Bigby Wolf

Exactly. If DCS had the infantry and terrain of Arma, it would be the end of Arma. There are a lot of people on Arma who really want to have realistic vehicles and aircraft. I included. I love the infantry combat, but everything else sucks ( i.e. what DCS does have! ) I'm really waiting to see what the EDGE engine will bring us in terms of graphics and tools, but even the grass and tree mods being made now look near the level of Arma already.

Yep, only pylons showing. But considering all the other problems in "World", I can live with it for now.

I'm an Nvidia fan, but I've got to say, go with the 7990. Nvidia's going down a weird road with its CUDA and PhysX. AMD is moving towards better supporting OpenCL, which will benefit everyone.

This is what TOTALLY puts me off. If they made a version that was moveable, I'd consider it. As you say, the F-18 is coming out soon, and the Saitek throttle is better suited to it.

+1. I don't even bother with FC3 or "game mode".

We'll here's to hoping EDGE comes out this year, and a good SDK / Editor for it, so some of us can start working with the terrain / objects / FPS. Why hold back?

Actually, it doesn't appear it would take much work to insert FPS. I've played very good FPS games that had less graphics than this. Quake mods like True Combat and UT mods like Infiltration come to mind. Arma 2 doesn't have much better grasses and trees than the mods I see for DCS. All you need to do is make a few areas on the maps more built up in terrain ( Anywhere from Arma sized islands to as small as Crysis maps ) and have some decent enterable buildings and objects. The rest can be left plains and grasslands. All you have to do is look at Arma 2 to see what vehicles you need. Then just add a playble infantry soldier. I would imagine that is far less difficult than making an aircraft ( and far less demanding in calculations ). Personally, I'm just waiting on DCS to make an SDK to do it, then just talk to some of the numerous groups who would be interested in making it happen. It's really just a matter of time. Most FPS type players want integrated infantry / vehicles / aircraft. The Electronic Battlefield Spectrum Holobyte invisioned 20 years ago. Its kind of here already, but in an unrealistic way. I would like to see their vision of a REALISTIC one. CA is a start, but it has a long way to go. I look forward to the day I can engage a human intelligence on the ground. Right now, the AI infantry just dance around playing ring around the rosie, or sit and wait to be slaughtered. I guess, in the end, what I really want to see is a FAR more realistic VBS.

Real FPS in this game would lure a LOT of Arma members over here. There are a lot of Arma players that want to fly in Arma but the Flight Sim in that game absolutely SUCKS! Not to mention Arma 3 seems to have lost all aspects of realism. Its quickly becoming the domain of BF3 / DayZ / COD players. The old realism crowd is being ignored and pushed out. Their looking for a new game now themselves. You should make a better combined arms that looks more like Arma 2 / ACE and stick in FPS. Maybe you could lure over SickBoy and the ACE team to help you out. They don't seem too enthused about Arma 3. I know a lot of people say this will take a lot of CPU/GPU/Take your pick/power, but that's why we're gamers. We don't play on laptops. To me, some of the mods (trees and grass) are already approaching the graphics of Arma 2. You just need to put in more terrain variety, etc. And yeah, I know the area involved is a 100x more than Arma, so we don't expect you to vary the terrain "everywhere", just in some moderate sized areas that can be used for FPS.

Oh please, that's just pure fanboyism. They should never have made us pay for an upgrade that literally did nothing but let us play BS1 in DCS:World. Not to mention the price is ridiculous. I still own BS1 1.02 only because of that. Now I'm wondering if they're going to try that stunt when the EDGE engine comes out. Ridiculously priced upgrades for all modules?

Hey guys. Is their any way to edit the terrain mesh, like we can in Arma and Crysis? Say, make a small island out in the sea?