IronMike

Soon!

I'd have to check, but I dont think that is implemented.

It is also not unlikely that it boils down to a maintainer simply putting in the gauge in a tilted way, we know for example that they also moved some panels around, etc... But when we model stuff like that, we ofc model the most common standard, which was not tilted. Having it slightly tilted for example could be something for forge as well, which aims precisely at capturing such maintenance oddities. No promise though. Thank you also for pointing out where the original pic came from.

That ... is not true. We did not nor would increase survivability. It is also a very tanky aircraft, but a burst anywhere to the fuselage should do in most parts catastrophic damage, especially around the engines. Show us a track please.

with a phoenix in the air, TWS is always auto.

The task of modeling a good looking face still isn't easy at all.

This is a picture of a museum aircraft, and could very well be owed to the fact that the museum put it in wrongly. We went by the standard as was in most jets, and that most certainly was not tilted.

Glad you guys found the solution, thank you @RustBelt for chiming in!

Uh, we're not doing a MiG-25 guys... Not saying it wouldn't be cool, but I think we have our hands full for the foreseeable future. My comment was not even remotely about that.

I never used helios, so I will wait a bit to see if someone who does can give additional feedback.

Thank you all for your incredibly kind patience with us! It means a lot to us, and lets us focus on quality over quantity.

Anyone ever circled back to the very, very first post in this thread? That is right, a then young Farlander, is now, 7 years later, working for us and a full blown Heatblur dev. And we couldn't be more happy about it. Some things don't just age well, but brilliantly.

I have an even better idea: i'll late you make it, and then nag you to change it again.

I am, I just utterly dislike such "journalism". The interent is full of it, and by that I do not mean to blame anyone who believes that, it is easy enough. Some quotes here, all of course without source, some bloating and exaggerating there, and you get a recipe to misinform ppl, rather than to inform them. This kind of "writing", if you even can call it that, imo is at the core of a lot of nonsense that is being spread around in this day and age. And while some of it may be true, it usually isn't, and again does just a disservice to the factual portrayal of a topic, history, etc. This is particularly true for many of these so called tech or defense writers who just keep re-quoting each other with unsubstantiated claims. What the author should have done was to take the Quora quote and research its factuality, find the RIO, talk with him, substantiate it, verify it, compare with other instances, etc. - present sources that can be backed up, etc etc... It just goes to show how much of that is out there, particularly in the military topics, just take about every 2nd article about the F-35 etc. Anyway, I did go off topic, but I hope you can see why.

If I read an article that says "ThIS ToMCaT wEnT mACh 2.5!" and then in the article it says, "but we cut off exactly at 2.34, cause we got bingo, and it would have suuuurely gone mach fiftihundretthousandninetyninepointseven (aka mach 2.5 and beyoooond)," I chuck it in the bin. BS like this is why so many folks have completely wrong ideas and fights over "but my favorite jet can do mach sixty, mate!" ... If the article already does not hold up to the title -> garbage clickbait. Misleading garbage for the non-flyer, non-enthusiast or ... over-enthusiast. Just utter trash. The author of the article just wants you to read his fine piece of journalism, not to do proper research and portray factual history. I mean that would be work, and who wants to work, if you can just sell someone else's half assed articles as your own. Heck, he doesn't even put in enough effort to write the article himself, lol. Retelling a second hand story third hand even is already indicative enough for that - I mean, the peak of journalism right there... It starts - and ends - by almost exclusively quoting another such writer - aka being too lazy to even write his one exaggerations. Let us just third hand quote the second hand superlatives of another author, because we are too lazy to make up our own! Just to then quote him 4th hand, cause you need a guy from Grumman to tell the National Naval Aviation Museum to tell you that the F-14 was Grumman's answer for fleet defense! I mean, thank god he checked with the museum if that detail is correct, cause here I was thinking it was the G-21. The fact that no quote has a single reference, link or footnote we won't even mention. But no, that is not enough, we need a 5th second third fourth hand account from a RIO who posted on Quora, the historic source of all sources. Totally verified, totally well researched by Ethen Kim Lieser, the amazing, the incredible, the unbelievable, the world-class science and tech writer from Google... And the worst part about articles (and "authors") like that is that if the story was to be true, you could not do it a bigger disservice. (In reference to the article posted on June 16th.)

Not to worry though, it is likely you will get them at some point - for now we just don't want to promise them (and we've discussed this ad nauseam I would carefully suggest.)

That is like quadruple or even more times the work described above. Adding a single item to the menu can be days upon days of work, depending on the item. Again, Iceman is 100% complete. Let us move on please.

You need to have DLC engaged.

Not only in museums, the Tomcat, for any time period, and any bird we came across, was always some kind of patchwork comprised of features and systems that could span the entire Tomcat's lifetime (especially the later in its service you got).

One client having issues on a server can potentially bring down the entire server. For example if your true ping spiked into the thousands because of this, etc... We've seen that time and time again in online servers, when you monitor the network connection in the performance tab, you see true ping and packet loss. I am speculating here, but it is not out of the question that 1 client introduces issues for all clients up to even complete server crash. It is actually one of the most common things to bring down a server, specifically with extreme pings and packet loss involved.

It is not like that, it is far from just changing "some values to 0", it needs a menu item addition (lots of coding, way more than you can possibly imagine), in F2 you can control your plane, like this you couldn't, if we offered it as a special option, then you would have no Iceman at all, unless you exited the mission, changed the special option selection and restarted the mission, and even then it is not just changing around some values and requires both a lot of time to code and to test, more than we are willing to spend on Iceman at this point. Please be so kind and accept it, when I say we are not doing it. There is a ton of other stuff where our time is invested much better. I will say this though: whenever you guys want something real bad, even if it is only a few of you, it gets registered in the back of our minds. And when time comes, when we do have time, nothing else/better to do, we do remember these things. That said, no promise at all, and please do not get your hopes high. Just know that your wish has been acknowledged and maybe at some point it fits to accommodate it.

I think I was a bit unclear, and limitation was the wrong word. What I meant by that is that we have no influence on the non-aircraft external sounds, as it is DCS side. But the external aircraft sounds when the canopy is open and engines are running, indeed need improvement from us. Anyway, we digressed far from the initial bug report. Let us try to get back on topic. We have yet to find the cause for why that is happening, hopefully we can do so soon. From what I could gather so far it happens predominantly for VR users.

Copy, thank you. I will also check with the SMEs and Creason, because maybe it is realistic/ intended after all (don't think so though).

It actually also jumps at the end of it, which is even more hilarious