Jester986

Which Japanese aircraft do we want for the Pacific? I'm not very well educated on them and aside from the Zero I'm not sure which are most relevant. So to those of you who know, which would be the most important to flesh out the theatre?

Grumman F4F Wildcat: Slightly outclassed it's ability to absorb damage and return home safely combined with superior tactics gave it a favorable kill ratio to the Zero. Although not as good of an aircraft as the F6F it was a frontline fighter in the Pacifc for most of the war and instrumental to many battles including the Solomon campaign. It also served in a limited capacity in Europe as the Royal navy took deliveries of a french order of the aircraft after the surrender of France. It was credited with the first kill of WWII by an American made aircraft shooting down a Ju-88 near Scapa Flow and several Fw-200 condors while flying as convoy escorts. I haven't been able to find anything stating that it served in the invasion but there are pictures of it wearing "invasion stripes" suggesting they may have seen service in Normandy as well? Also if we ever get a North African map it was used in operation Torch. Although not my favorite plane this is the quintessential American fighter of the Pacific and should probably be the priority for the next American plane.

Brewster F2A Buffalo: It was obsolete by the time it saw combat at midway and vastly outclassed by the Zero. But battles are not about balance and they put up a brave defense at midway to heavy losses. This aircraft though also has the advantage of having been used against the soviets by Finland as well though and had great success against the I-16 which we already have in DCS.

You're right, none of the current helicopters "belong" on the super carrier. But you can bet your butt you'll see all the helicopters we have operating of it online. I don't think we need helicopter specific deck crew animations but I don't get the (whats seems like) anger at the helicopters?

Ok, it was bad idea...

Given the naval nature of the marianas it would be really nice to have the harrier to fly off the Kuz so red can have more than an su-33. Its not like a harrier has never seen a ski jump before ;)

I mean having a yak-38 skin for the harrier when we put it on red. I'm part of a large online squadron and we have a hard time getting everyone to download skins for missions. If you had the harrier on red on a public server it would be impossible to get the transient players to download them. By making it part of the base game and including a fictional livery make visual ID possible that its a hostile harrier. I understand if you guys decide no to do it, but having a few fictional skins for the opposite coalition is pretty useful. Quite a few modules including ED's do it. The A-10C is a great example.

It's appreciated, and there are good Russian Harrier liveries out there. But the idea was for the sake of playing online where it can be difficult if not impossible to get everyone coordinated on mods. I figured it was a long shot but thought I'd ask. Thanks for response.

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That could be a translation issue, I read elsewhere that it wasn't jamming but he simply couldn't reach a higher authority in time.

I don't mind the classy burke being bundled. I just imagine that if they're are players out there who only have the Su-33 they are probably more budget minded and will have a hard time justifying buying the whole module just for a new Kuz. So that is a micro transaction I wouldn't mind seeing. Charge em 10 dollars or so for it and call it good. P.S. I'm working on a good mustache already. No DLC required.

I'm under the impression that the Kuznetsov is only seeing a cosmetic update? I hope it gets better spawn locations as well but it would be nice to see that one being a free upgrade so people who only want to fly the Su-33 aren't forced into buying a module they don't want/need. I say that as someone who does plan to buy the super carrier though.

Hi Reflected, Just wanted to say thanks for making this campaign. I love the F-86 and hope to see more love given to that era in DCS. I've been enjoying the campaign and appreciate having something to do in my Sabre!

My thoughts exactly. There's actually plenty of fictional liveries in the game. I don't believe in balancing a sim with the real world aircraft are inferior or superior. But at a certain point in public servers you have to give the red side something to do. And you can see plenty of servers who give redfor blue aircraft.

I really don't like the idea of player base splintering asset packs either. I feel like the price should be baked into the cost of a module or map. But a free map makes that difficult... And I'm personally so in love with the idea of a pacific theatre for WWII that I'd throw just about any amount of money at it. Though I know most can't afford to.

Could we get an official fictional Russian Navy livery for the Harrier? With the Marianas coming out and nothing but the Su-33 to fly from the upgraded Kuznetsov I imagine we are likely to see plenty of Harriers taking off from it online as its the only other aircraft that really can. There are some good ones in the user files but those don't work with public servers when everyone doesn't have it downloaded.

We have the carrier playground of the Marianas coming out and the super carrier module with an upgraded Kuznetsov but only one aircraft to fly from it that can't do much in the way of air to ground. I think it is extremely unlikely but it would be great if we could get the Su-25 upgraded to the carrier variant. I would gladly pay for it. I recognize though that the biggest problem is it seem the carrier version was just a trainer and I don't know if it could carry any weapons. But if it was possible it would be nice to have Su-33 escorts for it so it can make attacks on Anderson field.

Christmas came for me January 13th :) I wonder how the assets will work though? Made by mag 3 and included with F-4u? Added to asset back? A new asset pack? Maybe included with the map?

While I'm not thrilled with more gen4blufor if we're going to get more of it I'd prefer it be something interesting(IMHO) like the Tornado instead of say the F-15. The scuttlebut I've heard though is that various devs want to do it but getting the permission on this particular aircraft is extremely difficult for some reason. But in a recent youtube interview with polychop by the grim reapers it sounds like polychop still hopes to. I forget exactly how they worded it and they were very careful to not say it was going to happen, but they implied the idea wasn't dead yet.

18. Carrier or land ops and its more complete. And I just like it more.

Those are not the textures I see in game...

If your building a mission the USAF agressors "country" has access to every unit.

DCS should never be about balance though. Dissimilar aircraft should fly to their strengths and use tactics and skills. A mig 21 "shouldn't" beat a tomcat or hornet, but a good pilot in one can. People will fly the Zero because they want to and they'll learn to win it.

It's certainly a worthy adversary Hiro, and I hope we see it in playable form.

Me too! Definitely made a bunch of missions were the soviets were preparing to launch their invasion of Britain. Mag3 is pretty much my favorite developer now with their emphasis on Vietnam and the Pacific.