First Person Shooter?

[mytai01]

We might as well see a first person shooter experience in DCS World if one can walk around inside Aircraft Carriers!

[SilentGun]

Oh jeez... That's he last thing I want to happen with DCS. No more Call of Duty's!

 

(On another note it would be really cool if there was a DCS soldier. Think ARMA)

 

 

 

 

-SilentGun

[tspencer227]

Don't we already kinda have this with the MANPADs in Combined Arms?

[Diplocaulus]

After playing Battlefield 4 you'll never settle for anything less. :)

[CheckGear]

We might as well see a first person shooter experience in DCS World if one can walk around inside Aircraft Carriers!

 

I think they'd be jumping the shark with that. ArmA already has the market cornered on tactical shooters, anyway.

[0xDEADBEEF]

Merge Arma and DCS.

[SilentGun]

Merge Arma and DCS.

 

 

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-SilentGun

[EaglesFly]

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-SilentGun

 

I ' d like much see FPS, RTS in DCS....doing missions around one city for infantry and using airplane for defend or attack could be nice...

[javelina1]

+99999999999999999999

 

-SilentGun

 

That would be cool. Would love to the DCS Hawg in support of ArmA ground pounders. Or, vice versa. :thumbup:

[cichlidfan]

Merge Arma and DCS.

 

I wish I had a nickel for every time this statement, or some variation, has been posted. :P

[Darkwolf]

first person shooter

Even Delta force 1 would be more interresting.

 

Just to recall, maps are really great looking from the sky but down in the field, they is less cover & features than in Doom 1. I wouldn't even consider serious tank gameplay in it.

[BaconSarnie]

I wish I had a nickel for every time this statement, or some variation, has been posted. :P

 

 

Yup, If I wanted to play Arma I would play it, I dont, I want to fly planes and drop bombs, fire missiles and make things kersplode.

[ligthert]

Merge Arma and DCS.

 

 

You forgot steel beasts pro. ;)

[ekg]

It would be cool for fully simulated war scenarios. However I doubt that will happen in the next 10 years :)

[Malleebull]

a full on war scenario would be amazing but competition for anything else would be so low.

[WinterH]

I think every year two threads for "DCS FPS" appear :).

 

It could have been awesome but, it doesn't seem too plausible.

 

This would require incomparably more detailed terrain, AI, line of sight calculations, and fully modeled buildings. There is a reason vehicle, especially flight simulator maps and FPS maps look very different.

 

Sure, infantry may also be made playable in Combined Arms, but this would be a very shallow and lacking representation for infantry combat, which more or less compeletely revolve around cover, buildings, and being down on terra firma, more detailed ground stuff to look at.

 

Detailed aircraft systems, flight, and 3D modeling, as well weapons and ground targets / threads already get pretty taxing on many systems over large swathes of terrain that is needed for air combat simulation. A FPS level detailed terrain of that size, with added complexity of calculation for all things FPS, on top of all things flight sim, AND on size of a flight sim map, sounds just downright unfeasible.

 

I think for simulation of some sorts of CAS, SAR and COIN missions in close cooperation / contanct with infantry, ARMA type titles will remain superior yet, even with their incomparably crude aviation modeling. But that is fine, DCS is and will remain way superiour in aircraft, systems, inderdiction and air combat simulation, after all, "horses for courses" :).

 

System resources, as well as development resources, are finite, and use of these resources on FPS and flight sim genres are mutually exclusive, at least if we want both sides to be proper.

 

I'd rather want infantry AI to be much improved in DCS, it would add A LOT to mission possibilities, and also to potential uses of armed utility choppers and COIN aircraft.

[Frogisis]

An FPS aspect would be just an absolutely bonkers level of feature creep, but the ground war could use some updates, just for more realistic mud-moving.

[keaSar]

There are plenty of features to implement aircraft wise. Why bother with FPS? I want F/A 18, F-16 and Dynamic Campaigns. Not an ugly copy of Arma.

[Northstar98]

Here's a better idea, merge Arma's FPS and Tactical Shooter Aspect, Outerra's technology level of detail and sheer beauty + fully deformable map and DCS amazing flying representation and weapons and damage modelling.

[7rooper]

It's simple. Do you prefer extensive areas where to fly or a small area and detailed terrain?

The last option is what games like BF y ARMA offer: A half baked aircraft simulation and false operations without realistic distances from one waypoint to another.

I prefer DCS to be focused on vehicles only

[Northstar98]

It's simple. Do you prefer extensive areas where to fly or a small area and detailed terrain?

The last option is what games like BF y ARMA offer: A half baked aircraft simulation and false operations without realistic distances from one waypoint to another.

I prefer DCS to be focused on vehicles only

That's why I added Outerra... Which makes for an outstanding map from a ground aspect and a flight aspect both with absolutely fantastic looks that are really second to none and technologies (deformable terrain 3D craters etc) whilst allowing for seamless running with very high frames per second - now I know Outerra is totally unpopulated and is the whole world but if you cut a slice of that into a typical DCS sized map and there you go - a perfect map and technology solution without needing super computer performance or storage. + Underwater!

 

But anyway I agree that at least the focus for DCS should be aircraft and vehicles, a detailed FPS wouldn't allow DCS to be DCS - I'd rather keep the pilots and MANPADs that we have already.

Edited February 3, 2016 by Northstar98

[ChoSeungWan]

Main problem I've seen people bring up is jets bullying infantry or people having to walk long distances and it just being a mess making it unplayable.

 

Solution to this: Don't be like ArmA! ArmA places hardly any restrictions on what people do in multiplayer and it ends up looking like Second Life with guns. Project Reality and WW2OL force people to act in a certain way and limit assets appropriately so that there's order without the need of a clan so I'd look at those for inspiration.

 

Some people think of an FPS element in DCS as silly and unnecessary or a fantasy, but the feeling you get when you know you're supporting an ongoing ground battle with real players or that the bombs you've pickled just injured, killed or scared the crap out of someone is a rush.

[OutLord]

This thread needs a rethink. I hate that I cant get uut of my chopper and pull out a m4

[Svsmokey]

Yeah , vote for an Arma/ DCS merge , or a FPS aspect within DCS , and you are voting for a $10,000 computer to run 25 frames...

[Johnny_Rico]

Merge Arma and DCS.

 

 

Good idea, BIS could buy Eagle Dynamics and do this