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Thanks, missed that as the post was shortened on my iPad, watching WALES vs Scotland Six Nations match

Yep ... sure ... but in which freaking year

I am one that won't buy it or even download it if it is free!! Did you see the specs on the left windshield??? Appalling!



Just kidding. It looks awesome. I noticed an Air Force R-11 refueling truck at just over 6 mins. Can't wait to get it.

Between March and june, my (blank)hole. When a developer is saying g that, add 2 more months minimum.

On the flipside, when fools like me #%&*$# about such info being released, it's easy to see why they keep quiet about the Bug development status.

Ya know.

EDBoards down for anyone else?

Visible here

Was down for quite a while, seems to have just come back up shortly ago.


Take that back, went back down again it seems.

Looks excellent and am excited to fly the new Nevada map in DCS World 2.0. Have been waiting a long time for this, but it looks like it has been worth the wait.

yes....! getting close to the dcs hornet

Of what year.

HAAA!!!

*shrug* I had the rug pulled out from me once already when they were firm on "by December" until November, then suddenly added another quarter or two. Hype buzzkilled.




The Jedi Master

I'm very much looking forward to Edge being released, but am okay with the delays as I know what DCS are going through. I have been developing private cloud File Sync & Share software for about 3.5 years now, and I am often promised date by my developers we're entering just entering beta any day now (when I can find some beta testers). I looked at an old schedule on the wall and the estimated completion date was 14 months ago and the previous release date was before my 22 month son was even born! Developing any software takes much longer than expected and cost much more too. Go easy on DCS I'm sure they're doing their best and they have a huge amount of pressure on them already.

How Long did it take for FSX/ESP to get DX11 Again?
It took Lockheed and the Original ACES Staff from May 2009 to November 2013 to get DX11 Out the door; So 54 Months~ Give or Take.

ED First Debuted Images from Eagle Dynamics Terrain Engine in August 2010 ish, when DX11 was first mentioned.

So August 2010-> Estimated June 2015 is 58~ Months, Give or take.

Now you gotta consider Lockheed Martin likely has a LARGER Staff, Plus the Original ACES Studio Team (Or Most of It).

I think ED is right on Track.

I'm in no big hurry, I have plenty of things to do in the meantime. I suggest that others do the same or just enjoy flying what you have. The video looks good and it's going to be fun flying there as I have flew over parts of Vegas in real life. I'm not holding my breath on it being done by June, but I'll be buying it when it is released.

I can wait as long as it means "the longer the wait, the better the end product" And in a way, what you can't experience . . . you can't miss.

I'm sorry but you can't just say that software development takes longer than expected and costs more too because that shows a lack of quality planning. If you think a particular project will take longer than expected in the first place then you don't give it a release date of 24 months thinking it will be closer to 48 months and you don't even start a project in the knowledge that it will cost more than you are estimating. There would be a lot of people losing their jobs through incompetence if that thought process was standard practice or funds simply wouldn't be released to start a project.

I'm in no hurry for ED to release x, y and z. I just wish for once they would stop dangling carrots only to then hide the carrot and start dangling a new one 6 months later whilst talking about release dates that they never seem to get close to. I don't buy the excuse that it's the community at fault 'demanding' information.....ED are the ones releasing information/dates/progress/videos (see the last one regarding the fly-through of the airbase for example) and this gets the community excited. The latest approximate date is that it's 3-6 months away.....so let's not forget that ED has issued this information to customers.

A four month wide estimate. Wags for all that is HOLY, so say "NFI"

would you rather go back to "sometime in 2015"

No matter what people won't be happy. If ED said it was going to be released tomorrow people would still complain that it wasn't released today.

I've been critical of ED a lot the last year but the simple fact is we can't change anything so let it be. At least they continue to evolve and don't charge us 60 dollars each year for basically the same game with a slightly different story (cough cough COD).