How come im not having that feelin? You know that feeling of having a module 'round the corner. No butterflies in my stomach…
Im waiting on the MiG-17, A-7, F4U Corsair and others. They’ve cried wolf about the Mud Hen so many times that i dont even take it seriously anymore.
I am properly entertained by my Tom Kitty, Viper, ect. I just find that the development cycles for DCS are sooo long and boring. Is it just me?
I just found something else for the meantime.
I haven’t played DCS in around two years while I am waiting, and instead went for MSFS. A lot of fresh planes (and scenery) to enjoy. 
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Welp. I guess that’s just you. See its a flight combat simulator game. The game is simulating aerial combat. It does that pretty darn well imo. Some truly awesome machines to do it in.
If the game becomes “getting new stuff” yeah, DCS is pretty boring, because the new stuff is so painstaking to build, and these teams often are small and often part-timers.
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The pre-pandemic-Sim-doldrums/the pandemic/pandemic-sim-hangover 4 year cycle was my excuse. But I think it really was just an excuse. 40 years of sim flying culminated with the magic of VR. Sorry for the word, but it was a climax of sorts. Now I just want to roll over a go to sleep.
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I’m curious what the Community finds the better option for module release??
-RAZBAM Approach…Lots of Build Up,Pictures and Videos prior to release
-Heatblur Approach…Very little News…a few pictures…really not a lot of build up prior to release.
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Both? I don’t mind either but I also set my expectations that it will be here whenever they decide to release it, teases or not. It really doesn’t matter if we get screenshot, videos or whatnot - none of that means it is ready until the downloads go up.
I am old and incredibly jaded when it comes to marketing anything that I am just going to ignore it until it is here. The Flight Sim release machine is just a pile of marketing monkeys until it’s in my hands and Ic an do something with it. Sure! I want things but me wanting something, or throwing money at my monitor, has never translated into me getting what I want when I want it.
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Yeah, I really don’t care which way they do it.
That said, I’ve barely had time to watch the F-15E videos, I’ve seen maybe 10% of them? I really must do it, though, because better now than AFTER it comes out…
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If i worked as a sim developer in my current job.
Maico, what have you done this week?
You know boss, more of the same.
Maico, when can i expect a finished product
Boss… i dont know… here look at this
Wow, that looks good. It looks complete. Is this the final product?
No, nothing is final.
Well, when can i expect a final product?
Boss!, Hahaha. Be patient… ok. Two Weeks!
Really Maico?!?
No, that was a joke… Get it?
Get your shoot and get out!!! YOURE FIRED!
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I’d be interested to hear how an internal software development team does communicate.
Personally the more I think about it, the less I can wrap my head around all of the work and the total scale of developing an aircraft module to a finished state. Feels like I would constantly be turning around in circles and saying “oh yeah, we gotta do that too!”
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NOTE: This is not related to HB or RazBam - but I do develop Military flight sims in a manner not too dissimilar from DCS modules- You know… I just thought it was correct to remind this.
How they do? Like a normal software development team. The big difference is that the result is not a discrete system.
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Then we (SW devs) would put all the features imaginable to one big list, prioritize it and start grinding from the top of the list, thats how it goes 
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The first 80% are easy. It’s the second 80% that get you.
- the applied Pareto principle
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Agreed. Building 3D models then adding ‘paint’ and buttons/switches (which for sure is a lot of work too) and calling it, say, an F-102 just doesn’t do it for me.
While I have my gripes about DCS when it comes to the “World” part of it (mostly choice of maps and especially the AI) I can ‘play’ it in a modes beyond going from Point A to Point B - and A and B aren’t 14 hours apart.
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Then you release it as EA after the easy 80% 
E: And I presume the total percentage was not an accident 
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Well there is a lot of chatter about Normandy 2 and it has me very excited. Lots of videos and pictures. The mission dev team of my favourite WWII server has not been flying much on the server over the last week despite playing DCS (according to discord) every time I look and there is a patch planned for tomorrow…
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Go make me a Draken.
Now, please…
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Make it rain!
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I’d argue that it’s not the volume of news that makes the two companies so opposite from one another but the actual content. The only thing Heatblur posted this year for most of Q1 was an apology, that they were late and did not make last year’s timeline with a couple of reasons (we can be the judge if they are good or not) and all said with a ton of respect for the consumers. RAZBAM, on the other hand, has just been mindless screaming “STRIKE EAGLE!” for the last 6 months and weirdly nothing happened. So I’m inclined to prefer Heatblur’s.
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Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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