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If A2G is your thing I'd say the Viggen might be worth your while. It's older with less complexity and no MFDs, which means no learning endless MFD pages. It was my first FF module, and I really liked that everything was based around low, fast flight, so my entire experience was refining that one way of flying. I really got a buzz out of going supersonic so low I had to *gain* altitude before releasing AIR bombing. It also took most of the difficulty out of target spotting, it's a lot easier at low altitude.

I'd really love to see the Indian Air Force skin mentioned here

If the choice is 'late' or 'underdeveloped', the former should win every time.

I thought so All good, everyone does late night word salad sometimes lol I had to add the 'f' word to my iphone dictionary so that would stop happening

I suspect the word 'offend' has mistranslated, can you offer an alternative word (synonym)? Or am I being a dummkopf?

Great concept! Really glad to see an upcoming F-14 campaign too. Day 1 buy for me.

Many thanks... And Raven is spot on, that was supposed to be Silver Dragon, I guess I have an answer now so I'll just apologize to Baltic for the wtf moment

If we get the air-to-air only EF next year (and it's as polished as the F-14 was on release) I'll be happy, I figured it was further away than that. @baltic_dragon I noticed your roadmap says 'Eurofighter Tranche 1' - has HB said anything more about which tranche we get, or is this just a 'worst case'?

I think it will be... assuming you mean before GTA 6 hits PC. j/k

Ha ha yeah ok you got me

Can't say I'd know the difference, care to explain?

Those fuzzy dice would look awesome over a sparrowhawk HUD...

Purchased and looking forward to this Do ED currently expect to deliver the "At final release" features when the module moves out of EA, or during product sustainment? Curious about when ED expect to get the full manual out - and I know, as always with Early Access, everything is subject to change

You nailed it. Good ideas for how to organize it too. If the 'and Beyond' builds someone's appetite for a particular module, the 'Coming Soon' would offer them the opportunity to check back every so often and check if there have been any updates. Easier than sifting through the forum, deeper than a dev roadmap and far easier than searching old newsletters.

Yeah, but it’s only once a year and you never know how far or close anything in it is. The two should go together, I’m not suggesting we get rid of the ‘… and Beyond’, neither would do the job of the other.

Not talking about a general “News” section, and things can get buried if someone hasn’t looked in some time.

Does the HB system carry over the aircraft state between missions? I thought that was just within the same mission, I could be wrong though.

Sorry dude, any opt-in features that add persistence are features I won't opt-in to and I don't think enough people would opt in to justify the amount of work it would take to implement this. There are strategy games where this idea might find a home, but I don't think MMO-like features would be welcomed by the DCS community.

Potential new or returning customers are going to look at the DCS page to work out if there's anything interesting in enough to draw them in. Many won't want to sign up for the newsletter, seeing it as just another email coming into their already crowded inbox that they will often have little interest in. I just wondered if it might be worth adding a "Coming Soon" section to the DCS page, so that potential customers can easily find the modules likely to become available soon. You could combine this with a "Recent Releases" section, so people who haven't looked in a few months can easily find modules that might have been announced and launched since they last looked (eg: Cold War: Germany map). ED will have the analytic data, so they may have an idea of how many people this might attract. To me creating a "Recent Releases" and/or "Coming Soon" section seems like a modest investment of effort for plenty of potential benefit, but of course that's not my call.

Apologies, I thought I had replied previously. Thank you for such a comprehensive answer. If IFF and its related switchology are the main difference, it seems that the forthcoming module will be a reasonable analog for the MiGs of any country who owned them, be they USSR, WP or non-aligned. Much appreciated.

Curious about the difference between the FF Warsaw Pact variant of the Fulcrum we’re getting and the variant provided to countries outside the Pact (eg India). Is it broadly similar or is the non Pact version significantly downgraded?

My post wasn't meant as a criticism and I wouldn't necessarily read every post either, I just happened to remember those comments being in the thread and was about to post more or less the same thing as WarthogOSL so this seemed to follow forum convention better. Apologies for any offence, was not the intent but perhaps I could have thought longer before posting. Question mark was to show I was treating it your post as a single composite question. You'd asked if "The Pentagon Paradox" was the book Joe1978 was referring to, mentioned finding other books in your search and asked if it was worth reading for a Tomcat fan. I was trying to convey that each quote that followed answered part of your set of questions. I see now how that isn't terribly clear, I wanted to post an answer to your question but had limited time to do it, so this was quicker than double quoting your post and cutting down to the part answered by each question.

? = + I'll leave it to Joe to tell you if it's any good

Personally, I feel quite different. I'd prefer to stick with "aircraft we can recreate to our usual high degree" rather than "best we can do with what we have", and I'd buy accordingly. That's a choice for each individual though, of course.