The Black Swan

Wow I hadn't thought of that.

"Several months" :joystick:

I'm inclined to agree, Last year just before it was pushed past the end, we were told that they just had a few big problems to sort out before they would be ready to release 2.5. The biggest was how to render large forests, The other was re-texturing a bunch of items. Both of these I would think would have been helped by developing the Normandy map. A lot of work was done on the caucuses last summer. But we will see, I will be more than happy to stick with 1.5 and 2.1 if I have the hornet! :D

Yeah it is, he was active on the Mudspike forums recently.

He is working on a Spitfire campaign I believe for the Normandy map. And yes he does an amazing job!

same

From what i can hear in those hand held camera recordings it sounds AWESOME. I was afraid that the Hornet might get SFX similar to the FC3 aircraft, which are only ok if you crank up the volume really loud IMO. In MP its always so much more exciting when a Mirage flys over the base you start at as opposed to others. Really happy about that. :joystick:

Two things.... -Look at the new banner that's awesome!! -Am I the only one who has noticed the roaring external sounds for the hornet!?!

Well Wags said that the engineer would start improving the A-A systems after he finished reworking/making A-G guidance. So maybe after the hornet, since it is introducing a lot of A-G weapons. Or maybe if Heatblurs AIM-54 modeling is done well enough ED might let them help with other missiles.

I know but you need to prove that is reasonable. That is what I'm asking.

This kind of talk doesn't help. The only concerns againsts making SARH better that I've seen have been related to whether or not it is realistic, or if we can prove it's realistic or not. Don't assume you know people's motivations, I don't fly the 27 or 33 only the eagle and I would be 100% good with change that is REALISTIC, and I'm convinced that making SARH more deadly would be realistic. (Actually making all radar missiles more deadly)

Well Breakshot I agree that until ED can get a more detailed model for radar missiles it would be nice to look at amending it as much as possible with the current code. But I'd still like to see some sources that would support your idea that IR missiles are way too easy to spoof with flares.

"IMO"? It depends on the missiles but what matters is if it matches reality and what I have heard over and over on these forums is that older IR missiles IRL can be evaded with enough flares. Even in burner. According to GGtharos, this we know this from real life examples. Examples are the only thing that matter when it comes to representing reality. Now if we were talking about a 9x that would be a different story. Plus I'm not even sure if you can be 100% on evading an IR missile in DCS. Many times I've been shot at, pulled back to idle and pumped out a ton of flares while turning toward the missile and it did absolutely nothing.

I see... missiles in game do take a LOT more chaff in a head on situation though. Whatever modifier does this I would think you could just adjust it until no amount of chaff would help. Or at the very least the amount of chaff it would take to get a chance of a trashed missile would be so insanely high that it would never be worth it.

But if you are in the notch, should releasing more chaff make it more likely to decoy an older missile IRL? If you are talking about releasing chaff in a position where you have done nothing but crank I can see chaff shouldn't do anything instead of just requiring a lot more chaff to decoy the missle. But couldn't things like that be fixed by turning down (to practically nothing) how likely chaff would decoy in that aspect? Really like these discussions btw.

Probably a combination of that and using beefy PCs.

AGREED Can't wait to see moar!

For now yes.

I was a little taken aback when I saw "80 viewing" beside the Chit-chat section.

Yes that was very nice!

Would have been great for sure. Because let's face it, they are going to be the two big kids on the block. And the top of the food chain ain't big enough for the both of em'. That being said, I'm just as excited to see the two team up.

Indeed. Thanks to all who served that fateful day.

Pretty sure razbam said 3Q. Probably shouldn't vote until we see what gets revealed at E3.

Hmmm... Are you referring to using the Phoenix to stay well out of harms way? Or do you mean that since the Tomcat can't use the HARM that it will be well out of harms way? :music_whistling:

because it is dank