Announcement

11 Oct

With the early access release of the Viper, we are now focusing on the most pressing bugs and desired new features for the Hornet and Viper. We have been reading all your feedback, and this is the biggest factor in determining our priorities. While not a complete list, here are our priority items for the Hornet and Viper in our roadmap (please note that the items listed are not in any sequential order):

F/A-18C Hornet

Targeting Pod

  • Slave to waypoint / target point

  • Line of sight indication on the HUD

  • Coordinate display

  • Cursor Zero and Snowplow modes

Radar

  • Track While Scan (TWS) mode

  • SPOT mode

  • AACQ mode

Weapons

  • Release of the AGM-62 Walleye

  • Dynamic launch zones for JDAM and JSOW

  • Pre-Briefed (PB) mode for AGM-88 HARM

Avionics

  • Correct the ability to pull 30 G by disabling the G-limiter circuit breaker as a cheat

  • Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS) mode

Countermeasures

  • Smaller flares option that can be up to 60 on the aircraft


F-16C Viper

External Art

  • Complete external skin and provide a template to the public

  • External lights

  • Centerline fuel tank

  • Add wing flex

  • Additional skins

  • Visual damage model

Cockpit Art

  • Add pilot body to cockpit view (VR)

Systems

  • EEGS Level-5 and Lead Computing Optical Sight (LCOS) gunsight when target is locked on radar

  • Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) system

  • Corrected AIM-120 Dynamic Launch Zone (DLZ) that correctly accounts for A (active) and T (time to impact) times

  • Track While Scan (TWS) radar mode

  • Air-to-Air Radar to include Control page (set PRF, contact fade, etc.)

  • Targeting pod (target range indication, SP/CZ/TGT indications, azimuth indication angle indication [waterline with line], GRAY indication, north arrow, M mask indication). 

  • If AIM-9 and AIM-120 are loaded, selected aft on the dogfight switch should select AIM-9 and pressing forward should select AIM-120

  • Emergency jettison button

  • Ability to create and modify steerpoints form the UFC

  • Steerpoints must auto-sequence when option selected from STPTY DED page

  • Toggle missile type select with missile step button for more than .8 seconds

  • Lock indication on the RWR is missing. It should be a circle. At missile launch, then the circle should flash.

  • Complete CMDS manual mode programming.

  • When a contact is locked while in NAV mode, changing to AA mode should not remove the lock.

  • Only a long press aft on the DMS switch should turn the HMCS on and off. Currently, up, right, and left also have this function.

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