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I don't agree. RazBam obviously takes this whole thing seriously enough to promote their product and build hype. Fine, I'm all for it. But if they are going to do that, and there is a reasonable expectation that customers will buy into the hype and want the product and talk about the product and get into the zone to the point where they will eagerly pre-order the product, all of these things being Razbam's goals, then it's not unreasonable for a portion of the customer base to express frustration when they are left out of part of the plan and only informed of it at the last minute. I would would not have minded at all if the pre-order was on Steam today with a smaller discount or if we had been informed prior to the fact, simply as a courtesy.

I think that is the alpha and omega of the issue. Part of my disappointment is that I was going to order two copies on Steam today. I told someone I would gift them one at pre-order as a show of support for their efforts in the DCS community. Now I can't and it's a bit of a bummer. Is it actually serious, no. Is it a deal breaker, no. Will I still buy two copies when available, yes. But I remain disappointed in how all this was handled. As a years-long well paying customer, I thought I/we deserved a touch more clarity in the process. .

Airmans don't worry We were very careful with the lighting setup, we tried to make the lighting not very intense, not as bright as it is in peacetime. And in the default settings of 1944 the lighting is off, the lighting will appear only if you select 1945. Everyone can choose the lighting mode that he needs.

Folks there is a lot of incorrect assumptions here about steam. Steam is great for many people, and for many reasons. Steam has a reach in the millions for advertising a product, we have no intention of ditching steam. The Eshop is our own store and we have more control, and can offer more sales, miles, and trials. which ever one you use is fine by us. thank you

Hi, the 24$ price was an error in our Eshop, it was fixed quickly, anyone who got it at that price have had their purchases honoured. thank you

Onretech Sinai update

did you knew that participating on the miles program, or not, is a prerogative of each developer? For example, most Campaigns don’t accept or accrue miles either .. will you stop purchasing Campaigns too?

Good evening We are very pleased to announce that the Normandy 2 map will support the new night lighting. The interest of DCS users in this issue is high and today we are publishing images that illustrate the progress of work in this direction, and we hope that this will add a lot of joyful emotions to all users of the Normandy map. UK France Airfield Port

I just gazed deeply into my crystal ball and this is what I saw: When people find out about the F-15Es radar and situational awareness capabilities they will praise it as the new ultimate air-to-air platform in the BVR theatre. When their victims finally exploit the F-15Es disadvantages in air-to-air, the community will demand with a deafening noise level an option to remove the CFTs to have a ‘pure’ F-15 being as close as possible to the F-15C or the guys from IDF Mods will try to create a F-15C Mod around the F-15E avionics. Ok, ok - I know. You don’t need a crystal ball to foresee that…

I guess you can't tell the difference between 20% and 30%. It's not even about that, for me. It's principle. AFAIK every other module has always been able to be pre-ordered on Steam and Stand-alone. And the ONLY reason this one isn't, is greed. I don't even use Steam. But I'm skipping this module on principle now. 2023, the year of the Phantom. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

This. None of the rest of your post was necessary, just thought you would like to make accurate statements and be properly informed. You're the one complaining about me telling you that you are wrong. I will not be preordering the Strike Eagle and may not even buy it at all because I would rather save my money for the F-4, and anyway, what's it to you?

DCS: J-8II Q&A

Trip down memory lane clearing the garage out. 34 years of Flight Simming. Shame dont have the old F19 / F15E Micronullprose boxed games anymore. Janes 15E too but not in shot.

Till no release: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703080/F15_Strike_Eagle/

Either your hardware is too old, or your settings too high. VR runs fine if you address either of these things. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Guys, don't be so angry. 56 U$S for a preorder is not so bad compared to the rest of the modules. I guess most people don't remember but the F-14 on preorder was 70U$S. Don't forget the cut of ED and the discounted price, if the 3rd party also sells its product on steam it has another 30% cut. ED can sell on steam and use miles since no one else is taking a cut.

I wasn't. I was walking two roads based on whether I was wrong or not. I don't mind being wrong about one point out of my entire point one little bit. As I said... thanks for the clarification. The whole point is that Razbam hasn't taken anything from anyone... yet people are still butthurt over a tiny company that's trying to do their part to move our favorite hobby forwards and people are actually bitching about not being able to spend their money "today" or having to spend a few extra dollars... It's ridiculous. I've seen this too many times. It's like a shark feeding frenzy of entitled CoD players. It doesn't look good. People should just chill the eff out, realize that eventually the aircraft will be released, pay their saved little duckets and fly their little freaking planes. All the rest is from 8 year old land friend... But again... thank you for the clarification :)... For sure. I do actually appreciate it :).

I forgot to attach a screenshot with examples of destruction models that I wrote about above, sorry I don't know, I think that our module will not differ from the rest when you buy it

Hi. Still in process. I want to share with you screenshots of several unique places and models of destruction of objects. All models will be destructible, except for objects of historical value, monuments and religious objects.

The point of this thread escapes me. If it was planned to elicit a response from Heatblur, then well done, mission accomplished. Cobra categorically stated the Strike Eagle release will have no impact on the F-4. Any post thereafter is essentially engaging in a circle-jerk of escalating speculation and insinuations that he's wrong. The pointlessness of the previous 3 pages of this thread defies comprehension.

Even in real life not all retailers sell the same products at the same price. We choose where we shop accordingly.

I'm buying the aircraft because I want to fly it. I couldn't care less about additional goodies like miles. I believe you can transfer steam modules to standalone so buying it from the site shouldn't make any difference. People buy for different reasons. 20 or 30% off won't affect the quality of the experience of flying the aircraft which should be the main reason for buying no? Simon.

what a petty comment … and customer satisfaction has to do with product and service quality, not giving a price discount. have you seen many dcs developers becoming millonaires? Do you work for free on real life? .. software development needs to be funded, no one will work for you for free .. if that’s being greedy then you have very unreasonable expectations … perhaps you would be better served by playing with free Android flight sims.

@elewarr Look I and everyone involved appreciate your support... but thanks for taking my words and twisting them so it sounds like I've also taken something from you. Even by replying to a comment I made to someone ELSE as if I had made it to you. Oh and for making my point while you're at it. I do appreciate that for sure. And... I'll stand by my statement 1000%. Potato, Potahto sir. You can't "pre-order" for a % discount, but you will be able to purchase at pre-release (when everyone else gets it presumably...) for similar or same % discount? Uhm... Where EXACTLY is something to bitch about there? I haven't taken anything from you. Neither has RazBam. I'd bet dimes to dollars that they'll pop in here at some point and let you all know they're sorry for the mixup and all that. Haven't they already said they will have a 20% discount (same as the pre-order???) when they do the Steam release/pre-release/pre-order/let you buy it right about the same time it's released for everyone else thing??? So... What ARE people ACTUALLY bitching about? Just that the Steam users have to wait a while before they can get the same deal as the rest of us and get the aircraft at the same time too most likely??? WUT? Wait WUT?? Yup. Ridiculous. Completely. @razbam or @NineLine or @whoever... Feel free to delete my posts if you like (not that you need my approval :)) but HOLY cow... Kids these days :). I get it... "people react to these things in their own way" and all that but I get sick and tired of all the ME ME ME in the world these days. Calm the eff down you little... OK I'm done

You're constantly missing the point, not sure if on purpose but let me explain last one time. I was given the ability to invest in DCS on this specific platform (i.e. Steam) - I didn't enforce this option on anyone. Since it's not one time buy, it's a continuous process and it requires a lot of commitment on my side (incl. financial) I'm treating the whole thing as a kind of contract - I was aware of Valve's cut and to support ED and vendors I decided I'll be buying every possible aircraft, terrain and campaign (I'm missing some campaigns that seemed tad old), including everything RB's released as a sign of my commitment, support and respect, and I did. And today this contract was broken, I'm not treated the same way as other players. I didn't set price limit for F-15 module on Steam, I didn't tell RB how much their module should be priced on Steam (it wouldn't be the first time when prices differ a bit), I just impatiently refreshed Steam client on 15th and 17th. And they just ignored the whole platform... and the reason is - money... even though I don't care (too much, It would just be a little bit more explaining to do to my wife) about what value it would be 30% of off. And I'm reading in this topic that I should switch to standalone version to support ED and vendors more - because apparently - as "this specific platform" user, I don't support them enough, and then I'm reminding myself there's just nothing more I can do to support them (incl. RAZBAM) because I already did everything I can on "this specific platform", because I wanted to prove my support and commitment... I feel like someone is slapping my face. Sure, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm dramatic (but I didn't start the whole "support them more" thing) for sure I'm disappointed - I realised the commitment and respect of the effort was only on my side. You are correct, I didn't - I was thinking whatever I was thinking while it's just "give us money and shut up".

Well. I merely read their official statements and releases - and the past 19 pages of comments. You don’t have have to make excuses for RB. We all know the facts, we did read their retractions. We understand. We simply aren’t happy. Let’s move forward and make the best out of this mess.

Korean Peninsula Size seems about perfect for a DCS Map. Map would be about 1000km x 500km. The detailed land area would be about 220 000km². That seems in line with Syria or the Persian Gulf map. I would include the JASDF Ashiya Air Base in Fukuoka Japan and then to the norther tip of North Korea. Map could serve two scenario: The historical Korean War from 1950 to 1953 and a fictional present day scenario North Korea/China vs. South Korea/USA/Japan Coral Sea or Solomon Islands Rather big map of roughly 1500km x 2000km. While big in dimensions the map would consist mostly of sea the detailed land area would be rather small. I would go from somewhere around Port Moresby in New Guinea to just shy of the Island of Nendo. And in terms of height from the most northern tip of Bougainville Island to somewhere north of New Caledonia. Map would be aimed at WW2 pacific theater scenarios.

I think its fair to say and not needed every time an aircraft releases, that steam has always had these complications for customers and it has been well documented on the DCS forums. If you are new to DCS world, maybe there should be a steam forum explaining all the complications of playing on steam. I would venture to guess it would still not stop the complaining and the vast amount of people playing on steam would just start complaining on that forum to. If you have been flying DCS long enough, these comments are clearly emotionally driven because you chose to go the steam route instead of the dedicated route of running DCS as a standalone. If you downloaded DCS and purchased your first module on Steam thats the way she goes. Somehow you found your way to this forum which means you discovered a lot of us run the dedciated standalone version for a reason, aka not steam. You and you alone made the call to play via steam, not ED or Razbams fault. They are a business and make business decisions so they can provide the best to their customers. My suggestion, stop whining and go the dedicated route, or continue to abuse yourself and stick with steam. If this causes you to ditch DCS because it was not on Steam for early access, your a failure in life.

I'm personally extremely excited for this project, and for all those feeling disappointed about American avionics and it's not Chinese enough and yadda yadda, consider that Deka has said in the past they wanted to make J-11 and were testing stuff internally with MKK etc. I'm sure a group who started a Dev team based on Chinese aviation is more excited than any of us about bringing fully Chinese aircraft to DCS (probably why they started Deka company in the first place) and more disappointed than we are when they can't bring something fully Chinese to DCS. They've done great work in the past and I'm positive this project will be interesting as well as looking forward to what they get their hands on in the future! So, let's not be too hard on them I'm sure they've done their best to find an aircraft like the J-8 which is quite unique and also Chinese. Better J-8PP then in jail and no more Deka modules ever, right? plus time may reveal new opportunities Cheers Deka, we believe in you!

Q: What is Peace Pearl Program? A: In brief, during the 1980s China was unable to develop advanced air-to-air radar or semi-active radar missiles at that time, thus turned to UK, France, Israel and the United States to upgrade the J-8II in terms of fire control and weapons, and eventually selected the U.S. AN/APG-66(V) radar for the modification. In the agreement between the U.S. and China, the U.S. should provide 55 sets of production modifications (50 kits and 5 backup) and 4 prototype sets. The total estimated cost of the contract was $501,754,733, and the contract was finally signed with the U.S. on October 30, 1986. China called it "Project 82", while the U.S. called it the "Peace Pearl Program". Q: How many J-8PP has been produced? A: In 1987, the Chinese technical support team arrived in the America. The following year, the design work was completed in cooperation with Grumman. On January 20, 1989, China shipped two J-8II, a static test nose and supporting equipment and technical documentation to America. In 1990, the modification of the two J-8II was completed and China provided a revised English flight manual as requested by the U.S. test pilot, and the aircraft was in complete condition. The avionics test and EMC test were completed, and the start-up and test-run was done at Grumman Bethpage Airport. In the same year, the contract was terminated by China. The next year, the U.S. handed over two prototypes and modification packages to China. The two aircraft now reside in Beijing and Shenyang, but the full-size nose now in Kansas, USA. null One of the two in Beijing. Note the extra cooling inlets on fuselage for upgraded avionic devices The other one in Shenyang Q: What kind of info is shown on HUD/HDD? How many HDDs? A: HUD and HDD should be familiar to everyone. The HUD of J-8PP adopts the F-16A/B style, and a combined glass is added to increase the instantaneous field of view. The HDD is the F-16C/D style, which is located on the right side of the front panel. The HDD is used to monitor system functions, select weapons and modes. HUD Display HDD Menu Q: Is RWR domestic or American? Is it easy to use? A: It's domestic, and similar to SPO-10. It can only be used to distinguish the signal type (search/lock), rough direction, whether the irradiation is approaching or not. Relatively primitive. Q: The J-8II is so similar to the SU-15, is there any connection between the two? A: The J-8, the predecessor of J-8II, was actually designed by China after imitating MiG-21. The Soviet Union did not provide China with any technical information on SU-15. Part of the technology of J-8II came from MiG-23 and F-4, and its appearance may be similar to the convergent evolution caused by the relatively close ecological niche. Q: Are there any flight characteristics or defects of the J-8II, and are there any changes in the flight characteristics of the J-8PP? A: The most characteristic feature of J-8II is that it can easily reach the maximum IAS speed and maximum Mach number in level flight (unlike some third-generation aircraft that need to dive). The delta wing also brings a very good stall characteristic, the minimum speed for maneuvering is lower than 200km/h, and the angle of attack can be greater than 30°. The J-8II has speed stability in most situations, but when it decelerates with g-load in supersonic, the aircraft has a slight nose-up characteristic. Compared with J-8II, J-8PP only has changes in the center of gravity and weight, and some cooling inlets on fuselage have been added. It will not lead to much change to the flight characteristics. Q: Can you introduce more about the flight control system? A: The flight control of J-8PP has three-axis automatic stability augmentation system; pitch, roll and course holding; automatic leveling; low altitude automatic pull-up; pitch/bank automatic trimming functions. Q: Is the cockpit in Chinese? A: Except those upgraded avionic devices and corresponding panels, most are in Chinese. J-8PP uses metric unit. We will provide EN and CN localization for hint of clickable switches. Q: Will it provide visual/performance cockpit for selection like DCS: JF-17? A: Yes. Q: Can players perform flights beyond the safety margin specified in the manual, such as reproducing the overspeed phenomenon during the J-8II test? A: Although the manual stipulates the maximum Mach number 2.2, due to the better thrust characteristics of the turbojet engine at a large Mach number, it is easy to overspeed. The right envelope of the aircraft is mainly limited by aerodynamic stability and aerodynamic heating. You will experience uncontrollable side-slip phenomenon after exceeding M2.35. Q: What weapons can J-8PP carry? A: Air-to-air weapons include PL-5, PL-8, Aspide/PL-11; Air-to-ground weapons include 250Kg GP bomb, 57mm/90mm rockets. Check below figure for details Q: DCS: J-8II module price? A: Not as expensive as DCS: JF-17. Q: How's the documentation? Especially for such an aircraft with only two produced (modified). A: We cannot make anything out of nothing. Q: Does J-8PP have HOTAS? A: The weapon control system of J-8PP is simplified AN/AWG-27. Therefore, the throttle was also modified to F-15 style. Q: What's the difference between APG-66(V)-PRC-F8 and APG-66(V)? A: The main detection performance remains the same. Since it's to upgrade J-8II air-to-air capability, most AG modes (SEA1, SEA2, BCN) were removed (Money was definitely one of many reasons). Q: What about datalink? A: There's one similar to Lazur-M GCI system. But we will not model it in game. The IFF and countermeasure systems of J-8PP will be simplified in game. =================================== If you have any question that was not covered by Q&A, please leave a comment and I will try my best to answer. Our whole team thank you for your support!

+1 fully agree, couldn't have said it better with my limited english. BTW, Razbam has accepted ED miles on other products, for example I purchased the SA Map getting a price discount of 12.7 US$ in addition to the 20% discount of Early Access ... maybe for the F-15E case, Razbam chose to omit the ED miles in order to fit their costs within an US$ 80 list price ceiling, who knows? I love using Miles as much as anyone, but its not the end of the world and I will use my accrued miles to purchase the Kola Map, or the Phantom, whichever cames out first

I'm far more excited for this than I am for the Eagle. The Phantom was my favourite jet as a child. The Tomcat is pretty close but not quite as iconic, for me.

What he said. F-15E is going to plenty dangerous. Both the F-16 and F-18 are radar limited at high speed, high alt BVR, not limited by Aim-120 range.

It makes perfect business sense to give a better price to the customers who cost you less to serve.

Then they should have been smarter about it. It's not like this is their first ever module. They could've said (weeks ago), "we planned to do a 30% discount across the board, but because of (the situation at) Steam, we'd lose too much revenue. We also don't want to be unfair to the Steam users, and charge more to them, so we are setting the discount to 20% across the board." Fairness, transparency, and understanding in one little paragraph. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

I think it's usually until the module enters Early Access (ie becomes available to module owners). No one knows exactly how long that will be right now. According to this weekly news it will be "a few months later" than yesterday, "perhaps sooner".

18Feb23: Added LMC video

This is just business. When you are producing a product for profit you cannot let someone else take that away from you. I understand the rationale around why it was done the way it was done at the time and maybe that was the hold up, in the end. I’m sure it will be fine in the long run. For me, I’m fine with everything that transpired today and in the end it is only a prerelease. Remember there will be an early access release as well. To all that are upset, go dust off that module you have never really played to tide you over. You know the one, we all have one.

Install standalone, seamlessly transfer all licenses from Steam and be done with it. This happens every module release and there is an easy fix. There is NO advantage to the Steam version of DCS that I know of but happy to be corrected. #FOX3 See you in the skies.

wow! Type 052D!

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be holding my purchase until Razbam at least allows ED Miles to accrue. It's hard to understand in the first place because it seemingly doesn't affect them in the least, and the Miles Program is ED's business. I must be missing something.

The following are more cinematic screenshots of the proposed liveries ingame. To be clear, these uncensored versions are not what is linked in the downloads above. The downloads above are for only the censored versions of the liveries. These shots show the weathering on the bort numbers, as well as the adjusted darker camouflage tones:

I made a custom HMD and Night vision imaging template for the SU-57, also can now print radar contacts and description which will be added to the HMD. Keep in mind that this serves as a basic system to get things going, I will simulate it better once I can see what the real HMD displays. Best regards: CubanAce.

Did the same and never regretted it for a second.

I started my DCS hobby on Steam, back on 2013 .. but on 2014 I chose to ditch Steam and moved over to stand-alone .. have not regreted it .. I prefer to not have Steam's overhead on my PC.

17. Februar 2023 Liebe Piloten, Partner und Freunde! Endlich ist die unglaubliche DCS: F-15E Strike Eagle von RAZBAM mit einer Ersparnis von 30 % auf den Verkaufspreis vorbestellbar. Dieses leistungsstarke Mehrzweckkampfflugzeug befindet sich jetzt in der letzten Phase der Fehlerbehebung und der Tests. Wir sind zuversichtlich, dass es ein großer Erfolg werden wird. Bitte beachtet, dass die Vorbestellung nur in unserem Shop möglich ist. DCS World E-Shop. Viel Spaß mit dem Trailer! Wir freuen uns darauf, in naher Zukunft weitere Informationen mit euch zu teilen. Bitte lest euch die detaillierten Features dieses kultigen Moduls unten durch und bleibt dran für Details zum Early Access. Vielen Dank für euer Vertrauen, eure Leidenschaft und Unterstützung. Viele Grüße, Eagle Dynamics F-15E Strike Eagle Vorverkauf von RAZBAM Die F-15E Strike Eagle wurde Mitte der 1980er Jahre als Mehrzweckkampfflugzeug entwickelt, das für Luft-Luft- und Luft-Boden-Einsätze geeignet ist. Eine beeindruckende Palette von Avionik- und Elektroniksystemen verleiht der F-15E die Fähigkeit, in niedriger oder großer Höhe, bei Tag und Nacht und bei jedem Wetter zu kämpfen. Die Strike Eagle ist das führende Kampfflugzeug der USAF, das auch heute noch im Einsatz ist. Die Strike Eagle bot der Besatzung mehrere erstmalige Fähigkeiten. Ihr APG-70-Radar, das auf dem sehr leistungsfähigen APG-63 der F-15A-D basiert, verfügt über eine synthetische Kartierungsfunktion, die Bilder des Ziels allein auf der Grundlage von Radarbildern erstellen kann. Ein in sich geschlossenes, vernetztes elektronisches Kampfführungssystem verleiht dem Flugzeug ausgezeichnete Selbstschutzfähigkeiten und liefert dem ergonomischen Cockpit mit zwei Sitzen verbesserte Informationen über das Kampfgebiet. Das LANTIRN-System (in Deutsch in etwa: infrarotgesteuertes Navigations- und Zielsystem für Tiefflugeinsätze bei Nacht) ermöglicht es dem Flugzeug, in niedriger Höhe, bei Nacht und unter allen Wetterbedingungen zu fliegen und Bodenziele mit einer Vielzahl von präzisionsgelenkten und ungelenkten Waffen anzugreifen. Das LANTIRN-System, das aus zwei an der Außenseite des Flugzeugs angebrachten Behältern besteht, verleiht der F-15E eine unerreichte Zielgenauigkeit. Der Navigationsbehälter enthält ein Geländefolgeradar, das es dem Piloten ermöglicht, in sehr geringer Höhe zu operieren und dabei den auf dem HUD angezeigten Hinweisen zu folgen. Dieses System kann auch mit dem Autopiloten des Flugzeugs gekoppelt werden, um eine vollständige "Freihand"-Funktion zu ermöglichen. Jeder der widerstandsarmen Treibstoffbehälter, die an den Rumpf der F-15E angepasst sind, kann 750 Gallonen Treibstoff aufnehmen. Die Behälter tragen die Waffen an kurzen Pylonen statt an herkömmlichen Waffenträgern, was den Luftwiderstand verringert und die Reichweite weiter erhöht. Für Luft-Boden-Einsätze kann die F-15E die meisten Waffen aus dem Bestand der US-Luftwaffe mitführen. Sie kann auch mit AIM-9M Sidewinders oder AIM-120C AMRAAM für den Luft-Luft-Einsatz bewaffnet werden. Das "E"-Modell verfügt außerdem über eine innen montierte 20-mm-Kanone, die bis zu 500 Schuss aufnehmen kann. Gegenstand dieser komplexen Simulation ist die Software F-15E Strike Eagle Suite 4E+, die um 2003 in den Strike Eagles installiert wurde. Hauptmerkmale: Fortschrittliches Flugphysikmodell, das realistische Leistungs- und Flugeigenschaften für die F-15E Strike Eagle mit F100-PW-229-Triebwerken von P&W bietet. Hochdetailliertes 3D-Außenmodell und Texturen für die genaueste F-15E, die derzeit in einer Simulationssoftware verfügbar ist. Hochdetailliertes und präzises 6-DOF-Cockpit basierend auf 3D-gescannten Objekten mit hochauflösenden Texturen, Specular- und Bump-Mapping und interaktiver Steuerung mit der Maus. Detaillierte und gründliche Simulation des AN/APG-70-Radars der F-15E. Datenverbindung mit den Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems (JTIDS). Übungsmaterial: Eine Reihe von interaktiven Trainingsmissionen, die alle wichtigen Instrumente, Waffen und Aspekte der Nutzung des Flugzeugs abdecken. Ausführliches Handbuch für das Flugzeug und alle Systeme. Eine kostenlose Story-Kampagne von Baltic Dragon. Eine Reihe von Einzelmissionen für Einzelspieler, Mehrspieler und Multicrew. Die DCS: F-15E Strike Eagle von RAZBAM kann ab sofort mit einem Rabatt von 30 % vorbestellt werden. Abermals vielen Dank für eure Geduld, Leidenschaft und Unterstützung. Viele Grüße, Eagle Dynamics

New AMBER model with roughmet!

Normandy 2.0 update