DCS: F-5E || Eight Minute Ace - Enigma's Cold War Server
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2022
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Resolution: 2560 x 1440, 75Hz
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TrackIR5
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Игры
I feel kinda bad for that poor sabre lol. That was such a short burst that hit him perfectly.
Amazing video as usual
I know, right? That’s another layer to it that just made it all the more annoying lol, everyone I want to kill takes a solid burst across the entire airframe.
Friendly? Literally one tapped 😅
Excellent gunnery, absolutely fantastic flying and commentary too. Thanks for this.
lol.. "too offset the suck.. I just keep the trigger down"
Tried and tested strategy 😅
Ooh that final gunshot on the mig 19 must have felt amazing. Epic run
The f5 is better by a smidge I reckon (I just feel like you can control fights better) but I do two things differently to keep it less draggy
I like to keep flaps up at all times and only reach for auto when you’re rating or slow scissoring. The leading edges are so draggy.
Also you can jettison those wing pylons by select jettison pylons switch (down), hold jettison button for a couple of secs, then put the switch back to safe (or you won’t be able to fire missiles)
The flap use might have something to do with my F-5 < MiG-21 stance - I have played around with them a little bit, but felt that the turn rate loss wasn’t worth the energy retention most of the time, but I can see it probably being worth it to recoup energy bleed when being slash attacked by someone with more than you.
I did a few 1 Vs. 1s with a mate the other week and he trashed me in the 21 every time and it really felt like there was nothing I could do - I even said to him at the time that in actual multiplayer servers they never give me that much grief, but in a sterile testing environment with no outside factors, starting with a head on merge? Maybe the flaps would give me that edge but it’s either a better plane or he’s a better pilot than every other MiG-21 I’ve encountered, the standard skill level must be very low comparing my success Vs randoms and then against him.
The pylon jettison thing must be something I forgot in my 8 month break because I knew there was a reason I set my keybinds to favour single and not “all” on the 3 way switch.
I’ve got pylons 1-7 on my number keys then 890 as set switch, jettison and reset switch - works super nice, just need to remember to hold jettison for longer.
Thanks for the tips.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I think if you were 1v1 fighting on a dogfight server the f5 has far more gas than I would ever dogfight with on enigmas. It waddles when it’s got more than 2600 pounds of fuel. Whereas the mig21 barely cares what it’s fuel state is.
@@Magpie...
Fuel state is a fair one actually, might be worth running the tests again
I like the talk through of what's going on!
I knew you were gonna hit that sabre. That's why you never fire on an enemy with a friendly in front of you.
8:15 that reversal was cinematic af
Lovely =)
I was under the impression that the f5 was better than the 21 in a dogfight in dcs, as others also has pointed out
What I’m discovering is that when people talk about things being better than other things, they mean when using a fuel amount that they don’t specify lol.
They’re probably right if both are running on fumes, but I tested with full fuel to practice a worst case scenario.
I wanna be just like you when I grow up
As a Mig-21 pilot this is disgusting lol. Great job.
Thanks man, just been gifted the dosh for a new module by my partner as a Christmas present and I’m s t r o n g l y considering the MiG-21 - already have the 19, so it’s either the 21 or the F-1…
What’s your take?
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I don’t have the 19 or the F-1 but I do really enjoy the 21. It’s just a hot rod. Not really the best in a fight but a ton of history. Plus the constant peg campaign is epic.
Edit: I do think being solid in the 21 will make you a better pilot because you have to manage the AoA and power so much.
@@mastergunner309
The fact it looks like wrestling a crocodile is the most enticing selling point lol
@@Bullet4MyEnemy that mirage cockpit is gross as well
When I first saw it I thought you hit the Sabre too.
“They taught him to fly down in Texas,
Sent him to Nellis Air Patch
Got an airframe for you, she’s called Tiger II
Ain’t a plane that been built she can’t match.
He’ll taxi up into your saddle
Turn on his M39
He’ll blow you to hell with a twenty mike mike shell,
Safe up his guns and go home.”
-Excerpt from F-5E by Dick Jonas.
Also shoutout to the absolute Chad flying an F-86 in a server full of hostile MiG-21s
That first kill on the Alby would have been a perfect opportunity to use the radar gun sight. Take HEI ammo only load for air to air, and use the radar gun sight, and you will find the guns work just fine. Start with a missile lock up, and then switch to dogfight guns mode, and the radar will track. All of your gun kills would have been easier with it.
IMO: the F-5 is by far the superior plane when compared to the mig-21 in a knife fight. The 21 has an advantage in air to air load out being that it has more pylons, and better power to weight, but it is nowhere near as good in a one circle fight as the F-5.
From my testing I think it’s more the standard of pilot than the plane, Maguire who I fly with quite regularly absolutely thrashed me when we did F-5 Vs. MiG-21.
On Enigma’s I generally do ok picking 21s apart, but in my 1 Vs. 1 testing I lost every time, often after forcing a close scissor and watching him flop around like a salmon, he’d still manage to reign it in well enough to make me overshoot and saw my wing off.
I do well enough in the F-5 to say that it’s pretty damn close, but a better pilot can offset the F-5’s (imo) best advantage, which is low speed stability.
Thinking of buying the 21 over the F-1 for Christmas so I’ll be able to better test for myself from the other side of the fight.
I’ll keep trying with the radar gunsight, I did recognise that situation as being perfect for it but I’ve been burned before in similar situations where it’s either bugged out or not been stable enough to be of use, so I’ve been favouring eyeballing it.
Already found that the HEI rounds are the best, guns barely tickle the target with combat mix, I think that realisation is what turned the tide for me with the F-5 because the guns sucked so hard prior to that I was ready to write it off lol.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy tell you what. I'll do a tutorial on how I use the radar gun sight in the F-5. The switchology is key. I regularly go up against 4th gen fighters in the guns arena on Just Dance with the F-5, and do quite well considering the disparity between the F-5, and it's more modern replacements. Do that enough, and the 21 starts to look like a pussy cat.
@@iflycentral
I do think that how I’ve got the keys set makes me reluctant to bother. Not because setting it up to work is hard, but because I don’t really understand the limitations of the dogfight mode.
I’ve got the dogfight and resume scan radar modes on a 4 way HAT by my thumb, and changing the sight setting on another HAT next to it.
So it’s:
1) Dogfight mode
2) Switch sight mode
3) Blast ‘em.
All that’s fine, what I don’t understand very well, is whether I can just leave it in that mode, or if I need to switch off and back to it each time, how far off bore with dogfight mode acquire them? If it loses them do I need to do anything? How will I know?
It’s less using it and more the times either side of using it, trusting it’ll do what I want.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy you should always activate dogfight missile first with the piper on your target. Once you see a lock in dogfight missile; switch to dogfight gun mode and it will continue to track within a cone of about 60° off the nose. If I lose track I disengage the radar, and bring back dogfight missile mode to reacquire.
As promised: ruclips.net/video/ffgDYfbNPrY/видео.html
Much as I love the MiG-21 I have to contest the idea that it is 'better in every way'.
Visibility in the MiG-21 is just hilariously terrible compared to the F-5. That alone is a huge advantage for the Tiger II.
The gunsight on the F-5 is vastly superior to that of the MiG, which is pretty much useless against anything but a heavy bomber or cargo plane. F-5 has much more cannon ammo, can afford to take more marginal shots, and will land hits more frequently - a MUCH better gun platform.
No roll trim on the MiG-21.
No dogfight radar mode on the MiG-21.
No ability to uncage missiles and lead the target on the MiG, which is huge in a dogfight. AAM's take significantly longer to come off the rails. VERY small missile lock area in the MiG-21 gunsight compared to the F-5. MiG pilots have to settle the bandit in the HUD considerably longer than an F-5 driver.
The RWR on the MiG-21 is extremely limited compared to the F-5's.
5 pylons on the MiG-21 vs 7 on the F-5. The F-5 can carry 2x AAM's plus fuel tanks and still carry a respectable bomb/rocket load, whereas the MiG-21 really has to pick A2A or A2G.
No ability to ripple bombs on the MiG-21.
AIM-9P5 is superior to anything carried by the MiG-21.
That's just a few off the top of my head. Of course the F-5 has its idiosyncracies, but it's every bit a match for the MiG-21.
SMH killing the sabre
Couldn’t believe it when I watched the footage back, a part of me is wondering whether he just bailed to give me a teamkill when he could’ve otherwise made it back, because the idea that 2 shots from these guns can do that to a friendly, but an enemy takes 100 shots seems a little sus 😅
What are your settings at? I can see more targets on this compressed youtube video, than I can on my own screen :P. Good vid
I run the game at 1080p on a 1440 monitor and then upscale it to 4k for RUclips, so the pixels are massive 😅
Only way to play really, I tried 1440 for ages but spotting targets was borderline impossible, felt like I was going to give myself an aneurism from squinting so hard.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy Thanks :), I'll give 1080 a try :). Happy holidays
@@Bullet4MyEnemy I got a deal on a LG 48" 4K OLED about a year ago... had a great spot for it in the man cave where I could use it for movie/videos, console gaming and most importantly sim gaming. My "everyday" desk is a corner unit and there just is no way to comfortably mount / use a HOTAS... so I needed something else. Everything was great at first, holy god DCS can be insanely gorgeous sitting a few feet away from a large 4K OLED screen.... then I realized that the LODs in this game engine and/or the models are completely horrible and/or broken at higher resolutions. Thankfully the OLED scales quite well and things still look halfway decent at 1080p... but yea... DCS is useless for anything beyond sight seeing or landing practice at higher resolutions. Hopefully the not-too-distant release of the Vulkan renderer helps.
This makes me want to upgrade my setup so bad, very nice and smooth flying.
Can I ask what you paid for your TrackIR5? It's the only piece of equipment that's really bugging me with the pricing.
Something in the region of £200, I can’t remember exactly.
Absolutely worth it imo, but there are a lot of much cheaper head tracking options, including mobile apps that use your face camera.
I bought a Delanclip about 2.5 years ago and it's worked great, give them a google search as well. Not sure exactly what they are charging today, but I think I paid around $80 USD which included shipping to the US from Great Britain.
The Delanclip is a boutique / homebrew solution that comes with a refurb PS3 camera but needs open source software that you need to DL and install. So setup is probably a bit more complicated than TrackIR which would have everything you need in one box, but there are plenty of setup guides and the open source software is very easy to find. I had the open source software downloaded and installed and was tweaking things within 10-15 minutes of opening the package. Probably took a few additional hours of fine tuning while playing DCS to dial in the curves, smoothing and deadzone settings, but after that it just works... haven't touched a software setting in over two years.
You can probably build one yourself for $20-$40 depending on how cheaply you can source a PS3 camera and the other supplies... but I was fine spending a few extra dollars to have everything prebuilt. It seemed like a good compromise compared to spending 2x or more for TrackIR.
The Tiger II has much better energy retention than the Fishbed, so there's that.
Much better is a stretch, and the 21 regains energy far faster which more than offsets the discrepancy.
How are u able to get the communication menu while in the air
I bound it to a different key on my throttle - I’m not even sure why I need another key tbh, haven’t looked into it.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy oh thanks, I keep in forgetting to set a text tripwire before I take off, and can seem to set it in the air
Bullet! They just announced the f-16 to dcs.
I am super scared of how strong it will be in BVR. There’s no shot that gaijin will add amraams…
You mean WarThunder? 😅
It’s the A model so no chance of AMRAAMs just yet, the early models didn’t even carry Sparrows, literally no BVR capability at all.
@@Bullet4MyEnemy yeah sorry war thunder haha!
Good to know!
Also, not sure if you heard but one of RAZBAM’s head developers just teased in a “cryptic” message that the f-15e will be released in 2 weeks.
Are you planning on making some videos in the aircraft as soon as it releases?
@@Bearrug
Not sure yet, might wait for the hype to die down a bit first otherwise the PVP experience will be very dull.
Though pretty much everyone I fly with regularly will be getting it on day one.
I don’t think it’ll be here in two weeks though, I saw a post from one of them saying that it categorically won’t be released this year.
Hey Bullet !!! Do you use VR for DCS ? If so , how is it ?
Nah, just TrackIR - already had to reduce my resolution to 1080p so I can run it at a suitable frame rate, I think VR would lead to it burning my house down lol
@@Bullet4MyEnemy oh ok! Because WT does not look the same while looking at a monitor vs VR. So i wonder if DCS is the same.
@@clintcorpceo
I know what you mean, I think the style of head movement is usually the biggest giveaway, VR looks a lot less smooth most of the time.
There are some Mirage videos by Kortana where she uses VR and the screen looks the same as a trackIR recording but the way her head moves around makes it clear she’s in VR.
@@clintcorpceo As someone who uses VR, it looks relatively similar. Things are bigger and it's much cooler.
In my opinion.
Any plans on making some more Warthunder content? Rank 8 is coming, assuming its going to shake up the sim meta quite a bit, maybe make it a bit easier while everyone is getting used to the new jets.
Yeah, I’ll get around to it eventually I just get burnt out with it incredibly easily because I never have enough SL to get anything new.
I think I’m close to buying the Mirage 2000 but then I’ll be back to square one with grinding SL for the next thing, and flying the Mirage isn’t going to make any.