Christophe D

Thanks for the tip, but I've never bought anything from DCS through Steam !

Hi all, After the last update, this : "Authorization failed. The authorization is valid for 3d 0h 0m" What's that ? https://tinypic.host/image/2023-10-20-204750.EoQAh Cheers,

I cannot agree more with the original poster. I would dream for instance of a very early F-15A for fictional, but nevertheless realistic USA/USSR Cold War scenarios, for instance in Alaska or in Groenland. "Seventies" option would also allow to have, I think, more easily Russian aircrafts with clickable cockpits (there will never be a "Red" aircraft in DCS to go against the coming Eurofighter Typhoon). Also, Sparrow only equiped US fighters are, at least for me, much more interesting, as these less performing missiles (when compared to the AMRAAM) would permit much more interesting dogfights, than simply firing a bunch of AMRAAM's from the distance. Add to this the fact that most of the aviation combat missions are done now without any real air or ground threats, what is probably good for the pilots, but extremely boring in a sim. Frankly, if I had to choose in a sim to simulate a modern mission over Afghanistan (for instance, bombing a goats hut from 8000 meters without any threats) or trying to recreate in DCS "Operation Bolo", my choice is easily done. And as already said, the early F-15A had the most "badass" cockpit of that era: PS:"For instance what generation is a MIG-21 bison? Or an F-4 with updated radar, leading edge slats, and AMRAAM compatibility?" I always thought that the most common variants of a peculiar aircraft should be developed in priority.

I uninstalled everything and did a new clean install with Avast being shut down. It worked. So, it's the antivirus which did the mess.

Same problem. Did the "exceptions" solution (on Avast) The game still doesn't start (everything was ok before the latest update)

"Having the right assets is a start, many uniforms were different colour, many cars and tanks had different modifications to them as did aircraft and the bf109 trop and the spitfire with the dust filter are good examples of this." In a sim, in which 109 K-4 and 190 D-9 are always used on areas they never flew, this is not an argument.

"Operation Steinbock" Are the Do-217 and the He-177 planned ? "Intercepting V-1s." Is the Tempest planned ? Basically, we have not the planes for such a period and also those combats were rather limited. "they are thinking ahead to releasing earlier-era aircraft (thus, DCS Battle-of-Britain)?" What a good idea, this would be totally new, never done in any flight sim ! So, we have already "study" aircrafts, now this is a "study" map.

A Channel map for late war piston fighters, why ?

I fully agree with the OP, but it's not a problem specific to DCS, it's the same in every sims, basically everybody playing useless furballs in the middle of the map without any kind of objectives or minimal military tactics. It was the same 15 years ago with IL2, it will stay the same unless some automatic events generator is implemented in the game, forcing the players to play in a clever way.

+2 I would even pay for a "clouds" addon.

"...unless you fly unhder british flag..." Different wings, but I don't think this would be a problem for all the arcade servers.

What opponent will have the F4U ?

This is why (among many reasons) a Cold War European map is more than welcome.

This is why photogrammetry is now a "must".

And real air wars like Korea and Vietman will be available for playing when I'm 112 years old.