New Years Wish List for the Tomcat

[Wizard_03]

Whats are the things you want most from Heatblur for the F-14 in 2020?

 

 

For me its:

 

 

1. Jester LANTIRN

2. Complete working OBC/Emergency Generator checks.

3. Red HSD night Filter and visual frames for it and the VDI flilter

4. Oxygen Panel for the front seat

5. TWS Auto

6. Fixed Afterburner visuals

7. Correct Digital Engine Tapes

8. Forrestal Class

9. F-14A

10. A-6

 

 

In more or less that order, I would rather they Finnish the core F-14B Experience before moving on to goodies like the carrier, A-6, and other immersion Assets but that's me. What do you think? :)

Edited December 25, 2019 by Wizard_03

[Nealius]

I keep hearing about this "Auto TWS".....doesn't Jester already do this?

[Wizard_03]

As I understand it we are supposed to get a steering cue for the scan centroid, to place the nose in correct position in the front seat and The WCS automatically centers the scan on the tracks. Right now it’s easy to lose a track if you’re not on top of where jester is pointing the scan volume.

 

It’s just a quality of life thing, for when your cranking or changing aspect/attitude and have a bunch of tracks to manage and want to keep the radar pointed at them without having to tell jester or your RIO to manually slew the scan around.

Edited December 25, 2019 by Wizard_03

[CommanderRabb]

Basically everything you said at the top post.

[ustio]

I wish the TCS FOV is selectable through jester menu. or make it narrow by default. this would help IDing enemy quite fast.

 

also i know that you guys are reworking the jester menu but i wish the position of jester menu would stay fixed. for example, if you change the radar to silent, the STT menu would disappear, and other jester menu would change its positions(radar elevation change from 3 to 2, azimuth change from 4 to 3, etc) this F'ed me up when i'm trying to select a menu because i already have a muscle memory and I'm not using head tracker to select head jester menu

 

1 more thing. When i select any ACM mode, the jester option will automatically switch to WVR. This thing got me killed many times when theres a bandit at medium range, because i was trying to change the radar elevation and distance. but because the jester option is now WVR, i have to go through the jester main menu then BVR to change the radar settings. by the time i got the correct radar settings the enemy is already killed me. And there only jettison tank option in WVR, i think it should be put in the jester main menu

Edited December 25, 2019 by ustio

[Uxi]

1) F-14A Hi Viz Danger Zone.

2) Forrestal and Ranger (see #1)

3) F-14D (HUD, MFD, JDAM, etc)

[FWind]

F-14D

[TOYKILLA]

Pilot Bodys for VR User

 

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[Wizard_03]

I wish the TCS FOV is selectable through jester menu. or make it narrow by default. this would help IDing enemy quite fast.

 

It would be cool to have a whole section on the wheel for TCS, for FOV selection and auto/scan/manual selection.

 

Also unrelated I want the ability to remove the nacelle pylons for the Eternal tanks when I’m not using them.

[Mr. Big.Biggs]

In would like to see someone create a Hud airspeed mod because I suffer with the actual dial indicator, but I know to some that is heresy so I’ll shut up.

[Dauntless]

1. Jester LANTIRN

2. Complete working OBC/Emergency Generator checks.

3. Red HSD night Filter and visual frames for it and the VDI flilter

4. Oxygen Panel for the front seat

5. TWS Auto

6. Fixed Afterburner visuals

7. Correct Digital Engine Tapes

8. Forrestal Class

9. F-14A

10. A-6

[Donut]

1. Completed/corrected F-14B cockpit

2. Jester LANTIRN

3. TWS Auto

4. Improved/additional over wing vapor

5. Improved/brighter exterior lights

6. Additional official squadron liveries

7. Ground power and air carts

8. F-14D and/or F-14B SparrowHawk upgrade

9. A-6 AI

10. Forrestal

[near_blind]

1. TWSA

2. Forrestal

3. A-6

4. Magic FOIA dump about the AIM-54C

5. APG-71

[Bogey Jammer]

1. F-14A
   
2. nothing else
   

[Knock-Knock]

1. F-14A + a bunch of glossy white belly Navy liveries.
   
2. TWS Auto
   
3. Forrestal
   
4. A-6 AI
   

[Virun]

1. TWS AUTO

....

∞. TWS AUTO

[Chuck_Henry]

1. Jester LANTIRN control

2. Correct F-14B engine instrument tapes

3. Forrestal carrier

4. Optional Sparrowhawk HUD and/or PTID for the F-14B if a true F-14D is too much to ask

[Sam]

TWS A together with the new Phoenix flight model.

 

I think a lot of people would love to see an F-14D although I'm not sure if HB will ever do it

[Tinkickef]

Pilot Bodys for VR User

 

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Agreed, plus sound of engines increases with open canopy.

[Airhunter]

Pretty much all you asked above + pilot bodies, the LAU-7 launchers to be textures and some various minor visual fixes on the model and cockpit here and there.

[Wizard_03]

the new Phoenix flight model.

 

 

That's something I'm hyped for too, So happy the new Missile APIs are out from ED now, and we can finally start to see some improvements on that front.

[draconus]

Pilot Bodys for VR User

 

No. For everyone.

[Sam]

That's something I'm hyped for too, So happy the new Missile APIs are out from ED now, and we can finally start to see some improvements on that front.

 

Oh that's good ! I think the new Phoenix will come together with TWS A. I hope the HB team has everything they need now !

[Belphe]

All the above plus vertical stab animations fixed, wheel differential animations and tire morphing.. :P

[Clorydric]

6. Fixed Afterburner visuals

 

Afterburner looks better with a slight mod of the f-14b.lua :

lines 511-531

engines_nozzles =
   {
       [1] =
       {
           pos     = {-6.67, 0.051, 1.414},
           elevation     = 0,
           diameter     = 1,
           exhaust_length_ab    = 5,
           exhaust_length_ab_K = 0.75,
           smokiness_level     = 0.05
       },
       [2] =
       {
           pos     = {-6.67, 0.051, -1.414},
           elevation     = 0,
           diameter     = 1,
           exhaust_length_ab    = 5,
           exhaust_length_ab_K = 0.75,
           smokiness_level     = 0.05
       },
   },

Diameter seems to be good at 1.0, but length may require some tweaks to match current AB flames length.

I'm also using an .fx mod for the afterburner, so expect the exhaust flames to be slightly more visible with DCS vanilla effects.

While the afterburner fx mod doesn't break IC, modifying the f-14b.lua does.