DCS 2.5.5.34864 Open Beta update

DCS World

• ME: column width in units list saved between sessions
  
• ME: read only mission doesn't corrupted now when user attempts to save them
  
• Tasks ‘Follow’ and ‘Escort’ can be performed now at the ‘Takeoff’ waypoint
  
• Fixed mass and type of the double rockets payloads (player’s A/C no more makes unexpected roll after rockets launch, rockets in twin payloads can be launched in salvo mode)

F/A-18C

• FLIR polarity switch no more affects on Maverick picture
  
• AGM-84D Harpoon network trajectory fixed

A-10C

• Crash when user changed TAD profile after cold start fixed

DCS F-14B by Heatblur Simulations

• Fixed black wings/TCS pod due to texture corruption

DCS AJS-37 Viggen by Heatblur Simulations

• Fixed ARAK rocket pods causing destructive aircraft roll

DCS C-101 by AvioDev

• Completed multicrew canopies synchronization (fixed pending bugs).
  
• Fixed multicrew canopies initial synchronization at cold start, and when 2nd pilot enters the aircraft (any seat).
  
• Fixed canopies animation jitter when observed from another station in multicrew aircraft (external views only).
  
• Partially opened canopy (canopy closed with locking lever in forward position, which means canopy won't close completely) is visible now in other station (client or server).

DCS: Supercarrier Update
Since our last update on this eagerly awaited module, our team has been focused on several core features of simulation of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier:

Creating the most accurate and detailed carrier model ever created for a flight simulation. This is not simply an update to the existing John C. Stennis aircraft carrier that we released last year, but rather a new object that is built from the ground up with accurate dimensions, high-resolution mesh and textures; animations for the elevators, antennas, defense systems, launch officer bubble, risers, catapults, jet blast deflectors, and more. The module will include unique skins for all ships of the Roosevelt sub-class that includes the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), George Washington (CVN73), John C. Stennis (CVN-74), and the Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). Not only will there be the correct names and CVN numbers, but we also plan unique textures and deck weathering for each ship!

The Supercarrier will include the most accurate simulation of carrier communications you have ever heard in a game. This includes Case I, II, and III operations and unique voice overs for departure, marshal, approach, tower, the landing signal officer (LSO), and even messages over the 5 MC. Many of these parts are voiced by service members that filled the actual roles! We will also include the needed voice over files to support all aircraft types that have flown from a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, including the F-14.

To make the carrier deck feel alive, deck crew is a must. We are doing this through a combination of static-placed deck crew with animations that mission creators can place and fully pathed and animated deck crew that support launch operations from all four catapults. We are pushing this feature past anything that has been done before.



In addition to these three core areas, we are also working on / planning:

• Up to 18 spawning locations on the carrier deck.
  
• Flood lights in addition to standard lighting.
  
• Long Range Laser Lineup System.
  
• Barricade net.
  
• Deck equipment like the crane, fire truck, and mules.
  
• Detailed Landing Signal Officer (LSO) station with functional panels to control cut lights, wave off lights, manual ball control, and PLAT camera. This can be crewed while in VR.
  
• “Burble” effect behind the carrier.
  
• Air Boss station that can also be occupied in VR and allow control of the flood lights, barricade, and view the PLAT camera.
  
• Immersive, 3D, Ready Room with functions to view briefings, load aircraft, view PLAT camera, vie the “Greenie Board”, view kill board that is tied to online statistics. All of this with a VR option.
  
• Combined Arms support for steering the carrier and using weapons.

At this time, we have no release date or pricing, but they will be available at our very soonest.

DCS World Open Beta Update
For the second week in a row, we are updating the DCS World Open Beta. Highlights of the update this week include:
DCS World

• AGM-154A now corrected for wind conditions.
  
• Increased draw distance of static objects to compare to AI/Player objects
  
• Increased draw distances of Map objects

DCS: F/A-18C

• Added work-in-progress AGM-84D Harpoon in BOL mode.
  
• AGM-65F IR Option WHT/BLK now only changes proper elements and not entire screen.
  
• FLIR - LTD/R - LST Key Assignments now available in Options.
  
• EXPAND will close when target is lost.
  
• EXPAND will not affect the Radar causing loss of targets.
  
• SCS Depress no longer controls Point/Area Track selection.

You can read the complete change log here


Fight for Honor Enrollment is Open
In support of Folds of Honor and in cooperation with DCS World Events, Thrustmaster, and C.W. Lemoine, we are happy to support the Fight for Honor charity event.

Enrollment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOqFVUtuI0

Pick any aircraft and dogfight 1 v 1 (guns only) against other players across the world in this charity event to support the fallen and their families. DCS pilots will fight for the opportunity to fly in DCS with real F/A-18 and F-16 fighter pilots C.W. "Mover" Lemoine or Trevor "Gonky" Hartsock. All proceeds of this event will benefit Folds of Honor

Opening day rounds will take place later on September 7th and on the following day, September 8th. Closing tournament rounds will then be taking place the weekend of the 28th and 29th. Participants will be flying multiple times on each day as long as they continue to win.

Age requirements: 18 | Registration is now open and will last until 5 Sept 2019 | Registration fee is $20 USD

You must have an account already registered on http://dcs-world.com/ before registering. Join the DCS Discord for more detailed info about the tournament. Upon registration, users must select any official DCS aircraft they will be flying with throughout the tournament. The free modules are allowed. Registrants will submit their information into the FOH website and a CSV will be compiled and sent to DCS World Events. Registrants will be contacted with their time slots.

• 1st place DCS flight with C.W. Lemoine, Thrustmaster F/A-18C HOTAS Add-on Grip, and F-16 Module or DCS module from Eagle Dynamics module of choosing
  
• 2nd place DCS flight with Gonky, DCS module from Eagle Dynamics of choosing
  
• 3rd Place DCS module from Eagle Dynamics of choosing

Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team

DCS World

• AGM-154A now corrected for wind conditions
  
• Increased draw distance of static objects to compare to AI/Player objects
  
• Increased draw distances of Map objects
  
• Kuznetsov carrier. The AI aircraft will takeoff with the “takeoff from ramp” (parking hot) type of start.
  
• Su-34. Default payload with X-59M displayed incorrectly in simulation fixed.
  
• DCS can be closed by pressing Close window in taskbar.
  
• The render distance of the static objects in the optics devices is adjusted.
  
• F10 map view will not show a small caliber shells.
  
• ME. When you copy and paste a group with EPLRS tasking the group Id tied to the task will be changing.
  
• SSE. world.getMarkPanels is returning correctly.
  
• CAP-9M adjusted mass and drag index.
  
• Logbook. Fixed A-A kills scoring issue.

DCS: F/A-18C

• Added work-in-progress AGM-84D Harpoon in BOL mode (for single player first)
  
• AGM-65F IR Option WHT/BLK now only changes proper elements and not entire screen
  
• TGP WIDE/NAR HOTAS command no longer changes MAV FOV when TGP is selected
  
• FLIR - LTD/R - LST Key Assignments now available in Options
  
• EXPAND will close when target is lost
  
• EXPAND will not affect the Radar causing loss of targets
  
• SCS Depress no longer controls Point/Area Track selection
  
• Added Litening Pod to centerline station in single missions.
  
• AIM9 boresight reticle restored.
  
• Laser latch function works in different way randomly fixed.
  
• AGM-65F will be possible to fire when if it's slaved by pod.
  
• TGP Zoom will not controls Radar elevation in FLIR page.
  
• Added input commands for FLIR, LTD/R, LST/NFLR switches.
  
• Digital Map: electric circuit, TV screen condition for camera fixed.
  
• Moving map fixed after GPS warmed up.

DCS: Fw 190 D-9

• Turn indicator working again

DCS F-14B by Heatblur Simulations

• Slightly increased G at which wing structural failure will occur
  
• Adjusted pitch moments for flaps, speedbrake and power
  
• Adjusted yaw damping with flaps down
  
• Fixed wing sweep program indicator in bomb mode
  
• Bomb mode now doesn't stick
  
• ASH better handles spawn heading errors on carrier
  
• Fixed INS drift due to DCS reporting different aircraft heading before and after spawn.
  
• Fixed ASH wrong wind calculations, fixes bomb fall line inaccuracy at high wind speeds.
  
• Installed anti-lag filter in the INS alignment routines - should reduce INS drift from lags.
  
• Fixed afterburners being invisible - pending further improvement
  
• Fixed invisible RIO DDD lights
  
• Fixed invisible TID HCU lights

DCS C-101 by AvioDev

• Fixed rear map box cover, now it doesn't open when activating rear canopy jettisoning lever.
  
• Further work on multicrew sync for canopies, will be totally fixed in the next update.

DCS F-15C

• Throttles step movement input commands will work.

DCS NS430

• Better shadow bias and sampling.
  
• Increased shadow map resolution on high option.
  
• Optimizing bias for terrain shadow map.
  
• Adaptive splitting of shadow cascade for camera near and cockpit view, optimized shadow map sampling.

DCS WWII Assets Pack

• KDO.G.40 corrected.

Campaigns

• Bf 109 K-4 Jagdflieger Campaign by Reflected Simulation. Corrected custom livery scripts of P-51D.
  
• A-10C BFT Campaign by Maple Flag. Mission BFT09 - Updated pattern altitude trigger.
  
• FC3: F-15C campaign. Added missing voice-over to mission 00. Adjusted success criteria for mission 03 to be less restrictive.

Known issues:
AGM-84D “Harpoon” in multiplayer flies with wrong trajectory
Trees shadows quality is degraded

DCS: F/A-18C Hornet – AGM-84D Harpoon Basics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJLCxEzexk

We will soon be releasing the AGM-84D Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile into the DCS World Open Beta. This will be very much a work-in-progress but will still provide most of the fundamentals of using this weapon system. Later in early access we will add R/BL mode (once the SEA mode of the A/G radar is included) and the pop-up (POP) terminal attack mode.

You can read about the Harpoon in much greater detail in the DCS World Open Beta Hornet Guide that can be found in:

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Doc

There are known issues regarding the damage level the Harpoon can inflict and guidance of multiple Harpoons without re-setting launch parameters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMDi9zmfwg

A nice buyers guide by the Grim Reapers, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efsAGJLUN1s

Dear pilots,

We apologize for the blank newsletter today. For the first time since we started the newsletters we suffered a glitch in the delivery process. We hope it will be the first and last! We are working to fix this asap.

In the meantime, here are some screenshots of the upcoming DCS: Supercarrier!





We apologise for the hiccup and trust you will have a wonderful weekend.

Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team

Hey everyone,

Despite some good videos on using the Litening targeting pod with laser-guided bombs, there still seems to be some confusion. Here is a simple checklist:

1- Master Arm to ARM.
2- Master Mode to AG.
3- Select an LGB (LG82, LG83, or LG84) from the SMS page.
4- Set LGB MODE to AUTO (PB 5). Will show as CCIP until Target Point is set.
5- Set LGB MFUZ to OFF (PB 4).
6- Set LGB EFUZ to INST (PB 3).
7- Set LGB CODE to 1688 (or any valid code that matches the pod code) (PB 1 and then UFC)
8- FLIR switch on SNSR panel to ON.
9- LTD/R switch on SNSR panel to ARM.
10- Display FLIR on DDI/MPCD (FLIR at PB 6 on TAC page).
11- Sensor Control Switch (SCS) in direction of the display with FLIR. For example: if FLIR is on the right DDI, press SCS right. TDC assignment indicated by diamond in top/right corner.
12- Slew FLIR crosshair over target using TDC slew [, . / ;].
13- Designate FLIR pointing location as Target Point by pressing [ENTER] or depress TDC switch. Attack mode switches from CCIP to AUTO with ASL and Target Point on HUD.
14- Enable (box) TRIG (PB 11) on FLIR page.
15- Ensure FLIR UFC CODE matches LGB CODE.
16- Conduct standard LGB AUTO attack. Line up velocity vector with ASL and hold down weapon release button [RALT + Spacebar] shortly before bomb fall line passes through the velocity vector.
17- At 15 seconds before Time To Impact (TTI), press and hold trigger button [Spacebar] to fire the laser. In general, conduct attack between 20-25k at no less than 350kts.

Thanks

DCS: Bf 109 K-4 Jagdflieger Campaign Available!

The Jagdflieger campaign for the Bf 109 K-4 by Reflected Simulations is now available for purchase from the DCS e-Shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hav56sZ-zvw

It's March 1944, the beginning of the end. The Reich has become a fortress without a roof. The large formations of Allied four motors have become daily visitors. Come, join the German Luftwaffe in these dire times. Jump into one of JG26's Messerschmitt Bf-109-s and find out what it’s like to attack the "fat cats" head-on, or to take off in a hail of bullets from the attacking Mustangs. Watch the Allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy and support the retreating Wehrmacht. Let all the details immerse you in this semi-historical campaign and make you feel like a young Jagdflieger fighting a lost battle, where, like 1944, survival is the most you can hope for.



Key Features:

• 12 semi-historical missions focusing on JG26 from March to July 1944
  
• A detailed background story, mission contexts and checklists
  
• Detailed briefings and briefing images, including separate PDF mission files
  
• Unique kneeboard graphics for each mission
  
• Over 250 specially recorded voice-over messages and radio broadcasts
  
• Historically accurate custom skins
  
• A wide array of missions including free hunt, intercept, bomber escort and ground attack

Launch of the ED Miles!
On 1st August 2019 at 0900, we launched the new ED Miles rewards system!

ED Miles are similar in many ways to airline miles and can be earned/awarded and used as follows:

• Regardless if a product has just been released, is already on sale or in pre-purchase, you will always earn ED Miles on the price you paid for the purchase. For each purchase, you will earn 10% of the Purchase Price in ED Miles. As an example: if you purchase something for USD 29.99 you will be awarded 2990 ED Miles worth USD 2.99 on the DCS World e-Shop.
  
• You can use ED Miles to purchase any product participating in the program, regardless if they are just released, already on sale, or as a pre-purchase!
  
• There is no limit on the number of ED Miles you can use for a purchase. If you have enough ED Miles, you can even pay for an entire product just using ED Miles.
  
• ED Miles earned are valid for three calendar years from the time of your last DCS World e-Shop purchase.

Note that ED Miles cannot be redeemed for cash or any other conversion, and a list of 3rd parties participating in the program will be provided at launch.

DCS World Open Beta Update
This week we launched a big update that included some great improvements to the Hornet in particular:

• The initial release of the AA/ANQ-28 Litening Targeting Pod (WIP). Other modes like air-to-air mode, INR tracking, additional HUD symbology, and slave to target point, and other functions will be added later in early access.
  
• Marking a target on the SA page with PLID is now shown correctly on the radar page.
  
• Sharing PLID info in Multiplayer is displayed correctly to and from donors.
  
• STEP data now matches radar data for a selected target.
  
• Fixed SA page STEP marker does not pass through all displayed contacts.
  
• SA page EXPAND option added.
  
• Fixed JDAM TOO mode not setting correctly for WPTs loaded as TOO MSN 1 or TOO MSN 2.
  
• Fixed radar showing target as hostile even if DL and NTCR are turned off.
  
• MSI donor HAFU not displayed on RADAR page is fixed.
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to restart AUTO at the end of a WP route.
  
• Fixed disabling AUTO in mid-route could break AUTO sequence.
  
• TDC movement now shuts off STEP.
  
• Radar altimeter is now set correctly at zero before Hornet start-up.
  
• Huge updated the Hornet Guide.
  
• Fixed CTD when setting bomb interval.

After this Open Beta, the next big system to add will be the AGM-84D Harpoon anti-ship missile.

You can read the complete changelog here

Some of these include:

• AGM-88 now tracking slow-moving ground radar emitters.
  
• Multiplayer improvements.
  
• Improved AI pathing over bridges.
  
• Improved AI carrier deck taxi behavior.
  
• Great improvements to the AV-8 Night Attack, M-2000C, and the C-101.

Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOLhpS5CWU

In the previous video we looked at the basic features of the Litening targeting pod on the Hornet and how to use it to designate targets for GPS-guided weapons. In this video we’ll look at how to use the pod to direct laser-guided bombs, laser Mavericks, and how to use the Laser Spot Search (LSS) mode to locate an off-board laser designation (single player and multiplayer).

Other elements will be coming to the pod like HUD symbology, INR and snowplow modes, slaving options, additional reticles, AA mode, and more.