine is to get it in the air and then fly over hill and through valleys just to see how the airframe handles. Oh that's a nice airplane to just fly. I'm going to have to see what all the buttons do at some point, but flying is really nice.
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GreatGreen posted:So a bunch of campaigns are pretty cheap right now. Are any of the campaigns for the F-16, F-18, or A-10C... or any of the Flaming Cliffs planes, particularly good at teaching you all of the plane's systems? It's not for any of those, but I maintain that it's one of the most interesting campaigns in all of DCS: The Oilfield Campaign for the Mi-8. It expects you (and eases you into) use all of the half-dozen navigation options the bird carries, in particular the DISS Doppler navigation system where you dial in a distance and a radial and then try to fly in that direction without drift. It also expects you to land on uneven terrain, to haul cargo, to do precision lifts and releases of said cargo, and eventually to do all that with a very narrow fuel margin because you need the lifting capacity to carry goods rather than precious fuel. For the A-10C, there are the three qualification campaigns: Basic Flight Training Qualification (BFTQ), Advanced Aircraft Training Qualification (AATQ), and Tactical Training Qualification Campaign (TTQC). They expect you to do things by the book, precisely, and quickly, and unless you do it right you get dinged with a bad score and aren't allowed to progress. Each mission comes with a detailed run-through of the system or process you're about to use, including very handy kneeboards, and also a training session where you can practice over and over until you nail it. It can be challenging, but if you want to thoroughly learn the ins and outs of the Hog, they will certainly do that. All that said, though, there is one huge caveat with all campaigns at the moment. Over the last couple of years, ED has done a fair amount of things to the map and (most recently) the weather system, and third-party developers haven't always been… ehm… quick, let's say, in updating the campaigns to match. For the most part, they should work, but you may occasionally come across issues where the mission expects you to operate in an area that is now covered in trees, or is enveloped in clouds with no visibility, Worse still, sometimes it expects the AI to do that, at which point the AI will dutifully fly into the closest tree, explode, and fail the mission for you…
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The Super Carrier is 30% off right now at $27.99. Has it ever gone cheaper than that?Tippis posted:DLC tips. Thanks for that, it's really helpful!
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Tippis posted:All that said, though, there is one huge caveat with all campaigns at the moment. Over the last couple of years, ED has done a fair amount of things to the map and (most recently) the weather system, and third-party developers haven't always been… ehm… quick, let's say, in updating the campaigns to match. For the most part, they should work, but you may occasionally come across issues where the mission expects you to operate in an area that is now covered in trees, or is enveloped in clouds with no visibility, Worse still, sometimes it expects the AI to do that, at which point the AI will dutifully fly into the closest tree, explode, and fail the mission for you… This. A particularly jarring example was the UN Pilot campaign for the Huey where some waypoint altitudes got broken between sea-level and ground-level, resulting in your leader suddenly soaring into the sky or sinking towards the ground without notice, and the mission expecting you to maintain formation... On a further note on campaigns, don't pick up the Argo campaign for the Huey unless you are *very* comfortable with tight landings. The campaign has you ship based so you are expected to regularly land on the frigate, sometimes multiple times per mission. And the missions are long, with long commutes , and multiply objectives, with some of those tight landings in the middle. One small mistake is all it takes to break the helo and you have it all to do again. It's an order of magnitude above the UN Pilot campaign in terms of skill requirements.
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PenisMonkey posted:I will land the Huey anytime, anywhere.  Sometimes it’ll even still be airworthy once I land it.
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GreatGreen posted:The Super Carrier is 30% off right now at $27.99. Has it ever gone cheaper than that? I don’t think. That was the price on release, too.
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