FIRST IMPRESSIONS of Contention DCS Server
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Discord Link: / discord
I've been hearing really good things about the new Contention server. Another dynamic multiplayer PVP server, with a more modern planeset than ECW. Been described to me as a rival for FVP or a more-modern ECW, so let's see what it's like.
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0:00 Briefing
0:50 Sortie 1 First Foray
3:20 Sortie 2 Forgetting To Flare
5:30 Sortie 3 Some Success
7:49 Sortie 4 Failing To Attack Rene
9:57 Sortie 5 Two for One
12:15 Outro - Ігри
Hey Jebus! Glad to see you enjoyed the server a bit! The funny thing is, your experience very much mirrored mine. Coming from ECW, it was a big learning curve for me. If you ever need a primer through it, feel free to give us a shout in Blucord or on the SPS server and we can run you through the ins and outs of it.
I joined the server today, I took a MiG-29S and got surprised instantly. This thing had HARMs on it right away. I added R73, R27 and a bag. After downing a F-18 a nice lady told me that I had just 1500kg fuel left. To loose weight I fired of the HARMs...and got -6 Creds for hitting friendly :-D. Those things work.
I think it’s right up there with the best. I just wish the f16 had sparrows
Yeah it was looked into but there's no way as of now install the missiles onto the jet and have them actually track with the radar. You can still do some insane tricks with the 16 and the Fox 2's that it has. You can easily beat Fox 1's BVR and score a kill at 20+ miles if you play your cards right.
Omg my thoughts exactly! I wish they added sparrows to it (there are plenty of unrealistic things in DCS, they could do that too, you don't have to use it if you don't want to).
I even tried the hornet to check out the sparrows, but I can't get used to it's switchology and flight model, so went back to my viper
@@deekamikazehow do you get sidewinders to lock on to anything beyond 8-10 miles?
@@weles1989 You don't. You uncage the missile and shoot it in their direction as long as they're nose hot and let them fly into it. I do it at high and medium altitude all the time. If they're going fast in a straight line you don't even lock them or turn your radar on. Lock them with the datalink if you have that option and sling a Fox2 straight at them and then dive and do a 180 and go exactly the opposite direction you were heading and they will continue at their altitude knowing you didn't get a missile off because your radar wasn't on and if you did get a radar missile off it's either now dead (fox1) or they would have gotten the rwr from the missile (fox3) and since they didn't, they will just full burn right into your Fox2. You want to trick the enemy into feeling safe because they will get too confident and it will kill them. I pull this crap on people all the time and get called a cheater and I love it. It takes practice so just keep at it and you'll start to be feared.
@@deekamikaze whoah amazing, need to try it :D
Nice thank you for the information. I'll will try it for sure
Great place to fly helos as well, if you ever see us on, join in!
If you bind uncage for the aim 9 you won’t have to keep the hud on the plane once you get tone
You can also join with a Viggen if i am not wrong :D. Maybe the F-16 isnt for your with all the buttons and displays :D
Honestly my favourite server atm. Blueflag is good but the process to switch teams is tedious and doesnt work half the time. Additionally I find Contention SRS to be more lively, far easier to get some backup while trying to launch HARM's at radar positions and players who actually ptfo. It's Awesome.
You said a possible “replacement for Blue Flash”….been awile since I hopped on MP but did something happen to Tempest Blue flash?
It's been very quiet lately and a lot of people are unhappy with the change to the campaign a few months back that made it much less of a dynamic campaign and more of a series of structured missions
Please can I ask what you use to record your footage? E.g. OBS, shadowplay?
OBS. I used to use shadow play when starting out but the audio kept desyncing on longer videos. Also very easy in OBS to record different audio sources to different tracks for ease of editing (such as removing the discord chat from this one)
@@Dr_Jebus thanks so much. I want to upload some footage but I've realised my shadowplay hasn't captured any SRS at all
Can you salvo a bunch of Mavericks and either saturate the SAM or just make it waste a bunch of missiles?
If you're quick you can launch several mavericks. Even better if you have more than one plane coming in at different angles to do a saturation attack
How does Contention differ from blueflag 80s? (Not just asking you Jebus but anyone)
A bit more relaxed in general. You're not side locked for one. I also can't remember but doesn't blue flag have limited lives? No restrictions like that on contention.
I have seen the server in the lobbs several times now, but it very often blue overflowed. Is there a mechanic that AI airplanes try to balance the imbalance?
Not that I'm aware of. Would definitely be nice
How much variety is there in A/G combat? I mean, is it just ADs or are there enemy vehicles, supply depots, buildings, etc that need to be attacked?
Don't know all the details but there are definitely ground units that players can deploy. I know my wingman was hunting Abrams at one point. Not sure about depots or such, but I'm still learning the server myself
There is an absolute ton of variety in A2G combat. CTLD is in, as is Forward Air Control airframes that can provide artillery strike direction. There are depots, farps, control points, factories. It's pretty much got it all.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Oh. Yeah….glad to see I wasn’t the only one who disliked the weird “mission” setup they went to. However, I’m NOT glad that they have chosen to stick with it. I understand experimenting or improving through trial…but sometimes it seems like servers break things that were just fine. Not sure what was wrong with the dynamic set up. I DO wish Tenprest and Enogma had a wider variety of ground targets to strike that - in some way- impacted the amount of units deployed to a zone OR the value if those units going to calculate a “push”.
I get tired of bombing the same old building (representing a depot) and clumps of ground units on enigma.
@@mikeck4609IL 2 has pretty good variety in ground targets
Contention is great! They’ve since updated to have more strike targets too. Not the best server to learn new modules in tho 😂
what happened to tempest blueflash?
It’s been down since early this month
Audio clipping and static or just me?
Also been reported to me by someone else. Sorry, I thought it was an issue in the editor but looks like it was an issue in the actual recording. Will aim to fix for future videos
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Its so fucking heavy server, just eats my 32gb of ram, and i get 10 fps in flight, with the strike eagle. Any tips to improve?
Upgrading to 64Gb helped me a lot with getting decent frames on ECW, which has similar numbers of ground units. Busy servers are so RAM intensive
Disable tacview also helps
@@angelnunez8321 it is already. Rtx 3060, ryzen 7 2700, pretty laggy
How to disable tac view?
@@angelnunez8321
Server is a lag fest. I can play on any other server with 50+ players on any map and get 60+ fps in VR.
Takes me 5 minutes just to slot in this server and get a cool 10 FPS.
It's just arcady missile spam. Like warthunder but with tedious startup procedures.
Do DDCS. It's the best.
I'll have to look into that!
Please fix mic brother
Yup, looking into what went wrong