Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable

[CptTrips]

Wow.  Very impressed with the Kiowa so far.  I was afraid it would be twitchy like the Gazelle and OH-6. 

This thing is a joy to fly.  Way more control.  Very smooth.  Haven't found any janky edge conditions yet.

I think I have a new favorite ride.

[AKIron]

Oh man. Are they offering the two week trial yet? 70 bucks is 20 bucks too much for me right now.

****I checked, no trial yet.

[Tumor]

Wow.  Very impressed with the Kiowa so far.  I was afraid it would be twitchy like the Gazelle and OH-6. 

This thing is a joy to fly.  Way more control.  Very smooth.  Haven't found any janky edge conditions yet.

I think I have a new favorite ride.

Getting ready to go for a Fam flight.  I wasn't too worried about the FM (regarding the Gazelle) as Polychop took a ~lot~ of flak for that... and hey, it only took them like 7 years to sort of fix it.   Watched a Vid quite some time ago questioning how or why ED ever allowed the Gaz through the QC filters.  Because, it was complete & total nonsense.  That being said, it was always super fun to sneak around 3ft off the ground shooting GVs with those.... HOT(?) missiles.  Been awhile.

[CptTrips]

Oh man. Are they offering the two week trial yet? 70 bucks is 20 bucks too much for me right now.

****I checked, no trial yet.

Someone told me they don't do the trials until it's been out a while. 

[CptTrips]

Getting ready to go for a Fam flight.  I wasn't too worried about the FM (regarding the Gazelle) as Polychop took a ~lot~ of flak for that... and hey, it only took them like 7 years to sort of fix it.   Watched a Vid quite some time ago questioning how or why ED ever allowed the Gaz through the QC filters.  Because, it was complete & total nonsense.  That being said, it was always super fun to sneak around 3ft off the ground shooting GVs with those.... HOT(?) missiles.  Been awhile.

Just FYI, it is totally a mater of personal taste,  lately on helo I have been preferring adjusting saturation rather than adding a curve.  I currently have all my axis at 80% Y saturation and no curve.  I prefer the predictable linear response.  Throttle is occasionally an exception if I truly need to go down to full zero for some technical reason. 

[Tumor]

Just FYI, it is totally a mater of personal taste,  lately on helo I have been preferring adjusting saturation rather than adding a curve.  I currently have all my axis at 80% Y saturation and no curve.  I prefer the predictable linear response.  Throttle is occasionally an exception if I truly need to go down to full zero for some technical reason.

I use both.

[AKIron]

I'll buy the Kiowa for sure when I can get it on sale for 50 bucks. The Chinook I'm not as interested in.

Sell me an AC-130 today.

[RichardDarkwood]

I'll even help your game out and start a gofundme page, that will draw lots of attention to the poor problem.

Tell Nick Gray to give me a call, I can teach him how to do math.

I think it's kewl HT builds his own stuff. Saves on problems DCS is having because they subcontract main models.

So what, it will take DCS another 20 years to catch up with HT's model count? What do ya have like 40 planes? Hmmm 40 x (say) $60, that's $2,400 for 1/3 the planeset.....awesome. Much cheaper than $15 per month?

you can fit all the aces high planes tanks terrains everythang in the one of the MSD screens on the F-18.

HT don't write code like this.

[CptTrips]

HT don't write code like this.

To be fair, I think he wrote a better server.

Tell me you wouldn't like DCS clients running on a HTC MMO-level server with 300 players.

[AKIron]

Having enjoyed Aces High for years, like you, I agree that the AH client/server does what it does very well. Neither IL2 nor DCS World were designed as a large scale multiplayer environment though. While IL2 is close to Aces High in functionality, DCS isn't. I think DCS could scale as written but for hundreds in the same "arena" I think it would require increased horsepower client side and increased bandwidth to/from the server.

[AKIron]

I stepped up my game, my F-4E vs two Ace level Mig-21s. AIM-9Ms for me, R-3Rs for them. I managed to spoof all their missiles and they spoofed mine. Their guns keep winning the day. Video when I beat them both. 

[Tumor]

I stepped up my game, my F-4E vs two Ace level Mig-21s. AIM-9Ms for me, R-3Rs for them. I managed to spoof all their missiles and they spoofed mine. Their guns keep winning the day. Video when I beat them both.

Can't wait to hear how it goes with Sparrows.

[AKIron]

I've given up on sparrows, for now. They are unreliable and not worth the trouble. Unless I'm going after bombers, then they would be worth the effort.

[AKIron]

I did just hit a rolling T-55 from 15,000 ft with a 500lb LGB. Hornet with an ATFLIR, not a Phantom.

[RichardDarkwood]

I've given up on sparrows, for now. They are unreliable and not worth the trouble. Unless I'm going after bombers, then they would be worth the effort.

You must cage them and use boresight