StandingCow

As said before, they are going by Russian spring. So end of May.

Holy crap...

Good news that they are moving into a larger facility though... might help for future hardware.

I'd be so tempted to attach a vacuum to the other end. :megalol:

They are going by Russian Spring, which ends at the end of May. Hornet EA will be out by then.

From my head... I guess it was wrong. :helpsmilie: After reading this I am curious if it will have GPS? I am thinking not. So these will be defeat-able by shutting down SAM sites? http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-88.html

After listening to the latest chapter of Viper Pilot (fantastic book btw) I think the term SEAD is a little bit dated... the old ARMs (AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM) were more for actual SEAD, but just SEAD is kind of a waste since they can just reactivate and be used later on, unless the SAM is then bombed. The newer ARMs (AGM-88D and E) are more of combined SEAD/DEAD weapons with their bigger warheads and multiple ways to track even if the enemy were to shut down their radar. The AGM-88D that we are getting has GPS, so even if they shut down it should still destroy the SAM.

Can MOOSE make mobile SAMs move around randomly on their own? That would be pretty cool.

Yea, the Shrike didn't have a memory so shutting off radar worked, but the AGM-88 remembers the source location. Should be pretty interesting to see how servers like blueflag and yours handle that. Guess more and more deadly SAMs will be a thing.

As a VKB US customer... yea I would actually say go Virpil if VKB can't get their crap straightened out. They have gone radio silent on the DCS forums and some really delayed responses on their own forum.

It absolutely makes targets harder to see at higher resolutions.

I forget when Wags last commented on it being worked on...?

Just a guess but... this stuff probably takes a lot of research and isn't just a "tuning fix" that other games can do to balance things. DCS isn't about balance but realism.

Yea, auto-startup isn't allowed.

Yep, I have to restart through the software multiple times to get rid of a bunch of fake keypresses every now and then. VKB has been really silent for the past month or so... it's strange.

I don't use the dampers at all.

I don't think the camera is only a receiver... it does emit, that's how the hat reflectors work right?

Is it possible to remove harriers from FARPs and just put them at airbases? I am mentioning it due to a thread over a hoggit.... lots of folks having trouble with the lamposts.

A liquid nitrogen loop would be insanely expensive, it's only used (as far as I know) for crazy scientific applications since it expands like crazy as a gas and needs to be constantly turned back into a liquid.

Yea, as cichlidfan said... it's not 100%. Chances are as long as you add the exact type/brand/model of RAM you shouldn't have issues... but you could. Once you start mixing other things like size/speed/etc you are upping chances of having some very strange issues as time goes on.

The lower the resolution the bigger the "pixel" of a distant aircraft is... then the size of the screen also increases that pixel size. So, yea someone with a large 1080p TV would have an advantage over someone with a 4k TV and certainly over someone with a smaller monitor, which is again impacted by a higher resolution. I hear "other" flight sims handle this much better... so there are ways to mitigate the advantage, but that's over my head.

While I wouldn't want to see the old system brought back... I would like to see something done to make all users see roughly the same thing. Someone on a 60 inch TV at 1080p has a large advantage over someone with a 35 inch 1440p or 4k monitor with the current system. Distant aircraft should be scaled depending on resolution.

They have gone totally quiet from what I see... even on their tech support forums.

VKB has been oddly quiet the past few weeks... maybe they are working hard on something big?

Doesn't the F5 have that? I would suspect the F18 is going to surpass (eventually) all the little details that we have seen in prior aircraft.