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No - thoroughly scared of it after trying both the A10C and the Harrier on the last free-fly days and failing to to complete the switching on training for either - so I opted for the brave-sir-robin approach.
Despite my trevails I am enjoying flying the planes, but it's just rather painful at times - I spent 30+ minutes today setting up HOTAS bindings, VoiceAttack mappings and tuning the OpenTrack response curves, all just for the F/a-18, and then shut the game down - I routinely have to remind myself that it's very early days.
Then I looked at the Cougar MFDs before firmly reminding myself that ' it's very early days'.
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And you have to bind all the controls for every aircraft AND DCS allocates lots of duplicate bindings for all controllers.
Yes - I discovered the duplicate binding issue the hard way... my early take-off attempts with the F/a-18 were 'sub-optimal' and involved large explosions and many fire trucks...
DCS is amazing, but setting up controls is a complete PITA... That UI to set keybinds feels very dated and could use a complete facelift. Setting up HOTAS controls in X-Plane 11 is a breeze, in IL-2 Sturmovik is also much easier than in DCS. DCS hotas configuration is such a pain, that I've been putting off playing it again since I changed HOTAS because I dread setting up the binds again.
New map, actually quite large Syria terrain ready for pre order, looks really awesome:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQYegKG3hM
Syria is a great looking map and I'd like to pre order but.......it's made by the same company that did the Normandy map. Apparently Normandy has/had a bunch of performance issues. I think it's had a recent update though. I don't have the Normandy map so I'm just going by what I've read on the DCS forum. I feel like Syria might be a see how it does and wait for a sale situation.
Indeed, Normandy had major performance issues, all gone now fortunately. I`m not keen on buying more aircrafts from third parties right now but I will jump in to Syria as soon as it released. Will let you know how it performs.
From latest newsletter:
22 years after Falcon 4.0, we might see it appear in DCS.
Yeah it took them some time hihi, at least it will be free for everybody, not a payed module!
Oh, even better. Didn't see any details, I just assumed they'd charge for it. That's going to make the free base game with the Su-25T a hell of an offer. Those SEAD missions will make the free plane incredibly relevant if the campaign system works well.
Aye, it should be communicated more clearly in the announcement but Matt Wgner from Eagle Dynamics confirmed on Facebook that dynamic campaign will be free.
Wut? Dynamic campaign?From latest newsletter:
22 years after Falcon 4.0, we might see it appear in DCS.
I know, I had to google up Star Citizen and Winds of Winter and verify that neither was released to make sure I wasn't dreaming!
That is great news. I made half-arsed campaigns on the caucasus map with drunk pilots driving their cars about to the general alert, Harrier makeshift airstrips getting shelled by insurgent mortar ambush, coup d'etat in 80ies Soviet Russia and Mig21 pilot was the only one able to counter it.
Worst problem alsway was that I knew exactly where I had placed everything and nothing was variable. Looking forward to some dynamic campaigning.
Worst problem alsway was that I knew exactly where I had placed everything and nothing was variable. Looking forward to some dynamic campaigning.
They got me with the "last day of 30% off preorder". I've not spent too much time with it (FS2020) but what I saw of Beirut and Tripoli it looks like a very nice map. Both cities looked very detailed and very well done.
Didn't see that, that might have tipped me over. But then, that was probably on their site, I pick up DCS stuff on Steam here, only saw Syria pop in today. They fixed their paranoid key system too, apparently we're back to the original deal: the Steam modules can again be all activated on the standalone should I ever want to.
As promised just stopping by to say that I bought the Syria map and in comparison to (on release) Normandy/Channel map the performance is much much better with same settings.