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I'm afraid I'l have to pull off the "you'll have to trust me on that one" here. I do recall HB stating a few times that it will DSCG being first, DMAS being later in various forum posts etc, but can't quite dig them out right now :). But yeah, it isn't stated in that FAQ. Really sure they won't be at the same time at release though. Perhaps @IronMike or @Cobra847 may clarify the order when/if they are able

Endless infatuation with "give turreted Mi-24 grrrrrr" is one of the weirdest hills this community seem to want to die upon. First, it's not a magical "look/lock here and shoot here" like Apache or Ka-50 as there's no ranging equipment to facilitate that. Second, neither YakB, nor GSh-23L is a great weapon for what we do in DCS with attack helos. Former is just a machine gun, no HE shells, and won't penetrate most vehicles either. Latter has a short range, slow shells with a parabolic trajectory, and still not much penetration. Would it be cool? Yeah, it'd be cool. But it really, really isn't nearly as important as people seem to think it is.

There's been many releases where presale period ended with module released in a patch without any advance warning, and there's been many otherwise too. We see a clearly worded message from someone involved with the development that it will not have any sort of "grace period" and will just release when it's ready to. Of course, that doesn't necessarily guarantee it will be so, but it is a pretty good indication for how it may go anyway. I don't see the logic behind waiting until just before the release to pay for preorder. If one is really interested in the module and know they will get it anyway, and wants to save as many $$ as possible, it won't matter whether you get the preorder "day 1" or "day -1". If one wants to see some previews before deciding, honestly it is better to wait and see after the release anyway, even if it'll mean maybe 10 more bucks.

Well backwards posts around here isn't anything uncommon, but today you take the cake This is asinine.

Bloody hell this and F-4 release threads are both funny as hell The amount of speculation and make-believe from boths sides of the discussion is just hilarious

Hi, all is ok, but IRL stuffz will keep me away from working on scripts for a bit it looks like, as I keep wanting to work on it but end up not finding time or energy Hopefully soon.

Funnier still, back then there were kind of two expected official F-15E modules: one from Razbam and one from Iris Simulations, which ended up developing exactly zero modules for DCS anyway.

I personally don't have huge hype people seem to have for them, but they do have a few things going for them: - You can carry a lot of those - They can glide pretty damn far - They are rather small, so some air defense systems may not be able to detect/engage them. On the flipside, - They are, indeed, small, so are their warheads (though, that is actually by design afaik, to avoid collateral damage). Don't expect a lot of area of effect from a single weapon impact - This earliest version of SDB is a GPS only weapon. So it is useful vs things that don't change position after you release the weapon. - Subjectively, as with most fire and forget GPS bombs, they are boring

You command the other seat's actions through various simple "AI" interfaces. Look up George AI, Petrovich AI, and Jester AI to see how they are implemented on AH-64, Mi-24, and F-14 respectively.

Anti aliasing not working right would explain most of it in my case, but perhaps not all as it feels like the sim is also too bright, and texture filtering seems to fall off quite quickly in anything but the nearest distances. I had both MSAA and SSAA at 2x. I'll try to see if using only MSAA or leaving AA to Nvidia makes a difference. FWIW, specs are: Ryzen 5 3600 2060 Super 32gb ram Edit: screenshot of settings attached

Hi all. I'm experiencing something puzzling that most other people I know aren't. Multithreaded exe looks a lot worse for me with same graphics settings. No antialiasing seem to be applied with lots of jaggies, and textures look a lot more low res, especially in the distance. Effects such as raindrop on canopy look pixelated. Changing settings/restarting didn't seem to help. Things look as good as they always did if I go back to non-MT exe.

Had the same on Caucasus

Your description of evading after a shot, and then this happening makes me think of it most likely being due to sight gyros getting whacked out. You need to make sure the sight doors are closed and hence the gyros are caged before you do any tight turns, or even just bank more than 30 degrees afaik. You can command petrovich to close the sight doors by pressing Petrovich AI: AFT, by default S on keyboard. Another possibility is having the wing with missiles shot-off by ground fire. Especially if the disabled/damaged missile is the one next on order in station selection. Manually going through the stations from the gunner seat until you find a working station may be something to try in that case. Also, if you are shot at by AAA from relatively longer distances, I find that it is possible to dodge shots without drastic maneuvers most of the time, which can help you preserve your sight while still guiding the already fired missile. But that's not ideal admittedly, ideally, you should fire from beyond their range, and have the missile impact before your are within range, and turn back safely after shutting the sight doors. Most of us (myself included) often get greedy and fire a second shot, and get inside AAA return fire range, and find ourself in that situation

Had the same yesterday, it's the alignment. You either need to do the quick alignment with stored heading, or make sure you confirm your aircraft's initial position after a normal alignment by pressing enter on ICP. I didn't know the latter was a necessity with normal alignment, and HAD was behaving exactly like that for me.

I don't know a lot about PL-8's or even Pyhton-3 performance itself, but to be fair, people have built HMS for missiles a lot worse than AIM-9M when it comes to off-boresight capabilities and minimum ranges etc, including rear aspect missiles in case of USN's kinda short lived VTAS helmet for F-4s, and I think a South African one for either Magic I or a local missile, to be used on Mirage F1s. Regardless though, a cursory wikipedia search (fwiw, yes, it's just wiki after all), seem to suggest that PL-8 has "wide off boresight targeting", and "can maneuver at over 38Gs". So I think it should be fine. Also, I don't think HMS was a thing on Peace Pearl yet, and was developed on one of the domestic variants after it? Not entirely sure though.

Meanwhile me here couldn't care less about a "Super" Hornet, nor a 2023 F-16, at all, but would be interested in an 80s F-16A, as well as a 90s F-16C Block 40 maybe, but I'd lean closer to F-16A.

I slightly prefer the French A, but would be ok with a GR1 too. Jaguar is something I am hoping to see in DCS a lot really. Would be a hoot!

Stop feeding exhausted (though exhausting seems more fitting at this point) guys, he's been very salty since announcement of F-4E and can't move on. As for the subject, as others have said/linked, naval birds will be a separate module. Variants aren't announced yet, but if HB goes a similar timeframe as with the two E variants, they will probably be J and maybe even S. Also unknown is where will they slot in HB's releases, it looks like first two releases will be F-4E and Eurofigther, but whether it's the Intruder or Navy F-4 after that isn't clear yet. I don't think HB will give us a clear picture about it before F-4E is out, possibly even after the Eurofigther release rather.

Yeah the option to choose a different ammo belt would go a long way.

Finally, a person of good taste! :))

Will you EVER be not horribly and completely wrong?

Don't care too much about a J-10. J-11 or any Flanker I'd be somewhat interested in. J-7/Q-5 I'll take over those anytime.

@Bremspropeller Nah F-13/Early J-7 (which honestly can be done as a 2in1 module), late J-7, and any of the Turbo-Modernized ones for the lolz. These are the only ones I care about/matter, PF gen is just pure heresy Besides F-13 still fits you people's pointless Vietnam dreams , and Bis is a better match for our upcoming F-4Es