Sunbather

Great patch! Looking forward to playing DCS for many hours tonight! Initial feedback: 1. Next time, please don't let us wait 5 weeks for a fix for something significant like the F/A-18C radar! 2. Give us a heads-up when EA period for something ends. These are 3rd party modules but we did get a Newsletter about the South Atlantic map leaving early access but Sinai was a suprise. Actually wanted to buy Sinai. It's just 10 euro more now but still... Might hold off on buying now, would have bought it if I had known EA was ending... 3. Please release the new A-10CII campaign as soon as possible on Steam. I want to buy and play it as soon as possible. (Saying this because with the F-4E Northern Defenders campaign it took a few days before it arrived on Steam). --> already released. Thank you! Thanks again for this meaty update!

No patch for one month?

THANK you for that, this makes so much sense now!

Apologies for my ignorance but "pre-designate" and "moving targets" is a contradiction in my book. Can someone elaborate what this means? Do I pre-designate a target with an optical sensor (e.g. helmet targeting system)? But why would I then use non-predesignate for stationary targets?

I never wanted to buy Persian Gulf or NTTR due to their 'outdated-ness'. Eventually, I caved in and I am glad I purchased both maps. They were cheap (on sale) and the amount of content you get with them (sometimes at additional cost) is very much worth the price of entry, especially as a singleplayer kind of guy. The training campaign for the A-10CII by Baltic Dragon for the NTTR map and the excellent Operation Persian Freedom for the PG map alone made me happy. However... This summer I traveled to Georgia and I was lucky enough to have a good look at it from the air: it was day and there were no clouds. Suffice to say, Georgia in DCS looks nothing like the real thing. Half of the landmass was not green but steppe, there were rolling hills everywhere, the Caucasus mountain range looked intimidating even from afar, and the terrain in general changed every few miles. In DCS Georgia is that flat, ever-green map that looks basically the same from the Black Sea to the eastern end of the Caucasus mountain range. And don't get me started on Tbilisi: even the rudimentary geography is incorrect. So while the PG and NTTR maps are great despite their shortcomings (southern Iran being a vast patch of emptiness...), the Caucasus really needs redoing from the ground up. It should look much more like the mountain areas in Afghanistan for the northern part and much more like a mix of Germany and Iraq for the heartland. Naturally, I jumped right into a digital airplane when I came back from my travels, and seeing the DCS version of Georgia just made me sad. I honestly think a rework should be strongly considered.

I have two questions: 1. Will the additional discount for the Mig-29 on Steam automatically vanish the moment the module releases? (Might be a stupid question since it's a pre-order discount but I am still wondering.) 2. What official modules use the South Atlantic map, especially regarding campaigns? Are there any upcoming paid campaigns for that map? E.g. I know that the F-14 has a official campaign on the SA map.

You got a point there. But both the F-15E and the M-2000 just sounded too good to pass. I also put some weight into both parties saying (one more than the other) that they are working in all earnesty to resolve the issue. There were also official words from ED that they were intending to make the modules work for a long time. So maybe let me rephrase my point: since there is no recompensation for a module suddenly becoming defunct, I am wary on buying more stuff from external devs.

Hmm, while this sounds very exciting, I probably won't pick this up. I've purchased the M-2000C earlier this year for 55€. Now I learn that the module will be defunct past version 2.9xx (and it's already buggy btw) --- so I basically threw 55€ out the window. I am not sure why I should bother to invest in a new module from an external developer other than Heatblur.

Patch today? I have a feeling there might be a somewhat significant update for my newly acquired Mirage F1... But maybe it's just wishful thinking.

I ended up refunding the campaign because the humour was not for me. (I am a German myself so I don't like to laugh.) Yet the premise seems sexy (F-4, Cold War gone HOT, Summer Kola) so may I ask if the Köttbullar humour continues or if it gets a bit more serious after that? Or put differently: after many casualties and carpet bombings, do the the WISO and the pilot still talk about Köttbullars?

You're hardcore, man! Still, map works for me, for you it doesn't.

Hmm, sorry. I am rather new with the Mi-24 but like I said: I had the same problem, then it fixed itself. I can only talk about M03 so far though, I didn't go back to M01 and M02 to see if I can fix it there. Have you tried the auto start?

Please check again. I had the same problem with the helo marker all over the place but once I left the "Airspeed to Doppler" switch off, it works. You might also wanna try doing the autostart function: it should work then! (Just played M03 today a couple of time and for me it was definitively leaving that particular switch turned off.)

It's here! Downloading now!

This couldn't release at a better time. I've just completed my training syllabus for the Mi-24P (the usual mix of official training missions, instant action shootouts, perusing the manual, googling random problems I have) and successfully flew the first mission of the Outpost campaign but I am even more eager to finally play the Hind on the Afghanistan map. Gonna press F5 over on the User Files a lot now.