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Seems over complicated. I think most people just want to spawn certain enemy when they do certain things in a mission. Not sure what all the flag business is about. Didn’t make it past 20 min.

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Welcome. You did a great job. I want the helicopter to take off (AI) at a specific time that I choose.

4k doesn't really make things easier to see as distance. It just means objects at distance have more pixels it won't help if the individual pixels are so small you can't see them. You only really need ~100 ppi which can be achieved with 1080p. If you want to go for 2k or 4k then you really need to go for a bigger screen to benefit from the extra pixels. I'd say to to about 24 inches you can get away with 1080p Then up to around 34 inches you can get away with 1440p Above 34inch (basically TV territory) is where you start to truly benefit from the extra pixels 4k has. The reason you can see better in vr is because the screens are much "larger" as they sit in frint of your eyes. Uaing vr is essentially like watching a 60 inch tv from up close ofcourse you will see small details better

I just got a 4090 3 days ago. Im still flabbergasted at how much better everything looks and works. I mostly fly the F16. I never realized how hard it was to use the targeting pod until now. It is so much easier to find targets. Kola is jaw-dropping. I know it's an expensive gpu, but i wish i would have done this earlier. It's worth every dollar.

Excellent example! truly enjoyed your step by step explanation!

It's astounding to me the level of quality this sim has, even for thing no one will probably ever see. It's both why I love it so much, but also why it can literally take a decade for new features to be developed.

nice awesome thanks!

can i try more than one time?

Avoided watching the other big channels myself on everything about the F4, I've watched the promo movie stuff, but you're right about the hype from those who get the plane months before and for free, it sickens me now to be honest. I did buy the Plane as soon as it came on to Steam and first impressions are it looks fantastic cockpit wise, but it badly needs to be optimised. Overall it's like a midway between a WW2 aircraft and the more 'Modern' Jets in flying style. Think I will shelve it for a few months and hopefully hot fixes. My main fear with DCS overall is their reliance on players having to buy the latest graphics cards, more memory etc to disguise overall optimisation of the sim - A Pay your way out of problems attitude.

As for landing.. I've done some really hard navy landings and some REALLLLLY HARD, bad USAF landings and haven't popped tires.. so I think you were onto something with having the crosswind helping out with that. AS for the master caution. The reset is just outside of your right knee. And for landing, pilots would raise their seat to assist with seeing over the nose. Small three way switch on the outside of your right hip, directly infront of the ejection handle.

vapor and vortices are not "easy" to do.. That is two complex fluid dynamics simulations that needs some work to implement into existing modules. The FM, from what I can tell from reading combat recounting is very accurate for a sim. The Stab AUGs are accurate. The gauges and all other things being simulated don't need to be "super duper smooth" to validate them being simulated. There are a lot of sub processes running on the CPU when the phantom is running that no other modules aside from the tomcat runs. Animation smoothness is a poor marker to pick at to criticize what you define as simulated or not. The "elasticity" is something that gets negated with saturation and curves, and outside of DCS, not a lot of other sims have options to adjust those on a minute level. The "ground" effect you mentioned for choppers isn't applied to all fixed wing. some modules you do feel that cushion as you come in for landing. ^ Paying customer who has done a lot of reading and testing things. The Engine fire thing.. is a long lasting ED bug, not a HB inherent issue. Hard to fix what ED won't BUT its possible that their damage model simulated throwing something from the right engine into the left that cut fuel or something making it spool down.. And I don't think most people are going to know how to fight the phantom and will get into a death spiral, rather than staying fast and using the vertical. The average player is going to try and turn fight and get slow because they think they can power through it when in reality, the jet needs to be fast. Like 550kts fast. Boom and zoom tactics. 1 turn is possible if you really know what you're doing. As for the engine spooling. Its accurate. It was a responsive engine and HB tested, confirmed and recorded this on a flying F-4E in private hands here in the US. I am an admitted HB fanboy, but I think the module will get better over time. They are likely going to do some tuning of EVERYTHING like they did on the Tomcat, and it can hopefully only get better. Jester is laggy AF. Sometimes, jester ui responds instantly. Most of the time, jester ui takes 5-10s to "activate" with my VR headset tracking.

Great review. I have exactly the same thoughts like you after some hours of flights. The phantom feels very instability. Would be great to hear some words from a real F4 Fighter pilot, how the simulation feels for him. Anyway…this plane makes fun and I like the old analog cockpit of the 70ies. And in VR airs amazing… :)

what a sick landing at the end, i cant even land a warbird normally. this helped alot as i never understood why i was dragging and loosing my enemys.

With which level of confidence you try to proof to us that something isnt simulated is kind of inspring. You're wrong though.

The Falklands is renowned for its lack of trees, when I was there in ‘84, there was only one small copse on the whole of the islands. There were also very few cows. Lots of geese though.

Ok, ........ so, ...... if you don't know why the stabilator is moving in what direction and why, then may I suggest you learn some basics about airplanes and aerodynamics. Also, I think you're confusing a "stabilator" and "stability augmentation" as the same thing. they are not. The stability augmentation is implemented into the hydraulically boosted flight control system to assist the pilot with maintaining "STABILITY!" The all moving tailplane...AKA "Stabilator" will ALWAYS move with flight control input, regardless if the Stability Augmentation system is in use. However, the "Hydraulically Boosted" flight controls WILL STOP working if you lose Hydraulic pressure in the system. Edit to add Off the top of my head, the stability augmentation system is probably most useful at high altitudes in much thinner/less dense air. Fast swept wing jets have several more maneuvering considerations at high speed high altitude flight. If one goes whipping about their "fast swept wing jet" at high altitude in the Trans Sonic speed range bad/violent things can happen. All airplanes have limitations, the stability augmentation system is a tool to assist the pilot achieve desired flight characteristics. Cheerio!

I have a question. I just got this as well. So the question is when I fly the f4 when I just let go of my stick it just pulls straight back and trim doesn’t work. Is anyone else having this issue

Nice Honest review, thankyou very much. May i ask if you were using a tracker headset of some sort? the head motion was very smooth. I use track ir 5 but find it a bit choppy in DCS for some reason

Amyone who complains about video game releases is a self-important first world daffodil. Grow up and get some perspective. People are starving!!! Such garbage!

Keep digging... If you can't find anything wrong just slow it down to "super duper slo mo" and find a pixel out of place... "See if you push the rudder really hard to the right and let off fast it kind of... " Seriously?? The fact that you made no sense shows how fine of a job they did....

Love the no-nonsense approach. Subscribed.

Just so everyone knows, this guys channel is NOT in anyway related to Fox3 Managed Solutions. That’s all carry on

The white "stuff" that looks like a shock wave actually isn't one. Due to plowing through the air at very high speeds you'll compress the air around you. This compressed air will expand again, and when it does that it will cool down very rapidly. This then cooler air can't hold as much moisture as it could before. That's when the moisture starts to condensate. Basically the same principle of what happens with hot compressed exhaust gases at high altitudes and very low temperatures. Though the reason for the compression is a different one. The same effect is the reason for vapor trails caused by the wing tips. compressed air, that rapidly expands, cools down and expels moisture in form of vapor. Which will then disappear when the cooler air gets to ambient temperature again and also when the vapor is consumed by the warmer ambient air.

Everything in a game or a sim is computed in a more or less turn based manner(the clock rate). Reality = analogue, everything that happens inside a computer program = based on a clock rate. Even(of course) simulated analogue devices, or simulated reality itself. Depending on their importance different parts of a program might even be computed with differing clock speeds, but with a specific relation to each other. Like for example the wear and tear of an aircraft in contrast to the position update of the flight path marker. And when you slow down time enough even the smoothest running simulated hand of a gauge, computed with the highest clock frequency, will appear like it is ticking. Because you are essentially slowing down the base clock rate. Some things might become stuttery sooner than others, because they were computed with a lower frame rate than other parts of the program. But in the end everything will look like a slide show if you slow down time enough.

Nice Review, I served in the USAF in Washington DC I was a 4 year Peace time Veteran. I was lucky to get a Top Secret Clearance and spend all 4 years in Washington. I did a lot of jobs at the White House and Andrews AFB. I was Stationed at Bolling AFB Washington DC. The F-4 was still in service then I remember watching them land and popping their drag chutes I loved seeing this from under the back of Air Force 1 waiting for the President to arrive for a departure. Some of us served in the Military and now have fun with DCS. Some work very hard at it and have been successful at building a good site. Freedom comes from service and the ultimate Sacrifice to your country to give all people the right to speak and say what they think without tyranny. I may be in another Country but You can express your opinion and I respect it as a Honest one. Never let your voice be be snuffed out even by other Veterans that served with Honor. You have a right to be heard. Like it or not by others, It was a Honest review and I enjoyed it. I'm a Self made Military Thick Skin SOB Living Free in Ohio.

Just to get your facts right, those of us who got early access also paid for the module. We got early acces so we can devout OUR free time to test the module so YOU can play it bug free and in my case to build mission content so YOU have something to play with on release. But yeah, finally someone spoke the real truth in the one and only reliable, uncorrupted and honest Phantom review 👍 While you’re at it I suggest you check out the tutorial I posted, it will answer many of your questions.

On the flight stability thing with stab aug off. I believe the F-4 has bellows that help recenter the stick when you release it. The opening in the vertical stabilizer is where the air goes in, as speed increases say in a nose down attitude, it will help center the controls to help return you more level if you release the stick.

I'd like to say that many of us who got early access also paid with our own money. I've only gotten two modules early, the F-4 and F-15E, and I paid for both of them because I want to support the team backing the product. I hope you enjoy the F-4, she's a beauty.

There are some people, most of whom I’ve never heard of in my entire DCS career, who get Heatblur modules for free and very early; I remember this from the Tomcat. Actually, I'm not interested in the F4 at all, and the months-long hype is really getting on my nerves. But the fact that you’re doing an unpaid review and not a Heatblur ‘sponsored’ pre-release review made me click on your video and give you a thumbs up. I have nothing against the F4; I just don't need it at all, and it doesn’t do anything that my other modules can’t do. At least with the release, the hype will slowly die down-it’s really annoying.

So just that you’re clear- many of the people who had early access to the Phantom, myself included, paid for the module. Just want to make sure you are aware of that. As your title seems to imply the opposite.

"Failures should happen any minute." Caution panel immediately shows three failures. A few minutes later, still not checking caution panel. " Failures aren't working." Lol

So I watched your review and seemed like you did a pretty fair job, though this is early access s review seems kinda odd to me since everything is going to change. Anyway that aside I wanted to comment on the dials clicking or stepping when you slowed it down. I wanted to say though this is an Analog jet for the most part and they are simulating analog gauges etc., it’s being done in digital code. So maybe the way those dials work is by them stepping like you see when you slow it down. IDK, I am not a code writer but I am an engineer and I would think they’d have to do something like that for the gauges. Either way it doesn’t matter much to me. What I do find very impressive is the amount of failures you can have on this jet. Take a look in the ME and it’s very impressive. From what Sedlo (He has a channel and writes missions that are included in the F4 module) he told me no other jet has this many options for failures at early access. You can also change the wear and tear on each part. So I thought that was pretty impressive. So far I have only flown the F4 a little bit. Dropped some dumb bombs and shot some Mavericks! I found the Mavericks are easier to shoot than they are in the modern jets!! Too funny! Anyway, nice video. Thanks for taking the time to make it and share your opinion. I know it’s a lot of work, so thanks….Let me know what you think about the code thing I mentioned and if you know how it’s done let me know!!

Thanks a lot ...sir.

Less power less heat.....noted

I have a question i did it and it said you can use it for 14 days but when i go to game it’s not in there

It’s strange and quite annoying that they require flags to be numbers and not (descriptive) strings. With numbers only it’s impossible to remember what they mean, without keeping notes outside the game. Is there any reason for them being numbers? For example, would you ever store a flag number and increment it? Edit: I just checked, and you can give the flags string names. They don’t have to be numbers.

Great video mate - wondering why you are using DLSS with DLAA at Balanced with a 4090? no....................... you absolutely don't need to. DLAA yes. DLSS no. Not for you nipper. Cheers pal.

Looking forward to the 5090. I use triple screen 4K per screen and I'm getting 60fps on a 4080 using DLSS.

I could be wrong, but it sounds like you can really hear the whistle of that wing stalling when you're side-slipping around 8:40

VERY helpful! Thank you!

I know this is an old video but I have a question - do I rinse and repeat if I have a row of 5 Fuel Tanks so that each tank gets a kill message? ie. 5 sep. flags?

Great video, but to much gum ;-) What happen to #2 #3 #4 and #5? :-)

Great landing. You should post the video where you explain to Hezbollah why you've just landed an F16 there. That'll be a good one.

Thanks

Same thing with ground targets, but it seems a LOD issue to me. Do this test in VR: drop a GBU-12 from a A10C from 12k feet over a triple A and follow the bomb with CTRL+F6. You will see the HUGE target pixels as soon as you release the bomb, but as it gets closer, at a certain point, those pixels disappear and you don't see the targets "enhanced" anymore until the bomb gets very low in altitude. I don't know if this is something ED made on purpose to overcome VR's relatively low res.

:50 It's "mechanical" fuze, not "main" fuze.

Excellent explanation of how to use a rudder. Now I have a better idea of where I'm going wrong. Thank you.

Can you play it with a keyboard and it will work good? Because I just have a controller instead, but its a pain in the ass to click cockpit stuff I can imagine.

Excellent Tutorial on Flags! Thank You!