Gunfreak

I'm honestly now sure how a constant speed prop cam over rev at all. Especially in an engine known to be indestructible. Yet the P47 engine is the most delicate engine on any warbird in DCS. I haven't tested much in a whiile but some 7-8 months ago. I would break the engine in 10 second dives from 30k feet diving after a 190. It happened if I ran at max WEP with water on. And happened if I throttled back. A few seconds in a dive and the engine broke. I even had it happen at low altitude shallow dives from bombing. Dividing 20-30 degrees from 12 000 feet to 3000 feet. Would break it some 6-8 months back(this I didn't experience last time I flew the P47 a month or so back.)

Steam does pre-order all the time. Sometimes with 1-2 years advance before the release. It's ED/DCS that somehow can't get it to work on steam. They could before. But now they can't.

Can't you do something so simple as 100% is what it is now. But let you move the thing past 100% to 125% or what the full load would be. The default when placing a p47 would be 100% and then you can choose to put it over 100%

Apparently not.

GCI will be very interesting if it can be added to other modules.

It would be very helpful if conventional artillery could fire illumination flares. And let us order the artillery to fire automatically after however many minutes the flare lasts.

Oh you say the Hellcat is out? Oh wait it isn't We aren't just talking full fidelity here, lack of AI aircraft to make proper 1944 missions and environment. The Mossie didn't sell well enough, so they haven't done anything with it for 3 years except using it as a test bed for some new gear physics(probably because it didn't sell well enough, so if it broke only a few would get effected.) Nothing major has happened for WW2 DCS for 3 years, imagine if nothing had happened to DCS jets for 3 years. What 3rd parties are you talking about? The Corsair that is at 8 years and counting development time, or the I-16 that doesn't fit into anything we have, or the IL-7 that also won't fit into anything we have? Again, it's a lack of interest from ED that is stopping development nothing else. They choose to prioritize their jet stuff, because that's were the money is. But as long as they do that, they'll never make a proper WW2 sim for those that want that. We'll see when the PTO comes out, if it will get proper support, or if it will get a few thigs, then nothing for 3+ years. And the full fidelity isn't an issue, if you ask someone who flies that other WW2 sim, why they don't fly WW2 DCS. You'll always get the same answers. 1 Too expensive, having to buy an aircraft, a map and a asset pack(ED is again forcing a paid asset pack for PTO) 2. Not a real WW2 sim, as there is next to no aircraft to fly. Lacking any proper WW2 environment and a mismatch of aircraft and maps. Both those answers is something ED could do something about if they wanted to. They simply don't want to, because they don't believe it will make them enough money. Which is perfectly legit reason for a company that has to make money, but don't make up other reasons for why nothing major is happening with WW2 DCS

That's the point. They could make 2 ww2 full fidelity modules a year But they choose not to. Probably because they don't expect it's worth the money. And that's the problem. DCS WW2 doesn't make them enough money for them to prioritise it. And since they don't prioritise it. WW2 dcs doesn't attract enough players to for them to make enough money on it for then to prioritise it. And on and on this cycle goes. ED could make the best WW2 sim ever made. But that would require time and money ED isn't willing to use on ww2. So ww2 DCS continues to be the unwanted stepchild.

This would be pretty standard for artillery during ww2 and throughout the cold war. But I'm unsure if any artillery in DCS. Can fire that or if it always has to be done with triggers or aircraft dropping flares.

12 Ship Luftwaffe F-4 strike to take out 3 Soviet reinforcement columns, some 150 tanks, APCs, trucks, fuel, SHORADs and AAA.

Let's actually flesh out what we have, namely 44/45. At the rate ww2 dcs is worked on. Asking for 3 aircraft is a 8 year development job. In an ideal world. DCS would get 1-2 ww2 aircraft a year. Expanded channel map. 5 new AI aircraft. But that's not happening and probably never will happen. We can all wish and dream, but asking for a totally new ww2 project. Is like asking for 2 random 1942 aircraft made over 4 years and never anything else will happen.

Mabye this is already a thing. But would be great if we could force radar and especially rwr off in AI aircraft. Say you want your MiG21 AI to be closer early models like that used in Vietnam. As far as i know. The MiG21 modeles used in Vietnam didn't have RWR even at the end in 73. As it is now if you want to sneak up on a MiG21 you have to turn off your radar. But in real life an F4 could fly towards a MIG21 fire off a Sparrow and the 21 would never know the F4 was even there until the missile hit. Unless it had GCI that could warn it. Having an option in ME to force rwr off would help make the AI less omniscient when they shouldn't. Same with say F4s, and F100 and F104 when they come. They shouldn't have RWR if you are simulation 1965

Egypt also had Sparrow F16(Isreal apparently demanded that Egypt couldn't get Amraams for their F16s)

There are now quite a lot of air bases. They are mostly adding infrastructure around these places. Which means that between these strategically important places there still isn't that many towns and villages. Some ports are added though. The second biggest city on the map Tromsø is still missing. But given it's quite large and have some unique architecture. It's probably a bit of work to get done.

ED is working on new infantry models. With much better animations. Including new insurgency infantry. I don't think we'll see any new infantry models until that job is done After that hopefully official and unofficial infantry models can use the new animations.

If Evenes airbase is on your Kola, then you have the newest version of the map.

The map is so RAM hungry. That I could not run a dedicated server and play the mission on the same computer. If i run a dedicated server. And join it on my PC all 64 gigs of ram would be used. And DCS would crash when i selected a side in the MP server. When playing on singleplayer if i tired to save the mission. The game would crash. I bought more ram. And with 128gig ram I can save the mission state and end the mission without cashing (though the game is unstable and do crash randomly) and when I do hit Save game. The game freezes for like 2 minutes before it saves(vs instant crash with 64 gig ram) This is a bit mission. Dozens upon dozens of aircraft. SAMs, hundreds of tanks and vehicles shooting at each other.

The the mission is supposed to begin with an artillery barrage. That barrage could have been set and made ready before the mission starts. "Simply" add the option of "pre planned barrage " in the fire at point to remove the delay.

It was released a few days after the Easter update.

Can't add track. It's too big. No mods.

Don't know if this is a AI bug or a Kola map bug, Can't use track file, as the mission was over a hour long and is 50mb

Soviet surprise attack on Kirkenes. Must escort the Prime minister out of danger.

Doing a mission on Kola there are mortars, shooting and mayhem going on at the airfield, yet no sounds are heard at all in the cockpit, except if an aircraft booms over head.

I can not complete my mission as I hit exit the game crashes for lack of memory. Even if I try to save half way through the mission the game crashes as I try and save. I have 64gig DDR5, and so it shouldn't actually be a problem. No other map causes this problem dcs.log-20250503-103041.zip