Friar

UPDATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2024 V2.7 Changed F16 planes to facilitate "Link16" capability. There are now 2 groups of 4 aircraft "Viper-1" and "Viper-2". This means that the "Link16" can now be used to lock your wing-man or flight lead and be able to track them in the helmet / HUD also to see which targets they are locking etc. Thanks to @fruitbat for technical support and for assistance in testing. Link system also now configured correctly for land based F18's to share information. F18's can also donate to F16's and vice versa. Added notification for when AI planes are starting to be generated on the Western and Eastern zones. Hidden Attack Town reinforcements so that they can not be attacked until the correct time. Hidden Attack Town Leader so that the escaping vehicle can not be attacked until the correct time. Added 4 x Mosquito, 4 x Spitfire, 3 x P51, 3 x P47 to the airfield for sight-seeing and photo opportunities with the modern fighters. You can of course go ground-target hunting but will be up against modern defenses. And also....1 x I16 at the airfield for FT

Morning @BluBear I did a bit of searching this morning over breakfast ref your issue and found this after seeing lots of people having the same issue in v3 or earlier. The guy from Meta Forum (my link in this topic) has found solution for this two weeks ago after almost 3 years of investigation. Open Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and paste this: reg add “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Oculus\RemoteHeadset” /v “numSlices” /t REG_DWORD /d “1” /f Of course you have to use straight quotation marks (this forum changes them to typographer’s quotes). It’s necessary to restart Oculus service (or better restart your OS if you don’t know how to do it). You can experiment with different numbers (“4”, “3”, “2”, “1”), however only “1” (one slice) works for me with cabled connection. Quest renders image using 5 slices and when 1 of this slice (usually 5th one) is not encoded correctly you get this white stripe. The command above changes image rendering to 1 slice. This adds some latency but I haven’t noticed any performance drop so far. If you want to remove this fix use this command: reg delete “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Oculus\RemoteHeadset” /v “numSlices” I got the above from here in case you want to have a read through https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/quest-2-white-artifact/579744/10

Yes, I was aware but thanks for the heads-up any way.

UPDATE 5TH FEBRUARY 2024 V2.4 New feature of being able to pick-up the troops once they have completed town assault and search to bring them home. Added "Search in Zone then attack" options against AI to try and keep them from straying over in to areas we do not want them (untested at the moment).

Ok, so we now know Crash would like to fly DCS on a Tuesday, Delta already flies DCS with us so assume he would be ok with a Tuesday for DCS, Mossie has said he does not mind, of the regular fliers who does that leave to speak up?

Hey @Mosquito, thanks for stepping up. Lets arrange a session so I can give you the same tools I have given Delta, that way you can do it between you. Let me know which evenings would be good for you and matching times etc. How are you getting on with the Mission Generator?

Mission Briefing V1.00 Now available Operation Kuwait Freedom.pdf

Mondays DCS tends to be just myself, Fruitbat and Fen more often then not. Thursdays is the most popular night.

I was hoping that we could move DCS to Tuesday from Monday to perhaps help players like you Crash who can not do any other nights, but the yin to your yang is there may be others that can not do other nights for GBS.

Ah that is a shame, but I really hope you have a fantastic couple of events.

What are you "miffed" at Crash, the thought of losing a GBS night for DCS? I thought we were looking at getting better attendance for either sim from the DD's If we are looking at potentially more people wanting to play DCS then should we not think about accommodating them?

This may sound hard and really do not want to upset anyone but some of the votes to keep the GBS nights as it is were from people who are not flying very often, if at all. That is not to say one DangerDogz vote carries more weight than another but with such an important decision to make I feel it should be taken into consideration. It is no secret from me that I think we should move DCS to Tuesday and Thursday and keep GBS for Sundays.

Bump - First post updated

@FoolTrottel - Are you being FT? or do you mean Sinai?

Ok, so I have mentioned this a few times, insanity or not, that I wanted to join in playing DCS with our cousins over the water in their back yard and seeing how they do things I have the opportunity on the night of Saturday 10th February (into Sunday morning for me) to do this (means I can have a lay in afterwards) a) I am putting @wingflyr, @Zukker on alert - is this good for you guys? and b) Is there anyone else that wants to join me? I believe @Zukker does the hosting? He is 8 hours behind the UK for his time zone so if you guys play at Sat 20:00 your time that will be 04:00 for me..yikes! ? Does that work for you? I also believe you prefer Discord which I have and do have a link to Zukkers channel - is that correct also?

Bump - Is the first post still correct? Has anyone added to their collection and either not told me or I have missed updating the table? Now I am getting used to building missions I would like to know what options I have as a platform / scenario. I think it adds to the DCS nights (especially Thursdays) if we could make it a night with "objective" type mission(s). Not bothered by the spread of plane sets, I can account for that and build missions to suit all types. At the moment I can only use Persian Gulf (other than Caucuses or Marianas of course). Would be nice to have another option.

I view it as my hobby. If I played golf there would be club membership fees, the latest in golf stick design, jumpers, shoes etc. DCS gives me many, many hours of fun and I do circle round the VR options as I would REALLY like to see what it looks like, but I am not spending any more money....

...and then wait just a bit longer as the 6090 is just around the corner.. I feel your pain on this BB. Its a lot of money to spend and we all would not want to make the wrong choice. It almost feels like the more you research into it the muddier the waters get. It is very difficult I think, in most cases, to find "this is definitely the way to go", there are always caveats which you have to weigh up.

UPDATE 28TH JANUARY 2024 version 2.2 New area of operations added North West of the airfield intended for F4 (when available), F5, Mirage F1, A4-E and Bronco. Random spawned enemy aircraft Mig15, Mig19 and Mig21 only. Currently no active SAM missiles. For practice one SA-3 Search Radar and one SA-3 Tracking radar. One pair of static launchers. Air defenses made up of 57mm flak units only. Ground targets of trucks and road outposts plus 6 bridges with AAA defense. Convoy of trucks heading south east towards town through mountain region. F4 (when available), F5, Mirage F1 and A4-E moved to Northern side of airfield to create own area. Modern jet liner objects deleted from map. Sound files added to mission to alert for mission updates. F15, F16 Cold start options for now placed in hangers. Objective and place labels added to map.

Ok Chaps, shall we all wet our fingers and stick them in the air and pick a date? Shall we go for a Thursday as that seems to be a good regular session. How about I start by suggesting the 8th Feb?

UPDATE 22ND JANUARY 2024 version 2.1 Refined AI random generation. Hostage pickup and return is now only from/to the FARP. Added ability to take troops into battle from the airfield. To the south east of the airfield a patrol has located an enemy build up of insurgents and requires you to take elements of the 101st Airborne over to them to assist with the attack on the town. They have marked the landing zone with green smoke. Load up and deployment is via the communication menu.

I would suggest ANYONE who is thinking of exploring DCS spend an evening on line with the DCS crew having a chat to discuss the options, but thanks for the Heads-up on the video @Crash.

We have always thought of the Dogz as self managing. The "Quorum" was not formed to act as "Mummy". It was just in case we needed to make a ruling on something. Everyone can see the donations thread without asking to do so, so at any time can see how things are going. Notifications of donations go into the Propaganda room for which there are no restrictions. I am as guilty as the rest of us for leaving it till the end of the year before we get the "oh sh*t" moment ref the finances. I just did not bother to check or to ask. Everyone can look to the forum and see that it is quiet or see that there are very few posts in the Welcome thread. Anyone, of their own volition seeing its quiet could have decided to go out into the virtual world to do something about it. That is why I reached out to the 352nd to organize something, and not because I was tagged as being responsible for any particular role. I did it because I WANTED to do something. GBS has died to a certain extent, and I am not taking responsibility or blowing my own trumpet, but due to me finding DCS a lot more exciting now and also stuff going on in Real Life V1.0 has meant that I lost the drive to spend hours and hours building missions in GBS, also planning special events for the Dogz to do. I also got "burned out" with hosting duties on a Tuesday and Sunday, as I think FT did originally which I why I stepped up without being asked and offered to take over otherwise GBS might have started to peter our sooner. I offered to run mission building training sessions for others to learn, just as I had to, nothing really happened. I offered to help others to host co-ops, again not much happened. Sid stepped up and did for a while until his Real Live v1.0 took over, again as far as I am aware no one else who played offered to take over hosting to keep the Thursday mornings going, apologies if that was not the case. I put out many appeals for ideas to build scenarios but never really got anything back. "What ever you do Friar is fine by us" helped me not one bit. GBS is dying because key individuals who did the majority of the heavy lifting got tired and no one else came forward. EDIT: I am speaking for GBS in the UK time slots, I think it still gets played within the Dogz North American members when the players require it?