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Or viewed another way, a previously ahead of it's time thread has become more relevant in the current dcs ecosystem. It could be interesting, count me in

Well, her original post was done on reddit about a week or so ago, I'm saying this should've been the default outlet from the beginning That being said, I would hope and encourage more posts such as those

Regarding kate's message in the newsletter today, Why aren't such things posted here first, with other sites such as reddit linked to here, rather than the other way around? You would think EDs own forum would and should be the primary source of information

Survey sim, not an arcade sim. It's by no means comparable to ace combat & the like. It's more like fc3 or xplane in some respects. It has some strengths over dcs, and dcs holds some over il2. It does focus on one specific time frame/ region and does that recently well By different crowds, yes- if you want to fly modern jets, you won't find anything there. If you want a large number german or russian ww2 birds, functional in mutliplayer crews when applicable, il2 is for you Dcs also has a fair number of orphan birds, such as the early kits- aircraft without a setting where they engaged in historic combat. Il-2 gives a better picture of following the course of a larger conflict Neither simulator is better, they just do different things better than the other

The folks behind IL-2 great battles series may get to differ

Sitting on my desk at work:

Doesn't matter. There's no way we're gonna get every variant of every aircraft so we can run period correct flights. Compromises need to be made from time to time, and one variant may have to be a stand-in for others. Sometimes a busy will just have to be a busy. Same could be said for f4, if it ever comes out , same for mig21...list goes on I

UH-1 has been saying that for years

The term is still used in the army Here's an unfortunate reference as of 2010: https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2010/05/02/mae-west/

It would be nice to see northern PG filled out, I'd love to fly around Kuwait city , but I don't have the same animosity towards the place to want to drop bombs on it. I flew down for a few weeks from arifjan- in Kuwait, and the 'deed was a sort of Shangri-La we were unprepared for... enough to not even mind the transient barracks. Unlike in Kuwait, people BBQed, had access to alcohol, hung out together, and generally seemed happy. The chowhalls were nice, and the showers werent in crowded trailers. When we got back to arifjan-seemed almost a gulag by comparison. It wasn't a happy transition to go back

Yep, it's a bit of a hangout

THIS should be the splash screen when launching DCS in OB and a preamble to every OB changelog

Excuse me, thats JAMES to you. Shalom!

With as much as I'd like to see an update, finally fly the Jeff& new shark pit, I can't overstate how much I appreciate a conservative approach to bringing 256 to stable. It's nice to have fewer , but more substantial, updates which introduce as few bugs as possible. Thanx, ED, for the delay and continued work

I'm on stable as well, but I can tell you of a bug with the UN campaign that I wish could be addressed: the total lack of ability to push your copilot out his door mid-flight. Can we get a keybind for that? His dialogue really killed the campaign for me in the first mission If you got the shark as well, the deployment campaign is really pretty good.

Done. Not that she had any problem with it

Perhaps not the best part of the forum to post this. Try the PG section of dlc maps forum

Get ready for a lot of these....and a lot of questions about the -117 Welcome, and take my money already, will ya?!

Judging by the sounds of it, it looks like it may need one more week to smooth out a few remaining items, but it could go either way I suppose Either we'll finally see the jf-17 & new ka50 pit......or we wont

not bad, but does lead to some funny situations. more than once, ive had the entire tail boom knocked off, and managed to autorotate the rest of the helo with its CG apparently unaffected...once managed a boomless takeoff afterwards too. yea, that was swell. wish i had screensots or video

not quite. ED wasnt announcing third party projects, only their own work.

I'd love to see it as a module, probably never happen tho

Fair enough, I only said I wasn't aware of any reason , rather than stating outright that there's no reason to be on steam

It's quite easy to move from steam to standalone. I did it some time back myself. Only wish I did it earlier, I had bought most of the modules while on steam&missed out on a bunch of miles if I had gotten them later& directly from ED. I'm not aware of any advantages of playing from steam.

id like to see a z-20, cuz then with a reskin, we get the blackhawk too! its like two helos in one