Gunslinger22

Exactly, it's bizarre how some people on these forums see any semblance of critique or questioning of their beloved favorite developer (HB) seems as a personal attack on them and they must profess their appreciation and love for any and all actions of their developer in response.

Mate this looks phenomenal! Crazy what you blokes can make with 3D printers, while I have no regrets with the pit I made, it sure would have been nice to be able to 3D print a gauge here and there!

Mate that's a long writeup to be wrong. First shown in 2015 with an ALR-45 equipped cockpit. So as advertised is it not? Stated above 1 year prior to launch that there will be an ALR-45 (Pre 90's A) so as advertised unlike what you suggest.

As initially stated I'm partially disappointed, I absolutely respect and admire the work the team is putting in. But it doesn't address my initial concern as a paying customer (I say this somewhat sarcastically but use it to show that this is still business and not to muddy the hobby/fan side of this game) to possible mission creep on how these products are stretching out so long. 7 years is an incredible amount of time. Secondly to your point, I neither wish nor want HB to simply shut the doors on what they're working on to the public. But with a growing list of things shown that HB are currently working on, versus the actual list of things to be delivered is becoming a point to note. Nonetheless nothing from what can be written within these forums will realistically change or effect how HB operates as they're a business who needs to pay employees and make money, putting large efforts in to a 7 year old product that they've already made their money off doesn't seem something they're going to do unless their is true financial benefit to it.

I think a massive issue currently within the DCS community is that people continually forgot that this is not just hobby filled with enthusiasts whom get/request things purely based on what they want. HB develop and sell a product, I am a consumer of their product. When I purchased the F-14 it was under the understanding of the advertised their product (F-14 with ALR-45). Now it's been 7 years since I paid for a product I have technically not received yet, how is it absolutely ridiculous for me to complain when the B(U) was never advertised and we still haven't not received what was initially advertised to us? I seriously don't get this immature response that any criticism of the company that develops yours and our toys is sacrilege or some deeply childish thing to do.

I'm well and truly tracking that, but what's a shame to me is that the ALR-45 was first shown in 2016 and then again in 2020. 5 years since the last update but now we're being shown the sparrowhawk and PTID?

Am I the only one who is partially disappointed to see HB showing new toys but we’re still awaiting the release of the F-14A early, which is what I literally purchased the module for and was shown since the beginning of development. Seems they’ve got a lot of their plate development wise, it’d be nice to know that this feature creep isn’t massively the reason why we haven’t got the ALR-45 in our cockpits already.

The link for the autoexec is sadly dead, does anyone have a backup?

Imagine having realistic wingflex like this though!

I’d personally really like to see more visual things be fixed/added. Such as wing flex, tails waggling and improving the external pilot mode to be of the same quality that ED products have. While I think the Tomcat still looks stunning, it’s already partially showing its age compared to what the bar has risen to.

Also to note is that it actually has two slight seems that cause the shape of the glare shield to bend up, this is not from it just sagging.