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With Modern Air Combat planned as a standalone product with dedicated server, will FC3 be absorbed by it and on the MAC servers only, putting all survey planes together or will it remain available on DCS World servers, away from MAC's deployment, whenever that may be?

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Indeed quite ... confusing !

 

Hi,

 

I bought the latest issue @ pocketmags.com with Matt's interview.

What is real clear is that MAC and DCS World will be *seperate* products.

Matt mentions a kind of "overseer" system above both -or- what I guess would be the COMMON parts!?

Anyway, what if we don't buy MAC but stick with FC3 ?

Will FC3 planes be upgraded as the MAC counterparts may ?

What about the enhanced-"modern 2019" UI, the new missions and kind of Editor and/or better mission generator ... will that (eventually?) become part of DCS World as well ??

I do trust ED not to leave DCS World with the older version, not MAC Enhanced version.

I don't know (not mentioned) whether the Mission/Campagin Editor will make it into MAC and if so, whether that too would be a new (but maybe simplified) version.

I hope more people buy the magazine issue, if only to learn more/get an opinion on and about "MAC".

BTW PCPilot is incredible ... like the article where the (DCS-) Spitfire is compared with the many other PC Games/Sims featuring it).

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I have it myself, good read but it made no mention of what I'm asking. Therefore, the question of if FC3 will be removed from DCS World and meshed with MAC. :)

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well no way FC3 will be removed, I bought FC3 to be played within DCS world not within another non exisiting game/platform.

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Agree with HiJack, why would ED absorb BST and then put their modules on another game? This provides an FC3 style game for the people who can't be bothered to learn AC like others in the community, and also targeting a new audience. They are all modules a lot of people already have which would make the community grow; we already have full fidelity planes vs FC3 grade planes online, why short yourself a huge market?

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There was a post by Nineline on a separate thread...

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3747310&postcount=16

 

 

One of the important points was that MAC will have separate smaller maps (NineLine did say that he was not 100% sure on that). Considering that... MAC and DCS:W may not really work together. Then you have the obvious debate on how MAC-level and DCS-level modules of the same airplane would compare to each other. Currently, it's on the mission makers to specify the aircraft and maps.

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Well i hope ED integrate it on DCS as originally planned as a module. Later in time? :D

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NineLine have said somewhere here on the forum that MAC will be both a DCS module, just like FC3 is now, and a separate product. So maybe you can just buy MAC if you are a new player, or upgrade DCS FC3 to MAC and keep playing as now. He also said "more info when available", so we just have to wait.

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What was their latest feedback for the release planning ?

Thanks

 

Haven't really seen any. I think there's enough going on right now (F-14, MiG-19) that they've got more important things on the burners for a bit.

 

We'll find out some time this year, I'm sure. :)

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While I'll end up getting MAC, if nothing else to support the franchise, I do hope that the improvements we've seen over the past year, such as that lovely version of the Kuznetsov, make their way into the FC3/DCS World as well.

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FC3 will be absorbed into MAC, although you should still be able to play those aircraft in DCS as before. I am not sure how it will all work in the end, if there will be a MAC tab, or if each aircraft will be listed separately in DCS. I am sure we will see more info on this as we get closer and they start showing off the first release.

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Whoa Steve, don't forget the CEII :megalol:

 

They need to add brick throwing capability for it so it fits into DCS

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They need to add brick throwing capability for it so it fits into DCS

 

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Well going by what Matt said in current PC Pilot interview, MAC is a totally seperate entity, and both "MAC and DCS will operate as unique apps within the Simulation Operating System" . I'm guessing that's an overall umbrella type thing that contains everything from ED.

 

I think it makes sense to seperate totally MAC for the people that enjoy simplified aircraft, using it possibly as stepping stone into the higher fidelity modules in DCS. I always thought that the FC3 module was a bit of an unloved child of the DCS franchise.

 

Saying that I still think it will be popular, not with existing players, but with new players which is what Matt alluded to in the interview.

 

Whether or not the current FC3 module will still be available within DCS is another matter once MAC is released, but personally Im interested in getting MAC despite owning a few DCS modules currently.

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I think it makes sense to seperate totally MAC for the people that enjoy simplified aircraft, using it possibly as stepping stone into the higher fidelity modules in DCS. I always thought that the FC3 module was a bit of an unloved child of the DCS franchise.

Same BS all over again. No, FC3 is not only for newbies. It's for those of us, that want to fly the aircraft that are included there. It's not like we have a choice. FC3 has PFM - that matters the most, so it is fully qualified to exist within DCS World.

 

I get it if someone feels overwhelmed with HiFi Mig-21 so buys MAC instead. But what if you want HiFi Mig-29? Yeah, not much options, FC3 only.

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Moreover, a lot of online air to air events are played with FC3 planes. Nevertheless, now that we have m2000c, f/a-18, f-14 and will have f-16 and f-15e full fidelity, I think it's a good idea to separate simplified simulation from the hardcore one. We should have at least one eastern full fidelity 4th gen fighter to be fully satisfied of this choice, but I've always seen FC3 planes as something a bit different from full fidelity DCS modules, so I think it's a good idea to separate. If I did not own FC3, I would not be interested in MAC, but as a FC3 owner, I hope my FC3 could be easily upgraded to MAC, ending with two different products with different purposes. In this scenario, it would not be a bad idea to completely remove game mode from DCS, leaving it only as an option for MAC players.


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Moreover, a lot of online air to air events are played with FC3 planes. Nevertheless, now that we have m2000c, f/a-18, f-14 and will have f-16 and f-15e full fidelity, I think it's a good idea to separate simplified simulation from the hardcore one. We should have at least one eastern full fidelity 4th gen fighter to be fully satisfied of this choice, but I've always seen FC3 planes as something a bit different from full fidelity DCS modules, so I think it's a good idea to separate. If I did not own FC3, I would not be interested in MAC, but as a FC3 owner, I hope my FC3 could be easily upgraded to MAC, ending with two different products with different purposes. In this scenario, it would not be a bad idea to completely remove game mode from DCS, leaving it only as an option for MAC players.

 

MAC and DCS are still compatible through Multiplayer.

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Same BS all over again. No, FC3 is not only for newbies. It's for those of us, that want to fly the aircraft that are included there. It's not like we have a choice. FC3 has PFM - that matters the most, so it is fully qualified to exist within DCS World.

 

I get it if someone feels overwhelmed with HiFi Mig-21 so buys MAC instead. But what if you want HiFi Mig-29? Yeah, not much options, FC3 only.

 

FC3 and in the future MAC are meant for people that either are new to flight sims, don't have time for or desire for the more complex full simulations, and those that simply enjoy those aircraft offered with that pack.

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…..Whether or not the current FC3 module will still be available within DCS is another matter once MAC is released.....

 

The 64 dollar question, right here.

 

Maybe we'll here more as MAC's debut, whenever that may be, draws closer.

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As we haven't one a single 4th gen red fighter, my opinion is that ED must bring us first a full fidelity Su-27, Su-33 and MiG-29, then they could split all they want.

Playing a sim to sim hypotetic and not historical accurate conflict between fighters that never fought eachother is not really much "hardcore" from my perspective.

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