Icarus999

Okay I am going to state the obvious here -Personally I believe the biggest step we could take right now is to gain a full understanding of the inner workings of the new terrain engine. If TK is unwilling to engage in a dialogue on this issue, a new cat extractor utility must be developed.

That would be all quite possible in reality if TK's games were "good to go" out of the box. But the sad truth is that these games are only "good to go" in TK's personal reality. I think he has had a lot of new sales but those folks are coming away from the purchase feeling disappointed. If I had not found Combat Ace my copy of wings over Vietnam would have went in the garbage. As the stock game looked very bad by 2005 standards felt somewhat ripped off...and I would have never bought all of his other titles. ...as I did when I found out you could make the games look pretty damn good if you modded the install. In my assessment TK Takes the path of least resistance. Some people take great personal pride in pushing them selves to create something that was greater than anything they ever thought they were capable of, they do what they do because it is in their heart and they love it . Others are afraid to step out of their comfort zone, still others are bull headed and cannot see what is right before them or care what their customer base wants. If there was a huge wave of new loyal customers over at third wire you would see all of the new faces on the forums. You know who i see over there? All of you folks and a few people from capuns site or Sim HQ... thats about it exept for that freaking troll that keeps resurfacing with a new screen name every week.

I am using a combination of modded weapons packs with the April patch level and I have no problems with missile effectiveness. However this stutter issue with the May/ June patches is unacceptable in my opinion.

Does this patch fix the problem with the stutters that many of us started having with the last patch?

Read today that he was quoted saying that he is not worried about his fate in prison. Then again considering his fondness for anal sex, perhaps he is looking forward to serving his time. My bet is he gets shived sooner than later if he is not put into protective custody.

I read this morning that both crew members were in good shape. Perhaps this story is as they say "evolving". Syrians really screwed up big time!

Looks great ... wow you work fast!!

Nice touch adding the east coast reserve squadron(VAQ-209) are you doing the west coast(VAQ-309) as well?

It's kinda like that hollow shortchanged feeling that people got when the Blue angels traded in their F-4J's for A-4's in the name of economy.

seems like we would need to expand it/ add a bunch of sea tiles.

Yes... and it seems to me that the rudder response is vastly improved. The original flight model was a bear... I would be all over a mig but I needed to bring the nose just a few degrees on target for a gun kill and It would be almost impossible. Those members who have flown the F-4 in RL ,especialy the slatted wing versions have stated that the third wire flight model needed work and that the real phantom was able to make finer movements to bring its nose on target( once it was pointed in the general direction of the target) with much less difficulty than the third wire flight model allowed at that time.

I still think that submarines are our most neglected area when it comes to naval warfare. I would love to see some quality cruise/ballistic missile subs.

I went back to the April patch. No more stutters.

Nope my rig is much different than yours and i have the stutters too

A while back there was a mod that changes the angle of descent for carrier landings so that the carrier was visible as apposed to being obscured by the aircraft's nose on approach. Does anyone remember that file, or its name? I have searched both gen1 and 2 downloads section and come up with nothing.

let me clarify that.. a better question might be- Is it cockpit view that is causing stutters with avionics60.dll aircraft? Or is it perhaps the general operation of that.dll by even an AI bird is enough to cause the stutters?

My frame rates are high but I am getting stutters with the new patch. Stock install flying the f-14. I read about the avionics 60dll issue. And I am wondering if the presence of enemy AI aircraft that use that dll may be responsible for the stutters

Has the stock Tarawa been updated to function as a "Carrier"? I remember people having problems with it in that role when SF2NA first came out.

(1) It is my understanding that the thirdwire lod export utility tool is incompatible with the current versions of 3ds max ... that it only works with max 2009. Is that correct? (2) backwards compatibility- can a model completed in the current version of max be imported into the 2009 version for .LOD creation and then export to the sim? thanks for your advise.

Or possibly you dont have the proper dumb versions of the smart bombs? ... the aircraft was set up that way so that the AI would actually drop something on the desert storm campaign strike missions.

It is such a huge terrain with such great potential. The whole region from Syria to north Africa just begs to be targetized and have nice desert tile work inserted.

Hell yeah!!! We are back!! And SimHQ can kiss my sack.

Seriously guys I think the remedy for a lot of our current anger is a working cat file extractor... and I remember a certain member posting a while back that he had designed an extractor that gets everything but wouldn't make it available because it would just cause TK to take more drastic steps to lock everything down. I seriously hope that member reads this thread and perhaps reconsiders that decision.

One other thought in relation to my first post regarding developer support- TK stated that this title has the highest sales figures of any TW product to date.. That being the case why would the man not take the time to engage his customers in discussion. Bad business model.