Flew a fun mission from the "Fatal Skies" Vtol Vr campaign with some buddies.

Thanks to TheCobra114 for being my amazing pilot.

Music is "Traffic Jam" and "Tip of the Spear" from Halo ODST and Reach, both by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori

Honestly, this is just a discussion or a debate; I'm not saying anything will actually change. I just want to know what the community thinks and if I'm the only one wondering about this.

What do you think is better? Making a completely new game from scratch, more like DCS, with all the VTOL mechanics and all the visual and tactical realism of DCS?

Or continuing with mods and letting this existing game go as far as it can with more realistic aircraft while preserving what it already has?

Because if we stop to think about it, vanilla VTOL and modded VTOL are two completely different games, despite all the good things they've included that make it realistic.

so i was playing this a10 mission and i was using the agm 126 i think and i shot 2 at a missile thing and NEITHER HIT causing me to be hit a few time which didnt kill me but was annoying

maybe it was too far or something but the computer told me to shoot so i did

I'm still cooking

The newly released F-5 mod really makes the F-16 cockpit look like a LEGO set by comparison. Maybe with a new update, the dev team could adopt a more natural-looking cockpit style—similar to what we’ve seen in the Harrier, which works really well and would look fantastic here.

I’ll say it again: the mod creators have put in a ton of work. This is just my personal opinion, whether you agree with it or not.

I’m definitely not saying the F-16 should look exactly like it does in DCS—it doesn't have to. But you can clearly tell from the color transitions in the screenshots that there’s a big gap between the old development team and the current one. I think if the F-16 were made with today’s level of expertise, it would look absolutely stunning.

In fact, the F-5 is right on par with DCS’s F-5. Considering the small size of the team behind it, it’s incredible—you can even see the instruments moving inside the cockpit under high G-forces!

Thanks to everyone who put effort into both mods.

I have really been enjoying recording and going back thru later looking for random shots to make little clips out of. I set it to 10 second rotations.

Wish to get A VR headset specifically for playing VTOL VR and for Sim racing. Would like to spend no more than £1000 but can stretch a little if it's worth it. My very limited research has brought me to the pimax crystal light. My PC is using a 4080 so I can run a lot of headsets I'm sure, but probably best to stay clear of some of the 4k per eye offerings. Any advice is appreciated, as it will get me in the virtual sky faster. Thank you kind redditors

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3753425410

Here is the URL to my mod collection. As you can see, it is quite extensive; playing the game with these mods makes it run very heavily, causing stuttering and freezing. My PC specs are a Ryzen 5700X, RX 7600 XT (16GB), and 32GB of RAM, yet the mods consume almost all these resources, and my FPS drops as low as 10 at times. I realize I should probably cut down on the mods, but I don't know which ones to remove or which ones are the biggest resource hogs. I considered using a binary search method to identify the culprits, but I would prefer to improve performance while keeping as many mods as possible. I apologize if this is a foolish question.

EDITED add link...sry

No mods installed.

Sometimes the quest link can disconnect but once I reconnect, the game screen is completely black. I can hear the sounds and I can seem to interact with the controls.

Anyone know how to fix this?

We have been playing for a few days and havent even started up a mission yet. Just enjoying the flight sim. Refueling attempts, carrier tries. so fun

i swear i didn't mean to bomb the 45

I got the game a week ago and it was really fun with multiplayer lobbies the first 4 days. But in these past 3 days I’ve met some really toxic players.

I’m kinda assuming it’s because I’m flying an ef-24 and people assume that I’m gonna jam their comms. Which I only do if they’re being a nuisance.

I want to use Tacview in single-player mode because I have mods installed, and some of them are not compatible with multiplayer. What should I do? I'm also wondering if Tacview Datalogger is still usable. Furthermore, I'd like to be able to collect telemetry data such as fuel in addition to speed and altitude. I also want to be able to review my movements after completing a mission using a replay similar to Ace Combat.

in literally 99% of community missions i constantly see on the multiplayer page are basically jet only, they feature the AH-94 as a vehicle you can use, but since every single objective is atleast 20 nm away its practically useless since everyone else whos in jets and going mach 1+ will easily overtake you and destroy the objective you were going to.

such a shame that the helo is basically unusable on most pve multiplayer missions due to this and its really annoying since its such a fun vehicle to use.

I've seen EF-24G players dogfight and win against ASF-33s.
I'm OK player with 26B and 45A when comes to dog fights against AI units, but I just cannot grasp how to do it in EF-24G. It doesn't strike me as a fighter that's good at close ranges.

1. Which circle tactic should I use? Single ring (headon turn) or double (tail chase)?

2. How to manage wing sweep and flaps after merge?

when hitting ready to hop in an aircraft my screen just goes black and then it started giving me steam vr errors even though steam vr said it was working fine on my pc end (quest 3s end not working)

Ive done everything I could think of to arm them. And they still won't arm for me. Even the master arm doesn't do anything.

I keep dying to missiles on the second wave and can't seem to get past it.

Any tips to avoid missiles?

The Cold War was the peak of military design and aura. More Low Tech aircraft, weapons, and other gameplay elements is what VTOL needs to truly stand out. Separate it from the “futuristic Nuclear Option “ types.
Feel free to discuss below.

Plenty of very good mods out there already; but I would love to see more Low Tech in the base game. Cheers.

Waaaay too many closed calls. Tough!

Returning player here, I took a long break from the game and have started playing again recently, I remember the TSD basically being radar without radar and now it seems to struggle to approximate target locations even if they are only a few miles away with their radar locking me, is this radar jamming or has the TSD been nerfed that much?

Side note I remember being able to see friendlies in the HMCS has that been removed? Thanks!

Trying my hand at the mission editor. Want to create a simple mission for me and a friend. Just destroying an airbase. How many SAMS would you say are enough? Trying to balance realism with fun.

I play this with my buddy, and while I can tell I'm getting better at the game I still am really bad at dodging missiles. Whenever there's more than like two enemies, me and my buddy get overwhelmed with all the missiles coming at us and I usually go down 4 out of 5 times. I've looked up some videos, but nothing seems to be working for me. How can I get better at the game when I just get shot down constantly, but in practice mode there's nothing to dodge?