Snappy

Reflected, thanks for your further updates&information on the Zone 5 campaign. Its really super cool that you selected the fighter weapons training in the 80s as the background/theme for this campaign and its just awesome that Bio and you are taking it to a very professional and authentic level down to era-typical briefing cards. Thank you very much for that! Looking forward to this campaign! Kind regards, Snappy

Am also very sceptical on the assets pack concept. The MP community will fracture further and the entry barrier for new people who might be interested in DCS might get even higher. Oh, yes DCS is free, but you wanna participate in some fun MP missions? Well you first need to buy asset packs X Y Z, plus supercarrier plus whatever is next, land based ATC likely. What do I know. Yea I get it, some people dont mind throwing ever more money at their hobby and thats fine. But I see the serious risk of DCS becoming ever - more niche/exclusive to ultra hardcore simmers and being unable to attract or at least keep new players. Another question I have is, if this hits the market, what incentive is there for ED to fix / improve on CA , which already seems abandoned. Regards, Snappy

Unless its an error in translation, I find the fact that there will NO training missions or training campaign included AT ALL quite disappointing for a hifi-module that will no doubt be sold for usual price tag. Yea , official and/or user made videos are nice to have, but really its sounds like a chap excuse to skip the work of doing decent training missions to me, which I think almost every other full module offers in one form or another and usually add to the immersion. hope they rethink their position on this. kind regards, Snappy

Yes maybe in part, but even the NTTR training still contains various errors and misstatements, especially in the radar operation traning missions. For example, there is talk about a min selectable radar range of 5NM which is not really available in the aircraft (still havent gotten no answer from RB whether its a bug or the training is wrong). Also the switch setup at training beginning, does not correlate with the instructions. When I have the time and nerve I' ll maybe fly the missions again and give a more detailed report, but right now I'm too busy with other more important things in life , sorry. However overall, the missions are still so well done, it should be the gold-standard for the rest of DCS. My Compliments Baltic Dragon! Regards, Snappy

Among other things, quite a few bugs, some long-standing ,completely missing controls in the cockpit for the RB75 Display and the Main indicator screen and quite a bit of other stuff too. And last but not least, Draken AI model. Its not in bad state, don't get me wrong, its way more modelled than other modules out there I guess, but its not complete either. Regards, Snappy

@Zhukov All good, hope you get to fly again soon.Take care and stay safe Zhukov. regards, Snappy

I suspect you love a good debate as much as I do Can‘t even remember the last thread with a request for some vague layout of ED 2021 goals , especially given the fact that the 2021 and beyond video really contained close to zero information on that, except revealing Apache and showing off flashy new wx, which frankly means nothing since they‘ve been doing it for years. Anyway while I agree some unnecessary threads pop up again and again every few days/weeks in these forums (why no redforce 4thgen blabla..), thats not exactly the case here. Equally frequent I see sensible requests / criticism being derided by people who for whatever reasons simply can‘t accept anyone questioning, criticizing or even just making suggestions to their beloved ED , which is just awesome, since a lot of actually good input gets lost that way. Plus, ED can defend themselves well enough, no need for surrogate whiteknightism. As for Mr Biggs seemingly unsolvable dilemma, how about ED only just publishing something officially after tripling or better quadrupling their own internally estimated timeframe. That should work out just fine in reality then and if they actually manage to release something before that , well certainly no one is going to complain that they managed to beat their own schedule.. regards, Snappy.

Great see to a perfectly sensible polite request being shredded again by reflexive & completely unnecessary whiteknight-ism. Good job Mr.Biggs. regards, Snappy

Well, feel as superior as you want, but the thread was started with „your thoughts ladies and gentlemen“ and not „lets all cheer and stoke the hype train“. If you really think your group 1 is the only reason why there are „other“ comments is this thread , well then go on living in your simplified happy bubble by all means. Your „healthy“ pilot group can‘t be too healthy a species if it can‘t handle differing opinions. Some people are just underwhelmed by this module for multiple reasons and the thread asked for thoughts , not pure fanboyism. If you can‘t even have a discussion or unpopular opinion here without being classed a some defective subgroup, whats the use of a forum? Anyway this is a lost cause,why am I even writing this..?

Don't ask me. A summary of Kate's post is in the unofficial roadmap thread. The main one, not the 2021 roadmap thread.

Also tend to think, the mystery module was possibly originally something else and then they decided to go for the "safe" option of the AH-64 for whatever reason. Doesnt matter anymore.Agree that adding another super complex modern blue force module is well, debateable , but likely again enough people will shove their credit cards into EDs face without a second thought. Regards Snappy

According to Kate's post apparently the radar isn't even definitely in yet, because of secrecy, whatever that means. It will be released initially as something closer to the -A variant. I dont find the whole thing mind-blowing at all... Wish they went for the phantom. Thats its now dropped completely apparently is disappointing to say the least. Regards, Snappy

Not interested in it. Good for those who wanted it, but definitely had hoped the mystery aircraft is something else. Wont buy it. Regards, Snappy.

Well, certainly not brain-melting..Had hoped for something with fixed wings. Also don't see what the big "never been done before in DCS" is supposed to be? An attack helicopter for the blue side? We have helicopters, we have multicrew helicopters, we have attack helicopters,with the Mi-24 we will also have multicrew attack helicopters, so all done already. So its for blue and now what? Thats supposed to be the thing? It's not like blue side is already way over-represented in regards to "modern" aircraft. Good on the helicopter boys, but not interested in that, wont buy. Congrats to those who wanted it though. Regards, Snappy

Given for how long the issues with the hornet better performing than it should be exist, especially in acceleration and sustained turnrate, I wonder if ED has any real interest in bringing it down to realistic levels or whether it subtly suits them to have their flagship perform that good.. Certainly doesn't seem that way like its going to be amended. Or maybe they re taking their time.. Regards Snappy

Yes, I know what you mean. Very little real substance of information lately , some typical screenshots and the ever returning theme of "working on highly awaited feature xyz ". The entire thing could be dropped or intervals increased until some real information about core items becomes available. But as you correctly said, its subjective and I guess some people like seeing updated 3dmodels . Regards, Snappy

Wouldnt be surprised either if the announcement gets delayed. Also I'm getting the feeling that "brainmelting" will be a highly subjective emotion and lots of people will be underwhelmed by the actual aircraft either way.. Not sure whether giving that adjective was the smartest move, unless ED pulls something out of the hat that really surprises us. Given all the criteria that have been added over time , that this modules supposedly meets or doesn't meet, I can' t think of any aircraft that meets all of those and still can be considered "brainmelting" in a somewhat universal way . Ok Mig-25 maybe. But unlikely. It would be nice to pleasantly surprised, but I'm preparing to be underwhelmed when the cover comes off.Happy to be wrong though on that Regards, Snappy

Hi, excellent idea. Keeping in mind though, that percentages are not always proportional to time required, i.e.even if something is 95%complete, the last 5% could be much more difficult or time-intensive than the previous 25 or 50%. But it , especially in regards to long overdue and awaited core features, like A.I. , A.I FM, ATC, WX, dynamic campaign, etc.. that very often feel like frozen in developement or put on hold , it would be very interesting to see where they actually are completion-wise and at which rate indivial items progress. Unfortunaly I highly doubt for various reasons, that ED will actually be that forthcoming with info. Kind regards, Snappy

Well its not working for me on the caucasus mission map.I can place the markpoints on the F10 map , but the kneeboard pages show no cartridge with user generated waypoints. regards, Snappy

One question, is the use of F10 Map markpoints for loading a cartridge in the Viggen somehow disabled on this server? Because , while I can place the respective markpoints on the F10 Map, they don't seem to be associated to my aircraft and therefore are not available for selection as a custom data catridge. Kind regards, Snappy

Its funny how people like to bash the mirage FM at every opportunity, while EDs Hornet sustained-rate wonder is apparently completely fine.. But getting OT.

A quick fix would be nice , since it really botches the mission from beginning, besides leaving a bad impression ,when already the very first mission of the module campaign is broken. regards, Snappy

What is this supposed to mean? That the guy who did the Module manual made an error ?or that the swedes don‘t know where they put the stuff in own aircraft? Serious question. I can maybe imagine locations differing in different indicator versions, but I don‘t think whoever wrote the manual invented buttons that dont exist..Or maybe I misunderstood you. kind regards, Snappy

Hey Sublime, OT I know and I also know you said you don't want sympathy. Still, I just wanted to say that I hope things work out well for you in the future. Sounds like a pretty hard situation. I'm wishing you all the best and I hope things look brighter again for you & your son soon!! Hang in there man ( something a lot easier said than done, I know :-/ ). Kind regards, Snappy

This has already been in a thread by someone else in the main Viggen forums, not sure why its not under bugs.So I'm reporting it here again, so it doesn't get overlooked. In Mission 1 of the Wrath of Thunder campaign right at the beginning, when Colt Flight ( the norwegian F-5 CAP flight) gets cleared for take-off, the lead aircraft of Colt flight instead slowly taxis into the grass next to the runway, blocking it, preventing the rest of Colt Flight from moving on and the whole mission gets stuck, as in no one gets to takes off, my own wingman doesn't even begin to taxi because we never get clearance due to the Colt flight clogging everything and the apron is seemingly blocked as well, since ED's awesome ATC can't get over minor issues like that and completely ceases operations.Not Heatblur's fault of course that the ATC is very unflexible, but would be nice to see the AI issue fixed. Its something of a show-stopper, since you can of course take off anyway ignoring ATC, but your wingman will stay at home and without his support, you would need to be laser accurate with your guns to take out all air targets on your own, which is kind of hard to do with the AKAN pods. Kind regards, Snappy