Kestrel Ironworks Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 Hello all, I have been working on a new project for a few weeks now and absolutely loving the new map. The But, having real issues with the historical map date and allied airfields spattered all over Normandy. Its great for recreating scenarios around late June to August and the retreat of the Germans, though terrible for pre Normandy invasion and around June 6-7th. I feel like the airfields are a step back from the old map, yes it has more but severely limits plausible timeframes. Furthermore an obstacle I have run into is when creating a large map mission its increasingly difficult to populate most airfields with statics and eye candy as your going to hit your unit limit pretty damn fast and havent even started on the germans yet. The question: The info is probably out there but unable to find any info, do the devs have any plans in the future to remove or change shown airfields? Is this even possible in the dcs environment? Am happy to carry on and ignore this glaring issue with the map and live with it, but its frustrating trying to recreate an invasion scenario that is plausible, diving down on Omaha/Utah/Gold/Juno/Sword beech with premade allied airfields sat there in the background breaking the immersion. The old one was manageable, this one is over done. Also the performance is not equal to the old version, not even close imo. 2
twistking Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 I agree, but i suspect that ED would need to provide the technical groundwork first to even allow Ugra to implement this... I remember reading that ED was investigating tech for allowing such changes to maps at some point, but i haven't heard anything about it since... My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
Kestrel Ironworks Posted May 10, 2023 Author Posted May 10, 2023 Interesting, so maybe something for the future. It would be amazing to have finer control over the map options 1
DishDoggie Posted May 15, 2023 Posted May 15, 2023 I have no idea how hard it is or even if it could be done. If you could mission make with the ability to End one Map and Load screen to a New map as you fly across the Channel so the UK side would be empty and not seen. My Childlike Ideas can be ridiculous in logic sorry if it is.
Kappa-131st Posted December 12, 2023 Posted December 12, 2023 I think there is a terribles issues for the historical road (departmental, national). The roads in the "map" view are precise, but do not correspond at all to the roads in the map (found in "ALT" or "SAT" view). For example, if we want a convoy to take the Granville -> Avranche road, we are surprised to find that it is obliged to go far north (towards Lessai) to succeed in finding its route, passing through Saint Lô and Vire. It’s still quite a detour! Also, there is no road between Granville - Vire or St Lô - Avranche. It's rather poor! I am not saying that all roads must be modeled, but at a minimum, the departmental and national roads should be, and remain accurate! 2
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