LorenLuke

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.

Basically imagine drift getting so bad, that when you do a patch map of where the target should be, the whole thing has drifted so far that you neither know what you're looking at, nor where to move from that point to actually find the target. If you correct the drift en route to the target, you only have to worry about the drift since the last time you took a fixpoint, rather than the drift from the point when you aligned the INS on the ground; so drift would be relatively minimal by comparison versus doing a correction on some landmark near the target (both of which you now can't even find in your high resolution map).

So, it's unknown to me whether this is accurate behavior, but it seems the way the rockets ripple when in 'Single' firing mode behave strangely. Rockets, when launched singly, alternate pylons. Rockets when launched with a quantity greater than one launch two at a time from a single pod before alternating to the next pod. The Mult setting doesn't seem to do anything to change this behavior. AV-8B Rockets.trk

Could you list what comes to mind? I'm not doubting that there is, strictly speaking, I just want to know what you would say there is to do for the gunner, as compared to what I think of when someone says that.

Does it have a particular name that one can search for, readily?

I mean, I disagree that it isn't worth dev time for one reason alone- Money. Example: There's the C-130 being made, and I'm certain <X amount> of people will buy it. But if it was specifically the AC-130, I'm certain more than <X amount> would purchase. Why? Because it's cool. The rationale of practicality out the window, given that it'd be shot down in an area that's even moderately contested airspace doesn't matter, you'll get a line around the building to buy for the 'cool'-factor alone. The GSh-30 is a fantastic gun. But giving the Hind even something like the exported GSh-23L turret as something for the gunner to have would 1) be better than the Yak 12.7, given the DCS-ism of lighter arms, 2) the chin gun and the 'coolness' factor that the current Hind lacks. And I believe those two factors would drive sales further than the Mi-24P has.

You literally have the explanation as for why in your own post. This reason is the only reason we need.

Because I'd like to be useful for something other than firing 4/8 missiles, and then twiddling my thumbs after.

How are these expected to function, and what's the scope of their function? Within a single mission, or somehow having cumulative wear across multiple missions or a campaign? A setting in the ME, perhaps?

Consider though that the Mudhen would have to come out of early access, lose the 20% discount, then be around long enough to THEN go on sale for something more than 20%. I imagine people who want it will weigh the 'eh, it's just eight bucks anyway' and eat the difference rather than wait God-knows-how-long.

But if they don't warn, all the people who'd get it then don't get the 30% discount, but only 20%; RB would make an extra $8 per sale. I don't see why they'd not seize this opportunity for more money.

Alternatively, maybe he asks here because he trusts people to know what he's talking about and answer accordingly, instead of just googling and finding either the same four images repeated everywhere for a niche hobby, or possibly providing him wrong information that he may not trust himself or his knowledge enough to know it's wrong. Those are certainly reasons why I ask people instead of, or in addition to, just going to google like it's a magical library (mind, even if it is, it still has no human librarian to clarify any questions you have).