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18 October 2024 Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends, The wait is almost over! We are ecstatic to announce that DCS: Iraq is now available for pre-purchase, and its official launch is coming soon. Get ready to soar through the skies of one of the most historically rich and significant conflict regions in the world. The work remaining is focused on increasing the quality of the normal mapping textures, improving the airfields, and adding important points of interest. For a deeper look at what's planned in the lead-up to the official launch of DCS: Iraq, please do read the development report below. By pre-purchasing DCS: Iraq you can save -30% off the release price, which is by far the best way to secure this new terrain and benefit from continuous updates. As all terrains, Iraq will receive further improvements throughout early access. Thank you for your passion and support. Yours sincerely, Eagle Dynamics Iraq Announcement Why Pre-Order DCS: Iraq? Be among the first to experience Iraq's diverse terrains and landmarks by taking advantage of a special pre-purchase price of $48.99 instead of $69.99 before the official release. Watch the preview video! Flexible Options to Suit Your Flight Path The initial release of the DCS: Iraq map includes the Northern region, offering an exceptional combat flight simulation experience. It is a diverse map that ranges from the immense and bustling cityscape of Baghdad, to the spectacular mountainous east. Following the release of the Northern region, the Southern region will be offered. In addition to purchasing the entire map, you will also have the option to purchase just a specific region of interest. DCS: Iraq - Pre-order Now The entirety of Iraq that includes all significant cities, air bases, points of interest and more. Includes the detailed Northern region map and the detailed Southern region map when available later. A new level of terrain detail and accuracy. DCS: North Iraq – Pre-order Now Key locations such as Baghdad, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, and more. Key air bases including Al Asad, Balad, Baghdad International, and more. Ideal to recreate the War on Terror and War on ISIS in Iraq. Purchasing DCS: Northern Iraq makes the entire map flyable in single-player and multiplayer, but only this region will be in the highest detail. DCS: South Iraq – Coming in 2025 Featuring strategic locations such as Basrah, Najaf, Amarah, Nasiriyah, and the Shatt al-Arab waterways. Covering the west coast Persian Gulf that also includes Kuwait, Bahrain, and much of Saudi Arabia. Perfect for pilots interested in recreating Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom missions. Purchasing DCS: Southern Iraq will make the entire map flyable in single-player and multiplayer, but only this region will be in high detail. Please note: In order to receive the latest high quality textures across the entire map, you will either need to own the entire map or both regions. Development Progress Terrain Refinement: We are meticulously enhancing and adding high-resolution textures whilst simultaneously improving the normal maps and terrain elevation mesh. The goal of which is to provide an outstanding and immersion experience from very low to very high altitude. Airbase Detailing: Final touches are being applied to all major air bases that include accurate layouts, taxiway and runway signs, lighting, surface textures, hardened aircraft bunkers, and support facilities. All air bases are being recreated with detail and authenticity in mind. Ground Objects: We're developing detailed models of unique buildings, vehicles, points of interest like monuments and dams, and environmental assets. Mission and Campaign Development: Our mission creators are preparing a variety of missions for our most popular aircraft. Mission scenarios include the Gulf Wars, The War on Terror, and operations against ISIS. Upcoming Plans Before Launch Prior to the launch of the Iraq map, we are also prioritising the following items to ensure a smooth and enjoyable Day 1 launch. Performance Optimisation: This includes reducing load times, enhancing frame rates, and ensuring stability during large-scale battles. Massive Multiplayer Testing: Extensive multiplayer sessions are scheduled to stress-test servers and refine the online experience. Our goal is to provide a seamless, lag-free environment for cooperative missions and competitive battles. Community Feedback Integration: We're actively engaging with testers and community members. Your feedback is invaluable, and we're committed to incorporating your suggestions for a polished, final product. Pre-Purchase Now! We are extremely optimistic about the upcoming launch of the Iraq map and thrilled to begin the pre-sale. Please make sure you secure -30% off before launch and be amongst the first to conquer in one of the most captivating regions in the world. Pre-order now for only $48.99 Please note that the Afghanistan map is still being developed in parallel and is also making rapid progress on both improving the available Southwest Region and the upcoming East Region that includes such noteworthy locations as Kabul, Bagram, and Jalalabad. Thank you again for your passion and support, Yours sincerely,

In parallel to the Buk M3, I'm also working to a couple of other assets I'm adding to the Russian asset pack. Here is the T-90A.

I feel like it may be time to wait, I have pre-purchased almost every ED module - After the drama and the game of brinkmanship that's been played with my money between ED and the other developer, I just don't feel comfortable investing more until I see more in the way of ensuring that my investment will be sound in the future. I love ED, ED's product and the capabilities we have with it - I am very, very excited to see where it goes.. but after more than 15 years of using this sim, I am worried given the last year. I know I'll get called a troll, I'd invite anyone who thinks so to read my other posts on this forum. I usually feel like it's best to keep my opinion to myself but the silence here has been deafening.

After Kola and Afghanistan I'll need more assurance Im not buying a map full of airfields surrounded low res tundras and jelly mould hills I'm afraid. Sales patter such as "A new level of terrain detail and accuracy" only serve to make me think "snake oil" after the last £100 I dropped on DCS map pre-orders. I sorry I cannot be more positive about what should be exciting news. Im afraid the last 2 maps have left a sour taste.

Map from DCS discord:

Thank you for your feedback and for the compliment! Glad you enjoy it too. Many thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you enjoy it too. DCS is constantly updated and (from past experience), in the process, it may break something in this mod at some point. If that ever happens (and your feedback is also important for this), I'll try to implement corrections if necessary. Other than that, and at this point, the "CGTC project" is to be considered concluded. But then, knowing myself, who knows if later I feel the urge to revamp it all over again.. lol

I'm sorry, but I'll hold on to my money for now. All the things that happened this year in DCS left me very disappointed.

Iraq available for pre purchase.

Spotting dot worked fine for range of VR-s until last update. Now we have black bricks covering planes. It literary prevents me to see the aircraft underneath. IT IS A BAD SOLUTION. IT DOES NOT WORK. THE OLD SOLUTION WORKED FINE AND WE WERE NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT IT. THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS ED NEEDS TO FOCUS ON. LEAVE THE SPOTTING DOT AS IT WAS BEFORE AND DO THE TESTING SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Here's an idea ED. How about you rollback the rollback you did in the previous patch, and wait until you have a working solution, instead of forcing a broken implementation on every VR user? The game looks simply awful in VR.

Haha, the stock Scud is like the shotgun version of a ballistic missile. You get a really nice scatter effect.

Thank you for sharing this event Gierasimov. I will also add to that my daily MiG-29 photos. Aircraft "115" Another encounter in the air. And the most famous photo of the specific aircraft, in a standard livery.

Back in 1994 French 2EC Mirages visited and among other exercises, participated in highway strip operations training with Polish Fulcrums. Here is the "115" with occasional markings: Location is 53°25'38.7"N 14°48'20.0"E

Back in the OH-6 with the boys (Zipper took the Kiowa). This is still my favorite helo to fly. Looking forward to some good times when Violent Nomad gets his Cobra released. Going to be off the hook. Toyed around with some camera effects in this one.

Wouldn't it be up to the mission designer to put SAMS down where they want - not the map maker?

Just an update, been a bit busy with real life, but the Sea-Darts are still behaving erraticly, as are the Sea-Wolfs, the sea darts are too inconsistent, often detonating 3-5 miles from the ship, and before intercepting

No. Thank you. There are way to many "EA" projects for ED. Hornet, Viper, Super Carrier, Apache, Chinook, Afghanistan... I own all of them. But I don´t see that ED can handle all this in a proper way. And because of this, despite being a fanboy for years I will have to pass on this one and see what the future brings.

В тизере карта Ирака выглядит весьма не плохо. Так же как и карта Афганистана в тизере выглядела шикарно. Но Афган слишком сырой ещё. Не оправдал ожиданий и простаивает в ожидании, когда допилят. С картами пожалуй, гоняться за скидками по предзаказу больше не буду.

I find it impossible to believe that Razbam spent 14 years as a contractor making multiple modules for ED without ever getting paid, that is just not how any business works ever. What i find a lot more believable is that someone is making it up to justify not paying their subcontracted talent with some "the client never paid us ever" bs. They likely didnt get paid for their last project, Strike Eagle,because they didnt fulfill their reqs and didnt rectify it, and decided to go nuclear and full-drama instead. If someone were a painter, builder, or architect, hired by a home-owner, and they told me that they didnt get paid at all... the last thing i would suspect is that the wealthy client just arbitrarily decided to screw them out of the money and just wanted to goto court and have a public fiasco. I would assume the true story likely involves some grave mistakes made by the contractor that were not fixed to a resolution. I would never buy early-access if Razbam were involved. Now THAT makes sense to me.

I have almost pre-ordered every module, be it Aircraft, Helicopters or Maps. This time though I will pass on and wait until it´s much more refined. Recently I got the Kola and Afghanistan map and the CH-47F, but I find all three of them too incomplete to also add an (most probably) incomplete Iraq map ontop of that. I know about Early Acces and what to expect, since as I told, I have done that with almost all addons and I own everything apart from the South Atlantic map, JF-17 and MBB-339. But for now I want to see how developement moves on for Kola, Afghanistan and CH-47F before investing more. The Razbam issue also comes on top of this, having all their Aircraft too. Also recent performance issues (flying almost entirely in VR) keeps me from putting more hard earned money into DCS. It´s not because I have lost faith in DCS, or want to be negative, but I just have reached a point where I want developement to catch up with my investment.

For the sake of Desert Storm, at least backdate the F-16 and the F/A-18. If ED ever fixes things with Razbam then maybe we can get a Day Attack Harrier.

Thanks! I might. Since it also depends on model availability, why not suggest a list of relevant assets in an Israeli pack. Preferably the most common and useful ones.

Back in the OH-6 with the boys (Zipper took the Kiowa). This is still my favorite helo to fly. Looking forward to some good times when Violent Nomad gets his Cobra released. Going to be off the hook. Toyed around with some camera effects in this one. Need to work on getting the Sandy in there next.

Hey everyone. Holy cow, it's been over 2 years since an update! Please accept my apologies for that. I've been extremely busy with life, work, and other DCS projects. I'm happy to report that my major DCS time sink is basically over, which was work on my second campaign. It's called "Unlikely Heroes" and is awaiting ED testing (the campaign is based on the Harrier, so the main wait now is for tensions to simmer between ED and Razbam. I'm very hopeful that a resolution isn't too far off). That said, here's some of the updates I've done for the missions posted in this forum (the dynamic spawn option has really taken some extra time getting things ... mostly triggers ... worked out.) See the string of updates below. Fixes for Normandy Variable, Channel Variable, Under the Fuzz, Caucasus Instrument, and Prison Break are coming soon. Just wanted to get this batch out before my brain was totally overloaded about what was done and what wasn't. Also, a new duel mission called "Caucasus Duel" will be out shortly as well. It's great fun, and has 3 different play modes when dueling 1 or more others. Thanks again everyone! and I'm happy to be back with some of these updates. Cornered and Alone v1.5 Added F-15E Added F1-EE Added CH-47 Added Ka-50 3 Added OH-58 Crack the Channel v2.0 Added Dynamic Spawns for all original aircraft plus F-15E, OH-58, Ka-50 3, F-5E FC, F1-EE. (between Carriers, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island and Kasab) Havadarya has Dynamic spawns for ALL platforms, but there’s no waypoints that will be listed for any. Persian Gulf Variable v1.9 Every Jet platform can Dynamically Spawn at Al Minhad Every Propeller and Helo platform can Dynamically Spawn at Sharjah. “Rescue” platforms have traditional spawns at Al Maktoum for trigger requirements Fixed various trigger issues with Long Distance and A2Amissions Added “mission completion” text box in F10 map Las Vegas Variable v2.6 Every platform Dynamically Spawn at Nellis (as well as the Rescue Helo’s via traditional Spawn Slots) Removed Helo FARP and associated spawned Helo’s. Added “mission completion” text box in F10 map. Krasnodar Variable v2.5 Every Jet and Helo platform can Dynamically Spawn at Krasnodar-Center (as well as the Rescue Helo’s via traditional Spawn Slots Every Propeller driver platform can Dynamically Spawn at Krasnodar-Pashkovsky. Every Helo platform can Dynamically Spawn at Krymsk. Removed Helo FARP and associated spawned Helo’s between Hard and V.Hard sectors. Changed out an incorrect sound file for one of the missions. Fixed trigger for Roof Top Rescue missions that spawned units for Crashed Helo mission Added option to remove trees near road at Raiders Road Base. Added “mission completion” text box in F10 map Capture the Flag v1.8 Added 2 MiG-15 FCs to the Red Team Added 2 F1-EE’s to the Red Team Added 2 F-4E’s to the Red Team Added 2 MB-339’s to the Blue Team Added 2 F-86 FC’s to Blue Team Added 2 F-5E FC’s to Blue Team Added 2 F-15E’s to Blue Team Fixed “immortal” issue with F1-CE’s Fixed point deduction for death of certain aircraft Added sidewinders to F-16 Switched F-16 gun rounds to High Explosive - Tracer Changed sound file for when a flag is captured Dreary Day v1.4 Added MB-339’s to the Blue Team Added Mosquito’s to the Blue Team Added F-14A’s to the Blue Team Added F-15E’s to the Blue Team Added F-4E’s to the Blue Team Added Mirage F1-BE and EE’s to the Blue Team Added F-5 and F-86 Flaming Cliffs to the Blue Team Added MiG-29G’s to the Red Team Added MiG-15 Flaming Cliffs to the Red Team Added Mi-8, Mi-24, Ka-50, and Ka-50 3’s to Red Team Added AH-64, CH-47, OH-58, UH-1, and all SA 342 variants to the Blue Team Added FARPs for both Red and Blue teams to spawn their respective Helo’s. Added Briefing page / FARP info pages for respective FARPS for each team. Added TACAN and NDB stations near Wpt 3 (target) for both Teams, also added NDB at Wpt 4 (obscured target) for Red Team Updated Briefing pages to reflect TACAN and NDB additions Updated approach plate to Kobuleti to specifically help the Mosquito Added KC-135 (Boom refueler) to Blue Team

I'd vote for that too. Option to specify different resolutions for different areas such as mirrors vs MFD's would be great. Even if it was just a setting in the autoexec.cfg

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340989/ It might not be perfect but let me know if it needs adjustments. Bort numbers should work and right now they are a bit too small.

A small frustration, The landing gear on our current model is vertically down when the aircraft is in level flight when in actuality it should sit at a 8-degree angle so that it is parrel to the ground. Will have to re animate the whole gear leg retraction which is quite the process given that its done with IK constraints. For those unfamiliar, 3ds allows us to solve the gear leg animation with a set of parent bones which is all well and good until you get to the part where DCS doesnt support it. Essentially you have to go through every keyframe and align another set of bones to the animated ones which is just time-consuming. We then have to go through this process for both of the hydraulic rams for the gear aswell. Progress is going well, need to do some more riveting and panelling then its just flaps and turrets to finish null

I would like to put forward a suggestion for having more than one voice option available for radio calls that the pilots make. At present, when I have 3 others inbound to the same carrier or airport - the recorded voices are all identical to each other. There's already talk about how we need female bodies in cockpits. I would suggest that it's more immersive to have some different voices added to DCS (which also include female options), given that this would have far more impact when we fly than bodies we can barely see unless we're doing the Topgun 'international' relations maneuver - which I certainly can't pull off. My proposal however is that ED makes an allowance for us to select a voice similar to how we can select liveries (but maybe in the settings setup). It would be good to have 3 or 4 different voices to choose from (by default) - including a female voice for female pilots, but I'd like it done similar to liveries where it would allow users to add additional voice files into the SAVED GAMES directory so they could add more of their own custom voices. This would mean that if liveries were shared (the same way as plane skins), we would get to hear the different voices that others use in the process. It may be that ED are working on something already where they plan on doing voice recognition instead and we may be able to get away with the F10 menu, which would be even better - but if not, could there please be consideration for having voice liveries for the radio calls?

I hope the textures resolution on the less detailed parts of the map are not going to be like in Afghanistan. Even on the "detailed" portion of Afghanistan, the zones around the most detailed ones are very low quality when flying low. Dont know if this is going to be improved but if Irak is going the same way is a no go for me. The transition between high and low resolution is so poor handled that flying helicopters is a pain, when those parts can be seen together.

Ordered!!

Finally we have Iraq! Thank you ED, can't wait to get my hands on it!

5 patches since release and no attempt by the devs to bring the crazy texture sizes down in order to lower VRAM footprint.

Excellent news! I now (almost) can flight from Egypt to Afghanistan! (Maybe some time also Middle Mediterranean Sea? Modern and WWII?) And that means also, we are at one step less to get Pacific WWII map and airplanes!! ... and to Vietnam! Congrats ED for your new achievement and thanks for your continuously so good work!

Half-raq? Just kidding of course. I'll probably do the pre-order on this soon. This map makes the the most sense to me so I'm looking forward to it.

I really don't have a dog in this fight as I use 2-D and haven't really had issues either way. But I will point out to all the people screaming in this thread that "no one" was complaining previously that you can find LOTS of complaints from people who were screaming that they couldn't see anything before this change and how all the servers they played on were losing players because of this. I get it sucks for people with big blobs now and hopefully ED manages to find a happy medium really soon, but I just want to point out that there were clearly people who the old system wasn't working for either. Would be nice if the ON/OFF worked, but "simple" things like adding that back don't take into account what might have changed in the background that mean it would take as much work to re-add it as it would to get a more proper fix.

Ordered and paid: just under 38 euro thanks to some miles I had left... Not too shabby for such an interesting and significant map I wouldn't mind some Iranian airbases to be included at some point, so we can recreate the Iran-Iraq war of the '80s

bi-raq

will it include parts of turkey?

I really don't understand some people, how do you know how many people enjoy or not EDs Newsletters? Don't worry, I will answer this for you. You haven't got a clue so stop trying to speak for others, it's very ignorant to do so. Mizzy

No newsletter....people complain. There is a newsletter....people complain. If you don't like what's written don't read it.... Like BN said No other game company does a weekly newsletter.

Можно ли сделать исключение конкретно для данного типа вооружений? Оно управляется ИИ, не имеет ГСН, что сулит минимум багов. Но является важным фрагментом игровой механики. Востребовано небольшой, однако активной частью сообщества. Хотелось бы найти некий рабочий способ использования таких модификаций в игре, до момента когда выйдут официальные юниты.

Fixed the bort numbers alignments. Now the numbers should be straight.

Ive been working on updating the sounds for a while now both internal and external and ive posted a couple of progress video's with a new update coming soon. https://www.youtube.com/@JafaProductions-px2vc/videos Cheers Jafa.

I just replayed mission 3 of the Wolfpack campaign, to see the extent of the damage. It's a big 16 vs 12 dogfight. This time I was the only one opening fire at straight flying 109s. Nobody else fired a shot

It doesn’t do the same thing. Game auto start is whatever the developer decides and are usually far too slow and stop without performing any post start switch flipping. Building your own start macros can significantly reduce start time and do all the post start switch flipping. I used to mod the in game ones until some dope at ED decided to put them in IC. Now I use VoiceAttack. Not as nice as modding the lua file but serviceable.

I chose BEFORE the update due to the fact that before the update users had an option to disable this option.

To be fair - I don't think that decline is solely for the dots. (Don't get me wrong - I wholely support the option for users to be able to turn these off, and it is likely a contributing factor - but one of many). There is a lot more going on at the moment that I think it contributing to the decline in DCS. The graph seems to reflect what we've seen in our servers - maybe maybe only 1/4 of our usual player base are still regularly active. From conversations, it seems the ongoing instability, and performance issues between DCS releases is a factor (especially now since stable has gone), and there is also a fatigue when it comes to some mission makers / scripters / server hosters where passion is slowly being lost as well as the work involved in trying to overcome things that break between releases is getting to a point where it's very tiring. I appreciate that the last 2 patches have been focused on bug fixes and performance - but concerned with the reckless assumption that all is right by ED removing features (like ST, or the ability to turn dots off, etc) without at least having a release tested and proven in the public first.

T-80BVM maybe possible?

WIP: adding my participation to the topic my Czech Republic Mi24 livery available for quite a few time now here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/fr/files/3318834/ Will add new details among the coming weeks...

According to ancient Mayan prophecies, it will be possible to fly the reworked MiG 21 BIS in Half Life 3.