Link 16 things you want in the next update
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Scenery floodlights or a handheld flashlight (similar to how it’s implemented in MSFS2020, for example) to illuminate the cockpit would be very useful, as the nights appear to be a lot darker now than before, and it’s impossible to find any knob or switch in the pit.
The current method of using the NVGs until you have battery power, followed by the spotlight until you have engine running, works but isn’t always realistic.
Also, since the FLCS Reset button has become more important during the ramp start, I’d liked to point out #3 in the opening post of this thread, but I don’t think any of the issues brought forward there, with exception of the GBU-39, have been addressed already?
Good question. I thought spotlight would be a RL floodlight. Maybe if make spotlight less bright it would replace a floodlight linked with battery power bus. How does it work in the real jet?
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The real jet doesnt have any light in the cockpit until the point of main generator is running (idk atm, if stby gen alsondoes the job). But there is no flood- or backlight with only the jets battery on. Except one little utilitylight, which is mounted on the right console outboards of the KY58-PANEL. You can detach that from its mount and use it like a torch.
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@Red:
EDIT, I’m a dot, I should have read the post fully first, sorry
Don’t we have the spotlights (from BATT) already?
I though it was a new addition to 4.34?Same.
Yes, the spotlight is available since (at least) 4.34, but as I said and Red Dog confirmed, it requires battery power. If you can’t find the BATT switch, or don’t need it at that stage yet (e.g. during cockpit interior check, you don’t want to deplete the BATT already), you’re currently forced to use the night vision goggles. For realism sake, even though none of this is (currently) implemented in BMS, NVGs are focused to infinity and should be useless for any near vision or cockpit manipulation, have a battery life time of their own, and you usually have to make a choice between NVGs or the HMCS pre-flight, as you cannot (easily) switch one for the other in-pit.
This is why pilots will often bring a small flashlight, finger light or head light with them during night flights.
When I say I like how it’s implemented in MSFS, this is what I mean (top right).
Or as shown in this video that modded the colour to red:
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Terma PIDS+ has UV warning sensors, 3 on each pylon. Only EPAF and ANG uses them as far as I know.
Pretty sharp catch this yours, dear Canuck…
but getting reliable data will be hard, I’m afraid. Nice if they come, anyway, I would be glad to have them at my hand.
Those manpads became a stingy thing… in all senses, I mean.
With best regards.
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I think we´re done here, hu?
Should be. I understand its usually a new thread for a new version, no?
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The spotlight feature to me should be a simulation of holding a flashlight and Aircraft battery or power should not affect its use. This is just my opinion.
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A finger light function would be cool…they have those - little battery lights that simply can be worn like a ring. Then one could just point it with the mouse as if using a virtual hand. Could also make the zoom light function such, for a wider beam…but I suspect the zoom light shouldn’t work until BATT switch is ON.
https://www.cejayengineering.com/images/products/finger_lights/finger_light_MK8_2.jpg
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DCS F-16 has exactly that tiny spotlight accurately implemented.
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DCS F-16 has exactly that tiny spotlight accurately implemented.
And at the end after hundreds of hours of work we end up with this kind of shit
https://www.captiongenerator.com/2085852/NEW-BMS-Expectation-vs-Reality
No more for me ! Sorry , time to retire soon
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First minute was funny… not so much after that.
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And at the end after hundreds of hours of work we end up with this kind of shit
https://www.captiongenerator.com/2085852/NEW-BMS-Expectation-vs-Reality
No more for me ! Sorry , time to retire soon
Supposing the person or people who did this didn’t just make something extremely awkward for the devs, I do hope you didn’t spend hundreds of hours for people like them, but rather for people like us to spend hundreds of hours using the software and toying with the idea that we’re contributing from our (at least my) humble position.
I think I’ve already seen that kind of video… I wonder where (everywhere obviously, prize of originality).
Oh, merry Christmas
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Normally we are doing it for ourselves first then we simply share. When we can and/or think it is valuable for the global community, we are doing some other things on ppl request even if we personally do not need it or do not really care about.
But the truth is that we are spending so much time on Dev tasks that we are even not playing the sim at all anymore except sometimes for quick in-game tests. -
And at the end after hundreds of hours of work we end up with this kind of shit
https://www.captiongenerator.com/2085852/NEW-BMS-Expectation-vs-RealityTotal BULLSHIT .
Written by frustrated ones , that doesn’t know the meaning of the word “effort” . Do your thing, at your own pace .
I told you before , there will only-EDIT : always !!! sorry ) be jealous and haters .
Normally we are doing it for ourselves first then we simply share. When we can and/or think it is valuable for the global community, we are doing some other things on ppl request even if we personally do not need it or do not really care about.
Like in music . It’s the good approach .
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What a slap in the face for community driven, selfless and heartfelt work. I didn’t find the lack of thankfulness funny and just skipped over most of it.
Actually, I am saddened that some people can’t appreciate wonderful, freely given gifts. It says something about them, and makes it clear how valuable the gift we have really is.
Thank you Devs and community.
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Total BULLSHIT .
Written by frustrated ones , that doesn’t know the meaning of the word “effort” . Do your thing, at your own pace .
I told you before , there will only be jealous and haters .
Like in music . It’s the good approach .
I think people could think like that. The changes of 2 to 4 years effort could be small.
However, the person who made the video clip is missing important points the philosophy of development and developing BMS is not a full time job like other PC game developers.
Developing as fun has limitation to progress. and making this progress is not easy because of our lives which require a lot of our times.
What is important or what is priority to make this sim more real? Environment is the first? or avionic? BMS team decides. not us. We just give them ideas.
As I was a software developer, I think DX11 implementation is a game changer which will improve BMS Falcon dramatically in the future.I think the person on the video clip should not play BMS Falcon anymore because he does not know how much valuable this BMS hard working outcome is. and he seems like he does not like BMS 4.35 version.
Why you play a PC game or combat simulator whatever you name it as long as you do not like it?
Please stop criticize and play others like DCS.BMS team,
Thanks for your surprising Christmas gift, BMS 4.35. I have been playing your works from BMS 2.03, I assume you are the team released 2.03 version. and still and will do as always.
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Life goes on, many people around the world are excited about falcon development. Who loves and follow this development knows about the possibility to have some bugs here and there. They have been fixed in previous versions, they will be fixed again.
Bad critics are welcome. The answer is simple : do better.I hope with my poor English you understand what I mean.
Happy Christmas
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Dear BMS Developers,
most of the Community And myself appreciate the hard work that you do to make this SIM better and giving us new features as well sort through and streamline the code from which you inherited this project.
It is my belief that this Video is either came from Immature members from the Other Sim (Erm you know the TLA ) or Immature New BMS Players Whom don.t have the decency to RTFM…
Pleases don,t let the idiots whom don,t have an idea about opening a PDF document discourage you in doing what comes passionately to you all,
I Have been involved in Simming with BMS since 432 but really got to know how well helpful and supportive the community is since 433U1. However since release of 434 on march 2019 (or there about) i seen the Devs work very hard in providing fixes and updates at an incredible pace (so much so we had U4 in a 12 month period)
a majority in this BMS community will know that the small (very small) niggles will be sorted in a reasonable matter of time…
it has occurred to me through reading one Devs post that maybe there is a need for a dedicated and trusted core of Beta Testers ,Now all i am doing is making suggestions however we have seen some dedicated Simmers such as Max Waldorf ,Unleashed Code, and Lorik Eioman etc etc Whom have a sensible understand of the sim.
Maybe it could be beneficial for the BMS Dev Team to employ their skillsets for Beta Testing purposes and provide much useful data back to Dev team.If there is a need for a Larger Scale Beta (I.E 32 player) then it can be through them to employ other Trusted Beta testers that have the decency to RTFM and can be trusted to keep Security of the IP. i understand this may not be an option for you but as i state it is only a suggestion as issues can only be identified in a larger MP environments…
Anyhow please keep up with the good Work WE ALL appreciate the Tenacity and Diligence the Dev Team have
Kind Regards and Merry Xmas and many thanks for your work
Haggis
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After coming home after spending time with my mom, dad, sister, and 1 year old niece, I decided to check out the forums before going to bed, and I just skimmed through this last page. To the developers, you guys are amazing. What you have created here is a dream for me. This may sound silly, but ever since watching the movie Iron Eagle, I always wanted to fly the F-16. I bought Falcon back in 1999 when I was working at Kmart to help get me through college, but my computer couldn’t really run it. Then I bought Allied force in 2005. Still, it was hard for me to learn.
Fast forward to Feb 9, 2016. I broke my ankle, and a few weeks later I decided to give Falcon BMS a try. 4.33 had just come out, but then there was an issue with whoever owned the license and even 4.32 was not available. So I made a post of what was going on with me, and my hopes to fly, and a great guy from the development team did something very nice for me! I will never forgot it.
Every summer I would learn to fly a bit more, but I focused on single player, and then this most recent summer, after a great guy named Stalker reached out to me, I joined his group and started to really learn to fly in multiplayer. It was some of the most fun I ever had.
Then right before Christmas ,you guys add 4.35. Heck, now we even have to make sure to turn on the anti-ice, and you created even more ways for enemies to kill us, with more lethal SAM operations and now the ships can blow up our missiles and still kill us while doing back flips! LOL. (Correction, the ships doing back flips will be added in 4.36, it was a last minute scratch from 4.35. My apologies for the error.)
The point is, that the detail, the dedication, the effort, and the heart that you guys put into this is amazing, and most people truly love it and appreciate it. I personally want to thank you for everything you have done for us!
Let me end with a quote from another person who dedicated themselves to helping others. She even had others spit at her for her efforts. Here it is:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
-this version is credited to Mother Teresa
God Bless and Merry Christmas.
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I understand the thousands of hours of development and resources required to do this. It’s incredible and i’m very thankful for the efforts of the team. Merry Christmas, and thanks again. I hope anyone with negative comments can stop being a bunch of scrooges and realize that what these guys do is a favor for all of us.