DCS: Syria update 2023

[Schmidtfire]

Awesome news! While you’re at it.. Would it be possible to tweak colors of the textures? They are really bland, to the point I cannot even spot runways properly.

thanks

[MIghtymoo]

Awesome news! Perfect for us VR pilots.

[Zyll]

Great to hear that optimization efforts are a priority with the team. If you could please take a look at this thread, I think it might possibly provide some additional places for possible optimizations.

Thank you for the excellent Syria map!

[EagleEye.DCS]

On 11/11/2023 at 12:58 AM, MAESTR0 said:

Hi fighters!

Today we will look at optimization. The team is working on improvements to the map, but the more detail and uniqueness we add, the more effort it takes to optimize.
Hard work has been done on all areas of the map: models have been optimized, textures have been reassembled, vector data rendering on clipmaps has been updated - all this has had a positive effect!
We conducted tests on two systems: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x / RTX 2080Ti and i9-10850K / RTX 4080
When flying over a city, FPS increased by an incredible 20%, and while on a system with a 2080ti the average FPS was at 85, now it confidently remains around 110. When flying over a forest, FPS increased from 5% to 20% compared to the previous build.
When testing the 2080ti system, the fps was always above 105.
One does not simply release an update with optimization.  We have added 4 airfields:

• Amman Civil Airport
• Herzliya Airport (NOTAM: RWY LENGTH 1500M)
• King Abdullah II Air Base
• Prince Hussein Air Base

This will increase your flight geography and diversify your missions.
Explore new airfields and get ready to take off 

Prince Hassan Airbase

King Abdullah II Airbase

 

 

Nice expanding! Great work Ugra.

[Hiob]

Hey  @MAESTR0, thank you for the update and much appreciation for your team. The Syria map is still my "goto" map most of the time and the range of what it offers is great.

However - there is one major gripe I have with it as a helicopter guy. The LoD-pop-ins of fences and guardrails. It is very, very obvious (and annoying) when there is a running wave of LOD kicking in 100m in front of you flight path. Just fly around Incirlik and Adana in the instant action mission and it becomes very clear very fast.

Obviously that would cost a frame or two of performance and it doesn't affect anyone that is flying high and fast. But Helicopters are more than an afterthought by now and your map is simply crying for helicopters.

Please, please consider the to widen the Max-LoD-bubble for such ground details at least threefold. It is such an immersion killer.

Thank you!!!

[draconus]

Wow, new air bases and optimisations - great

[SickSidewinder9]

Thank you so much for your optimization work.  My i5 with 1080ti definitely needs it.

[fow5ll]

Great job！！！but is there something wrong with the airport texture? It looks a bit too new

[ochilov]

Awesome !!

I've been waiting for H-5 Prince Hassan since the beginning. Now i'll finally be able to recreate French air force operations in the region.

Do we know when the new airfields will be added ?

[ShinyMikey]

The new airbases didn't make it into the patch? Nothing in the patch notes.

[PLUTON]

I thought we would see the new airfields in this update, plus they gave us the videos! !

[Rapierarch]

Just finished the download and checked files. There is no update in the files. No new airbases. 

[mmarques]

This is looking amazing! 

Any chance the North West parking area at Khmeimim airbase could be fixed so Su-24/34 can use them?

Edited November 27, 2023 by mmarques

[rhoady]

Hi @Maestro, these updates look amazing, thank you for the teams ongoing commitment to improving this map, it’s definitely the best map in my opinion! Not sure if this has been asked yet or not but is there some kind of roadmap, or is Ugra not disclosing that? 

[EvMstein]

YES PLEASE!

[MAESTR0]

Hi fighters
Today we will show 2 airfields Herzliya (Israel) and Amman (Jordan).
Since the first post about the update, many events have happened: new airfields have been upgraded, changes have been made to old ones. If you see corrections to your requests on the forum, be sure to write in your topic.
I hope that we will see the next screenshots of this update from you 

Herzliya (Israel)

Amman (Jordan) 
(over there on the highway to the left of the airport you can drink good Arabic coffee)

 

[ThorBrasil]

In fact, nowadays DCS World doesn't have a map that comes close to Syria. It's the best map in DCS.

[Mr_sukebe]

Can I please ask that if you change the airbase frequencies (again) that you advise which ones have been changed.

[CommandT]

So the map is expanding south it seems.

Any plans to update Khmeimim AB to have the correct location for the S-400 battery and a few other updates to match real world? 

Edited December 13, 2023 by CommandT

[twistking]

looks good!

for a future update i would really like, if you could mark hardened SAM locations in the ME with a small icon, so that it's easier to find when building a mission.

Edited December 13, 2023 by twistking

[CommandT]

On 12/13/2023 at 1:27 PM, twistking said:

looks good!

for a future update i would really like, if you could mark hardened SAM locations in the ME with a small icon, so that it's easier to find when building a mission.

 

I would actually expand on that slightly and ask that any military installations on the map including all helipads were somehow marked on the map to find them easily. 

[twistking]

10 minutes ago, CommandT said:

I would actually expand on that slightly and ask that any military installations on the map including all helipads were somehow marked on the map to find them easily. 

I would expand on that slightly and ask that any POIs (Points Of Interest) were somehow marked on the map to find them easily (In that case, ED should however provide a declutter toggle to hide that visual layer).

[ShinyMikey]

On 12/13/2023 at 4:31 AM, MAESTR0 said:

I hope that we will see the next screenshots of this update from you 

 

 

 

What happened...? The new Air Bases didn't make it in to the patch again.

[davidrbarnette]

Have the aforementioned optimizations ever been implemented? The performance on the Syria map seems to be at a relative low point since launch. It makes any sort of complex mission in VR pretty unpleasant.

[DanWolo4]

Nothing in the patch today