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I wouldn't call it magnanimity, it's just behaving like an adult and understanding that the real world is not perfect. I don't work in software development, but I work as a BIM specialist in construction. Every project can face delays, regardless of the sector you are working on. Sometimes, it's inevitable to reach a major block and that can lead us to postpone the delivery to the customer. It's not something we enjoy, but sometimes, it's just necessary in order to deliver a quality product/project My opinion could be seen as ED simping, but I guarantee you it isn't, it's just maturity, because behind ED, there are real people with real lifes that also like to rest on weekends and enjoy their free time. I'd also like to be enjoying Afghanistan map this weekend, but I can also play other games and do things outside, so I don't care if it takes a couple weeks more to iron the patch as long as it comes out playable and I can enjoy it.

In my opinion, I prefer the patch to be delayed until all the major issues are solved than having something broken that could spoil my gameplay. Just take your time and keep up the good work guys. Hoping to see and enjoy the map!

Guess you'll have a nice time when the MiG 29 finally releases, hope you enjoy it, mate. I can't wait for the release either.

Honestly, I've been following this topic since day 1 and I keep finding comments about how over complicated the buying thing is. I bought the whole map when it was announced because it's obviously the cheapest option for those who want the full map in high fidelity. The thing that I don't get is where exactly does people find the complicated part to understand about it. It looks pretty simple to me and I don't see any reason to blame ED for this behaviour, as it is a common practise in every industry, this has already been said in this thread. As a player, you only need to answer yourself two questions: do you want the full map? do you have spare money to buy it? If those questions got an affirmative answer, then go for the full map. If you want it full and don't have the money, then you´ve got two options, either buy it piece by piece and finally spend more money or wait and save up like 20 bucks per month (counting since when the map pre purchase was announced) and get the full map. If you are just interested in a particular area, then wait and get just that area. Tell me, where is the difficult part to understand? And also, who is not able to save 20 bucks each month? I mean, this is not directed to anyone and not intended to be offensive, but if someone is in such a tight economical situation, maybe that person shouldn't be thinking in getting into this hobby at this particular time in his/her life, as this is an expensive hobby. Plus if you are just joining, it would be better to just use the two week trials and the free resources like Caucasus in order to get into the game and then decide wether to invest in this or not.

Keep up the good work!

Bought! Was waiting for this helo to finally come! Now I just need the DC and will be fully happy!

Then I misunderstood you. To my understanding, the regions outside the three main zones won't be high res and, as others already pointed out, they will probably be similar to the edges of other maps. There will be terrain and some buildings, but nothing too fancy.

This has not been posted specifically in the FAQ, at least not until now, but it has already been discussed here and in the interview made to Wags on youtube some days ago. They said that they will do as much as they can to reduce the price gap between players who buy the full map and the ones buying it piece by piece, but it will definitely be more expensive to buy the three separate pieces than the whole map. It's not that ED has lost it's mind, but a common practice industry wide. You buy the huge family pack, you get a special price, it's totally fair, as the ones, like me who bought the whole map right now are showing support for the creation of this content, hence the special price, then, it wouldn't be fair that someone that hasn't taken that "risk" gets the same conditions. Also, if you already know that you're gonna buy more than 1 piece of the map, why not buy it now with the special price , which would be much cheaper than even buying 2 parts afterwards? Price now, without miles, just the discount, is 48.99 USD, while buying two individual parts on their final price would be 60 USD. In my opinion, I don't understand how anyone wanting this full map would buy it by pieces. As ED stated, the part option is just for people who can't afford the entry price of the map, but if you're gonna end buying everything, why not do it now? In my case, I bought it the same day it was announced, and, by applying some miles, I ended up paying 40 USD.

This would be so nice to have implemented ingame, here's my support

Cool, I didn't know about it, don't own the F-15 myself because I'm not really into double cockpit aircraft, but it's a nice feature, and it's even better if it's simulated in DCS.

Thanks for your quick reply, I'm happy just knowing it will be internally discussed.

I didn't really give it a thought on CPU usage, but it could be done in any other format or, as you say, images. Is that function that you mention natively implemented in the F15? Anyways, I'd like to know if ED has given some thought to this specific matter on the F18 @BIGNEWY, as I'd like to have it officially supported but, for the moment, I will give a try to your suggested workaround, I appreciate it, thanks @Foka!

So I have been looking through the wishlist forum and haven't found any topics on this in the past 4 or 5 years. Is ED planning to add the recording feature any time in the future? From my limited understanding on how they would program this, I don't know if it would be possible to capture the FLIR video feed and output it to say a MP4 file for it to be used in briefings and so on. It may not be very useful right now, but I think that, when DC shows up, it could be very useful to send a reconaissance aircraft to scout a zone and grab some footage using the FLIR, so we could attach it to our briefings. Of course, I understand that this would be a low priority thing in the development cycle, but it would be an interesting feature for sure. Edit: It wouldn't need to be a super high resolution footage, as the camera on the aircraft itself does not display a very good quality on the MFDs, it would be enough if we could just get that footage and extract some images from it. That way, we could also avoid cluttering the hard drive too much.

Couldn't agree more, it would be nice to get this feature, so here is my bit of support!