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it is a troubling trend, and i dont know how common it will be in the future. what good will the program be in the future if you neither earn them from purchases, nor use them on a purchase you may have been saving them for?

even more so after both f15 & sinai opt out of miles program

Looks like sorel ro's Huey campaign got unreleased/ unintroduced

seems sinai is up on the store, but the campaign isnt yet

have we ever seen the launch of a new module or map on a Thursday? I don't think we have, @YoYo I wouldn't mind being wrong, but I thought all such things release with the Friday newsletter

Gazelle 2.0

Gazelle 2.0

its not fixed last i checked, but i have provided evidence direct to ED. my current biggest point of contention is that it fires too many interceptors per engagement, and it fires when its pK (probability of kill) is too low unfortunately, i havent messed with tacview enough to find those tracks , or find the DCS track files, but theres no way it should ever burn thru 6 missiles on a su-25 second, if you only have 38 missiles on a site (a non-permanent pac2 site, that is) its unrealistic to be that wasteful of missiles on a single abt

I'd like to see literally anything but the f15. They've been driving the strike eagle hype train pretty relentlessly, there's a lot of other good stuff in the works at the moment. At this point I'd prefer a newsletter that says " well, we got nothing this week" over f15 news..but you can't please everyone, no sense in trying. Grass is still touchable

is chaparral next up after hawk?

theres a lot of reasons for that. it does well against aircraft because thats what its designed to do the pac2 series missile (what we have in DCS) is essentially a flying claymore mine, and with all the blast fragments thrown by the interceptor, an aircraft is an easy kill against ballistic missiles is another story: by the time one of those enters patriots engagement envelope, its an empty gas tank with a warhead on top- theres few critical systems to be damaged by a proximity kill. what would be lethal against a plane could leave an inbound missile damaged but intact, just knocked off course There wasnt effective (if any) debris filtering at the time, so falling debris from the engagement would be seen by the radar and presented to the operator as a valid target. leading sites to engage missiles that had already been hit gulf war was before my time in patriot, but i *think* urban low altitude threshold wasnt in place at that time, which was a cutoff to prevent interceptors from following their targets to ground level & causing additional damage the system underwent widespread changes between 91 gulf war & 2001 when i was in patriot, and the WCC - the brains of the whole operation - really got cut down to half its size, leaving a 3'x'3' x2'deep bay completely open & empty. the infamous clock error had been cleared, & weather mode was gone but i cant recall how many other changes were in place

wow, thats really bad. i cant even keep track of how many missiles if fired, and i dont know why it keeps firing in groups of three theres three modes of fire in patriot & each of those only uses two missiles per engagement

it shouldve fired two interceptors at that track, spaced about 2-3 seconds apart i just did a test and the results were disappointing: 2 bursts of three interceptors apiece against a lone su25. the 4th missile finally hit (6 missiles against a single target is pretty wasteful when you only have 36 interceptors onsite) ill attach tracks later

that is correct

with the same intent as what Falcon said above, there seems a trend of patches shifting dates at last minute- and thats ok- life goes on, for most of us, without disruption in the face of delays- *but* had you considered simply adding a day or two to the patch estimate? internally planning on the 17th, announcing the intent to patch for the 19th, and when it gets delivered on the 18th (after a last minute delay), people are happy you delivered a day early? a psyop for sure, but it could be an effective one

tongue-in-cheek, found on PMDG forum

choke yourself, im GenX. i hope your copy of DCS gets bugs, and your keybinds get overwritten

A more civilized age

Absolutely no reason you can't do modern scenarios with this. I plan on using it extensively for early to mid cold war. This isn't strictly a warbirds map

historically have there been any product releases on a thursday? im pretty sure virtually all of them coincided with a friday newsletter

i disagree, a bit less hype and a bit more radio silence is wonderful

later in newsletter early access

huey can really use a texture refresh similar to the a10/ka50 treatment. its really starting to show its age

yea, i agree. its got its shortcomings, but what we have already is pretty amazing