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@elewarr Look I and everyone involved appreciate your support... but thanks for taking my words and twisting them so it sounds like I've also taken something from you. Even by replying to a comment I made to someone ELSE as if I had made it to you. Oh and for making my point while you're at it. I do appreciate that for sure. And... I'll stand by my statement 1000%. Potato, Potahto sir. You can't "pre-order" for a % discount, but you will be able to purchase at pre-release (when everyone else gets it presumably...) for similar or same % discount? Uhm... Where EXACTLY is something to bitch about there? I haven't taken anything from you. Neither has RazBam. I'd bet dimes to dollars that they'll pop in here at some point and let you all know they're sorry for the mixup and all that. Haven't they already said they will have a 20% discount (same as the pre-order???) when they do the Steam release/pre-release/pre-order/let you buy it right about the same time it's released for everyone else thing??? So... What ARE people ACTUALLY bitching about? Just that the Steam users have to wait a while before they can get the same deal as the rest of us and get the aircraft at the same time too most likely??? WUT? Wait WUT?? Yup. Ridiculous. Completely. @razbam or @NineLine or @whoever... Feel free to delete my posts if you like (not that you need my approval :)) but HOLY cow... Kids these days :). I get it... "people react to these things in their own way" and all that but I get sick and tired of all the ME ME ME in the world these days. Calm the eff down you little... OK I'm done

I wasn't. I was walking two roads based on whether I was wrong or not. I don't mind being wrong about one point out of my entire point one little bit. As I said... thanks for the clarification. The whole point is that Razbam hasn't taken anything from anyone... yet people are still butthurt over a tiny company that's trying to do their part to move our favorite hobby forwards and people are actually bitching about not being able to spend their money "today" or having to spend a few extra dollars... It's ridiculous. I've seen this too many times. It's like a shark feeding frenzy of entitled CoD players. It doesn't look good. People should just chill the eff out, realize that eventually the aircraft will be released, pay their saved little duckets and fly their little freaking planes. All the rest is from 8 year old land friend... But again... thank you for the clarification :)... For sure. I do actually appreciate it :).

potato potahto... What's your point? You're just mad because you're a steam user and you can't say "I pre-ordered" now? Is that really what you were looking forward to??? If you're just clarifying (I haven't really been paying attention to this whole thing honestly...) then thanks... but if you're feeling butthurt about something... Who effing cares? Nobody took anything from you. But you're bitching about it anyway??? Whatev's breh... Again... It's not a mess. "Let’s move forward and make the best out of this" Fixed it for ya... You're welcome. And yeah I agree.

All that only happened to those who chose that it happened to them. You feel disappointed because you've wrapped up your own expectation into the subject. YOU assumed. They never said that there would be steam pre-orders AND... As I understand they've said the steam pre-order will happen... just not for a while yeah??? Or that there would be an initial sale on steam to cover this or something? I don't remember exactly but the point is that you had expectations that weren't met. RAzbam didn't give you those expectations. You did. This "major FU" can't be laid at Razbam's feet either sir ;)... because it doesn't exist but in your mind.

Pfft... The combat flight sim industry (currently AKA "Eagle Dynamics and their partners") needs the money. You don't understand the assignment. The assignment is that we, as combat flight sim enthusiasts... are "very" rare. This means that the people who pour their blood sweat and tears (for years) into making high fidelity sim planes for us ACTUALLY need every penny we can give them. This isn't EA we're dealing with here and this "cash grab" you speak of goes to put food on kids tables and presents under trees for sure... but also in return provides us with THE ONLY source we have to enjoy our hobby. The only one. This is a two way street here sir. We give them our money and they provide superb recreations of our favorite aircraft to eff around with. Cash grab my ass. I would agree with you 100% if we were talking about some EA style company that has share holders and executives that pull down multi-million dollar bonuses... But that aint it. I've been around for a while (feel free to throw out the boomer BS if you like) and what actually happens when we as hobbyist consumers in THIS specific space adopt YOUR mind set... is that we all lose. It makes the developer unable to put food on their tables while putting combat aircraft on our tables and then we have "old" sims like that 4.0 sim to play with. I've seen this happen MORE THAN ONCE in my life time. They're scratching our backs... Feel free to scratch theirs. I know... I know... "they chose to put it on steam and blah blah blah..." Yeah... so they could get more customers. It's an investment in the future of combat flight siming. Please step over to the side where we're all (including the devs) a community with equal responsibility to keep it running.

It's a good thing we know they're fully done with the Eagle and won't be adjusting anything in the future so we know what we've seen here and now is exactly what both the real and Razbam Eagle will do. Forever. And ever. That pic of the real one must be wrong.

What makes you think the person who tagged the thread with that has any idea what they're talking about?

Ehh... Tune radio to whatever channel plays "Fortunate Son". Crank it up.

GHPC?

"When i see ka52 attack video's" Different aircraft. Very. The Shark can't do asymmetric.

From the latest update... "PRIFLY View the deck below you. Direct the carrier’s heading and speed with wind indications (permission controls available for network play). Control deck lighting. View PLAT CAM. View plotting map." So... Just wondering if there's a pathway here to having a Carrier Command style experience in DCS with the SC???

Umm... OK. Thanks for your reply. Please keep in mind I specifically said it is "not" super strength 300IQ good... as you said... So... thanks for agreeing with me I guess? Also... It (the modern AI, as I stated) is not half bad. It indeed used to be half bad. Now it is not. Please keep in mind I did not say it was "all good". Praise and criticism doesn't exist at the edges of black and white sir. The entire point of both is to expose the reality of where something exists in the grey area between "it's perfect" and "It's useless". Also for the record... "AI FM is not only more lax inducing G-loc to its pilot it can also reinvent the ingame physics while it penalizes you"... I'm currently about 350-0 while flying a Hornet against the old AI on random difficulty in another Hornet, guns only, with the opponent setup 1KM off my tail to start, both at 400kts... back when they had a much better AI FM than we get. I've only flown that mission a couple times since the new AI and it beat me the first time but not in about 5 tries after that... but it's MUCH more believable in how it responds to the player aircraft positioning. Please don't use their FM advantage as an excuse. It's a bit more of an advantage to them in the WW2 birds (and the Mirage AI FM was a bit "perky" for a while too) but it wasn't all that much of an advantage in the modern fighters. Certainly not enough to offset the old AI's lack of skill in any situation.

What's your page file setup like?

"BS2 has over a decade of missions and campaigns supporting it that are now totally unavailable to people who didn't happen to buy BS2 sooner!" Well that's just not true. Any single mission can be converted in the mission editor in like 12 seconds. Maybe a few will have bugs but in large part I think they'll work great. Campaigns take a bit more but are also super doable. Just ask around :). Small tip for you and your brother... You can also use the Mission Editor to make sure there are both BS2 and BS3 aircraft available. One drawback to this is that if the primary aircraft gets destroyed it's likely that the programming of the mission will not allow the second aircraft to trigger mission progress. You could fix that... but that's well beyond the scope of my post :).

The WW2 planes have less realistic AI. As I recall the WW2 AI will be updated "Soon". The modern AI isn't half bad. It's not super strength 300IQ good either :). It is very beatable at all skill levels, but it does fairly intelligent things based on the current dynamics of the fight. It doesn't appear to have all the tricks a seasoned fighter pilot would have... but it's passable for sure. 1 circle vs. 2 circle defines a style of fight that is chosen at the merge by the AI based largely on their airframe and it's strengths. Google the subject there is a lot to learn there.

"sold with content being 90% pure invention." "It's the same level of what if than attaching Rafale wings on a Mirage 3 expecting it to work properly" "This is an upgrade which is sold as something realistic while nothing about it ever existed" These statements are simply not true sir. I know you know the arguments so I won't belabor them here but these statements go too far. 90% pure invention?? Swapping wings? Nothin about it ever existed??? WUT? There isn't a SINGLE module in this game that is "perfectly" real sir. You may as well stop acting like there are... and just enjoy what we have. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face friend ;). There is clearly enough evidence to indicate that this was the direction the aircraft was going had development continued.

He's right though...

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They are generally pretty good about doing these things. I'd ask @BIGNEWY to run it up the flagpole :). To assist I'd also suggest that you make an exhaustive list of which ones need to be broken out in that way.

Just fire 10 before takeoff....

I didn't explain well but what I mean is that they don't do their own thing well when fast movers are around. By that I mean that if there's an enemy fighter around you simply have to take note and significantly adjust your focus to defend yourself or pay attention until they've moved on, and if the enemy fighter has a half decent pilot... You're almost certainly done if they so choose. I have many, many hours in the shark. I've shot down a number of enemy aircraft, including two human piloted Huey's with AI door gunners at once at close range using the cannon and HMS :). Anyway... I agree with all you said. I'm not trying to say your only option is land and prepare your picnic until the sky is clear :). You can make an effort to defend yourself for sure, but... you're on the wrong side of the power curve IMO :). The fighter is designed to kill other things in the air... and it will. The heli is designed to hopefully defend itself... and it might :). I'm just saying that to defend yourself against a fighter, using a heli... You have to do a lot of things just right and they have to do a lot of things wrong :). Aside from that... Heli's stick out like a sore thumb on radar. Aside from physical cover or concealment from the moment the fighter might have LoS... you aren't going to go sneaking about if the fighter takes any interest.

You can swap the HMS over to NVG at least. It's not horrible. I mean it's almost horrible... but not quite :).

The moment you see a fast mover that can kill you... you need air support or SAM support. Preferably both. Most heli's don't do well when any fighters or CAS aircraft are around. The heli's rotor creates a HUGE radar signal... and their exhaust points UP. Gain air superiority first or operate as if you don't have it if you aren't sure. In MP make sure you're on the GCI channel and listen at the least.

They're pretty quiet.

Practice makes permanent. Not perfect. Control issues aside the primary thing I've seen people do that prevents fueling is that they're being too gentle and slow near the basket. Clearly you need to be precise but you aren't looking to just make it to the basket. When I AAR I tend to catch the basket on my way into a tight formation with the fueler. I probably sit about 2/3 hose length. Don't watch the basket itself. There's a good tutorial on what the sight picture needs to look like for the hornet at least. Essentially a "glide slope" to the basket if you will... It shows you where each of three of four things need to be as you approach. Small chance it might be in Chuck's guide??? Maybe not. Anyhow... Don't try to match speed with tanker "too much" and then "creep" in on the basket. Don't watch the basket directly. Lots of people use the air-brake to fuel as it deadens the throttle a bit.