Additional Aircraft

[pbsmgm]

Is there any additional aircraft built into DCS: Black Shark besides the B.S.?

Edited January 25, 2009 by pbsmgm

[Weta43]

Player flyables ? No.

Each new flyable will be released as a module (A-10 next)

AI aircraft - many...

[pbsmgm]

I appreciate the information very much. Is there a schedule that DCS has created for additional aircraft in the future somewhere? Thanks.

Edited January 25, 2009 by pbsmgm

[EtherealN]

The word is "when they're done". :P

 

They are aiming for something like 9 months between each module release, starting with DCS:Black Shark as the first one. However, that is all a bit fluid since things happen during development that might cause delays or (more rarely) early releases.

 

You should realize though that this is a complete and big game even though it "only" has one flyable aircraft. This is from the fact that it is a so-called "study" simulator as opposed to a "survey" simulator, in that it simulates one aircraft with extreme detail rather than doing an "OK" job on several, like the older LockOn or games like IL-2 or Microsoft Flight Simulator. It takes time because the goal is to make it as close to what the real pilots would fly in the military training simulators as far as detail and realism go as is possible to do on a home computer and with the information that is available about the aircrafts and their components.

[pbsmgm]

Thanks EtherealN...I didn't know the technical name for the difference between DCS: B.S. and a sim like Microsoft FSX. So that makes DCS: B.S. even more absolutely awesome.