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People dunk on DCS for lacking gameplay elements like the dynamic campaign engine and whatnot, but there's a lot less attention to the value of DCS from historical perspective. It kind of serves to commemorate the aircraft for posterity as an interactive digital construct that helps people experience it in a way they would hardly even hope to otherwise. It kind of applies to the maps too. And in this context it makes absolute sense to pay tribute to Robin Olds, and guess what, the Black Shark pilot looks pretty much like Dmitri Avtukhov, the IRL Black Shark test pilot. I wonder what La-7 and the Intruder pilot models will look like

How do they even land from the hover? I can land, like, 20% of the time, otherwise I fall down into the vortex. The Hip gives clear feedback when approaching the VRS state by shaking all around, and so does the Huey. The Hind gives no feedback whatsoever, one moment it floats ahead like a flying Cadillac and then it just drops like a sack of hammers with no in-between state that I can notice. Other helis appear to be too cool to care about VRS at all.

I wish we had an option to disable that thing centrally throughout all the modules because I doubt that helper ever helped anyone. For me as hard as I-16 and Bf.109 are on take-off and landing they're at least predictable with the helper disabled. Even more embarrassing is the fact that the Hind's own autopilot tends to do a much better job at this.

Because the military is not using Ka-50 at all. They're using Ka-52 which is an entirely different beast in terms of avionics. Ka-50 is a few prototypes all the way from the 80's, and all the action they ever had was slinging some rockets in Chechnya.

Well, I have to add that this has been in the MiG-21 module for quite some time now. Checkmate, capitalists! And yes, this has to be a standard feature in all modules, maybe even implemented at the core ED level.

I don't know about legal aspects, but it would be super nice if the pilot was modelled after Dmitri Avtukhov who piloted the Shark at the 1993 Paris Air Show and in the Black Shark movie.

They're planning to overhaul the MiG and bring it up to par with the current DCS standard once the Corsair is released. I don't think we'll be getting other models, even though I would pay for a PFM.

Well, I haven't lost anything yet, but I can tell you what I can lose - money. Although I'm not sure that the toilet paper I'm paid in even qualifies as such seeing how it inflates (imagine paying with $5 and $10 coins ten years later). At the moment they are keeping the rate fixed, but if they let it go my local bucks won't be worth the ink their value is written with, or they might shut down payments out of the country altogether. So you can see I'm quite interested to seal the deal while I can still afford it. Granted, this sounds somewhat extreme, but I guess you can see how a real case can be made for pre-ordering stuff.

By that same logic people should have even less interest in Spitfire, Thud and Mustang modules. May I ask since when that is the case? Ditto Hind, Huey and MiG-21.

This right here. The planes are literally from different eras, the only things they have in common are two engines, two wings and two monkeys in the pit. Everything else is so different I fail to see any potential for competition. The only decision to be made here might be which one to get first if they are released at the same time.

There are only two alternatives, and we have both in DCS already. The RuAF top brass figured that whatever edge the Fulcrum had in a dogfight isn't worth the payload of the Flanker, and the more power the subsequent generations of engines produced the more that edge diminished, especially with the advent of TVC. That's why you have a whole line-up of Flanker models and what, three flavours of Fulcrum (the A, the S and MiG-35 that never made it to serial production, plus the carrier versions). So yes, our only option is ED going through with the full-fidelity 9.12 seeing how it's not in any sort of active service with RuAF aside from some birds still flying in Hazzard County ANG somewhere.

It does have the YouTube subtitles, and they actually seem decent to me.

It gets better, there's an entire documentary series about the Phantom. The only problem with it is the lack of subtitles, even auto-generated ones. There are some more Iranian documentaries around, but sadly, still no subtitles. So until the thing comes out I guess at least we can eject on the visuals.

A lot of these can be found in the relevant User Files directory, but I do agree that more official liveries never hurt, especially with proper dynamically generated BORT numbers.

It's not even that much of a multiplayer if you think of it. The point the OP is making is being able to multi-crew the same aircraft. That means the mission designer does not need to change one bit in mission files because there's still only one player-controlled aircraft. This is something to be addressed at the ED level for all multi-crew modules though, but between all the multi-crew modules that we already have and the eventually impending F-4, F-15E, Tornado and Mirage F1 two-seater the entertainment value of their respective campaigns would go through the roof.

I think most people here will eventually get both the Phantom and F-15E, but if they were to come out at once, what would I buy - a jet that requires me to actually pay attention and learn stuff or yet another MFD button-pusher? Hmm, maybe this will inform my decision...

The norm for translations into Russian is 2000-3000 words per day so you can estimate when that could be done. And that's assuming it would ever be done seeing how third-party devs tend not to bother with Russian manuals for non-Russian aircraft (while ED makes Russian manuals for all their modules).

Why not? Just look at the CFT thread for the F-15E. It's a gift that just keeps on giving!

Nope, Early Access != pre-order. Early Access is the Jeff coming out without the air refuelling thingy or the Apache coming out without the radar hat. It means they are releasing a product they know is not fully complete that they intend to finish later, but as it is you can pay and play straight away. A pre-order is when they take your money before they release anything at all. I can fully see why they would release the Phantom in EA seeing how they intend to follow with a naval variant later and whatnot, but a pre-order for a third-party module would be a first in a long while after the Hawk thing. Maybe ED might allow it now if they know HB has passed the point of messing around, but I haven't seen anything about that and I've read "pre-order" and "pre-sale" and whatnot and got a little confused.

At this point I feel like ED should just expand the dynamic BORT number system to include unit symbology so we don't have to waste the disk space on proverbial fifty shades of gray that are otherwise perfectly the same in 95% of skins for any given US model. Maybe that's part of the reason why I like F-14A over the B because it has lively synthwave skins instead of the default dirty asphalt.

They do pre-orders for third-party modules now? Last I heard they don't since the Hawk debacle.

And now we're eventually getting the Herc and the Chinook that have about the same value weaponry-wise but can't even do aerobatics. I hope that's a sign of interest in less military aircraft and maybe the little planes that could will get some love after all.

I was thinking more of a secret frequency that you could dial on an ADF for, y'know, navigation reasons when the brass isn't looking...

AFAIK the ABRIS listens to the PVI but it doesn't talk to it. The autopilot listens only to the PVI, so normally you only have to select waypoints on the PVI. You may select waypoints on the ABRIS to view their properties in the database or when the PVI is busted but that's about it, you just don't need that for anything else since the ABRIS is pretty much a stand-alone system (actually a Finnish commercial computer - it's a prototype aircraft after all).

Yes. Yes. A hundred times yes. This, supersonic speed and precision A-G weapons. And also gunpods and rockets. None of what you describe is too high a price to pay for tanking the FPS, freezing and potentially crashing the entire server with a press of a button.