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Cobra confirmed it in Reddit, no TARPS. I guess no TARPS or A-6 AI this year.

Anyone having issues mounting the TARPS pod to the Tomcat? Checked both B and A and nothing. Changed the role to Reconnaissance and nothing...

Karon to the rescue! Thank you sir! Really if I care if I had the longest stick I wouldn't be playing DCS, seriously there are so many variables in P/K, the phoenix is not a god missile, keep working on your personal attacks though. Lack of perspective how? Clearly the issue is the missile doesn't guide how it should once launched. I think the guidance is worse than it was before. Jayhawk is also struggling, he isn't the only one either, isn't that interesting.... If I could give him any guidance on how to make the missile work I would, but I can't figure it out how it works with any consistency either. I'll keep trying IronMikes suggestions though. Maybe I wasn't lucky enough to fly the F-14 before release, I'm glad you were able to though. My question is why now and what purpose did it serve? Especially since ED is touting this as "improvements to the Tomcat’s AIM-54 Phoenix" What improvement? Even IronMike doesn't call it an improvement. It matches the CFD but the guidance logic is still trash. Frankly the change doesn't look like it serves any purpose other than to get player feed back. HB knew and knows there was a guidance issue. The guidance issue has been there since the Aim-120 changes, nearly a year ago. But instead of working with ED and fixing both at the same time, we have this. Now we need to wait another month, if we are lucky (I'm not holding my breath, this is DCS after all.) Oh you have been here since Flanker nice! Please, the world is not on fire or ending, this is overly dramatic and I never said anything like this, I normally don't even post on the bug post. HB likes to do this finger pointing/disclaimer thing and I'm just a bit tired of it. I've just been here too long to listen to the corporate message over and over again. I knew how this discussion with HB would go before they did, if they don't like me pointing out all this stuff then learn from your mistakes, fix what's broken and move on.

Awesome, now your questioning my ability to operate the weapon...... Why? Why? Why? So lets talk about Phoenix release procedures. I want to make sure I'm operating the weapon to your satisfaction. Head on missile employment: 1. Master Arm on 2. Select Phoenix 3. Go to the TID and wait for a blinking target to have a 1 next to it in TWS or switch STT but that would be stupid, because Jester will drop the lock and once he does the missile trashes as it should. 4. *New procedure* wait until 30 nm and have lead, *Old Procedure* wait until 35 to 40 nm and have lead. Altitude should be 15 to 30k with .9 mach minimum. You wouldn't think 5 nm would make a difference, but it does. 5. Weapon release: 3 secs till weapon drops off the airframe. Expect 1 out 4 missiles to drop off the jet and go straight. 6. Immediate crank 30 to 45 degrees, making sure not to drop radar contract as we need to feed the phoenix until TTI is blinking or missile will trash. 7. Once TTI is blinking immediate defensive if hostile missile is out or press if target is defensive. 8. Right now count on less than 33% hit rate using the above method. *Old Procedure* count on 50 - 75% hit rate. I'm not expecting 100% hit, I'm a realist. 9. Sparrows are about 50% or less hit with in 10nm or less head on, with lead, but not your problem anymore, this is EDs, enjoy the confusion all of those who don't know this. 0 percent past 10nm. Again not looking for 100% Vietnam was one in 50 or something crazy. 11. Have I missed something? Probably. 12. "It is an acceptable regress from our side" This says it all.

And the ED disclaimer has come out. Never change IronMike never change, I'm sure you have this response saved somewhere on your computer. You "might" be able to kill things at 30nm if the missile wasn't dumb off the rail so many times. I think I'm at 33% hit rate around 30 nm, beyond that I have yet to hit a head on maneuvering fighter. So essentially I the player need to spend the next 8 hours to figure out how to get these missiles to work again and teach others how to use them effectively.... I want the most accurate representation as the next guy, but really shocked at the willingness to push out this change in this state. Stable is not the right answer here, and should not be your go to disclaimer. I have been flying the F-14 and DCS longer than most of your customers, and know your company's history and ED's history very well. It may not be game breaking but its broken and the state of the aircraft brokenness is starting to add up. I guess I'll go figure out how to make this work now and come back when Stable is broke!

Ok lets call it terrible, I have been going through tacviews from yesterday. This was a horrible change to make. Since you brought up Open Beta, chances are this will get pushed to Stable just like the Autopilot issues did. As I have said before the guidance has been broken for a long long time and is in Stable. As I recall the lighting issues made it to Stable as well. In DCS it doesn't matter which branch your on because ED pushes bugs and calls it stable all the time.

So let me get this straight... CFM is according to the whitepaper correct, so HB pushed out the fix knowing full well that guidance is broken. Which btw the guidance has been broken for almost a year! So knowing full well that the CFM changes and the broken guidance was going to absolutely bork the most important weapon the Tomcat has. They pushed the fix anyway? "This is a multi step process" then why push the change out to users? HB can multistep in their alpha/beta testing patch environments. This is the same BS they pulled with the Autopilot BTW.... I know the HB team is now writing a response on how the guidance is not their fault and this issue lies with ED... Enjoy our broken missile though! I'm getting very much annoyed with this, as I fly this module exclusively and every month now its what did HB break, with each patch. This is not the quality I'm accustom to from this team and I'm just disappointed. So I'm guessing a fix in "two week" and maybe the guidance will be fixed in Q4 2023 after the F-4 has launched, Got it!

So if this was tested correctly than what is JNelson talking about?

Cobra was this change even tested before being put it in the patch? It seems this seems rushed based on a vocal minority. The guidance is horrible right now....

Thanks for the info, I wish HB would have posted something here as well. I guess we have to put up with the broken stuff for another month.

Just verifying no updates to the tomcat today. Was hoping for some fixes to the Autopilot.

Any update on this ED? This is still happening and annoying.

This is still happening, I just had this happen on Sat. Track provided https://drive.google.com/file/d/15C6a_LgiXsz-gYc-KRc_WaA4_g-kHh-q/view?usp=sharing Tac view Pilot is Stonewall https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOnLiWFoKAjy6TzZ6qA0I0dCq55ajpE6/view?usp=sharing

So it looks like todays patch broke a whole host of commands. I can't get a single Supercarrier command to work. Also some AIRRIO commands are not working, most notably the Jester Options command that just crashes VA and Viacom all together. Just an FYI since I know Hollywood doesn't usually update until the patch goes stable.

Hey Kaba, enjoying the Campaign, any way we could get the Super Carrier's cranked up to 20 to 25 knots? 10 knots is way too slow for carrier landings.

SteezyActual, try plugging the X56 directly to the computer. X56's are notorious for giving ghost inputs on poorly powered USB hubs.

Thanks Toxic fixed my issue to.

Hey Hollywood, I updated to the latest Viacom with Airio and I see the new Scan Angels command in the documentation. I see there is 809 new commands in the editor. But when I do the finish, edit and up date the Viacom profile I'm still only get 808 commands. I'm also not seeing the command phrase Scan Angels, am I missing something?

Awesome thanks Hollywood for the update!

@Hollywood_315 any ETA on when we will get the new Jester commands? DCS 2.5.5.35461 update NEW: JESTER can now tune radar elevation for a specific distance and altitude Added JESTER Elevation Menu

Fantastic work guys! I'm amazed with what you skin creators have accomplished with without the template, that was expected weeks ago. Keep up the good work!

Thanks starmat, that was a nice reply and was very helpful. Unlike Stikeeagle trolling asshattery....

Whoops miss typed its VNAO, or Virtual (here's this word again crazy) Naval Air Operations. Yes it was a special list that was once kept on the forums but has since been deleted.

To the OP, I get your point. It would be respectful for virtual wings and squadrons to have “v” in front of their websites and videos. It would also keep the confusion down on what is a real wing and what isn’t. But honestly is this really hurting anyone? If people want to dress up in a flight suit and say “look at me I’m a fighter pilot,” who is it hurting? If they enjoy flying the Hornet with a big Tomcat on their wall let them. But for god sake don’t ask to be on their VNAO list, the requirements for that are secret!

Hey Cobra, did you miss this for the feature list or did it get dropped? https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140017