Thread 537785947

Where is 0.31 edition

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>>537785947 (OP)
>0.31
Release in 10 years then

im literally next to you retard

>>537786478
>max mixture at that altitude

>>537786625
Most WW2 planes have auto-mixture in the forward position

>>537786824
Why the fuck don't we have it on other planes? Alien technology?

I'm curious what others think about DCS, or at least Eagle Dynamics will collapse in the next few years, considering how poor their reputation is at this time, and Nick Grey being in a considerable amount of debt.

Might sim today
Some fighter bomber action maybe...
Not sure if I can be arsed playing 1946 rn, love the game dearly but I'm sick of the key binds changing on sheer whims...

>>537788694
gross

>>537788561
two more weeks

>>537788694
>Timothy James Byrne on /simg/
Unexpected

>>537788694
Yankauer? I hardly knew her!

>>537792456
Playing Combat Box and watching the tennis on SkyGo ...

GO AWAY

>>537788561
there's a war on and their "swiss" military contractor arm makes a decent drone sim, ED will limp along indefinitely on their infinite money printer glitch until nick grey gets bored or dies and sells to someone more capable.
it might also just be beyond saving regardless, there's a nonzero chance it's been captured by oligarchs / the mob / fsb as a fat little western cash cow.

That's got to be my first surface-to-air kill in an aircraft

>>537796989
Many such cases

I have seen some shit tonight

wtf did I do wrong

>>537803273
Did you set the bombsight up properly?

>>537803273
were you using the right airspeed? IAS or TAS? That's the only thing that comes to mind anyway

SNIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>537805397
pungent fenestron my dear

>>537805397
Are there any propeller planes in NO?

>>537807931
cricket.

???

>>537812274
Having a physical HSI would be so nice

>>537812274
i feel bad for all the niggas who spend fuck ton of money for a strike eagle cockpit just for ed to jew out razbam out of business

>>537813146
Are all Raz modules gonna be irretrievably dead now? I like the Mirage 2k

>>537813586
apparently for now theyre on life support by ED but by the time 3.0 comes out (lmao) the support will be over or something like that. for now they were all pulled from the store

>>537813695
But can people who have already bought them continue to use them?

>>537814229
Yes, but with each update they will get broken and more broken.

>>537814780
Sounds kind of based if in a few years the plane just BSODs your PC

>>537803273
i looks like you dropped the bombs too early

>>537814229
if they do a repeat of the VEAO situation (Hint: this is not the first time something like this happened), at some point they will drop support for the razbam modules, on the next update they will be removed from your installation, and they will offer an option to either roll back your DCS version to the last one that supported them, or have a 2nd full installation in which they will function.
so basically you can get fucked

>>537785947 (OP)
GIMME THE FUCKING UPDATE ALREADY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>537814229
>>537816871

>>537816538
I pickled exactly as the crosshair passed over it

>>537817526
clearly that was too early

>>537819887
this era and livery makes my pp hard

>>537817526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDOSnC9aCs

Let's see if I'm better with the manual sight

Yes, yes I am!

>>537821554
tfw using grease pencil sights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWnmM6L6lqM
Takes me back to when I first started in DCS with the F-5, good memories
It's not the same now that it's not a new thing anymore :(

NO patch ... Never ...

Roadcraft hard mode drops tomorrow. Truck routes erode, your cars need refueling, and expeditions gearbox. Also includes easy mode with sand refilling anywhere and all cars being unlocked and free.

I don't care that I have this on pre-order, I'm still going to post this.

>>537841675
watching people agonize over saving 8 bucks on a preorder has been an interesting dramatic presentation

shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit

anybody else getting good at guessing the captcha without having to slide it?

'morning /simg/

>>537841675
What is the point of preordering something that will stay in early access for the next 6-7 years?

How the fuck am I supposed to go STT in the F18 when the radar lock goes GOSTT? if I try to follow the manual it doesn't do shit

air-trucking with Gunther

>>537841363
I will now play the game (for real).

>PMDG’s 737-800 is almost ready for MSFS 2024
>Cockpit windows and doors will finally be operable, alongside “other goodies” that PMDG plans to highlight in upcoming preview sessions.
https://msfsaddons.com/2025/09/04/pmdgs-737-800-is-almost-ready-for-msfs-2024/

>>537817674
They should have made the DC-9 a 6 engine monster

>>537867664
Fuck I love the king air

>>537873507
you can't, the f-18 is bugged as hell. even with the training missions, "lock a target with TDC depress!" yet the only way to lock a target is with the cage uncage button

>>537854003
I mean I find that 95% of the time the hidden letter is V, W or J, so yeah

>>537871719
saving eight dollars on something you know you'll buy anyway

>>537897051
I rarely see anyone post about dcs or msfs on other boards, it'll be war thunder if anything

flight simmers complain about nickel and diming devs a lot but trainsimmers are really the ones taking it over a barrel

>>537904532
it's funny its so long it won't even show you a total price

>>537905801
>Community estimates place full retail cost at somewhere between US $15,000–20,000 (approx. £12,000–15,000)

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaoQYUqcBQ

>>537907116
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Mi4QCx-u8

>>537907116
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcXvqiho4w

>>537907116
https://youtu.be/ZxGt9JNHNOY?si=-oxhV3Mzavdbn8yk

>>537909968
*teleports behind you*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZPPCLQaTc

>>537897334
Seen a bunch of NO posts on /v/ recently though

>>537912909
I'm glad Nuclear Option keeps getting traction, it's a great game.

>>537915316
The ATP pods are aesthetic but the AGM48s have terrain following, which do I take

>>537915671
Love me some 48s.
Then again don't they cost more ?
It all depends on the money you have.

>>537925452
r8 the x plane sf (sneed and feed).260 out of 10

>>537926460
All around, probably a 9/10.

>>537928136
noice

>>537930069
Right now the civilian D version with the GPS toggled off is the one I like flying the most.
I still don't understand the fuel tank logic of the "military version" which makes balancing weight hard.
The G-1000 cockpit is just not for me.

>>537934474
The G1000 feels out of place to me on some planes. I like the Hawk Arrow for example but it would be better with gauges rather than a G3X shoved in the panel.

>>537935104
yeah, it's also hard to read if you set your FOV too large.

>>537935706
I agree, fortunately you can just lean in with trackir

>>537915671
>forget that ATP don't have terrain following
>send my whole load in the side of a mountain
fugggggggg
Also honestly i'm not sure why i should bother with those outside of autism.

>>537935104
get with the times, grandpa

aiueo

>>537945614
This is not ok

I'm in the bath rn doing farts lol
Tickles when the bubbles go past my balls lol.

filtered lmao

It's time

I am turning off the magic map

no way

>>537978123
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H U M P I N G
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>>537979514
You can't stop me. Nobody can.

>>537897334
That's because the world is chock full of retards. Haven't you noticed? Don't even try to imagine all the people who are still playing Halo.

>>537979352
>AI humping
Roasties on suicide watch

>>537980653
muahahahahhaha

>>537989529
Do you ever into mutiplayer?

>>537989681
ye

Weird how there isn't a racing general. Hopefully one of you anons here might have some overlap with my inquiry. By any chance in hell is there a good NASCAR game out there? Sim or not, the closest I've played to what I assume would count as a sim would be some old ps2 Grand Turismos 3 and 4.

Bump

>>537991169
>>>28597005
Praise Dale.

>>537945614
Make me

>>537991169
There is, on /o/, but you can talk about them here too. I think
>>>/o/28597005
iracing is what people play who are into nascar, there is a nascar heat series but I think it's a bit of a simcade game.

>>538005802
Kick ass, thanks anon.

SU4 beta for MSFS 2024 will be starting soon apparently. There were quite a few plane updates missing from 3 so they might be in the next sim update.

>>537991169
nascar thunder 2003

>>537867664
The nightmare begins again.

>>537991169
Forza Motorsport is kill and I don't want to buy a Playstation.

I can't go to the 65th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori tomorrow. Fml

>>538023383
Out of all the things not to make it to, that would have been the most important for you. Can you at least go somewhere you can see them fly over?

>>538023597
Sadly no, it's a 4.h drive from where I live and I just got plopped 2 "quests" that I can't ignore. I hope I'll be able to attend for the 70th anniversary.

New MB-339PAN liveries.
There is a bigger use of white, probably to give a sense of continuity with the M-346 Pininfarina livery that wasn't really well received.

>>538024248
>always too hot
>no shade
>infinite crowds of stupid people
>performative patriotism
>overpriced food
>unclean portapotties
>lines for everything
>screaming children everywhere
>shittiest possible music blasting on loudspeakers
>overcaffeinated announcer who just discovered a thesaurus
air shows are overrated anyway

>>538036841
Though I agree, it depends where you go, the ones I've been to have been large enough that you can avoid the big crowds.

>Weather finally cooled off
Oh yeah, it's time to sim.

>>538041169
>25C on Sunday
It's over

>>538043639
Just pick cold places to fly

Midnight Hawks training.
>>538036841
Surprisingly, when I went to past airshow there the food was actually great. And the portapotties were swapped every 4h so they were clean. You just have to remember to bring wet wipes since there aren't any bidets.

>>538044514
>having a shit outside your own home
>having a shit in a public toilet
>having a shit in a portaloo at an airshow
Are you mad?

>>538044739
where eagles dare

>>538045978
frecce monocolore (brown)

>>538044739
You shouldn't be aftaid to poop around. Eat more fiber, both soluble and insoluble and remember to drink.
Poops are a 10 second affair with no need to strain/push and you'll barely dirty your asshole so you're free to poop anywhere.
If you're squeamish about sitting on dirty toilets (as you should) just air squat over them or have some disinfectant wet wipes with you.
Jokes aside I never had any issues with pooping around and about. It's liberating. The one time I clogged the shitter at my school the jannies had to physically remove the log. Thankfully I wasn't caught.
>>538046242
India's aerobatic team

>>538047232
I eat plenty of fibre and take psyllium husk daily, I have a dump immediately after waking up and that's me sorted for the day, or I'll have another one late afternoon, I don't need to have a poo when I'm out because I'm regular.

>>538047539
Same but it's around 10am for me. Shit still happens tho.

>>538038227
my hatred of traffic may in fact exceed my love of aircraft

>>538052347
I did forget about the shitshow at the end, it's best to leave in reasonable time to avoid it but I've definitely got stuck in it before.

>>538052765
>still playing FSX
I kneel

>>538052765
Hell yeah floatplanes.

>>538053174
Oh shit somebody made a working plane out of those cups from the 90s?

>>538053002
>>538053174
>>538053293
I still can't believe nobody made a MC-72 for MSFS

>>538053417
Just checked and someone released one for MSFS 4 days ago, what are the chances, it might be shit though.
https://store.flightsim.to/product/macchi-mc-72

>>538053692
*hand gesticulations intensify*

>>538053692
Neat, but yeah, It doesn't look very polished. If it ends up on the plaza I'll give it a try

>>538053692
>709.2 km/h
>440.68 mph
>382.9 knots
>in 1932
wtf

>>538055348
Hello is this the 3:15 to Margaritaville?

>>538056021
absolutely! welcome aboard

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7TBddCMjc
F-35A and B demo for the centenary of the 2° Stormo.

>>538059159
Nice.

>>538060863
That was done irl wasn't it?

>>538065492
The only way off would be to fall off the platform and stabilize with gravity induced airspeed. Risky at best and probably extremely illegal but then again that's fucking Dubai isn't it anything goes

>>538060863
>Operation: Taste of their own medicine

>>538066575
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-brmk1ua1g

>>538066620
topkek

>>538065492
It was. Red Bull Bullseye. MS made a DLC for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-brmk1ua1g

>>538043639
>30c on Sunday
Its fucking over

Man i hope this winter will be good. Fuck this climatic change bullshit. I didn't sign up for this hell.

>>538069204
Haven't had snow in the past 10 years

>>538069643
We've had a couple of days here and there, but nothing like when i was a kid. I'm so fucking sad, i fucking love snow.

So, I just got Cold Waters.
After the training missions I started the easy campaign and got btfo at my very first engagement.
I think this is going to be pretty cool.
Anybody else playing? Any protips for newbies, such as not-well-explained concepts and such?

Last winter I was pulling off snow by the frozen freezing rain slab full.

>>538059159
But how do you get off there again?

>>538073031
Seconded, for some reason I haven't been able to get into it. I have hundreds of hours in Highfleet and Silent Hunter 5 yet somehow Cold waters hasn't really clicked with me but I'm long past the refund window so I want to make it work.

>>538073031
Try to avoid being a full speed on the campaign map when you start engagements, ideally you want to wait in the path of the enemy and ambush them, but being at half speed isn't the end of the world. Starting the encounter at 5kts vs 20kts makes a big difference on how detectable you are right off the bat. In any case remember to specifically order silent running as soon as the encounter starts.

I like to fire at targets quite early and dogleg the torpedo rather than firing directly at them. That way any counter fire will be in the direction your torpedo is approaching them from rather than at you. Making significant depth changes after launching is another good way to avoid counter fire.
If you need to shoot but think it's likely you'll get detected when you do, pre-emptively fire off a MOSS in a direction away from both you and the torpedoes you launched. The enemies will likely concentrate on that giving you a chance to make your escape. Don't wait until you know you've been detected to launch one as by then it's already too late, a MOSS is much better at preventing you from getting shot at in the first place rather than trying to decoy off hostile vessels and torpedoes that have already found you. In general if you get detected by an enemy torpedo and have to actively try to evade it you've already fucked up big time.
Another thing that's not immediately obvious with torpedoes is that once they go active they are faster, but are also much louder and the runtime is reduced.

I can't remember which campaign is considered the easy one but I actually found the SCS 2000 campaign to be more forgiving when starting out despite the game describing it as hard. You get access to quieter boats with better sensors while most chinese ships are significantly less threatening than the 1984 soviet stuff. Most of the difficulty comes from the number of escort groups you need to dodge and having to operate in shallow waters more often.

>object that gets damaged with impact and rough driving
>on havok physics engine
Truly hard mode

>>538060863
took 650 practice attempts irl

>>538087891
Thanks for the hints. It was the 1984 american campaign, as it was described as "Normal" whereas the other two were "Hard". So, fugg :-DDDD

Also, since the manual does an absolute shit job of explaining the campaign map - do I really have to manually move my sub across the map? Can I not plot a course like I can on the tactical map?
Also, what is up with the missions? My very first assignment was to intercept some tankers in the Barents Sea, and starting from Scotland I couldn't even reach that shit in time. Should I just go and fight everything in my way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4q5Sow8Ro
65th anniversary FT livestream.

>>538073031
Cold Waters is great, remember that your own torpedoes are just as deadly as enemy ones. Also remember that the wire will snap if you go too fast or turn away too much. Just keep playing and see what works and what doesn't. From my experience I either do well or I get completely raped, depth charges are terrifying.

>>538097410
It might just need to be restrained more or placed at a certain angle into the truck

>>538121224
Midnight Hawks is a cringey name ngl

>>538121224
Which are better? Frecce Tricolori, Red Arrows or the Patrouille de France?

>>538120010
>do I really have to manually move my sub across the map
Yes, you'll get used to it pretty quickly but it never really bothered me that much as you don't spend too long on the campaign map anyway.
>I couldn't even reach that shit in time.
The missions you get should be fairly generous time wise so you might have just been unlucky. The campaign map does advance while you're in port swapping weapons so maybe you spent too long doing that?
>Should I just go and fight everything in my way
I prefer to avoid them if I can because they just waste time and ammo but fighting them isn't a huge issue. At least try to avoid the path of patrol aircraft as if they detect you every nearby escort group will make a beeline for you.

>>538126524
Red Arrows
t. not biased

>>538019260
Ju-52 is such a comfy plane.

>>538066620
>>538067383
>crazy bastard turns takeoff into a loop
ok that was a lot cooler than I had even thought it would be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2eybplmK4
ROV stream is on and they're at 2340 metres

>>538123231
It's no use, being near them is enough for them to break. The sparking and puffing in the webm is when they suffer damage. I'm guessing the object isn't updated but instead switched for a damaged version on the fly, which is why it disconnected suddenly and also why damage disengages the straps on a cargo bed (not pictured).
Even loading a save causes props to jiggle around and bump when the physics are activated, I couldn't leave the game until getting this task done

>>538121224
The turkish stars performance was great

>>538144352
>Even loading a save causes props to jiggle around and bump when the physics are activated
I've seen that in multiple games, it's obviously a downside to physics engines.
>load in my nuclear submarine in stormworks
>the loading causes the torpedoes to spaz out and explode, killing me and destroying the front of the sub
Are they not being damaged from that initial drop? Can't you release them lower?

>>538144610
It got damaged mid air because it hit a water molecule or an air rod, I was trying to get it close with the rope and then use the smoother hydraulic motion for the last bit but it just did that and untied itself

>>538073031
Cold Waters is amazingly fun. Once you get into a rhythm you will start doing really well. Sometimes your torpedoes need a little help, so if they're missing, try to guide them until they start tracking. You'll know you're doing well when your enemy starts crapping noisemakers. For surface vessels, your priority is to strike sub hunters. What you can do is fire a MOSS in one direction, then launch torps/missiles and go quiet and deep. Let them chase the MOSS and meanwhile you can take another shot at them. You can also hide directly under the enemy surface ships.

Watch out for helos, especially the ones with dipping sonar.

Oh, and one other tactic about Cold Waters: if you're hunting a sub and you have an underwater contact, don't wait to identify it. Fire immediately. Every second they spend trying to dodge your shot, whatever they are, is a second they can't spend shooting at you.

>>538121224
m346 on now

>>538147390
Before you get the indication of where to target?

Just started the 1984 campaign again, because I'm a stubborn retard.
First assignment was to intercept some wolfpack. Had them intercept me.
Turns out it was just a single sub.
Took it out without it ever being able to see me, I think.
Don't quite understand the mechanics about "active weapons nearby" or whatever it is called. It was my own torpedo that was still loitering, so I actually had to move away to be able to leave.
Next was to find some warships.
Seeminly undetected I sent off a MOSS and a bunch of torpedos and missiles towards the two ships I could identify as such. There was a third one that was a merchant ship.
Soon the decoy was swarmed with torpedos (I assume dropped by something), but I was still too close so one of them actually managed to get on my ass.
Dove down, managed to escape it TWICE - one time it passed the tower literally less than a yard away - but eventually it came back and hit me in the ass. Then the next hit me while I was panicking.

Baby steps.

>>538121224
frecce on now

>>538157035
>commentator going 'asdhasdjasfadsgfsdg'
Italian is a fast language

>>538158954
for you

>>538159283
Explain this

>>538158954
I've got that complaint as well when dealing with foreigns.
>>538159495
ayy lmaos are repeated guests of our air shows.

>>538170806
Based

What does M346fag think about the Fiat G91

>>538173178
It's cool looking, especially in the PAN version, but I never bothered reading much about it. Boomers are all convinced it was way better as a FT plane than the MB-339, Personally I disagree.
On the combat side IIRC (from a comment under a video) its biggest drawback was trying to meet 1:1 the absurd NMBR-1 requirement of a max empty weight of 6800 lbs which meant no room to grow with MLU etc.
Which was a fatal flaw, Especially when we consider that at the time jets became obsolete in a matter of 5-6 years.
>>538174031
Nice colors, where are you flying?

>>538174764
Nicaragua, live weather

>>538174870
sweet.

Lot of /v/ wants to fuck Hornet's now for some reason?

>>538179512
That hornet has a down syndrome

what do high-end peripherals do that my $175 full CH set doesn't?

>>538181951
For GA nothing much. For military planes it night and day

>>538183092
Yeah, you can fly GA with an xbox controller

>>538183092
comfortably flying DCS helos with the fighterstick.
anywhere from $600 for a full VKB replacement to $3500 for full-FFB.
not exactly a poorfag, put hundreds of hours into this hobby, but still feels fucking goofy to drop that much if the $60 joystick gets you 80% of the way there

>>538184339
Banger, also another relevant 80s song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w1Qo1awwI4

>>538185198
when you said full ch set I tought he GA one with the yoke. if you already have a stick and throttle then you're most likely good to go.

>>538185445
nice. modern music is slop

>>538185541
the hard axis transition is kinda shit, makes precision maneuvers a bit more challenging than it feels like they should be.
pedals are too close together (non-pro are better for helicopters but trash for everything else), throttle is weightless, and all the pots in everything are ancient tech.
glass-reinforced nylon or abs or whatever it is feels good in the hand and will undoubtably outlive me, but it's still all fully plastic and feels kind of cheap.
finally seems like the hardware is the limit and not my level of skill any more, though. probably going to spend the next 12-18 months talking myself into just whole-hogging FFB.

>>538184339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0aww_EzOCk

>>538181951
bragging rights, an air of superiority, and a sense of emptiness as you find out the guy who shot you down uses a 3d pro

>>538181951
feel solid in your hands, maybe push against your hands if they're FFB (giving you information without sight or sound), having smooth mechanisms and precise springs for precision placement, having replica switch positions and operation allowing you to merely copy the aircraft bindings onto your hardware (without having to come up with creative solutions to make things work), because they are one in the same, or otherwise giving you enough controls to comfortably bind everything you need.

>>538200185
FFB is the real draw for a "better than good enough" upgrade, but is it really 20x as good as the cheapshit version that gets the job done?