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It's down to the game engine lighting and also possibly due to your gamma settings being too high, try lowering them, everything on mine seems too "bright" also, I think my gamma is 2.2 .

How do you simulate the final salute though, when there's A: No Cat Launch team visible (needs more 3d models, and animations_ B: No 3D pilot animations to go with it? :D

Here's a cool video, seems these checks literally take less than 30 seconds. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20193/this-f-a-18f-pilot-rattling-off-his-launch-checklist-will-make-you-want-to-join-the-navy

I thought you did all those things prior to advancing the throttle for launch?? As in the controls check?

Yeah I've subscribed too, My landings are like a funky chicken!! though I'm practicing with the default mission, and not deploying my hook, just so I can "bolter" intentionally, to practice the groove. Dunno how many times I've had "Stennis" emblazoned on my canopy!! :D

care to share your mission??

Awesome job!!

can you possibly send the diff.lua as this system is alien to me !! :O

That would be very much appreciated mate, thank you.

At long last after a 4 day download I have the F18C up and running, is there any TM 16000M users out there with a decent HOTAS setup they'd be willing to share??

I did, thinking I was smart, and didn't heed the advice, to NOT force the update, and it's more than likely rolling back, and will need to go through the whole lot again to update to current build.

did you delete the original autoupdate.cfg by any chance?

Don't delete your autoupdate.cfg either, as it repairs/rebuilds ALL your terrains, I'm looking at a 12GB torrent now, and that's not including the F18 module. This is going to take the best part of 6-7 hours on my shitty connection here in Baghdad, power cuts not withstanding either. NOT my smartest move..

It doesn't get much more official than this https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200724&page=2

The web page still says pre-purchase, and at discount, so they still have to update that before the module is released, the problem with speculating is that 99% of the time, you're wrong LOL

hmmmmm the DCS updater utility by Skate Zilla is now throwing up an error, it was fine 45 mins ago.. not a good time to have something go wrong.....or somethings happening in the background for it to crash.. I wonder ??

That DCS updater by Skatezilla is getting beasted by the sounds of it !! I wonder how many people have not even gone to sleep yet? It's 0951 here in Baghdad, I'm not expecting it to be available till after 1500 Local, and then the torrents and servers will be in meltdown, and the complaints will be inevitable too. Spare a thought for the poor Aussies, their day's almost almost over!!

Yes there is, Wags has showcased the new Caucus maps in the F18, as well as the Normandy map.

Youngster!! I'm 55 going on 27, and every bit as excited for the release, been a massive ED fan since Flanker days. I'm overseas in Baghdad just now, as a security contractor, brought my HOTAS shit with me this time purely to get up to speed on the F18, as far as I'm aware, I will not have any missions, so I'm hoping to see the release around 1600 Local ... then the room door is getting locked!! :lol:

Ditto, makes no odds if it's pushed more to the right either, all good things come to those who wait... Patience is a virtue ...blah blah blah.

LOL, there's going to be some seriously unhappy campers about the switch of modules, it's still within the official time frame Wag's stated, so no massive biggie.. I'd rather have a delayed released, with things working, than one that the community itself pressured for the release of same module, and things were still broken. At least it will end all the speculative release date threads, and cryptic messages that were never there to begin with.

Yep, that's it, I couldn't recall the FS number, built a couple of the older Hasegawa 1/72 scale F18's in my younger days :D

Brilliant!!

Didn't the RCAF have darker colours on their F18's? I seem to recall back in the 90's a visit to Prestwick Airshow, of an RCAF F18, alongside a USN F18, and they definitely looked different, the Canuk version darker.

They've existed in every other module, why would they skip this one?? :megalol: It's not much difference to whining about who was lucky enough to be chosen by ED to showcase their products, let them have their fun, it doesn't all have to be serious. It's an alpha product, so things will be constantly evolving, things will be fixed, things will get broken when being fixed, people will whine about the need for a ferrari GPU to showcase the product in all its glory.. it's just human nature unfortunately