I read on the SR discord that if you do some of the objective but there are no remaining targets then the mission will complete. Also that missile shot was sick!
Seeing that F-18 pilot did make me happy, makes me think if I join I won't be alone at not being great. Hope the F18 doesn't let his experience here stop him from playing on the server.
I spent a few hours on the Caucasus map on Sunday. I dont know if it was me doing something wrong or if it's a problem. But AI bandits would not show up on the F16 radar. I would get the BRAA call, but nothing in the cockpit world picked them up until i got locked, and then the RWR would start. Its incredibly aggravating to fly a 2 hour mission to get shot down by a mig 29 that just popped up 60 NM from my home airport.
FCR switch on? Antenna elevation correctly centered on bandits altitude? Seems like it's just you having this issue as I was using the f-16 today and there's tons of people using the f-16 on modern.
Without seeing playback of the mission I can’t really offer any help, I’ll be releasing a Viper video in a few days that was recorded the day after the patch dropped and I wasn’t having any issues with the radar. At least not finding things on scope, oddly the auto-acquisition modes were taking a lot longer than normal to latch onto things, but I doubt that had any relevance to your issue. Forgetting to turn it on or accidentally silencing it are both issues I’ve had when first getting into it though lol, and if you start hot, your RWR is off by default which can damage your SA quite significantly.
I would like to try this but i am getting kicked out with pure client required? I am using HELIOS for MFD export - but servers doesn't allow me to join...why?
Helios adds some scripts, enabling more exports than just MFDs. Unfortunately for now you have to decide either Helios, or some MP servers. I went middle ground-export MFD, left other displays without export. Telemetry works fine, so dials and switches work. You need to repair install of DCS, and don't patch it from Helios. Just manually setup mfd export
So i fly the mirage on this servers often too, however everytime i want to do ground attack i have a error in my weapon selection...and i can only use my magics and guns 530s dont work but also cant drop mk82s
That’s my new favorite server there is always something to shoot at, would be awesome on caucasus with more moutain gameplay Hey I just bought the mirage, how do you put the square thing on the hud with acm? Is that something to do with magics?
I'd quite like to see it on Cauc as well - I think the modern PVE server they run is on Cauc but haven't tried it yet, game kept crashing last time I tried but I think it's something to do with the new patch. For the Mirage HUD thing, the keybind is called "Nav Update/Magic Unlock" - it makes the Magics constantly scan the box so you can find heat sigs more easily, especially useful if you're scanning for targets you've lost visual on but know roughly where they'll be. You can also slave the radar to a Magic lock in the same way you can slave heaters to a radar lock in most other jets, so you can use that box thing almost like an EO system from Temu/Wish and then hit the uncage button to lock the radar to a heat lock when you want ranging info etc it's great for getting the radar to acquire targets at an awkward aspect when they aren't appearing on the radar display or the ACM modes are letting you down. Mirage is a really awesome jet, my first love in DCS.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I’ll put it on my hotas thanks a lot man! Yeah the Mirage is my favorite plane on DCS now, I keep thinking that if we had the 2000-5 it would be the apex predator on every server, not only 80s ^^
The Shadow Reapers Servers are well made but lime a lot of public MP servers they lack of people willing to do teamwork and therefore would communicate. Only a huge number of soloists.
Gamers aren't typically social people, I think it's just something you have to accept - if you want to fly in a group then there's consistently 2/3 people around at a time on my Discord server - not exactly a server flipping force but it can help scratch your lower key teamwork itch if you're interested.
Whenever I join I ask for people to team up with, if anything because half the missions require teaming up, but I rarely get anyone, and when I do it's beginners who can't even get on srs/discord
DCS has a community focused on visuals and ordinance. BMS has a better community for large player coordinated events and communities. This is likely because DCS lacks a meaningful dynamic campaign system.
Me through most of the video: Dang, I hope one day I'm as skilled as this guy. Me at the end: OMFG, bro, just go land! A MiG 29?! DON'T FLY AT IT! *facedesk* To be fair though, I've been shot down due to my own greed as well a few times. It's easy to do...
@@klaw2749 My thinking was that he’d probably just kill me anyway whilst I was trying to land, and I somehow forgot I had no missiles lol. If flares worked I might’ve been able to run him out of fuel or make him crash, but it was not to be ☹️ Greed is usually what does me in though, always chasing that new kill record for one flight.
80s tends to be more populated, with better missiles. 60s limits weapons to early missiles with no Fox-1s available. Basically boils down to which combat style you prefer, I’m more of a dogfighting guy so I like 60s when people are on it.
@ Either the Fishbed, Farmer or F1, depending on which you prefer. F1 can do a bit more, gives you more bang for your buck but costs more, doesn’t get put on sale yet because it’s still in early access release. Fishbed is old but gold, cheaper full fid module but plenty capable with some practice, it can dabble a bit in air to ground too. Farmer is a rate fighting, thrust generating machine but hard to make work if you’re not fully aware of dogfight fundamentals, it’s the least versatile of the set, but arguably the most satisfying to master. Would recommend grabbing the Su-25a Frogfoot in addition, probably makes most sense to just grab the FC3 pack then you’ll get a bunch of other stuff too. The Froggy is a bit of a meme in a dogfight, truly dangerous in the right hands and a very good ground pounder for the era.
You could be referring to a lot of things so let me answer some FAQ's: Air-to-ground: The mirage cannot use super 530 missiles with air-to-ground ordinance. A limitation of the fire control computer. Some people say that an update broke the plane when cold starting. Haven't tested this yet but to be safe spawn hot. BVR: High altitude and lots of dodging. Always keep pressing, even to BFM BFM: Keep visual on bandit at all times. Pre flare often. Take bandit into one circles, and use that awesome AOA authority to get a magic lock or gun kill.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy at all? the module will not work. i can load into an instant action but it does not allow you to go into the jet, just the third person views you can go through with f2 and f3
@@camayberry7440 Ok, that’s a new one - sounds like there’s something up with your instant action missions. Quite often when I’m messing around in the mission editor to get a screenshot for a video thumbnail, I’ll forget to set the aircraft as “client” or “player” which means it just becomes AI controlled. Kinda sounds like your instant action missions are somehow set up wrong in a similar way - have you tried all of them? Try spawning it via the mission editor and specify the user as client or player - it only takes a minute, there’s probably a guide on spawning a jet in the editor if you’re not sure how. But that’s where I’d start, to rule out whether it’s the IA missions or something else. It might be a bug with the latest update, I’ll check mine when I next get on the PC… If I remember at least.
@@SuperEvilMonkee Not much satisfaction in missile kills, no skill involved if you're getting tech to handle it all for you. Guns require good piloting, especially against an aware and uncooperative target, feels a lot more rewarding getting guns on target. There is a time and a place of course, but there's almost as much satisfaction in performing that balancing act of risk vs. reward as there is in the reward itself.
It's sad that Enigma server is pretty much dead now. For PVP, it is only Contention that remains with healthy player numbers. Shadow Reapers and Growling Sidewinder - not interested since they allow 3rd person view. I abused the 3rd person mechanic a lot by switching to 3rd person view mechanic in a dogfight and having a "satellite* view of what's going on around me. It's just lame and not fun. It makes Cockpit visibility pretty much irrelevant. I suppose , long live Contention server , you see the only PVP server left with Cockpit view only and healthy player numbers.
@@NoRegret08 Shadow Reapers have a 60s server which is cockpit only with nothing on the map but your own position. Basically plays like Enigma’s but with their mission system applied - pop’s not great but it’s still quite new.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy Thanks a lot ! I will check it out. Currently , I am sucked into the Elden Ring lol. Contention is such a good server. I wonder why Enigma lost its population so quickly. Contention and Enigma complemented each other so well.
@NoRegret08 Yeah I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what’s killed it off as well. Working theory is the balance bot (because it can stop you being able to spawn on your chosen team if there’s too much of an imbalance, so the people who don’t have modules for both teams, or who are denied flying what they want because of the bot, are obviously just going to leave) and weapon restrictions on the 60s rotation turning a lot of people away from it. Feels wrong flying an A-10 without Mavs for example, but ground attack is necessary to progress the campaign. So if no one’s doing it, everything goes a bit stale.
That F-18 pilot was not cooking
Alternatively he was, literally, at the same time as trying to fly
😅
@@britlitemail lmao
I think he was just screwing around
Surpised you just into this server. It's been a good one for a bit. Glad you enjoyed it.
That missile shot to shoot his missle down XD
I read on the SR discord that if you do some of the objective but there are no remaining targets then the mission will complete. Also that missile shot was sick!
your channel has gotten me to start playing online, and I got my first 2 kills the other day. thanks!
The 80s red players are gonna have a field day with that hornet 😅
I felt pretty good about bagging him myself after that ridiculous stall climb lol
Seeing that F-18 pilot did make me happy, makes me think if I join I won't be alone at not being great. Hope the F18 doesn't let his experience here stop him from playing on the server.
OH NO! YOu lost all those points...damn! Love the HellReign82-like notations
this server looks really well done, gotta find time for dcs again lmao
Another great video thanks mate 👍🏻
The Hornet pilot wanted a guns kill.
I spent a few hours on the Caucasus map on Sunday. I dont know if it was me doing something wrong or if it's a problem. But AI bandits would not show up on the F16 radar. I would get the BRAA call, but nothing in the cockpit world picked them up
until i got locked, and then the RWR would start.
Its incredibly aggravating to fly a 2 hour mission to get shot down by a mig 29 that just popped up 60 NM from my home airport.
FCR switch on? Antenna elevation correctly centered on bandits altitude? Seems like it's just you having this issue as I was using the f-16 today and there's tons of people using the f-16 on modern.
Without seeing playback of the mission I can’t really offer any help, I’ll be releasing a Viper video in a few days that was recorded the day after the patch dropped and I wasn’t having any issues with the radar.
At least not finding things on scope, oddly the auto-acquisition modes were taking a lot longer than normal to latch onto things, but I doubt that had any relevance to your issue.
Forgetting to turn it on or accidentally silencing it are both issues I’ve had when first getting into it though lol, and if you start hot, your RWR is off by default which can damage your SA quite significantly.
I would like to try this but i am getting kicked out with pure client required? I am using HELIOS for MFD export - but servers doesn't allow me to join...why?
More than likely a bug with the new patch, I couldn’t get on a few servers last night but this was recorded a few days before the patch dropped.
Helios adds some scripts, enabling more exports than just MFDs. Unfortunately for now you have to decide either Helios, or some MP servers. I went middle ground-export MFD, left other displays without export. Telemetry works fine, so dials and switches work. You need to repair install of DCS, and don't patch it from Helios. Just manually setup mfd export
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thefirst hornet was top quality funny
So i fly the mirage on this servers often too, however everytime i want to do ground attack i have a error in my weapon selection...and i can only use my magics and guns 530s dont work but also cant drop mk82s
Nevermind i am a idiot
You cannot use air-ground weapony with super 530's.
That’s my new favorite server there is always something to shoot at, would be awesome on caucasus with more moutain gameplay
Hey I just bought the mirage, how do you put the square thing on the hud with acm? Is that something to do with magics?
I'd quite like to see it on Cauc as well - I think the modern PVE server they run is on Cauc but haven't tried it yet, game kept crashing last time I tried but I think it's something to do with the new patch.
For the Mirage HUD thing, the keybind is called "Nav Update/Magic Unlock" - it makes the Magics constantly scan the box so you can find heat sigs more easily, especially useful if you're scanning for targets you've lost visual on but know roughly where they'll be.
You can also slave the radar to a Magic lock in the same way you can slave heaters to a radar lock in most other jets, so you can use that box thing almost like an EO system from Temu/Wish and then hit the uncage button to lock the radar to a heat lock when you want ranging info etc it's great for getting the radar to acquire targets at an awkward aspect when they aren't appearing on the radar display or the ACM modes are letting you down.
Mirage is a really awesome jet, my first love in DCS.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I’ll put it on my hotas thanks a lot man!
Yeah the Mirage is my favorite plane on DCS now, I keep thinking that if we had the 2000-5 it would be the apex predator on every server, not only 80s ^^
@@hugoferrari6468
Yeah, would be awesome to get a later model with Fox-3s - unlikely to happen though ☹️
The Shadow Reapers Servers are well made but lime a lot of public MP servers they lack of people willing to do teamwork and therefore would communicate. Only a huge number of soloists.
Gamers aren't typically social people, I think it's just something you have to accept - if you want to fly in a group then there's consistently 2/3 people around at a time on my Discord server - not exactly a server flipping force but it can help scratch your lower key teamwork itch if you're interested.
Whenever I join I ask for people to team up with, if anything because half the missions require teaming up, but I rarely get anyone, and when I do it's beginners who can't even get on srs/discord
DCS has a community focused on visuals and ordinance. BMS has a better community for large player coordinated events and communities. This is likely because DCS lacks a meaningful dynamic campaign system.
@@albert91tgn What do you fly? I fly the F16 at a decent level. I enjoy ground attack and SEAD missions with a little a2a mixed in occasionally.
Me through most of the video: Dang, I hope one day I'm as skilled as this guy.
Me at the end: OMFG, bro, just go land! A MiG 29?! DON'T FLY AT IT! *facedesk*
To be fair though, I've been shot down due to my own greed as well a few times. It's easy to do...
@@klaw2749
My thinking was that he’d probably just kill me anyway whilst I was trying to land, and I somehow forgot I had no missiles lol.
If flares worked I might’ve been able to run him out of fuel or make him crash, but it was not to be ☹️
Greed is usually what does me in though, always chasing that new kill record for one flight.
80s vs 60s which is better? And why?
80s tends to be more populated, with better missiles.
60s limits weapons to early missiles with no Fox-1s available.
Basically boils down to which combat style you prefer, I’m more of a dogfighting guy so I like 60s when people are on it.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy What red 60s fighter would you reccomned for a new player?
@
Either the Fishbed, Farmer or F1, depending on which you prefer.
F1 can do a bit more, gives you more bang for your buck but costs more, doesn’t get put on sale yet because it’s still in early access release.
Fishbed is old but gold, cheaper full fid module but plenty capable with some practice, it can dabble a bit in air to ground too.
Farmer is a rate fighting, thrust generating machine but hard to make work if you’re not fully aware of dogfight fundamentals, it’s the least versatile of the set, but arguably the most satisfying to master.
Would recommend grabbing the Su-25a Frogfoot in addition, probably makes most sense to just grab the FC3 pack then you’ll get a bunch of other stuff too.
The Froggy is a bit of a meme in a dogfight, truly dangerous in the right hands and a very good ground pounder for the era.
How do you get the m2000 to work
@@camayberry7440
To work?
Like in a combat environment?
Or at all?
You could be referring to a lot of things so let me answer some FAQ's:
Air-to-ground: The mirage cannot use super 530 missiles with air-to-ground ordinance. A limitation of the fire control computer.
Some people say that an update broke the plane when cold starting. Haven't tested this yet but to be safe spawn hot.
BVR: High altitude and lots of dodging. Always keep pressing, even to BFM
BFM: Keep visual on bandit at all times. Pre flare often. Take bandit into one circles, and use that awesome AOA authority to get a magic lock or gun kill.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy at all? the module will not work. i can load into an instant action but it does not allow you to go into the jet, just the third person views you can go through with f2 and f3
@@Bullet4MyEnemy shouldve been more specific
@@camayberry7440
Ok, that’s a new one - sounds like there’s something up with your instant action missions.
Quite often when I’m messing around in the mission editor to get a screenshot for a video thumbnail, I’ll forget to set the aircraft as “client” or “player” which means it just becomes AI controlled.
Kinda sounds like your instant action missions are somehow set up wrong in a similar way - have you tried all of them?
Try spawning it via the mission editor and specify the user as client or player - it only takes a minute, there’s probably a guide on spawning a jet in the editor if you’re not sure how.
But that’s where I’d start, to rule out whether it’s the IA missions or something else.
It might be a bug with the latest update, I’ll check mine when I next get on the PC… If I remember at least.
Hornet was going for a guns kill, I never understand the fascination with guns kills, just use a damn missile and take the kill
@@SuperEvilMonkee
Tbf that’s usually me 😅
But it’s rare I fail to kill a Froggy
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I dont understand it personally but there you go.
@@SuperEvilMonkee
Not much satisfaction in missile kills, no skill involved if you're getting tech to handle it all for you.
Guns require good piloting, especially against an aware and uncooperative target, feels a lot more rewarding getting guns on target.
There is a time and a place of course, but there's almost as much satisfaction in performing that balancing act of risk vs. reward as there is in the reward itself.
Ill fly the m2000 until i die.
It's sad that Enigma server is pretty much dead now. For PVP, it is only Contention that remains with healthy player numbers. Shadow Reapers and Growling Sidewinder - not interested since they allow 3rd person view. I abused the 3rd person mechanic a lot by switching to 3rd person view mechanic in a dogfight and having a "satellite* view of what's going on around me. It's just lame and not fun. It makes Cockpit visibility pretty much irrelevant. I suppose , long live Contention server , you see the only PVP server left with Cockpit view only and healthy player numbers.
@@NoRegret08
Shadow Reapers have a 60s server which is cockpit only with nothing on the map but your own position.
Basically plays like Enigma’s but with their mission system applied - pop’s not great but it’s still quite new.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy Thanks a lot ! I will check it out. Currently , I am sucked into the Elden Ring lol. Contention is such a good server. I wonder why Enigma lost its population so quickly. Contention and Enigma complemented each other so well.
@NoRegret08
Yeah I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what’s killed it off as well.
Working theory is the balance bot (because it can stop you being able to spawn on your chosen team if there’s too much of an imbalance, so the people who don’t have modules for both teams, or who are denied flying what they want because of the bot, are obviously just going to leave) and weapon restrictions on the 60s rotation turning a lot of people away from it.
Feels wrong flying an A-10 without Mavs for example, but ground attack is necessary to progress the campaign.
So if no one’s doing it, everything goes a bit stale.
I wish DCS worked for me since the update. Now it just stutters so bad it’s unplayable. I don’t use mods and I’m not running it on a potato either. 😢
I’m hearing similar things from a lot of people, it will probably get sorted with a hotfix patch in the next week or so.