Syria map - somewhat disappointed

[Notso]

Ok maybe more than just somewhat. For $40, It's a tiny map. It doesn't even have ALL of syria on there, which misses the opportunity to run a lot of the current ops against ISIS out west along the Syrian/Iraqi border.

 

I also wish it had more Turkey and Northern Iraq as it would have been perfect to be able to run both ONW and OIF mission out of Incirlik into the Mosul/Irbil area as well as the N36 NO FLY line from ONW. If it was meant to be a more modern Syria only conflict with the civil war - then it should have encompassed more of the Med with Cyprus, Sicily and such to simulate more of the constraints of distance that the land based aircraft had to deal with to get to Syria from the Western side. It also leaves out the coalition strikes on ISIS targets that came out of the PG, mainly UAE.

 

I'm hoping eventually the Syria and PG maps merge and they add all of Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Israel and such to make it more geopolitically correct for how forces fought conflicts in that area of the world. I would LOVE to eventually see a larger MENA map for DCS as that would encompass pretty much all of the world conflicts since the early 70 to current day.

 

But as it is now - meh.

[FoxOne007]

Just a quick FYI, Cyprus is planned in a later update, but I defo agree with the rest of your points, some more of landmass North, East and even South in Jordan (like Al-Azraq AFB) would be really welcome.

[sublime]

well its my favorite map by far

but you got seriously good points

just like caucauses.. leaving the crimea just empty was almost criminal

if anything the kuban shoulda been empty

especially since this is the spiritual successor of 95s flanker which.. was in crimea

[sirrah]

Strange how opinions and experiences can differ. As I absolutely love the new Syria map!

 

Great diversity in terrain, multiple valleys to tear through, very high detail on airfields, curved runways, cities that extend over mountain hills, just to name a few eye-catching features.

 

 

I do agree with you that the total map size might be a bit small, but, as sublime also mentioned, (portions of) Cyprus will be added at later stage. Also, I don't know if it would effect performance much if the map size were to be increased, but my poor pc is already struggling as it is now :P

[MAXsenna]

Best map ever, but you have some strong points. Let's cross our fingers for the future! And as people already mentioned. Cyprus is coming. Just this turn around and decision alone by ED and Ugra bosses well for the future I think.

Cheers!

 

PS: My comp is seven years old. 32 gigs, i7 at 3.8, GTX Titan with only 6 gigs. 4 SSDs in stripe. Fiddled arround with settings, mostly to get rid of shimmering. Only place it struggles are over cities.

 

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[dorianR666]

in my opinion, its the best map in dcs so far.

 

 

then it should have encompassed more of the Med with Cyprus, Sicily

sicily?! you realize there are pretty severe limitations on DCS map sizes right

 

 

do a little experiment: land your plane on caucasus map somewhere in turkey in the south-west of the map, or in the unpopulated area south-east (armenia). land and look around the plane. youll see the terrain texture and grass jerking around like crazy - thats precision loss in coordinates. the further you go from the center (0; 0; 0), the bigger the error is.

Edited August 27, 2020 by dorianR666

[Oceandar]

I agree its rather small but other than that I'm quite happy.

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Funnily enough, AFAIK it's the biggest map on DCS to date :music_whistling: .

 

 

S!

[Weta43]

Funnily enough, AFAIK it's the biggest map on DCS to date :music_whistling: .

 

 

S!

 

Oh now you're just letting logic get in the way of a good gripe - shame on you !

[Nealius]

It feels rather large to me, and I'm mostly satisfied. I do wish it were expanded S/SE a bit more. Cyrpus is in the works so that will be great. My only disappointment is the lack of Israeli and Syrian airbases. Syrias major MiG-29 base is completely missing, along with quite a few other major MiG-21/-23 air bases. In Israel we're missing Hatzor which (IIRC) is a major F-15 or F-16 base. Ramat is also lacking parking spaces.

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Oh now you're just letting logic get in the way of a good gripe - shame on you !

:cry::cry::cry: You're right, logic!! What was I thinking… :doh: I'm so sorry. Will go lash myself somewhere else…

 

 

S!

[BaD CrC]

This map is by far the best looking map ever available in DCS and the size is perfect. But I am talking from the RW point of view, that is below 110 kt and 200 ft. We flew 2.5 hours last night from Turkey to Syria across the mountains, tight canyons, following up the rivers, then into green valleys followed by dryer areas. Jaw dropped for the entire flight. We couldn't believe how beautiful this map is. Custom buildings everywhere. Possibilities for missions are so endless our mission designers just don't know where to start. Now if you are flying at 600 kt and 30,000 ft, I guess there is nothing much to see up there. I wouldn't know, I got hypoxia above 1,500 ft. :-P

[Japo32]

The best map by far. The level of detail on ground is amazing. Bases look as bases. Simple as put a fence or wall and fill it with details.

Small? well would like to have bigger maps in DCS as Falcon Does, but I hope the expanse to the West comes "soon"

[ThorBrasil]

This map is by far the best looking map ever available in DCS and the size is perfect. But I am talking from the RW point of view, that is below 110 kt and 200 ft. We flew 2.5 hours last night from Turkey to Syria across the mountains, tight canyons, following up the rivers, then into green valleys followed by dryer areas. Jaw dropped for the entire flight. We couldn't believe how beautiful this map is. Custom buildings everywhere. Possibilities for missions are so endless our mission designers just don't know where to start. Now if you are flying at 600 kt and 30,000 ft, I guess there is nothing much to see up there. I wouldn't know, I got hypoxia above 1,500 ft. :-P

 

Indeed! endless possibilities for doing missions. The map is beautiful! I just hope that DCS will improve its performance in the future with Vulkan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Syrian_Civil_War_detailed_map

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290 miles between the two furthest airports. Fairly reasonable. Only this time they haven't added any additional generic terrain beyond the area depicted. Valleys, mountains, unpaved mountain roads, lakes with moss and sand in the background. It is a great map. The only thing I'm missing is a functional infantry.