Fromthedeep

The current release date is 'no later than May 31' and it would make sense for them to take advantage of all the extra time, so it's probably going to be closer to June. And of course we don't know if they hit any more problems, if they do that could cause another several months of delays.

Why woupd a rushed game be forever bad? They can just update it, the F-16 was rushed but it's not a bad module today.

The guy I was answering was specifically arguing how people should support and encourage developers and they should pre order. My point is that they aren't owed any pre orders, they aren't owed support and encouragement and no one is morally obligated the fund anyone's financially risky projects. For every successful Kickstarter and community funded projects there are hundreds that failed. No one is obligated to make sure that the developers get to achieve their goals, the responsibility is theirs and not the customers'.

The developers should be 'supported and encouraged' by friends and family, not customers who are buying a product. If what your implying is correct and modules are impossible to make without being funded in advance by customers then it stops being a viable business venture and it deserves to fail. They aren't doing us any favors. No company is owed any gratitude, they get their money, make their profit and the customer hopefully gets the product that they want. If that's not possible then don't make modules. So what if I don't get to play pretend fighter pilot in a video game? Who cares?

Iron Mike and Bignewy both confirmed that it's not coming out in February.

Too advanced in what manner?

What's also likely is that they don't really want to use their actual skills, game plans and tactics to max perform the aircraft for obvious reasons.

That's great, but just because you can have it as a US citizen doesn't automatically mean that ED can also use it.

I really hope we're getting a proper air to air focused USAF/Guard variant with (for its time) eye watering performance. An upgraded, overweight ground attack variant of an iconic fighter would be missing the mark for me.

What should be a good rule of thumb for a generic AG loadout?

Nothing indicates that the release is within a year. A few pictures tell us virtually nothing about the state of the entire module. For all we know, HB may intend to release it late 2024.

Then it's a completely pointless thing to say since my initial statement was that ED won't make Century Series jets. The fact that 3rd party devs will does not refute my statement in any way.

Who knows? Two companies have basically given up on actually developing the EFA for DCS (Truegrit does not do any coding for the upcoming module), I'm still skeptical that it will be released at all.

Not from ED.

ED already said in the past that they are not interested in the Century Series.