Feedback Thread F-14 Tomcat - Update 24th Jan. 2023

[IronMike]

Dear all,

we hope you had a great start into the new year. While we are largely skipping this patch, some fixes which did not get pulled from the last patch made it in, plus a hotfix for an issue not allowing the player progress in "Training Day". As always, we would kindly like to ask you for your feedback. Thank you!

 

 

DCS F-14 Tomcat by Heatblur Simulations - added missing changes from previous changelog:

• Fixed wheel chocks appearing in wrong place after moving the aircraft and setting them again.
• Fixed Op Reforger Mission 5 TALDs not working for Pontiac.
• Updated Quickstart F-14A_IA_NTTR_Zone5 by Reflected Simulations.
• Fixed Quickstart Training Day stuck at checkpoint issue.
• Fixed Quickstart Training Day tanker TACAN.

Edited January 25, 2023 by IronMike

[Despayre]

I kinda liked the ability to land anywhere and hop out to put on my own wheel chocks, can you put them back on their handy wing-mounted storage point please?

[BubiHUN]

well the new year started with a useful bug fix, but nothing more.
Meh

[Rinz1er]

Yeah I feel like we haven't gotten any significant tomcat content in several patches. What is going on?

Edited January 25, 2023 by Rinz1er

[WarthogOsl]

Can we please get a fix for the pilot body appearing no matter what in multiplayer?  It's getting annoying when you are using VR and you to have to press R-Shift P on the keyboard every time you jump into a jet.

[unlikely_spider]

1 hour ago, Rinz1er said:

Yeah I feel like we haven't gotten any significant tomcat content in several patches. What is going on?

 

There's what seems to be a pretty great campaign. For an hours/dollar perspective it is likely an incredible deal

[IronMike]

1 hour ago, Rinz1er said:

Yeah I feel like we haven't gotten any significant tomcat content in several patches. What is going on?

 

A lot of good things are in the works for 2023, the next one up is the release of Op. Reforger II, which is currently in testing/ bugfixing and if we're lucky may come before the end of the month still. Stay tuned for more updates to follow soon.

OFC, early A, TARPS, etc etc are all things I did not particularly mention now, but will be part of our focus this year and we hope to bring the Tomcat to a full release asap.

[TomcatFan1976]

Any information on the Phoenix being fixed? Anything at all?

[Hammer_251]

F-14 A steerpoints are not working. or at least randomly work/ don't work. Bomb modes also don't work, neither does the manual gun ; symbology bombs/gun not working. 

 

[Cobra847]

32 minutes ago, Hammer_251 said:

F-14 A steerpoints are not working. or at least randomly work/ don't work. Bomb modes also don't work, neither does the manual gun ; symbology bombs/gun not working. 

 

Do you have a bugreport for these? We are not aware of any issues with the navigation system, especially just in the -A at present.

Likewise for bombing modes or gun modes. 

Thanks!

[Karon]

11 hours ago, TomcatFan1976 said:

Any information on the Phoenix being fixed? Anything at all?

This is the discussion about the Phoenix, feel free to share your tacview tracks and recordings.

 

[MAXsenna]

Can we please get a fix for the pilot body appearing no matter what in multiplayer?  It's getting annoying when you are using VR and you to have to press R-Shift P on the keyboard every time you jump into a jet.

Stupid question. But what are your core DCS settings regarding showing pilots body.

Cheers!

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[BubiHUN]

3 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Stupid question. But what are your core DCS settings regarding showing pilots body.

Cheers!

Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
 

I have it turned off in settings but pilot body still shows up. Wierd.
Basicly it looks like hitblur just basicly ignoring/abandoning the Tomcat and focusing on something else, whatever the hell is that.

[DD_Fenrir]

2 hours ago, BubiHUN said:

Basicly it looks like hitblur just basicly ignoring/abandoning the Tomcat and focusing on something else, whatever the hell is that.

For pity's sake.

What a load of histrionic bovine excrement.

Grow up. 

[BubiHUN]

30 minutes ago, DD_Fenrir said:

For pity's sake.

What a load of histrionic bovine excrement.

Grow up. 

I can understand that you are trying to get inside their team, but im not.

[dayron405]

I have noticed that since the last update yesterday the autothrottle does not activate

[DD_Fenrir]

7 hours ago, BubiHUN said:

I can understand that you are trying to get inside their team, but im not.

What a feeble and puerile comeback.

Heatblur have repeatedly demonstrated excellent and consistent engagement with this community; they document their sources where they can and demonstrate reasons for the choices they make in the face of ambiguity. Where new data highlights inaccuracies in their modelling they have made efforts to revisit their programming and make revisions appropriately. They hold their hands up and admit their mistakes publicly on the rare occasions that something goes wrong. Finally they respectfully respond to the communities requests for additional features or suggestions for adjustments where these are delivered politely.

Excuse me for finding this kind of engagement refreshing and wanting to maintain it, hoping that other devs follow their example.

Your pessimistic sensationalism delivered in tones of incredulity and insinuations of deliberate apathy or downright malice on the part of Heatblur are well wide of the mark.

Furthermore, I notice you choose to ignore any of the informed responses to your insidious comments that prove you wrong or attempt to provide you with nuanced information, hints, tips and procedures to follow to improve your in game performance, but then why I am not surprised? I had you pegged as an entitled angry little man boy who wants game developers to compensate for his lack of skill, stoicism and patience after your first posts; and the evidence keeps accumulating.

[Rinz1er]

8 hours ago, dayron405 said:

I have noticed that since the last update yesterday the autothrottle does not activate

I just did an ACLS landing the other day. Had no issues with autothrottle. Remember that your gear, flaps need to be down and DLC needs to be on. The throttle also must not be on idle for it to engage.

[Callsign JoNay]

We noticed some interesting behavior with the F-14 jammer tonight. I don't recall it behaving this way in the past. New bug?

 

[DSplayer]

3 hours ago, Callsign JoNay said:

We noticed some interesting behavior with the F-14 jammer tonight. I don't recall it behaving this way in the past. New bug?

 

I don't think this is anything new. I remember the F-14's jammer working a lot more uniquely compared to other jammers since it isn't a constant noise jammer which constantly jams but rather tries to break the lock and then turning off when the lock is sufficiently broken but also jams radars that are in a fire control mode. 

I think this thread kind of has the all you need to know for why the F-14's DECM does what it does:

 

[Callsign JoNay]

10 hours ago, DSplayer said:

I don't think this is anything new. I remember the F-14's jammer working a lot more uniquely compared to other jammers since it isn't a constant noise jammer which constantly jams but rather tries to break the lock and then turning off when the lock is sufficiently broken but also jams radars that are in a fire control mode. 

I think this thread kind of has the all you need to know for why the F-14's DECM does what it does:

 

Interesting, I've never noticed this before or heard it mentioned when I ran BVR sets against an opponent. 

I've noticed the AI F-14B's jammer is a constant noise jammer, even in the most recent patch. Is this a known limitation of DCS?

[Luka CMF]

Would it be possible that you make whole HUD trimmable? Because if I want to have body displayed in VR and center view and lift a camera position in such a way that my head matches shoulder position where real head would be, HUD is not fully visible and if I try to see the top of the hud through a gap above the handle that is above the ACM panel it is not rendered on the glass looking through the gap. Also, I have noticed that HUD is a bit trimmed as I cannot see number 100 on the range indicator for the Phoenix on the left top side of the HUD. 

Edited January 27, 2023 by Luka CMF

[dayron405]

On 27/1/2023 at 2:33, Rinz1er said:

Acabo de hacer un aterrizaje ACLS el otro día. No tuve problemas con el acelerador automático. Recuerde que su equipo, las aletas deben estar bajas y el DLC debe estar activado. El acelerador tampoco debe estar en ralentí para que se active.

Yo tampoco tenia problemas antes de la ultima actualizacion. Ruego vuelvas hacer otra comprobacion que sea posterior al dia 26 de enero. Gracias 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dayron405]

8 minutes ago, dayron405 said:

Yo tampoco tenia problemas antes de la ultima actualizacion. Ruego vuelvas a hacer otra comprobacion que sea posterior al dia 26 de enero. Gracias 

 

 

 

 

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[TomcatFan1976]

On 1/26/2023 at 9:12 AM, BubiHUN said:

I have it turned off in settings but pilot body still shows up. Wierd.
Basicly it looks like hitblur just basicly ignoring/abandoning the Tomcat and focusing on something else, whatever the hell is that.

I agree. Everyone i know just gets the same answer from Heatblur and the people in the forums.....It's more realistic, or they start calling you names and tell you you're the idiot, i have proof of that from a Heatblur team member himself from a whole topic, whom was not banned but the guy posting was banned for a year. So if anyone has an issue with the Tomcat, it's more realistic....lol

On 1/26/2023 at 3:40 AM, Karon said:

This is the discussion about the Phoenix, feel free to share your tacview tracks and recordings.

 

I posted there too and guess what? STILL NO RESPONSE