Kola Update report (request)

[tripod3]

Please share screenshots of new militarty objects, winter terrain and other improvements. Thanks:)

 

DCS: Kola map by Orbx

• New - Added Winter Season with Winter Textures
• New - Port of Kirkness
• Updated - Optimization pass on surface mesh
• Updated - updated all blocks with EDs latest technology
• Updated - Added more infrastructure around the map
• Updated - Added ports and villages in Finland and Norway
• Fixed - Corrected wind turbines Z placement
• Fixed - Increased depth at Polyarny harbour
• Fixed - Orange trees removed from fields block

[Romandv]

[Moxica]

I can see the underlying mesh..
 

 

Also. Expectations vs reality
Norway, southern part:
(And even with nothing there, the performance is really bad.)
 

Edited July 11, 2024 by Moxica

[MBot]

I really hope the SAM/EWR sites are just a first rough draft. Because the effort looks extremely cheap.

[Gunfreak]

4 hours ago, Romandv said:

Damn it. Looks like standard brown dead leaf winter trees instead of the leafless trees that should be in the winter. 

And are the pine/spurce tress green or are they too brown for some reason?

[Beirut]

DCS: Kola map by Orbx

• New - Port of Kirkness

 

No pics, but I did make radio contact with the Port of Kirkness, and the AI responded:

 

"You........ can't........... land here, mister!"

 

 

[Romandv]

9 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

Damn it. Looks like standard brown dead leaf winter trees instead of the leafless trees that should be in the winter. 

And are the pine/spurce tress green or are they too brown for some reason?

Yeah, it looks like it. And those sharp angles in the transitions. I'd like to see autumn here, but I think it will take a few more years to get this map into a decent state. I don't understand why there's a green tinge under the trees. Or rather why such an obvious thing is not corrected at once.

While I wouldn't recommend flying helicopters on this map - all the little things are too visible. Sinai is also EA, but I have minimal complaints about it.

Edited July 12, 2024 by Romandv

[MAXsenna]

Damn it. Looks like standard brown dead leaf winter trees instead of the leafless trees that should be in the winter. 
And are the pine/spurce tress green or are they too brown for some reason?

We really need leafless trees...

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[Gunfreak]

11 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

We really need leafless trees...

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Yes, because that's what trees look like in winter. by having dead brown leaves, the map looks much more brown and less white than it should. 

[MAXsenna]

Yes, because that's what trees look like in winter. by having dead brown leaves, the map looks much more brown and less white than it should. 

Agree! Would be wild if we could get a real Norwegian fall down the line!

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[Gunfreak]

I stand corrected.

The branches are indeed naked, there might just be too many branches, giving the feeling of lots of leafs. 

[MAXsenna]

I stand corrected.
The branches are indeed naked, there might just be too many branches, giving the feeling of lots of leafs. 

Oh! That's actually nice. We just need some wind to blow it off then, or having it melt in the sun!

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[LieutenantFalcon]

14 hours ago, MBot said:

I really hope the SAM/EWR sites are just a first rough draft. Because the effort looks extremely cheap.

I'm glad to see some are placed around but yeah it does look like some are wrong, like the SA-5 revetment 16nm east of Olenya looks like a bunch of SA-2 revetments and they're pointed the wrong way. Just some misinterpretations but hopefully nothing they can't fix in time.
Also they appear to have placed revetments in places where there should be airbases, notably Lovozero AB.

For a modern conflict with S-300 variants it looks pretty workable though! Glad to see they're at the very least aware of the revetment demands and have done something

[WWSmith]

What's the install size up to now? If I have to buy a new SSD on top of the cost of the map, it just isn't worth it for me.

[tripod3]

Please share screenshots of new SAM sites and reventments.

[Romandv]

5 hours ago, WWSmith said:

What's the install size up to now? If I have to buy a new SSD on top of the cost of the map, it just isn't worth it for me.

166GB

[MBot]

20 hours ago, tripod3 said:

Please share screenshots of new SAM sites and reventments.

Sites are often on slopes with no proper fields of view, even if the site should clearly be on a hilltop (especially the EWR sites). Trees are placed right around the launcher revetments. SA-2 sites have revetments for just 5 instead of 6 launchers.

EWR Sites:

SA-2 Site:

SA-3 Site:

[Holbeach]

Frozen lakes would have been nice, but Winter is now my prefered season for Kola.

March 1st intercept.

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[Romandv]

I think it's worth keeping this thread as an update thread to make it easy to find.
I checked the airports - FPS became better, some trees near the airports changed to conifers, in general the detail became better. So far I have set the range of forests to 60, because before I had problems with FPS with mirrors turned on, now stable 60 on the whole map. 
Probably a couple more patches and it will become good. Too bad there are literally 5-10 Kola servers in MP.

Edited July 23, 2024 by Romandv

[skywalker22]

The map is not interesting to mission creators, since the middle of the map is empty, no airports there. There are at least 15 airports and road bases missing. When they will inlcude them, I'm sure there will also be more servers, but they have to hurry up, else other maps will take over its place.

[jaguara5]

Has ORBX made any comment about the reported incorrect (at least for Finland) tree type? 

[Gunfreak]

4 hours ago, jaguara5 said:

Has ORBX made any comment about the reported incorrect (at least for Finland) tree type? 

Do you mean the lack of conifers?

It's related to preformance. But they have added more conifers to Kola.

[Beef]

Is it possible to change the aircraft parking in the next map update and by default takeoff towards the city, landing also towards the city course 190.