Leatherneck Simulations - Organizational changes - Public statement - MAR 2017

good luck and best wishes

Just try and remember that a 'week' is the one with seven days in it.

I could not rep you my friend, but...

Best of luck to all of you.

Best wishes, gents!

RIP F-14

Lol I knew it was too good to be true.

In honor of this event.

There is a question.

Mig-21bis will be upgraded to DCS level?

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=182624

The Russian community has been waiting for this for 2 years.:helpsmilie:

"В честь данного события.

Есть вопрос.

Миг-21bis будет доделан до уровня DCS?

Русское сообщество ждёт этого уже 2 года."

Best of luck to every one involved, Hope the best for all

Best of luck with the new company and I'm very excited about the upcoming F4U-1D!

-Nick

In honor of this event.

There is a question.

 

Mig-21bis will be upgraded to DCS level?

 

Maybe a bit of a translation issue there. I think you're wondering when the Mig-21bis will finally have its bugs ironed out and reach release status.

About a year ago the module seemed like it was just about there. But bugs kept on creeping in with each new release...:no_sad:

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and wish the new team the very best. Eventually I expect the Mig-21 will get sorted out.:yes:

Hope you have a great future, and look forward to your next project.

About a year ago the module seemed like it was just about there. But bugs kept on creeping in with each new release...:no_sad:

Not the only module that has suffered such affliction. VEAO put a statement on Facebook recently that it had experienced issues with it's HAWK flight model after 1.56 release. I am just waiting for the 2.5 merge and shall we say a more settled platform with a single unified install for all products.

For any F14 fans this Leatherneck announcement is not good news and hopefully not a sign of things to come with other developers. I have been a long term advocate for DCS and have been flying since Lockon and the Flaming Cliffs days. I have pretty much every modern cold war module (except for the Viggen) but now I am in a holding pattern. I hope this is just a minor setback for the wider DCS 3rd party developer community in what has been a great product. Yes it's not perfect but whatever is.

For any F14 fans this Leatherneck announcement is not good news and hopefully not a sign of things to come with other developers.

Shouldn't have any effect on the DCS: F-14 - the F-14 team and Magnitude team haven't overlapped for a while.

-Nick

I wish you all the best for the future of these two teams but not very happy to hear this news.

For me Leatherneck has created the best modules for DCS, with the Mig-21 and AJS-37 Viggen, these two modules added many new features like the A-G radar, the best cockpits and textures.

I hope this separation will be not wrong or negative for these two modules and their future.

It's not the best news for us but now just wait, see and pray. Leatherneck was an incredible team of talent, divided this awesome team it's maybe necessary for the humans behind this team but is it good for our modules I not sure...

Good luck guys ;-)

Wish also good luck from my side, Mig 21 is one of my absolute favourite DCS Modules and hopping this work out in the Future for you.

I could not rep you my friend, but...

 

Me neither so +1 for you! :D

On topic. I hope Mig21 will get its finishing touches (fixes, ASP, Pilot inside, etc).

Also, ED will license both teams without problems?

Why is it that I feel like the child of a set of parents that have just announced that they are getting a divorce?? :(

I sure wish the best for both parties. :thumbup:

"Regain financial stability" sounds a little ominous, particularly given they're down to one revenue generating module. If anyone has been meaning to get the -21 but hasn't pulled the trigger yet, you may want to do so. Throw them a few bucks to help get them through a difficult time.

 

 

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+1.

Already have the Mig21 module, but would be willing to support the dev's in some other way financially if it's a matter of survival.

It's been said many times on this forum - flight simming is a niche market, so we as consumers need to be supportive.

Point is where does that leave MAGNITUDE 3 LLC ? It looks like this split existed inside of the company for quite a while and the one taking goodies is Heatblur Simulations - with recently released Viggen module and extremely popular F-14 Tomcat - much easier to bring more money. In the meantime MAGNITUDE guys are staying with older module, still fantastic, but simply less attractive at this point. And with no news on what they are up to now.

Looks to me like MAGNITUDE is going to have a very hard time.

Thanks for your job. We look forward to continuing to enjoy it in the future. Greetings

You are not technicians, you are artists.

Point is where does that leave MAGNITUDE 3 LLC ? It looks like this split existed inside of the company for quite a while and the one taking goodies is Heatblur Simulations - with recently released Viggen module and extremely popular F-14 Tomcat - much easier to bring more money. In the meantime MAGNITUDE guys are staying with older module, still fantastic, but simply less attractive at this point. And with no news on what they are up to now.

 

Looks to me like MAGNITUDE is going to have a very hard time.

From their Facebook post it looks like there is a visit to Hickory, NC for a final bit of Tomcat research.

Although the Tomcat does not belong to them there was a mention of the F-105 Thunderchief.

Also considering that the Hickory Aviation Museum is rich in Vietnam era aircraft I believe this

will be their stable of modules to come which will be very very nice!

Best wishes and good luck to both teams. Will continue to buy your products.

No, at least not immediately. There is Corsair before which still seems to be the thing.

But whatever new they pick up - it wont come earlier than 1.5-2 years. And they got to run on something in the meantime, as Heatblur takes Viggen generating flow already and Tomcat which might be one of the best selling modules in DCS history and which is scheduled for this year.

Makes me also wonder why Heatblur is still milking MiG-21 : https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/posts/683739691813652

From their Facebook post it looks like there is a visit to Hickory, NC for a final bit of Tomcat research.

Although the Tomcat does not belong to them there was a mention of the F-105 Thunderchief.

Also considering that the Hickory Aviation Museum is rich in Vietnam era aircraft I believe this

will be their stable of modules to come which will be very very nice!

That post was quite probably by what is now becoming the Heatblur Simulations. Also I wouldn't read into the F-105 bit, it's just a call to support the museum's crowd funding efforts for restoring an F-105, who have been gracious to them in helping with F-14 research.

Magnitude 3 now seem to have the F4U Corsair and the Pacific theater as the only thing we know of in development line.

They may have other things too, at least Novak's post seemed like they at least hope/intent to release two more modules in next two years, I can't imagine second module not being already in some form of development in that case.

What may it be though? It may be the elusive MiG-23, or it may be another Pacific warbird (possibly a Japanese one), or maybe none of these. These are all speculations at this point after all.

What is certain for me is, that I hope both new studios will flourish and stay afloat. We need more developers in this platform.

Another bit of certainty is, I really hope that Magnitude 3 will also be able to complete the ironing out of the MiG-21Bis, as it has quite a number of kinks at this point.

I think fault is in MIG-21. Everyone which develop that plane have a "real live problems" :P Its like MIG-21bis be like Black Horse.

No, at least not immediately. There is Corsair before which still seems to be the thing.

But whatever new they pick up - it wont come earlier than 1.5-2 years. And they got to run on something in the meantime

 

Our medium-term goals (12 months, JAN 2017-JAN 2018) are:

- Improve staff work flow,

- Release a new DCS module, which is now in development,

- Improve customer support for increased workload for modules support.

 

I am confident that this will happen. Novak aka Dolphin887 has an impressive resume and IMO an ability to lead. Not trying blow sunshine, but just my personal take.