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As the title says, how does the Hornet's long and early access prepurchase timeline affect the release of Heatblur's Tomcat?

 

As far as I know, there was never more than one module available for pre-purchase. Does this mean that we will not see the Tomcat before the F18 hits early access?


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I'm not expecting to see the release of the F14 until fall 2018.

 

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From a business point of view this is totally not viable. The way I know ED is that if Heatblur provides them with an EA build and they approve it, it will just go into the normal pre-purchase and EA phase. Unless its really close to the Hornet, like within a month of the Hornet Release, they might postpone, but not if its ready for EA in March and the Hornet is ready in June (Worst case)

 

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I'm pretty sure the Tomcat will come out before the Hornet.

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As the title says, how does the Hornet's long and early access prepurchase timeline affect the release of Heatblur's Tomcat?

 

As far as I know, there was never more than one module available for pre-purchase. Does this mean that we will not see the Tomcat before the F18 hits early access?

 

I don't think so, if you look on the list of planed modules to be released in 2018. If they wait until June(worst case) to EA the F-18 they must release 2 modules every month for the rest of the year.

 

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From the last updates that Cobra showed us I get the feeling that the Tomcat will ready to release late February early March or there about. The problem is that we don't get many updates about the Tomcat while the Hornet gets one almost daily. Also we haven't seen anything other than the Chromcat and a few finished bits and pieces making us think that it is still far off.

However the big mystery this time around is the huge amount of time from the pre-purchase availability until the early access release and the vagueness of the early access date. As far as I know most pre-purchases start about a month before the release so this puts hope in me that we will get the Tomcat before the Hornet. Well, we can only wait and see.

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From a business point of view this is totally not viable. The way I know ED is that if Heatblur provides them with an EA build and they approve it, it will just go into the normal pre-purchase and EA phase. Unless its really close to the Hornet, like within a month of the Hornet Release, they might postpone, but not if its ready for EA in March and the Hornet is ready in June (Worst case)

 

Just because it has never happened before does not mean it never will ;)

 

 

 

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Is the F-14 pushed back now the F-18 is in pre-purchase?

 

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F-14 is already most likely in the hands of the public here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=199221 NDA signed of coarse i would think, This happened with the viggen also so the F-14 is not that far away.

 

As the F-14 is popular and a first day buy, I have know doubt ED got the F-18 pre purchase out the way before the F-14 drop, This way both parties are win win.

 

They don't have it yet..

 

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Potentially gives them a six month window to get the F14 out...

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That's pretty pessimistic.....I certainly expect it well before that.

 

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Our only concern currently is to bring the Tomcat to a level where we're proud of it and would feel no shame in releasing it to the public. I'm sure that once we're ready to go live, we'll be discussing appropriate spacings to other releases with Eagle Dynamics. I'm also sure that they will meet us with professionalism and work with us to make sure both aircraft get smooth rollouts.

 

I'd like to reiterate that we hope to make the Tomcat a very solid, robust and complete launch, with as little missing features as possible. We're also breaking a lot of new ground (in all departments) with the F-14, so it's important that we get it right.

 

It's honestly not long now until both the F-18 and the F-14 take to the sky together in DCS. Focus on that for now! 2018 is going to be awesome!

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