JediMaster

You know, when you see stuff like this, you have to think Darwin was wrong...because people like this should be dead. Their continued existence seems to prove the reality of divine intervention.

Because you just can't get good help anywhere. Anyone ever sent their PC or laptop in for servicing only to get it back with the HD wiped? IPB apparently has former Geek Squad employees working for it.

"It's an heir!"

DCS A-10 on Steam is NOT DCS World. The Steam version is the standalone version which stops at 1.1.1. Starting with 1.2 all DCS products are part of DCS World. You need to DL DCS World and the A-10C module from ED's site and install them (World first) and the activation for the Steam A-10 will work with the DCS one with no extra steps. DCS World does a daily check for updates and updates itself when one is found, albeit not nearly as fast as Steam does.

There's nothing cool in BF3 that wasn't done in Desert Combat first.

Well, the acting is surprisingly not anymore wooden than the original cast at times!

No, but apparently you do need a "news" network to. So you let a corporation tell you instead of the gov't, that's a big step sideways. Stop watching the media and you'll be surprised how much better life is. Yours and everyone's around you.

Royalty is the original celebrity. That is has its roots in a longer tradition than what some drunk actress did at a party doesn't disguise the fact that it's just as irrelevant to our lives. But, these news agencies are unfortunately driven by profit, which means by viewership, so we get what a lot of people are apparently interested in seeing. It sucks to be in the minority.

Nazi and SS aren't synonymous. That's like saying every member of the Communist party in the USSR was untrustworthy once it collapsed. Many joined the party because it was necessary to succeed at all. The SS people like those in the picture were a different type.

I would think the abrasiveness of their skin as they whacked into you would be the big hazard!

It doesn't sound correct! The TIE screams, a D9 roars!

I didn't see in the article, did the robot eject???

Technical difficulties associated with the upgrade. As with everything in IT, your well-plaid plans are but fodder for the software and hardware to spit on.

*insert tasteless Asiana joke here*

I don't recall there being any RWR screen on any MFD in SF. All RWR/TEWS are on dedicated displays. If I'm wrong on this, someone correct me.

If there's no TIE Fighter to fight, why bother?

That pilot almost clipped his main gear on that barrier. That would've been disastrous for them as well as the crowd there.

Yeah, I like that radar a lot. The wingtip things are nice, but not needed like the CA enhancements are.

Well at least he was able to find it fast and get that out.

The problem the "only hardcore modules!!" crowd doesn't want to face is it will kill the hobby and DCS World. One, it takes a long time and a lot of money to make one, so the output rate is a slow crawl. That means when people go into DCSW to fly something there would be a very narrow range of options--not appealing to the wider audience. Two, its take a long time and a lot of effort to be competent in a DCS bird, and not every simmer wants that, and even those that do don't always want to fly that all the time. Sometimes you just want to chill out and not worry about whether you set your weapon profile in DSMS properly...and then watch your LGB sail off into the side of a mountain when you realize you didn't. Three, some of these modules aren't crowd-pleasers. The P-51 might have been, had there been a fully realized WWII environment for it. As it is, it's a novelty and most WWII simmers are sticking with Il-2. The Ka-50 will never be. The UH-1 will never be, it's not attack. The A-10C might have been, but its single role limits that. Four, no multirole modules yet. LOMAC's big negative, since the day of its release, was you had some planes good for A2A, and some planes good for ground pounding, but none were good at both. So you had to switch. This, along with the relaxed difficulty, is why Flaming Cliffs has been so popular compared to the "DCS" ones. One purchase and you can do either combat. When F/A-18C and/or one of the F-15E modules comes out, maybe we'll see the best-selling DCS module yet as it will be truly multirole and one pilot can do it all. That's what people want. I think an F-16C module would do well, too, although the BMS competition would lead to endless flame wars I'm sure. So, to summarize, what would an F-35 module offer? Relaxed difficulty, even if it's "full real", because the real plane isn't that hard to fly and fight in, especially compared to an A-10C or Ka-50. The sexiness factor, because it's new and sleek. The previous 2 are anything but sexy. The multirole angle, letting you do whichever you want even in the same mission. Name recognition, because all the press about it makes it the single most talked-about fighter out there right now. More people I'm sure know what an F-35 is/will be than know the A-10, especially after all these years. Now, is THIS F-35 proposal any good? I can't say. I DO think it's a good idea to make one, though. I also think what is needed is perhaps a "Flaming Cliffs 4" (obviously not using that name, just the concept) of several CURRENT/FUTURE fighters at relaxed realism in one package. Let's say F-22, F-35, Su-35, MiG-35, PAK-FA, Super Hornet? Perhaps throw in a Typhoon or Rafale or Gripen for Western European recognition? DCS World, LOMAC, and FC, other than the A-10C, has been stuck in the past of fighter combat since it started. The Su-25T was an anomaly because it wasn't an 80s plane, it was a late 90s one. Then the Ka-50 reinforced that, and the A-10C solidified that "embrace of current generation" over the previous one. They need to go all-in to the 21st century.

You forgot people get killed in NASCAR, too, and sometimes not even the drivers.

Did you also know that a MiG-27 is crap against an F-15? It's true! It's amazing anyone even BUILT MiG-27s when F-15s were out there! See, that "analysis" totally missed the point--the F-35 is designed to attack ground targets, with AA being a secondary capability. The Su-35 is designed to attack air targets, with a secondary ground attack ability. If the F-35 was designed to attack air targets...it would be an F-22! Or rather the F-35 is an F-22 scaled down to do a different mission. Complaining the F-35 isn't AWESOME in AA is totally missing the point that it's not SUPPOSED to be. It will be better than an F-16, aside perhaps from some corners of the dogfighting envelope, which it is replacing, like it's replacing Harriers and F/A-18Cs. An F-16 BTW is even worse off against an Su-35 than an F-35. And if anyone is trying to say that after the F-22 the best possible fighter is the Su-35, well that's just speculation too since the Su-35 isn't in service either. Oh, and I think it safe to say that in any possible engagement it doesn't matter how much small percentage better the Su-35 might be because it will be outnumbered by F-35s, something you wouldn't be able to say about F-22s. The number of F-35s to be built far outnumbers how many Su-35s will be built, and the countries buying them will have more F-35s than the countries buying Su-35s will get. The fact the the DoD is willing to get just 185 F-22s but wants over 2000 F-35s says something about where it believes the future threats will need to be addressed, as opposed to some armchair analysts giving their opinion based on unclassified data. Fighters just aren't shooting down fighters anymore. It's all about airplanes attacking ground targets while ground fire attacks airplanes. SAMs are the #1 threat, not an enemy fighter, and the Su-35 will be shot down by a SAM long before an F-35 would. Bombing enemies on the ground are the primary mission, and an F-35 is far more likely to be successful and precise in that then an Su-35. In fact, IIRC the USAF has spent a lot of time and money making sure the F-22 is up to the job of intercepting cruise missiles, especially hard-to-detect ones, because they're more worried about that than some "super fighter" shooting them down.

If you've thought about Cliffs of Dover but don't have it yet, it's only $13 on Steam till July 22nd during their Summer Sale. ATAG has put out a comprehensive mod addressing many of its shortcomings (not all, but quite a large number) and they're not done yet. So for the price of a small steak at a cheap restaurant you can get CloD, install ATAG's mod, and fly the unfriendly skies over Western Europe.

A point I've made time and again. The real planes are concerned with finding where targets are and hitting them. In a sim, the game knows where everything is, precisely, all the time. So for older planes it's actually about modeling when they would NOT be able to know where a given target or friendly is. For the F-35 you can just make some determination that it will just "know" any air target in a bubble of range X and any ground target in a bubble of range Y and leave it at that. Of course, many simmers don't like the F-22 and F-35 precisely because they've been designed to let the pilot fight like it's a video game, without needing hours of coursework, instruction, and practice to learn the arcane inner workings of their systems to get the most out of them and avoid their pitfalls. The design objectives of the F-22 and F-35 was to make a REAL pilot have "god mode" and know where everything was without being seen.

You only needed to reinstall stock LOMAC, no patches, no FC, to install FC3.