Mig 29A - Full Fidelity or just an EA issue - Is the final product more realistically medium fidelity?

[Hawkeye_UK]

ED,

On first impressions, short of a few issues like IFF for MP (this as i say to all dev's on any module has to be a day one release feature these days) and the att hold for autopilot and few other niggles I think ED have done a great job with the fulcrum.  Its alot of fun to "fly", brings a much needed improvement over the Mig21 in terms of Gen 4 for the red side and on superficial play looks and feels great.

Night 1 a solid 6 hours of learning the basics, circuits, handling capabilities, playing around with rudder and splitting the throttles, high alpha moves and navigation systems, zero vis landing etc to get a really good feel for it, its instant nose authority and sustained speeds ingame for rate fights etc i noticed the engines can flame out in certain conditions which "auto relight" with windmilling and throttle to idle.  I thought I will move onto the emergency procedures post learning the radar and attack.

Night 2 of learning its A2A radar, and ground delivery modes all seem good, well worth highlighting the IFF friend and foe lock that i see most people complaining about cannot lock on (when testing say and trying to lock a friend).

Night 3, starting to take a deeper dive and here comes the wall, there isnt any.  Past superficial play and once going into emergency regimes i note alot of the panels and features are not selectable and do not work.  I've worked through the manual and note they say not available.

So none of the Emergency control panel works such as ramp retraction, air relight left and right, ab emergency cut off, fuel shut off left and right, they are all listed as not available.  I note other features such as the feel control unit states not implemented yet, a clear difference.

Considering the heritage of what DCS Full fidelty means and i refer to modules such as the A10C or the KA50, there clearly is a large gap in what full fidelity means and what concerns me is the engine/model behind this.  If this is the final state of the Emergency control panel and other panels not available one could very easily interpret that the back system for this is not there also re damage to systems?

Please could you clarify if this is the new standard of full fidelity because if this is the case its a very clear departure from past modules for example in the A10C i can literally control all aspects which actually during play is super useful when taking damage can manage the failures and in alot of ways the A10C is still the gold standard all those years ago.  If the manual is correct and these are not going to be available i would suggest a rebrand to Mid fidelity.

Look forward to the clarification, hopefully this is just a translation issue and the systems will be modelled.

This is not a "hate post", far from it, as i said really enjoying what it brings to the game and recommend people buy it but just seeking the direction of this module and futures ones like it (as in conversions from FC3 re F15C).

 

[zerO_crash]

"Early Access"

 

When purchasing the module, you signed the EULA, with the understanding that you have immersed yourself into what you are purchasing. 

 

Positive news: Down the line, it'll all work!