Is Bastion and Helmand supposed to look like this?

[Gunfreak]

Because to me it looks like something has gone wrong with the map install. 

[inexus]

It’s EA…. Now with no previews until it is released

[Gunfreak]

1 hour ago, inexus said:

It’s EA…. Now with no previews until it is released

They've said south West Afghanistan is mostly done.

This does not look mostly done

[inexus]

Complete agree with you @Gunfreak it looks really poor the map. I feel ED has kept us in the dark.
It’s the same with the chinook. No preview by anybody outside of ED. We only get to see cherry-picked photos or snippets from ED.

[Bigskill]

I flown 2 Hours in SW from Kandahar  till Herat and then north, I missed all east, but for what i saw is really well done, even from low altitude, at least for me. Not sure where is camp bastion but i will check it out.

Flying in the mountains is super awesome there are so many variation of colours and shape... 

They will fix the rest in the future, for now i\m just enjoying it .

[Mnemonic]

At this stage indeed it looks very rough and bad quite frankly, disappointing after such hyped announcement.

Somewhat detailed areas are far inbetween, terrain textures are of poor resolution and color uniformity, they often don’t fit. Areas that are supposed to be detailed and almost done - look poor and incomplete. Terrain looks somewhat okayish from the high altitude, but even then you can see geometry shimmer where the “detailed’ areas turn into blurry photo. No blending whatsoever, tech wise it looks outdated and not next gen. Syria is head and shoulders above quality wise.

And on top of that it stutters even in the empty desert.

We got used that DCS has small maps, but they are nicely crafted, it’s such a joy to fly on Channel map where it looks great even on pedestrian level. Syria looks amazing, just Cyprus alone is a real eye candy.
Not the Afghanistan unfortunately, it looks more like initial prototype, that needs couple of years of work.

[EFGross]

Gunfreak - posted this up on one of the other posts.  There is another post below mine from someone else with some zoomed in imagery, then another by me with zoomed out imagery

 

[Heli Shed]

So................  some work to do for sure but, congratulations to ED for making a start - of course this is EA and there are bound to be changes to accurately reflect what the country is actually like - from where I'm sitting after three tours, that amount of work is significant.
 

Edited July 16, 2024 by Heli Shed

[hotrod525]

Masum Ghar FOB look... "not realy done" to be honest.

I know ED can't make every one happy, but, you know, when you just leave "very low res" image of the fob as a placeholder (hopefully, assuming it'll be implemented) feels a bit... off ?

 

[BIGNEWY]

40 minutes ago, hotrod525 said:

Masum Ghar FOB look... "not realy done" to be honest.

I know ED can't make every one happy, but, you know, when you just leave "very low res" image of the fob as a placeholder (hopefully, assuming it'll be implemented) feels a bit... off ?

 

I will ask the team about Masum Ghar FOB

 

Please note there is an issue with free trials showing low detail areas in areas that should have more detail like the airfields. Team should have a fix for it soon. 

thank you 

[hotrod525]

22 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

I will ask the team about Masum Ghar FOB

 

Please note there is an issue with free trials showing low detail areas in areas that should have more detail like the airfields. Team should have a fix for it soon. 

thank you 

Thanks

[hornblower793]

Just for comparison - this is my view of the Camp Bastion Heliport from roughly the same spot as Gunfreak