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Free to download and "own" "forever" Epic style, or free to experience until the end of the week?
by tpmx 6y ago
Free to download and "own" "forever" Epic style, or free to experience until the end of the week?
- mhh__ 6y agoFree to experience until January the 2nd IIRC. It's about $80 dollars or so normally so even it's worth having a go even if you don't take to it. The Tomcat is an absolute beast, though, so be prepared to be reading an instruction manual just to play a game if you want to go all out. Also, to anyone who goes on DCS multiplayer for the first time: IFF IFF IFF.
- dtparr 6y agoNow I'm curious. How does DCS handle IFF? Does it just abstract it to some general concept of IFF, or do you actually have to deal with the various modes and such? How does it handle different incompatible countries/generations of IFF?
- mhh__ 6y agohttps://youtu.be/RVthPAIYZlU https://youtu.be/RVthPAIYZlU Better 2 minutes than a wall of text. In short, increasingly well modelled but ultimately only an abstraction due to some fairly obvious reasons. The JF-17 apparently has the best IFF model in the game but I only started flying it yesterday.
- ngcc_hk 6y agoStudy level airplane. Not sure 1 week is enough ... sadly miss the 50% discount.
- stoolpigeon 6y agoWhen I was in VF-302 sometimes a reward for enlisted guys who did really well was a little simulator time. They all said just maintaining flight was very difficult and the minute adversaries were added, they were dead.
- jki275 6y agoNo kidding on that. The Tomcat is hard to employ effectively, but it's definitely worth trying out even if there's only a few days to do it for free. Beware though, this addiction leads to things like buying entire hotas setups from companies like Virpil and VKB and that's a very pricey proposition.