Great stuff man. You lose me at times because Idk what I’m doing but that’s why I’m watching your tutorials. You’ve helped me a great deal and I’m sure there’s a lot more people than just me. I’m glad to see y’all are finally getting recognized for everything y’all do for the community with sponsors. I’ve seen another speaking gig you did the other day. The British accent is loved by Americans and you could sell ice cubes to Eskimo. You gotta great speaking voice and you would really shine in documentary type stuff or historical retelling of events. Best of wishes and Godspeed to all of you
Great intro! I've been waiting for your video on this. It'd be nice to have an audio option to sound more like SRS, but in game VOIP has been needed for a while.
Thank you for this tutorial. You questioned why you would have multiple ICS setup. In modern helicopters like the H60 Seahawks you could have 2 or more ICS settings. Simply put - It's designed to reduce excess chatter during complex situations with multiple external comms happening simultaneously.
Excellent tutorial. Quick question: If I wanted to submit a scenario for your wargames series, where would I do that? I think this is a question a lot of people have...
Just here is fine, but I'm kind of full at moment so turning them away. Will hopefully catch up with them over next 2 weeks and then will start taking suggestions again. Thanks for asking.
I've just started watching your channel and I love the videos, the scenarios, the what ifs. Just a technical note, quite often the game sound is so loud compared to the voices, even Cap's, that it's hard to hear what's being said, especially for me as a non-native English and non-"flight jargon" speaker so the sound mix could do with some tweaking. Other than that ace content. 🙂
ED, can you add a hot mic enable for use with interphone. Front and back seaters don't have time to push to talk during battle, they need to hear each other breathe and think.
Thanks for the great concise tutorial. Great feature. The only thing I don't like about the lobby being within the DCS.exe process, is when DCS crashes you have no way of letting people know you crashed, need to reboot or whatever else.
@3:12 This! This corrected an issue I was having where Discord (I thought) was reducing my mic to basically inaudible when I had any other window in focus. Very annoying that Windows has this as the default setting.
I really hate having to setup 3rd party things for games, besides discord of course. This will make the game seem so much more alive for those of us who never bothered to learn how to make SRS work. Looks like a great system for the UI overlay. I do hope they put in a slight filter. Not like a terrible drive through sound, but something a bit less computer desk quiet.
Teamspeak kept the interface like garbage for the longest time, I understand they changed it after Discord growing but I will never use it again, but Discord is a memory hog (thanks Electron) and has some quirks I hate, Vent was never good. The only one I really like despite its faults is Mumble. It interfaces well with outside authenticators, not a memory hog, Ice, can configure a lot for absolute lowest of low latencies, and it has overlay like Discord. Also positional audio, kinda handy sometimes.
@@jamegumb7298 Guilded is a lot like Discord, but also has some better options for squad talk. I only use discord because it is what just about everyone uses.
Great stuff CAP,thx ....I do have problem when hosting MP with F16 or FC3 planes or MODs based on FC3 ,that my Mic is not active as soon as someone join the server???is there a problem if there are other apps like Discord or TS3 running in background or do we have to open specific port for DCS VoIP ,thx in advance
This may be a bit outside just the voice chat feature, but can we set up a server, within our installation of DCS, on one PC and have it joined by another PC running DCS within the same LAN, provided both PCs have access to Internet? Do they need to have Internet access? So, within a LAN (gigabit LAN) can I join 1, 2 or 3 PCs running DCS so that 2 to 4 people can fly together? Say we’re all 4 using the A-4E-C Skyhawk in the Marianas map. Does that work? If we all were to use the F-18, would each of the 4 PCs need its own paid copy of the F-18?
If you set this up, but then are flying with someone using SRS is it just a case of unticking the 'Voice Chat' box in DCS Settings/Audio? Are the radio Key binds then available to use in SRS or discord without DCS reacting to them? It is probable that when flying different servers it will be necessary to easily switch what comms method you are using depending on which server. It would be impossible to have to configure distinct buttons for Discord , SRS and DCS voice.
There is still a lot of SRS functionality that has no equivalent in the DCS system (e.g. LOTAC integration for Human GCIs to name just one). ED are working on enhancing the system to provide fully equivalent facilities. Until then the GR will stay with SRS but keep close eye on ED's development (We do talk to each other!).
Any idea when servers will be dropping SRS for this? So far I had bad experiences with SRS like randomly being disconnected so this is currently the most promissing feature for me for the game.
Checked, Yes it does work in VR, but the 'white dot cursor' used to interact with the chat window may be hard to find since its not aligned with the 'cross' cursor. Mine is offset 60 degrees right and 20 degrees below the cross cursor.
I have a question reguarding key binding. When assigning keybinds fro radio 1, 2, and 3, which radios do they assign to. For example, in the A-10C, is radio 1 the UHF, VHF AM, or VHF FM radio in the realistic mode? Thanks
You talked about binding MIDS PTTs, but I see nothing in the tutorial or in game about using MIDS radios with this system - it never shows up in the radio VOIP dialogue window. Assuming you have Link setup and you're both on the MIDs freq, does it work as any other radio, just doesn't show up in the interface?
Hi! IF I use SRS should I have this disabled in DCS setup? I noticed there is a cross in that box and I dont remember putting it on. I just wonder does it do some "weirdos" if I use SRS and voice chat is enabled, or DO they even need eachother or can be used at same time?
I'm a noob at DCS, and while browsing the hundreds of vids I've watched, SRS has come up, but since I'm not ready for multiplayer, I never bothered to get it. That said, this looks like it's a MUCH better solution, the fewer 3rd party stuff running in the background the better. NOW... To make this work with ATC, Wingmen, Tanker, etc. Not that I've yet succeeded at an air-to-air refueling yet (though I did do not one but TWO successful traps earlier today), but that comms menu is a pain that so far I've been ignoring. I looked at Viacom a little, but that seems wicked complicated on it's own, and it's yet another app in the background.
Push to talk means push and hold it pressed to talk, or just push and then push again to turn it off? EDIT: ah, it's press and hold! Does the comms pop-up need it be up all the time?
It’s really simple. Just go to your aircraft search bar and type in “comm” and it will let you bind your keys, then you use the f1-12 keys to choose your topic
It is an emergency channel. In aviation the frequencies are 121.5 mHz (VHF) and 243 mHz (UHF). It is used to communicate while having an emergency. Since many air and ground units are listening to those channels on a spare radioset there's always someone who can relay your emergency to the appropriate agencies for help.
Can you do a video of how would a Chinese carrier group stand up if it decided to go after Australia? So how would the fleet stand up against the Australian air force and navy? The PL15s should lose their advantage against the F35As. Australia would also make it interesting with our AIM120D's and AGM-158 JASSM's, we would obviously have plenty of time to prepare with our 3 over the horizon radar networks spotting them from over 1000km away.
Pl15 is overrated in DCS. the creators literally made the missile a god. Even GS said that pl15 is too good than real life. So I think in DCS, Chinese navy will win.
@@andrewsmall6834 uuh I know that you said fleet and ofcourse they wouldn't send their entire fleet, I just meant to say that some Chinese things are overrated In DCS.
I believe it is a grave mistake to make the radio bindings global instead of per aircraft. That is something that one can do with SRS for example. Kinda disappointing.
Christ. I’ve never played multiplayer and I’m trying to get into it. This is the most complicated damn thing to be able to talk. How about “tune to the frequency and hit the button”. I tried to follow but I’m done. Lol Not your fault CAP….it’s just too involved. Maybe I will try SRS
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for all the wonderful DCS tutorials!
Thanks Mike! x
That tip about the communications device volume muting is the best tip I've ever received about DCS - many, many thanks!
Great stuff man. You lose me at times because Idk what I’m doing but that’s why I’m watching your tutorials. You’ve helped me a great deal and I’m sure there’s a lot more people than just me.
I’m glad to see y’all are finally getting recognized for everything y’all do for the community with sponsors. I’ve seen another speaking gig you did the other day. The British accent is loved by Americans and you could sell ice cubes to Eskimo. You gotta great speaking voice and you would really shine in documentary type stuff or historical retelling of events. Best of wishes and Godspeed to all of you
simply one of the best channels covering DCS, you can find anything here like a DCS wikipedia ;)
This is an awesome addition to the game. I haven't messed with radios in my DCS learning adventure to date. Looks simple enough though.
This is awesome, getting closer and closer to full out flight sim with all it's features..
CHEERS!
Great intro! I've been waiting for your video on this. It'd be nice to have an audio option to sound more like SRS, but in game VOIP has been needed for a while.
Thanks Cap! I've been wanting to start using this for a while! You sound a lot better too.
Thank you for this tutorial.
You questioned why you would have multiple ICS setup. In modern helicopters like the H60 Seahawks you could have 2 or more ICS settings.
Simply put - It's designed to reduce excess chatter during complex situations with multiple external comms happening simultaneously.
Thanks Chris!
Thank you very much, I had absolutely zero hope figuring that out on my own
Slick! Glad to see this option :)
Excellent tutorial. Quick question: If I wanted to submit a scenario for your wargames series, where would I do that? I think this is a question a lot of people have...
Just here is fine, but I'm kind of full at moment so turning them away. Will hopefully catch up with them over next 2 weeks and then will start taking suggestions again. Thanks for asking.
Really hope they add the option of using a single ptt button together with the in cockpit radio selector.
I hope one day we’ll be able to configure a separate PTT for each plane. That way we can keep our HOTASs set up more like the real planes
Brilliant as always
I've just started watching your channel and I love the videos, the scenarios, the what ifs. Just a technical note, quite often the game sound is so loud compared to the voices, even Cap's, that it's hard to hear what's being said, especially for me as a non-native English and non-"flight jargon" speaker so the sound mix could do with some tweaking. Other than that ace content. 🙂
ED, can you add a hot mic enable for use with interphone. Front and back seaters don't have time to push to talk during battle, they need to hear each other breathe and think.
I have been asked to collect feedback to improve this system. I'll create a public suggestions sheet.
Super Vidéo 👍 Thank you MR Grim
That is really exciting...hopefully it will require fewer valuable HOTAS buttons that trying to configure for game coms, Discord and Simple Radio.
Thanks for the great concise tutorial. Great feature. The only thing I don't like about the lobby being within the DCS.exe process, is when DCS crashes you have no way of letting people know you crashed, need to reboot or whatever else.
@3:12 This! This corrected an issue I was having where Discord (I thought) was reducing my mic to basically inaudible when I had any other window in focus. Very annoying that Windows has this as the default setting.
You mentioned Intercom briefly. How would you set up an Intercom with your flight so we can communicate aircraft to aircraft only?
I really hate having to setup 3rd party things for games, besides discord of course. This will make the game seem so much more alive for those of us who never bothered to learn how to make SRS work. Looks like a great system for the UI overlay. I do hope they put in a slight filter. Not like a terrible drive through sound, but something a bit less computer desk quiet.
Teamspeak kept the interface like garbage for the longest time, I understand they changed it after Discord growing but I will never use it again, but Discord is a memory hog (thanks Electron) and has some quirks I hate, Vent was never good.
The only one I really like despite its faults is Mumble. It interfaces well with outside authenticators, not a memory hog, Ice, can configure a lot for absolute lowest of low latencies, and it has overlay like Discord. Also positional audio, kinda handy sometimes.
@@jamegumb7298 Guilded is a lot like Discord, but also has some better options for squad talk. I only use discord because it is what just about everyone uses.
Can you jam radios? Having that would bring it to another level, specially if electronic warfare is advancing in dcs
Great stuff CAP,thx ....I do have problem when hosting MP with F16 or FC3 planes or MODs based on FC3 ,that my Mic is not active as soon as someone join the server???is there a problem if there are other apps like Discord or TS3 running in background or do we have to open specific port for DCS VoIP ,thx in advance
I was wondering about how to do comms, things like discord and SRS, however, comms via the game seems like a much better idea to me.
This may be a bit outside just the voice chat feature, but can we set up a server, within our installation of DCS, on one PC and have it joined by another PC running DCS within the same LAN, provided both PCs have access to Internet? Do they need to have Internet access?
So, within a LAN (gigabit LAN) can I join 1, 2 or 3 PCs running DCS so that 2 to 4 people can fly together? Say we’re all 4 using the A-4E-C Skyhawk in the Marianas map. Does that work?
If we all were to use the F-18, would each of the 4 PCs need its own paid copy of the F-18?
If you set this up, but then are flying with someone using SRS is it just a case of unticking the 'Voice Chat' box in DCS Settings/Audio? Are the radio Key binds then available to use in SRS or discord without DCS reacting to them? It is probable that when flying different servers it will be necessary to easily switch what comms method you are using depending on which server. It would be impossible to have to configure distinct buttons for Discord , SRS and DCS voice.
Checked. Yes unticking the Voice Chat option box disables the DCS system completely and the same PTT keybinds then work fine with Discord and SRS.
Why would you want to use SRS with this available?
There is still a lot of SRS functionality that has no equivalent in the DCS system (e.g. LOTAC integration for Human GCIs to name just one). ED are working on enhancing the system to provide fully equivalent facilities. Until then the GR will stay with SRS but keep close eye on ED's development (We do talk to each other!).
extra intercoms probably for stuff like CH53E and C130 with more than 2 in multicrew!!
Any idea when servers will be dropping SRS for this? So far I had bad experiences with SRS like randomly being disconnected so this is currently the most promissing feature for me for the game.
It's not really good enough yet, just basic functions. Several months until it is finished.
..I'll need to check the Radio popup windows work in VR too. (e.g. Multicrew join requests dont !)
Checked, Yes it does work in VR, but the 'white dot cursor' used to interact with the chat window may be hard to find since its not aligned with the 'cross' cursor. Mine is offset 60 degrees right and 20 degrees below the cross cursor.
I have a question reguarding key binding. When assigning keybinds fro radio 1, 2, and 3, which radios do they assign to. For example, in the A-10C, is radio 1 the UHF, VHF AM, or VHF FM radio in the realistic mode? Thanks
When you have the radio overlay in game, I'm pretty sure the radios are in numeric order from top to bottom. At least that's how I thought it works?
@@grimreapers ok, thank you
You talked about binding MIDS PTTs, but I see nothing in the tutorial or in game about using MIDS radios with this system - it never shows up in the radio VOIP dialogue window. Assuming you have Link setup and you're both on the MIDs freq, does it work as any other radio, just doesn't show up in the interface?
If me and my buddy stay in the common area do we still need to be on the same frequency? We only fly coop missions online.
havent playing in months, trackir5 coming in the mail today AND new features in DCS? it's a good friday
Hi! IF I use SRS should I have this disabled in DCS setup? I noticed there is a cross in that box and I dont remember putting it on. I just wonder does it do some "weirdos" if I use SRS and voice chat is enabled, or DO they even need eachother or can be used at same time?
I wonder if they by now added those effects that sound more like SRS did (like actual radios sound)?
I'm not in-game
don't believe so
@@RetsudoZeus yeah just tested it. sounds boring, we'll just stick to TS for now
@@kipchickensout ts?
@@MartianV2GG TeamSpeak
How do you turn off SRS. or do you have to? if you don't does it interfere?
What ‘good value’ headphones/mic are people using for DCS in game comms?
I’d say get the Orion2 Throttle w/ finger lifts and a NXT Gladius Pro.
Tons of help!
any thoughts on the Heatblur F4E announcement??
I already knew but yeh really looking forward to the various F-4 versions :)
@@grimreapers How did you keep that a secret?!?
I would’ve gone insane knowing something like that.
Hello, I do not have 2 drop down menus. Just 'action' ??
I'm on 2.8.1.xx
I'm a noob at DCS, and while browsing the hundreds of vids I've watched, SRS has come up, but since I'm not ready for multiplayer, I never bothered to get it. That said, this looks like it's a MUCH better solution, the fewer 3rd party stuff running in the background the better.
NOW... To make this work with ATC, Wingmen, Tanker, etc. Not that I've yet succeeded at an air-to-air refueling yet (though I did do not one but TWO successful traps earlier today), but that comms menu is a pain that so far I've been ignoring.
I looked at Viacom a little, but that seems wicked complicated on it's own, and it's yet another app in the background.
Push to talk means push and hold it pressed to talk, or just push and then push again to turn it off?
EDIT: ah, it's press and hold!
Does the comms pop-up need it be up all the time?
can hide it
@@grimreapers Roger
Do we have to have that box up in order for it to work? Or can we exit out of that. I don't want to be in VR and have that box hanging in my eyesight.
I believe when made invisible it stays on the room/radio you were, the popup is merely the interface, the VoIP will keep going
Question, is this tutorial still relevant since the 2.9 radio changes? My group is ready to ditch Discord and move to this.
Is it possible to use this ingame radio and minimize the pop up Window?
Question, if the Russians are waiting for heavy snow before crossing the boarder how would that effect air to ground and air to air defence.
You could get an inlet de ice fail light or a frozen pitot tube and not be good.
Hey so did they remove this? Because none of what is shown in this video is in my game.
Does Viacom and voice attack interfere with this option?
If only they added 3rd party extension support (Overlord bot)
I can’t get my radios window option to pop up
Turned on in Main options??
Can you do a video on how to use the comm menu in Single player. It's doesn't seem to work anymore since they add Voip
It’s really simple. Just go to your aircraft search bar and type in “comm” and it will let you bind your keys, then you use the f1-12 keys to choose your topic
What is guard channel and how to use it?
It is an emergency channel. In aviation the frequencies are 121.5 mHz (VHF) and 243 mHz (UHF). It is used to communicate while having an emergency. Since many air and ground units are listening to those channels on a spare radioset there's always someone who can relay your emergency to the appropriate agencies for help.
can i type to my friend in dcs? cause i rlly wanna type!
no distortion on radio mode?
At the very end the guy says theyre going to add in squelch, distrotion, blips, beeps, etc
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Is it possible to play DCS using keyboard/mouse? And, do people use this configuration or nah?
yup
Can you do a video of how would a Chinese carrier group stand up if it decided to go after Australia? So how would the fleet stand up against the Australian air force and navy? The PL15s should lose their advantage against the F35As. Australia would also make it interesting with our AIM120D's and AGM-158 JASSM's, we would obviously have plenty of time to prepare with our 3 over the horizon radar networks spotting them from over 1000km away.
Pl15 is overrated in DCS. the creators literally made the missile a god. Even GS said that pl15 is too good than real life. So I think in DCS, Chinese navy will win.
And talking about F35 In DCS, it is also not that much realistic as some things r classified about the f35.
@@frightfulbuffalo7081 Chinese navy would win, but I said a fleet, China would/could never send the entire fleet.
@@andrewsmall6834 uuh I know that you said fleet and ofcourse they wouldn't send their entire fleet, I just meant to say that some Chinese things are overrated In DCS.
@@frightfulbuffalo7081 Then don't say the Chinese navy would win if in fact you mean the Chinese fleet.
CAP, what happened to your voice? You sound different. (Better! :))
Is it a new mic?
sick
I hope that they do something like what they did with the ns 430 in for exampel the c-101 and the mi-8. That would be nice for vr players like me.
Solved! It is 10309 TCP/UTP port that has to be open on the router!
This is great...
Ty
I believe it is a grave mistake to make the radio bindings global instead of per aircraft. That is something that one can do with SRS for example. Kinda disappointing.
imagine if dcs put boeings in the game
not sure why they made it so complicated
Christ. I’ve never played multiplayer and I’m trying to get into it. This is the most complicated damn thing to be able to talk. How about “tune to the frequency and hit the button”.
I tried to follow but I’m done. Lol
Not your fault CAP….it’s just too involved. Maybe I will try SRS
Anybody use this?
Youve made this video overly complicated for no reason
He really didn’t