hello again
i have been refurbishing my house so that is all i had time to say, anyway
i have been playing dcs lately and i am into full realism and the flight model is great for that, (in my opinion) but also in dcs i have been playing around with skins and paint jobs for the aircraft with mip maps. i know that the mip maps arn't directly in the game files as you have to extract them and label the file names but i have not found a way of editing anything as far as i have looked into the games actual files. now, however, im not saying that the looks of the aircraft are bad or not accurate to the time period or what it was based off of but i feel like having that kind of ability and freedom is quite nice to have.
i also realise that dcs is quite a different game as it is mainly played in the cockpit and not with an exterior view. but if we compare the exterior view games e.g. war thunder ext. thay have the ability of changing the degree of flaps as when i play the version of the game that lets you use landing gear at more than 300kt/s i deploy it in dogfights to make me more maneuverable (or so i would think). also by raising the landing gear it does not give you the choice of keeping the flaps down and incresing lift as a real plane would because the landing gear creates drag, (more than the flaps) so if you have to keep the landing gear down for the flaps it become quite inconvenient when coming in for a slow aproach. also i have noticed that in the new version with the updated flight model the engines dont need to spool up, which if your trying to make the game more realistic by adding an updated flight would be nice to have to add to the more realistic feel
i love the game though and it looks like a lot of effort has been put into it but these are my oppinions and they might not be everyones cup of tea.