Snappy

Yes it does. The F-15 FM is modelled to the same PFM (professional flight model) standard like the A-10,F-18, F-16 and the rest of EDs FF modules. And has been for a long while now. Have a look here if you dont believe me: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/505/

No offense and I don't mean this as a slight to your skills. But I find the AI in DCS simply isn't any sort of reliable benchmark baseline, especially not for aircraft performance comparisons. I also came out victorious repeatedly 1v1 against the Ace Mig-29 while I flew the much inferior Viggen with gunpods. Not because I'm any sort of BFM master . Far from it. Just because the AI in DCS isn't flying very smart and often simply doesn't utilize their aircraft to its strengths. At other times it seems to be blatantly cheating.

Maybe read Sparrows post again? It is very clear what it has do to with it..

Yes that was a very charming touch ! I would be totally not-surprised if the real aircraft did this on every start-up , regardless of the date.

Can you please file a bug report with your tracks in the bugs sections? regards, Snappy

Who or what is “Sparrow AI” ?

This would be funny, but not very practical. As it would render the main text chat completely unusable for the standard dogfight servers. It would just totally flooded with those congrats messages all the time.

If he wants more recognition then maybe he should do a better job with the videos. Even without their tasteless and questionable antics, I propably wouldn’t chose their videos as tutorials to learn things, especially not those done by Cap. There are far better resources out there.

Thank you for pointing it out Blaze , You are a voice of reason. I hadn’t checked the video flight data closely enough. I can see how that might cause a difference in visual perception of turn rate. Looks like I jumped the gun. Thank you and apologies. Yes let’s just wait for the patch. @all, I will calm down now and am sorry for going ballistic.

Oh excuse me. it wasn’t BN or 9Line.It was Wags himself, stating sustained rate matches the data across the board. I was just referencing the GS video, like I said the first side by side comparison in it seems to show a further significant increase in STR, which would be problematic in view of Wags earlier statement. Anyway , @TAW_Blaze is right, maybe the video isn’t well done and should not be over-interpreted. I apologise for jumping the gun, let’s wait until the patch drops and what it entails.

Already did , you just need to read. Also I never said the FM was complete or perfect.I was specifically talking only about STR and no, I can’t be bothered to dig out 9Line or BNs posts where they stated the FM matches the available data.

Kindly enlighten us, in which areas of the envelope it performs like a Cessna? Please provide the relevant Cessna flight performance links too , so we can check the accuracy of your statement.

Oh, so it’s cool to hype sth before it’s released, but not make critical statements? Interesting. If you have nothing to add, don’t bother writing.

Didn’t ED always claim the sustained turn rates were already spot on, matching the data they used to model it? Now given the first side by side comparison in the video it seems they further boosted STR significantly. Certainly hope they re not catering to the complaining crowds, it seems to become a recurring scheme lately.

That’s no way to compare level of anticipation prior to release .All other modules have already been released for quite some time.(years, with the exception of the Hind). Of course their store pages aren’t as popular now as they were prior to, during and shortly after release. Plus the Apache fan-crowd probably has constantly one tab open on its store page and is hitting F5 key non-stop skewing the metrics..

Don’t think it’s the most anticipated ever. The F-14 build-up to release was much more intense in my subjective perception.

Back when I tested it I think I had used warehouses , hangars or outposts that I placed via the ME.Definitely buildings. I will try again when I find time for DCS. Itˋs been quite a while since I tested it, maybe it got improved in the meantime with one of the patches. Thank you for your answers and checking it! Regards, Snappy

It’s about Jester spotting and targeting static objects, I know can manually designate anything. Thats not the point.When they published the Jester Lantirn capability patch Heatblur mentioned the limitation that Jester would be unable to spot&track static objects that are in the map by default. However the way I understood it, he should be able to spot&track static objects that are placed manually in the ME. Last time I checked, he was still unable to do that, hence my question. @IronMikedid I understand that wrong? kind regards, Snappy

I haven’t checked in a while and have no access to DCS at the moment, but is Jester now able to spot and lase custom-placed static objects? I don’t mean default stuff that’s already in the terrain, I understood that is a limitation, but last time I tried he simply wouldn’t even spot static objects placed in the ME, like warehouses etc. even it’s directly in the pods pov. regards Snappy

To be expected.Just wish you had been a little bit more creative in your argument and not resorted to sweeping over-generalisation. Not everyone playing DCS fancies replicating Middle East real life conflicts and/or attacks on civilian cities with nuclear weapons.Even ED has stated they have no interest in further WMDs, as it just something they wish not to simulated. Anyway this is leading nowhere, it was just feedback for Alpenwolf, like I said.

@Alpenwolf, I generally like your server and the philosophy behind it, but just as some honest feedback and at the risk at being immediately being told by people „to get over myself“ or „stop being so sensitive“ : I‘m not too happy with the direction you are taking things with this mission. Yes, I read the „fictional“ scenario part , but still I think this a sort of unnecessary politicisation of DCS as a usually more or less neutral game where people from different parts of the world can come together. Especially since „arab“ is a very broad overgeneralisation and with the involved plot of a nuke on Haifa it’s quite clear who is being painted as the bad guys here. This a loaded geographical area with high running emotions and even without having any personal horse in this issue , I find it a really unfortunate and somewhat alienating background setting. At the very least I would‘ve recommended staying with just the usual red and blue side and leave nationalities aside.Anyway in the end it’s your train set and you can do what you want with it. On the plus side, thanks for embracing the A-4 mod and trying to integrate it! Kind regards, Snappy

Well they definitely need to drastically improve A.I. first , otherwise the dynamic campaign will be not much fun with the current abysmal AI. As for your question, this proposed „AI&dynamic campaign“ module would likely just be another EA cash grab with no definite timeline and shifting goalposts, so no thanks. There are enough unfinished and buggy early access modules by ED around to show you that giving ED even more money doesn’t improve things. They have lost my trust.

Hi Vulture, no worries and thank you very much for your detailed reply! Most interesting. Certainly doesn’t sound like a lot of time (or remaining range) for the employment of the early maverick missiles. I imagine it to become very very difficult in regards to spotting and locking on quickly , in less than optimal weather , with camouflaged targets that are blending into the surroundings and probably shoot back at you in a European theater. Especially at the flying speed involved . Thank you again for sharing your experiences and stories here in the forums! Kind regards, Snappy

The newsletter means nothing in my opinion. I lost track of all the features and stuff announced and hyped in newsletters by ED that are still not delivered or which only got started and then abandoned again. You can start celebrating when it’s actually in the changelog.

What CBUs does the Apache carry? No argument from me that the crater fps hit is an annoying issue , but the Apache has zero to do with it, nor will the Apache be more affected by it than other modules.