DCS Super Carrier, or how Will learned to love skittles of all the wrong colours

Guess who’s making the Liveries for the campaign? :stuck_out_tongue:

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A Skald F-18?

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Thanks for sharing this, @Fridge!

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That would be something, ain’t it?
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I can make a custom order for you though!

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8 bit F18 sounds awesome!!!

@komemiute I’m slightly irritated by the SKALD competition as I recently formatted my hard drive and lost my favourite pictures of wasteland 2 that I had stored lol

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HAHAHAHAH I’m sorry man. :slight_smile:
Just pick any screenshot and tell exactly that story! You might still win! :smiley:

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New Pic from DCS FB Page

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I think that’s a boat!

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Hnggggngh, check the lighting on those parked bugs! So good!

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The dudes don’t seem to have any shadows, but hey, alpha I guess. :slight_smile:

Undead vampire crew…

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Unique Carriers

For DCS: Supercarrier, we will be providing all Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the Theodore Roosevelt subclass. These include:

CVN-71 USS Theodore Roosevelt
CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln
CVN-73 USS George Washington

These will be the first three carriers released at Early Access. After the Early Access release, we will provide:

CVN-74 USS John C. Stennis
CVN-75 USS Harry S. Truman

In addition to unique naming and numbering of the carriers, they will also have unique geometry. This is most evident in the islands (towers and antennas). Please see attached and note that they are work in progress.

Each ship will also have unique carrier communication callsigns.

Thanks,
Wags

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Woohoo, 5 carrier decks to foul! :scream_cat:

Wheels

The free Stennis today in 2.5.6 open beta:

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I’m really curious now to see what the lighting looks like- I think GW still has her red/white/ blue lighting on the island hull numbers (that was installed during their shipyard availability after 9/11).

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We got them installed in our PSA in 2004, IIRC. GW had what looked like neon tubes, we had individual bulbs. However, I’m sure both have gone LED in the last handful of years.

Huh, just thought of a question we all missed. Do we know what time period we’re looking at for ship’s equipment and sensors? I’m guessing probably mid- 2000’s, to match the Hornets, Vipers, and presence of OHP’s and Flight Ia DDG’s?

EDIT: TR and Lincoln having their SLQ-32 antennas exposed, while GW has hers in a radome is making me think 2005-6ish? @Hangar200, you’d know this better than I would.

this just appeared

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That looks as i expected. Bit more realism. Bit more fun. I’m pretty happy with how it looks.

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Watching it now. So it sounds like there may be different versions of the flight deck (in terms of personnel) for launching operations versus recovery operations? Since you’d have people spotted in different places for either one. Also, I’m still hoping to see tie-down chains eventually implemented (seeing what looks like a couple of brownshirts (plane captains) in front of the parked Hornets in the corral ahead of the island. Overall, looks really, really good!

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Very very nice!

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