Quick words of praise and thanks to BMS developers and community.
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Welcome. Glad you like it. Be aware you may become addiccted to it
But if I mayā¦ try the multiplayer. There a plenty of communities here that will kindly welcome you.
I say this because BMS campaing is very complex and the tactical flights you can accomplish joining flights with other humans is completely different from single player.I could say it is like āanotherā BMS.
but it is your callā¦
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@TED
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I have been flying BMS for a few years now. Off and on with that other combat simulator. As a recently retired pilot from the airlines and then several years flying corporate jets, I have to attest the incredible job that the devs have done with Falcon BMS.
For example returning to base with several other flights and watching ATC work everybody into a single runway like that at Aviano. In my career I have been in the line up trying to get into places ORD, DFW, JFK, LHR. and MIA with thunderstorms in all quadrants. Airframe icing and holding. ATC in BMS has hit a home run. Nothing compares.
A big thank you to the Devs.
Ransom -
@TED
What took you so long? -
@TED Welcome to Falcon BMS, personally the sensations that Falcon BMS has given me flying a campaign have not been given to me by any entertainment software in my lifeā¦ the adrenaline rush is brutal, difficult to explain for the rest of us mortals. you have to live it.
I am delighted that you are here, greetings and enjoy mate -
@sasah320 thanks Sasah. Yes I might well give it a go once Iāve got to grips with everything. I think i was mostly put off the online servers by dcs antics and the lack of well coordinated, organised and structured scenarios. Mostly it just felt like a GTA in the air.
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@Ransom46 said in Quick words of praise and thanks to BMS developers and community.:
I have been flying BMS for a few years now. Off and on with that other combat simulator. As a recently retired pilot from the airlines and then several years flying corporate jets, I have to attest the incredible job that the devs have done with Falcon BMS.
For example returning to base with several other flights and watching ATC work everybody into a single runway like that at Aviano. In my career I have been in the line up trying to get into places ORD, DFW, JFK, LHR. and MIA with thunderstorms in all quadrants. Airframe icing and holding. ATC in BMS has hit a home run. Nothing compares.
A big thank you to the Devs.
RansomYep I hear you. Iām also flying for a living, although not quite at retirement yet. Flown both military and now civilian. Been flying helicopters for the best part of 25 years now. Bad weather and atc stress was always fun! I used to fly offshore to the rigs in the North Sea and those winter nights coming back in to an airport, IMC, 60kt winds, ice all over the nose and sponsons, and the radar showing cb cells and lightning flashing all around, as we try to ānegotiateā with atc for a reasonable route through and good place to hold as they coordinate everyone due to increased traffic separation, always focused the mind!
It was amazing the other day in bms, getting this kind of coordination as well from the ai atc.
The more I scratch the surface of bms, the more I realise what Iāve been missing from other sims. Ironically Iām now about to go into a completely different sim for work . The 6 monthly training and proficiency check period in the level d sim. Although as an instructor mostly Iām sitting in the back doing the chaos generation. I reflect more and more though these days how much better many of the enthusiast sims are in many ways, especially in vr, than the large level d commercial sims we use are. -
@TED Very glad that you are here.
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@TED
Welcome to BMS!While I understand your point re: flying with other people, IME the Falcon community is more about co-op than PvP. Donāt get me wrong, there are some PvP events but I would wager most squadronās flight nights are co-op missions. Just imagine you are the Strike package sitting behind the tanker getting your gas and you are informed that your ToT has been moved (rolex?) 5 minutes as the CAP package has encountered an unknown SAM site so now the SEAD guys are working on itā¦
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Welcome to BMS @TED ! Best wishes and see you around!
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@TED
Welcome!
Have a nice time with exercising in the TEs, but donāt wait with a campaign too long. They really ever have been the heartbeat of Falcon.
You may select an easier one like Tiger Spirit and make it even easier with the force sliders all the way towards Blue Force.
Let the HQ do the planning - there are checkboxes āSet by HQā in the āPrioritiesā and in āSquadronā for this.
When you feel more and more comfortable, move on with letās say Rolling Fire, manage Priorities (the overall strategy) for your forces manually and then even plan flight packages for your squadron (or over several squadrons). -
@Atze-0 thanks for the tips. Sounds like a good way forward. Fortunately Iām relatively up to speed with f16 systems from dcs previously so Iāll just dive into some more if the bms detail and start a simple campaign test run in the next days. A few more things I need to get to grips with like WMP, kneeboards, my voice attack profiles and so on.
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@TED its called a real Hidden Gem. I love BMS even if I still massively suck but lately spent 2 days flying campaign in VR for the first time was actually doing DEAD. What a fantastic feeling in connection with Weapon Delivery Planner. Outstanding experience.