JediMaster

He needs a Bond-type death. Perhaps being sucked out of a plane at 30,000 ft with no parachute? A cartridge of compressed air rammed down his throat to overinflate him?

There's always sharks.

I think it would've looked better shooting down Commie bombers!

Yes, I do NOT recommend DL and installing a module you don't plan on buying or you WILL get that message forever.

I DL'd and installed BS2, A-10C, and CA (I already owned BS2 and A-10C) but I was planning on waiting a bit till I bought CA. However, once the stupid thing was always popping up on me, and since I WAS going to get it anyway, I caved and bought it then.

I think I DL'd the P-51 module, but since I'm not planning on getting it right now I'm glad I waited to install it.

Any idea which of those other than ED's will get the "DCS" branding? I know MiG-21 is supposed to and F-22 is NOT, but beyond that I'm not certain.

USAF testing confirms it IS the most beautiful thing they ever saw.

(Obscure American Beauty reference)

Are any of the mods going to be freeware?

Depends on your definition of "mods". If you mean "flyable a/c", then I would guess NO. I think because ED gives some help to all these modules they charge the modder somehow, making "free" into "the modder pays ED to let others have a free plane" and that won't fly!

If you mean things like zzzspace's sound replacement (which is out already), or perhaps 3D model replacements for some of the AI-only planes or ground units, sure. Lots of that was already made for FC/FC2 and can be brought over with ease.

So things like Stary has done, things like sky, terrain, and effects, along with sprucing up any of the other visuals in-game, I'm sure could still be free. New units I believe will have to be pay. I just hope that the whole "everyone sees every plane released and can fly with or against them as AI, but you have to buy to fly" sticks. I don't want to have to buy a P-51 to see it flying against a convoy or anything.

I've not tried the Chap yet, but I've played as a tank and an arty piece. I'm not sure how to work the arty right yet, frankly, because its sights are only good WVR and arty is best BVR!

It's still beta and a bit rough around the edges, but it IS fun. The first thing I hope they fix (purely for immersion) is the lack of acceleration/decel. Your vehicle is at a stop, it's now going 10km/h, it's stopped. Doesn't really change how it plays, as I said it's purely aesthetic.

I really need to spend more time with all the DCS stuff, though.

Matt already said FC3 will be a DCSW Module, and will require LOMAC to be installed as well.

 

I don't think either of those qualify as "features." More like "installation prerequisites."

I miss TFS. The perfect one for me.

He lived a life most of us could only dream of aspiring to.

There must be SOME reason for some of these apparently inexplicable changes. Either to fix a bug or support an upcoming feature I guess, but it's not like he tells us!

MP is still the #1 thing I miss from SF1 and the reason a few of my friends skipped the series. They only buy flight sims with MP (even the ones that spend like no more than 25% of their time in MP)!

I don't know if the official features list of FC3 has been released yet. At this point other than "it's coming" we know little.

Lemme guess...you're gonna put a CVN into DCS World?

It's a Fairey Gannet, square folding wings for deployment on aircraft carriers, twin props, and dome under the fuselage. Sub hunter was a defined role.

I don't like them. They wet their nests.

Almost looked like a bubble of air coming off the deck gave it some extra lift just as it crossed and pushed it up, hence it almost missed #4 even.

One of his best IMO. IIRC, it was the first of many, MANY films he made with Denzel Washington.

Also, I will say this: Compared to his brother Ridley, I like MORE of Tony's films (I've watched and enjoyed most of them) than I do Ridley's (who has films like White Squall and that Columbus one I just couldn't even make myself watch). Now when Ridley is good he blows Tony anyway, but Tony was far more consistent. Say Tony's films were almost always at least a "B" while Ridley would vaccilate from "A"s to "D"s. Pick a film from them at random and I was more likely to enjoy Tony's than Ridley's, even though some of Ridley's best I have on DVD and the only Tony one I have is Top Gun. Actually, I keep meaning to get Crimson Tide on Bluray, it was a great one.

Most definitely.

One of the many interesting ideas from the 50s that went nowhere.

While that SOUNDS right, think about it...all of us with SF2:I being told we need to pay a premium to get .ini edits and some skins? Sounds like a $3 thing like the A-4C or IIIEL to me. You just need SF2I.

In theory. In practice, I think ED is being a bit cautious. I suppose if all here formally organized somehow to do it, it might work. But it also might not.

Yet the AA-12 was even better than the AMRAAM was ever dreamed to be...

Case in point: Soon-Tek Oh. He's Korean (as the name indicates), although he was born in Japan. I'm not sure which languages he speaks fluently, other than accented English, but I've seen him play:

A Japanese officer in The Final Countdown.

A Chinese cop in Man With the Golden Gun.

Various Chinese characters on Kung Fu.

Japanese, Chinese, and who knows what else on Hawaii 5-0.

Koreans on MASH.

Japanese on Tales of the Gold Monkey.

Vietnamese on Hunter.

Mongolian on Stargate SG-1.

And of course an alien something-or-other on Babylon 5 (and he's clearly a human, so that was the biggest stretch so far )

*Kirk trips you with a move that would never REALLY work, but always works for him*

*raised eyebrow, tilted head, smirk*

I don't think the F-22 will be that hard to model. If anything, it's easy to. The only issue is figuring out what it can't do, not what it can.

You just proceed from "sees everything, no one sees it", "outflies most everything in close", and "total glass cockpit". I think the old Novalogic and iMagic F-22 sims from the 90s did a good job modeling the plane. The worlds they were in were of variable quality, but the plane worked pretty much as unclassifed reports declare. It's a lot harder to model something like an F-15E or A-10 that have lots of limitations.