DCS A-10C is on sale on Steam for £9
The whole DCS catalog is on sale, except Mi-8.
It's a one or two day sale so don't hesitate if you're going to jump in.
Huey is only $10.
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So are these interchangeable? with solo DCS?.. When I first bought Warthog, it was on Steam, then I had to enter it's key into DCS World..
My understanding is that you have to enter the key into DCS. So you can buy it on Steam, but it works in DCS World, is validated through DCS, etc.
It's opposite of how most games work. Instead of buying it somewhere else and "activating" it in Steam, here you buy it in Steam and activate it with DCS.
Damn that's a helluvva lot of savings there!
They could only have pissed me off slightly more if they had put the Mi-8 on sale!
Yep, if you believe DCS is the future, dropping the 63 clams to get an almost total buy-in (except for several of the Flaming Cliffs 3 modules) is not a bad investment.
Combined Arms in particular is fun to goof around with.
Quote from: Tuna on September 09, 2013, 03:34:39 PM
So are these interchangeable? with solo DCS?.. When I first bought Warthog, it was on Steam, then I had to enter it's key into DCS World..
Yes. Now you'll load up DCS World (free) and then add whichever aircraft pack(s) you own. With Steam, I imagine it just adds them like DLC. Which means it'll probably download every single one even if you don't own them, but yeah. Not sure about the Steam version, as I don't have that one.
The regular version, you just download an extra installer pack that additionally installs to your DCS world directory and it's key.
Combined Arms is poorly implemented gimmick.
I was hoping it would be a simplified steel beast but ARMA ground warfare is way better.
I agree, but it's fun to mess around with. If/when it gets fleshed out some, it could really revolutionize electronic battlefield simulation.
I don't know if it will be fleshed out...has so much potential, but I've given up trying to figure out DCS's strategy.
Combined Arms might be really fun for a force on force with fellow Grogheads, though.
Quote from: Toonces on September 09, 2013, 03:17:06 PM
The whole DCS catalog is on sale, except Mi-8.
It's a one or two day sale so don't hesitate if you're going to jump in.
Huey is only $10.
bought most, just a couple hours to go on sale.
anyone not got these watch the dcs world video on steam, its really good, I've paid fortunes out for aircraft of this quality.
Just finished updating my DCS World and modules.
Now after months of not playing, I need to go though the tutorials again.
This is what I hate about DCS.
Quote from: jomni on September 11, 2013, 09:27:08 PM
Just finished updating my DCS World and modules.
Now after months of not playing, I need to go though the tutorials again.
This is what I hate about DCS.
Think I enjoyed
Flaming Cliffs 3 more than the others, just because I could get to "the meat" faster. :D
I did not enjoy FC because I have to memorize keys. A-10C clickable cockpit has less memorization but you still gotta learn where and what to click though.
One of the things that keeps me from staying with the sims is setting it up. For some reason I don't find the key specs very intuitive (the way round they are A+LCTRL) and also - there are so many to setup. Even trying to work out what you will realistically use is a chore. From what I recall the printout wasn't great either.
I'll be reinstalling them on my new rig soon and will give another look at the keys...I might be remembering it wrong
I bought A10 and didn't have to enter code to activate, then I decided to buy black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey. but I then had to activate seperatly black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey, but still not A10.
did you guys have to activate, because I thought I'd be ok just with steam as a DRM?
Quote from: jomni on September 12, 2013, 12:01:14 AM
I did not enjoy FC because I have to memorize keys. A-10C clickable cockpit has less memorization but you still gotta learn where and what to click though.
I didn't think it was too bad mainly because most of the keys you're using are just single ones. After setting up my hotas buttons, I use very few of them and none of the multiples like JD's example of RCTRL+I or whatever.
I'm okay with memorizing just a handful of keys that are only a single key press. It's a lot faster & easier to accomplish stuff compared to something like A-10C where you have a long multi-step list of buttons to push in order to even be prepared to launch an attack properly. That's where I suck most.. getting the head-down work done quickly enough before flying past the friggin' target and having to start over again on a new pass. Specifically, in A-10, getting the targeting pod camera to situated and on-target in decent time. Even with all it's commands mapped to my HOTAS, I just can't get it done very quickly or efficiently. Black Shark 2 is a little easier in this respect, mostly because the weapon systems' targeting is all pretty straightforward and the helmet-mounted sight makes it easy to lock the camera close to your target right from the start.
Quote from: gameleaper on September 12, 2013, 05:08:58 AM
I bought A10 and didn't have to enter code to activate, then I decided to buy black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey. but I then had to activate seperatly black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey, but still not A10.
did you guys have to activate, because I thought I'd be ok just with steam as a DRM?
I've only purchased the original Black Shark through Steam, and that was before they even had 'DCS World' so things have changed since then.
I would imagine you'd have to activate A-10C. I did, buying from DCS' site, just like the others. Do you not have a key listed in Steam for it?
Quote from: Nefaro on September 12, 2013, 08:10:17 AM
Quote from: gameleaper on September 12, 2013, 05:08:58 AM
I bought A10 and didn't have to enter code to activate, then I decided to buy black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey. but I then had to activate seperatly black shark 2, combined arms,& the Huey, but still not A10.
did you guys have to activate, because I thought I'd be ok just with steam as a DRM?
I've only purchased the original Black Shark through Steam, and that was before they even had 'DCS World' so things have changed since then.
I would imagine you'd have to activate A-10C. I did, buying from DCS' site, just like the others. Do you not have a key listed in Steam for it?
I got all the keys on steam, but the A10 didn't need activating , maybe when I bought it first it was the only purchase I had so it auto activated for me, that's all I can think of.
Nef I finaly went to desura after your posts mention about it now and again, its good stuff, I also liked indiedb.com thats linked to desura, thanks for the heads-up on it.
You have to activate your Steam keys in DCS...I posted this on the first page.
It's like a reverse Steam DRM if you can imagine that!
Quote from: gameleaper on September 12, 2013, 08:49:05 AM
Nef I finaly went to desura after your posts mention about it now and again, its good stuff, I also liked indiedb.com thats linked to desura, thanks for the heads-up on it.
There is some chaff to sort through on Desura, but there is also indie gold to be found there. ;)
It's all coming back to me. Flight training was a breeze as the concepts are pretty standard among aircraft (both civilian or military).
Now on with the hard part. Weapons.
Quote from: Toonces on September 12, 2013, 01:05:31 PM
You have to activate your Steam keys in DCS...I posted this on the first page.
It's like a reverse Steam DRM if you can imagine that!
I was just wondering why I didn't need to activate my A10, I thought it may be a bug
Well - I've just built a new system so had de-activated them all and I did a reinstall of everything yesterday.
I can tell you, categorically, I had to activate A-10C, Flaming Cliffs 3, Black Shark 2 upgrade, Mi-8, P-51 and Huey. I didn't have to activate them on install. Rather, I installed them all (without being asked for activation details). When I had installed everything I started DCS World and I was asked for an activation code for all of my add-ons.
thanks, I got the prompt to activate each addon but didn't get an A10 warthog prompt, but I'm doing the training on it. nevermind I will keep flying and hope the game dosnt crash :)
Quote from: gameleaper on September 13, 2013, 01:10:05 AM
thanks, I got the prompt to activate each addon but didn't get an A10 warthog prompt, but I'm doing the training on it. nevermind I will keep flying and hope the game dosnt crash :)
Just curious, which A10 is this? A or C?
Quote from: jomni on September 13, 2013, 03:20:05 AM
Quote from: gameleaper on September 13, 2013, 01:10:05 AM
thanks, I got the prompt to activate each addon but didn't get an A10 warthog prompt, but I'm doing the training on it. nevermind I will keep flying and hope the game dosnt crash :)
Just curious, which A10 is this? A or C?
A10C , not the cheaper A10A