P-51D into DCS Sims.

[Ctrl E]

Competition is a very, very good thing.

[Ploughman]

I'll buy it.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

You don't fire up people to fly online, when you have a Russian Hellicopter on one side and an American Attack Aircraft. You can't create a good competitive online environment this way.

I was looking for BlackShark vs. A10 online videos and did not find any. Looks like they did not provide any good online missions for them.

Doesn't MSFS have a P-51 addon with similar quality?

[Ctrl E]

Originally Posted by Ataros

I was looking for BlackShark vs. A10 online videos and did not find any. Looks like they did not provide any good online missions for them.

Doesn't MSFS have a P-51 addon with similar quality?

Yup. But not with working weapons and no damage model.

Lates screen shots over at DCS shows their P-51's .50 cals spewing lead.

I guess they'll also have bombs and rockets.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Yup. But not with working weapons and no damage model.

Lates screen shots over at DCS shows their P-51's .50 cals spewing lead.

I guess they'll also have bombs and rockets.

Just no proper historically correct targets to use them on

[Ctrl E]

Yes, but unlike CloD, the DCS engine works.

So it's ahead of the game there.

[SharpeXB]

I'd settle for one plane and a game that works really well than a sim with a dozen that doesn't work.

[1./JG2_Miller]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

They'd still have to produce the maps and the vehicles going with that. And that would mean removing ressources from their core game.

I mean, if 1c suddenly started producing modern jet fighters instead of adding to the WW2 theatre, I personally would go through the roof. I can only imagine how it must be for the DCS crowd looking for some decent online play.

I mainly fly DCS and consider myself as a member of the DCS community. The developers stated multiple times that the development of the usual modern jets is not being impaired by the Flying legends models. Of course it doesn't really make sense to send a P-51 to destroy a S-300 which would engage you at a distance of 40 miles, but they'll probably throw in some WWII AI models. Besides that, DCS has multiple nations in it, so you could for example create a scenario which contains the Brazilian Armed Forces as allies with the US against Russia. As far as I'm concerned the brazilians used or maybe still use the P-51 as a CAS plane. I'm not sure if this information is right since I only read it at the DCS forums. But if that's really the case, you would have a scenario which actually would make sense regarding the planeset.

The general mood in the DCS community is of course a little bit split, but everybody (at least I hope so) knows that ED mainly works on the next jet and the Flying Legends series is just a sideproject because of the publisher. The publisher is the owner of a large collection of historical WWII planes, e.g. a FW190, P-51 so they had a really good opportunity to research things.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by sharpexb

i'd settle for one plane and a game that works really well than a sim with a dozen that doesn't work.

bingo!
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[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

it looks awesome, can we shoot stuff?

Based on this picture it looks like the answer is yes