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I like your thinking! This is EXACTLY what I've been wanting for years! So far, it's just DCS: SKY. I want to see DCS: "WORLD". Combined Arms was a start that was never taken back up again. It must go MUCH farther, until we finally have fully simulated Vehicle mods. Simulating Infantry should be easy enough, as it has already been done to death for decades now. And screw balance. "Balance" has no meaning in the Real World. Most players confuse that word with "Tactics" and "Strategy". I've played FPS / Large World sims that were complete slaughter fests. That's just WAR.

Meh, I would hardly think onboard Igla systems from the 70's would be "classified material". Even the missile warning system seems old. Hell, the old A-10C has that. Glad we're finally getting the AH-64D, a MODERN Attack Helicopter though!

It's called dcs "WORLD". The planes are great. But now, we need FPS and Vehicle simulation as well. There's probably not going to be another "Large World FPS IV" type sim coming out. So, DCS, why not take up the reigns? Now's your chance. You could sell SO MANY more copies. You could be the next EVOLUTION in FPS / Large World. I for one welcome new paid modules, whatever they are.

Lol, I think you mean Vhikers ( the actual laser homing missile ). The shkval is the screen.

I agree, Fudabidu. They seem more interested in coming out with new modules, (i.e. mo $ ), than fixing their World or existing aircraft, which have MANY bugs. I can understand them working on the F-16 and F-18 right now, because that will add more functionality to the "World", and they have been promised for many years. However, I want the old "World" and the old modules FIXED. I want an engine that runs on more than one core. I want an engine that actually utilizes the GPU. I want AI that does more than just sit there. I can't in good faith recommend this "sim" to anyone at this point, either. But for now, it's what there is. I'm hoping that someday, someone will come out with a flight sim on a modern engine. As I don't think DCS is ever going to do this.

That, and the designer of the Ka-50 was a huge fan of the American show "Airwolf". That helicopter had side mounted guns, and retractable gear, so there you go.

They're still trying to model those Igla's. :D

Yes. I've seen enough good fictional maps in my time. If it makes the terrain more interesting, sure.

The problem is not in how the shkval is simulated, the problem is that it doesn't work. Not only can you not lock a jet against a clear blue sky, you can't even lock a slow moving HELICOPTER against it. LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK LOCK ... Nothing. Now, after all this time of trying to lock it, the enemy heli is now in gun range of you and quickly kills you (usually because it's an Apache with a two man crew, and so the gunner can casually take you out while the pilot maneuvers).

Competition? We are beyond niche. They don't even need DRM. Maybe one day when they put actual vehicles and infantry in.

Thanks ED! Looks Awesome!

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As I recall from YEARS ago, we Americans used to call it the Alligator.

Air Wolf would be fun! Though Retreating Blade Stall on it would be a BITCH! :thumbup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amRH3uhdegI

Probably, somewhere in the shadows of a Russian test facility, it's still going. :thumbup:

It won't. The new cockpit is only in the Open Beta. You need to download the Open Beta. Really, the Open Beta is a big step forward from the stable version. The stable version is the Past. JF-17 is only available in Open Beta version as well.

I wonder if we'll get animations of deck hands running around on fire screaming? My BAD!

That will be interesting. Two A-10's.

Yeah, you can't expect people to work for nothing. That's what I keep telling my boss. Or I should say, I did. But, on the other hand, you can decide if you want to pay for the next upgrade or not. You can always stay where you are, and pay nothing. You just have to think of it like, say, Arma. There's been I, II, III, and it appears IV is soon to be announced. Black Shark ( literally DCS World ) has been around for 12 years, and has been constantly upgraded. You could call it DCS World I, II, and III. You can't expect to pay for just I and have it upgraded for 12 years. The Studio would go broke. So, if you just want to stay with A-10C I (DCS World II), then don't buy A-10C II (DCS World III), etc.

What will be amusing is, if DCS doesn't give the players what they want in BS3, and no one buys it. :) I get the strong feeling that most of the people who are hating on BS3, don't own the BS2, and don't care to fly it. To re-iterate FLIR Iglas 6 pylons. RWR (which should be a part of the President-S System). Ability to load chaff. Instruments and FLIR cameras from the Ka-52 to control all of these systems. This should allow the Ka-50 to finally defend itself against the Apache, which seems to already have all of these abilities. Also, YES, it would be very nice to have the Igla's REALISTICALLY modeled, just as missiles on the jets are realistically modeled. As for the Shkval, it's already a toss of the dice whether it will lock anything, especially air targets.

Oh, I would say helis gets a little more advantage when the jets come down really low over the tree tops. Now, I can use the hills to hide behind. They can't go as fast nor maneuver as well. So yeah, come low! Just remember that scene in Blue Thunder when the F16's came below the tops of the skyscrapers. The copter was now able to put buildings between it and the jets, and of course, the copter could maneuver between them FAR better than any jet. Give me Igla's and FLIR, like any MODERN heli would have, and it's going to be a very different fight than usual. Now I can pop off a fast shot, and run for cover. Now I can lock targets in the dark.

Blah, blah, blah. It doesn't matter. If you don't want it, don't buy it. The rest of us will, if we get the modern upgrades we are looking for. LOL, personally, I think you jet jockeys are just scared to death of a heli that might not be a sitting duck. Come low if you dare!

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Lol, Only idiots don't arm their heli's with A-A in this modern era. Heli's without A-A = suicide. Jets are always around somewhere in the skies. And it's extremely hard to hide from their radar because of your super sonic rotors tips. But even advanced helicopters such as the Apache are hard to deal with, as they have the advantage of a co-pilot and more advanced weapons, like millimeter wave Hellfires. Trying to fly and lock on to an Apache or Jet with a vhiker at the same time is near impossible. Hard enough to do it with ground targets while manuevering. IR A-A gives you an advantage in that you can more easily get a lock and then Fire and Forget, literally snapping off a shot as you turn to run. Hopefully this give enough distraction to the enemy for you to get to good cover and make your next move, out of his sights. I would never fly a helicopter in real combat without A-A. The Vhikers are pretty much useless in the A-A role. Might be somewhat nice if you had a co-pilot to do the lock and try and keep it. Though I doubt I will buy BS3 unless it also gets MUCH NEEDED FLIR. Ka-50N.

Which is what most people want to see I think. But for we people that like to actually fly this copter in combat, we need a model that can actually SURVIVE the battlefield. To quote one guy, " I like the Ka-50... but it's everyone's BITCH". And it is. The current Ka-50 has zero chance on a modern battlefield. One jet ( or even an Apache ) appears, and it's dead. So, I know if Russia made the Ka-52, they made a fleet of modern Ka-50's to protect it and be it's claws. As for evidence, past about 2000, you people don't really have evidence of anything. The Ka-50 seemed to be pulled into the shadows. What happened to it after that, we don't know. We only see the beginnings of it getting a glass cockpit upgrade, and thus probably new weapon systems / defenses and modernization. The Russkies may turned it into Air Wolf for all we know. Though I prefer Red Wolf myself.