Top Gun Round 2 [Modern BFM competition]

I've notified Stuge, the mission builder, I remember care was also taken to make the sun perpendicular to the initial merge so as to not penalize one side or the other; let's see what would be his reply on this.

there are so many other places with very good FPS, like everywhere near Kerch Strait just for example.

To be honest I didn't spend much time pondering the aesthestics of the battle area, but I'll see if Kerch is better, and if so move it there ;)

Stuge, that mission also keeps crashing my DCS when it loads (even without selecting planes). Not sure if its local issue or a mission issue. I think Frostie had some trouble with it as well.

Stuge, that mission also keeps crashing my DCS when it loads (even without selecting planes). Not sure if its local issue or a mission issue. I think Frostie had some trouble with it as well.

If it crashes upon loading (and before unpausing), then yeah that's not good. Works flawlessly when I host it though, and also others have hosted it successfully. Remember that teams have to be equally populated and spawned in before unpausing for the mission to work properly.

If you want to test the mission functionality in singleplayer, you need to change one of the client aircraft to an AI aircraft, to have equal teams (1v1), then it doesn't restart after 5 seconds :)

But anyway, as long as the TAW guys have it working, should be no problem..

Regarding the terrain, I really can't find a 50 km diameter patch without cities that's not ugly, so it will then include cities forest power lines etc. I guess somewhere east of Kerch would be good then..?

Cities would affect FPS though Stuge...why not have two versions one for modest rigs (current one) and the other for high-end machines and let people pick what they want?

Bracket system seems to have skipped Plaiskool who is a seeded pilot (ranked 24th by sa-sim), so adding him have changed the position in the brackets of the pilots seeded below him.

Please check the brackets, your match number and the schedule once again, only a few people's positions and match time have changed, the vast majority is still the same.

Sorry for any inconvenience though now the brackets are final!:thumbup:

http://sa-sim.com/top-gun-round-2-for-dcs-1-5-kicking-off-november-14th/

But anyway, as long as the TAW guys have it working, should be no problem..

We will do a new test specially looking at the pause/unpause at the start of the event.

Alright sky warriors, now downloading the mission will bring 2 versions of the same mission: the old, less visually appealing version yet frame rate-friendly and the new one where the combat area is located in a prettier setting but greedier FPS-wise; the choice is up to the competitors, just let the server admin know which one youd like him to use.

If no agreement is reached, the basic version must be used.

http://sa-sim.com/download/top-gun-r2-mission-file/

Kudos to you Stuge!

Note to everyone who is trying to host the mission:

It is imperative that you start the server as paused and only unpause the server when every player is in the cockpit.

Otherwise it detects no players in game, and forces a restart, or a crash to desktop in single player, or a crash to desktop if you have changed the file name to something else.

Not that I think its a useful tactic but fuel dumping in the Su27 does not work as of 1.5.1

Thanks for reporting this Rage.

Also some are reporting padlock can not be disabled in 1.5...

Thanks for reporting this Rage.

 

Also some are reporting padlock can not be disabled in 1.5...

We just ran a test with OverG, padlock is still disabled.

My guess is whoever sees them as enabled has edited the mission, saved it in the editor, while having padlock enabled in their own settings. This seems to enable padlock in the mission, regardless of host settings or the mission settings (a bug).

Just use the original mission, don't touch it with the editor, and padlock should be disabled.

If you still find that it is enabled, please PM me and let's arrange for a test flight together so I can see it with my own eyes... I cannot fix what I cannot see.

Update: We've encountered unexpected stability issues when hosting the mission on dedicated servers, working on fixing it, should have a new version tomorrow.

Just a thought guys. But with all the issues in current build, wouldn't it be wiser to have any official event once the release version is out? I think ED realized this very well and postponed M vs S...

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Just a thought guys. But with all the issues in current build, wouldn't it be wiser to have any official event once the release version is out? I think ED realized this very well and postponed M vs S...

 

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That's up to Flankerator. But when hosted by a regular host (not dedicated server) I can confirm the mission has zero issues, everything works flawlessly.

Yeah I think ping will be a big factor as well. A dedicated server would be preferable. Honestly for those located in Asia makes it really tough with ping being more than 200 most of the time, at least when joining EU servers... The pipper is just..... nuts! Haha

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Yeah I think ping will be a big factor as well. A dedicated server would be preferable. Honestly for those located in Asia makes it really tough with ping being more than 200 most of the time, at least when joining EU servers... The pipper is just..... nuts! Haha

 

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You don't shoot a jinking target with pipper :D

Anyway, i'll do my best to have it stable for dedicated server this evening :)

You don't shoot a jinking target with pipper :D

No kidding :joystick:

Dear pilots,

Unfortunately we will have to postpone this until further notice as 1.5 seems to be plagued by issues directly affecting MP.

As much as we wanted to run this this weekend, we'd also like to have a fair competition and current version of DCS denies it.

We're not cancelling this event, only delaying until the game gets rid of a few big let downs, this is beyond our control and we apologize for any inconvenience. We only decided to postpone now as the whole team was trying hard to make this work until the last day so I'd personally like to salute Stuge and OverG for their countless hours of mission testing and debugging.

We hope you will all be able to fly again once we set the new dates and we will have a new thread where people can reconfirm their slots with also the possibility for new comers to sign up as well.

Stay tuned as we aim for the release version of 1.5 (around 2-3 weeks according to the devs).

S!

Understandable, thanks for all your hard work guys.

Thats a real shame! I was looking forward to it this weekend.

Does it need to be a mission with triggers and paused start etc? Perhaps a simpler mission will suffice?

Edit: no problem, like Frostie said, thx for the hardwork and look forward to it in the next few weeks hopefully.

All good guys,,

Thanks for your all you have done.

Will wait and stand by to Stand by.

O_Smiladon /O_Wolfpac

Thats a real shame! I was looking forward to it this weekend.

 

Does it need to be a mission with triggers and paused start etc? Perhaps a simpler mission will suffice?

 

Edit: no problem, like Frostie said, thx for the hardwork and look forward to it in the next few weeks hopefully.

There were other issues too like game being unplayable to some participants, and graphical glitches...

Real shame, but understandable. :joystick:

There were other issues too like game being unplayable to some participants, and graphical glitches...

Could you be a little more specific? PM me if you like.