DCS: F-14A/A+/B by Heatblur Simulations coming to DCS World!

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Just a FYI, I should be able to slam on the airbrakes on the F-14 and ANY jet that's tailing me will be forced to overshoot me.

I'm not familiar with how they came to the move in the movie production, but it would be interesting if it was actually referring to the <90 degree Cobra the F-14 did in tests.

 

Just a FYI, I should be able to slam on the airbrakes on the F-14 and ANY jet that's tailing me will be forced to overshoot me.

 

The so called "Cobra" flown by any aircraft is a formula for instant death. It is a great show exhibit, but with another aircraft on your tail that is close enough to overshoot - you are already dead!

^^that's right

another thing about the "cobra" --- the SU doesn't NEED this maneuver - its already got such a substantial performance advantage that it makes this stunt even more of a joke to consider it seriously as a viable tactic

if SU fanboys knew how to fly their platform properly, they wouldn't focus so much on gee-charlie-whiz-bang hocus-pocus buck-rodgers magic wand silver bullet maneuvers to save their bacon

they'd just go out and kill bandits

gee-charlie-whiz-bang hocus-pocus buck-rodgers magic wand silver bullet maneuvers

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gee-charlie-whiz-bang hocus-pocus buck-rodgers magic wand silver bullet maneuvers to save their bacon

they'd just go out and kill bandits

What it means LOL

What it means LOL

It means 2 things:

1. The 27 is such a good plane all across the envelope, you don't really need to resort to post stall maneuvers to win. If you fly it well that is.

2. Cobra and other similar post stall maneuvers seam to have acquired the attributes of a "magic wand" in the wide internet culture..... a sort of "cure all disease" pill. And that is besides the fact that flying anywhere near the part of the envelope where you can perform it, is a best bet of getting yourself killed (unless in a WW1 environment or against extremely inexperienced/inapt enemy).

So......any updates on development?

I want to know if they are going to tell us if the f-14 page in their website will be up, or if we will have to find out our selfs.

I want to know if they are going to tell us if the f-14 page in their website will be up, or if we will have to find out our selfs.

Not up yet, I imagine that someone will post it shortly after they update - though likely one of us crazy forum members.

I'm looking forward to it, hopefully soon.

-Nick

Yes I would imagine they will post an update when their site is up and live with F-14 stuff... Leatherneck has certainly been the best I've seen at keeping us updated.

Yes I would imagine they will post an update when their site is up and live with F-14 stuff... Leatherneck has certainly been the best I've seen at keeping us updated.

In my opinion they are not as good as they could be to update the community. They announced monthly newsletter. After three, where the last was very late, they cancelled this. The website didn't get any love since Mig21 is out and an updated site with news about the F14 and for the Mig21 is overdue as well. I'm sure there are good reasons for this.

Mig21 is by far my most favourite module. Great job and every day a joy to fly. As of now public relations shows some potential and unfortunately is not of the quality you would expect judging by their product.

In my opinion they are not as good as they could be to update the community. They announced monthly newsletter. After three, where the last was very late, they cancelled this. The website didn't get any love since Mig21 is out and an updated site with news about the F14 and for the Mig21 is overdue as well.

 

Don't get me wrong. Mig21 is by far my most favourite module. Great job and every day a joy to fly. As of now public relations shows some potential and unfortunately is not of the quality you would expect judging by their product.

I'd like to hear more from them too, but if it's mostly coding and rough work, i'd say it's hard to write anything really interesting, and keeping the other planes quiet, even though we've all got ideas what they are, kinda builds suspense, and I guess gives the devs a bit more room to breath...

just going to let the product, and not its advertising, do the talking... we shall see...

Well said Hadwell. Based on their previous 'outing' the Mig21bis, I would say that Im very confident that Leatherneck will deliver the best quality full DCS study-sim possible.

In my opinion they are not as good as they could be to update the community. They announced monthly newsletter. After three, where the last was very late, they cancelled this. The website didn't get any love since Mig21 is out and an updated site with news about the F14 and for the Mig21 is overdue as well. I'm sure there are good reasons for this.

 

Mig21 is by far my most favourite module. Great job and every day a joy to fly. As of now public relations shows some potential and unfortunately is not of the quality you would expect judging by their product.

I can't agree at all. We hardly get any word out of DCS except a sporadic update with few details and still little to no real knowledge on release dates of modules like the F-18(could be another 2years at this rate lol). Leatherneck has released photos, answered questions and in general given us more info than any other module builder. Would I love to see more? Sure but I'm also happy and thankful for what they have been releasing...oh and BTW if you read their last update more closely Cobra said they would go away from monthly updates and do more frequent smaller progress updates as things happen...that's actually more info coming our way rather than less.

Well said Hadwell. Based on their previous 'outing' the Mig21bis, I would say that Im very confident that Leatherneck will deliver the best quality full DCS study-sim possible.

I dont think there would be a problem with the overall graphical quality of the product, that is a strong side of LN but not so much the working of the aircraft systems. The Mig has quite simple systems and LN was not able to implement those accuratelly. Take a look at the bugs and problems threads at the Mig forum. If only I saw one single finished product from LN I would believe that they are capable to put a real beast together like the tomcat...

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I dont think there would be a problem with the overall graphical quality of the product, that is a strong side of LN but not so much the working of the aircraft systems. The Mig has quite simple systems and LN was not able to implement those accuratelly. Take a look at the bugs and problems threads at the Mig forum. If only I saw one single finished product from LN I would believe that they are capable to put a real beast together like the tomcat...

Hmm...people are entitled to opinions, even without a basis in reality.

I feel rather differently about it, I guess that we will continue to disagree (which is a good sign from what I can tell).

-Nick

I dont think there would be a problem with the overall graphical quality of the product, that is a strong side of LN but not so much the working of the aircraft systems. The Mig has quite simple systems and LN was not able to implement those accuratelly. Take a look at the bugs and problems threads at the Mig forum. If only I saw one single finished product from LN I would believe that they are capable to put a real beast together like the tomcat...

Please elaborate and explain. With the exception of the A-10C, the MiG-21 is the most detail oriented aircraft in DCS, and while not perfect appears to have very few bugs. Besides, sometimes the "simple" manual systems are sometimes harder to replicate because the sim can't just use the "actual" data but has to create its own algorithm for the instrument (e.g. air data computer), induce barometric lag, etc..

Well there's things like the RS-2US and GROM missiles that don't work with the newer radar the bis has, but they already know this, and kept them anyway probably just to increase the amount of weapons the mig-21 can use, the ASP is a little awkward for shooting the cannons, you can't carry 8x R-60s or R-60Ms, but you can carry 4x R-60 and 4x R-60M, so that makes no sense at all.. and from what I've read in the translated manuals, you can carry 4x R-13M1s, but in game you can't, need to make sure the RATO switches are off till the ground crew says "rearming complete" or even if their in the on position, they wont fire or jettison till you turn them off and back on again, if you take off with RATO pods, jettison them, when you land and re-arm, no matter what you do, you lose your RATO pods the second they spawn in, need to cycle all the RATO related switches and press all the RATO related buttons, and then re-arm again after you lose them... but most of the other bugs seem to have been worked out, not that I'd know what they'd be...

I guess all those fall into the minor bug category though.

...oh and BTW if you read their last update more closely Cobra said they would go away from monthly updates and do more frequent smaller progress updates as things happen...that's actually more info coming our way rather than less.

Right. He wrote and I read this. The keywords are "more" and "frequent". And I can't see any frequency. Despite...one newsletter in a year and this continuing for 10 years creates some kind of frequency too.... :smilewink:

Right. He wrote and I read this. The keywords are "more" and "frequent". And I can't see any frequency. Despite...one newsletter in a year and this continuing for 10 years creates some kind of frequency too.... :smilewink:

I appreciate your opinion but please try to be accurate in your critiscism.

There have been 5 major updates this year (2 F-14 Updates, 1 F-14 Announcement, 2 Monthly newsletters).

The more frequent updates won't begin until somewhere towards August as we announce the next two aircraft slated for release in 2015.

Considering the fact that its only been like 3 months since we were officially informed about this project and the abundance of information we have already been given, I think they have been really good at keeping us in the loop, (probably more so then any other developer) That's my opinion. Also their Mig-21 is boss!

I'm satisfied with the info coming out, though I have to wonder why the third of three modules planned for release is the only officially announced one. There has to be an interesting story behind that decision.:)