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Yeah they don't have time to babysit a Discord Server.

My guess is that it will be released in a more polished (not to mean final) state then the south was…which is a good thing IMO.

Looks great doesn’t it? Makes me wish I knew the Hog. What really has blown me away since release (and not enough credit has been given IMO) is the quality of the micro / scenes all over the map. The buildings, the compounds, the wrecked vehicles etc. Very well done .

Hope so.

It's the best PTO map...it's the "if you could only have one PTO map" map. However since ED is doing a Hellcat, then Marianas of course makes perfect sense. I'm just more of an early war PTO guy so Solomons is my thing. While I'm all for mid war, Marine Corsairs out of Vella La Vella etc, (this alone would be amazing) to really make full use of the map we'd need aircraft for early war, Watchtower onward, Battle for Guadalcanal/Cactus..Wildcats, A6M2's, A6M2-N, Mavis, P-400's, Dauntless' early, P-40's, AI Betty's etc etc. So just from an asset point of view I'm not hopeful that's anywhere near plausible at this juncture. Even mid-war/Vella La Vella, we need things to shoot at aside from an AI Zero. Float planes etc etc. One can hope.

I live hear NAS Whidbey, and would love to see this. It would never happen though. We'd need the Cascades as they fly low lever VR's through there etc. More plausible would be an Alaska/Bearing Straights map. That would also give us Red Flag Alaska. That I can actually see happening at some point.

That's going to depend on system, settings, mission. I have a pretty strong system, 64gb RAM, though not anywhere near cutting edge at this point, plenty strong enough to play a complex mission build on Syria with high settings, while I get game-stopper stutters at Kandahar.

I had to drop my settings to medium. High settings that Syria runs flawlessly on (I'm talking full, complex mission builds) are a non-starter with Afghanistan for me currently. I'm sure optimizations will come and this will change. I'm very happy with how it's shaping up...it's beautiful. Just needs to perform better now.

Based on Wag's comments WRT the Whiskey info becoming available, that's the smart money.

I'm a big fan of the Zero...that's what I really want to see ED sink their teeth into. That said I'll happily take the Hellcat with carrier ops and assets shown for now, I'm not going to complain about that. WRT to the Zeke I console myself with this simple fact...when it does come, it's going to be really, really nice! Looking good.

This. It's a lovely module, still one of the best experiences in DCS and deserves some love.

It must happen Matt.

Great points / documentation WRT CFT’s Brems - would be great to see them as an option because…why not?

Yes please.

I remember the painful wait for the Lock-On Eagle, and having to satisfy myself with reading (was in Norman’s) accounts at SimHq regarding ACM’ing with (“that boy can ACM”) Matt. So feels like a “full circle” kind of thing. It taking this long is good - because the standard now will be so much higher.