Apocalypse 31 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 New addition: T72B3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 @Froggy Are you still working with this team? Incredible work. https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/257437-frenchpack-v40-happy-new-year/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) Been a long time since i fired up combined arms. Have they improved the fidelity at all. Adding new well modelled AFV,s is good but my previous experience with CA was poor fidelity more War thunder then sim. Edited January 1, 2021 by Marko 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I played around with Combined Arms a bit and found infantry got a very short shrift. This was a couple years ago and felt it was just one step above World of Tanks also. I have a hard time seeing it as a replacement for SB in either the semi-realistic modern combined arms realm or as a tank combat simulator. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, thewood said: I played around with Combined Arms a bit and found infantry got a very short shrift. This was a couple years ago and felt it was just one step above World of Tanks also. I have a hard time seeing it as a replacement for SB in either the semi-realistic modern combined arms realm or as a tank combat simulator. I play DCS CA consistently and find it enjoyable - knowing what its strengths are. There is a lot of potential to continue improving the module. It doesn't have the same turret fidelity as Steel Beasts. I find that to be OK because the two programs have each have a very different scope, so probably not fair to compare them. Comparing the M1 in DCS to Steel Beasts would be the equivalent of comparing the F-18 in Steel Beasts to DCS 😉 Edited January 1, 2021 by Apocalypse 31 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 To me, CA doesn't seem to know what it is. It still seems more like the units in CA are only a step above being ground targets. It looks pretty, but is kind of shallow. My biggest gripe and why I gave up was the lack of any intelligence in the AI and no scripting available to compensate. Might have changed since then, but thats what I left with. I got more playing around with ARMA3. But it was an immense amount of work and AI with vehicles was poor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, thewood said: To me, CA doesn't seem to know what it is. It still seems more like the units in CA are only a step above being ground targets. It looks pretty, but is kind of shallow. My biggest gripe and why I gave up was the lack of any intelligence in the AI and no scripting available to compensate. Might have changed since then, but thats what I left with. I got more playing around with ARMA3. But it was an immense amount of work and AI with vehicles was poor. I haven't had too much trouble with AI- I think the waypoint control is definitely not as good as SB, but much better than ARMA. The DCS ground units will follow their routes and will engage stuff- compared to ARMA - that's pretty good! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 This is how I remember it. I was always kind of shocked at how poor the graphics were. I'm sure in the three years since I tried it, its been updated, but at that time, there was almost no control over how infantry, and some vehicles, travelled and engaged infantry. If the AI had been more than just go there and shoot, I could have lived with it. But there seemed to be no way to set infantry and vehicles to respond to threats, other than shoot at it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Apocalypse 31 said: ... the two programs have each have a very different scope, so probably not fair to compare them ... Could you maybe give some more info on the differences in scope ? Thx ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 22 minutes ago, thewood said: But there seemed to be no way to set infantry and vehicles to respond to threats, other than shoot at it. It's a game focused on combat, what else do you want them to do? Do you want them to execute battle drills, and start bounding forward with one section providing covering fire and the other moving? If so, let me know what game offers that because I'd gladly play it - I think Combat Mission comes close, but even then the infantry get to a point where they no longer advance into gunfire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalAB Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 My personal gripe with DCS is the hardware necessary to run the sim at the top alcohol funny car level. Having a rig capable of operating it glass smooth quickly scales up into the thousands. To me the ground units are flavour items that you have the ability to use but not the focus. And like the sucker I am, I will be making further investment into DCS in the future with the acquisition of the VR kit from Steam. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I meant having units advance and seek cover when under fire, retreat under fire, formations, etc. CM and SB both do some of that. The player had to sit on top of every unit and make them respond and adjust. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Apocalypse 31 said: @Froggy Are you still working with this team? Incredible work. https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/257437-frenchpack-v40-happy-new-year/ Helped him to improve the optics and give unclassified datas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormrider_sp Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 DCS AH-64D Apache Longbow confirmed! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I still hold out hope. There will one day be some sort of collaboration between DCS and Esim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 21 hours ago, Froggy said: Helped him to improve the optics and give unclassified datas Great! It seems like a community wish that these vehicles/assets be added to the vanilla game. I hope Eagle Dynamics will consider it given their....hefty...roadmap for 2021. Which also includes development of Combined Arms 2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Saw this last night. Maybe old news by now. https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/97330-dcs-roadmap-unofficial-no-discussion-here/?do=findComment&comment=4511508 Noted this; "Combined Arms 2 is on hold, all devs are busy elsewhere" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle Bureaucrat Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Eagle Dynamics doing well, but I can't look pas the fact they rarely, if ever, update their core products that are still sold, but are a complete unusable mess. They overhauled the engine, maps, etc. and in the process completely ruined their campaigns - you can still buy them, for full price, load up in game, and have non of the scripts work. Black Shark 2 is being sold with campaigns in package that you can't progress cause the scripting is all messed, tuned for 1.5 engine version. I had to spend hours fixing scripts for Deployment campaign for Ka-50. Shame. Whenever ED announces big improvements to their engine I dread to think what it'll eventually bring. I wouldn't have problem with that if they informed their customers about the state of some modules and that they work properly only with certain builds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Colossus Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 i am not sure of the core game, but they make great cinema 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Indeed they do. I still hold out hope for some joint venture between Esim and Eagle Dynamics. With the fidelity of SB and DCS. and create a true simulation of modern warfare Both do what they do very well but are lacking In areas, I.e. SB CAS and DCS a decent ground Sim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) found this video. Man this guy has skills that's some rig. Edited March 28, 2021 by Marko 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 On 3/27/2021 at 6:25 PM, Marko said: Indeed they do. I still hold out hope for some joint venture between Esim and Eagle Dynamics. With the fidelity of SB and DCS. and create a true simulation of modern warfare Both do what they do very well but are lacking In areas, I.e. SB CAS and DCS a decent ground Sim. I doubt that'll happen anytime soon. A) ED is Russian & therefore eSim Is probably barred from working with them B) DCS isn't a training tool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 New Infantry Models: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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