Please excuse my cluttering the thread with a largely useless post but I simply wished to congratulate and thank you guys for this effort to address FC2, for which I'm happy to purchase as a repackaged FC3 (I'm guessing part of the priority is the map change of DCSBS2 for return to online compatability between DCS/FC)
I stick with FC always myself, because I don't want to fly choppers and mud movers, I want to fly fighter jets.
The only bugs that's really bugging me is the HSI freeze in AC mode and the bouncy ball suicidal low alt sead mission AI, you know both already mentioned in this thread that's cool. I don't expect any more to be done than is reasonable or possible, I won't die if these didn't get fixed.
I assume many of the updated DCS models (AI planes) will be adopted, that alone is worth $30 or whatever to me. It's hard work, I see the hard work when the modders are doing it. I spend more than that on some drinking. I spent more than that on smokes in the last four days and I'm a small earner not a home owner or anything. It's no trouble.
Thanks so much for considering FC again for us. It is really good of ED, irrespective of what is or isn't delivered. I only have a single core 2g man, I won't be doing DCS until I build a new computer and that won't be for a while. Not a priority, I'm mostly into older games anyway, the only, only newer game I've got is FC2. Not much further interest in gaming so much anymore, flight simming yeah, my old modded il2 and FC2 that's it.
Makes DCS even if you brought out a Flanker-D version, still a 2 grand proposition, I'm really not that much interested when it's just a luxury and I don't even have a car.
so again, thanks so much ED just for reconsidering FC series like this. Really appreciate it.
:)
Oh, with N019M from what I've been reading around the place it basically is just achieved target discrimination and lookdown/shootdown update on the older set, different antenna is a little better, R77 fire control set, stuff like that (might give better lock range on close multiple targets and discriminate better, and allow track in lead, old set only allows track in trail IRL). Not total transformation like multiple locks a-la Hornet. Old set was virtually useless in those areas and BVR in general, which was basically an adapted Flogger ML unit really, almost like it was done in a shed with some gaffa tape and a hammer from my impressions. First prototypes even just used Flogger ML set.
I don't know anything about the technical side of it like you guys, this was just the impressions I've been forming over quite a bit of reading. Just parroting and assuming, I wouldn't really know.