De Havilland Tiger Moth

[Kaned Dragon]

Hi, I wish the Tiger Moth and other planes and maybe some suitable ground vehicles from that area could be added to DCS.

 

Thx

[ebabil]

i hope there won't be another bi plane

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=197482

[cailean_556]

Not sure if serious... If you are, a healthy alternative full of aircraft made from wood and canvas would be Rise of Flight. Not sure WW1 biplanes would fit within the scope of DCS... Having said that, Magnitude is making an aerobatic biplane so you never know...

Edited April 19, 2018 by cailean_556

[philstyle]

This seems awfully like a troll/ pot-stir post to me...

 

 

I might be wrong though.

[Kaned Dragon]

I'm serious. I'd like to see some Biplanes, WW1 ground units and Naval units. Down the line sometime.

 

When DCS was Lock On, the premise was a modern jet combat simulator.

The Caucasus, Black sea region. Only 2 US aircraft and a handful of Russian air craft.

 

But now it's DCS, and we have the Spits, Mustangs 109's and 190's.

There's the Combined Arms module, which allows players to access the ground units.

Normandy.

We also have trainer versions of the Mustang and the C101.

 

And also not to mention, The Mi-8MTV2, which even has Cargo carry abilities. The Huey, which isn't really an attack Heli. More an armored weaponized transport Heli.

 

DCS doesn't come across as the same modern only combat flight simulator that it used to be.

To me at least. DCS is now getting into that realm of a full blown combat simulator.

 

The DCS devs don't have to make these modules. A 3rd party group could do it.

Also again, not just the Tigermoth. There are other planes which have a legendary status.

 

Having flown the Spit and got used to it, I really enjoy flying the old planes. And it's a totally different style of flying.

So yes, I would like to see some real old gen planes and ground / naval units, as well as more mid era stuff.

 

cailean_556 Not sure if serious... If you are, a healthy alternative full of aircraft made from wood and canvas would be Rise of Flight. Not sure WW1 biplanes would fit within the scope of DCS... Having said that, Magnitude is making an aerobatic biplane so you never know...

 

I didn't know about that, thanks for the info.

 

I haven't played rise of flight before, does it compare to DCS?

The mission planner, the different Terrains. GFX, choices of units to fly against?

Is it a sim or arcade game?

[John Hargreaves]

I've tried rise of flight, it just seems like an old game compared to DCS. I totally agree that WW1 planes have a place in a title that shows great respect for the history of aerial combat.

[theOden]

Have you considered Cliffs of Dover? there's a DH 82 in there.

Great fun.

[Kaned Dragon]

Have you considered Cliffs of Dover? there's a DH 82 in there.

Great fun.

 

I was talking to friends about cliffs of dover before it was released. But then it got released and blasted. I heard there were tones of bugs. and it's only the one theater of operation and only one era of aircraft. I'm too invested into DCS now.

 

I guess I'm saying I'd rather focus on one flight simulator, which has a lot of choices. Than buy that flight sim that only does one thing.

 

DCS really is the best choice right now.

 

Now it's evolved to DCS 2.5 with the new game engine, the new consolidation of all the modules into one program.

We have a really good choice of both planes, helis, ground vehicles.

There are 3 terrain option, the Persian gulf is coming.

We can make our own mission or do campaigns.

 

Cliffs of Dover, IL Sturmovick. They're all too old :-/

 

All DCS is missing our some Stukas, IL Sturmovick and larger ww2 bombers and that's it we got a full ww2 flight sim.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if a naval module gets made at some point. There's actually land at the bottom of the ocean now. Get some proper Subs in there at some point too.

 

DCS has variety other flight sims don't. Now it's a module based program it has the capacity for all the generations of flight.

 

And absolutely yes John Hargreaves. "respect for the history of aerial combat".

Just look at the Saber and Mig-21. Those were made by dev's who had passion, love and respect for those aircraft.

 

DCS is a fully modular based game, which means over time they can theoretically just make more modules for it. instead of making entire new sims. Not just units but also terrains.

We got a good amount of modern aircraft. They made some mid era and ww2 aircraft.

I'm hoping for everything in time.

 

Also didn't the Tigermoth do some actual combat in it's time in service? It's got the machine guns, I read it dropped bombs later in development. How about the Fokker Dr.I :)

[cailean_556]

I didn't know about that, thanks for the info.

 

I haven't played rise of flight before, does it compare to DCS?

The mission planner, the different Terrains. GFX, choices of units to fly against?

Is it a sim or arcade game?

 

I've not played it myself, but I've had my eye on it. I'm intending to start a virtual squadron (still laying ground work at the moment) that would fly Rise of Flight, IL2 and DCS - so aerial warfare across the entire spectrum (WW1, WW2 and Korea, Cold War and beyond).

 

RoF is old, however the developers of IL2 are looking to give RoF a facelift. Cliffs of Dover, while it *was* the proverbial POS, is now reasonably polished. Again, I've not played it, however considering it was a mod-team that fixed it, and that mod team now works with/for the IL2 developers, read into that what you will.

 

While a new and improved RoF is likely 12-24 months away, as it stands right now, it still looks pretty reasonable. Look up footage on YouTube, there's plenty of it.