Feedback Thread - Phantom Patch 27-11-2025

[IronMike]

Dear all, 

our apologies for being rather quiet despite the recent patches, but this year continues to be very busy for us. With the last patch we introduced aircraft persistence, which we hope you all got to enjoy in the meantime, while this patch primarily focuses on polishing some remaining issues with it. The persistent aircraft feature is meant to reward the player with consequences in regards to his flying over the span of a campaign, several missions or just a particular airframe that you want to make "yours". We now added a feature so that you can load a persistent aircraft from the aircraft itself via a keybind after changing livery and/or tail number. This will primarily help those of you who would like to fly a persistent aircraft online, and like this you can save and load different aircraft for different servers, or scenarios, etc. We also hope that you enjoy the EFB, which both together with aircraft persistence will be expanded upon later - we have many great ideas how to make your experience here even more seamless and enjoyable. 

Additionally we touched up on the RWR and of course prioritized fixing some potential CTDs that you encountered and reported - our apologies for the inconvenience again. We also added a first small set of instant action missions for the Cold War map, with many more planned in the near future, also for Iraq and Afghanistan. 

We hope you enjoy all these changes and additions and thank you for your very kind patience as the team continues full steam towards the end of the year. As always we would like to kindly ask you for your feedback, and thank you for your kind and continued support! 

Your Heatblur Team 

 

DCS: F-4E Phantom II by Heatblur Simulations

• RWR: Fixed and improved ALR-46 signal detection threshold
• RWR: Improved ALR-46 handoff (diamond) logic
• RWR: Fixed ALR-46 CTD with no contacts
• RWR: Added A-6 to the database
• Wear and Damage:
  • Adjusted wear-induced failure frequency (less frequent)
  • At repair (spawn or manual), if aircraft quality is >50%, worn components are replaced; they are less likely to fail in flight. >85% quality receives new replacement components with no initial wear
• Persistent Aircraft:
  • NEW: Added “Reload Aircraft” keybind to load the persistent aircraft after changing livery and/or tail number in-game via the Rearm menu
  • Fixed fuel tank and fuel mass initialization
  • Fixed persistent aircraft not saving in multiplayer after releasing the slot
  • Fixed saving to the correct livery and tail number after they were changed in-game
  • Renamed Mission Editor spawn option from “Random” to “Default”
• Fixed a rare CTD when spawning a low-quality aircraft
• Fixed a rare CEF crash when exiting the aircraft
• Fixed a rare Jester crash when he’s analysing targets priority
• Model: Fixed missing VOR light mesh
• Model: Updated external model/LODs: added individual args for Greek AUP
• Systems: ANTI-SKID INOPERATIVE light no longer triggers Master Caution
• Systems: Improved drag chute behavior during rollout
• Systems: Fixed fuel issue in neg-G and active-pause, and feed-tank-switch
• JESTER: Fixed “airspeed coming alive” call occurring too early at takeoff
• JESTER: Fixed delay and smaller issues with copying pilot canopy
• Weapons: Added MK-84AIR, SAMP-250 LD/HD, CBU-52, BL-755, BLU-107, BDU-45 to the Bombing Calculator
• Weapons: Added Dive Angle to TGT FIND in the Bombing Table (RCTRL+B)
• Weapons: Added fuze-options to BL-755 cluster bomb (thanks near_blind)
• Missions: New: Added several instant action missions for the Cold War map
• Missions: New: Added BFM instant action mission for the Cold War map by Sedlo
• Missions: NEW: Added proxy command 20054 for Jester AUX channel tuning (value 0.XX, where XX is the two-digit channel number; similar to the COMM channel command)
• Failures: Added left/right Flap Actuator Failure
• Inputs: Added keybind for “Jester Next Turnpoint”

Edited Thursday at 10:38 PM by IronMike