Sow, Much Reaping - ShackTac Arma 3

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[@JohnMcMahon.]

OH YES.. A MOVIE.. I'm locking the house up and going to bed to watch this. THANKS DSLYECXI

[@AgentFisher]

To ignore all the other posts asking intrusive questions, I must say, I love having Crane tagging along with you. I'd agree with what someone else posted, you speak more and I like the interaction where you're explaining stuff or discussing what you see, instead of just you flying solo. That, and I love seeing that screen where you can look over and see what the observer is observing through the camera system. And honestly, Dslyecxi flying top cover and CAS was what first brought me into the world of shacktac videos .

[@ElGrandeBanana]

These heli missions are great to fall asleep to. The humming of the helicopter and the radio chatter is very relaxing, if you ignore the murdering that takes place.

[@dyonusischannel7115]

yes Dsylexci, you promised a heli mission and you stuck to your word. hope you do more of these like you and jive used to. Thumbs up Buddy.

[@shafferic1590]

I don't even have to check if you and Crane are together, you too are attached at the hip, I love it :D Always a pleasure watching the Videos buddy, been a fan since the very start of you making Arma videos, the good old days of Arma 2, I miss those days man :-(

[@gaz3897]

I have to say, I agree the old arma 2 vid's had added depth that I miss. Not to say the current stuff is not awesome, I do fully enjoy it. Just miss the old ACE Interactions. We'll get there again im sure though.

[@dslyecxi]

Gaz - The only difference of any significance in gameplay is the medical system. There is no currently-good medical system for Arma 3, but there will be in the future. While I'd prefer to have good medical now, I enjoy A3 coops vastly more than I ever did A2 ones. I could never go back to that again.

[@shafferic1590]

Dslyecxi - I do definitely agree that Arma 3 is just a better play all in all if you compare it to Arma 2, it'll be nice to see what modders come up with or even the game developers come up with in regards to the medical system, if it's anything like Arma 2 then I will most definitely be impressed, Although I have currently just started playing Arma again, I am currently looking for a unit to join, I miss the cohesion and just the team work attitude in general, cannot wait to start playing again.

[@HuntersMediaa]

My group gets by with ACE's advanced medical system, but it would be nice if the 'basic' option was just like the system in ACE2. It struck a nice balance between not just clicking to heal, and not making it overly complex.

[@DaBruzzla]

Oh yeah the dramatic moments when dslyecxi got shot unconscious and was dragged to safety.... small blinks ....distant gun fire.... epic stuff

[@demency2741]

"Don't worry, guys! I made it!" "oh... great..."

[@stephenmorrish]

These videos are becoming the "Dslyecxi and CraneSong Show"

[@FBH991]

As a writer, all the procedural details of a Shacktac mission are endlessly useful to me.

[@Sivvester]

I was gonna say something about the low FPS I get in Arma games, but for the amount of models and moving parts Arma has I'm surprised it even runs at all. Great vid, love helicopter flying.

[@stevepotter7423]

i do believe Crane to easily be one of the best Co pilots I've seen in some time in your bird. Makes for great cohesion and teamwork.

[@dslyecxi]

Absolutely. Given that this is the first time she flew as copilot for me, she did an outstanding job of it.

[@stevepotter7423]

Dslyecxi holy crap, really? She must've been a pilot or just pays attention well. it's great to see the teamwork, with someone this effective. I like watching you school "new" people as well, but this was fun to watch.

[@DavidL221]

Crane didnt do too bad as your copilot. Gotta love it!

[@Jimbotheone]

That's some hot picture in picture!

[@TheParanoidGiraffe]

The resolution of that seems quite higher than I remember being available on ultra. It looks super nice

[@The_world_is_not_worthy_of_Him]

+Paranoid Giraffe Maybe MELB was updated. Maybe it's just me, but it's always seemed super crisp.

[@ArgelTal_]

picture in picture is very good right now. I guess they did some patching at some point. You should just check it out, turn it up and take a look at the hunters camera or mirrors. :)

[@DoctorORBiT]

Who is Crane Song? :) I'm only asking because she seems to be always with you. Is she just a newbie under your wing, or your companion forever? (I like her btw, she brings some great dynamic to your videos)

[@Chopstorm.]

True enough, but I personally don't mind her at all. She's quite funny.

[@dslyecxi]

She's a member of ShackTac!

[@FriendlyNikolai]

Hey Dslyecxi how you avoid the memory leak when you record 4k and play ultra?

[@crazyjak56]

That title is like 5 puns nested like those russian dolls.

[@rinalds637]

crazyjak56 1. sow - reap 2. so much reaping 3. wow, much reaping, such kill any more?

[@Autofire-nw5ty]

"I was willing to die to make sure my men got out!".....now I like Ghostboots even more.

[@stevepotter7423]

In reference to the comment at approx 26:00 about aspect ratio... which res do you use as well as distance etc... if I might ask? thanks in advance!

[@thingsfromriki]

in another mission for long range engagement / vision, he used 3000 view and 2000 object distances. it may be similar for a helo mission

[@stevepotter7423]

Ty sir. I was wondering the aspect ratio also cause it's obviously wider and looks better for flying

[@TheMuricanMerc]

Aspect Ratio is 21:9

[@FriendlyNikolai]

What resolution you are using ?

[@WowCoolHorse]

A hellfire weighs 104lbs including 20lbs warhead, according to wikipedia. ( 1:11:10 )

[@BillyHumphries]

How many rude people are gonna ask about crane in every single video. while some comments i've seen are positive, sadly some are downright intrusive and make me sick. dslyexci or any other shacktac members lives are not open for the public so have some respect for them and enjoy the content. Sorry to be negative in a comment. love your videos and would watch this over any other youtube crap.

[@dslyecxi]

It's not that big of a deal, there are valid reasons to ask, given that she's in most videos I've been releasing lately (and will be for the future). The really cringey ones get filtered out, most of the others are fairly innocent if not always elegantly worded. I appreciate your sentiment though.

[@BillyHumphries]

appreciate your response. You're right about it not being that big of a deal. just the cringey ones that are annoying. Cheers

[@thingsfromriki]

the most annoying ones are along the lines of the person making an inference that "Crane is girl. Is Crane girlfriend / partner of Dslyecxi?" i wonder though if this is some kind of ShackTac mentoring program-because a lot of the videos involve you, Dslyecxi, teaching and explaining things in a way that I haven't seen as much of (though it's still there) in your other videos.

[@ArgelTal_]

+Things from riki That is a really good question. I feel like dslyecxi kinda talking more and explaining more when crane is around. Despite the matter - she is a really good teamplayer and it is fun to see them both working together. At this point male or female is totally irrelevant for me, teamplayers like those two are very rare. And i really enjoy this very much. :)

[@Davnikus]

I agree about the mentoring part, riki - many of the videos start (in the briefing) with a little note in the server log (bottom left) that CraneSong has rank (FNG) and you should leave feedback about them. Example given, Into the Sandstorm, 2:45. Not to draw attention away from the action, just something I've noticed that confirms the mentor angle.

[@henriks2708]

how do you heave a red dot to aim is that just part off the mod or is that clientside? please ansear

[@Grim1873]

what mod is that helio from?

[@avatarofaiyel]

Awesome vid as always, though there's an audio issue with Crane's voice shifting from left to right and back. A little unnerving.

[@Nightwolf323]

That is just a problem with the radio mod that allows talking caused by how fast their helo is moving, the sound source location can't update fast enough, so it sounds like she it moving around.

[@Roslynguy]

Hey what aircraft pack are you using?

[@LooneyJuice]

Thanks for the vid Dslyexci! Also, silly question. I do recall the debate on whether or not you'd use the advanced flight model or not, and I also recall you'd not use it online. Is this still the case? I'm asking because there appears to be a massive net code issue with that model when gunning. All my gunners report massive juddering unless the chopper is absolutely stationary. Makes it a total no-go in most situations. Nonetheless, thanks for this, I always enjoy these types of operation videos.

[@dslyecxi]

We do not use the AFM, for the reasons I stated in my video on the topic back when it came out.

[@LooneyJuice]

Understood. Thanks for the reply.

[@dylanaoyagi3]

Dslyexci what is the mod for the compass on the bottom center of your screen, I keep forgetting to ask.

[@dslyecxi]

It's the ShackTac HUD, from the STUI pack. dslyecxi.com/shacktac-user-interface-v1-2-0/

[@dylanaoyagi3]

Dslyecxi thank you and sorry if my other comment sounded negative. ;_;7 I was just a little disappointed when I had to be 18+ but I understand. Thanks for making great content keep up the good work.

[@VigilantProvider]

Interestingly, a recent dev branch update for ARMA3 had almost that exact same UI element. They took it out when it went to stable, so maybe It will come to the masses sooner or later? I believe it was the beta release of Apex where I saw it.

[@pkisbest]

Dslyecxi,how do you switch from having the vegetation appearing on the map, and having just the contours?

[@dslyecxi]

It's automatic based on zoom level.

[@bagellord]

How do you get the red dot on the windshield of your little bird? What mod is that from?

[@dslyecxi]

It's something I made myself.

[@bagellord]

Ah okay. I ask because it seems easier to use than the little bullseye thing included with the MELB/RHS Little Birds.

[@twoknife]

17:50 "Echo bring that vic up to..." And my echo reacted to that and said: "I have put pick up on your to do list".

[@creature3628]

This is the MELB that's included in RHS right? How'd you go about getting that red dot? I find I can't hit the side of a barn with the drawn-sight and have to use the monitor to aim, but that means a co-pilot is a no-no. Help would be much appreciated

[@elijahburimi]

Dslyecxi do you use CMAA as antialiasing in Arma 3?

[@Someloke8895]

Was anyone else getting a weird fade in and out of certain audio/voice comms in the video? Starts around 19:00

[@Someloke8895]

Nevermind, was my headphone jack

[@wgoulding]

What Crane was talking about concerning the maximum speed with a single rotor is absolutely correct. Because the rotor airfoil going in the opposite direction of travel is having less airflow as the forward flow from the speed cancels the relative flow from rotor rotation, that rotor blade, in essence, stalls and loses lift. Because of a phenomenon of called gyroscopic precession, the difference in lift from one side vs the other side produces a torque that pitches the helicopter up and causing a reduction in speed. (For those of us who like math, a moment applied when angular momentum is not zero involves a cross product that results in the change of axis of rotation of the resultant moment). And that's why Chinooks are the fastest helo's in the US arsenal.

[@quadg5296]

the two rotor disks on the Chinook counter rotate so therefore cancel out each others retreating blade stall. one disk torques one way, the other disk the other. and you keep flying straight past the speed of a single disk. same thing happens in the ka-50 with the two disks on top of each other.

[@liamcosgrave5410]

Great video . For some reason i find the sound of the chopper so relaxing , I find it hard to stay awake even though i want to ! What are you current system specs just out of interest?

[@dslyecxi]

www.dslyecxi.com/computer/

[@liamcosgrave5410]

Awesome . Thanks man !

[@wmkfisher]

1:03:38 here we see the mother bird guiding her young to the feeding grounds

[@DreadwingOne]

What is your FOV set to? Do you experience fish eye too badly being you are on ultrawide resolution?

[@dslyecxi]

It's default. No issue with fisheye.

[@condorscondor]

took 3 evenings to finish but damn was it worth it. great stuff.

[@Qarlo99]

"That's how our missions end." : ]

[@GeoffPeterson33]

Loving you and Crane in the cockpit! Hoping for more helo vids with you 2 👍

[@snowyshowy2233]

that co pilot monitor is very helpful!

[@majogl188]

What map is that?

[@Zues120]

Oh my god that Picture in Picture is killing me, what on earth do you have powering that computer?! (Also what Terrain is that, I didn't catch it having watched into Intro twice)

[@dslyecxi]

Clafghan. My specs are on my site, but my videocard is a 1080 currently. Arma's more CPU-bound though.

[@TREY1123]

Given it is CPU bound I'm curious if you have an overclock your's?

[@iimrbreacherii]

Did you just replaced Arma 3 drop down action menu with something else? :o What is this ?

[@dslyecxi]

I'm not sure what you're referencing.

[@iimrbreacherii]

When you change chopper and you have the menu to see all available seats.

[@dslyecxi]

Oh, that's using the CBA menus along with one of the in-house things we have for mounting.

[@mrjojo1995]

Man I was almost sure Crane would survive this. You seem to always be so unlucky and having your co-pilot die.

[@neetch7354]

Anyone know how to use the camera for the melb? (i know G is turning it on, but how do i control it and go full screen?)

[@neetch7354]

But is there a way to control it and go full screen?

[@forglewitts]

Right click with my control setup.

[@neetch7354]

Right click worked, but only if youre in the co pilot seat

[@Nightwolf323]

+neetch (WSO) you can't use it from the pilot seat, you have to fly the helo!

[@luxionyoutube134]

1:22:10 Jesus your landing Skills are on point. Smooth as a motherfcker :D

[@cryhavoc999]

Hellfire? Weighs in at just under 50 KGs

[@zachk362]

I couldn't help but notice that characters and vehicles seem to stutter along roads and along the ground when viewed from great distances. I wanted to ask if that was some sort of optimization mod, because I've never seen that in arma before, or was is it just some sort of desync.

[@FlinnGaidin]

Maybe due to the fact that there were thousands of objects on the map (and it being such a huge map), perhaps the GPU wasn't 100% up to it? *shrug*

[@jonesgalloway7863]

Wat map is this?

[@jacepribyl5717]

Jones Galloway I'm also wondering

[@trottheblackdog]

CL Afghan. It's huge.

[@jacepribyl5717]

TobyTheBlackDog thanks

[@jacepribyl5717]

TobyTheBlackDog can you post a link to the mod

[@Smygolf1234]

www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=31599

[@haydenrogers3486]

heard the word 'FFARs'.... smiles..

[@HarveyGuillet]

just fyi @Dslyecxi, for a whopping $70,000 dollars a piece you get a Hellfire missile that can travel at a blistering mach 1.3

[@wgoulding]

You can buy hobby rockets that break the sound barrier for a few hundred dollars, although you need to get certification to launch it. It's not that hard, you just have to build and launch a rocket with a certain motor size at an event with someone who's qualified, and then it's just some paperwork and a small payment. I got my level 1 certification last year.

[@megaossim]

How is the AI (enemy) in your videos?

[@wgoulding]

Arma 3 AI is somewhat derpy. They're not that smart without a lot of good mission design or scripting. They have a tendency to make shots that no human could ever make and shoot through foliage like there's nothing there. But because Arma is so multifaceted and open, it's hard to program the AI to do well in all the situations they could be facing, and I think BIS has done as good of a job with their limited resources. With a lot of other games, the whole experience is like a movie; scripted, with the same events every time you watch, and you can't go beyond a small confined space. I think there have been, and will probably be, more updates and upgrades, so this won't be the permanent state.

[@megaossim]

Oh but I assumed he uses Ai that he created in the editor not vanilla. I was specifically talking about that or does he use original AI that ARMA has in place?

[@wgoulding]

The editor can only change the general behavior, and to a small degree. Most of the AI can only be changed by modding. Large improvements might require gutting, replacing, and adding large portions of the code, which takes a lot of time and effort, which is usually something only the developer can do, as it has the money to pay highly skilled programmers to write a lot of code that not only works well, but also doesn't take large amounts of processor time (makes the game laggy) and take up large amounts of memory (makes the game take longer to download and load, and possibly also contributes to lag).

[@jemimus]

Cranesong makes me wish they had female models in the game. Females deserve to be represented!

[@dslyecxi]

There are female heads in some mods, like RHS.

[@Eddy3443]

jemimus there are maybe 5 or so more females out there that actually play arma. I could see why BI didn't add them. though they did in arma 2, strange thing to take out.

[@NotRealNamesAgain]

RIP Crane

[@JerryBoy245]

Do little birds pilots actually have that little red dot in some way like in their helmets or...?

[@dslyecxi]

+Jeremy Meller - There's a collimated sight that can be added, yes.

[@reservoirdog1099]

Dslyecxi is the collimated red dot a mod?

[@dslyecxi]

I mean in reality.

[@cadet1158]

Nice video this is the closest I will get to flying helicopters is in video games.

[@mccutcheogeoff]

that mini gun must be so loud being right out the window

[@dslyecxi]

I'm sure it is, but you're going to be wearing a headset to begin with, so I doubt you'd really notice it. I wonder if you'd feel the pressure much given how much slipstream is going over it, too. I'm sure the vibration would be felt, if nothing else.

[@mccutcheogeoff]

Does Arma simulate the torque being applied by off center guns? I remember blackshark 2 did that with the main cannon. You would have to input rudder to keep the gun in firing arc.

[@dslyecxi]

Not in the normal flight model at least.

[@mccutcheogeoff]

Thanks for the replies. Massive fan of your videos.

[@Tali_the_Dragon]

good mission. One day Cranesong and you will actually finish a mission both being alive.

[@hanzu5910]

you good ? you good ? :-(

[@TheRunaway115]

Hey Dslyecxi, who's the new co-pilot? ;) lol

[@oldfrend]

so when's crane gonna fly the little bird and you put your life in her hands? =D

[@dslyecxi]

At some point we'll likely do some flight practice, and then it's pretty much just a question of her being comfortable flying in session (assuming she ends up enjoying piloting).

[@megaossim]

How come the ShackTac community never split into teams and fight each other? Like PR or Squad

[@dslyecxi]

We do, I just don't make many videos of it since coop missions tend to be more interesting from a cinematic standpoint.

[@Smygolf1234]

Dude, seriously!? They do that like 70% of the time.

[@megaossim]

How can I tell if a video is coop or Team vs Team?

[@megaossim]

Really? I've been watching for the past half year and I always assume its coop? Wana direct me to some of those?

[@dslyecxi]

It says it either in the video description or in the title sequence. Most recent videos are coop for the reason stated earlier.

[@spectreQ]

Is this dyslexics new grill?

[@gharretje]

When I saw the second video or so with Crane I thought about asking if she's your girlfriend or something, but didn't as I felt it was a bit too personal question to ask. And if you would have wanted to tell the world about it, you would have. And now most of the comments are just about her. :P For me, I don't really see the point in discussing it too much. If for some reason your videos would not appeal to me anymore, because of changed style, or my changed preference, I would just stop watching them. No harm done to anyone. :)

[@dylanaoyagi3]

Dslyexci I just want to say I'm sooo happy I need to wait 4 years to be eligible to join shactac but I don't care hopefully they have a new arma out by that time. Lol am I right.

[@SpiritowlTV]

you somehow are always with that girl

[@SeBeck]

hurray for GB, :( for CS

[@airplaneian]

epic

[@SpectreGaming275]

"What's the worst that can happen to a Chinook in Afghanistan..." Hmmmm, let me think. How about Operation Red Wings.

[@999is666upsidedown]

they ded

[@ErulianADRaghath]

UT SEMENTEM FECERIS ITA METES

[@jacobgoff5032]

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