FlankerKiller

With the announcement of the MiG-2A, I feel the need to reiterate my desire for a Cold War C model Eagle. It’s the perfect companion aircraft, and so much is already done. It looks like there is going to be a huge plane set for the late Cold War “soon,” in DCS terms anyway. The F-15C would fit right into it. It literally could have or did fight everything from the Fulcrum to the Tomcat. It’s a gold mine of a module just sitting there half completed as is. Think about it you could sell a 1980s C model then hit us with a small paid upgrade to a mid 2000s C with all the goodies. Just think about it.

Well that aged well. We’re about to have the whole MiG lineup. If you look at say 1986 as a possible Cold War gone hot there would have been a lot of mig-21s, a lot of 23s, and a few 29s. Something we’re going to get to play with.

Please, maybe expand it up to NAS Fallon. Just make it a bit bigger. It’s one of my favorite maps.

Then put me down for one wish to expand it. Also please make that one drone field a working air field. But definitely would love to see it at least get Qutar added. Or mostly the map we have and one day in 1986.

Honestly I would buy an Iraq map day one. But I would prefer ED to let the third parties handle it. They should be focused on the future spherical Earth. Maybe one day a full world-ish map could make these discussions redundant.

As it says above. For training it would be nice to be able to set the jet to be invulnerable to weapons. But still be able to crash or damage the jet on landing or through overG/over speed. Think of how cool it would be with the new two seat F1.

I look forward to it.

About a year ago a complete FM refactoring was announced. Is there any update? It was the “primary Hornet task.”

Your not. We all want them and they would sell like hotcakes. Old players like me started with LOMAC or Flanker. Lol that SU-33 from Flanker 2.0 would rock your world in Full Fidelity. I personally would buy any fourth gen Red fighter day on. Something a can’t say anymore about blue fourth gens. But it’s probably not going to happen. As for PVE the late Cold War should help there. We have the Mig-21bis and Mi-24P already. The Mig-23MLA is being worked on and an SU-17 is strongly hinted at. That’s a good 1980 Red air in itself. Yeah you’ll have to fly the F-4 and A model Cat to really be in a beer peer fight. But at least it’s there. Redfor jets would help sell bluefor jets. Where they can have pairs they have. It just isn’t possible in this world we live in to do them.

Assets are not that expensive. I highly doubt there would ever be 50 asset packs. Of course, I also highly doubt we will ever see improved infantry, or any kind of insurgent infantry, other than what we already have. Maybe if people are willing to pay for it, it would happen. there are some really good mods out there. That’s probably the best forever. Going to get in the best way to increase the amount of assets just for the community to do it themselves maybe if people who can produce high-quality mods can submit those mods to ED then maybe. but I just don’t think Eagle dynamics has the time and with no income coming in to do it the money to produce various ground assets to match the maps and aircraft that we have. NOTHING IS FREE.

I disagree. One there has never been an improved Ai DLC. But you cannot tell me that in a community where each module cost the better part of $100 probably more in the future, where users are spending at least several hundred dollars on computer and hardware just to fly that paying for an asset pack is to much. New maps don’t divide the community. New aircraft don’t divide the community. Why would a reasonably priced asset pack divide the community?

Overall better Ai. We need an Ai battlefield commander that can do things like set artillery targets, set and alter routes for vehicles, move supplies to where they need to be. Basically do want we would do as a battlefield commander. We also need better SAM behavior. Ai helicopters need improvement. Ai air to ground needs improvement, and as always air to air could use some more tuning. along with that a dynamic campaign. I hate static campaigns and am tired of building missions. I want to jump in plan a mission, and ether succeed, fail, or virtually die.

Nothing is free.

I guess maybe I would like to have a properly simulated Hornet… Then I would love to have a Desert Storm A model with the right engines and proper systems. I would gladly pay for such a thing. But first I would like a properly modeled Late C. you’ve stated that we have an APG-65 not an APG-73 where are you getting that information. Same with the 402 performing like 400s. What is your source? My understanding is the Hornet we haven ATM massively OVER PREFORMS. Something I’m hoping to be resolved one way or another if the flight module refactoring is ever completed and released. Why is that the case if what we have is basically an A+ from 2003 with an APG-65? You say a Cold War Hornet wouldn’t be what we think. But why not? What I think it would be is a Hornet with Fox1s, weaker engines, and no data link, GPS, HMCS, ATFLR and a much older TGP. Would it be a monster against the Cold War birds we have and that are coming? Yes, it would be. But it would be a. Correct monster. First I would like to see our Hornet “finished”, more accurate flight module, better damage model, system failures etc. but after that, and once there is a larger selection of late Cold War birds in the virtual sky’s then i hope ED will look into a proper A model from say 86 or 91 with SLAMs of corse. Again I would pay for such a downgrade.

I meant your Ai flight members. Things like pre-planed targets.

Our current flight model is being refactored. At least it was so maybe you would notice it. just another small detail that would be worth the money to me. I for one would pay for a late 80’s early 90’s C model. And even more for an A model. Just getting the correct TGP would be worth it. Especially if buddy lasing became a thing. Yes against a realist Red air from the late 80’s the Hornet is an uphill fight. But at least it would be a period correct uphill fight. that said I really would like to see our Hornet finished up completely. I’m looking forward to the refactored flight module, and maybe a better damage module. But after that I would gladly pay for the downgrade to a Cold War F-18A with correct TGP and systems. It would definitely be a different module for sure.

Yeah, related if we got the detected in zone logic having an ability to set a detection time would be a nice way to deal with it. Say example part of coalition detected in zone <2seconds. Would be extremely useful.

“Not planned” I get it but I for one would definitely pay for a Desert Storm era A model. My understanding is the engines were different, and it if corse lacked data links, HMCS, GPS capabilities, and modern weapons. One of the biggest draws for me would be the period correct targeting pods.

Maybe that’s why it’s not a selectable condition. But I’m not that knowledgeable with scripting so it would be nice if it was selectable from the drop-down menu.

I’m constantly running into situations when I build a mission where I want the detection of something be a trigger. I know the Ai has a decent detection logic. Not perfect l, but what is perfect? It definitely detects and responds to that detection. It would be nice to be able to use that for say alert fighters, activating SAM networks, and a whole host of other things I’m not thinking of at the moment.

So a new and complex system, a massive update to surviveablity, and an entirely new capability and weapon. Yeah nothing at all. I for one would pay for an older Mi-8 to go with our Mi-24P.

With all the updates to radar happening in DCS is the old AWG-9 going to get the same treatment? I don’t even know if it needs it. I do know HB was cutting edge with it in 2019. But reading the news letter today it looks like more variables will be able to be taken into account in the future.

I thought it might be something like that. Sounds like a nightmare implement and test. Unfortunately I won’t see the benefit of DLSS if I understand it correctly. But I am looking forward to the other new features. Hopefully it gods smoothly on the rollout. Like I said I’m glad to see the core behind updated.

I appreciate that, but that is also part of my concern. If there is an internal reason that 2.9 could not me piecemealed together over several updates then fine I get it. But releasing a very large update all at once, might cause several bugs to be introduced all at the same time. Again I as a consumer do not know if the larger less frequent patches are a new scheme for updating DCS of if there is something particular about this update. These are my concerns I am not the expert and I do look forward to trying 2.9 and eventually 3.0 and beyond. I also think I can speak for the majority of the community when I say I am glad to see the core getting improvements. I do hope all goes well once 2.9 is in the wild.

I’m not a big fan of the new large updates with months in between. One aircraft in the early phase of open beta are not getting the updates they need and two if you break the game with all the big changes it could take awhile to track down. Mostly one is my main reason. I’m assuming you have a reason this time. But I hope this is not the new norm.