DCS Discussion

[Jarhead0331]

Marianas map is a surprise. Wasn't too excited over the news initially, but hey...its free!

Very excited about the Hind and F-15E. I really hope those come out this year. Also looking forward to the Kiowa and the upgrade to the KA-50 and A-10C. Was surprised there was no mention of the Super Carrier module in the newsletter. I am REALLY excited about that one. Hopefully, it is really close to release.

Regardless, lots of good stuff to look forward to this year.

[Skoop]

I had a feeling about a pacific setting when I saw youtube footage of DCS Corsair, but the Marianas map is modern so go figure.  Maybe it will have a feature that changes the buildings to WWII or it can be done by modders.

Lots of good stuff to fly coming up though. 

You could make an Afghanistan setting for the Hind by just finding some back corner mountain spot on the Persian gulf map and place the units to support a Soviet Afgan war theme.

[Toonces]

Any word on a dynamic campaign?  I thought I read that was in the works a few months ago on SimHQ.

[JasonPratt]

I'm trying to figure out why Marianas would be a modern theme, and I'm coming up blank. ....um, like Red Dog exercises or whatever they're called? Supercarrier vs Supercarrier?  ???

DCS was notorious for starting with a lot of Nevada test flight / test fight entries after all.

[Staggerwing]

Considering DCS is a Russian product and the Pacific region is of interest to Bejing's deep-time game plan, maybe the Marianas ad-on is actually another component of an Ender's Game-style recruitment tool for the coming SinoCoporateCommunist/NeoTsarist alliance's world domination initiative. All good clean fun.  ;)

[Jarhead0331]

THere is also a chinese asset pack in the works...

[Skoop]

^ That makes sense, a modern pacific setting with US vs China Conflict.  New assets pack and the JF17.

[Redwolf]

DCS 2020 road map news.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsletter03012020-851b43a35367471cdaea724efa55d2a4.html

When they say "cooperative multiplayer", does that mean 2 people in the same helo, aka one pilot and one weapons officer, both being separate players?

[Skoop]

It certainly seems to read like that.  Cooperative MP must be what DCS is calling multi crewed cockpits.

[mikeck]

DCS 2020 road map news.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsletter03012020-851b43a35367471cdaea724efa55d2a4.html

When they say "cooperative multiplayer", does that mean 2 people in the same helo, aka one pilot and one weapons officer, both being separate players?

Not sure. apparently the F-15e will not have the "Jester" style AI system for single player. I guess technically, the pilot on of an F-15e can do everything from the front seat if he needs to. So, they don't HAVE to set up coop to work the plane. Maybe it will allow a backseat guy in MP if you want...but you can fly it alone if you are SP or MP

[Skoop]

^ I saw dcs youtubers talking about that very issue with the F15e.  I'll have to wait and see with that module.  When I fly the F14, I prefer riding the back seat because I can interrogate and lock targets so much faster than jester, to be frank, I'd rather have a better Maverick AI so I can stay in the back seat the whole time.  It's cumbersome to flip from seat to seat in the F14, it might be a godsend to do it the way razbam is.  There's a mod that adds the RIO capabilities to the pilot, but it's not MP compatible as you'll fail integrity check.  You also can't seat swap in MP so F14 drivers are stuck with jester or need a human to get the best out of the RIO position.

[hellfish6]

So I've got a dumb question. I recently started flying DCS again, as I want to master the Su-25T. I seem to spend 90% of my time in the cockpit constantly adjusting my trim. As soon as I get it level and straight, it starts veering again after about 10 seconds. It's not fun. Am I doing something wrong? Or, rather, what am I doing wrong?

[Destraex]

Do you have any other controllers like an xbox controller or rudder pedals etc that might be interferring or cross assigned? A mate of mine found his xbox controller was causing this yesterday.

[Yskonyn]

So I've got a dumb question. I recently started flying DCS again, as I want to master the Su-25T. I seem to spend 90% of my time in the cockpit constantly adjusting my trim. As soon as I get it level and straight, it starts veering again after about 10 seconds. It's not fun. Am I doing something wrong? Or, rather, what am I doing wrong?

Trim is about setting a new 0-point of balance, so to speak.
In simple terms, due to aerodynamic reasons, an aircraft is trimmed for speed. Let's say you fly straight and level at a constant 250 kts indicated airspeed and managed to trim the aircraft out nicely.
Now when you descend your speed will likely increase if you don't pull back on the throttle. However, the trim is set for 250 kts and will result in the aircraft pitching up to increase drag and return speed back to 250 kts.
Conversely, if you climb without adding power, you speed will decrease, resulting the aircraft to pitch down to gain speed back again to 250 kts.

So every pitch and power adjustment requires a trim change, but it's a bad habit to 'steer with trim' . You should trim the aircraft for 'hands off' situations like straight and level flight or perhaps a long cruise climb or descend, but never while maneuvering.

[hellfish6]

So I've got a dumb question. I recently started flying DCS again, as I want to master the Su-25T. I seem to spend 90% of my time in the cockpit constantly adjusting my trim. As soon as I get it level and straight, it starts veering again after about 10 seconds. It's not fun. Am I doing something wrong? Or, rather, what am I doing wrong?

Trim is about setting a new 0-point of balance, so to speak.
In simple terms, due to aerodynamic reasons, an aircraft is trimmed for speed. Let's say you fly straight and level at a constant 250 kts indicated airspeed and managed to trim the aircraft out nicely.
Now when you descend your speed will likely increase if you don't pull back on the throttle. However, the trim is set for 250 kts and will result in the aircraft pitching up to increase drag and return speed back to 250 kts.
Conversely, if you climb without adding power, you speed will decrease, resulting the aircraft to pitch down to gain speed back again to 250 kts.

So every pitch and power adjustment requires a trim change, but it's a bad habit to 'steer with trim' . You should trim the aircraft for 'hands off' situations like straight and level flight or perhaps a long cruise climb or descend, but never while agressively maneuvering.

So you're telling me that it's not something I can just turn off?  ;)