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In my opinion the most important change to night lighting concern twilight hours. Right now DCS has a distinct point at which it 'officially becomes night' and the cockpit lighting goes from one set of affairs to the other in the blink of an eye.

Have just encountered this as well. So, can confirm, did not record a track yet, but glad somebody already reported it.

It's a bit of a speculative point, seeing how the Ka-50 entered service only in 1995.

Just to clarify: as the thread so far has shown, a lot of the global C-130 population is 'varying shades of monochrome gray plus a roundel'. Any word on what else there is to expect or planned?

The C-101CC certainly is a light attack aircraft and if I'm not mistaken it has been used in that role sporadically. What I think Silver_Dragon wanted to point out was, that the C-101 per se was never really meant to be such, why it it can feel a little lackluster in its performance.

Believing the planned release date in the announcement FAQ... ah, to be young again and frolic in such nonsense.

Same OP, exact same text, less than a week ago:

That would make that whole launcher about 725% more useful.

I would suggest merging the several identical threads of this, in case somebody wants to add any content to it.

Just wondered, do you already have plans in regards to what liveries and skins shall be available for the C-130J, either at launch or eventually? Classic USAF Grey I'd consider pretty much a given, but curious about any other decisions.

You got your forums here at last. Well done! And quite the bombshell to announce the module isn't far away. Congratulations! I can perfectly understand being a bit wary about buying DCS modules right now, really. But it'd be a lie to say I wasn't interested in the C-130. Exciting news indeed.

You indeed don't, as Raven said. Think less pinpoint attack (which is what we pretty much always need in DCS) and more area suppression. Another thing to keep in mind here is that these kinds of attacks are not one-off missions, usually. Many of the unknowns and necessary corrections are done between the runs. Basically, you do this according to the table and then wait for the radio call on how your rockets landed and the next formation gets told: «Fire about 200m after passing that tree!»

You are probably right with that, but I find it amusing how it seems to create discussion volume like nothing else, for something that is mostly a sideshow.

Perhaps you are right and I am really misjudging the timelines there. No idea how far away a DCS 3.0 really is.

I doubt that's going to happen, as it might cause more trouble. It would force the previous modules into deprecation, thus only speeding up their decay status of 'continue to work as-is'. That would make me at least not so happy about paying full price to get them back again. Any sort of discount for previous owners would eat a lot into the profit margin, seeing how, say, the Harrier enthusiasts most likely are previous owners in a vast majority of the DCS community. But one can dream, I reckon.

It isn't your file that is unsafe, mate. It is the fact that your solution is to just include a modified file with your mission, which most users will neither want to nor be able to question. Your autoexec file might be good, but will one I include be?

Somewhat relatedly it would be good to have means of triggering a reloading sequence.

Guess not.

A decidedly more practical and useful idea than the monthly 'all automatic AAR wish' thread.

I'm sure the need to develop meaningful electronic warfare all around into the core of DCS makes the Growler prohibitively elaborate. That and its silly name.

Yes, but hasn't that been @cfrag's entire point, quite exactly?

Are they? When I start the DCS launcher I can decide not to update but then I can't launch the game either.

I imagine it must have been rough for the man to see what the country he fought for turned into in his final years.

Playing around with the Mirage 2000C online, was joined in flight by a Phantom piloted by Tim Pickle of the VFS-252 on their server

Yes, screenshots focused on user mods used to be in a separate thread, but evidently that was given up.