Something here is uniquely difficult about landing on carriers. Like I said in the previous post, I don’t consider myself even a half average player, but I’ve landed on carriers hundreds of times in other sims. Here? No matter what I do I slide right off.

Yes I have a tail hook equipped. No I am not flaring up. I just genuinely have some sort of curse that stops me from landing on Nuclear Option carriers and it’s very frustrating.

Too fast? No, the tutorial I watched he put the thing down at almost 380. Like????? What the hell am I missing here? Genuinely more salty about this than I have been about anything else in this game. Like… I can land on a fckn carrier….

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Opened to play today, and had all the mods ive used last time active, but qol did not work. Checked to see if it was off, and could not find it, i even could not find it in the mod manager to download.. anyone know if it was removed?

Yes, the theme is by far the best thing about the not-Tomcat

Genuinely having the most trouble ever with this and I’ve done hundreds on landings on carriers in DCS and WT. Not to say I’m a good or even a half average player but what am I missing? I’m extremely peeved

I’m using the glide indicator, I’m putting my vector towards the bottom of the green rectangle, and I’m putting the aircraft down hard without flaring but then I land at like 250km, see the lurching of the aircraft catching the wires, and somehow still can’t slow down enough to stay on the deck…???????

I don’t want to give up on it because my brain is telling me skill issue but I went on DCS and landed no problem. I come back here, sweating my ass of just to land on the carrier and I do what feels like everything right and just cannot. Do I need to be sub 200kmh? If so then that’s bullshit and my suggestion is maybe change the wires on the flight deck from silly string to actual cable.

Edit: Yall can keep this game lmao I can’t do it. I chalked it up to something uniquely wrong in my instance. Yes I’m getting the wire notification, yes I’m following the glide slope, yes my tail hook is down, no I’m not flaring. When I do play this game I’m just going to avoid carrier landings unless I can hover. Exceedingly frustrating experience especially with being able to land on them in WT test range and DCS.

What would everyone think about an aircraft with an RCS smaller than Vortex, largely for observation with one or two self defense weapons?

Maybe a small payload, like a cruise missile that throws out a huge RCS à la Desert Storm?

I think it would be a really fun support type role that’s cheaper and and more nimble than Medusa!

I hope it'll be useful for everyone. If you have any suggestions or critiques please let me know. I want this to be as useful as I can make it.

Its also on the official discord.

Steam guide version
Official Discord version

I made this (WIP) demo for a group of laser UAVs that will escort you and shoot down incoming missiles with lasers. I tried to nail the effect from Ace Combat Infinity with the MQ-90L drones that show up in some of the boss fights, which I think I did an alright job of, but I've still got a lot to learn as I'm relatively new to the game modding scene. I don't think this will be seeing any sort of release until I make or find new models and sound effects so I don't get DMCAed 😅

There were many questions about carrier landings here. I've recorded this video where I tried to explain how it is done.