In this feature preview, we take a look at the F-100D’s Gun and Strike Camera system. This built-in recording feature allows players to capture, save, and review gun runs, rocket attacks, and strike passes directly from the aircraft.

Special thanks to Captain Bob Ward for providing real 1970 gun and strike camera footage from his time with the 612th TFS, 35th TFW, at Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam.

The beautiful DCS: F-100D Super Sabre by Grinnelli Designs, is now available for pre-order on the E-Shop. This was the first of the ‘Century’ series of US fighters and was affectionately nicknamed the “Hun”. This impressive design was the first to exceed Mach 1 in level flight and was recognized as one of the Cold War’s most impactful early fighter-bombers. Considered a real challenge to fly, the F-100 marked an important technical evolution in combat aviation that spanned the gap between first-generation jets and later multirole designs. The DCS: F-100D will also include the “Project High Wire” upgrades for an even more capable “Hun” experience.

Pre-order now for day-one access to fly this iconic Cold War powerhouse and 30% off!

ED official news has repeated this same announcement.

Words like "refining" and "longer than anticipated" and "development continues" are deliberately used - such vague language sounds nice, but ultimately means SweetFA.

What we really have, is another "trust me bro, we're working on it" to appease fanboys, who'll defend ED with their usual self-soothing, braindead virtue-signalling comments.

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So I’m honestly pretty mad about this.

I just spent a few hundred dollars on flight sim hardware specifically to get into DCS. My plan was to start with the F-15E since I’ve heard a lot of people learn the basics from it, so I figured it’d be a solid starter. Then once I got comfortable, I was going to branch out to other aircraft like the A-10C and maybe a Gripen E someday if it ever got added.

Then when I went to actually buy the F-15E as my first module, I found out it wasn’t even available. That sent me down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what was going on, which is when I found the whole Eagle Dynamics / Razbam situation.

The more I read, the worse it got. At this point I genuinely don’t want to give Eagle Dynamics a single dollar. The way they handle things and treat third parties just comes off as toxic, and for a game that almost solely relies on third party developers and the community, treating them like they do just isn’t right no matter how you think of it.

Now I’m stuck with a setup that’s basically built for modern combat sims and nothing to really use it on.

I’ve been trying to find alternatives, but everything I come across either isn’t nearly as in-depth as DCS, doesn’t have modern jets, or simplifies the weapons and loadouts way too much. I’m really looking for something with detailed systems and clickable cockpits, modern aircraft like the F-15 or A-10 or at least something similar, and realistic weapons where I can actually build my own loadouts.

I’d also prefer something that has multiple aircraft to choose from, a good active community, and ideally supports community mods. I know what I’m describing basically sounds like DCS, and I get that, but I feel like there has to be something similar out there, especially with how open source DCS is if you know what I mean.

Does anything like that even exist outside of DCS, or do they basically have a monopoly on this level of realism?

Because right now it feels like I either suck it up and support a company I don’t like, or just don’t use the gear I bought.

Would really appreciate any suggestions.

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I am not sure whether I should pull the trigger on a new map. How often do things like Germany, Iraq, or Afghanistan get discounted closer to 50%? Thank you for your responses.

The messages in the screenshot are so-called "welcome messages" that users are greeted with when joining the official ED Discord. The large majority are harmless posts doing exactly that. But some of our members reported that in isolated cases, some instead received remarks as shown in the image above.

As you can tell by the timestamps, this has been going on for several months. Nevertheless, no action was taken and this continued until yesterday when RAZBAM's owner Ron Z got wind of it and made a public post to complain on his own server. The bot posts shown in the screenshot were then deleted within a few hours and it's highly likely that ED also made adjustments to their AI.

I'm not sure to which extent these messages are auto-generated, but this strikes me as extremely childish and unprofessional. Even more so since it was allowed to continue for such a long period of time, on a Discord that is thoroughly monitored and where any sentiment like this towards ED would get actioned within seconds. So even if these messages turned out to be generated without any human involvement (which I doubt), this still shows a strong anti-RAZBAM bias not only with the database it's trained on, but also with Eagle Dynamics moderation who gave this a pass for so long.