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Agree. Always thought the three lives restriction punished new players who are trying to learn the game and are getting picked off like little baby birds in a canyon with eagles

@@mikeck4609 I always thought that, if there is going to be a lives restriction, there should be a way to get lives back (that's not simply time based), ie flying supply missions/doing CSAR or something, but not everyone wants to fly helo's or has the modules.

Or maybe go practice and don’t expect every server to be noob friendly.

Hard concept i know, but maybe pve is a very different experience to pvp ​@@kzrlgo

It’s nothing to do with skill though, BlueFlag forces even the most skilled players to be more passive because they know a simple mistake could cost them. It also promotes a flip flopping campaign progression style where Red go hard when blue are in bed, and vice versa, because there seems to be such a weird US vs everyone split the time zones per side seem to never be active at the same time. It honestly might as well be PVE because of how the lives adjust everyone’s approach to combat, the second I find anyone they just run away.

I only learned of Coop when Enigma showcased it the other day, definitely on my checklist for the future.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy The 80's server just came online to public yesterday. I got in one time for about an hour. its a great time.

I thought you might pick up on that… But never seeing you made it pretty lame viewing so that’s my excuse lol

@Bullet4MyEnemy 🤣 Yea, I imagine it would be.

Server is a slideshow. I get 70+ on any other server / any map. Takes me 10 minutes just to slot in and I hover around 20 FPS with constant dips to 1 fps.

So agree with you. M2K is my main jet and im happy i actually can fly it and splash dudes ❤️

How does Coop do it? I’d have said the limited lives aspect of BlueFlag and the one side switch per campaign are the weakest points of the server. I said the same in a comment above but when people are afraid to die, they’re also afraid to fight, so it becomes an extremely passive and stale PvP environment where the focus becomes ground strikers vs fighters constantly because fighters are able to just run away from one another and killing a fighter is a waste when they aren’t progressing the campaign anyway. Every time I see a team make progress on BF, it’s been undone by the next day because the time zone differences and team locking mean that when the US time zone is active being different from Europe basically just turns it into a PvE farming experience during each time zone’s downtime.

​@@Bullet4MyEnemySorry, didn't see the msg. Don't get me wrong, I really like the server but wish people tried to survive more. Coop has limited lives per 24 hrs (5 I think) - I also understand why people don't like that... it is what it is. Great vid as always.

Couldn’t resist 😅 I have yet to give any ground stuff a go myself, not actually managed to get back on the server since this video as it’s always bloody full 😭 So I have to admit to not being aware of any restrictions on it, it was more for the chance of engaging ground units that had functioning brains that I was hyped about lol

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RIP 🪦

Just regular M-2000 sounds 👌🏼

I highly recommend it is a very fun server with great PvP and PvE action.

There does seem to be some server gremlin shenanigans going on at the moment. I was on ECW the other day and on the ground at Bassel Al-Assad I was getting sub 5fps constantly. Managed to start up and take off and once I was 2/3km away it went back to my usual 80. Worth trying the server again, this Cauc event was apparently a test - I didn’t realise at the time - and I did have some minor server issues - but other commenters have said they’ve since sorted the problems out.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Hm, I'll give it another shot, maybe. I also get horrid lag spikes on ECW, occassionally down to 1fps (One!) but only during load-in and statup, and then its almost always smooth after taxi and takeoff. Whereas Contention was a straight-up slideshow the whole time.

The Magics seem to be so inconsistent for me, sometimes they’ll rail everything through all the flares in the universe. Then other times they’ll miss if the guy flicks a cigarette out of the cockpit. Missing a Hornet at that range especially seems kinda bs because the Hornet only gets shit small flares.

@@ds6899 I think the bind has “nav” in the name if you search it, it has a few functions, but the box thing is basically the scan pattern of the Magic seekers - they scour the box constantly instead of being locked to the very tight boresight cross. It’s like having a very focused EO search mode using the Magic seekers rather than a dedicated sensor like on the Flanker.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy thanks bud

I’ve always assumed DDCS was PvE, is that not the case?

​@4MyEnemy No its PvP there is bluefor redfor no ai enemy planes other then awacs. You can control and move all the ground units just like this server and when you dont control them ai takes over. So i think they name it pvpve. Its got its own warbond currency every unit you kill you get warbonds depending on what it is you get more. Also it seems to be the only server with good communication they have a public discord call that is actually usually filled lol and that way you can communicate way better with your teammates vs srs. Redfor is usually always outnumbered so they can see friendlys on there map but blufor doesnt since they have more players active. You should try it one day its the same thing but more optimized and balanced IMO no f15c's though. Redfor su27 33 and 11 have pl12s which is also pretty cool.

@@descentmvm I’ll take a look, not sure how I ended up thinking it was PvE

Yeah DDCS is my go to, it's great but it's also very challenging maybe for beginners

@tmvm on DDCS Jtac and Observer slot are locked for all players ,so you cannot control all units. There are now forcing new VoIP system,what is the point of discord ? Like Bullet4myenemy mention before ,is more likw US vs others. Night time on europe servers is full of blue (us) day time of red (rest of world) New spawn system doesn't allow you to use other player vehicle if you don't have permission. DDCS was and still remains one of the most awesome scripted game but currently is like veterans vs new players = meet grinder. The lifes/spawn restriction is a must on every server who had ctld and CA access ,you fly plane and die you get to heli and help others.

I was expecting him to be my end until I saw the Abrams 😅 I had a sortie from Beslan where Blue were sending a seemingly never ending stream of helis from a FARP to the south, I gun killed something like 7 apaches one sortie, several Hueys and Gazelles on the next, that clip was after dying to an Abrams of all things whilst circling the FARP - they overran the airbase before I could get back. Never seen so much heli action, it was chaos.

Isn’t it AI? Or horribly imbalanced? Or relies on the in-game AWACS? I am aware of it but I’m sure there’s a reason I don’t play on it, but it has been ages

@@Bullet4MyEnemy no AI that I know of. I also can't speak much for the imbalance of it although modern modules will clearly be meta however you can still succeed with other aircraft. Their point system and capping system is what makes it the best for me. I recently found this server and was also impressed with it. Boy can find some DDCS videos and it can explain the details of the server

Haha I wondered whether you’d actually see this, I discovered your channel myself off the back of their bantering so all publicity is good publicity, as the saying goes 😅

The final boss!

Anyone that shoots me down more than I shoot them down gets hyped up

It was Sovereign lol, lives less than 2hrs from me, the server is just a bit slow sometimes.

There are plenty of budget head tracking options you could use as a stopgap, a few guys on my discord have recently bought Delan clips after using a mobile app that uses their phone’s face recognition camera to get them going. I think the app is called face track and costs about a tenner. Or if you’re savvy you could make your own, just need a webcam and some IR LEDs… and some other… nerd stuff - it’s beyond me personally but there are video tutorials on it out there.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Thanks for the reply and your advice/info is greatly appreciated mate

@@GreatValueJohnnySins Use opentrack with a webcam, you had to use Ai Track with it before but now just open track works alone, a perfect webcam is the PS3 Eye, can buy them for like 6 quid, terrible as a webcam as only 640 x 480 res but its party trick is 75 fps which is excellent for open track or head tracking in general, res does not matter at all, with the correct settings it works perfect, no lag, responsive.

It has the hallmarks of its logistics system allowing for dynamic play, which is what map progress hinges on. That’s plenty Squad-like to count in my book. If you expected to be playing an infantryman then I’m not sure what to tell you.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Yeah nah, clickbait title.

@@peteypyotr8158 I’m not denying there was a bit of artistic licence used, but unless you have insane expectations there’s no way I can buy people thought it would resemble Squad in a more direct way.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy IF this were Germany circa 39' you'd be up against a wall for such deception.

​@@peteypyotr8158 that is a wild comparison lol

I was told by another commenter that this Cauc map event was just a test so the performance was slightly worse, I haven’t encountered any issues when playing on the Syria campaign in the rotation - I didn’t actually realise it was a test whilst I was filming or I’d have mentioned it in the commentary, kinda hope they keep Cauc in though because the terrain makes for the best fights.

I’m not sure how severs can improve the heli gameplay loop, but it’s why I don’t tend to play them. If people understand the gameplay loop they can work out where to look to find helis, and once jets find helis, there’s not a lot the heli can do about it. I had a sortie from Beslan where a FARP near Nalchik was sending a seemingly endless stream of helis towards the airbase until I was killed on start up. I wouldn’t say that distance was bad at all for a heli, but it was direct enough to find them all easily, I downed 7 in barely 20 minutes by just scanning the same area - must’ve sucked for them, but the airbase ended up being captured pretty quickly all due to heli input so I guess it boils down to whether you want individual success, or team success. I think the server is more about team progress than the players’ individual achievements.

Distortion?

I’m aware, but I don’t do this professionally and don’t have a lot of time. When I naturally encounter more examples, or even take part in some of it, there’ll probably be a video on it. Already started a Contention playlist for future videos covering the server.