DCS: Supercarrier includes:

Highly detailed and animated Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that includes the USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Abraham Lincoln, and the USS George Washington. While in early access, additional ships of the sub-class will be added.
Fully modelled sensors and weapon systems.
Interactive carrier radio communications that includes CASE I, CASE
II, and CASE III flight operations that range from daylight/good weather
landings to night-time/foul weather operations.
Animated deck crew to launch aircraft from all four catapults.
Occupy the Landing Signal Officer (LSO) station with integrated landing camera. This also has the option to play in VR.
Numerous deck starting locations for aircraft in multiplayer.
New static objects for the Supercarrier that includes static deck crew and support equipment.

I have to say, ED have lifted their game after the post on Reddit.

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but there are several improvements to the series that show ED are moving in the right direction. I can not speak for everyone, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel,,,,the length of the tunnel may vary from person to person.

Hope the F-14 works on it...

Don't expect too much.
https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=261054&page=2
(like all the less happy pre-purchasers at hoggit)

What do you mean don't expect too much? HB flat out stated they're working on making it happen.

2018, the year of the Viggen.
HB said that too.
You guys never stop giggle over promises, do you?

Ya those guys in cell block B are always giggling. Rather unnerving if you ask me

I don't know how you can live with all this negativity in you. Are you going collapse into a point of dark energy or something?
I think the only thing keeping you afloat is your propensity to insult other people.

Haha, yeah right.

It just so happens that Eagle Dynamics are the gift incompetence that just keeps on giving not delivering


How many promises and early-access platforms have we seen from these jokers.......look at some of the content from the last few years....the F/A 18 still hasn't got A/G radar FFS. It doesn't matter what they promise about the 'Supercarrier', we all know it will be a 'Sh1tcarrier' for years to come. It's really difficult to not be negative when you know that the next round of ineptitude is just around the corner. I've given up playing this crock of sh1t but I keep my eye on the forum and the posts, just waiting for that magical moment where ED finally start delivering on the potential, start releasing some real polish, finally get to finish off their content and modules and await the community to claim we've finally got a Combat Simulator and not a barren screenshot generator. It's been about 2 years since I parked this title and guess what. THINGS ARE STILL NOT IMPROVING and ED continue down the same track, making the same mistakes and seemingly without a care in the world.

They can shove their 'Supercarrier' up their crimper.

Cmon now Ghost...he's talking about the expectations of a product and you're making it personal. Whether you like it or not...ED has given many simmers plenty of reason to be skeptical over the years, and that's all he was stating.

I got a good laugh out of this comment.

Oh,oh are you from Bizzaro World? Should we refer to you as Winzarro? And where is Winfield?

Oh, oh, are you from Canada?....Should we refer to you as Beliebisher? And where is Bisher? ....

And in two years you can buy Supercarrier II because they've added more "features". Kinda like A10-C II and Black Shark III.

I don't think they handled Black Shark 2 well. But Black Shark 3/A-10C 2 seems okay if priced right. A-10C came out in 2011, I don't expect them to continue adding new features to it a decade later for free. That is practically unheard of in the game industry.

A-10C II might be shaping up to be a different suite, or, a more complete suite. There are a bunch of features that could be added that would be quite nice to have.

Black Shark 3 may or may not be a different bird - it appears to be one of the more modern variants that would resemble a gunship of today.

day1 purchase if Gentex scorpion HMS is there

Another thing that was unheard of in the industry...a pre-order bonus (Nevada) being 4 years late after the product released...lol

What's also unheard of is games getting put on sale at 40% finished, getting abandoned at 60% finished, and the cycle continuing on a year-on-year basis.

And that is relevant in what way? Don't get me wrong, I'd be very happy to get updates for games forever but at some point it is unreasonable. Personally I was not a huge fan of BF1 or BF5, and I'd rather have new maps, weapons and have BF4 moved over to the new engine for free. But over 6 years post release, I don't think that would be reasonable.



Have you not been buying games over the past 4-5 years? Sadly that is very common. See ArmA 3, Day Z or the dozens of other games released as Early Access and remain in a perpetual beta state for years while going on sale before jumping onto the next project.

I'll try to explain how it's relevant.:

You say that developers giving free upgrades for years is unheard of...this is true to some extent...but no developer in history has screwed over their loyal customers as much as ED for the last decade...period. Your BF1-BF5 comparison is not even close...those titles were released in a reasonable state and updated in a business like time frame at the time money changed hands. So I was thinking that it could be a good opportunity for ED to flip the script. Possibly give the customers that purchased BS1& BS2 the BS3 update for free.

I can hear you saying already "You wouldn't work for free". I don't charge customers full price and then not deliver a finished product...it seems software development is one of the few exceptions that allows this type of fraud. They could shock the flight sim industry by actually throwing some sort of free nugget to their loyal customers but I think we know better than that.

A main problem also lies with ED's definition of a finished product. The MiG-19 was released as a finished product, and well... It's about of a finished product as Pompeii is a finished city.

@Flogger23m: I'm fortunate enough to have never bought a game outside DCS that wasn't finished, or broke after being finished and not getting fixed for years.

That still isn't very relevant, and not historically true with regards to Battlefield 4. It took over a year and had to get handed down to a different studio (DICE Los Angeles, former Danger Close studio) for the fixes to be properly implemented. While that doesn't mean every game should follow this example it does show that it isn't that uncommon. Even the recently released CoD Modern Warfare was broken for about a month post release because the tick rate / net code couldn't account for the rate of fire of weapons. This resulted in instant "death rays" because only the first shot would report on your PC as a 3-5 round burst would be combined into one shot. So turn around a corner, see an elbow sticking out, boom, instant death. They fixed it and now you can see enemy shots, every one of them, and feel the gradual impact of them. But this is coming from the series that probably made the most profits this past decade. That just shows you how common it is for a full price game to include many bugs.

As for ED giving free stuff, we do get updates. New graphics, AI units, functionality, a new free map (thankfully) and an entirely new 3D model for the Blackshark cockpit. Only thing you'll have to pay for is the new variants. While the A-10C represented a current model for the time, it was quickly made out dated due to new software suites. I recall reading a few years back from someone who worked with the planes that the A-10C was fairly close to the real thing but was a very out dated suite. Consider it something like making ah AH-64D circa 2000 flight simulator in 2008, and then expecting a free upgrade with all the new technology in the AH-64E a decade later.

Fixing things and bug fixes do need to be free, and the upgrades to the core game are needed because it is lacking in many areas. But I can see why they are charging a bit for the new models of these planes. It depends on how much of a discount they give. If they want ~$30 for a slightly newer model then it certainly isn't worth it unless you absolutely need the latest model. But from my understanding you'll still be able to fly the old variants if you don't purchase the new ones.

Pre-order bonuses being late (very late) doesn't have much to do with what products should get free updates for X amount of years though. I would say, if ED can figure out who pre-ordered the A-10C way back when, those people should get the new variant for free due to having to wait obscenely long. It would certainly be helpful from a PR perspective.

lol...Call of Duty's net code not being up to snuff a month after release really should make ED's customers feel so much better about the problems they've had to deal with for the last 10 years.

Thanks for putting it in perspective.

I have just received confirmation that I will be taking up a new position.....unpaid of course....."game critic" I must give a shout out to all of my supporters over the years here at SimHQ, thank you all. What got me over the line is the following statement....

"there are social media influencer's who make money by showing their tits etc....and then there is 'ole mate Winfield'. I will not only show my tits for free but criticize the work of sim developer's for free.

Cheers and thank you my fellow simmer's for allowing me to use the DCS thread in my resume reference.

Considering how much money they have made that is shameful. They aren't a small rag tag team of developers and the net code issues were worse than the majority of the DCS issues as it was game breaking. DCS has some issues but few are that severe.

Still doesn't mean ED should develop a new plane and give it away to customers who bought a previous product a decade ago though. For those that want to keep the old variants, they're still getting free upgrades to.

Though maybe they should give all F-15C/FC3 owners the F-15E just because. I wouldn't mind it for free.

ED have a track record now for releasing unfinished products that stay unfinished while releasing another unfinished one. I purchased the hornet nearly 2 years ago and it’s still missing features. Going to hold off on the supercarrier purchase for now, especially since there isn’t a whole lot of footage and it’s not clear yet exactly what we will (and won’t) get on initial release.

Is that what they're doing? Scrapping the previous module and starting from scratch? I was under the impression with BS2/BS3 they were updating from the previous version. I suspect the same for A10-2.

I never said they should give away ground up built modules for free...just the ones they're putting a spit shine on and re-selling over again.

I thought Razbam were releasing the F-15E? be like asking heatblur to give out free F-14 tomcats.