Burning Bridges

I definitely wouldn't buy it, they must finish the Sinai map first

yes, about 3/4 of East German and 1/3 of West Germany https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/2025-03-14/

The land around Berlin is known to turn into a desert during draught. Actually there is a draught right now and today I took several photos that mostly show sand. It might not be well known but there are actual deserts in Brandenburg, like the Lieberoser Wüste which you will see if you fly from Berlin to Cottbus. They are just not big enough for people to die there, but can span some kilometers. null

that makes sense, the Messe in Leipzig is probably the least typical place in East Germany. Those are however no East German buses, they look like West-Berlin model. GDR Buses were Ikarus or Robur (Ello). The DDR Leitkegel also looked different, but that is pedantic The Litfassäule on the right is more like the real deal. null

I researched this topic over the last year, and it's rather complicated. What I am quite sure is that the 9800X3D is a safest bet and will work great because it is only 1 chiplet. The 9900X3D could be better under certain ciurcumstances but you'd need a lot more research. Both are rather overpriced at the moment though, so I'll wait until the end of the year.

Something that perhaps isn't obvious is that East Germans were totally used to advertisement because most of them watched West German TV all day. As kids we were told that we must not sing the songs from those ads if the head of the school could hear it. I think the ads were for party members to show them that the GDR had something of their own. It also was promoting tourism and other products to West Germans who passed on the A2 from from Braunschweig to Berlin. This was the motorway West Germans took to get to West Berlin and the best Autobahn, because the West had paid for it. There wasn't really a point in advertising because there was no competition but I think it was the result of cultural influence, just like you saw western clothes and fashion, everyone who could afford them liked to show off with it. I remember seeing ads for cars but this was a bit of a joke, because if you applied for one you had to wait 16 years. That's why my parents ordered a car for me when I was born (this is no joke) and it would have been ready some time in the early 90s We once had a visitor group from our partner school in the USSR and we were stricly not allowed to talk to them. I think I gave the reasons above, they probably were told we were diligently learning Russian and striving to be great communists but the truth is that we would have culturally poisoned them.

You are correct about the Cyrillic, it was something that bothered me right away. The only Russians you saw were "CA" trucks with very unhappy looking Soviet soldiers and a terrible smell of Russian Diesel. Soviet soldiers were striclty forbidden to talk to East-Germans. But there was advertisement, for example on the Autobahn. ironically often for things you couldn't buy anywhere. here you find many photos: https://www.schnitzler-aachen.de/Sammlungen/DDR/Werbung/Autobahn.htm (the images seem to be from 1990 or from the transition phase. But there were ads for East German trade brands like ORWO or Pneumant on bridges during the socialist era I just cant find pictures of them)

can you sum up what this is about? CombatFlite link and it seems to be a mission planner for DCS. The site is lavish in detail but no overview what it actually is, sorry

nice footage, but personally I dont like flight sims turned into music videos

could be that they're working .. but I'm afraid on a new map

Priority: Low

of course! I can even run it on a i7 4790K with 80fps.

"working hard on a new project .. " I bet you are very excited about the new project am I right? Sure. One can never begin enough new things, and you can still finish the others at a later time. Priority: Low

May the estemeed developers live forever, for if someone dies it could set the project back by years.

Imo the best map I have seen so far in all of DCS.