ThirdWire's website is down

[Flanker562]

4 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

it would be nice, but im not sure if he would go through the hassle esp if TW got snooty about that (even with intent to send them the money)

Forgot about that, yeah he'd have to work out some kinda plan or something, thanks.

[daddyairplanes]

29 minutes ago, GKABS said:

I need to find my latest SF2 Thirdwire executable file. I’m sure I have it somewhere, but you guys are making me feel a bit anxious. 

i was gonna ask "what the one from July 2013?" as a joke.

but then i realized theres the all in one package, and didnt remember when that came out

then realized the sites down so i cant see when it came out

oof.

[daddyairplanes]

1 minute ago, Flanker562 said:

Forgot about that, yeah he'd have to work out some kinda plan or something, thanks.

nah go ahead and ask. we're at no right now, so worst case after asking is to still be no. but he might surprise us

[Flanker562]

Yeah I don't think he talks to TK but I'll bring it up in the Staff forum.

[Mechman]

Figures, I buy a fresh copy after being away for nearly 20 years and the site goes down a month later

[Sundowner]

He's getting it ready for the SF 3 announcement.................

[DoctorQuest]

23 minutes ago, Sundowner said:

He's getting it ready for the SF 3 announcement.................

The truly sad thing is I think SF3 would be a day one buy for a lot of folks. Updated graphics, current generation avionics, keep the mod friendly design.......... 

I'm in.

[Flanker562]

Latest word from Erik is pretty much a wait and see, he mentioned that TK might be going to Steam, so we'll see on putting the stuff here then.

[Goob113870]

7 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

SF2 hasnt been his favorite child for over a decade

and theres often enough blow back to the changes he made over the years at the time that they happened) that i can understand why he doesnt share

every update between the release of North Atlantic and his final patch in july 13 was met with probably more complaints than compliments

"the missiles are too strong" "the missiles are too weak" "the latest patch broke my mods" "why did you make this DLC, the one at CA is better" etc etc etc.

we (the modding community at large) have had SF2's back for the last 15 years

i totally understand but come on he can man-up and just say something, anything. he doesn't have to be radio silent. because SF2 isn't his favorite child , he does not need to punish the community.   

[daddyairplanes]

read the whole thing kemosabe

 

[Flanker562]

8 hours ago, Goob113870 said:

i have over 188 gb of saved SF2 stuff including all my saved Thirdwire download .exe's. so barring a hard drive failure on the 6TB drive i'm golden for now. I just don't understand TK's mentality at all in regards to Ghosting everyone and his SF2 creation.

It's a long sordid story with him and the Strike Fighters series, I mean there's always some kind of drama going on honestly. And he just doesn't like to tell us.

[Viggen]

Well I sure hope the website returns or they do end up on Steam because the external I had my installers on corrupted. Oof

[Flanker562]

I mean you can get WoE on Steam, but nothing else yet though.

[Wrench]

the only reason WoE on the stream is that it's not published by TK, but from the original distrubution company. Odd that SF1 isn't there either

[Flanker562]

Yeah I keep checking at least one or few times a day to see if they'll update it with more titles, but still just WoE

[Erik]

Update on the thirdwire.com site.

I did some digging on this and from what I can see from the outside looking in, this was likely unintentional.

The AWS 53 forwarding was removed or deleted from TK's Amazon AWS account, so the domain isn't rendering and it's getting stuck in an AWS server not found page.

I @TK_ThirdWire on X.com and we'll see if he responds. He likely doesn't even know the site is down if he's not checking it routinely. Either way we'll see what happens and update you as we know more.

 

 

[Raymond2019]

I'm sure it's just a minor problem with the website as they have been updating "Strike Fighters Modern Combat" on the iphone for the Operation Allied Force 1999 pack; something I'd love to have for the PC version when the time comes.

[Flanker562]

 

[whiteknight06604]

On 5/5/2026 at 1:16 PM, Sundowner said:

He's getting it ready for the SF 3 announcement.................

in just 2 weeks....

[daddyairplanes]

On 5/5/2026 at 4:16 PM, Sundowner said:

He's getting it ready for the SF 3 announcement.................

 

On 5/7/2026 at 3:40 PM, whiteknight06604 said:

in just 2 weeks....

 

and it was then i felt a shift in the Force. as if a million modders cried out at once

"F^(%!!!!! my mods are broken!!!"

[yakarov79]

20 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

and it was then i felt a shift in the Force. as if a million modders cried out at once

 Imagine if he releases SF3....but it is completely locked for messing around. Did anyone consider that? Maybe we do not want SF3 at all.

Edited 4 hours ago by yakarov79

[GKABS]

You think so? I wouldn't hold my breath. 

But that would be a killer 

[Flanker562]

Yeah that's how games survive these days, Arma 3 came out thirteen years ago, and while A4 is around the corner next year, it's still encouraging people to make content.

[Wrench]

IF an SF3 were to magically appear, and it was locked for mods; he'd just be cutting his own throat. Like Flanker, the survival is it's openness to modding

What is happening, as posted above, is just some kind of technical glitch (at least the hatch didn't blow). 

In other thoughts, seeing those screenies from the mobile game, if that Entendard ever got release as an SF DLC, I wonder how it would be?