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Do you think hitting high valuable component of an enemy battalion could make the campaign engine frag a10 or attack helis to wipe the area?

The good thing about BMS is that is cheaper and does not need a NASA level PC.

How do you distinguish bad lock so fast? Nice flying btw

My biggest regret about DCS is...Spending money on DCS...I really wish I would have stuck to Falcon BMS.

BMS is way better. But dcs is ok. Dcs is a game. BMS is a simulator.

Ive been trying to get into BMS for years now but Ive never been able to get into the community. DCS for me has always been easy to just hop onto a server and have fun. Even with DCS and it's problems it's been my go to combat sim and I enjoy it to this day.

Also try VTOL VR if you have a VR headset. Any is fine, even standalone ones.

Dang, those were some nice hits!

I was waiting for a long time for BMS to get VR. Didn't take long to jump over from DCS, where I was getting bored of the rinse-and-repeat of learning systems and cockpits, only to have nothing meaty to use them with. Liberation doesn't cut it when compared to BMS DC, and there are so many broken underlying systems in DCS that are made stark by BMS. BMS has solid bones. DCS simply doesn't. Forever hoping DCS improves, but my faith rarely gets a top-up.

Nice!

Why do people keep calling these games a sim?

Nothing beat falcon 4 dynamic campaign

The required rate of descent on final is equal to groundspeed divided by two. 150 gs equals 750 fpm. Just add a zero. The sooner you get the gear out and let the jet extend the leading edge and trailing edge flaps the sooner you can reach the stability you are looking for. Putting them out late naturally destabilizes your approach until you bring it back in line.

Both DCS and BMS have their merits. The dynamic campaigns of BMS are absolutely stunning from my perspective as a DCS player. However, something that I'll likely never get to experience in BMS that has absolutely captured my heart in the last several years is flying helicopters in DCS. I've never had as much fun in a flight sim.

Have you tried refueling the A-10 in DCS? If so, is it easier?

Can you get a tblisi approach plate and fly the dme arc / use the approach fix? Idk if dcs even has those. Good job btw! This is what dcs simulates best in my opinion. Great vid

Think you've got the honor of the first person to upload an ILS landing in the phantom, was nice to see it.

This is a "digital cockpit simulator"! Look at the bomb effects! Has anyone seen the Mk-82 live ammunition in action? It's terrifying! In DCS, it's like watching fireworks! There's no mobility kill, the effects are poor! The ground graphics are horrible! Without high-quality ground textures and infantry, why would anyone want to simulate helicopter operations? You can't create dynamic missions or campaigns without extensive scripting, and even then, the performance is terrible. Currently, the multi-crew feature in the F-4 causes a 50% FPS drop, and turning on the radar causes another 50% drop! Test it for yourself! Scripting can become buggy with updates. You can never truly simulate a battlefield-maybe a mission, but even that can be historically inaccurate due to poor terrain. Key events in modern air combat are missing! Desert Storm, one of the most important terrains, is absent! Vietnam! I'm not even mentioning Korea! Where should I fly my F-86 without Korea! how about block 50 Viper and SE! I need Iraq and Saudi Arabia! Where should I fly my F-5?! I dont like to do campaign with F-14 in Nevada! F-4 and UH-1 needs Vietnam! Where is Mariana WWII! what happened to DTC ? Volkan API? ED has broken promises since 2018! First, the excuse was COVID, and now it's the Ukrainian invasion. I own most of blue modules and almost all terrains (except SA) and all campaign! my relationship with Ed is love and hate ! spending 10 years in DCS! Just fly BMS and try it, the graphic is horrible BUT almost 1 guy developed dynamic campaign! its community driven! no one paid for BMS! Falcon 4 is only few dollars! check the COMMS in BMS, kneeboards, AI, IFF ... all and all much better than DCS!

Would be interesting to see the flight path, check my ingame map which will draw a trail

You're first problem is your choice of planes. If you don't fly a Hornet, why bother?

Just searched Thais thank you🫡

I'm still dying for a dynamic campaign

How dare you to have been skeptical towards DCS??? 👁️👃👁️🙏

so, the skyhawk get you down of your high horse

DCS does have a dynamic campaign its a mod you download. Grim Reapers has a Tutorial video on there channel

Nicely flown! The way the needles on the ADI 'stutter' is so impressive. HB did some incredible work!

What the hell is BMS?

Great video, second the request for more of this without music.

The problem with DCS. Its always unfinished. Every module, is Unfinished. So much is placeholder, So much is lied about being accurate only for die hard fans to actually rip code out and catch them lying. Controversy after Controversy such as ED not paying its developers,Core mission makers and Modders leaving the game even with Key CZcamsrs leaving, and when games like BMS and Warthunder Dominate the market everyone always asks them selves, do they really want to spend 80$ on a product that is made by a company with a track record of not finishing anything they promised to finish. its easy to pass on DCS.

Been playing DCS ever since it was DCS. It's fun in some scenarios, but for the most part junk as a simulator because the models are almost all quite bad and mostly junk as a game. Too much work to setup realistic scenarios, and they'll never be as dynamic as BMS. PVP is probably where it's at right now, but I'm not interested in PVP. All of the servers, including Enigma, are highly arcady either way, as is the course for unscheduled multiplayer. Occasionally I'd give a module a try on a free period and learn it in the a week or so, that's always entertaining. I'll probably get the OH-58D if not simply because any scenario where it would be used in can be made in a not entirely unreasonable amount of hours. Making something realistic and worthwhile for jets starts to go into the three digits and mission making in DCS is quite painful even compared to antiquated sims like Steel Beasts, if not simply due to it being a modern combat flightsim with all the complexity and scale that entails. Ironically, I mostly prefer BMS because it's *less* work and takes *less* time than doing something worthwhile in DCS. BMS can generate acceptable scenarios in a relatively dynamic environment in minutes; and keep generating them sequentially in a way where they provide context to eachother. DCS needs this sooner than later. I don't much care for the graphics, although BMS is improving lately which will be good; moreso DCS has some QoL functions which would be welcome. It's not enough to get me to fly it more, though.

I like planes but I am barely competent in ATF Gold. I bet I would be easily downed by any amateur DCS pilot. LOL

DCS is more a sandbox

we forgive you for labeling your own content "hilarious".

It's a sandbox. I belong to a group of 30 and we fly missions all the time, some of them are days long. There are many amazing mission builders in the DCS community.

Personally DCS is going to be the only real option due to helicopters and ease of access to persistent MP campaigns stretching over months.

As someone who chronically plays DCS, I enjoy the rotary aircraft a LOT. BMS has its great parts, but I just don't have much of an interest in the F-16 and/or its systems. I say that, because when I was researching BMS I found out that all of the displays in other aircraft are just the systems from the f-16. I will just continue to play DCS for the PvE servers and the Cold War PVP.

Do you still have to do that hokey download thing to DL BMS.... ya know where you have first download Falcon 4?

holy shit is that Money for Nothing i hear???

IMO, the thing which really holds DCS back in terms of 'milsim realism' is the mission editor. The mission editor is an unbelievably clunky tool. You will spend HOURS trying to get units positioned where you want them, then hours more setting up trigger logic and scripts, just to get a basic "go here, kill this, don't get killed by that, go home" mission. Then, when you fly the mission, you'll find a dozen things that don't work right because the trigger and AI commands don't work the way their function names imply, and you'll spend hours MORE troubleshooting. I think this is why DCS multiplayer tends to devolve into AirQuake sessions. This is also why offline campaigns are sold as standalone modules. The sheer volume of work that goes into making good missions in DCS means that very few people are bothering to even try.

Where are the pilots ?

As a DCS player, I've always honestly wanted to try Falcon BMS, it seems great, i mean yes its old but the F-16 is also my favourite jet, hence why its my most flown aircraft in DCS even though i almost own every single fixed wing aircraft. There's also just something about the sounds in BMS that i absolutely adore, it feels "retro"? but also realistic? I really dont know how to describe it. Also I understand where you're coming from saying that DCS feels more just "hop in and shoot stuff" rather than a hardcore sim. For this i would highly recommend you try and find groups that do actual operations! They're great fun honestly. And another point is that ED are working on a dynamic campaign system which should hopefully be here soon. Anyway, brought up some great points and I'm thankful you've been able to enjoy both simulators honestly. I hate when people just pick a side and stick with it saying "its the best" without ever really giving the other side a chance.

I don't think the radar can lock water for DT over a ship/rig. Same thing happened to me. Works perfectly over land.

Is this Angry Mike Humphry…? 😅

I had always been under the impression that DCS had the more lively "milsim" community, where does one go to find equivalent BMS groups? I have wanted to get into BMS for some time now that it finally supports VR, but don't know where to find like minded "realism/milsim" groups.

You landed on a taxiway, you know that right? 6:22

that was sick. can u do more like this without music?

20 years since LOMAC. Aircraft AI is still incredibly dumb, ground units regularly get stuck, radio comms are seriously outdated, nothing like IADS networks, old missions/campaigns remain broken.... All these shiny modules, but the core gameplay has barely improved in the last few years.

DCS, Falcon BMS, IL2, MSFS, X-Plane and even VTOL-VR.. what you get out of them is directly proportional to what you put in.

DCS has many campaigns made my Reflected that go from WW2 to Fairly recent that are built around briefings and such. The AI has recently gotten way better as well, and rarely ever feels like UFO's

Long live BMS . Dcs world will continue releasing unfinished modules while BMS will get a major graphics overhaul on par with War thunder . And many new aircraft will come . Also Falcon 5.0 is also in the works. Dcs wont last long if they still continue their crude ideas