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Oh man... I used to have a MSFFBP2 and you just made me miss it. It died some years back when the optical sensor finally gave out. Probably could have fixed it, but instead I wound up ponying up for a TM Warthog.

It may not make sense to you, but the law doesn't just let you do something bad because somebody else already did it. Just because cocaine is already available on the street doesn't mean it's less bad if you start selling it.

Other threads have suggested yes.

The Tomcat is a different creature. The US didn't go through the effort to shred F5s, F4s, or any other service aircraft still in use by those less-than-friendly with the US. You don't mess with export compliance, particularly if it's an ITAR concern. For things that may bite you under ITAR, you very much error on the side of caution.

Finally DCS gets interested in and introduced to the age old problem of weight and balance!

Well, by the time 20 Mar roles around, we'll be sure to let you know how great it's been for a week :megalol:

Now, since we have a date, we should start bets on what time it will drop.

There's a sticky. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3818151#post3818151

Kinda sounds like cheating.

Similar, at least. Whether VHF or UHF, we're talking line-of-sight here, anyhow, especially with fighters at altitude. Barring some mountain deciding to sit in the way, it's not going to be an enormous issue with other aircraft in theater while they're up and moving. Down low or on the ground, on the other hand, may have issues talking to other low aircraft. Not knowing the particulars of the Link 4C implementation, depending on the encoding, it may be a bit better than analog due to error correction, or it could be worse due to noise-floor/SNR requirements if there's little or no error correction. Does anybody have any documentation on the RF implementation?

Bags of milk make me feel funny.

A fair chunk of the checklist is, but what blocking items are back there that would inhibit a partially capable start?

Now there's one I haven't thought of in years, or even the rest of the Jane's Combat Simulation line. The advantage to it being a Jane's product was the volume of encyclopedic knowledge also included! I still have a load of Jane's books and collections in a box somewhere.

Which is exactly why we're not hearing a date. I can't blame them. The only thing worse right now than no date would be missing a date and lying. We're the ones at fault here with our crack-like fiending.

If only this forum had a like or thumbs-up button! :thumbup:

Glad to hear it. Good AI is a great supplement. Once folks master the RIO position, I imagine a human RIO will far outperform Jester... but there's no reason to nerf a solo aircraft by disabling Jester. The loss of combat effectiveness from disabling Jester for solo guys would make the aircraft near useless unless you're on an Acro server.

Cool. So is the process similar to selecting an aircraft from the list, but it's another slot, and upon selection, the pilot gets a yea/nay dialog? I'm curious if there are any screenshots or videos demonstrating this yet. While it really doesn't matter much, the technical implementation has sparked some curiosity.

Since I have no clue and multicrew modules are new to me: Is there a way to lock out the RIO? If you're on an MP server, how would you stop a random from jumping in? Does the game already have some way to handle this?

I wonder what the default bindings for the warthog will look like, or if we'll get to see how the devs/testers have worked out to be the best bindings to make a warthog work like a tomcat. The weapon selector. for example... are they using tms and just push buttons instead of the slider?

Unless you have something to substantiate that thought rather than it just being a WAG, the community really doesn't benefit from such contrived/off-the-cuff speculation.

Which means it's a confirmed worst-case. Anything else can only be icing on the cake! Rejoice!

We did that to ourselves. Just because somebody speaks with authority (whether it be steam date or wags making a general comment), doesn't mean they're actually an authority on the particular subject at hand. HB has never actually said anything other than the message here, no matter how much we want to fabricate earlier dates. Yes, we're excited, but that's no reason to blame them for the hype train here.

While you're absolutely correct... looking for a release date in the tea leaves will at least keep folks busy!

Do you have a source, or is this speculation straight from the rear?

If you mean the 13th hour of the day after they announce, I'm on board. Anything else would just be a tease. :D