Nevermind I figured out what is wrong. I followed a hunch in that the beta seemed to be performing worse than when I’d played the Steam version. So I took the mission to Steam non-beta and did the run again and it worked just fine. So I did 12 more hours of testing trying to see if a weapons load-out in beta was bugged. Spoiler - they’re not. But I did notice something interesting. Every time an F-18A took off, when it went to retract its landing gear the game crashed. This is why it seemed like it crashed 5 minutes in every time. Deleted the F-18 in beta and voila! No crash. Made a scenario with just an F-18A flying and it crashes every time.
I can’t believe I’m the first person to notice this problem, but I guess no one else want to run scenarios with every aircraft in it lol.
Do they have an Apache where you can fly coop with one person at the flight controls, the other manning the weapons? One of my favorite sim gaming memories was from WAY back when my brother and I played Andy Hollis’s Apache sim, flying the missions in the campaign in coop mode in the same chopper.
Mirage, but F-5 itself is fun as well. Mirage has a bit more knobs to twiddle and a gorgeous HUD. F-5 has no flight computer, also no content built for it to speak of.
Havent flown 'em. I love the F-5 for quick dogfights and stuff.
The mirage is about one third as complex as a hornet, as it lacks almost all the A-G stuff, the datalink, etc. Its got two kinds of missiles for its primary role, fighter. Also two sweet, sweet guns that will fuck up a flanker.
Oh one other difference: the mirage has one big honking engine that will put some hair on your chest. The F-5 has two tiny thingamibobs that will hardly push it past the mach after a straight run of a mile or hundred. On a good day.
Check out the A-4E, an almost contemporary of the F-5. Its a free mod:
Now if you want to challenge gourself with a weird cantankerous bitch of an airplane, get the MiG-21. So much fun. If you can take off, find and shoot an F-5, then land with one of those,you’re a true cheeki breeki slav.
During my time with DCS I liked the F5 quite a bit. If you want to feel like you’ve ‘mastered’ a plane and able to go through all the pre flight stuff, get a sense of its eccentricities and flyfeel, without devoting many hours it’s a good plane. Simple enough to get into the switchology without kneeboards, tears, and having to hear your partner in the other room yell “why do you keep sighing???” (true story, that happened more than once when i was trying to figure out the viggen).
