Ironhand

“Most complete of the three”. True. Will “receive some updates post-release”. Also true. “For all intents and purposes feature complete”. Ditto. I doubt they’ll be adding a tremendous amount of new features. I should hope not. ED is no different from any other company that owns a niche. They put out a decent product overall. Not a great one. Their strength lies in mimicking systems in the cockpit. They are hard to beat in that regard. Elsewhere, not so much.

I still don’t understand how anyone could think that an ED early access map could be anything other than what was released. Early access could not possibly be “feature complete” in the sense that most users interpreted it. That alone should have been a clue. Plus, as you stated, the fact that it wasn’t given to content creators to preview, should have been yet another clue. All in all, what people are most upset about is that their enthusiasm got the better of them. In life, I’ve found that it’s best to tone down your expectations and be pleasantly surprised, when they’re exceeded. Reality normally glitters much less than the hype. This map has great potential. We’ll just have to wait and see what comes. Personally, I think ED will eventually make this map enjoyable for most, but not all, of us. For now, anyone who bought it in early access, got a nice price break…which is why I bought it in the first place.

I had, so far, only viewed this map from jets at low altitude and enjoyed every flight. The SW portion is fairly stark and devoid of much detail. It’s definitely not the place to make your first flight but the rest of the map is fun. Last night, I took up my only helo for a spin. I still enjoyed the flight, though not as much, and agree that there is far more time to spot things and think: “Wait! What?” And, then, focus on them for far longer after that. Fewer glaring “eyesores” and more detail would have been preferable. That being said, however, I’m aware that the Afghanistan map will be roughly 3 times bigger than the map so many point to as the gold standard, Syria. So I’m wondering if Afghanistan’s sheer size will limit how much detail can be included for the “rotor heads” and that’s not even taking the Combined Arms crowd into consideration. Afghanistan may end up not being a map for everyone, though ED would like it to be.

That my computer can handle…

Sorry. Missed that it was the Instant Action. There is no load out listed. The rest of what I said is valid—almost. I should have been more specific. When I said A2A, I should have added Boresight (the 6 key). That’s the only A2A mode available for the A-10.

You have 2 AIM-9Ms an your wing. When you select A2A, you can hear the seeker tone and there's a new circle on the HUD. Put that circle over the target. Other than that, you have your gun. The loadout for that mission is listed in the briefing screen for the mission. The Aim-9Ms also show green (selected) on the weapons panel,when you select A2A.

Have you checked the manual?

The cue of is filled things I’m constantly being “reminded” about in that list, FC3 among them. FC3 is gone. That “nag” will be removed at some point. Just ignore it and go on with life.

Aren’t each aircraft’s manual in their respective “Doc” folder? Your DCS Installation/Mods/aircraft/…

IDK. I’ve only had time for one low level flight so far. Started at Bost and headed up toward Tarinkot (just SW of it) and a bit toward Shindad before turning north in the direction of Chaghcharin. Ran out of playtime before reaching it, though. I was flying WP to WP, rather than following terrain features and that might make some difference. The towns in the vicinity of Bost look much like they do in satellite imagery I’ve seen as do others along my route. All in all the flight was enjoyable. The most jarring thing for me were the trees (color and size) in the mountains near the large lake/reservoir along my route. The rest of it was enjoyable enough.

Something to read:

Forests actually make it a bit easier to hide transitions. Also, Kola is being done in a single piece. Afghanistan is being worked on as three. Obviously you have your view of what the map should already look like and I have mine.

Totally different environment. Desert vs forested. No blending cover vs more blending cover. I’ll withhold judgement until the entire map has been worked on.

They are taking a new approach to map making and, so, we’ll have to see how everything is eventually blended together in the end. In that regard, it’s no surprise that this map is looking very different from previous ones at this point. As someone who’s done a bit of this type of work in the past, it looks like this map has a lot of place holders and is in the early stages of getting terrain to blend together, etc. I’m not planning to worry until much later, unless little changes over time. I find the map pleasant enough, at this point, for what it is.

I was finally able to fly a portion of the SW map a short time ago, all of it below 1000 ft. Some of it on the deck. While there are issues, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw for an early release. Looking forward to jumping into other areas of the map as time allows.

I feel your pain. But you might want to read this, if you haven’t seen it already:

Glad you got it sorted out. Enjoy!

In this other thread that you posted in, have you seen BIGNEWY’s responses? and… At a minimum, before you try anything, rename your mods folder in Saved Games so that none of those mods load. Once the problem is solved, then you can go back to it.

I suspect that’s an overly optimist view.

You might want to do a cleanup and slow repair. Either that or remove and reinstall FC3. The latter has worked for some people.

If you use the Mission Editor to place an F-15C on the map, can you set it to “Player” or is only “Client” available in the “Skill” menu?

That’s the way it is now. The aircraft are listed individually according to all reports. I’m still downloading the update. So can’t speak from personal experience.

And that is what DCS excels at, military cockpit simulation tied to a very good flight model. The rest of the simulation, not so much.

That’s the key command to “silence warnings” or however it’s phrased available in some FC3 pits. Was wondering if maybe it would work for that, even though it’s not a warning in your case.

I stand corrected, then. Guess they’ll get around to it, once all other bugs are corrected…