FIRST IMPRESSIONS of Contention DCS Server  

Yeah it was looked into but there's no way as of now install the missiles onto the jet and have them actually track with the radar. You can still do some insane tricks with the 16 and the Fox 2's that it has. You can easily beat Fox 1's BVR and score a kill at 20+ miles if you play your cards right.

Omg my thoughts exactly! I wish they added sparrows to it (there are plenty of unrealistic things in DCS, they could do that too, you don't have to use it if you don't want to). I even tried the hornet to check out the sparrows, but I can't get used to it's switchology and flight model, so went back to my viper

​@@deekamikazehow do you get sidewinders to lock on to anything beyond 8-10 miles?

@@weles1989 You don't. You uncage the missile and shoot it in their direction as long as they're nose hot and let them fly into it. I do it at high and medium altitude all the time. If they're going fast in a straight line you don't even lock them or turn your radar on. Lock them with the datalink if you have that option and sling a Fox2 straight at them and then dive and do a 180 and go exactly the opposite direction you were heading and they will continue at their altitude knowing you didn't get a missile off because your radar wasn't on and if you did get a radar missile off it's either now dead (fox1) or they would have gotten the rwr from the missile (fox3) and since they didn't, they will just full burn right into your Fox2. You want to trick the enemy into feeling safe because they will get too confident and it will kill them. I pull this crap on people all the time and get called a cheater and I love it. It takes practice so just keep at it and you'll start to be feared.

@@deekamikaze whoah amazing, need to try it :D

It's been very quiet lately and a lot of people are unhappy with the change to the campaign a few months back that made it much less of a dynamic campaign and more of a series of structured missions

If you're quick you can launch several mavericks. Even better if you have more than one plane coming in at different angles to do a saturation attack

Not that I'm aware of. Would definitely be nice

A bit more relaxed in general. You're not side locked for one. I also can't remember but doesn't blue flag have limited lives? No restrictions like that on contention.

OBS. I used to use shadow play when starting out but the audio kept desyncing on longer videos. Also very easy in OBS to record different audio sources to different tracks for ease of editing (such as removing the discord chat from this one)

@@Dr_Jebus thanks so much. I want to upload some footage but I've realised my shadowplay hasn't captured any SRS at all

Don't know all the details but there are definitely ground units that players can deploy. I know my wingman was hunting Abrams at one point. Not sure about depots or such, but I'm still learning the server myself

There is an absolute ton of variety in A2G combat. CTLD is in, as is Forward Air Control airframes that can provide artillery strike direction. There are depots, farps, control points, factories. It's pretty much got it all.

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Oh. Yeah….glad to see I wasn’t the only one who disliked the weird “mission” setup they went to. However, I’m NOT glad that they have chosen to stick with it. I understand experimenting or improving through trial…but sometimes it seems like servers break things that were just fine. Not sure what was wrong with the dynamic set up. I DO wish Tenprest and Enogma had a wider variety of ground targets to strike that - in some way- impacted the amount of units deployed to a zone OR the value if those units going to calculate a “push”. I get tired of bombing the same old building (representing a depot) and clumps of ground units on enigma.

@@mikeck4609IL 2 has pretty good variety in ground targets

It’s been down since early this month

Also been reported to me by someone else. Sorry, I thought it was an issue in the editor but looks like it was an issue in the actual recording. Will aim to fix for future videos

I'll have to look into that!

Upgrading to 64Gb helped me a lot with getting decent frames on ECW, which has similar numbers of ground units. Busy servers are so RAM intensive

Disable tacview also helps

@@angelnunez8321 it is already. Rtx 3060, ryzen 7 2700, pretty laggy

How to disable tac view? @@angelnunez8321

Server is a lag fest. I can play on any other server with 50+ players on any map and get 60+ fps in VR. Takes me 5 minutes just to slot in this server and get a cool 10 FPS. It's just arcady missile spam. Like warthunder but with tedious startup procedures.

I've been having an absolute blast with the hip myself. So much fun. But yeah, you are vulnerable and need cap but that's true for every server with jets and helis

Yup, looking into what went wrong