LostOblivion

TIR would work wonderfully with the F-35.

Kinney, when will you get your own subforum at this forum?

Open beta just means that anyone can participate, as opposed to closed beta which requires invitation. It has no relation to product pricing.

Thanks.

Hi, Is there any way to turn off all the RWR, gear, bitching betty warning sounds completely in the F-15C specifically, or all the FC3 aircraft? Lost

Eh? He asks for info om what it is and you tell him that he will learn what it is if he reads about it?

Why would you buy FC2 now that FC3 is out?

Okey, thanks for the clarification! :)

Could someone clarify this? I want to know if ED allows this.

I agree, it is because these aircraft are niche in a game that is already niche itself. Spending time making them better probably goes unnoticed by 99 % of the people playing this game, so they don't. Nothing wrong with that, except degrading the quality of the game on a long term. Analogy: If a grocery store has an inventory that covers 99 % of the items needed by a customer, and suddenly cuts it down to 90 %, they would save a lot of money for the next few months. But suddenly a customer needs an item in the missing 10 %. She would then have to go to the store next door to buy this item; parhaps she starts going there all the time instead, even for the casual items, just so she doesn't have to go to two places, even if it is more expensive. After a few months the first store starts losing customers just because they have a smaller inventory, they start losing money, more money than they saved earlier. You sometimes have to offer more than what 90 % of the customers need, because otherwise you lose customers. Not saying it is completely the same for ED, but it most likely occurs here as well. Everybody knows ED delivers niche. If they stop, they will lose customers.

Ah, I don't mind being put into a wish list thread. No, read my post again. I think they should add 6DOF cockpits and improved external models to all aircraft in FC3. I know. I ment A-10A, obviously. My point is, there is only a short-term marketing reason why ED leaves out the Su-33 and MiG-29. On a long term reasoning, these should also be updated to match the rest of the quality that comes in FC3 for the product to be complete. My thoughts of course, but I know many here feel the same. Another topic is the Su-25T which comes free with DCS World. From a marketing point of view, it doesn't make any sense that this is one of the aircraft that has not received an updated cockpit. Surely, a large part of the reason why ED offers a free DCS World is to showcase their product to convince the customer to buy more of their products. Doing so with an outdated cockpit model is a bad idea, which should be rectified.

My thoughts on Lock On and Flaming Cliffs 3 Hi, everybody, I do not understand the inconsistency of the Lock On product and its FC3 expansion. To me, it would only make sense if this expansion updated all aircraft at once, not discriminating between them. As it is now, all the aircraft in the Lock On have had an updated cockpit and external model, which is great, but the Su-33 and the MiG-29 are for some reason left out. Logically, FC3 would be an overall improvement over the previous title, not focusing on specific aircraft tilting towards the ideal of "DCS", but lifting the whole face of the product in its entireness. To me, FC3 should be a polished final product in the Lock On series of expansions, where all aircraft are of the same quality and standard. A platform that can then be used to universally take each aircraft out into a seperate DCS product, escaping the need to publish under Ubisoft. Ideally, all FC3 aircraft would have simple flight models, giving ED a good reason to branch each of them out into their own DCS labeled product, with an AFM in early public betas, and fully simulated in the final product. I also strongly believe an early public beta release with many and small iterations is healthy. Of course, ED has already chosen to add AFMs to the Su-25 and A-10A, which cannot be removed from the product. I think it is great that ED plan to add AFMs to the F-15C and Su-27 and sell them as seperate products, but I believe this should be the first stage on the road to creating two fully fledged DCS products. Start discussion!

I do not think they will do anything more with the MiG-29 or the Su-33. Parhaps the Su-25T.

Can I use this service to lend my game to a friend for a few weeks so that he can try it and probably later buy it himself, giving mine back to me?

Does ED intend to make a new 6DOF cockpit model for the free Su-25T that comes free with DCS World? Also, do they intend to add an axis to the wheel brakes of the aircraft that miss this feature?

After a few months of DCS hibernation I bought the fabolous Huey and started playing again. I bought some molykote, tried this excellent trick, and the Huey suddenly got a lot easier to hover in! Thanks!

I'm a little disappointed that we won't see the MiG-29 and Su-33 in Flaming Cliffs 3 get updated models and cockpits as well. It is ED's last chance of updating these aircraft in the FC series. Especially the MiG-29. But this also gives sense to the idea that they are going to make DCS: MiG-29. :)

I'm grateful that this release comes with such quality! Top notch, ED!

Did I read or dream that the Su-25 is getting a new 6DOF cockpit?

I obviously did not ask ED, but from you, the guys at the forum. Your ideas of what we can expect.

Let us say that it is, in fact, going to be the Hornet, how much effort can we realistically expect from ED in terms of changes to the Nimitz class carrier model, deck crew and vehicles, animations such as elevators, catapults, and arrestor cables, effects, and systems?

It's gonna be DCS: F/A-18C Hornet innit?! Woot!

At the bank where I work as a consultant, software development is always being done on versions several versions ahead of the one their customers are using. This is because of the insane amount of quality assurance, security assurance, and loads of pipeline steps required before release of banking software. We call it the bus route, and always joke of how bumby that road is (for banks, especially). Generally in software development, when new software is released, the first thing devs do is increment the version on their software. So, for all we know the video Wags made could be from right after a change of version, but still the same software.

I'm afraid I'm more negative than most here. When thinking of the time waiting for 3rd party modules and expecting they are going to take on the fidelity of the likes of DCS: A-10C, I think of the time I waited for Microsoft Flight in terms of expectations. And most of us know how that ended up...

I'm also immensely excited about the statements in the video, but I cannot help to think they are kind of vague. Where did Wags ever say that ED is developing the "upcoming hornet", for example? People seem to take this as official news of an ED DCS module.