Mad Dog 762

This is what is frustrating and puzzling....if there was an agreement reached 8 or 9 months ago why is the issue not resolved? That is what agreements are supposed to do, right?

This is very disturbing. An agreement was reached last year and this is the first time it has been mentioned? But there are no details of the agreement, and clearly work has not resumed on any of the Razbam modules and ED still does not have the source code so they cannot promise how long they will be able to support them. So this "agreement" clearly did the end users no good whatsoever. ED is just continuing to string us along? We get the crappy end of the stick because ED is taking care of ED, Razbam is taking care of RazBam, and no one is representing the consumer. This is the Hawk situation all over, after ED promised us it would never happen again. I guess they are counting on us all having only short term memory. This started in Spring of 2024. Normally I buy almost every module that comes out, especially helicopters. Because of this cluster, I have not purchased the Kiowa, the Chinook, or the Corsair. The only thing I have bought is the Germany Map. And its probably going to stay that way. This is not good business. There is a saying in business that if you take care of your customers they will take care of you. And if you don't......I have supported ED for many years, since the LOMAC days, and I have bought many modules and packs that I wasn't really interested in just to support the continued development of DCS. I'm not feeling that generous anymore if this is the way we will be treated.

Looking back through my pics it looks like the Fort Smith and Moody Hawgs were the ones most often carrying the Sniper.

Well, I'll get you guys a pic next time one flies over my back yard.

I live near a A-10 base (190th FS) and I see them all the time. There is still a mixture of pods, and I would say more Sniper than Litening these days.

A-10C's fly with the Sniper Pod every day. It is probably more common than the litening these days.

I am not that much of an air to air guy, I prefer the air to ground or multi-role platforms. Is the Mig 29 going to be much use for air to ground? What kind of air to ground weapons is it able to carry?

Has anyone with an Aero replaced the cable with something different? Wondering if a regular USB C cable would work? The factory cable is so stiff and kinks so bad it drives me nuts.....

I just watched Spudknockers video on the origins of this situation. If it is accurate....wow. How insanely stupid. Throw away 4 major money making modules to go behind ED's back to develop a sim for the Ecuadorian Air Force which has 72 total aircraft??? How good of a financial decision can that be? Thats like Lilly Miller shutting down their pharmacutical factorys to sell dime bags on a street corner!! I mean geez....that can't be right! Nobody is that dumb!! I was just starting to re-learn the F-15E hoping this might get resolved....but now....waste of time. Back to the old A-10C I go.

I've never understood why we don't have a full SU-25 Module........

Maybe RazBam could sell the modules to HeatBlur and they could support them and finish the F-15E?

I have a difficult time with it too. It seems no matter how careful I am boresighting it is still way off, but it has been that way since the beginning for me. (I am in VR if it matters). I do recall Casmo saying long ago the boresight reticle is not correct, the crosshair in the boresight display should not be moving all over the place like it does in the sim (at least in VR). But, ED has never taken any action to correct it, in fact it does not seem they are doing much with the Apache these days at all. I have been trying for ages to get an answer as to where our MPSM and flechette rockets we were supposed to get went.....yet now they say they are working on "another" helicopter!

Yes, it does and should, for two reasons....first, many many of us bought the F-15E, which is nowhere near complete. It needs several more years of work, and that work is not happening, even if this dispute is eventually resolved it has put the Strike Eagle at least a year behind where it should be in development. And eventually, the inability of ED to update the RazBam modules is eventually going to lead to them being "frozen" at a given update, like what happened to us in the past....so yeah, they will work, as long as you stop updating your DCS core. Neither of these situations is acceptable. And sadly, while ED will look out for their interests in court, and RazBam will look out for theirs, NO ONE is looking out for ours, the customers.

Yeah, I have asked this question several times over the last year or so and cannot get any response from ED about it.

@Wags