Why do you guys fret so much about these modules? 
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This is like, 50% of what being a flight sim enthusiast is.
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The other 50% is arguing over small yet insignificant details.
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The other other 50% is scrolling past all the F-111 posts.
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Itās true. I donāt so much FLY simulations as I do ANTICIPATE simulations. Itās like Christmas morning but with the date unknown until the developer says, āHey everyone, Itās Christmas!ā
I love every new airplane or module I buy. Simply because they are a game within the game for me:
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You seem to be having trouble internalizing the collective Helsinki Syndrome that is modern flight simming.
May I suggest you read āHostage - Terrorist, Terrorist- Hostage, A study in Duality.ā for further elucidation?
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In the year 2848,
If manās skills are still that great
If flight sims still relate
We may findā¦
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Sigh, as if iām not already brandmarked as a Futurama nerd, well here we go.
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You say that as if itās a bad thing.
Itās not, is it? I hope not 
Futurama is the greatest show of all time.
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Was. Was the greatest show. Shouldnāt we get back to the Harrier?
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DCS: AV-8B Night Attack by RAZBAM Update
This past week was an important milestone for RAZBAMās AV-8B NA as it entered internal testing. Over the next several weeks, the module will be de-bugged, tuned, and added to in order to bring it to being available for pre-purchase and then its Early Access release.
Here are some images of this beautiful machine that RAZBAM is bringing to DCS World.
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsletter15092017.html
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/screenshots/
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Dicebot with the accurate 17% chance of today estimation! 
On retrospect I guess it makes sense to be October-ish given that they hadnāt even got to ED internal testing as yet. Didnāt we forget about that bit last time as well with some other module?
Iām generally fond of Sithās āOne Month After Pre-Orderā rule of thumb. That said the head Razbam honcho seems to be pretty adamant theyāre on track for Q3, so who knows. Iāll pick it up whenever it comes out as a nice time sink until the Tomcattening.
Iām going to remain doggedly optimistic that we will get pre-order next week and maybe early access at the end of the month. Q3 isnāt over until Sept 30th .
Well hoping For an 11/1o/17 release date.
See what I did there ?
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Doesnāt the module start internal testing from the moment it can actually be loaded into DCS? Isnāt that testing each time they load it up to see what itās doing, even if theyāre still deep in coding?
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This talk of āinternal testingā sounds like an arbitrary milestone name that is just another step on the long road of obfuscation to destroy the time-honored alpha/beta/rc/gold standards that we all knew and understood. Therefore it was doomed by current marketing theory which dictates that you need to keep coming up with fancy sounding names for steps in the development process even when they are really meaningless when it comes to how far you are from release.
Actual release. Not Early Access release, which apparently pre-dates beta.
Bottom line is there was nothing wrong with the old naming scheme, it made sense, and itās really ridiculous that it was replaced with this 12 step scheme where placement of the product is more semantics than anything else.