LorenLuke

It would be nice if when pressing George action up to generate the target list, if targets were sorted by how close they were angularly from when you pressed the button, allowing you to have the target closest to that line of sight be the top of the list, and widen out from there as the list continues.

I believe RB have said that they will include the HMCS and 9X at a later date.

If you've used the F14 module, this targeting pod is literally meant to be the same one as that, which also has some relatively crap resolution.

When your bomb impact point is below the HUD in several aircraft, from the F-16 to the Su-25T, the pipper for the bomb is still shown at the bottom. Pressing and holding the pickle button in those jets designates the point as your intended impact point in a CCRP-type mode, with appropriate symbology to aid release. I'd wager that's what is meant, where the pipper is at the bottom of the guy's, but doesn't actually correspond to where bomb impact point would be (and would be such a case where the 'pipper' and 'sight reticle' may not be the same thing, or at least pointing to the same place).

The flir seems to have some sort of 'visible' component. Anyone know of any way to access this via command or button press, instead of just the thermals alone? visible = { fov = {math.rad(2.7), math.rad(28)}, -- min, max, in rad color = true, resolution = {625, 480}, -- w, h, in pixels digital_zoom = 12, -- max }

On the UFC, you can type in M1 (or M and whatever the number is), and then you can press Pushbutton 17 on the TGP screen to slave it to that point, I believe.

The entire gazelle flight model, and some of the weapons implementation.

Personally, I await the GBU-15 and the AGM-130 to sling from miles away. If they have buddy guide, would be cool to see the FA18 get code to guide ally's weapons.

That IS the official release.

But... you literally just... commented...

Include the overexposure effect that you see on old slow footage for the LANTIRN Pod, like how the F14 HeatBlur pod has. HB pod: Real life:

Not sure how it works in the real jet, but he didn't have his Master Arm on when he tried to jettison.

This was a consequence of their own doing. They had an announcement trailer for the blasted preorder (which they then delayed), for crying out loud. You don't see multiple threads in the Kiowa or Phantom sections stuffed to the gills with people lamenting the lack of communication or lack of a release date, and yet there's pages of the stuff here. It's all self-inflicted, at this point and for anyone who says to me 'people are just impatient', by all means, answer me why those other two yet-to-be-released modules don't suffer the same fate? Could it be that RB started this whole hype train with 'The year of the Strike Eagle!' for the past four months? A train we're being told that 'we're almost there!' at every turn, and yet all the track seems to extend out to the horizon. Ultimately, that's the crux of this whole mess, because this is the only place I've seen people this vitriolic about timelines and patience.

Just because I've not been around StarCitizen very long doesn't mean that their preorder practices aren't horrific. You can 'know what you're getting into' and still demand better, especially if you were to say that this sort of stuff would be unacceptable basically anywhere but here.

I mean, there was the E-Book, too... I think the most egregious part is not that it was given to a YouTuber, it's that it was given to so many, and with no limit on it. If it was say... Spudknocker alone, and he could pump out just one video a week, limited to a half hour each, I don't think anyone would have near the issue of it being 2 months away. But you don't have that. You have Spud, GS, LongShot, Casmo, RedKite, the Reapers, and more all releasing videos at the pace of one every two days to two in one day... and we're just going to expect that this is what the next five plus weeks is going to look like, it seems like every decently reputable DCS YouTuber and their mother got it without having to wait, while we're told 'two more weeks months'. (If I see a 'PickinTheBanjo' video for the Mudhen, I'm going to lose my mind)

'Weeks not months' my backside, if this is the case.

As I understand it the TEWS page is the sort of 'RWR', and functions as a dedicated directional situational awareness display. You still get a couple of red lights and tones when you're tracked or launched on though.

IIRC, you don't get big box with the Radar Hellfires.

So, to confirm I'm understanding this, realistically it doesn't stabilize to some point <X> distance away wherever it's pointing, with X being a valid laser distance acquired before engaging the LMC?

Previous behavior would have the LMC hold relatively still after being turned on after being provided a viable laser range by engaging and disengaging the LRFD, then engaging the LMC, and the LMC would compensate for the motion of the aircraft. This behavior no longer occurs. The LMC can still be used to point at a target and versus a moving target, but it no longer seems to stabilize with regards to the motion of the Apache. AH-64 LMC.trk

I mean, it's good enough to project a waypoint and get distance and bearing relative to the aircraft. Obviously a map point wouldn't be able to be used for moving targets, granted, but for a stationary target at the particular point in space, what data would be lacking other than flying straight for that point?

With the tutorial and announcement of the Lima Hellfire, one thing left ne wondering about its possible employment in non-LOS, LOAL situations. The tutorial in the post describes lasing the target until the 'Target Data?' prompt disappears so as to establish accurate target position data to cue the missile accurately to the same point in space as the target, as well as a 'LOBL lockout' mode to prevent LOBL launches. Given both of these, since a waypoint/hazard, control measure, or lased-and-stored target point are simply saved points in space, could one simply set those as acquisition sources, and slave the missile to it in a LOBL lockout, no laser range (or even line of sight) required?

To be entirely fair, remember that ED has final release authority, and now they too are saying it's 'close'. So for all the hype shaming folks have been doing for Razbam saying that, I imagine this means we're far closer to release than many of the detractors would say.

Except that Baltic Dragon initially said that he didn't think he'd get it out in time for the early access release, so clearly it... isn't.