Jester986

The only bit of criticism that may be warranted is the coming soon. That was probably not the best thing to say unless they already have a release window from ED after testing. I remember last spring I was think it would be put in July of 21. Oh well. I can wait patiently for its eventual release. I’m still very excited for this plane. Take your time Aerges. I’d rather a quality release than a quick one.

A fitter would be great. It’s red and Cold War. DCS is looking up from all the boring blufor gen4 jdam trucks

Someone was kind enough to post this over in the Viggen forum so I thought I’d share it here. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3319642/

Thank you! That’s much appreciated!

If I could chime in I’d love to see a Marianas campaign. Probably have to pretended their different islands but hunters over Yalu used the caucuses for Korea.

I’ve been using the Viggen as a stand in for the F-105 in some faux Vietnam missions. I was wondering if anyone would mind making a F-105 style south east Asia skin for it? Doesn’t need anything fancy like squadron markings or anything, just the color scheme and some generic USAF markings. Thanks for any help!

SAAF F1 pilot interview.

Thanks for the update Rudel. Try not to worry about people getting upset by the delays. Until you take money from us you're under no obligations. I look forward to it and can't wait to put it to use in the Marianas.

This is not my skin but I came across it today. It lets the JU-88 stand in for the Betty. With that and the Fw-190A8 Zero skin we can have some faux Pacific battles in the Marianas until we start to get some real assets. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3317312/

So I just found this in the user files. Someone made a betty skin for the Ju-88. Along with the Zero skin that the FwA8 comes with it gives us some stuff to shoot in the Marianas. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3317312/

Thanks for the update during the air show Vibora! Really looking forward to this module.

The animated deck crew would be nice. I think heatblur has certainly delivered on what they promised so it’s not like they owe it to us imho but it would be nice.

I can tolerate EA. But it has been abused from time to time. I know everyone hates the idea but DCS really needs to be a subscription service to incentivize module maintenance versus the new release conveyor belt.

Bignewy, I really want to buy a pair of Mosquitoes for my wife and I to fly. I have every confidence that that module will be great. But how can I justify buying them when our yaks don’t even have an engine damage model? I can’t overheat or abuse the engine to death which is probably one of the more important items on a general aviation plane. Three warbirds have released with no significant progress on the yak. I know you’ve said all you can and I know there’s nothing more you can do, except perhaps impress to management that we can’t have faith it will be finished some day without some sort of roadmap or plan. If you say we’ll have a damage model by July 2022 and it releases November 2022 fine. But without a date there’s no reason to believe the work will be done at this point.

And I think your right!

Ok tinfoil hat time. From today’s newsletter " A glass cockpit with large multi-function displays and a reworked nose section contain a powerful radar. ” why would they mention its glass cockpit and mfd’s if we weren’t going to see them? On the other hand they also said they want to avoid doing another mfd monster the JF-17. But then on the other other hand they were looking at doing the Su-30. I was hoping for an older H-6 with steam gauges but it would still be cool to get a bomber. I doubt the mfd reference means anything though. My guess is we get the J-8II.

Three years old. Only a handful of updates with so little work (compared to other props) left to actually do. Three warbirds have been released in the mean time. Please finish this module. It’s a really nice plane. I enjoy it. But it’s frustrating that it’s not given any time because it wasn’t a money maker. I still paid for two or three of them.

I’m still here rooting for the H-6.

Would be awesome but super unlikely. Hopefully success of the cargo plane though will make ED reevaluate the profit case for a bomber.

Did any of the Naval variants get guns?

Well I hope that’s the case! The red air would certainly be welcome.

I really hope it’s heatblur doing the F-4 but I’m concerned it may be Mag3. And I don’t mean to insult them. But I think heatblur has more experience and resources to do this critical aircraft. Meanwhile the F-8 they’re working on is not too dissimilar in complexity and type from their Mig-21. The Mag-3 tease of an aircraft under Christmas wrapping awhile ago though was consistent with the shape of an F-4. I really look forward to the Corsair and Crusader from them, I’d just prefer to see Heatblur leverage their Tomcat experience for it versus another Dev stepping into uncharted waters.

I'm finally happy a module is taking a long time. I had a water cooling failure and destroyed my computer and it's going to take me some time to save up for a high end VR machine. I would hate to know that beauty is out and flying and I couldn't touch it! I'm joking and don't really hope it gets delayed, but it will be tough waiting on a new computer when it is released.

Oh well man. Your not wrong but i'm still able to make enjoyable scenarios. To each their own.

Up until I destroyed my gaming machine I was enjoying the modern Marianas. No there's not a lot of realistic scenarios but its a play ground for helicopters, C-101, L-39, F-5, Mig-19, and 21. Unfortunately there's not really the red naval assets to fight off a Chinese or Russian invasion. I'd say the better scenario to put the F-18 and F-14 into play is to say its already been taken by the Chinese, load of Anderson with JF-17s and send a carrier/amphib group to take it back. Modern stuff aside though Mag 3 did show a very detailed zero rendering. They're definitely doing and ai. Hopefully they will bring it to a full module.