Going to be celebrating my fifth Twitch affiliate anniversary and doing a streamathon over the weekend! There will be flight, there will be adventures, community co-op, expert tetris! bad hastily drawn art about ridiculous things and a whole lot of fun ^^
Revealing some cool new things while we’re at it too! Also coming up already today in a few hours, community co-op flight in #DCS
'DCS: Cold War map - Berlin first look - Flight over the city of Berlin on an F-86F aircraft' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOUnJKFaL6o /via #ugramediaofficial #dcs
Last Friday we had another really good community co-op flight on stream! We took on Op Blindsided with five people, an intense airdrome defense mission I designed and have maintained for a decade at this point.
I’m trying out a new stream schedule for the community flights moving to Fridays to make it easier for people to make it in, while they used to be late on a Sunday and the following mornings were a lot 
Team did great and we were done in two and half hours even despite a surprise attack by a Chinese destroyer. We finished off the stream with some practice on the Syria map flying some challenges in Through the Inferno.
Here's some highlights from my streams, we're flying jets and helicopters, in and out of boxes! Never be too serious to have fun!
C'est con mais j'ai rigolé très fort
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eg2SSX9bLTI
Ça m'a rappelé ma période DCS 
Few screenshots from my last weekends community co-op flight in #DCS where we flew op Expansion. A neat dynamic scripted mission where you start off with one airfield, capture resources, forward air bases and finally the enemy airfields.
Among other funny moments we had a AI Chinook make some “inappropriate advances” on a player that had just captured a FARP, landing right on top of his Hind ^^
Been running these flights weekly and it’s always a good time with some good people to fly with 
Screenshots by Agilaz and Nene.
Sim-Flying is waiting for 5 Minutes for the plane to figure out where in the world it currently is, then botching the start and crashing into the runway limiter #DCS
Though I wasn’t fully feeling great the community flight went well! Felt good to be back to flying the F-15 after a few weeks break and spending time with some good people.
Scored a number of BVR wins, dodged missiles from SAMs, jets and ships, and did a bunch of bomb tossing flying low and ducking in and out of terrain cover. All in all a good time.
Shots by Agilaz and Nene.
[Перевод] Пора ли менять DCS на универсальную систему управления?
Что такое универсальная система управления (UCS), и действительно ли она способна заменить распределённые системы управления (DCS) в будущих задачах по управлению технологическими процессами? Каковы основные преимущества UCS?
[Tw] RT @OTARU_D_A_F: 飛行中のエンジン火災～不時着訓練♪
@Rintaro1699 さん的確な射撃、ありがとうございました！(｀･ω･´)ゞ
射撃側UH60からは鎮火したように見えたらしいのですが、自機機外視点では消えてなかったなぁ～
手順が違うのかな？
#DCS…
[de] https://twitter.com/windymelt/status/1880310347908935984
From today's ADMIN Update newsletter, Thomas Joos shows you how to configure your domain controller security settings correctly with Policy Analyzer and current Microsoft baselines for a leak-tight Active Directory
https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2024/83/Optimizing-domain-controller-security
#security #configuration #ActiveDirectory #PolicyAnalyzer #DCs #Microsoft #DomainController
When dropping LGBUs in CCRP, you have to be flying straight and level at the second tick mark. If you are not level the jet will still release ordinance, but you will miss the target, laser or no laser 
currently trying to master the A-10C in #DCS with focus on the HMCS controls. The video to that topic is very funny "press thingamabob up and this and that and a bit of this but never forget that specific. I don't know what kind of flightsticks you have but I have ONE coolie hat that already is overloaded with 5 modifiers and I'm still not having enough coolie hat functions 
I just tested the MSFS2024 and took a flight in the F-18 to be able to compare it to the DCS one.
Somehow every aircraft I try on the MSFS2024 feels sluggish and wrong. The flight model feels off in comparsion to DCS.
Tell us something you struggle with when flying helicopters.
My experience with VR so far
Like with most things tech related, my time trying VR has been very weird. I had a lot of strange technical difficulties that had to get sorted out.
Not only is this my first VR headset, but this is my first time ever experiencing VR. So there’s a lot to say about my experience with that.
The headset itself is large but not overly so. It weighs on your head like a hard hat or bicycle helmet does: present but not heavy or uncomfortable. When the straps adjusted correctly it’s well balanced on your head. It never felt front heavy to me.
The headset seemed to track just fine.* Precision with the two controllers was pretty good. No jitter or drift that I can see.
Passthrough uses the B&W tracking cameras to “see” so visual quality is poor but you can see the individual keys on the keyboard but the letters are illegible.
The arterial cable wasn’t an issue for me. Just let it hang from behind my head. Didn’t feel “tied down” or uncomfortable, even while standing. Just be mindful of where you place it.
My main gripe is with the facial cushion. It’s rather thin so I’ll grab the Pimax “comfort kit” when it’s available.
On day 1 the headset was pretty much plug & play. Got VRChat up and running in short time. Never had any issues with tracking while in the game.
On day 2, I tried DCS VR. That was a mistake. Had a ton of random issues that needed to be ironed out, from bad tracking to view centring audio issues.
As for me, someone new to VR, navigating in VRChat was a lot to take in. Very cool but I was sweating and could tell I was riding the line between being fine and being nauseated. Eventually it became too much had to take it off or risk throwing up. I spent a day or two recovering.
Trying DCS VR, I experienced some very mild vertigo at first given I spawned mid-air but in the end I was able to enjoy my time (as much as I could) before becoming tired of the almost nonstop issues. But physically, I felt fine. No nausea. Just trying to get used to the experience.
I have no other point of comparison so it’s hard to give an opinion, but the Pimax Crystal Light seems like a solid piece of kit. It plays nice with VR optimized games and offers a visually impressive experience for a fair price.
DCS VR, on the other paw, is very user unfriendly but VERY cool.
While cool visually, it seems clear to me that unless DCS becomes a more VR friendly game, I’m going to continue using my IR head tracker. It’s just way more convenient and reliable, and while visually “flat”, everything is much higher definition.
I’ll have to give VRChat another go but so far I’m pleased with my purchase.
“I LOVE THIS JOB”, for DCS, updated to version 4: https://buff.ly/3Zw0Byj
Nice, managed to finally do a private #DCS session with @stoffelcpr tonight. It was more confusion than anything else, including forgetting to actually bring missiles but fun nonetheless xD
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