Heatblur surprise? Guess inside.

[feeleyat]

So I'm hearing rumors that HB has a surprise in the upcoming update. It maybe hype, but do think it could be; removable fuel tank pylons, glove vanes....?

[WolfHound009]

cap

[Stackup]

2 hours ago, feeleyat said:

removable fuel tank pylons

I believe this is what was referred to based on my readings from the HB Discord and the Hoggit post about the same thing.

[draconus]

 

[RustBelt]

Interesting. That means the model got a rebake. Wonder what else got polished up. 

[Spurts]

maybe removing the Phoenix pallets actually does something

[RaisedByWolves]

Hopefully they are fixing the issue of the plane not falling apart when it goes supersonic.

[draconus]

31 minutes ago, RaisedByWolves said:

Hopefully they are fixing the issue of the plane not falling apart when it goes supersonic.

What?

[Billy]

34 minutes ago, RaisedByWolves said:

Hopefully they are fixing the issue of the plane not falling apart when it goes supersonic.

[Stackup]

7 hours ago, RustBelt said:

Interesting. That means the model got a rebake. Wonder what else got polished up.

My guess is they also worked on the TCS pod to make it removable when they release the early A or at least the Iranian version.

[Q3ark]

I was hoping it would be a clean version of the cockpit 

[IronMike]

We will have some nice surprises of long awaited items, but temper your expectations please: in the discord I was indeed referring to the fuel pylons.

We shall see what else we might have put into the patch.

To avoid disappointment though:

- it is not the -D.
- it is not a clean cockpit.
- it is not the early A (yet).
- it is not glove vanes. 

Edited March 7, 2023 by IronMike

[IronMike]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

What?

All our reaction precisely. Trust me, you are very thankful for having missed that thread.

[Gierasimov]

36 minutes ago, IronMike said:

- it is not the -D.
 

 

but why  ?

Could it be the bags?

Edited March 7, 2023 by Gierasimov

[Jayhawk1971]

Glove vane compartments? To store snacks? 

[unlikely_spider]

24 minutes ago, Jayhawk1971 said:

Glove vane compartments? To store snacks? 

And Queen Greatest Hits CDs

[Dannyvandelft]

We will have some nice surprises of long awaited items, but temper your expectations please: in the discord I was indeed referring to the fuel pylons.

We shall see what else we might have put into the patch.

To avoid disappointment though:

- it is not the -D.
- it is not a clean cockpit.
- it is not the early A (yet).
- it is not glove vanes. 

-Orange Aardvark flight suit plus skin
-B(U) upgrade (I wish but already know)
-TARPS pod
-brighter external lights
-huffer carts
-compartment panels
-new helmets


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[IronMike]

5 hours ago, unlikely_spider said:

And Queen Greatest Hits CDs

[Tom Kazansky]

Is it a jump from 60 to 200 FPS on a Ryzen 3800 32GB RAM 1080ti almost everything ultra/extreme in 2D?

And we will love it in VR?

[ShinyMikey]

9 hours ago, Dannyvandelft said:

-Orange Aardvark flight suit plus skin
-B(U) upgrade (I wish but already know)
-TARPS pod
-brighter external lights
-huffer carts
-compartment panels
-new helmets
 

 

Those would all be great (any new skins are always welcome), but I'd really like to get the AI A-6E / KA-6D added.

[IronMike]

6 hours ago, Tom Kazansky said:

Is it a jump from 60 to 200 FPS on a Ryzen 3800 32GB RAM 1080ti almost everything ultra/extreme in 2D?

And we will love it in VR?

I will say it was a mistake to say this. The reason is simple: for one my screen is capped at 60hz (4k 55") and the 200 FPS was displayed as such in the FPS counter (ctrl+scroll), so if my screen wasn't capped at 60, I cannot say, if the jump would have really been up to 200 FPS. Secondly, it can be different on different systems, even if the same or similar setup, and I now set expectations, which may or may not apply, once multithreading comes. So please manage your expectations accordingly. And my apologies for jumping the gun there a bit out of my own excitement.

Please take it with a huge grain of salt, and we'll all have to check how much we gain each of us in particular, when multithreading releases.

Edited March 8, 2023 by IronMike

[71st_AH Rob]

Working tail numbers?

[Turd Ferguson]

19 hours ago, IronMike said:

To avoid disappointment though:

- it is not the -D.

 

Can't help feeling disappointed  

 

JK aside though anticipation of your F-14 was the whole reason I ventured into DCS back in 2018 and even though i'm not a hardcore DCS flyer.... nor wholey proficient in the Tomcat it is still the aircraft that I love and always go back to. 

[Tom Kazansky]

3 hours ago, IronMike said:

I will say it was a mistake to say this. The reason is simple: for one my screen is capped at 60hz (4k 55") and the 200 FPS was displayed as such in the FPS counter (ctrl+scroll), so if my screen wasn't capped at 60, I cannot say, if the jump would have really been up to 200 FPS. Secondly, it can be different on different systems, even if the same or similar setup, and I now set expectations, which may or may not apply, once multithreading comes. So please manage your expectations accordingly. And my apologies for jumping the gun there a bit out of my own excitement.

Please take it with a huge grain of salt, and we'll all have to check how much we gain each of us in particular, when multithreading releases.

 

Thank you very much for that clarification. Although I've never expected the impact of MT with DCS to be that huge before and even after your initial posts about it anyway, I did feel your excitement about what is coming up and that alone made my day today. 

So thanks for that and what I take with me is that MT will not just be a marginal step towards a decent experience with DCS performance.

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Tom Kazansky

[Kondor77]

Guys, its Operation Reforger II. (In which case - awesome!) Loved the first one.