DCS Core Improvements | F/A-18C Artic Thunder Campaign | Pimax Promotional Advert

[Graphics]

 

 

08 November 2024
 

Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends, 

Two new exciting tools for DCS Core are currently in development: The Multi-Select for the Mission Editor and a more streamlined DCS Updater that is integrated into the launcher! Both are coming soon. Please read the details below. 

Coming to DCS, the F/A-18C Arctic Thunder campaign by Baltic Dragon will contain 10 missions that place you in the cockpit of a Finnish F/A-18C over the Kola map. In addition to providing an immersive experience that is to be expected from Baltic Dragon, it will also allow you to interact in the campaign using your stick and throttle rather than the F10 menu. Stay tuned!

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Thank you for your passion and support.

Yours sincerely, 

Eagle Dynamics

 

DCS Core

Development Progress

Mission Editor Select Tool
Coming soon to the Mission Editor is the ability to group together units, objects, trigger zones, and drawings into a larger group that can be moved as a whole using ‘click and drag’. You can also copy, paste, delete, and rotate them. This makes the process of creating missions in DCS much easier and faster, particularly when using hot keys.

Planned Improvements to DCS Updater

• The amount of disk space required for an update will be reduced to the size of new files with no additional space for intermediate processing. This will assist those of you with little remaining disk space.
• Parallel unpacking and checking of large files. This aims to drastically reduce the unpacking time and the time for verification of files.

Please note that the updater downloads and unpacks all new files before deleting the replaced ones to keep DCS in an operable state as long as possible and to reduce the update installation time. This allows updates to be paused or cancelled without breaking the game.  For restricted disk space scenarios, it is possible to create an update mode where old files are deleted before downloading new ones. However, you will not be able to run DCS until the update is completed. With the upcoming integration of the DCS Updater into the launcher, downloading of updates in the background while running the game will be possible. 

 

F/A-18C Arctic Thunder

Campaign by Baltic Dragon

Coming Q4 2024
February, 2024. Finland is on the verge of joining NATO when the unthinkable happens: Russian armed forces push through the border while cruise missiles rain down on the country. Several western allies immediately join the conflict to fight alongside their Finnish brothers in arms. 

Baltic Dragon has created a fictional Kola map scenario based on real life events and tactics. Strap into a Finnish DCS: F/A-18C, take off from a hidden road base. Take part in study level, highly realistic missions such as CAP, CAS, SEAD and precision strikes. Follow real life procedures in unprecedented detail. 

Launching simultaneously, a companion F-16C Viper campaign by Reflected Simulations will be available that is woven into the same storyline. Now is an excellent time to purchase the Kola map! Experience what it would be like to fly as a fighter pilot in a large-scale air war today. 

Key Features:

• 10 immersive missions with a variety of different tasks: CAS, X-CAS, CAP, escort, pre-planned strikes, and more.
• An interactive intro mission that guides the player through the most important aspects of the campaign.
• Operations from road bases in Finland.
• Over 2,200 lines of dialogue with voice-overs.
• Custom ATC interaction for all the missions.
• Optional use of air-to-air refuelling or the choice to skip it.
• Detailed documentation, flight plans, maps, and target information available in both PDF format and from within each mission as part of the kneeboard.

 

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 Thank you again for your passion and support, 

Yours sincerely,

 

[Youtch]

No autumn sales?

[C3PO]

It's a silly thing to say but one of the major highlights of my week is the Friday afternoon (UK time) newsletter ... always look forward to it.

[joker62]

33 minutes ago, Graphics said:

Coming soon to the Mission Editor is the ability to group together units, objects, trigger zones, and drawings into a larger group that can be moved as a whole using ‘click and drag’. You can also copy, paste, delete, and rotate them.

Really interesting. Waiting for it.

34 minutes ago, Graphics said:

Development Progress

Although a picture of SC was posted, there is no mention of new deck crew animations. Can you say if it is coming soon? Thanks.

[Vakarian]

Thanks a lot for the changes to the mission editor. It takes a little to make me happy with regards to the ME improvements  Not trying to be the "give a finger, take a hand" guys, but I'm hoping the improvements won't stop there. Keep it going as this was an update sorely needed.

[ouky1991]

OMG, the ability to click and drag, move and rotate units is the best news! Thank you for finally adding this function to ME

[BIGNEWY]

Ignore the above, its a forum glitch that wont delete

A welcome addition I am sure you would all agree. 
Thank you 

[ouky1991]

1 minute ago, BIGNEWY said:

A welcome addition I am sure you would all agree. 
Thank you

Awsome!

[sirrah]

9 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

 

A welcome addition I am sure you would all agree. 
Thank you 

This is huge news (for mission creators)!!! 

[Hiob]

The first video isn’t showing anymore. What was it?

Edited November 8 by Hiob

[shagrat]

OMG! Finally a multi select, like in any other software. I am beyond excited!

[Northstar98]

A box select tool? And we can specify what to include or not?

Simply fantastic news!

[pimp]

FINALLYYYY a multi-select tool.

[YoYo]

Could this change in ME negatively impact existing missions and campaigns in any way ? I don't think so, but I'd rather ask. Thank You.

[gulredrel]

ME editor improvements, great.  Thanks for working on core updates.

[YoYo]

16 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

 

A welcome addition I am sure you would all agree. 
Thank you 

The first video was removed btw?

[Abburo]

• Parallel unpacking and checking of large files. This aims to drastically reduce the unpacking time and the time for verification of files.

@Graphics I may suggest one more option for the above statement. Besides the announced approach which is definitely a great one, maybe you can consider having an configurable "download" folder for DCS installation, within DCS UI itself. This option may increase considerably the speed of file decompression by using two different drives - one drive just reading the other just writing. It also may allow people even more flexibility if they are already having more drives in their PC, or they may consider even adding a small SSD only for that purpose!

[rob10]

4 hours ago, Abburo said:

• Parallel unpacking and checking of large files. This aims to drastically reduce the unpacking time and the time for verification of files.

@Graphics I may suggest one more option for the above statement. Besides the announced approach which is definitely a great one, maybe you can consider having an configurable "download" folder for DCS installation, within DCS UI itself. This option may increase considerably the speed of file decompression by using two different drives - one drive just reading the other just writing. It also may allow people even more flexibility if they are already having more drives in their PC, or they may consider even adding a small SSD only for that purpose!

That's a neat idea, but honestly how much of the update delay is really due to unpacking/checking?  I mean that as a legit question because my internet is so painfully slow that it is very much the bottleneck, so maybe it is a significant factor if you have really fast internet.  Because while I think it's a neat idea, I'd have to imagine that would take more than a couple of hours of dev time and I'm not sure how much benefit there would be for time spent.

[MAXsenna]

That's a neat idea, but honestly how much of the update delay is really due to unpacking/checking?  I mean that as a legit question because my internet is so painfully slow that it is very much the bottleneck, so maybe it is a significant factor if you have really fast internet.  Because while I think it's a neat idea, I'd have to imagine that would take more than a couple of hours of dev time and I'm not sure how much benefit there would be for time spent.

If one's low on disk space, it's a neat idea. We had this before, while the former implementation led to users wiping their hard drives. So, I guess that's why it was removed.

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[rob10]

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

If one's low on disk space, it's a neat idea. We had this before, while the former implementation led to users wiping their hard drives. So, I guess that's why it was removed.

Re-reading it I was reading too much into the OP's post.  Basically all they're asking for is to be able to save the download to a different spot which makes sense.  When they were talking reading to one while writing to another my brain was thinking something more complex.

[MAXsenna]

Re-reading it I was reading too much into the OP's post.  Basically all they're asking for is to be able to save the download to a different spot which makes sense.  When they were talking reading to one while writing to another my brain was thinking something more complex.

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[Pipe]

So what was the update? Both videos are gone? Maybe it was a premature update
never mind figured found my answer. What were the vids though?

Edited November 11 by Pipe

[BIGNEWY]

On 11/9/2024 at 8:45 AM, YoYo said:

The first video was removed btw?

There was only one video, the forum had a glitch when I tried to add the video the first time and would not let me delete the failed first upload attempt. 

 

[Blackfyre]

On 11/8/2024 at 7:03 PM, BIGNEWY said:

 

Ignore the above, its a forum glitch that wont delete

A welcome addition I am sure you would all agree. 
Thank you 

 

Is there any chance of getting that in Combined Arms? I mean multi-selection and routing. That would awesome.

[MAXsenna]

Is there any chance of getting that in Combined Arms? I mean multi-selection and routing. That would awesome.

Yes, please!

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