Tomcatter87

There seems to be a bug causing a CTD when you catch a wire with a carrier airplane (reported in the bug section by quite a few users). It would be great if there could be a hotfix for this soon.

This bug is around for ages now - kinda sad to see nothing has been done.

I get CTDs when trapping with the F-14 as well - hope there will be a bugfix soon.

Hey there, was this ever released? The pictures looked awesome

Didappointing to see there will be no HB updates in the July patch, which was promised after the last patches didn't contain any of those either. The changes sound very promising, of course, but the Intruder is being shown now for several years, so I try to contain my joy and celebrate when it's there - I hope the AI plane comes with many liveries, matching the air wings we can build with our Tomcats.

Heatblur said they'd be working on an update for July, after there were no updates to their modules in the June patch. Any chance there's some Heatblur updates included that didnt make it into the Changelog (again)? Thanks for including lower res textures for the Chinook. This module is really demanding for my system - really good that players now have the choice which resolution they need. It might be a way to go for other modules as well - F-16 and Apache, for example, are quite heavy on the fps, too. I know there's mods for that, but ifED could incorporate that, it would be even better.

I'd really like to see an insurgent machine gun - like the existing Dshk, but with a different model.

It would be really great - for some missions, especially helo ones, the ZU-23 might be overkill - and there's places where lighter AAA might be more realistic. You might hide it on a mountain top in Afghanistan, for example.

That looks so awesome!

Wow, this Fitter looks just beautiful! Also the news that you intend to release an AI asset first. It will be a great thing to populate the Germany Map. The cockpit also looks awesome as well! One request as a Tomcat guy - it would be great if you could also include a Libyan skin.

You have to delay them for a second or two to spawn them somewhere else. If they spawn right at mission start, they'll be at the sixpack.

Yes, that skin would definitely be a great addition to the map and our missions!

Maybe some leftovers in the Bazar/Liveries folder? At least that's where I use to find my old skins

This is really strange - apart from the VS-24 skins, all my S-3 skins work for me. Also the VS-38 High Hiz is definitely named that way - are you 100 percent sure you have downloaded the LUA fix @Nealius ? S-3B Viking lua fix for DCS Version 2.9.11.4686 Also the VS-24 CAG skin you selected on your second screen shot was from a different creator and for the old stone age S-3 model, it never worked after the upgrade to the new 3d model.

I have the impression that the update indeed did BREAK them. They had been working fine for me. Can you confirm that only the two VS-24 tankers are affected? All other of my skins work for me, using this fix from January 2025: S-3B Viking lua fix for DCS Version 2.9.11.4686

Oh, what a pita. Gotta check that out. Just to be sure: you're using the most recent version of my skins?

So here's some of my favourites so far. I am really enjoying this map!

I researched a bit for this post here - a list with all the German F-4 and RF-4 bases and when we hopefully can expect them.

One temporary solution would be a kind of refresh button for the armament menu in DCS. I wouldn't even care if I had to start DCS (vs. the model viewer) because the MV was reeeeally slow anyway. But shutting down DCS each time to check if a texture is aligned? Sorry, ain't got no time for that.

I think it is disappointing to make a livery competition without being able to view the remastered F-5 in model viewer. Many skin creators have pointed out this problem.

I guess you don't understand what I meant. The jester wheel has a texture as a background. You could put a picture of Jester there, not animated. Or deactivate the non-working animated menu altogether and use the selectable non-animated one. Just as a temporary solution until someone finds the time to redo the animated jester. I doubt this would take "a full work day to code". And even if it did - imho it isn't really a viable argument that it takes work to fix something. That being said, there are issues that annoy me more than transparent Jester and therefore should get more attention than this. Like the AI wingman's flaps being lowered and clipping through the fuselage as soon as the player calls inbound. Happens every. Single. Time. Reported and acknowledged a few years ago, doesn't seem to bother the devs either.

I think this should be very easy to fix. If we can't have an animated Jester for whatever reasons, Heatblur could just put a static picture of him in the Jester wheel. Or nothing at all, should look better than it currently does.

I'm not a comic reader usually, but during a visit in Strasbourg, I saw that one in a shop and just HAD to buy it. Great artworks, good storytelling, I really like it. It tells a story from the perspective of F-14 BuNo 160390 - and starts ten seconds before the fatal crash. Quite enthralling.