Thanks for the replies.

Yes I’m not talking about the override switch, though that is definitely the way it can be handled. 😊

@Jack-Curzon said in Suwon runway directions:

Will try and jump on the training ramp start TE today and see where I’m directed to.

Any info?

@Atlas i am aware of that thanks. but that already is more than enough to get a new player started

@airtex2019 said in Possible future of BMS ATC?:

@SoBad fwiw there are separate efforts underway to use generative tech to make new TTS voices (accents) and/or allow new phrases to be voiced in existing Falcon-world accents … this is something that hamstrung development for a long time (and why the carrier LSOs all sound like Stephen Hawking)

but it’s not LLM or even traditional NLP (natural language processing) … still menu-driven comms, and selecting from a slightly-varying array of response phrasing.

@Stevie

Thanks for the responsive comments and the info about separate efforts being underway. That video link was interesting to me because it showed how non-robotic voices using more humanistic tones really enhances the feeling of interacting with ATC.

I get Stevie’s point about wording being more strict in a military environment. but it isn’t to the point of being robotic. I was a city cop for 30+ years, and we operate in a quasi-military environment where many words and phrases are part and parcel of the radio dispatching environment. But the human element always introduces small variations in word choice, phrase construction, pauses, intonation, etc. that make it obvious that humans are on the air.

For example, the recent efforts made by a “virtual crew chief” shows an impressive feeling of dealing with something more than phrases repeated again and again with the exactly identical set of words, pauses, intonation, etc. The virtual crew chief, even though script based, chooses from-- in almost every different phase of the start-up process-- numerous options of words, phrases, etc. that mean the same thing, but give it a much better sense of interacting with a person. And that video I linked showed the future promise of interacting with virtual people in a way much more like in real life-- hence the thread title “Possible future of BMS ATC”. It might take a number of intermediate steps to get there, but I think it’s inevitable eventually, with natural language implementation as commonplace (and free) as spelling dynamic libraries are today for programmers, for instance. This whole subject certainly deserves more than a dismissive “Nope.”

Thanks for the discussion. And now I finally understand why I kept seeing references to Steven Hawkings! (I don’t fly carrier craft and have no experience or interest in it, hence my ignorance of that part of the BMS environment.)

@m1tp2king said in Multiplayer?:

Hi. So I am new to bms. How do I talk to other human pilots online? Does bms come with its own software?

where do I find other pilots to do multiplayer campaign?

Welcome to FALCON BMS.

If you are an English speaker, I recommend you go through VG (Veteran Gaming), a very welcoming and cordial family. 24/7 server.

If you are Spanish speaking you are welcome to ours 24/7.

@Icer gave a lot of good advice in his post. I would mention two things…

First, he obviously enjoys air-to-air missions and provides an appropriate strategy. I’m a ground pounder-- I’d rather go after ground units while @Icer covers my back. If you like ground pounding, start with the first-line Air Defense units and airbases, to thin out the red air; then start focusing on tank battalions.

That wasn’t my advice per se, it was a Reddit post he referenced… I seldom if ever go pure A-A, 95% of the time i’ve got ordinance for A-G on board also… I agree 100% with creating your own packages, think he is a ways from that yet… For now, re-task and adapt to the current situation…

@Killroy said in Ship Anti missile defense ineffective?:

@VDK Which scenario in which teater?

Standard Korea Theater

@Puckertoe
once you’re in combat, the pucker factor will be high and you’ll be pressing-and-holding that pickle button for longer 😁

@Icarus
Yep, one of the cons of photogametry textures. Unless, team comes up with clever shaders to manipulate ground texture colors and provide procedural snow cover. I think the latter should be quite doable.

If you are going to fly older Blocks without modern targeting options you’ll more probably be wanting to select laser guided munitions for CAS - and the smaller ones at that, like Mk-82HD/LD, and/or LMAVs…now that we have LMAVs.

Getting a really good DL model into BMS would be a serious challenge…

@SOBO-87 - I’m not really trying to say anything more than “good luck widdat”.

Chiming in just to add some context to the debate:
First in OPs case from pure BMS point of view i t’s rather pointless excercise. Extra 8GB of RAM is great quality of life upgrade to daily work/office type tasks. But it won’t make BMS much more playable. I think GPU here would be the bottleneck.
In general using faster memory in laptops is not really worth it, unless it has only integrated GPU and is used for gaming (which modern CPUs APUS can do quite well in expectations are kept in check)
Mainly because laptops rather won’t support any overclocking and most of the gains would be in that territory.
However it makes sense in desktop PC where using fast, low latency memory can bring even over 10% of extra performance depending on application. It’s especially important for non-3d cache Ryzen CPUs where double-digit of % difference is quite a norm.

@LorikEolmin

Ok, thank you very much 🍺

@rocaf2003 Your English is far better than my version of your first language, whatever it is, so no forgiveness needed👍

@c-los I’ve never done it, so I don’t know how it’s done, but I know you can add Steam to Lutris.

Other option can be installing protontrinks, which is winetricks for steam-proton games. There you can see your games installed with proton, select them and run winetricks for them. You can also do other actions on that prefix.

Edit: there is another option. You can point the Lutris wine prefix to the Falcon4’s proton one. Maybe you also need to select the Flacon4 folder? Not fully sure about this.

@qawa Daco’s F-15 is a very good book from a modeling perspective! Lot of details!

@Arty Yeah,I remember the name is F16 50th anniversaty

@VIPER-0 - actually, I still know of people that use FAF professionally, for the reasons I point out - matters of what you are wanting to do with the tool, and which tool is best suited.

And I keep all of my BMS installations on hand for the same reasons…the 4.35 release still being my favorite.

@SoBad
My thoughts are similar. I have never been a fan of the “catch back up” portion. In addition, I seldom use exterior views because of the sound adjustment needed when returning to the cockpit. However, the urge for a fly-by arises periodically. I activate it via VoiceAttack.

My VA is programmed to toggle the fly-by view, pause six seconds, then toggle the 3 key to return to the 3D cockpit. Thus, no more “catch back up” portion. Like you I wish the fly-by portion could be extended a bit.

GC