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It's not my roadmap it's Heatblur's. The F-4 didn't get announced before January 2022 with the video unless there was a post late 2021 I missed or something. There was just the HB logo for an unnanounced module on the roadmap before the F-4 was revealed.

It always had. With the announcment of the A-6 AI and the clear level of detail they were doing, the community asked too many questions and they decided to reveal the flyable version way earlier than they wanted to. The same thing goes for the F-4 really. Nosy players that we are and always itching for iconic aircraft asked too many questions so they revealed that early as well to stop the rumor machine. The newest update makes it sound like it will be developed while they are doing the Eurofighter and that the process was speeding up. This was due to a more experienced team and streamlined development procees along with the Jester 2.0 improvements which are supposed to make it easier to transfer it over to new modules. I agree it's taken a long time and I'm definitely getting impatient waiting on pretty much all the stuff HB has planned, but I get why they can't do everything at once or release early. So far as I've read, we're supposed to get the AI A-6 and early F-14A to get the F-14 clear of early access as well as the initial release of the F-4E all this year. Next (2025 at earliest most likely) will be the Eurofighter closely followed by the flyable A-6E. After that, we'll be seeing whatever naval variant of the F-4 they are going to make. Hopefully it all happens quicker with their new streamlined process, but no one really knows at this point.

The AI, not the flyable one. They always said the A-6 was at then end of roadmap coming after the Eurofighter and the then unannounced F-4. This just means they've completed enough stuff to start putting more work into both the AI and flyable A-6 so don't expect anythin besides the AI this year and probably the next as well.

Wait, why would Wags do videos about the F-15E? It's from Razbam, not ED and as such Notso is doing the videos.

Looks that way to me too

Missed that update, thanks! Probably drooling too much over the F-4 just below it but I agree this is my most anticipated map as well.

While I have yet to figure out how to re enable the custom fonts on the skins I have downloaded, I have figured at least this much out. The custom args are as shown and need to be placed below the name and country lines at the end of the description.lua of the livery. The way it's set in the picture will turn all of the numbering off for if you have a livery with a custom modex painted directly onto the skin such as a CAG bird. If you want USN changeable numbering in the default font, change the first three custom args to be 0.0 and you should be good to go.

What's wrong with smoky engines?

This is the newest report as far as I know. It says most of the major systems are complete or completion is imminent. Around the corner in DCS speak could still be a month or more. Probably more at this point, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

My mistake, here's an A-6E with the TRAM turret and Standard ARM. All the pictures of the HB A-6E so far have had the TRAM turret, but hopefully they can do one without the upgrade too.

If only they'd make two versions like with the Tomcat and F-4 so we can get an A-6E with TRAM and an earlier one without. Loadouts would then satisfy the A or B look (minus STARM) to act as AI or player controlled in earlier Vietnam style missions.

Oh come on, it's not that bad yet... The F-4 has only been announced for just under a year and a half, while the F-15 has been coming for about 10 years from what I've heard. Yes it's delayed, but it's not like we can even preorder it or have even had a proper unveiling with an actual trailer.

The original plan was 2022. We're definitely still months out.

Noticed the trains drive through the road bridge East of the station at Bayeux instead of under it. Bridge track.trk

Well since Relics is also part of the ASC team, this does create an interesting coincidence. While Heatblur does already have a lot of experience with two-seat aircraft and the TF-30's they already have a lot on their plate at the moment. On the otherhand, ASC hasn't even released the base C-130 yet, not to mention the MC and KC variants so if they are in fact doing the 111 I wouldn't expect it for a long time.

Relics is one of the Airplane Simulation Company devs working on the C-130J.

Well if they can't do more than one at a time, don't forget they are already doing another one, the F6F Hellcat! In any case, both the G-6 and 262 would be good although the 262 fits the trend of late war aircraft better, but the G-6 would be excellent for Normandy.

The model from a year ago looks pretty good! Any further news?

Anyone know if this is being worked on yet? I've seen multiple images of razorback P-47's carrying the M-8 rockets so I'm a bit confused why they weren't included on the D-30 model in the first place.

This is the Channel+Normandy upgrade on Steam edition open beta. After a repair, the textures were still missing from the map. Normandy.trk

All of the German AA gun emplacement areas have the missing textures pattern on them instead of the gray concrete I assume they should be.

Same way a lot of the other people in this thread did... Unchecked Normandy 1944 in the Steam DLC manager, ran DCS, closed DCS, and reinstalled Normandy.

It's working for me now too!

I've got the same problem with blurry textures after purchasing the upgrade. Steam also seems to think I have both upgrades even though I only bought the "I already own Normandy and Channel" one. Hopefully they get this fixed soon along with sending out Reflected's capmaign updates...

Since those areas are covered in the Channel map they are currently saying no.