Helos.

[xmudroller]

Has anybody heard anything about the AH-64D release date.

[sirrah]

This isn't really the right place for this question, but no, there's no official release date yet. Chances are, that ED will never give a 100% accurate release date. They usually just give a best guestimate for their EA modules, as there can always be unexpected setbacks (which always causes people to grab their pitchforks and torches).

But don't you worry, once release comes close (1 month) you'll notice. Just keep an eye out on Wag's YouTube channel.

 

As far as I know, this is still the latest news:

so:

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We are currently preparing the pre-order access for later this summer.

 

Personally I'd be surprised if this won't move to Q4. But hey, it's ready when it's ready

 

If they release it in about the same state as the Hind currently is, I'd be a very happy man

[Grennymaster]

i think the pre sale will be starting end of Q3. early acces not before end of Q4.

im not unhappy with this, that means i can enjoy the Hind

 

[Tank50us]

1 hour ago, sirrah said:

(which always causes people to grab their pitchforks and torches)

Yeah, so many people forget that COVID had to force the ED staff to effectively work from home, and having now had to experience the whole 'cloud sharing' thing when it comes to a project (a recruitment video for my own group), I can certainly understand how frustrating it's gotta be now to upload stuff to a cloud, and wait for someone else to download it, probably over shitty internet, compared to uploading it to an in-building cloud inside a studio with lightning fast intranet.

[Fri13]

1 hour ago, Tank50us said:

Yeah, so many people forget that COVID had to force the ED staff to effectively work from home, and having now had to experience the whole 'cloud sharing' thing when it comes to a project (a recruitment video for my own group), I can certainly understand how frustrating it's gotta be now to upload stuff to a cloud, and wait for someone else to download it, probably over shitty internet, compared to uploading it to an in-building cloud inside a studio with lightning fast intranet.

 

Unless you have a gprs connection and upload 4096px 48 bit texture files all over, then you are problem free from that. 

 

Seriously, the programmers has already been doing these things for decades. The problem has not been that where you are located as person, or the internet connection (as long you have one) but two major parts. 1) You can't just turn around and ask from someone near you that what was what and where etc. You can't turn to look other monitor and help to solve some problem etc. 2) If you don't use a proper distributed version control system, then you are in trouble. Programmers has been in advantage before writers, who has been in problems when writing together some scripts or plays. On computer era it is already basic thing to use a comparison features in editors to find the differences. But that is common thing among normal users who just don't know all the tools there has been for decades.

 

If one would add today a IRC (discord) or if internet connection supports a group video with webcams, then it would be closest to what one can have on office, except you can mute all and be in silence if so wanted. This is as well reason why Microsoft is so heavily pushing the Teams in Windows 11. That you can just quickly open a video connection to co-worker and have the video call. Apple has been on this for over decade with their Facetime but majority of people have personal problems to be on video calls. Even when Nokia had them possible at the 90's, people didn't want to use them. Since the 70's the video calls were presented to be possible made from everywhere, first at the board level and then with more and more company workers and eventually even from a phonebooth in street corner. That everywhere would be done with video calls. Even when every laptop sold comes with webcam, it is one of the least used features in whole device.

So welcome just the VoIP. Have a nice bluetooth headset for one ear and just call someone and talk about it, or if not time sensitive then leave a email. 

 

I remember how in 90's we had all computers connected so that you could just see is the user online and drop a message to them directly. And if the person was not online, message was delivered when user logged in. 

 

One of the major problems with the technology adaptation has been this idiotic "cloud" marketing speech. There is a Intranet and there is Internet. You can connect multiple Intranets through Internet and everyone has access like in same LAN.

 

The whole world has been slowed down by Microsoft and Apple, and excellent ideas were killed because few didn't have vision...

 

 

 

But this all is off-topic, as this is not a wishlist thread but more of a chit-chat....