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@NineLine May I please have forum?

In no particular order: As to what I am showing here: The content posted is not the same at all. The entire 3d model of the cargo bay shown here is distinct/new relative to what was shown in 2022, or even the 2025 and beyond video from last December. More critically: In 2022 there was no such thing as airdrop in DCS. Now there is. That's what I am showing here (along with the new cargo bay). Regarding your "writing style": No, your writing style is just fine. What is less fine is your unwillingness (until now, more than a month after the first post), to respond in good faith, despite my efforts to engage with you earlier. None of this is particularly important. People are unreasonable on the internet all the time. But I would ask you: why? More generally: If your suspicion is that the flight deck doesn't exist or something.... I don't know what to tell you. It does, as do the systems (and oh my god are there so many systems). We are quite literally polishing things, finalizing the manuals, and doing a variety of other end-of-project tasks. With respect to why I have not posted more things: I do not believe in trickling out incrementally-less-incomplete-images. Those pictures will remain on the internet for eternity, and on account of their age, will rank more highly than new, polished, images that are representative of what customers get when they buy the product. So, I'm not interested in doing that. (And I'm not kidding. I will frequently need a quick reference to the Nav-Radar of the C-130J. I'll google "C-130J Nav Radar". You know what's usually the first result on the images tab? A picture of MY nav radar, from a few years ago. On more than one occasion I've looked at this picture, compared it to mine (not yet noticing that it is... not an authentic reference image), and concluded that "yep", all good. Life is a rich pageant.) In conclusion: You cannot look at the volume, or nature of the images posted by me and infer the stage of completion. This was the original sin of your first post. In general, I just post things that I think are a) cool, b) new, and c) fairly polished. It's not likely that I will ever show the entire cockpit in advance of opening pre orders. But that will be soon. Thank you for your passionate support. - Someone making an internet airplane

Nope. I (the person who owns ASC) have never posted that picture anywhere previously…

Actually the latest ASC WIP Media is the one I posted in my reply to this user, directly above your reply.

You are not making the compelling argument you think that you are making.

Do you still think the project is dead, though?

I'm sorry that you feel this way. As others have written, the project is very much not "dead", and is instead nearing completion. Amongst the things we've shown: an entirely new external 3d model, functional airdrop (in the 2025 and beyond video), a moab, functional AG radar, pilot models... probably other things I am forgetting. And yes, a tiny clip showing a neat physics based spring effect on the trim and flap indicators when battery power is applied. Short of a full release trailer, what else would you like to see as evidence that the project is alive?

We never included waypoint integration with the nav-radar display, if thats what you are asking about.

@BIGNEWYcan you clarify the status of the bug you reported in February of 2020? Your comment from April of that same year suggests that maybe this is no longer considered a problem, and is just “different” in vr. Is this slated to be fixed?

What makes you all think that?!?!

@LightningF6 Download link here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8uak6lar9hyswfs/Hercules_ver_6.8.1.zip/file

yea, we've tracked down the rest. we pulled out a bunch of half baked functionality from that module, which is what lead to this.

Re: nav radar bug: Good catch. We will fix this in the next minor release. Thanks. Regarding exploding Hercules: 6.6 no longer works. You must update to 6.7. If you do, your plane will not explode.

Sure, and I sort of understand that position. But to clarify (and correct me if I am wrong) many of the larger skyscrapers/unique (non religious) buildings in Beirut seem to not be destructible. Either A) am I wrong?, or B) is there a plan to add damage models to these?

@MAESTR0 any news regarding damaged/destroyed models for any of these unique objects?

I have the same question. While there are many beautiful and unique structures on the Syria map, it's difficult to use them effectively in a mission context without any damage/destruction model. Is there a plan to add such models for the more unique landmarks (palaces, skyscrapers, airport terminals, etc)?

@AeroGator Will the switches/buttons on these be the same as the current MCG?

As @Eight Ball mentioned above, version 5.8 includes my fix for steam sounds. If anyone has issues, please either ping me here or on discord (username there is someone_somewhere).

@Gman109 Mine arrived today as well, and I have immediately been reminded how much I loath windows mixed reality, relative to the experience of SteamVR with the Index. I may need to configure things differently, but my perception is that the motion smoothing algorithm in WMR is absolute trash compared to steam. I can tell if it's poor head tracking, or the worse motion smoothing, but playing DCS in the G2 is much much less smooth an the INdex Are you finding it different? Mine is running on a 9900ks@5.1 + 3090, so I don't think its a hardware issue.

signal boost ... @BIGNEWY/@Nineline, have you had a chance to discuss this with the team?

This is fascinating... TLDR: The airflow around the tpod, especially when mounted on the chin station, produces a shockwave effect approaching mach 1. This interacts with the tail fins of precision munitions, and disrupts their release trajectory.

Good to see that you've gotten back on the horse, Aurelius.

:)

@Aurelius What is happening? A showdown in the streets? I am so confused.

Wow. Big night for @Aurelius.... I think the evidence speaks for itself, but just to drive the point home: this is not the way that professors of engineering, media lab directors, authors, or even adults conduct themselves in the face of criticism. @dburne Perhaps so, although hopefully my very long post re: neural networks and software development generally was of some interest. In a world full of internet charlatans where facts no longer matter, if even a single person read this thread and now sees this guy for who he really is, then it's been worth it. Although I cant lie, I did enjoy it :). We probably ought to give this thread a rest.