Airhunter

The whole pilot body needs a rework. His legs dont move, he isn't even strapped into the seat and there is no shadow for the head afaik. Something that razbam got right in the Mirage.

The HUD transparency is the most annoying thing right now.

Mostly yes.

What kind of attitude is this? What if he indeed bought your modules? I surely did, I think it's great but there are areas where the performance or behaviour is pretty questionable. As a developer you should respond to any kind of constructve criticism equally and professionally no matter how "it come across" - also backing your own claims with some data would be great as everything you claim seems to just fall from the sky and we need to just "believe" you because you have some sikrit chinese documents. Gimme a break...

In my opinion the Tomcat has more than enough default liveries. The Viggen could need a couple on the other hand.

Fixed, pre-defined positions. Think of it like flap settins.

Yeah I think this is planned for later down the road. Been this stiff since it came out more than a year ago. Also noticeable when taxiing.

Correct, The 29 was never designed as a BVR air superiority platform. It's primary design was all based around ground control stations and being a frontline fighter - get in, F stuff up as quickly as possible, get out. Hence the R-73 and HMD philosophy that was revolutionary at the time.

It's not as classified as some might think. There's plenty of documentation out there available stating EXACTLY how it should work on various early Mig-29 models that had the 15 equipped as well as SU-27S, P, SK. Add to that SME feeback and you can get a fairly complete picture on what it should really show. Heck even older western RWR's will show false positives half the time based on the emissions they encounter.

I'm fine with the ones mentioned originally. Saratoga is needed for the B, the Independence can be used for legacy Hornets fairly well too.

I still think the HUD is fairly hard to see through. There has been a quite noticeable reduction in transparency, which is quite annoying. I wouldn't call the lighting fixed at all, it's way better but not even close to what it was originally.

I dont know man, I've heard first hand that the 29A/S radars dont see jack s*** 90% of the time. Also, did you know that the frotal hemisphere of your RWR will be inhibited whenever you have a radar lock? Our SPO-15 is modelled compeltely wrong as well when it comes to displaying data and radar/emission types. So eh, it's FC3, a very dumbed down arcady simulation. I would rather have someone do a proper full fidelity Mig 29 or Su 27 model. On the other hand the F-16 and F/A-18C radar HUGELY overperform in DCS. Almost Tomcat levels of radar.

And honestly just slap a Mig-29 pylon on there and call it a day :D

Agreed.

Go re-test this with another Mig-29 or clean F-16. I think the JF17 RCS might be bugged and have some "hidden" values.

People go up against 18's and 16's in 21's regularly on multiplayer servers and do fairly well. There is always a tactic/way to do fairly well and come out on top. Not like Mig-21's always faced 4th gens in real conflicts... The F-8J we are already getting so that vietnam era matchup will be nice.

Well as for the 73, most planes like the SU-25 or Mig-31 can only mostly boresight launch the 73's. Even then it does add a significantly better and more lethal missile to the Mig-21. I do agree though that it would be a pretty "exotic" option and not exactly historically accurate.

I agree. Like, it was "promised" or advertised from day one? I'm fine with the Forrestal kicking it off and being the first but I'd really wanna see the other 3 follow up shortly after. Having done some research the differences between all 4 ships in terms of te island geometry is very minimal so it should mostly be a reskin or simple change of numbers.

@IronMike: Just an FYI, the "magic INS" is already fixed for the amraam, same as active commands in TWS and loft. Might wanna take a look at the new code.

Missile and rack pylon textures. Perhaps an in-cockpit pilot model if that's planned?

SA-5 and the updated russian ground vehicles would be great too. Have been teased last year already.

I mean, judging by this picture they have a new or modified inboard pylon/rail.

If we even get the Saratoga...

As far as I can see the only "benefit" would be the IR spectrum of the pod as it doesn't have a CCD mode.

I'd assume the Forrestal since you'd have to buy the SC and a lot of people dont own it.