I have both VR and IRheadtracker. Personally I like the headtracker but both are great for DCS. Infact some could say an IRtracker or VR is required for DCS considering much much you have to look around and constantly looking back down in your cockpit.

How do you click buttons? I find it difficult to use my Reverb in DCS because my X3D pro moving on my desk can be unreliable when I can't see it

It gets your blood pumping when it happens for real too.

Uh1 and ah1 are just naturally dope

i was wondering if this was vr, im assuming it was

Wouldn't mind if he made a narrative based version based on his gameplay

Also jester: ejects

Man I wish I could throw away entire 1 hours just flying around doing nothing.. I'll just skip to the one minute flight and have done 👍

My name is jafar, I come from afar. Allah hu akbarrr

ATC: Turn Right 339, cleared ILS RWY 34 You: Right 339, unable ILS request Visual ATC: Unable You: ... ATC: ... Jester: PUNCHING OUT!!!

Now imagine, that you have not planned mission like in DCS, but you have dynamic campaign like in Falcon 4 Allied Force or Falcon BMS and your gaming experience will get doubled.

@@corporalblyat829 In a second hand car

or like in the video hugging the hills as much as you can to get any advantage is so much fun

I love VTOL VR! I don't seem to have the patience to learn DCS well enough to accomplish anything, but VTOL gives me most of the important bits of realism without requiring the time investment that DCS does. If DCS is like iRacing then VTOL VR is like Forza Motorsport.

@@GuyFromJupiter VTOL VR is such a simple system, though it still has it's title as a flight simulator, I'd say it's more arcady but it really just depends on if you're used to the game or not. DCS though for me is not about the learning process, for me its about the actual cost, I'm only living through free trials right now :cri:

@@ryz_vik : I love VTOL VR. Physics and everything feels great. However, owning good a good hotas from Virpil, I can't really say the virtual stick is a good replacement. Too imprecise. At least you can use rudder pedals ;) Edit: Ahh. I just saw that its possible to get hotas support through a mod. Nice.

@@GuyFromJupiter I think the VTOL physics engine is also not as advanced, so you can’t do batshit crazy maneuvers with the thrust vectoring mod. But the game itself is still very fun, but no multiplayer yet.

GETTING DOWN LOW AND FLYIN SLOW BOYS

Tomcat canopies are great. Fly a mig 21 sometime.

I-16 is most modern cockpit design tovarisch. No canopy best canopy.

@@questioneverything4633 Oh ive flown that too

I love doing it in the MiG-29

Gazelle has unrealistic physics.

@@floatingchimney It does. It's also a uniquely capable weapons platform. I guess it depends why you play DCS, really...

@@Daimo83 DCS in general is great, but the issue with Gazelle is that it's a 3rd party add-on, a not-so-well done helicopter. I've bought it and personally don't like it - it feels too simplified from a physics/handling standpoint. I prefer flying the Huey - but I've bought all the helis.

@@floatingchimney elitism

@@Larsx22 Elitism? Not sure what you're talking about. I'm stating facts, I'm not trying to sound "holier than thou".

It would be cool if, after ejecting, DCS could go into a survival style FPS like Tarkov. You have to evade enemy forces, survive in the wilderness, and make your way to an extraction point.

@@angryginger791 good idea for a new game

@armoured-bicycle For sure. Just day dreaming though. The PC's, servers, and connection bandwidth you'd need would be crazy. Maybe in like 50 years.

Immersive games are my must-have. I love them.

How about Squad?

Lookin for a pilot?

@@steel_yeet2989 I have a pilot haha. But if you ever need a rio I'd be down. Lately I've been off the game though waiting for the Apache.

Maybe for a singleplayer game but that doesn't really apply to a multiplayer game.

@@mazzars1772 Yes of course.

@@mazzars1772 Good point!

Cries in Operation Flashpoint.

Can you explain to my puny brain, how making no mistake can also make you lose?

The realization that your own quick thinking and skill allowed you to prevail. Its very rewarding, well done.

Heat seeking missles are called fox 2's, AIM-7s or missles that require you to keep lock are Fox 1's, and the radar guided missles are fox 3s

@@hihi-dc9hc i was referring to the type of missile, in this case, the r-27ET.

@@potatopower707 Ah okay, it's basically a R73 but longer range

this is what makes dcs a beautiful game, everyone has their own story that blew their minds as it was happening. its a drug like no other, people talk dcs moments like gambling addicts talk about big wins

Just like Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilage Lol "A." LMFAO!!!!

I lately flew a 1 hour mission deep into syria at treetops, and then got shot down by a manpad... no warning. nothing. An other day I flew an Fw190 Anton over a few 100km to another airport. Landed it. perfect. And once I joined an event with many other players, and the job was to nightattack a facility with a harrier and AA refueling, after the hornets paved the way with CAP and HARMS. My GF wondered what that was all about... but to me all these scenarios were just bliss.

its very realistic so it feels natural

IL-2 has the “DCS affect” on me. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a WWII aerial combat simulator that’s only a bit behind DCS. Love that game so much.

"War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror."

Nerd.

Thank you

That happen in wt when you are alone vs some 2 or 3 planes, the blood pump like hell hshdh

I wish I had HOTAS for DCS

@@munozjuanpablo1266 had a 6 v 2 one match and it was just me (F-4E) and a F-5E. I was probably using 100% of my brain bc no matter what the enemy threw at me I evaded it with ease. That and the F-5E also put up a good fight and worked with me. Since we were both at ground level. Probably a mixture of some of the enemy fighters being bad and us out playing the shit out of them. Needless to say, heart was beating my hands where shaking lmfao.

@@phantomaviator1318 check out the thrust master HOTAS X (they make one for PS4 as well) it is fairly cheap and not bad for entry level to see if you like it

@@1991USsoldier thanks

Did you get to hit silk or were you both killed by the missiles?

I do wish that MiG-23MLA would have been done by Heatblur or Leatherneck/M3 to get it properly done, but now it is about Razbam from running it. Yet, can't wait to get in it, and beat those F-14 pilots in proper dog fight and BVR.

If you're breaking off your wings or going into spins easily, you're over-controlling the aircraft. The Cat is a bit temperamental with hard control inputs, especially at high speeds or transitioning from them. Try to focus on using less stick at first or easing into a maneuver. I started to get a fairly manageable aircraft when I started treating it like a lady. Once you reprogram yourself for that, you'll need to learn the ways it likes to chase. As designed, it likes a lag pursuit, keeping the target you're chasing just above the canopy spar. This keeps the speed up and gives you just enough to pull a hard nose-on when they get frustrated and make a stupid move.

I was enjoying this vid when you posted this. Its disappointing to hear but your honesty is a mark of your reslience. Keep up the good work. There's a reason you have as many views and subs as you do.

hey dude, This is the exact reason I deleted my account with 12k followers. Couldnt bare the hate myself. you hang in there, the video was not bad, I just really wanted to see what flying games there are. Like, im a rookie in this. I like aviation in general. But I could never afford a VR set. eitherway, I know the "rejection" feeling you can get of comments. And one might say "who cares, you dont know the person" yes, but some are very personal, and speaking for myself I have like Autism and ADHD, which makes such hate even worse. Eitherway, take care bro, life was never gonna be easy, yet you stand strong. big hug from the netherlands, take care. :)

People who doesnt even play dcs will not care even if you made a couple of mistakes while playing the game, its always the message and what they leave with that always matter

Don't be let down by haters man, they just have nothing going on in their life and their only way to get some 'fun'' is for them to act out their negativity on others

Find it weird people hate this. I think it’s pretty well made… is it a crazy high quality video. Not at all… but god damn it manages to perfectly capture the intensity you felt in that moment. Genuinely had a role in convincing me to throw all my paycheck into getting into DCS.

Elite dangerous active on pc?

@@low5738 : Yeah. Still active. No idea HOW active, but I mostly fly alone anyways. Basically none of my friends play anymore.

I wish I'd had a pc when I got it. I'm on ps4.

@@ChrisIhao are there full servers? Shii I loved that game on PS4 but quit because I had no friends to play w lol. I’d play w u on pc

Yeah, I like to add insult to injury!

Where can I buy the old IL-2 games?

😂 even further back BoB on a 486mhz beast! Had me a sound blaster audio card. Next level…

I love my Sturmovik disks! Preciously stored and preserved. All of them. :)

Psh, try Rise of Flight, the only flight sim I've ever played that lets you (attempt to) shoot enemy pilots with your sidearm!

Sadly that isn't what DCS is about. The online gameplay is mainly pvp where it is instant action, and that means get up, launch missiles and land for rearming, repeat. The DCS really required a penalty for being hit and shot down. Now it is 3 min repair and 2 min rearming. We need at least 240-480 min repair depending damage. And 60 min rearming for West planes and 30 min for red. Then each base have limited number of planes, like 15 fighters, 10 helicopters and so on. If you get shot down, your ED account is denied to fly for 12 hours or sooner if a helicopter pilot perform SAR by picking up your virtual pilot and return it successfully back to your original base. You might return from fly by successful landing, but you can jump to another plane after 10 min briefing and all. Then the fight would turn interesting as you don't want to return too soon, but never return as damaged and you really don't want to be shot down. As well every pilot would be assigned maximum amount of missiles for a day from the base warehouse. Like 4-6 per day. Every single sortie would matter, and every single missiles would be meaningful. But players don't want it, as they have no skills to tolerate losses and think that they should be free to risk planes and ammunition just for sake of fun. And that makes DCS so unrealistic.

@@paristo well the servers I play on are a little slower than what you described. But I also think for a casual night flying your proposal is not feasible, maybe for a longer match with a white list. I'm doing a lot of strike or Cas missions so the pvp aspect doesn't really affect me since I try to dodge those fights.

@@paristo maybe for a hardcore server, you don't want to alienate the player base to an already niche game

@@pocketpunch9920 It should be opt-out feature, so those who want easier time to fly, can enable current mode. But default should be fearful experience in multiplayer.

@@paristo I won't disagree with that ! Would place a greater emphasis on survival vs spaamraams

Who's "they"?

@@triplemurray Some pilots from Coalition forces during desert storm in 1991. I dont know exactly where I heard (Discoverу, National Geographics, or on internet). Its some kind of psychology thing. Missiles need much more time to get target, and pilot can do many things to avoid them ( maneuvering, ECM, flaers&chaffs). But if you are low and in range of some 20mm, 30mm or up to 40mm (like bofors) there is no warning and you hope that there are not so good crew on the ground.

Well, you just can hardly outmaneuver a well aimed 23mm round much less a full burst and chaffs or flares won't work either. :)

@armoured-bicycle oh man so lucky u are to still have that. Unfortunately I lost mine.😭

I think the originators of the Lock on series are actually the same guys who made DCS

For me, it's the thrill of keeping low and out of radar for a half hour, then popping up and laying hate on enemy AA and armor with my A-10 so our helicopters can get in. I fly with a diverse group lol

'Taking small arms' and 'avoiding manpads'... Jesus exactly what sort of game is this!? 😯

I use mouse and keyboard, and believe me you do not want to fight me in DCS, most dont believe me when I tell them, the only thing that makes me wish I used a hotas is when I have mismatched ordnance on the wings and need to fly straight for a long time, like bombing runs.

@@antoniohagopian213 You use mouse and keyboard? But you don't use the keys bound for trim? Rock on Brother, Rock on!

@@michaeltrivette1728 it's a pain to trim with keyboard, it's better to not use it

Technically speaking the F14 is a very rudder involved jet, so you should be using them all the time. This close to the ground however and a little too much rudder or rudder at the wrong time, and you go straight into the trees. Very very tiny movements on the pedals, and probably not enough movement for fear of being ripped to ribbons by nature's giant toothpicks.

Lots of great advice, but let me clarify some things: 1. With evading Fox 2s, the best chance you got is by minimizing your own heat signature and dropping flares, while being *Fast*. Getting out of burner and into idle power minimizes the hottest thing's heat signature's on your aircraft: your engines. It was a while back, but if I remember correctly, an R73 got me in the end because I was slow, but I was in min and dropping flares. *It does not always work, and sometimes fox 2s will just go for you no matter what.* 2. In BVR and Dogfights, there is no such thing as "being cheap" or "cheating", there are those that are clever and adaptive, and those who are targets. 3. Make sure your ECM is *_ON_* against fox 1s, or any type of radar guided things. HOJ capabilities exist, but all HOJ does is display the direction the Jamming is coming from. Jamming allows an aircraft to conceal its range from the HOJ radar, which is better because you want to give your enemy _less_ information about where you are, not more. They will have no ranging information, which means they wont know for certain when to take a shot. At about 25-40 miles, the radar will burn through the jam, depending on the radar and target, at which point all ranging information will be displayed. 4. Against Russian designs like the flankers in the video, the objective should *not be to survive until a merge.* The reason is because that will cost a ton of fuel and time. And on a mission where your objective is to hit a ground target, youre gonna want as much fuel as you can take. Normally an F14 would slap all three of these flankers at about 30 miles with the phoenix, but I was, for lack of better terms, jumped by what I thought was only one, and turned out to be a few more than 1, which drove me into the dirt and death. Ideally, against a flanker, NATO designs hold BvR capabilities above them with better data integration (datalink and radars) and better weapons systems overall (AMRMAAM, Phoenix, HMCS, AIM9Xs, etc). If possible, you should lock in TWS, fire a longer range fox 3 as sneakily as possible, and then kill him without having to merge at all. It costs the least fuel to do this, the least amount of missiles, and the least amount of time. Even if your first shot is evaded, you should be pressing for a second, because you want to keep him on the defensive, close the distance, and kill him, without actually merging. Merging with Russian designs, who will almost 100% of the time have HOB missiles, great airframes for dogfighting, and loads of fuel, is not a good idea, *especially if you are laden with external fuel tanks, bombs, or really any extra weight at all.* Now, its not a death sentence if you merge with a russian design, but it does usually mean your entire mission is gonna go out the window, especially if you have to jettison weight (ie any bombs or fuel tanks that you needed to complete your initial mission) to be competitive in a merge. Many NATO designs are excellent dogfighters as well, but dogfighting in itself is very detrimental to an overarching mission. Exciting, yes, fun, yes, but useful to a real mission? Not really. Even where your mission is CAP, and your job is to clear the skies, getting into a merge means youre going to be burning lots of fuel, which means you are going to have to land sooner, which means that whatever air space you are guarding will become vulnerable to enemy air sooner, and if youre escorting something, then you might have to leave them completely defenseless because you didnt have the fuel to stay up and escort them back home. Sorry if this is a ton, but DCS and Air combat are nothing if not complex, and there are a ton of important details that should be considered if you want to be as good as you can be.

If you want to get into it deeper the logical first step is the FC3 pack. If you want to get a high definition plane, i can reccomend the F-5. Old plane, no BVR capability whatsoever, modern jets will eat it alive. But it is so much fun to fly, not that complex and easy to learn, and compared with the Su-25 in air to air it is god, very nimble lightweight plane and fast enough if you have time to accalerate (mach 1.6 up high). You can still defeat any modern jet if you manage to ambush. No autopilot, the radar sucks, underpowered, two missiles and two cannons, only very little countermeasures - all in all its all about that pilot shit, no computers to take your hand :)

Now the ai has improved i think

In this video I was using a Rift S, but since then I've switched to a valve index.

yes

I used to get real head dizzy, especially flipping upside down, as gravity on my body would be going one way, but my eyes would be saying its the other. But after many hours in DCS alone with VR, you get used to it, I've just passed about 1000 hours in cockpits. I'm comfortable doing pretty much anything now. Its just a matter of training your head to ignore some of what your body is saying. I still get VR sick in games like Pavlov, where you use a thumbstick to move you character around, and just like any other FPS game, its an instantaneous movement, and your head lurches forward in the fake world, but your body stays still in the real one. That movement still gets me today.

@@Romeovictor the most daring things I have done so far in VR is air refueling and carrier traps. I really want to dogfight, but you know. It's good to know that it can be overcome.

@@antonbatura8385 vr sickness is the milsim equivalent of g training, luckly everyone can overcome it unlike g-forces ( disabilities aside)

You should get used to it really fast. As I started fpv flying, I leaned against the car for the first hours, but then I was able to stand freely quite fast. I immagine there isn't much difference between flying a drone through video Googles or playing a flight simulator in VR.

@@fabianrudzewski9027 do you have stereoscopic vision when you control a drone?

track ir is cheating...lol

It'll be down to every pilots personal opinion. Swipe in Track for sure, but now you've got to get used to moving your eyes to parts of the screen and moving you head in completely different directions, even if its small, its unnatural. To many like myself, too unnatural. Smeared picture yes, but since its VR, and not a flat screen, you dont see it, as your pupils are now focused on each individual object you look at. Peripheral vision isnt as focused as your converged vision. If you want to see the smeared object in focus, you simply look at it, and it becomes clear. Large neck movements for sure, but large neck movements even give pilots a better indication of where their plane is in relation to themselves when looking across the circle. Neck bent really far? Nose is not on. Neck bent barely? Nose is getting closer. I'd say VR gives a large advantage in terms of spotting, as the pixels are shoved right up to your eyes and there aren't as many to sort through to find something, its super easy to keep visual on a target even twenty miles away, and in the merge, its very obvious where the bad guy is, as he's the only moving pixel in relation to everything else, where as TrackIR all the pixels move on your screen in relation to you. There are ups and downs to both, and one could make arguments for each case. Personally I simply prefer VR.

UNLESS you're on a very expensive rig

oh yeah. i feel the same way. real pilots doesnt move their heads either. they have their trackirs very high sens

I play better in VR personally. I don't notice a smeared picture at the edges but maybe my eyes are just so used to focusing on the center. Anyways for me the immersion in VR greatly outweighs any advantage Track IR offers, and I own both. (I use Track IR for certain things) To each their own I suppose.

BFV isnt a flightsim at all xD but fair enough

You're playing the F-14 module with just a Logitech Wingman joystick? It sounds like you need to upgrade to something that isn't so old. There are in fact F-14 replica joysticks for sale now by manufacturers like VKB and Virpil, for instance.

I envy you, then.

No one makes it out of DCS every time, or most of the time.

I also fly with invulnerability on when learning a new aircraft

@@Blablablabla1ify You should never use the invulnerability option. That's not how you become as good as I am.

@@eldridgefelder3427 You’ve beaten me. I’ve missed how or why you’re making that statement about always making it out alive 😂

That is part of the music soundtrack, not part of the F14

You are correct, it _is_ a study level sim. However, as a person that publishes his voice and actions on the internet, where people are just the smartest, most understanding people ever (sarcasm), I might come across as pretentious and gate keeping if I were to say this. Just as well I would be scaring and discouraging other people from trying the game, which is not something I want to do. I do try to keep my audience in mind when I script a video, or talk at all.

@@Romeovictor I wasn't completely serious in the first place ;) I totally agree with your approach. I would even call it a game when making sure new friends know I'm a nerd. After all we do have fun with it, do stupid stuff and it's not nearly as serious as let's say a PMDG 737 in Flight Simulator with Vatsim.

@@jemand8462 It seems the joke flew right over my head lol. But then again Im only smart on the full moon of every month haha, love hearing these words from the community of DCS.

@@jemand8462 to be honest game has become quite the blanket term nowadays, sure it might be technically correct but it feels wrong thinking that in an archive of everything ever DCS and Candy crush should be filed in the same cabinet

@@npc6817 hahahaha agreed! I would call Candy Crush a mind degenerator and time waster though ;)

The Prowler · Daniel Pemberton I usually post music used in the video in the description.

Not with ease, but it can be done via virtual desktop or an oculus link cable. Not sure if DCS is on oculus itself, but you can always go through steam and steam VR.