Fast track manual
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I’d stay away from the manual for the first couple of days…get on discord and look up falcon lounge…meet some people…don’t look at squadrons yet…meet te community and go fly…learn the basics. First see if you like the game. After you get settled in and meet some friends (who are probably new like you) everything will fall into place. After that you can read a bit of the manual and start perfecting your skills.
I’m sorry but that’s the silliest advice I’ve ever heard. Go to Discord and get them to help you with every step? That’s asking a lot from someone’s free time! If you can’t spend the few minutes or hours to do some studying on your own, how can you ask others to do your work for you?
So you hook up with some guys on Discord…. do you know how to connect to an MP flight? Do you know how to open ports? Is your HOTAS configured correctly? Once past that step, how much hand-holding do you really need? Can you manage enough not to lawn-dart within 10nm from the base? Do you know how to adjust your radar scan? Do you know how to go to MRM or DGFT mode?
Watch some YouTube videos if you can’t grasp certain things…I’ve learned nothing from the manual personally…everything was done with the help of a great community. With that learned knowledge I help others learn. No hand holding…just a helping hand ������.
And how do you know that the YT video you just watched contained the correct information? How do you know that the info you are passing on is correct if you don’t refer to the manual?
It’s not that I’m not going to read the manual, it’s actually something someone must do, those are amazing manuals loaded with information…and I will read them with a better understanding of what it’s talking about. What I’m trying to get at.as a brand new player, it becomes very discouraging to just begin with reading a book without first experiencing a bit of the basics of actual bms gameplay. Once you figure out that hey, I actually enjoy this! Then the study portion becomes something that is enjoyable. For me hands on becomes easier as I played around with DCS A-10c so it carries over nicely. The sole reason who so many people turn away from BMS (and other sims of this nature) is because they are told to read the book…see how thick it is, and walk away. New players shouldn’t overwhelm themselves with too much, just take it step by step.
This is something that I agree with! I’ve lost so many players for board games and RPG games by plunking down the entire manual or player’s handbook in front of them. However, a new BMS player does not have to consume all the manuals in one go. “Eat the elephant one bite at a time,” so crack open the **BMS-Training.pdf manual right away and start from there.
As a community, it’s much easier to help someone who has cracked open the manuals…. even if it didn’t make much sense for them… than it is to help someone who doesn’t even try to help himself.**
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@Red:
I remember 25 years ago, the quality of a sim was judged by the size of its manual
nowadays ppl can’t read for more than 5 minutes. evolutionIt’s a generational thing. Most kids nowadays want everything yesterday, and they want it for free. Why waste time searching for it and reading a book when I can just google it or watch it on Youtube? When I were a lad getting into sims in the early 90s, if you didn’t read the manual you weren’t flying the sim. No ifs. No buts. Lazy bastards nowadays want instant gratification. It’s the same on these forums - how many people come and ask the simplest of questions cos they simply can’t be bothered to search for it either in the threads or in the manuals? They want to be spoon-fed all the time, cos they are too bloody lazy to do the hard work themselves. Crazy thing is, if they actually got the books out, they’d find their answers (and probably a whole lot more to boot) alot quicker than waiting for someone to reply with an answer that may or may not actually be the right one!
No apologies for this mini-rant either, it really grates me and I wish to thank BMS Forum mods for allowing me the platform to get this off my chest!
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Wait… Mower has videos???!?!!!?!
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Uh-Huh. Mowervision on MVN (Mower Video Network).
My favorite shows are "Connected …. Disconnect … " and “Bolter, Bolter, Bolter”.
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I douby that kids today are so much lazier than in previous generations. “back in our day”, “the kids nowadays”, bla, bla. I heard it in my day, I’m sure my parents got the same in their day, and theirs before that. If those generalisations were true, any Fighter Squadron in the USAF would only consist of 40+ year brass and silver stars. Evidently young kids can still very much learn how to master the real F-16 today so anyone who applies themselves can learn BMS. Even if, like me, you’re only a mediocre pilot at best.
I still believe that the original Falcon 4.0 manual is still a good place to start when you’re completely new to Falcon 4.0 and possibly military flight sims as a whole. The manual is well written and you can read it pretty quickly. Don’t worry about the actual mechanics in the book as that has all changed now. But the core concepts are very well explained and they still hold true today in BMS 4.33.3. With this I mean just getting a handle on the fact what GM and GMT mean, the differences between TWS and RWS, what the heck does uncaging mean, etc.
Then when you’re feeling somewhat like you get the hang of it, open the BMS manuals and get hit in the face with a tsunami of knowledge. But you just go through it an area at a time. I’m still not across all the modes and ICP settings in fine detail but I’m getting there.
The videos can be helpful though. At times I find it difficult to translate that what’s described in the manual into how it actually works in game. In some areas the manual takes quite a few steps in just one or two sentences. In hindsight it makes perfect sense - but when something is new to you, it can be hard to visualise. That’s where seeing it done in a YouTube video is most useful to me. (Ah that’s what the HUD should look like when I do this? Oh it’s THAT MFD page they are referring to, etc.)
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Uh-Huh. Mowervision on MVN (Mower Video Network).
My favorite shows are "Connected …. Disconnect … " and “Bolter, Bolter, Bolter”.
Have you watched "Pull up … Pull up… " ? , My favorite, True romance. Starring: Mower and Bitchin Betty. :mrgreen:
Jokes aside, when RedDog mentioned people running away from Bms because of rtfm of ton of paper…
Even any (test) pilot reads a metric ton of paper actually before it takes a first glance in a pit, especially for a new vehicle., and that’s it you can’t beat the fact.Came to mind a line from a book “The Hunt for Red October” (I’ve read some 20yrs ago) , where they first time mention digital top down display , moving map essentially, latest tech then.
In a scene Cpt. Mancuso says to unfold him the old paper map from the corner on the TDD.
Then, don’t know who,… Ryan asked why the folded maps on the sub where’s the latest tech.
Mancuso says coldly that,… “Paper can’t be broken …” , because he is an old fart sea wolf. Yarrr.And that’s the true, come on, do you think that they’ll give a command of a nuke fast attack boat to someone who ‘excel’s’ arcade ‘Cold waters’ on youtube :mrgreen: … right.
Have you listen/watch those guys ?.. And they are not just kids!!!. They excel in media shows alright , but acting like … ’ by the heart of true submariner’ … get outta 'ere.
It’s all btw, for a fraction … of a $ lousy coin … yeah, ‘sub’-scribe my slap in yer face.
Get a job… Jesus , a few decades ago they would be already dispatched to the Corps by their own parents/fathers.
… “May I have your qualifications, please?”
…“Occupation?!.. lemme see, … Yeah, I’m a popular professional youtube channel artist with a million viewer subscribers” …
…" Hmm grades? …What grades never went to school, I am naturally smart and able, … as a matter a fact … I don’t even know how smart I am"…
… “They even own me a recognition how smart did I setup my gaming / show rig… So I can show everybody… … for a 2 cents show .”I don’t know man… Natural disasters and global warming are one thing … but a glance of a upcoming future based on this… Where did we took a wrong turn?
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Have you watched "Pull up … Pull up… " ? , My favorite, True romance. Starring: Mower and Bitchin Betty. :mrgreen:
Jokes aside, when RedDog mentioned people running away from Bms because of rtfm of ton of paper…
Even any (test) pilot reads a metric ton of paper actually before it takes a first glance in a pit, especially for a new vehicle., and that’s it you can’t beat the fact.Came to mind a line from a book “The Hunt for Red October” (I’ve read some 20yrs ago) , where they first time mention digital top down display , moving map essentially, latest tech then.
In a scene Cpt. Mancuso says to unfold him the old paper map from the corner on the TDD.
Then, don’t know who,… Ryan asked why the folded maps on the sub where’s the latest tech.
Mancuso says coldly that,… “Paper can’t be broken …” , because he is an old fart sea wolf. Yarrr.And that’s the true, come on, do you think that they’ll give a command of a nuke fast attack boat to someone who ‘excel’s’ arcade ‘Cold waters’ on youtube :mrgreen: … right.
Have you listen/watch those guys ?.. And they are not just kids!!!. They excel in media shows alright , but acting like … ’ by the heart of true submariner’ … get outta 'ere.
It’s all btw, for a fraction … of a $ lousy coin … yeah, ‘sub’-scribe my slap in yer face.
Get a job… Jesus , a few decades ago they would be already dispatched to the Corps by their own parents/fathers.
… “May I have your qualifications, please?”
…“Occupation?!.. lemme see, … Yeah, I’m a popular professional youtube channel artist with a million viewer subscribers” …
…" Hmm grades? …What grades never went to school, I am naturally smart and able, … as a matter a fact … I don’t even know how smart I am"…
… “They even own me a recognition how smart did I setup my gaming / show rig… So I can show everybody… … for a 2 cents show .”I don’t know man… Natural disasters and global warming are one thing … but a glance of a upcoming future based on this… Where did we took a wrong turn?
Quite irrelevant but you make me feel mighty guilty preferring cold waters over the relic known as dangerous waters.
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Well,… old sea fart , then …
You just cant compare DW to CW … period. One is “networked multiple stations” SIMULATOR, unique, one of the kind, and the other is ARCADE.
Here , I’ve discovered this way you can run Dangerous Waters how to run in window on Win 10 … (psst. It is sailor’s secret)
http://www.redrodgers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6767
Good hunting
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There is supposed to be a ‘‘sim engine 2’’ in development from sonalysts, we might get a modern replacement of our beloved relic. In 4-5 weeks…see what I did there