Suggestion: Putting BMS on Steam as a Mod to improve its longevity and public visibility
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@bjjman94 said in Suggestion: Putting BMS on Steam as a Mod to improve its longevity and public visibility:
@VIPER-0 lol nah bro they’re definitely compatible especially as of the past year or so. Bms shines more in the dynamic campaign but that’s about it dcs is really catching up fixing the odds and ends that weren’t as realistic. I still like bms better tho and i think I always will unless dcs gets a crazy interactive campaign.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. DCS is a commercial product of an aircraft module focused combat flight engagement simulation model, BMS is a freeware product full modification of an F-16 focused combat flight war simulation model.
Each have their own goals, drawbacks, and perks - with DCS being a visually modern sim with a goal to make money by releasing new aircraft simulation models to work off their base World platform, with less emphasis on accuracy or functional realism than consistent new releases, and content to leave modules in a “WIP” state in order to move onto or release other aircraft modules. And BMS, of course, being a freeware project with a goal of IRL accuracy and functionality (as much as able given declassified information) while addressing any issues as they are reported and as able in perpetuity for the current or next version, and while lacking (for now, anyway!) some of the more modern graphics we’d expect in modern combat flight sims, features an unrivaled full campaign simulator that can run for weeks in real-time.
The only thing they both have in common is the base genre of ‘combat flight simulator’ - beyond that, they are each such unique individual groups and sims that there is no comparison even between matching aircraft in each sim.
One isn’t better (or worse) than the other in general, only in individual aspects of the sim and the development of it, and team goals for those aspects.
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@SemlerPDX said in Suggestion: Putting BMS on Steam as a Mod to improve its longevity and public visibility:
@bjjman94 said in Suggestion: Putting BMS on Steam as a Mod to improve its longevity and public visibility:
@VIPER-0 lol nah bro they’re definitely compatible especially as of the past year or so. Bms shines more in the dynamic campaign but that’s about it dcs is really catching up fixing the odds and ends that weren’t as realistic. I still like bms better tho and i think I always will unless dcs gets a crazy interactive campaign.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. DCS is a commercial product of an aircraft module focused combat flight engagement simulation model, BMS is a freeware product full modification of an F-16 focused combat flight war simulation model.
Each have their own goals, drawbacks, and perks - with DCS being a visually modern sim with a goal to make money by releasing new aircraft simulation models to work off their base World platform, with less emphasis on accuracy or functional realism than consistent new releases, and content to leave modules in a “WIP” state in order to move onto or release other aircraft modules. And BMS, of course, being a freeware project with a goal of IRL accuracy and functionality (as much as able given declassified information) while addressing any issues as they are reported and as able in perpetuity for the current or next version, and while lacking (for now, anyway!) some of the more modern graphics we’d expect in modern combat flight sims, features an unrivaled full campaign simulator that can run for weeks in real-time.
The only thing they both have in common is the base genre of ‘combat flight simulator’ - beyond that, they are each such unique individual groups and sims that there is no comparison even between matching aircraft in each sim.
One isn’t better (or worse) than the other in general, only in individual aspects of the sim and the development of it, and team goals for those aspects.
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@SemlerPDX ik what you mean but I’m telling you dcs has really come a long way in the past year or so. I used to play it years ago and I would get annoyed at some unrealistic things and go play bms instead lol but the last time I played it I was seriously considering buying a new more powerful rig so I can play dcs as well. They’re catching up unfortunately bro.
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@bjjman94 I fly both, and have for a few years. For me, the difference is not in the graphics or the flight models or whatever (honestly, for a lay person, it’s hard to tell the difference in FM).
Instead it’s in “what do you do now you’ve loaded the game/sim?” aspect, especially in single player.
DCS is a decent (and pretty) sim.
BMS is a decent (and maybe not quite so pretty but I still like it) / excellent sim.
DCS has nothing aside from being a sim. It’s a sandbox, with limited scope for missions due to being cpu bound whenever you want more than a handful of units. The AI that you fly with is poor. Flying against, it’s pretty good.
But BMS has a massively rich environment with a full scale war, and cooperative AI that mostly do the right thing.
I enjoy DCS for air quake and flying other things, or “training”, or quick flights.
I enjoy BMS for being part of a war.