phantomknight321

Just did an intercept on Persian gulf...for some reason, all of the enemy fighters died shortly after spawning in, leaving only one unarmed enemy aircraft. I assume it may be an altitude thing; everyone seems to want to fly really low. This was the full start, I did an intercept yesterday with quick start and this wasn’t a problem, everyone spawned at a much higher altitude Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can actually do this? What does the terrain look like when you do this? It doesn’t just try to stop you from flying any further? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just tried this out a bit, this is exactly what I needed! Sometimes I can’t devote a ton of time to figuring out what I want to do, and I fly really late from time to time and can’t fly multiplayer otherwise I would disturb my sleeping family. Here’s my personal wish list: -custom load outs through the UI, with economics. Would be amazing to have to budget out weapon loadouts along with equipment, some things can be pretty expensive to carry in (litening pods, for example, cost 1.5 mil or so). -difficulty settings in the ui. Would be awesome to have an even harder mode, forcing you to have to purchase the cheaper aircraft and ordinance before moving up. I know stuff like this can be tweaked in the settings but having it in the UI would be really convenient -multi-role missions. I know this is on the list, but figured I would throw it in here. For example, the Mi-8 and Huey can do ground attack gunship roles, so missions with that in mind would be nice -ability to add modded aircraft. If this is already present, then disregard, but I was looking for a way to use the MB339 and could not figure it out. With the A4 coming it will be even more handy to have that feature That’s all I can think of for now, thanks for building this awesome application! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There’s getting to be a dedicated group of people who are interested in nothing more than hating on Razbam. It’s almost as bad as the armchair engineers coming to destroy polychop any time they do literally anything, despite most people really liking the Gazelle. Some of these complaints in the OP are massive generalizations. The targeting pod is NOT broken. Not fully functional, but not broken, I use it all the time with great success. And they literally just posted an update on the INS system. It’s “technically” kind of working already, it’s just simplified and always aligned. This is changing soon, I already practice the procedure every time I fire up the Harrier so I will be ready. To Razbam, if you guys see this, don’t be discouraged. I know I can speak for myself and many other pilots I fly with that your doing great work in our eyes. I recognize your a small team, and that while I am anxious to see more updates come through I am happy to wait and enjoy the product be as great as it can be. If I could help in your development process (I can’t since I’m not a coder, just a software tester) I would, because I want to see you guys succeed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Same for me, I would love to have a use for my yoke in DCS. And the sky master is one of my favorite GA aircraft, this thing would be awesome to have. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh yeah, in terms of the long term RWR audio issue I think it’s totally not acceptable, especially since they won’t seem to acknowledge it. The short term RWR being totally broken feels more like a simple mistake, but hopefully they recognize this issue while they are at it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not trying to defend Razbam too much here, but as a QA tester with over 5 years experience things do sometimes happen. That being said, EDs release cycle is the biggest limiting factor here, makes us have no choice but to wait for critical hotfixes. Worth mentioning however that Open Beta does mean that we are essentially signing up for this Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

RIP Harriers all over DCS until hotfix Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here we are, another update. Please chime in when you have a chance to try it, I’ll be trying it out at some point today Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You deserve a freaking medal, amazing! I will try these out when I get home. As for the sounds, since the RWR sounds are placeholders anyway I wonder if someone could adapt the real harrier RWR sounds eventually within this current limitation...I thought I saw an RWR sound mod somewhere at one point. Either way I greatly appreciate the work you’ve done on this; at this point I think we all would trade realism for situational awareness since the current sounds aren’t even right anyway Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I really appreciate the work your doing here; I understand RWR and countermeasures is all just placeholder for right now, but I really want to at least get the sounds working so I can improve situational awareness, until Razbam fixes things. I may have to start playing with settings as well to see if anything works Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

RWR audio? Ah, I was hoping we were close...I was about to buy the mirage JUST to test it out (though I still want to buy it anyway cause it’s an awesome aircraft) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

APKWS II Oh of course they have the potential to be very effective weapons, hence the reason everyone is chomping at the bit for them, as it would make the Harrier more like the one man weapon of mass destruction like the A10c with its 6 Mavericks and dozens of rockets and bombs, but I am more interested in them from a mission design standpoint, as an APKWS load with bags can give the Harrier much better loiter time, as it has more ordinance and can still carry extra fuel now. I still think the APKWS shouldn’t be the “REASON” to get a Harrier though, and I won’t be any worse off if we don’t get them as it’s still a very effective A-G platform. I say if we are going to get them I would expect news on it in a few months...the harrier still needs other things worked on and APKWS may be on the backburner Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wouldn’t expect to hear anything soon...there are 2 big questions to answer here: Is the APKWS going to be developed by ED or Razbam? If it’s developed by Razbam, how challenging is it to develop? They have made if clear that if they are to make their own APKWS it will totally depend on how hard it is to make. If it’s too hard we won’t be getting it. Considering it’s a relatively new weapon, especially to the Harrier, it’s wrong to treat it as a “must have” considering the harrier has flown without it for many many years and has lots of other great weapons. The only reason I can see many desiring the APKWS is to allow to carry more ordinance per sortie. But alas, an A10c or Su-25t it is not, and the APKWS will not make it any closer to those flying armories. Of course I personally would love to see APKWS implemented in the game, as many aircraft present do use it and it’s a very versatile weapon, but I am not expecting it to do any more than be a nice extra bonus Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depending on how people respond we may be closer to finding the common thread here, at least hopefully. If Zeus can’t tell us what we can do to help then we have to figure it out ourselves Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think the only catch here is that technically the harrier IRL can’t do hot rearm...but please correct me if I am wrong. I think the only things in DCS that should be able to hot rearm IRL are the helos and A10c. I’m not aware of any others that should be capable of this but welcome anyone to correct me on these points. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just going to bump this again. I recently had a friend buy the Harrier and the sounds work perfectly for them. However, he also bought the Mirage 2000 and it got me to thinking... Of all of you who have RWR sound issues, how many of you have the Mirage 2000? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This sums it up perfectly and is what I was trying to explain. It all depends on licensing...sure, Razbam may make an APKWS but if they do, can ED add it to their hog, from a licensing perspective? Maybe, maybe not, but probably not. Same goes for ANY other dev. As for Razbam stuff that can carry it, like the A29, it’s a different story and we can expect that to work out, barring license complications again (I mean, look at the laser Mav situation with the Warthog) This is of course all speculative and ED/Razbam can answer this much more accurately than I can. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can’t speak for them, but I think this falls into whatever agreement Razbam and ED get into. Then ED has to add them to that airframe, which they may or may not do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And bumping this again; looks like there was an update, can’t test it today so can anyone post up how the RWR sounds are with this new update? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In the case of bitching Betty, the sounds are still placeholders and will be updated later on, I have heard about this before. But are there sound files in place for altitude and all of that already? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed, this issue seems really specific and situational but it affects quite a few of us Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mine is installed on a separate drive in a similar folder structure to yours as well Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wonder if a full reinstall may work? I hate to have to try it but I’m trying to think of options. For now I’ll leave it alone since I want to see what Razbam has to say. I say we keep this at the top and hope it gets addressed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alright, so I’m thinking of other options here... They mentioned something about a Whale...A-3 Skywarrior maybe? It’s nicknamed “The Whale” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-3_Skywarrior Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk