Harlikwin

Ehhh, the availability of the early F15A/C was absolutely abysmal. Like ~25% or so per the docs, the best squadron in 79 had a 50% availability rate. The APG-63 MTBF was measured in like double digit hours as well then. "in strength" in europe never exceeded 100 planes, with like less than half actually flying in the 70's. All that changed after Regan took office but it took a few years too. Yeah, it would be great if ED actually did that. But with their track record I'd basically expect, nope.

Yup like 3-4 would be fine.

In on this.

There are some differences, but basically for early 80's before the C started to get the MSIP upgrades it was similar enough. Though I bet no DCS fighter aces want to fly without Chaff/Flares, well aside from whats packed into the airbrake.

Well, here is the part you don't know, with the current president Germany is gona be the 67th state or something like that. Yeah, that is a good point. I mean honestly I was really underwhelmed with Sinai when it came out cuz 73... But well recent world events have made the "modern" map at least somewhat relevant. And a "modern" eagle would fit Syria pretty well too. So like there are maps that a 05 eagle would fit, but really I find the whole obsession with modern silly as there is no modern opfor. Though I guess if we are doing the F35, that might mean other "modern" red jets could be made to the same standard of fidelity. J-15 Ayooo.

Yeah... I honestly don't know why its so hard to add a tick box to disable stuff like JHMCs or DL for devs. It would make the plane a ton more popular across more eras that it doesn't quite fit in, instead of server owners trying various hacks to make stuff fit. It would be a nice "nod" to the community TBH. Yeah same... Like a F15A for the early 80's vs the mig29 would be at least a realistic matchup. A 2005 F15C with DL/HMCS and the bells and whistles vs a 1983 at best mig29 with well, lemme see, a seat cushion I guess. Isn't exactly the best matchup. Though I know redfor guys will make the best of it.

Yup. The F15C was at least in "the press" not a pound for air to ground. And we have the F15E for A/G.

IDK, maybe. But like they would have to actually model the whole modern battlespace, which well... Not trivial. Considering we don't even really have a 60's level IADS implementation I wouldn't hold your breath.

What Krippz said. IR is maybe your one hope of seeing it. And IR doesn't work thru clouds, plus the F35 is also IR stealthy. So... Basically you are boned. Exactly this.

I mean you aren't gonna make it to the merge with an F35... He will see you on Radar, DAS or EOTS, LONG before you know he's there, and he will kill you.

Yeah never used tho. Yeah would be nice.

Thats the thing about Afterburners... You can't actually see plume in IR at longer range. Its rapidly absorbed.

LOL, thats not even a fight. Even if it had Pirate which HB said it wont.

Yup DAS does all that. I mean the F35 is gonna be ludicriously OP in DCS as in real life. I don't really see it having any real use in MP PVP servers for this reason. But I'm sure it will be popular in PVE.

I mean but they didn't do it. Israel did tho. I mean cool if its in but like its not how the plane was really used.

Yeah would love to see iranian airbases. I mean we basically have the IRAF in DCS at this point, and well at least sorta Iraqi AF as well. So like a map for that conflict would be great.

Um well, there is an air to ground eagle in DCS already.

Maybe they will have an option to turn off the DL. That would generally help alot in DCS. But devs don't generally implement turning things off. And it really just fits that "no opfor" space in DCS which I don't really fathom why its actually popular. Like period F15 from the early 80's vs the mig29 seems like a better choice TBH.

Is there a screenshot of the map in the F10 view showing which airbases are on it?

TBH you guys should make side-grade variants of the F5 ... Like the iranian one or something. If you are redoing the cockpit anyway. Or an F5C... Same FM, remove radar and RWR... etc.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I used to support ED fairly blindly since I thought things would get better/fixed in the eco system, but really at some point I realized whatever is added or "fixed" is Band-Aid level for the most part, and "new" stuff is often half implemented and then abandoned for the next half-done fix. So at this point, I basically out, not buying new modules. Weather and clouds is the perfect example of this. IDK how many years ago we got the new clouds, but well, it was a graphical upgrade, thats it. There was no weather system, just templates. Which ok, workable near term but its never been updated. Last week we got the news that they added fog, and ZOMG fog might block sensors as it should. But then it became pretty clear that while fog "might" block stuff, Clouds are still transparent to IR missiles and the AI at least for now. Having been around for a loong time, I don't expect that in the next 3 months clouds will block sensors either. We will likely have to wait years more for this most basic feature that every other sim has managed to get right from the start.

Exactly this... If the expectation is that a module has 3 year lifespan or whatever for 70 bucks... Well good luck with that business model. If ED wants to keep selling the existing modules, they are from time to time gonna have to update them both in terms of 3d models but MORE importantly "systems"... The F5 radar needs a total redo simple as... I don't mind ED monetizing those redos for 10-15 bucks or whatnot however. As I recall, the F86 weight is wrong due to ammo being either not counted or overcounted or something like that. Plus IIRC the velocity of the guns was wrong perhaps. The gunsight might have had issues at one point.

The two main things ED needs to fix are 1. Core game stuff thats variously either broken, sucky or missing entirely. And thats a long list. 2. Have a consistent set of standards for modules, be that their own stuff thats fallen behind (i.e. F5, F86, huey etc) and update them. But most importantly have a set standard for sensor modeling and it needs to be a high standard. Currently the Razbam M2k and F15 and the Heatblur F4 are the gold standard for radar modeling in DCS, the F16 and 18 are nowhere near it, and the less said about modules like the F5 and mig21 the better but they are in Dire need of updates to bring their radars to the same standard on modeling as the rest of DCS. Honorable poor mention to the F1 radar as well, but at least its being worked on.

I think the sentiment has been there for a very long time, and people have given ED a chance... But the game is big on promises and potential, but falls pretty hard in terms of practical execution of many things that "other sims" got right on day 1. The complaints about the core game have gone back years and its still nowhere near what it should be and the standard "its complicated" excuses have worn thin. I'll give credit to ED for improving performance, that was a big task and they did manage to do it. But it was an existential task, if they didn't do it, DCS would be dead. Similarly improving the core game stuff is the next existential task, and the list of what needs to change is pretty large, and everyone has different priorities. I listed some of what I thought was important earlier, but frankly I have little hope for improvements on most of it because its clear to me that what I consider important isn't important to ED. But I'm far from alone in that crowd. I mean you can go back every few years and find similar videos to this, the "beautiful mess" one from a few years back has exactly the same message, fix the core game, and then there are famous former DCS celebs that have said the same thing. And yet over the years basically nothing has changed in that regard. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, for the time being I'm out of passion and support.

Since I can't seem to get a clear answer on the english side of the house for this. Will iranian airbases be included with Iraq map (they would be even in the "high detail" area).