Hopefully this time Ed will concentrate more on useful aspects and skip useless details, by that I mean avoiding replicating tedious chores and concentrating in improving the 'eye candy' and game play.

By improving gameplay I don't mean giving a dumbed down arcade mode to please 12 year olds.

And I just hope that this time they don't include Starforce! If they do I will just make the same thing as I did regarding Black Shark which is: NOT TO BUY the sim.

It would be a petty for me not to buy this sim specially because I love the A-10 (Ah, the old A-10 Tank Killer days - Those were great times) but if A-10 included Starforce this is exactly what I will do!

P.S- From what I read Black Shark doesn't have a cooperative campaign so I also hope that ED includes one in A-10.

If they make more money by implementing an arcade mode they should do it IMO.

IIRC they will supply that with the first patch.

good for them if they sell more copies for the Crimson Sky crowd.

But I would like to see more improvements in game play - that make it more fun to fly and fight, not simply long list of chores to do to fire an AGM-65, I am not interested in a full procedures trainer.

The time spent in this useless routines means less time spent on what matters - gameplay.

Thanks for the heads up on this update, Sim. Really looking forward to the A-10!

The online cooperative flying is superb! ED has provided a method with black Shark to create a campaign using branching mission structure with the included mission builder.
When they release the A10,according to the BS forums they will also include the first patch for Black Shark and the mission builder.
The A10 will work as a stand alone or as a add-on to Black shark.

That's really great news. Now I just what to hear a good news about Starforce which is the removal or not including Starforce in A-10 (and in Black Shark would be great as well)!

I was under the impression, and it could just be faulty memory here..., that the patch was due out relatively soon (Feb./March) but the A-10 still seems a way off. Was this right and have things changed? Or was I just off base from the get go.

Oh man... this is going to ROCK!!!