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#4383698 - 10/07/17 03:01 PM what happened to the F-18 video series?  
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Didn't ED, through their highest apostle Matt Wagner, say they were going to release regular introduction videos about the DCS F/A-18?
I have checked the wonderful forum, and it seems only two of those videos were posted.

I mean, everything is surely fine with everything, because everyone over there is so happy and so cheerful, and so many great achievements are being achieved on a daily basis, so what must be the reason for not posting such highly sought-after F-18 video updates?

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#4383721 - 10/07/17 05:04 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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seems like not until the warnings panel gets ready...last one is like 3 months old and no hint for the next one anytime soon.


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#4383758 - 10/07/17 10:08 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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They've shelved the f-18 development for the time being. They're throwing their workforce behind the development of the new effects. Next week it will be something completely different.


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#4383805 - 10/08/17 10:33 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: Johnny_Redd]  
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Originally Posted by bkthunder
Didn't ED, through their highest apostle Matt Wagner.........


Originally Posted by Johnny_Redd
They've shelved the f-18 development for the time being. They're throwing their workforce behind the development of the new effects. Next week it will be something completely different.


haha being a Sunday here in Aus town.....the apostle comment brought a smile to my dial....more so than the church wine (black current juice) and blessed bread I had this morning.

F-18 development is 'almost' ready for release......however the 'official' statement will come out that development has been delayed a year or two 'because of the numerous hurricanes experienced in the good ole US of 2nd amendment A....funding has been cut on the project until such time the military budget is extended by Trump so we can fulfill our development contracts. As you as consumers know....our budget blew out because of funding to Puerto Rico'


Or is the above....as they say 'fake news'?

#4383809 - 10/08/17 10:57 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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I thought this game was being made by Russian developers? Did the hurricanes get them too? Or are the Russian devs based in Texas or Florida?

As for their resources, it's currently being diverted to make sure Normandy has region and period correct water towers, windmills, farm houses, and bridges. It's also being used to make sure the beach in Normandy looks good enough to have a holiday on.

On a more serious note, I'm glad no new videos have come out. It's bad enough that they keep teasing us with the Hornet, it's even worse that they do so without giving us a video of anything significant we want to know about such as the ground radar implementation.


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#4383810 - 10/08/17 11:14 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: - Ice]  
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Originally Posted by - Ice
I.......video of anything significant we want to know about such as the ground radar implementation.


Yet numerous 3rd party developers have been 'waiting' for ED\TFC to implement ground radar before they can fix their bugged modules....Sobek chimes in "anyone can implement the ground radar, they (3rd party devs) just need to code it"

yet we have 3rd party developers implementing bridges, water towers and the like and absolutely none contributing towards coding the ground radar that would speed up the release of the F-18.

i'll find the exact quote....Sobek re-quoted me in his\her (I included 'her' as when this person\member was moderator at ED\TFC, the official title of this person was 'fangirl' hence why I assumed this said person was a lady) response to ground radar implementation when I asked the question.

I ask the same question which all so applies to the damage model VEAO can't fix until ED 'implement' in the 'official' coding of the 'world'

#4383824 - 10/08/17 01:07 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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I can't find it now but there was a conversation here about the ground radar and how there was a picture of it a few years ago and I was asking if it was available in 2015, then what's the issue about showing it now and the response IIRC was that the ground radar may have had to be re-done yet again and that's why it's still not being shown. Considering how ED does things, that was an absolutely absurd but also totally plausible explanation. smile


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#4383836 - 10/08/17 03:17 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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ED, as always, has done in depth research about the subject.

YoYo is in the process of designing an actual F-18 from scratch thanks to his superior knowledge of everything, to see if he makes the same design choices Northrop and MDD did, back in the day. Then he will write the Natops manuals first hand, and the F-18 will be developed from that. As you can imagine, this is a long and painstaking process, made easier only by Sithspawn's delicious home-made butter cookies, which he posts over to the Moscow office on a daily basis, together with a list of freshly banned forum members.

Right now they have nothing to show, because they are still developing the YF-17. When that is fully simulated and perfectly understood, they will proceed with the F/A-18A and so on, block by block. But I can tell you right now, don't trust Natops manuals or even some so called "Navy F-18 pilots" when they tell you the F-18 has a radar... So far we don't have any documents that clearly point out the presence of an A-G radar on the particular BuNo number they are simulating.


I hope they take all the time they need to get this right!

#4383861 - 10/08/17 05:14 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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I think ED are building this up into a payware announcement and a series of payware F18 progress videos


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#4383871 - 10/08/17 06:01 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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Well, they gotta fund the development of the Nevada Trains somehow...

#4383884 - 10/08/17 08:08 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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Originally Posted by bkthunder
Right now they have nothing to show, because they are still developing the YF-17.


Haha - love it


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#4383892 - 10/08/17 09:06 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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Originally Posted by bkthunder
I hope they take all the time they need to get this right!

Be careful what you wish for!!


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#4383934 - 10/09/17 12:39 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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Originally Posted by bkthunder


Right now they have nothing to show, because they are still developing the YF-17. When that is fully simulated and perfectly understood, they will proceed with the F/A-18A and so on, block by block.






hahaha biggrin


I wonder how they simulate Douglas to Lockheed transition after release of hornet.
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#4386331 - 10/23/17 07:59 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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true .... kinda quiet on this front ...... ominous



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#4386347 - 10/23/17 11:33 AM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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Have they run out of things to show? The first one was out 3rd of July then the second one was out 4 weeks later on the 31st of July. It's been 12 weeks now.... does Matt have any involvement in anything in DCS aside from promoting it and making videos? I mean is he a coder for them or something else that may explain the lack of further Hornet videos? Or have they really run out of things to show?


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#4386383 - 10/23/17 03:10 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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I did not watch any of the videos yet - but I guess that they are busy doing other things, like going fishing with their friends or spending more time with their grandchildren , activities that I believe are much more interesting than spending their time coding.

I would rather spend some more time binge watching Walking Dead than writing code in some dreary office smile.

#4386397 - 10/23/17 03:59 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: Tom_Weiss]  
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Originally Posted by Tom_Weiss
I did not watch any of the videos yet - but I guess that they are busy doing other things, like going fishing with their friends or spending more time with their grandchildren , activities that I believe are much more interesting than spending their time coding.

I would rather spend some more time binge watching Walking Dead than writing code in some dreary office smile.

That's all well and good if you're doing this for free and in your own time. I'm sure things are different when coding is your JOB and your company has given you deadlines.


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What deadlines? Everything is subject to change™ wink

#4386469 - 10/23/17 10:58 PM Re: what happened to the F-18 video series? [Re: bkthunder]  
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I thought it was more like "what JOB???" biggrin


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Originally Posted by - Ice
Originally Posted by Tom_Weiss
I did not watch any of the videos yet - but I guess that they are busy doing other things, like going fishing with their friends or spending more time with their grandchildren , activities that I believe are much more interesting than spending their time coding.

I would rather spend some more time binge watching Walking Dead than writing code in some dreary office smile.

That's all well and good if you're doing this for free and in your own time. I'm sure things are different when coding is your JOB and your company has given you deadlines.


I am not defending the developer - I know next to nothing of game coding, but where creativity is concerned, deadlines don't work.

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