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Hi all, I suggested t'other night the possibility of investigating Grayflag server. To provide some further info, Grayflag is brought to you by Graywo1f (voice of JesterAI) and Grimes (core-engine-development-via-DCS-Scripting and curator of SLmod and MIST). Grayflag is a hardcore persistent multiplayer Coop campaign, with campaigns available on Syria, Persian Gulf and Mariannas maps. Experience a moving front line as BLUEFOR have a number of progessive objectives to capture across each map. The enemy (AI) forces will attempt to resupply and reinforce their positions and even launch counter offensives, as players attempt to push the front line farther into enemy territory. As you and your teammates set up BLUEFOR ground units to invade/capture objectives or defend with CTLD troops/vehicles, you won't have to worry about them disappearing after a server restart or crash! Their position will be saved when the server restarts and you log back into this persistent battlefield. Grayflag is a player driven campaign in an open ended sandbox. You and your friends will fight how you want to fight to complete the objectives while utilizing your own tactics and mission planning to strike targets across the entire map. The enemy will do its best to react to the changing battlefield as you and your friends complete taskings/objectives. This mission features the Combined Arms module by allowing the player to bring whatever they want to the fight. Have a few player helicopters bring you a mortar squad next to an objective? Want a friendly SAM network set up to cover an area? Go for it, and it will all save in the mission state. Server & Mods Grayflag Server Info (provided by DFA): Open to Public! IP: grayflag.dfa.wtf Password: please join our discord to get password discord.gg/deathfromabove Simple Radio Standalone is required. You can find it here - http://dcssimpleradio.com/ The UH60L Mod is required to play. You can find it here - https://github.com/Kinkkujuustovoileipa/uh-60l/releases/tag/1.3.2 C130 Hercules Mod is Required to play. You can find it here - https://forum.dcs.world/topic/252075-dcs-super-hercules-mod-by-anubis/ LOTATC is available! IP: grayflag.dfa.wtf Pass: rockeyeblue SRS EAM pass: rockeyeblue As a guide to how you play: For more in depth guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14jNUFLPIWb41ctWJa_SiH6-FkWhgwuCBTrTVTlN_Xpo/edit For some more in depth info on the background of how it's put together: If any one is interested in bundling on their server one eve, let me know.

Thanks Gents, it truly was a nasty uncomfortable experience. It's fair to say that today, Sunday, I feel much better. Fever has all but gone and the pain below has eased greatly so I will continue paracetamol 'til tomorrow I think and the antibiotics 'til the end of the week - no way I want this bugger coming back!!

I have bought the Persian gulf map

For those that have this issue, I know @BluBear suffers in VR, I have just seen this post... (I am not sure if this is a one-time set-up that solves the issue or you have to do it each time) Hi! I wanted to share a very useful discovery that at least in my setup, helps me fix the F10-map-related FPS drops when they happen. This doesn't prevent the FPS from dropping when using the map, but fixes it when that happens. Most of you are probably already aware that doing alt-tab can get your original FPS back, but it's unreliable at best, and sometimes it just won't fix it at all no matter how many times you do it. Well, I think I found out why: even if you alt-tab, if any screen (including the VR headset) is showing any pixels from DCS, there's a high chance the drop in FPS isn't fixed. So you have to make sure absolutely no screen is showing any part of the game at all, including the VR headset if you are using one, to get your FPS back reliably. In my case, that means doing two steps: 1) Alt-tabbing to another full screen app. Not just any app, but a full screen one. I just use a cmd.exe window in full screen mode with F11, which I always have opened anyway when flying because of some home made scripts I use for a button box. 2) Switching to the desktop mode of Virtual Desktop (which I use for the VR headset), getting out of VR mode, so DCS isn't rendered in the headset anymore. In the case of VD, you can do that with a VR controller or with the Shift+Windows+D keyboard shortcut (while DCS isn't in focus, otherwise DCS "eats" the key presses. But after step 1 DCS is already out of focus, yay). Those two steps guarantee that no screen, desktop or VR headset, is trying to show any pixels from DCS at all. And that seems to do the trick, I get my high FPSs back every time when doing this, 100% reliable in my case at least. Hope that's the case for others as well!

Im interested in giving it a try , I have downloaded mods, got discord to work but unsure about srs, how do you set up ip for this and for dogz?

I know these links are old but hoping soon.... This with Sid in mind. Fill me up Sid she is thirsty.😁

WWII Rescue Buoys. Yes, there's at least one shot of an aircraft in it!

Nice to hear you are getting better little bro!

Persian Gulf

Just saw this Sidly, not nice mate. At least the weather has broken today. Hope your antibiotics have kicked in and peeing becomes a pleasure rather than a pain. I can whole heartedly relate to water works problems, they are no laughing matter.

Sorry to hear about what you are going through Sid. Wishing you a Speedy recovery and pain free quick heal, so to drink lots of water to flush that infection out clean.

Ouch! Don’t envy you Siddley mate; especially coming down with it during this climate… yikes! At least you’re now on the road to recovery with appropriate medication. Hope it gets less uncomfortable soon. Hurty Hampton is not something I like to spend much time imagining…!

That is an image I dont want to think about.

We simply don’t have the money for these things and this incident was a symptom of this underfunding. Quite what we need them for anyway is another question. A carrier battle group is a military, economic and societal statement. Notice that neither the Russians or the Chinese have anything approaching the scope of what the US navy can field and they never will. As for our own - absurd -defence procurement policy; at the level of spending we can commit something has to give; for the luxury of two fleet carriers that will never go to sea at the same time we have given up our capability to field an infantry division overseas and have a navy with the fewest ships since Henry VIII watched the Mary Rose sink in Portsmouth harbour. It’s absurd.

So… Colin and I tested out the Grayflag Syria COIN server yesterday. Pros: everyone on there seemed to be there for the right reasons, coordinating as best they could and pushing objectives; the core architecture works well and seems to do what it’s supposed to in terms of functionality and logging and progressing the map accordingly, also regular AI interceptors performing QRA launches to keep things interesting A2A. Cons: Laggy. Very laggy. Regular stutters and pauses for me throughout our 2-3 hours online and no improvement over time. Was killed in a low altitude BFM engagement when a 1-3 second pause resulted in a loss of control and a subsequent crash into terrain. Worth trying their PG map as perhaps the combination of Syria plus all their scripts plus server ping was to blame; PG might be lighter on demands…

Too real:

Myself and @fruitbat with the assistance of @DD_Fenrir got SRS installed and working during last nights DCS session. It does add another level of immersion to the sim and would recommend you get it installed. It can sit along side TeamSpeak, we are not replacing it, as we will use that for "lobby" type chat before getting into SRS comms mode.

Great! I echo your last, think a few would benefit froma reminder of how to best utilise it. For what we do in the Dogz, it's not that pertinent but almost all other MP server utilise it so being able to use it will help you should you want to see what the grass is like in the wider DCS multiplayer universe. It is a great piece of tech and having used it exclusively for comms with CVW-17, once you have it suitcased it's a very reliable and useful tool and is very immersive.

A collection of skins for the DCS Harrier II/AV8B for your delectation if you desire. Unzip to where you have your liveries, they are in the correctly named aircraft folder. There are British, Italian and Spanish Navy.

I've got Persian Gulf now.

Turns out it isn't the dreaded lurgy I have.... I had an absolute mare of a week, Monday onwards. I absolutely hate the hot weather so thinking it was heat stroke/hot weather related I went with the headaches and tiredness until it became painful to pee. Having next to no sleep Thursday night because of the willy pain and the need to pee, I have never been so uncomfortable before in my life, the heat wrapping my already hot (not that way Painless) body so I found it hard to cool down. I got an appointment cancellation at the Docs Friday morning. Doc said it is urinary infection hence the pain and fever. Apparently these don't occur in men very often, you are allowed one (cheers I thought) then any more will need more thorough investigation. Antibiotics and up to 8 x 500mg paracetamol a day. It's basically laid me out. I drink water, I need to pee, it hurts. I have fans going etc. So, hopefully the antibiotics will kick in very soon and this shite hot weather will just feck off.....it it rains I will be out there skinny dipping in the puddles..... Thought I'd share it with you. Cheerzen