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Personally, I enjoy flying the Hook a lot, I just wish development progress was faster. The tandem of Hook + Herc, there's so much potential for synergies in the right missions. Say Hercs supply a larger FOB, Hooks then supply FARPs, and then the "I wanna blow stuff up" crowd actually gets to do that. No supplies, no warheads. Makes people think twice how unimportant those Ash and Trash missions are going to be. And yeah, this kind of scenario certainly isn't for everyone. Well designed SP and MP missions will be a total blast though!

As far as I know, Steam doesn't allow pre-purchase when no fixed release date is set. Since there's no fixed release date yet, there's no Steam pre-purchase. And as far as I know, pre-purchase on Steam is still planned, but it's probably going to be a bit shorter than over here on digitalcombatsimulator.com.

Can't speak for BD, but could you condense that into a few written questions? Your video looked quite interesting to me, but I wasn't ready to invest 35 minutes to watch all of it.

Probably a C-130J, but I might be wrong. Edit: I just saw some photos of a C-130H with a cockpit a lot like in those videos, so might have been a later or upgraded C-130H as well. /Edit Great videos! I guess that means the race is on for epic landing spots on the South Atlantic map as soon as the module gets released. Well, and all other maps as well obviously.

That's somewhat doubtful. Feet above Mean Sea Level? Feet Above Ground? Feet slant range? Yards slant range? As far as I can tell, Mavericks fly a mostly direct trajectory, and in the A-10C we have no way to force a high or low trajectory (unlike, say, Hellfires launched from an Apache or Kiowa Warrior). I'm not even sure if an obscured line of sight will lead to loss of target acquisition after a weapon has been launched. If we had a track of your failed attempts, we could try without clouds and confirm or reject your theory with some solid data. What I can say is that the Maverick seeker on its gimbal can acquire and track targets that the missile can't actually reach (without losing track after launch). As a rule of thumb, there's this imaginary keyhole that pilots should always consider when launching Mavericks - make sure the seeker (pointing cross) is within this imaginary keyhole and the missile should be able to hit its target. Of course it's possible your missile missed because of going into clouds, but it's more likely you were simply launching outside of the keyhole constraints. With a track, this could be cleared up.

Good point! I was thinking of the first version as it entered service, and it slipped my mind that LASTE became an A-10A thing already before the A-10C.

Ich habe den Sniper ATP noch nie benutzt, aber soweit ich weiß gibt es da ein paar Fallstricke, wenn man den Zoom nutzt, ohne den XR-Modus zu aktivieren. Am besten postet ihr mal einen kurzen Track, bevorzugt in der Kaukasus-Karte, vielleicht kann euch dann jemand ein paar Tipps geben. Und soweit ich gehört habe sind wir außerdem alle etwas vom Litening und ATFLIR verdorben, weil die beiden in DCS wohl ein deutlich schärferes Bild liefern, als das eigentlich der Fall sein sollte. Deshalb kann es durchaus sein, dass der Sniper ATP unrealistisch unscharf wirkt, während er im Moment wohl tatsächlich deutlich realistischer ist als die beiden alten TGPs. (Andererseits hoffe ich sehr stark, dass Litening und ATFLIR vorläufig so bleiben wie sie sind, weil unzählige Missionen und Kampagnen sonst alle neu getestet und evtl. überarbeitet werden müssten, was einen Heidenaufwand nach sich zieht.)

Excellent review, and that reflects my impression of the campaign as well. This is really top notch content and definitely surpasses some payware campaigns in terms of story telling, immersion and flow. I've got 5 more missions to go and judging by your feedback, these should be ones to look forward to in particular.

The video description might shed some light there: Personally, I really enjoyed the video, but I wouldn't know if anything they did was procedurally wrong. Either way, "lame" isn't the type of constructive criticism I would have picked for the first live look we get at the new module. To each their own, I guess.

Awesome! Yeah that makes sense; with no M151 loaded before, there's indeed no profile for it, and the "P" error code says exactly that. But I also forgot that this was going to be a necessary step.

@BIGNEWY @NineLine I've reported a few issues here in June and haven't seen the devs respond to a single post here since then, even after pinging 6s.duke. Can you get in touch and let them know people are looking for support?

Indeed, thanks for sharing! The sub skipper was also featured in a German documentary where he almost busted his check ride. Nice to see him firmly in the saddle now.

Interesting; as far as the jet is concerned, I'd have thought it would detect a LAU-131 or a LAU-68 (IIRC), but should be entirely unable to tell which rockets are in there. So just to be clear, you had the DSMS fully loaded with APKWS on at least one station, then you went into DSMS -> INV and changed that station to another type of rocket with the same launcher, and then it showed an error? Which was the indication next to the station?

Der Hypetrain nimmt Fahrt auf! Das Interview mit Matt von ASC fand ich auch sehr interessant (hätte mir als Podcast besser gefallen, weil es dort nur Schnipsel aus dem Pre-Purchase-Trailer zu sehen gibt):

Sinai is one of the few maps I don't currently have installed. Like Eric said, if you can recreate that issue in the Caucasus map, that'll make it much easier for people to take a look.