Not from ED, but this is a game changer for mission making.
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OMFG Finally managed to try DCS with the new PC and the Pico4.
An entirely different experience.
Do need to tweak some settings but couldn’t be happier. Incredibly easy too.
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And Very Well Deserved my Friend…Congratulations!!
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Nice! What were the specs of that machine again?
My dad flew the Mirage F1 in VR on my setup when he was over here yesterday and he is sold on both.
He’s on an i5-12400F + 16GB RAM + RX 9600 16GB now.
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Since these haven’t been posted, Grinnelli is impressing me.
And, something else will probably come in 2 days time aka Super Sabre Saturdays.
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I’m really looking forward to the F-100. This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy center located at the Washington Dulles airport.
The F-100D was one of the highlights..
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This either makes more work for me or removes a little. Not sure yet but their UI is getting more useful, at least for some platforms.
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Thing is, you can re-use the data packages, so if you have more missions in the same AO, you dont need to rebuild it every mish. I love it.
That corridor thing is how the Serbs managed to bag a 117 tho..
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By ‘exporting’ it, right? As in: Save it, then export it. Load it on next mission if desired.
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DTC Thoughts
Thinking out loud here in the context of my system that does a lot for you already…
Seems the Mission Editor is expanding on the Planning part. I’ve tried to think of why I would (with my system) try to mess with the DTC ‘flow’. I can load/edit/save them (the mechanics are there) but I see issues with that…
As I watch the above video and learn about DTC it seems this - managing your DTC cartridges - is somewhat of a personal thing? You, the player, decides on what you put into the DTC - the one exception: don’t mess with the radios (don’t upload them).
And I can’t think of why you would do that since the frequencies have already been decided: from AWACS, ABCC, CDC, your BFM dance partner, to grunts on the ground - they have their freq’s, you just plug them in. But I’ve already done that for you.
What I dont see is a button that says, “put into the DTC the freq’s already in the jet”.I may have missed this. IRL I spose that makes sense. So…
Possible Solution
On the first mission of a given campaign you have to enter in the existing frequencies to a DTC ‘slot’, save it, export it. Then you can use that one as a base for every mission of that campaign going forward.
My only thought is having a campaign default DTC where the only info pre-populated is the COMMS. And I dont plan to change the freq’s on subsequent missions. It could be done but see no reason why, ie; 'Giant Killer" (the military ATC dude over the ‘Med’) will always have the same freq (realistic).
Make sense?
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I guess for your thing the DTC radio freq thing may be redundant. But all the other things, such as the countermeasures programming and those sweet new nav things are very relevant and cool.
I can imagine that once the DTC no longer is a moving target, the campaign designers are going to have a field day with it.
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Yeah that all sounds really cool. They way I see it is:
- I give you a mission with all you need: click about 4 buttons, read stuff, goto DCS and click “Fly”
- On the first mission you can load the Default DTC that contains the COMM1 freq’s
- Edit that DTC to your hearts content, save it, export it
- From every mission after the first you can skip step 2
If you apply a DTC with the ‘upload’ checked for COMMS, and they are not correct, you will have to enter freq’s manually.
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i know everyone is hyped for the Hun , but some good news in the latest newsletter regarding Tomcat . finally the export variant is here
The Heatblur Simulations DCS: F-14 Tomcat marks an important milestone with its departure from Early Access in the upcoming update. The update adds the F-14A Export variant …
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Yes, very happy with that! And unexpected that they even added the customizability of the external model, of which we were always told it was impossible without a costly rework of the entire model!
Great surprises!
Nitpick: It does sound a lot like they attempted to evade the use of the word “Iran”. Very different from Ugra
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Awe dude! We lived for Fawlty Towers back in the day! And that episode stands as a humor landmark in so many ways. Hopefully, it was more healing than traumatic for anyone my mother’s age. Which was the point.
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Fawlty Towers is very popular in Germany as well. Not as popular as Monty Python but that episode in particular is well known.
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Also, no German that I know has an issue with you guys mentioning the war 
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I can attest to that. In a former ‘job’ it was our turn to host an annual multi-national conference that included Germans.
We arranged the ‘meet and greet’ cocktail party the night before the conference started to be held in ANZAC Hall at the Australian War Memorial. There we are, 30-40 people from five nations sipping cocktails and eating canapes standing in the shadow of G for George (Lancaster) with the big screen behind it playing footage of night raids over Germany.
When our Director found out he hit the roof and ordered our boss, a full Colonel, to apologise to the Germans for any offence he had caused.
Their response - ‘We are offended that you think we would be offended. We are aware of our history’.
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Yes, I learned from a very young age to take pride in knowing our history and taking responsibility, first when I was about 8 years old through my grandparents when we visited their former home in what is now western Poland (Alt Sarnow - Zarnowo today, a small village north of Stettin) and a little later at school where we had two holocaust survivors visit (not at the same time) and talk about their expierences as well as a visit to Bergen-Belsen. Just thinking back to that visit sends shivers down my spine, it’s unfathomable what cruelty humans are capable of. Unfortunately these days I worry that those lessons are slowly lost to time. The last witnesses are dying and it feels to me like the collective memory is slowly dying with them. There are far too many loudmouths who see this part of our history as a burden that we have to leave behind instead of an important responsibility you can take pride in keeping alive. I have heard many people going on about some guilt that we carry and need to leave behind but I never felt that way.
My grandparents are a huge influence on my view on these things and talking to holocaust survivors further reinforced this worldview that I grew up with. They never blamed us Germans collectively. They openly talked about the horrors, yes, but also about how important it is to forgive. Their most important message was to remember. Keep the memory alive and make sure we do not repeat these mistakes.
The resurgance of fascism, not just in the world but in Germany in particular has me extremely worried and our current Government seems to be hellbent on making sure that the AFD will take massive gains in upcoming elections.
Of course if one took any interest in reading up on our current Chancellor and his inner circle in the CDU it’s no real surprise that they are stuck in the past and flirting with fascists (a lot of these guys have close connections to MAGA republicans in the US and advocate for working with the far right AFD who have actual holocaust denying fascists in high ranking positions within the party 
).
Anyway before I write myself into further rage and go even more off-topic I better stop. Let’s get back to DCS 
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