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  • 2 weeks later...

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.

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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. 

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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 😉

 

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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.

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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!

 

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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.

 

 

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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. 

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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. 
 

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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.

 

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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. 

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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.

 

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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.

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