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Unimpressed posted:Do we know this guy is a dev for real though? Seems unlikely he would be looking for F22 and f35 manuals. The article clearly identifies him as an Eagle Dynamics developer working on DCS. Not all his activities may be related to his dev work (he was also selling manuals on eBay).
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bgreman posted:The article clearly identifies him as an Eagle Dynamics developer working on DCS. Not all his activities may be related to his dev work (he was also selling manuals on eBay). Yeah rumors I've read are that he was selling manuals on Ebay. Which I'm sure ED would not condone, sounds like this case is from years ago as well and he only just got arrested due to extradition from Georgia (the country).
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May 14, 2019 05:58
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Wow. That's awful. Reminds me of when the ARMA3 devs got jailed in Greece for spying when they were taking pics of some military base.
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May 14, 2019 11:11
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Though if he had F-22 and F-35 stuff that points to there being some substance behind those charges.
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May 14, 2019 12:19
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ED has contracts with the Air National Guard and works directly with aircraft manufacturers, so I can't imagine that this guy was operating on behalf of the company when he did this. Much more likely that he was doing this on his own time and went way out of the line. But I'd be delighted (and more than a little amused) to be wrong about this and have a black-market F-22 module show up based on stolen classified documents. 
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May 14, 2019 13:17
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Lausanne, 14 May 2019. The Eagle Dynamics group, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, confirms that one of its employees has been jailed in the State of Utah (USA) on charges of seeking to procure, export and sell restricted US fighter jet manuals, in particular the F-16. Eagle Dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and for his own personal interests. The Company develops all of its DCS aircraft game modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to obtain any classified information. The Company launched an internal investigation into the actions of its employee, and found nothing in the company's records that relates to the facts that are being held against him. The investigation confirmed in particular that no company resources were used and that no export restricted documents were obtained or stored within the company's systems. Furthermore, the Company confirms that the employee was not involved in any of the work or research pertaining to the development of the Company's upcoming F-16 module. The development of the F-16 and other modules currently in the pipeline will continue in order to further enhance the simulation experience of DCS World. These events will not affect Eagle Dynamics' commitment to its users and faithful community. Thank you, Matt Wagner Senior Producer, Eagle Dynamics SA
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May 14, 2019 22:12
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"In other news, DCS is proud to announce our first land-based module, DCS: Bus. Special thanks go out to Oleg for being the first person to alpha test the 'thrown under' feature."
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May 15, 2019 00:09
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Got dropped harder than an F-104 coming in for landing
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May 15, 2019 00:12
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Latest update to F14 module includes minor bug fixes and inclusion of 21 compressor stall salute to fallen devs.
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May 15, 2019 00:17
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ED juggles simultaneous military contracts with multiple NATO countries and Russia. It seems as if they have managed to walk a very weird and thin rope, and it seems unlikely they’d encourage the act.
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May 16, 2019 03:59
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Specifically for the F16 they are going to have to get a proper licence to release it just like they got a licence from Boeing to do the F18c. I can't imagine they need to be getting staff to buy manuals on ebay when they are doing it legit.
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May 16, 2019 04:14
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The article says he only showed interest in acquiring f-22 and f-35 manuals but it sounds like that never happened. He was basically just posting on the ED forums asking people to mail him stuff. Some guy in Texas was also arrested for mailing him the f-16 manuals but all charges were dropped.
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May 16, 2019 05:08
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Vahakyla posted:ED juggles simultaneous military contracts with multiple NATO countries and Russia Does anyone know which NATO countries? I'd always known/assumed about Russia, but NATO is news to me
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May 16, 2019 05:50
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Here's the list of things he exported/was trying to export. It gets increasingly spicy as it goes: TO 1F-16A-2-00FR-00-1 Fault Isolation Organization Maintenance (F-16A and F-16B) TO 1F-16A-2-00GV-00-1 General Vehicle Organizational Maintenance (F-16A and F-16B) TO 1F-16CM-1-2 Supplemental Flight Manual (F-16C and F-16D Blocks 40, 42, 50, and 52) TO 1F-22A-1 Flight Manual (F-22A Aircraft 91-007 and on) TO 1F-22A-34-1-1 Nonnuclear Weapons Delivery Flight Manual (F-22A Increment 3.2, Aircraft 91-007 and on) The last two are the big ones, with the last one being especially problematic. -34s include tons of information on not just the weapons themselves but also how to operate combat related avionics like the radar.
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McDeth posted:Here's the list of things he exported/was trying to export. It gets increasingly spicy as it goes: 
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May 16, 2019 07:39
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May 16, 2019 07:54
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The F22 manual charges come from 2016 and the F16 A/B back in 2011. I wouldn't be surprised if he was caught because of the F22 stuff and in investigating him found the F16 stuff.
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Hadlock posted:Does anyone know which NATO countries? I'd always known/assumed about Russia, but NATO is news to me the United States for sure, the A-10C module is based off the simulator they made for the United States Air Nation Guard
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May 16, 2019 17:39
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ED posted an F-16 cockpit screenshot and is promising more Viper news tomorrow. https://facebook.com/eagle.dynamics/photos/a.10152597072140341/10161905288055341?type=3&sfns=mo Here the post on the ED forums from Wags: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3912837&postcount=594 You can decide for yourself if this is an attempt to bury the arrest news, but it confirms that the Viper is moving ahead.
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May 16, 2019 18:31
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And F-16 pre-orders start next week, release to early access expected in "early autumn"! And the FW-190A is in preorder, expected to go to early access in June. https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/bprscm/fw_190_a8_and_f16c_preorders_and_other_news/
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ZekeNY posted:And F-16 pre-orders start next week, release to early access expected in "early autumn"! And the FW-190A is in preorder, expected to go to early access in June. Artist's rendition of F-16 module on release based on F-18 module: 
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May 17, 2019 16:15
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Honestly given the barebones state the viper is launching in and the year plus its taking to get pretty basic features in the hornet I'm probably going to hold off until they are ticking off some of the post launch systems. Hornet is supposedly getting the targeting pod in June and its just getting the same pod as the a10 not the ATFLIR pod which is coming some distant time in the future. The F16 is using the sniper pod which isn't in another DCS aircraft so I don't have high hopes for how fast they will get that done. That said I'm a sucker for the F16 so I'll definitely get it eventually. quote:Core systems of our F-16C include:
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May 17, 2019 18:11
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Why hasn't anyone mad an Independence Day mod for the Nevada map???
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So recent news from ED-land. First, they are stating that the new carrier ATC will be a paid module, and will require everyone to own it to be on a server, or it will not work. Which obviously would split communities once more. Here is a Reddit nerd being wordy, but he does sum it up very well. quote:THE ISSUE: In addition, with the incoming pre-order of the new F-16, the feature lists are ninjaedited. ED is getting takesie backsies on many features, and for example announced that their specific LARP of the Viper will only allow two mavericks total and no more. JSOW was edited out of the feature list with silence. Obviously this makes people kind of upset, because ED yells about cool poo poo, then renegs.
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May 22, 2019 14:05
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JSOW's back, Sniper got swapped with Litening, don't buy their F-16 and play BMS instead until ED unfucks itself because apparently no one on the english speaking side of the company knows what the gently caress at this time apparently
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Forums Terrorist posted:JSOW's back, Sniper got swapped with Litening, don't buy their F-16 and play BMS instead until ED unfucks itself because apparently no one on the english speaking side of the company knows what the gently caress at this time apparently I found new/old stock antenna elevation pots to repair my Cougar throttle and will be doing this. BMS with all its problems is a more rewarding game experience (when it works). Does hosting MP suck any less?
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no, you still have to forward your ports like it's 2002*, but the bandwidth setting is less critical now since it's just advisory. best practice according to the bms devs is if you're hosting it should be 70% of your upload and download in kbits and if you're a client just set it to 2048 for both *it supports ipv6 but not upnp lol, for the six people who care about ip versions and have end to end links that can do v6
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Let's BOYCOTT DCS and play the OTHER high-fidelity modern military flight sim with VR.
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I guess I get the carrier not being free but ATC is an essential part of a game based around, you know, air traffic
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They should do what Il-2 has done, make this stuff free to use in multiplayer but locked for single player. That way you don't fragment your online player base.
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McDeth posted:TO 1F-22A-1 Flight Manual (F-22A Aircraft 91-007 and on) Yikes, that's pretty bad. In-service airframes are going to attract a certain amount of attention in even attempting to ask for them. A brief glance through Ebay seems to show a lot of Phantom and 50s/60s flight manuals.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I guess I get the carrier not being free but ATC is an essential part of a game based around, you know, air traffic I'd argue that anyone who really cares about ATC are using SRS and LotATC*. I know carrier specific ATC and all (I'm not reading that monolith of a reddit post), but we all know that either LotATC will build in deck functionality (if it doesn't have it already) or some turbonerds already have checkerboards at their desk side. *I'm letting LotATC slide since the license only has to be server side.
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ED's argument for why triple mavericks per wing station are not included was also just obscenely dumb. They states that since Mavericks were not needed in Asymmetric War against Taliban and Iraqi Insurgents, the USAF jets around 2007 were not equipped with triple racks. | "The F-16 was cleared to carry 3 Mavericks under each wing (3 and 7) on LAU-88s. This configuration placed very high stress on the airframe, and the inboard missile's exhaust impinged on the horizontal tail (The paint would peel, and it would get 1cm dings around it), causing the Air Force to restrict that load except in wartime. " Forums, and Hoggit, pointed out that the F-16 was meant to ground pound Soviet tanks into dust with the mavericks at Fulda Gap, and that the game is called Digital COMBAT simulator, and not bomb dirt in Astanistan, and it most certainly can carry them all. ED said that the eighties and early nineties Viper was loaded out to a threat that doesn't exist anymore. ...DCS World. The noted asymmetric insurgency simulator. Anyway, they have now passive aggressively stated that they will allow the LAU-117 rack and triple mavericks. In the announcement they still included snark: quote:Show me a Block 50 carrying triple Mavericks operationally and I'll concede the point that you're right and I am wrong. I just don't understand why they are so bad at this. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 08:52 on May 23, 2019 |
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lol at ed getting bullied into everything though, maybe if people post hard enough we can get them to fix everything
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I like how "dedication to accuracy" in flight simming can be used for getting away with, "this feature looks hard to write/takes time/etc... and I don't want to do it."
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Minto Took posted:I like how "dedication to accuracy" in flight simming can be used for getting away with, "this feature looks hard to write/takes time/etc... and I don't want to do it." Dedicated to accuracy has also somehow come to mean “must adhere to the exact daily doctrine of the document we Digital Crew chief Simulator: World.
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They're just totally user-hostile. If you want to do something fun that isn't technically 100% mind-numbingly "accurate", then rather than saying "sure, haha, we've made it an option you can mess with" they just tell you to go gently caress yourself. Want to use that red Canadian F/A-18 skin even though the mission maker set your plane's side as USA? No, that would never happen, go gently caress yourself. Want to put an aircraft carrier on a lake instead of the ocean? No, aircraft carriers can't go in lakes, go gently caress yourself. Want to have a real simple dynamic campaign that works like Battlefield or something, just spawning bad guys at airfields until you blow enough of them up and then it becomes yours? No, that's not how a real war works, go gently caress yourself.
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Yeah exactly. They aren’y just difficult, but they are openly hostile.
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