DSC:A10 you really should try it... ;)

[GOZR]

Well well i decided to get it , i'm getting tired of waiting for ClOD to be better ....and it's $40 right now and... waooo! ok that was a change .. an happy change for once.. Everything is better I feel like i paid for a very meticulously well done Simulator and what a pleasure just to open it Great interface !!
I took the A10 for some simple gun dogfight and what a fun !!!

It's basically what i was expecting from IL2:CoLD but DCS has it..
If you didn't try ... run and get it !! cheap and it's awesome !!



Even Rise of Flight look and feel so much better now .. grrrrr!

[GOZR]

Humm and did I mention how "SMOOTH" it is ... freeeedoooom !! even the head movements are better ...

Well just test it ..

[banned]

Will do. I've also purchased RoF and A2A Spitfire. They're great whilst I'm bored waiting for CloD.

[GOZR]

Yes RoF is definitely a Sim to have .. so much fun to fly around and as well real smooth and very pretty Interface and all..
It's a must for an aviation enthusiast!!!! no way around it

[Madfish]

I ike the sim. It's great although a little too complex for me right now.

3 points though. For me:
- it doesn't perform better
- it doesn't look better
- the interface isn't better either

It's not that you can get DCS A10 or BS to run on a crappy system well. It runs great on a system that runs CloD really good but it also looks much less detailed near ground level by a huge margin. Yes, the runway looks fine up close but that's about it. Also there aren't that many big dogfights with numbers of planes going on. Compared to CloD it's obvious that A10 doesn't have to eat that much performance.
Also I found the interfaces of A10 and BS not much lighter than the one for CloD. But maybe it's just me.

That aside it certainly is a nice sim indeed.

You might want to check the pilots lounge though. There is another thread on this already.

[skarden]

Yep a Fantastic sim by all accounts,I've been playing it a fair bit of late while waiting for COD to get a little better (although I do still very much like to play COD when I get the itch) and finally taking the time to learn the start up sequence and get a little deeper into the management of the sub systems a bit.

A very rewarding experience and not too bad for me to learn as I went out and bought a TM Warthog HOTAS(highly recommended!!) which makes learning it surprisingly easier to learn.

If ya love Jets it's a must have.

[esmiol]

DCS:A10 is a wonderful sim... but i don't really love the modern plane sim... but the DCS is the real reference for modern combat simulation!

[Blackdog_kt]

I'm sure it's great and all but i don't do jet sims that much, especially modern ones. I'd be ok with a Korean add-on or even maybe Vietnam or an imaginary cold-war turned hot scenario with early jets, but all the electronics take the fun out of it for me: i prefer CEM on pistons to managing some MFDs

Another reason is that i find western hardware overdone to the Nth degree, i was tempted to get Black Shark at some point (it's Russian and unusual) but then i changed my mind.

RoF i tried again after it became free to play and while i absolutely had a blast in the early days with red baron 1 and 2 and also red baron 3D, for some reason RoF doesn't "do it" for me. That along with some design decisions that i find restricting in terms of evolution and gameplay steered me clear of that too.

Maybe i need to see a live demonstration of a modern jet sim sometime and have an experienced flier point me to the cool elements (in a way of "yes it takes time, but look what you can do if you learn it", sort of an incentive to get going with it), because as you can see the only sim i currently fly is CoD and it's not for lack of trying other things.

To be honest however i'm not complaining, i don't have that much time to fly lately and CoD takes up my free time on its own, if i had more sims to fly i'd be swamped. So many sims and not enough hours in a day

[Barrakooda]

Have been enjoying DCS A10 as well, coupled with track ir & Helios/touchscreen with exported mfd's etc. Good thing about Helios is that it let's you create pop up check lists so I can remember how to do things in a complex sim as this

[Wolf_Rider]

the learning curve isn't that steep for the DCS A10-C, but after the flyer gets there... cleared hot and look out.
as Gozr mentioned, it is a meticulously put together sim (and it is a sim)