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It seems pretty much every bomb in DCS has had adjustments to bring their expl_mass in line with their stated values, along with a bunch of other values like mass and caliber also being increased. What the values in the weapon Lua files do has never been clear, but across the board most numbers related to bombs have been increased.

To put give some hard numbers, here is the Mk82 as it's been changed this last patch. This is the first meaningful change to the Mk82 since 2019 when Quaggle started running the Lua datamine.

It's worth mentioning too that the values for expl_mass now match published numbers for explosive filler.

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The way Derail Valley does rain and thunderstorms looks so good. They get the feeling pretty right of what a thunderstorm feels like.

My only problem really is just the sound. It's so quiet. Especially lightning. Lightning in real life, especially with the occasional close lightning strikes you get, are loud, but in Derail Valley you can barely hear them, even when you're standing by yourself with no running trains around.

Are there any mods to change this? Is making a mod for this possible?

Over on the ED forums, the topic of spotting is a bit of a battleground. I get the feeling a hoggit poll might be biased, but I am curious to put at least some numbers to this, especially when the most outspoken people are the ones with the strongest opinions.

In 2.9, the way "spotting" works was changed from a 1 pixel dot that was visible at all ranges (up to ~50 miles in ideal conditions), to something a little more complicated. What do you

TL;DR: Disappointing, but functional. It seems like they used the dot mod almost verbatim, which I find disappointing because I'm not a fan of the dot mod's pixel-based approach and ED's solution inherits all the issues the mod has.

That said, it's still an improvement over how the dots used to work in 2.8, and I am pleasantly surprised that this is not something servers can disable. There is also a bug with clouds that ED should probably fix, because it makes the dots visible from the full render range.

Anyways, my full thoughts below:

• For the most part, it really does seem like they just took the mod. I'm not really sure what's changed from the mod, if anything, because its behavior i