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I've been watching a series of f14 videos and I thought I'd list them all here and with my entirely subjective rankings. These videos are all about 40+ mins long (except last one), documentary style for the most part except where they are interviewing pilots. I've given them star ratings ***** - Must see. Made the F14 come to life **** - Learned a lot. Lots of information and insight *** - Interesting. Didn't provide deep insight Didn't include any ** or * - what's the point? :thumbup: US Grumman F14 Tomcat Dogfight Maneuvering | Military **** F-14 Walk Around by Former Navy Top Gun Pilot Grant Begley * F-14 Top Gun Pilot Mike Rabens *** P.S PensinsulaSRS does some really good interview videos. I need to go visit the wester museum of flight in Torrance, CA.. Discovery Channel Wings - Grumman F14 Tomcat **** F-14 Design Evolution ***** Time to Remember - The F14 Tomcat (Documentary) *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kON_leMmH4&t=3340s Interview with Jon "Hooter" Schreiber on the F-14 Tomcat **** F-14 Tomcat - MiG Killer *** F-14 Tomcat Fighter Aircraft | Military Documentary *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3etTGfhQ8 F14 Tomcat Top Gun | The best documentary about the Grumman F 14 Tomcat *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MInKHDghoZA Hope you enjoy.

This is a very interesting community and I'm very happy to now be a part of it and see how engaged everyone is. Cobra - thank you for your quick response. I was concerned about my post being constructive rather than just critical and I see you took it that way. Removing date range was a smart move. For those who think I'm applying - I am not. Quite happy where I am. I posted this to HB forum and not as a direct message since I wanted this to be a community discussion vs a private one between HB and myself. Cheers and happy flying. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

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Dear HB, Thank you for all the hard work on the F14. It looks amazing and I'm sure it will be great. You seem to have a solid attention to detail and clearly have a talented crew of engineers and designers. Im sure this launch craziness will be forgotten after a few months but I hope there are lessons to be learned. I offer you my unsolicited quick analysis and recommendations. Do with it what you will. Quick background. I work in tech and have launched 10+ global products over the last 12 years (~40 to 50M users for each). Now tech is not gaming which has it's own quirks but hopefully you can learn something. HB this is the strangest launch process I've seen. I'm not going to go over all the issues in detail but you seem to have a major product launch talent gap in their roster as evidenced by this f14B launch. I'll focus on one issue that seems to have made all this a lot worse. Early access to Youtubers. When I get media/press/influencers to review our products it's always under an embargo until official announcement for many reasons 1. Product still needs improvement- isn't release ready 2. Avoid preempting official launch announcement - 3. Ensuring all press/media have equal access and release dates so one isn't scooping the other. 4. Control messaging so its consistent and doesn't cause confusion. Influencers like the YouTube folks you have given early access to are certainly part of the review process but you don't let them publish since it causes the very issues we are running into. Influencers who are playing a module daily before release and constantly releasing videos of a product that pre order customers dont have access to. Issue comes because you are using YouTube influencers as early access testers. Those are very different purposes. 1. Early access - small group let's you do a controlled test and gather feedback from a supportive customer base. 2. Influencers strategy - drive demand of your product by getting influencers to generate content and therefore attention. Combining them results in a lot of confusion. 2 ways to avoid this issue. 1. Dont do preorders if you plan on giving this to a select few for early access - that strategy makes no sense and we wouldn't have nearly this level of anger. Instead have early access applications or select closed group to test drive and provide feedback. 2. Use influencers to generate demand and help the community but embargo early access videos until launch. In combination with the poor communication on these forums and hoggit, unclear messaging of release process and dates (winter is not a date) and the YouTube issue mentioned above, this seems just like a simple case of poor go-to-market/launch planning and community management. Not unusual at all but can definitely be improved. My guess is you guys are engineering & design rocks stars but likely not product guys - there is a difference between engineering and product. My recommendation would be to use the billions of dollars you get from f14 and hire a product team that can manage future launches better. Cheers. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

Way too many out of date threads are still up there. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

Seems to work. Shadow - excellent work. This is sorely needed. Questions and issues. How do you restart the original config box with maps. I want to restart campaign in Persian gulf. Closing and opening liberation just continues with current campaign and config doesn't have a reset. Also a couple of odd behaviors. 1. Frontline strike mission in Caucasus from kobuleti creates a huge amount of lag when the armor is spawned. Caused the entire sim to stop and slow to a crawl. Funny thing was there weren't really that many units so not sure why the big impact. 2. Multiple armor units spawn in the water. Works out well when its btr80 but no so much for the t80's 3. Armor units dont seem to fire on each other. They sort of just pass each other. Doesn't make for very exciting ambiance. 4. Cas units dont fire on enemy armor or if they do I cant see it. They don't seem to drop bombs or fire rockets. Is it possible an installation issue is causing this behavior? Thanks. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

I think its important enough that we should hold the release till the finger is ready. Its just not authentic without it. [emoji1787] Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

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Got it. So you are running DCS as a window. Is it just to have the taskbar during gaming? Is that just to see TiR or for other reasons? You certainly don't need to quit dcs to make TIR changes as I mentioned. What you have to do is to right click on TIR icon in taskbar, maximize window, then alt-tab to it during play and tweak curves etc. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

I have 0 issues alt-tabbing between TIR and DCS to make adjustments. Sounds like you want to see windows taskbar with TIR live icon while playing DCS. DCS is a fullscreen app so that is not possible unless you can force it into a window (which I wouldn't reccomend). Paint/chrome etc are windowed apps - they can snap to portions of the window and leave taskbar alone. Did I understand your question correctly? Sriram Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

+2 it's nice to seem some rational thought in this discussion. It's just a prioritization and backlog clearing exercise. Of course confusing communication across multiple forums, vague dates like "winter" and lack of consumer understanding of the release process doesn't help. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

Well thought out argument. Makes sense. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

Snacko - i would like to know as well. Going through the exact same issue - VA+Vaicom+SRS+teamspeak+discord Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

When you forget to check the client box Question. I seem to be forget to check the client box - in that case should i quit mission? When the Liberation engine is waiting for the debriefing, there seems to be no way to abort it and go back. What do you recommend?

Thanks for the quick shipping Andre. Super easy setup and it worked out of the box - which feels very rare now a days. Got my custom setup going which I'm sure I'll continue to tweak but it feels great.

Heatblur guys - a little suggestion. If you are officially from Heatblur / can you put that in your sig so we can distinguish official posts from HB employees vs the rest of us armchair generals? Thanks. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

I had lock on and fc3 for 5 years. Would launch it once in a while, jump into f15, have no freaking clue what to do, get shot down. Then i decided to approach it not as a game but a project. Started with the su27 and tutorials. Started reading manual. 30 mins a day to start with. Made it a habit - and started noticing improvements after a few days. A simulation is not something you can jump into but the effort just increases the immersion and enjoyment of learning and getting better. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

That looks right. This is my debug startup log. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

Thanks. It didn't work at first but eventually it did. The video you pointed to is a tad bit confusing since you say saved games folder but you are showing the app install directory in the video in configuration. DCS seems to have created two separate saved games dir (/saved games/dcs and /saved games/dcs.openbeta - i cleared out VAIcom/export.lua in both in the script dir and restarted DCS/VoiceAttack multiple times and then it worked. Now I seem to have broken Tacview in the process. That's not your issue to fix though. Thank you for the quick response.

Really confused about how to get 2.5.8.4 Vaicom Pro working If I add a custom command like "Takeoff Checklist Start" in VoiceAttack which turns the electrical, engine, flaps, nose wheel steering, that works in the game. Anything that refers to comm menu however does not. VoiceAttack is picking up the command, VAICOM doesn't seem to be doing anything in-game. It is not recognizing my module (su27 - displays ---- in the PTT screen) - unclear why. DCS is installed on H:/Games/DCS World but saved game files are in C:/Users/**username**/Saved Games/DCS I've specified this in the VAICOM Pro configuration but it doesn't seem to do anything. This is my first install of VAICOM pro so nothing to clean up. Installing on DCS Open Beta 2.5.4.27314 Appreciate any help. Getting comms working in DCS (SRS, vaicom, etc.) seems harder than actually flying some of these modules :)

I hear you. Have maybe an hour at night to play. Had the exact same thing happen for a month before i realized i was trying to have the authentic experience vs one where i was learning. So i went to mission editor, went to all campaign missions and did an air start closer to bullseye. Now i jump in 200 miles or less away from the engagement and i have a lot more fun and learn a lot more about bvr and dogfighting vs taxiing, takeoff and navigating. Now i can have at least 3 missions in one session + my personal after action review using tacview. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

Holy! I scrolled all the way down to add the F117 only to find that was the very last post. We are of like mind @hughlb Played Microprose's F117A Stealth Fighter quite a bit ( ) Love the deep strike, night time stealth missions planning mission to get around SA2, avoid AAA when the shit hit the fan. Fun times.

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Hmm. Just bought combined arms. Went through the manual. Having view issues. I'm able to control a unit using the tank icon or ralt-J but none of the view commands (F1, F2, F3, F11,F7) seem to work and instead jump to the air unit even if I have selected an MBT, BRDM or MLRS unit. Any idea why?

I'm getting my butt handed to me flying the Su-27 campaign. I have tried this mission 5 times and blown out of the sky every time. I would appreciate some critical feedback - I think I'm shooting from too far out but I'm struggling to figure out how to evade 3 f16's and their full complement of missiles. What can i do differently? How can i share the tacview of this engagement? I can't seem to upload the tacview zip files.