Ok, thank you. My cousin was planning on picking up FC2 this week. I will let him know.

news about the "classic" aircraft is very exciting. any word on whether it will have a damage model, whether it will be able to use weapons and whether it will have an adversary?

let's start the speculation here as to what the aircraft will be.

I'm guessing P-47.

I want it all and I want it now.

And it's not the Jug. This sim has carrier ops already. It will be the F6F-5 Hellcat or F4U-1D Corsair with an old straight deck flattop.

Cheers!

Rick...

The money over at the DCS forums is it will be a P-51B. Apparently there was a left over file in the A-10 beta saying P-51. But who knows. Just happy to see the Cliffs of Dover mob get some competition. Lord knows they need it.

Hooray! This makes me happy- can I perhaps hope for an Su-27S upgrade, or daresay even a MiG-29 M2 upgrade?

I'll be happy with anything they release. I'm a shameless Eagle Dynamics fan. I can't help it. They turned any resistance from me futile with DCS: Black Shark.

What I want from them now is an American helicopter, preferably not the Apache, but I'll take that too if they make it, and an F/A-18C sim with carrier ops.

If they'd do an HH-46A, CH-46D, SH-3G, SH-2F, or SH-60B sim I could die a happy man. Or a UH-1B sim featuring HAL-3 in Vietnam if they wanted to make me delirious, but that's even more farfetched than the others. Hell, I'd even settle for a really good TH-57A sim.

But overall, based on their past products, I'll grin and buy whatever they choose to produce.

Cheers!

Rick...

I'm with you Sauron, I'll be happy with whatever they release. But I would be confused if they released a WWII Aircraft. I mean, at that point won't it just be a pure flying sim? Or do you think they'll make it a WWII Combat sim?

I hope FC3 is only $10 or so. I wish they would release patches/updates for free, but I don't mind paying a little to get some large improvements. The thing is, will it be bloated with the same garbage optimization and DRM? Hopefully it will be stand alone and backwards compatible with FC2 missions.

What I dislike is the $20 Nevada terrian addon for two reasons. For one, $20 for some extra terrian is a rip off. Two, it splits the MP community. What if I want to play a mission on the Nevada terrian, and the other players don't have it? They'll get disconnected or have to quit... which kills the community far quicker. This is not such a big problem in games like BF3 with huge player bases, but Lock On doesn't even have a fraction of online players.

What I am keen to see is a complete list of improvements made in FC3... I do love the good old SU-25 so much, it has a lovely engine roar and overspeed shake. I'm hoping that they will push the quality slider closer to the study sim end of the scale. What do you think the chances are for click able cockpits being added?

My thoughts exactly. It's not that I'd be terribly dissapointed with such a release, but it seems to me that the FC2/DCS community is not exactly the target audience for a WWII classic warplane chargeable add-on that you get to fly in a modern environment. If you want to do that, you're already playing FSX and not looking at Eagle Dynamics forum updates. And if you're a true WWII simulations flyer, you're currently trying to shake out all the bugs from CoD and making it run smoothly on your computer... I'm not sure that the CoD crowd would see this as an alternative.

What I'd hope for in terms of 'Legend' is more something along the lines of legendary aircraft that are still in active service (therefore who could logically be seen in scenarios in the DCS world), for example F-4, Mig-21... simpler avionics type of aircrafts that can be done faster than, say, an F-18 or an F-15.

Ian