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It's a study level sim, so you should expect as accurate an implementation of Link 16 as technically feasible. Whether that network will be directly accessible by other, future aircraft, no one has mentioned, to my knowledge, but that would make sense.

I know the lateral (yaw axis) of the radar gimbal is limited to 70 degrees off boresight, but what is the vertical (pitch axis) gimbal limit?

F-15 gun reticle can be just as jumpy as f-18's on multiplayer servers. Higher latency makes it much worse and depends on the 2 clients for the most part.

That, backspace340, is exactly the opposite of how it works. No plane identifies itself as hostile, that would be stupid. Please, Mr. F-18, shoot me down! IFF only receives positive friendly identification. Diamond means no response or hostile, but you cannot positively tell the difference without visual identification. Square means definitely friendly... now, whether that works in DCS, is a whole other story.

with your eye cameras? and post them to your brain cloud?

F-14 + AIM-54 + Link 16 = very scary proposition

Lonely? You can be my wingman, any time.

Regarding the "only 4" comments... 4 developers is a lot for a small software company like ED. They aren't selling 4 million copies a day like AAA titles... hence the development time. I still think they should not be calling the F-18C a beta... it's not feature complete, so it should be alled an alpha, but that might affect their ability to put it on Steam... and if they're like any other small company, cash flow is tricky to manage.

You must be new here. Welcome to the waiting game!

LOL

Need the BRU-55 for that, and we only have the BRU-33 right now. We'll need the BRU-55 for the JDAM, so maybe in the future.

Haven't logged a single single-player flight... so... 100+? who knows... maybe 10 hours in the last 2 months, though... that development pace, tho. I expect many more hours after the patch Wednesday!

company forcing me to take 10 days off an xmas (I know, first world problems)... would love to fill that with f-14 <crosses fingers>

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JHMCS slewing 9x seeker... then targeting pod. We need fricken guided munitions!!!!!!

Buzz the tower

We're not privy to any of that internal information on ED, so it's really not relevant. All we have is historical rates of progress based on patch history, and whatever Wags and others say on this forum.

Wow. It's a simple request. It's a logical request: Can we have the option for human only RIO's on multiplayer servers? I don't understand the hostility toward this request. I'm looking at you, umkhunto. Calling it the single dumbest request is extremely rude.

It depends. Is that extra 1000 lb of fuel worth your life? If your missile gets to the bandit first, as a result, then yes. It's worth it. Few are the DCS pilots that can operate within that tiny, life and death envelope. For most, an extra 100 kts is not going to be worth it. You'd be better off burning and climbing 90% of the time, trading fuel for potential energy and lower air pressure. Then again, you make yourself more visible to su-27 data link, so it's situational.

The faster your aircraft is going when you fire the missile, the more energy the missile has. All things being equal, this increases the lethal range of the missile.

Heatblur also stated that systems will be much more complete and functional than the F-18. I have to agree, that if I knew the development pace that ED was going to take, I would not have puchased the EA F-18. Sure, it's fun to land on the carrier, but 5 months of that is getting old. I truely expected to wait maybe a couple months for some A/G, but definitely expected a lot more before the end of the year. I'm tired of these holier-than-thou posts about "you shouldn't buy EA if you can't handle delays". That's not the point of the thread. The point of the thread is that we were not informed about the development rate of new features, and at this point, it's not looking good. EA requires better disclosure from developers. Like it or not, they should take a cue from Star Citizen and start disclosing what's really going on if they're going to take people's money before the product is finalized.

agreed. I love how people just want to ignore the fact that it's been 5 months since EA started

My gun was WAAAAY off as of last night in22877. just like in your image, eldur. Gun rounds were landing WAAY above the reticle.

only if the son of a bitch cuts you off...

The problem with the Shrike is that there's a variant for each type of radar. So if you're attacking an SA-2 search radar, you need one shrike variant, and if you're attacking an SA-6, you'd need a completely different shrike variant. And, since this is a study level sim, the shrike is not just going to be a one size fits all kind of weapon like the KH-58 MPU on the su-25. I can see some servers limiting HARM, just like they limit AMRAAMs, but allowing tons of Shrikes... you'd just have to know what type of air defense you're attacking before you load your aircraft with shrikes.