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I have added this to the FAQ If I only own 1 part, will I still see and be able to use airfields on parts I do not own? (ADDED) Yes! Once the entire map is complete and if you only own 1 section, you will see the entire map, and the airfields in those unpurchased sections will be there and usable in the sim, including the ME. You will still see trees and buildings in these areas as well but in low-detail LODs.

Let me make sure I get a 100% clear answer and I will post to the FAQ

Seems this topic has drifted off the mark. Closed for now. Wish list and poll results noted.

Thanks for the effort, I will go over everything and reach out on anything I feel I might need more info on. There are still some active reports internally that may hit on some of these things as I said, so I need to sit down and give it the attention your efforts deserve so don't get upset if I take longer than a few days

Few small updates and a new map added to the 1st post.

I am quite sure we’ll some have questions, and many will probably require a publicly available source and not based on conjecture. Other items like the damage model will continue to evolve and improve over time, but the core feature is present. There are of course other items that we’ll evaluate adding based on available data, time, and resources, but there must always be the calculation of demising returns. It’s important to remember that we are not trying to create a 100% simulation of the F-16C, or any other DCS aircraft. We must decide what makes the most sense based on limited resources and what will provide the most enjoyment across the greatest number of customers. Naturally. We’ll never be able to please everyone. I used the word panic because there is still much, we’d still like to add to the Viper like several of the items you listed where it makes sense. Other items, like the DTC, are not so much specific Viper features but rather global features that will apply to several aircraft. Exiting Early Access simply means that the core features advertised are present in the simulation. It does not mean that the product is done and put on a shelf. Those features can be in and not be fully fleshed out (complexity and research can be reasons for this) and still leave Early Access. Exiting Early Access lets customers know that all ley features are now present in the simulation and the price is reduced. The module is a cornerstone of DCS and military aviation and it will continue to improve, grow and be the best it can be.

The threads are related and both have similar topics, it doesn't diminish your efforts at all. Why have the same conversation in two different threads, this makes it easier for everyone to discuss the same topic. I have also renamed this thread to be more descriptive. Your point about trying to hide your post is a little silly though, I already said I would review it, and Wags is also aware of it. I assume you posted it for us, ED, to see it. Correct?

That's a lot to read, and I will try and review it later, but leaving early access doesn't mean development is done. So I am not sure I get the panic, but I will try and review this and discuss with the team. Some of this stuff though might fall under not enough public data. But again, I will try and review.

This would be nice to have but it will not stop the module from leaving EA. Thanks

Updated the FAQ with the EA Launch and after EA Launch feature lists.

First off, there is nothing new to report as of the date of this post, this new thread is simply a clean-up and ease of access for all current official information on the current issues between Eagle Dynamics & RAZBAM. Hopefully, this will make it easier to see the current known information and weed it out from the theories, guesses and suggestions in the other thread. If you want to see that one, the link will be available at the bottom of the post. The first public knowledge of the disagreement happened with an announcement on the RAZBAM Discord here: https://discord.com/channels/536389125276827660/544501300134543380/1225494495458627634 razbam_prowler — 04/04/2024 10:17 AM Dear Customers and Community, You may have noticed that the that the latest RAZBAM announcements does not include a changelog or any updates for our products. We would like to inform you that, until further notice, all support for RAZBAM-developed aircraft modules is on hold. This suspension encompasses, but is not limited to, bug fixes and updates. We want to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to this exceptional community, our current customers, and prospective clients. Unfortunately, due to circumstances completely beyond our control, we are temporarily unable to continue our work at this time. Our team, a group of highly skilled and professional developers, is first and foremost made up of dedicated individuals. They invest not only their expertise but also their personal dedication and sacrifice into crafting our products. For many, this work provides essential supplementary income or even constitutes their primary livelihood. We are hopeful for a swift resolution so that we can resume our normal operations. However, until these issues are resolved, we will not be issuing any updates about our products. We ask for your understanding during this challenging period, a situation that RAZBAM Simulations did not seek and which has previously seriously affected other parties, for example Heatblur Simulations. We have been patient, perhaps too patient, waiting for a resolution from the responsible parties. Now, we find it necessary to take a stand and await a practical solution to this deadlock. I also want to extend my heartfelt thanks to my fellow third-party developers. Their support, once aware of the relevant facts, has been overwhelming. Thank you for elevating DCS to new heights; it truly wouldn't be the remarkable experience it is without your contributions. The suspension will remain in effect until the significant issues between Eagle Dynamics and RAZBAM Simulations LLC are resolved to our mutual satisfaction. Once these issues have been addressed, we will resume our standard practices of bug fixing, updates, and upgrades, just as we have since our inception as developers for DCS. We hope this resolution results in a more stable and optimistic future for DCS and all 3rd Party Developers. Best regards Ron Zambrano CEO RAZBAM Simulations, LLC Eagle Dynamics was compelled to respond shortly after on their Discord found here: https://discord.com/channels/542985647502393346/543013214485610520/1225540029493936219 04/04/2024 1:18 PM Following the message published by Ron Zambrano of Razbam Simulations, we believe that it is necessary to rectify some of the unfounded allegations and to reassure the Community that everything is being done to resolve the current situation promptly and for the benefit of all concerned. Without entering into the details of matters that are confidential to the parties, we firmly reject the allegations that the current disagreement between Eagle Dynamics and Razbam Simulations would be as stated by Razbam “due to circumstances completely beyond our control" and that it is "a situation that Razbam Simulations did not seek". On the contrary, the current disagreement is the result of improper actions that have been taken by Razbam Simulations, in breach of its contractual obligations towards our company and of our legally protected IP rights, and for which we are seeking a reasonable and forward-looking commercial outcome rather than entertaining legal claims. We very much regret that Ron Zambrano has decided, without even pre-advising us, to make these disparaging public statements and, more importantly, to take the customers of the Razbam developed aircraft as leverage in the discussions with us. Please rest assured, we are addressing the situation with the utmost attention and constructiveness. Many thanks and kind regards, Nick Grey RAZBAM followed with this reply: https://discord.com/channels/536389125276827660/544501300134543380/1226492074233434182 razbam_prowler — 04/07/2024 4:21 AM @here Dear customers and community RAZBAM Simulations is actively working with EAGLE DYNAMICS to reach an agreement to resolve our internal dispute and we don't want the discussion that our public declaration has generated to escalate any further. We want to assure you that it has never been nor will it be our intention to abandon our products. We look forward to a prompt and satisfactory resolution, turn the page, and move forward. Best regards Ron Zambrano CEO RAZBAM Simulations, LLC This was the last of the official announcements from both management parties. While both teams have officially been very quiet due to the delicate nature of issues at hand there has been some events that have come up and caused concerns. Some Anti-Virus programs were picking up a false positive on some DCS DLLs. Sadly it seemed to be worse on some of the RAZBAM modules fueling fears of issues with the modules. This can be solved by adding the DCS install folder to the exceptions for your anti-virus software, this happens from time to time so this was nothing new. The M2000 had some issues, including CTDs. This was an accidental merge of some changes one of the developers was working on. Once it was identified the changes were reverted and the issues were solved (although nothing was noted in the changelog at the time). This was not anything related to compatibility with the core game. June 12th at Midnight the F-15E radar stopped working. While we have internally identified the issue no fix has been presented as of yet. once we have solid news on that we will share that ASAP. Again this had nothing to do with core compatibility but rather something in the coding of the F-15E. UPDATE: When version 2.9.6 drops it will contain a fix for the F-15E radar. This fix was created by our team and not given to us by any other party. Refunds While at first, we were maintaining our normal refund rules, we decided to bend a little for those who were frustrated with the issues and how they affected an Early Access Product. We have been giving a store credit for the value of the F-15E when you purchased it. You may open a ticket here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/ for a refund, but we ask for patience as it may take up to 7-10 business days to process your refund. Other modules will not be refunded at this time, all of these are out of Early Access and remain working. It is our commitment that no matter what happens we will do our best to make sure these continue to work into the future. We understand those of you who remember losing the Hawk, this is not something we intend to do again. Steam refunds are based on the play time of the core game, not the individual module. It is their policy and they handle the refunds. As we understand it, no refunds have been accepted by Valve. All modules continue to work, aside from the current radar issues with the F-15E which we hope will be addressed sooner than later. South Atlantic continues to be updated and as I stated above, the other older modules we plan to make sure they continue to work into the foreseeable future. Is ED broke? No, Eagle Dynamics is very healthy aside from this dispute currently, all other 3rd Parties and the ED development team continue to work and push new and exciting content out to you. Is ED pushing things out because they are out of money? No, most of these recent products have been scheduled for quite some time now, into early last year. The 3rd Party products are based on when they are ready from their own team, although some delays here and there squished some release dates together, nothing has been out of the ordinary except more goodies in a short amount of time. How can you keep selling the F-15E or other modules? UPDATE 2025-04-07 Right now we are working within the framework of the legal advice moving forward and not wanting to cause any more riffs or issues. It's a complex process at this point and most likely why it seems to be moving so slowly for everyone. Nothing more can be said about that right now. Sorry. After receiving an official request by RAZBAM to remove products from sale we have done so. All products will be fully supported by DCS and will continue to operate. We cannot comment on any more conspiracy theories than this. This was an unfortunate disagreement that had been going on for some time and finally went public. I can only speak for Eagle Dynamics but I believe both teams want to resolve this as fast as possible and get back to making virtual airplanes. The discussion below was the old thread. This new thread may be moderated a little harder, so please be nice to each other, know that all the other customers in here discussing this with you are in the same boat and probably want the same thing. So let's be open to their opinions and concerns and understand they are allowed to have them as much as you are. Anything from any user here without an official tag won't be making any official comments, me and @BIGNEWY will only comment on publically available info as this is a legal matter at the end of the day. ------------------------------- Update 25th July 2025 In response to recent comments and questions made by Razbam Simulations, its proxies and/or external developers, Eagle Dynamics confirms that it signed a settlement agreement with Razbam at the end of 2024 to put an end to the existing disputes and that such agreement also provides for a strict confidentiality requirement that prevents Eagle Dynamics from disclosing further information. Eagle Dynamics can, however, confirm that Razbam instructed Eagle Dynamics to cease selling the modules developed by Razbam and its independent developers. All modules continue to function ‘as is’ and despite not receiving any access to source codes or cooperation from Razbam and its external developers, Eagle Dynamics will do its best to ensure that these modules continue to function in 2.9.X. We are still hoping to be able to implement the settlement agreement and to find a satisfactory outcome to the current situation, in the best interests of our valued community. Thank you for your passion and support. Yours sincerely, Eagle Dynamics I cannot say enough, on behalf of all of us at Eagle Dynamics, how sorry we are that you are being made, in part by us, to go through this. We are committed to getting this sorted as soon as we can. Thanks The ED Team

I get this was humor, I dont see it going anywhere good, sorry. Closed.

Maybe if we ever revisit the model down the road, but it's not currently planned.

Can you give me a track or info to reproduce and I will check?

You can disable reflections in the Special options for the F-16, obviously you would need to turn it back on when not using VR if you wanted it.

Currently, we are working on fog, with other things to follow. There were some challenges with fog but I am not 100% what they were. Thanks.

Ok, tried the track as well, and I saw no issue. The only time anything on the canopy appeared in one eye is if I got too close to the glass and one eye was outside the glass. Is there any mods involved in this issue? I know there are some reflection mods so let me know if that might affect it at all. ALso if you can give me a picture example maybe I can better replicate it. Sorry.

Hmmm, I am using the G2, and I am seeing them in both eyes. null Just noticed the track, will try that as well

What are you basing this is wrong on if I may ask as the team will indeed ask me.

This is an old thread, and as old threads do they are way off topic. Closing this for that reason, thanks.

MiG-15 is reported already, I tried the MiG-21 tonight vs a couple of different aircraft and saw no real issue but If you have examples I am happy to take a look (please make a separate report in the AI Aircraft section) for the other aircraft again we need reports with tracks, I will try to check soon, but if you see weird things please save a track and post it to the forums. I would love to have the GFM but it's nothing like anyone has done for AI aircraft to date, its proved very challenging and very work-intensive. Because of this, it's important to have any and all bug reports on current AI behaviour.

The MiG-15 has already been reported. In the future, please include a track for an example of issues seen. Thanks!

We have much of this already though, when you are pulling high Gs you will have changes in breathing, we did have structural stress noises, but they are hard to hear with loud engine noises.

As with @rob10 above I did not see an issue when I tried it in a MP server. Sadly the track would not play back and just crashed. If you continue to have troubles maybe make a short video of what you are doing, or ask on the server if anyone else is having that same issue on that server or mission. I'll leave this open for more information. Thanks!

Where are you being ignored? I believe the fix for this is coupled with the next update and additions to the SC, but I have asked the team.