Didn’t found dedicated thread for BMS 4.38 screenshots, and since it’s rather pretty lets start one.
Here are some of my shots I took recently.
Didn’t found dedicated thread for BMS 4.38 screenshots, and since it’s rather pretty lets start one.
Here are some of my shots I took recently.
Great shots!
I have moved this to the screens and AAR category.
how the other flyable planes look like in 4.38 ? tia
Externally they look great. Inside they have varying degrees of quality. The F-16 and F-15 are as good as DCS.
I hope that some of the original dev team can see those or similar. What pride they must have that their work lives on with such a passionate following.
without pics I just cant believe you
I was trying out the Balkans 16K and it reminded me somewhat of when we used to make our X-Plane tiles from sat images. Not a bad thing.
This sim is really growing on me.
Some more shots, this time from a BARCAP mission in the Balkans - Flying Block 42 without IFF Interrogator, no Link 16 and no AWACS(!). Have to rely mostly on VID and trying to STT targets and monitoring Tactical frequency for “Buddy Spike” calls…
On the way to my CAP station
On station
I noticed a Hind flying low in my patrol area, I locked him up but reveived no buddy spike call, but I’m not sure if all friendly / neutrals will respond in this way, so I made few close passes to look for markings
I wasn’t sure so I let them be, they didn’t tried to enagge me
Finally some Fishbeds showed up, both were smoked
I splashed two additional Fulcrums, and my wingman downed at least 4 J-22s, at this point I was out of missiles and just followed him while he was performing his attack with AMRAAMs properly using cranking - I was impressed!
Winchester and bingo fuel I decided it was time to RTB. Engaged by SAMs on my way back, in the end I was shot down after dodging at least 3 SAMs…
Also here’s a video of a full lenght mission as a SEAD Escort for a strike on enemy airbase - the package consisted of 5 flights, it was really crowded in the air. It’s mind blowing that this was already possible in vanilla Falcon 4 back in 1998.
The old girl looks amazing! Great screenshots and video!
The Balkans 4k version crash consistently for me. So, as much as I love the map, I can’t touch it with my current rig. Terrific ARR and shots @damson!
Have you installed the Hotfix 1 for Balkans?
I didn’t tried this map without the hotfix so can’t confirm if it’s crashing without it, but I already have flown several misisons in the Balkans without any crashes.
hotfix 1 changelog
If I downloaded the Balkans 2 days ago, do I still need the hotfix? It seemed to run fine on my system. Thx.
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to update. There is a potential CTD idetified (marked bold in my post) that got fixed, so I would recommend installing this hotfix.
Thanks. Later I noticed that my installed version downloaded from the same page, had the hotfix linked below it, without reference to it being added to the current build, 1.08.0. So, I ran the hotfix.
Hey I know that place.
Since I usually fly in VR, it’s nice to grab some beauty shots in 2D every now and then. Best viewed while listening to this with headphones.
Give it up for the home team!
Falcon BMS intensity builds.
Edit: I swapped a few of these out last night, to better show Aviano airbase in the Balkans theater last night.
Over the past few days I’ve been griding through one single night of a KTO campaign. I should say that I have been playing Falcon nearly half my long life and like to consider myself pretty good with it. Not lately though. My decision making has been on the stupid side since the start of this campaign. I blame the utter awe I hold for the update. Anyway, I needed a win. A strike on a radar facility came up on the ATO that seemed fun and easy. The strike team was a 4-ship with two GBU-10 LGBs each. The escort was 2 F16s. Enemy air had been a bit dense earlier in the night so I opted to make my 2nd element strictly anti-air since there were only 3 targets at the site worth killing. This was my 7th night mission so you can imagine my joy at seeing the first rays of sun shine on the now-beautifully-rendered Korean hills bellow.
Clearly, good screenshots are not my thing. And as I’ve had a few game crashes recently I am reluctant to pause and take external shots. I know that makes no sense but that’s me. Once I am invested in a mission I’ll avoid anything to, no matter how irrational the threat, FUBAR it. The target was deep. The one “Very High” valued element was the radar itself, followed by several service buildings. I assigned the other stuff to my wingman and kept the radar from myself. From 30 miles the target was clearly visible on the TGP. I was coding 1511 and my wingman was using 1512. She asked for permission to engage but I held her back. I was too afraid that she would take the radar. I hit it solidly at the base and watched it rain down debris on a 100m circumference. (the debris was very cool–is that new?). We each dropped both our bombs and headed back. We came home in a celebratory mood and so opted for one of my favorite things in the BMS, the overhead break.
The early morning pattern was very busy. I link16’ed an F-15 in the break ahead of us so that I could follow his 2-ship without tailgating. This a great feature of BMS and nicely implemented. Unless you fine-align the HMS often, the linked circles displayed in the helmet are guesses rather than solid hits. Still, better than nothing. I made a smile-inducing squeaker, heavy with missiles, lots of gas and two empty bags still attached.
My regret is that I didn’t screenshot my TGP when it was locked on the “radar site”. Because while we all got an “Excellent” and “significant damage” was inflicted on the target, my report card said this:
FLIGHT EVENTS
Event SmokinHole joined as Plasma71 at 19:14:49
Event DPRK Statute Kim Il Sung destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:03:15
Event DPRK Shrine destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:03:15
Event DPRK Shrine destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:03:15
Event DPRK Flag North Korea destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:03:15
Event DPRK Admin Building destroyed by Plasma72 at 20:03:48
Event DPRK House destroyed by Plasma72 at 20:03:48
Event DPRK Barracks destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:08:28
Event DPRK Radar PRV-17 destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:08:28
Event DPRK Army Tent Small Ucf destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:08:28
Event DPRK Truck OPFOR destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:08:28
Event DPRK Truck OPFOR destroyed by SmokinHole at 20:08:28
Event Plasma72 landed at 20:30:11
Event Plasma73 landed at 20:30:22
Event Plasma74 landed at 20:30:32
Event SmokinHole landed at 20:30:32
Event SmokinHole exited from Plasma71 at 20:33:21
My “radar”, the one that I could “clearly see” from 30 miles out was a statue of the Dear Leader. I mean, yes, I am glad it’s toast. Let his statue join him in hell! But I doubt it posed much of a threat to our warplans. Thank you BMS for grading me on a much needed curve tonight!
PS, upon a closer reading of the report card I see that I did get the radar. That was a lucky accident. The big thing I targeted was the Deal Leader.