ED Team Graphics Posted January 31 ED Team Posted January 31 (edited) 31 January 2025 Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends, Happy Lunar New Year from everyone at Eagle Dynamics! Don’t miss our DCS Lunar Sale special, featuring an exciting range of discounts on most of our popular modules. Check out the full list of discounted modules below, and treat yourself (or a friend) to something new in the hangar! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Su-25 entering flight testing, and to commemorate this we will be bringing you a new, free Su-25 for DCS! We are confident this will be popular for “Red Air” pilots and provide an excellent experience for initial and seasoned pilots. Take a look at some of the development screenshots, you may be impressed. We have completed work on the ZH-7 and helmet mounted sight for the DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum. This helmet is meticulously crafted and is a nice part of player immersion. We also continue work on all systems, radar, and weapons systems in addition to pilot model and equipment. Please note, in order to follow our DCS updates, you must have the latest information about our network changes, we kindly recommend updating your DNS cache (run "ipconfig /flushdns" in Windows). Thank you for your passion and support. Yours sincerely, Eagle Dynamics Lunar Sale 2025 Year of the Snake! There has never been a more exciting time to delve into a new module, or two, in this exciting DCS Lunar Sale 2025 where most of our popular modules including aircraft, terrains, important add-ons and campaigns are on sale with up to 50% savings. Hurry! Offers end on the 10th of February 2025 at 15:00 GMT on the Shop and on Steam. New and Free Su-25A “Frogfoot” Development Progress The Su-25 “Grach”, NATO codenamed “Frogfoot”, has been the backbone of Soviet, and later Russian, close air support aviation for decades. Its mission effectiveness, survivability and ease of operation make it a remarkable aircraft. Armed with laser-guided missiles and rockets, bombs, canister munitions, unguided rockets, and cannons, it packs a powerful punch to this day. Our completely re-created Su-25 “Frogfoot” will soon be introduced as a new free aircraft to DCS. This Su-25 will feature a highly detailed and accurate external model and a cockpit that embodies the highest graphical standards. Based on the Flaming Cliffs series, aircraft operations will be tailored towards ease-of-use aiming to establish bindings and modes of operation. The new Su-25 will share the same exact flight dynamics as its predecessor; accurate performance, enhanced damage modelling and new liveries. Like the Su-25T and TF-51D, the Su-25 will provide another free offering for players to evaluate DCS and improve our Red Air offerings, along with the DCS: MiG-29A in development. MiG-29 Helmet Model Development Progress An aspect of the DCS: MiG-29A coming to DCS later this year is the new pilot model. As further advancements to new pilots are introduced for the F-16C, F/A-18C, and AH-64D, the MiG-29A pilot will feature precision modelling and animations including uniforms, harnesses, patches and other elements. Special attention is being made to the helmet including the Helmet Mounted Sight. Please don’t miss the special offers available during the Lunar New Year sale. Expand your hangar fleet and enjoy fabulous campaigns at great prices now available on our DCS E-Shop and on the DCS Steam Edition, both running till the 10th of February 2025 at 15:00 GMT. Enjoy! Thank you again for your passion and support, Yours sincerely, Edited January 31 by NineLine Edited for clarity 28 11
Mainstay Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Awsome!!! well done ED cant wait for the MiG-29 and the new SU-25 6
Vakarian Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) Can someone please explain this? Edited January 31 by Vakarian 7
Pillowcat Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Vakarian said: explain this low != high != full, and FC planes are not low fidelity (?) clearly worded it would probably something like: 'FC3 Su-25A becomes free plane, so shall meet some face-lifting' last sentence in rus version of this part of post stated just: "Он станет приятным бонусом в процессе ожидания полностью интерактивного МиГ-29, который выйдет через некоторое время." ggltrnsl: "It will be a pleasant bonus while waiting for the fully interactive MiG-29, which will be released in some time." Edited January 31 by Pillowcat words are hard 1
Beirut Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Any love to the Su-25 is good love. And I love it! 8 Some of the planes, but all of the maps!
Vakarian Posted January 31 Posted January 31 15 minutes ago, Pillowcat said: 'FC3 Su-25A becomes free plane, so shall meet some face-lifting' See, if they just wrote this, it would have been way less confusing. I mean, whatever it is, new free plane is a new free plane. Really hard to complain against that 2
Beirut Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Will it replace or supplement the FC Su-25A? 3 Some of the planes, but all of the maps!
Raven (Elysian Angel) Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Excellent news about the Su-25, but I have to admit I'm a little disappointed the FM won't be upgraded to PFM, as it's the only aircraft in DCS which doesn't have a FM to that degree of fidelity. Are there plans to rectify that in the future? 11 2 Spoiler Ryzen 9 5900X | 64GB G.Skill TridentZ 3600 | Asus ProArt RTX 4080 Super | ASUS ROG Strix X570-E GAMING | Samsung 990Pro 2TB + 960Pro 1TB NMVe | VR: Varjo Aero Pro Flight Trainer Puma | VIRPIL MT-50CM2 grip on VPForce Rhino with Z-curve extension | Virpil CM3 throttle | Virpil CP2 + 3 | FSSB R3L | VPC Rotor TCS Plus base with SharKa-50 grip | Everything mounted on Monstertech MFC-1 | TPR rudder pedals OpenXR | PD 1.0 | 100% render resolution | DCS graphics settings
LCO489 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Great news. Screenshots are really impressive. Good work ED. 5
twistking Posted January 31 Posted January 31 6 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said: Excellent news about the Su-25, but I have to admit I'm a little disappointed the FM won't be upgraded to PFM, as it's the only aircraft in DCS which doesn't have a FM to that degree of fidelity. Are there plans to rectify that in the future? It would be a shame if they didn't. Su-25 is such an iconic aircraft... 9 My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
av8orDave Posted January 31 Posted January 31 I'm sure I'm a bit slow on this one, but can someone explain what this bit means?: "Please note, in order to follow our DCS updates, you must have the latest information about our network changes, we kindly recommend updating your DNS cache (run "ipconfig /flushdns" in Windows)." Something maybe is lost in translation. I honestly have no clue what this is referring to or saying. 3
Robo76 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) It doesn't seem fair to me that some people bought the Su-25A module and now others will have it for free. Will you refund the money to the current owners or give them the choice of another FC3 module for free ? Edited January 31 by Robo76 1 3
sirrah Posted January 31 Posted January 31 39 minutes ago, av8orDave said: I'm sure I'm a bit slow on this one, but can someone explain what this bit means?: "Please note, in order to follow our DCS updates, you must have the latest information about our network changes, we kindly recommend updating your DNS cache (run "ipconfig /flushdns" in Windows)." Something maybe is lost in translation. I honestly have no clue what this is referring to or saying. Came here to ask the same. "In order to follow our DCS updates..."? What does this mean? Anyone? 3 System specs: i7-8700K @stock speed - GTX 1080TI @ stock speed - AsRock Extreme4 Z370 - 32GB DDR4 @3GHz- 500GB SSD - 2TB nvme - 650W PSU HP Reverb G1 v2 - Saitek Pro pedals - TM Warthog HOTAS - TM F/A-18 Grip - TM Cougar HOTAS (NN-Dan mod) & (throttle standalone mod) - VIRPIL VPC Rotor TCS Plus with ALPHA-L grip - Pointctrl & aux banks <-- must have for VR users!! - Andre's SimShaker Jetpad - Fully adjustable DIY playseat - VA+VAICOM - Realsimulator FSSB-R3 ~ That nuke might not have been the best of ideas, Sir... the enemy is furious ~ GUMMBAH
Darcaem Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Probably just a server change, and DNS needs to update to the new address. Usually this will happen automatically, but sometimes it could take some time, that's why you would want to flush your DNS cache, to force your DNS to "discover the new address of DCS" 2
cloose Posted January 31 Posted January 31 DNS is used to convert URLs like forum.dcs.world into IP addresses for the computer. So basically turning a name into a number. This is cached locally on your system to speed up the network traffic. Now ED changed the number behind the name. So you have to clear/flush your local DNS cache. Hope it helps. 1
ebabil Posted January 31 Posted January 31 We already have this bird in fc. So will it get a face lift or become a full fidelity module? 2 FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5
Beirut Posted January 31 Posted January 31 I wonder if this is to help entice some of the children over at WT to come this a' way? 2 Some of the planes, but all of the maps!
ebabil Posted January 31 Posted January 31 I would happily pay for a su25a full fidelity. I hope they won’t skip this 17 FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5
trindade Posted January 31 Posted January 31 5 minutes ago, ebabil said: I would happily pay for a su25a full fidelity. I hope they won’t skip this +1 8
JD Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) Free 25A is just like the announce of 35A in 2025 and Beyond. On the one hand it's cool, but on the other - I'm pretty dissapointed. It's okay to have another free AC but in my opinion 25A is the worst choice. We already have 25T with better functionality compared to 25A. Let's just imagine being in new players shoes. You watched "2025 and Beyond" or any other DCS trailers. You want to fly those aircraft and be that cool. You see it's free and start downloading. You start a game and what do you see? FF TF-51, that's okay but it's WWII plane, you want a modern one, maybe you won't even try it. There is relatively modern 25A. Now tell me, does it represent the quality of other modules? No, it does not. Does it represent the functionality of other modules? No, it does not. No full fidelity, no interactive cockpit no PFM. It will make you think that DCS is just some kind of War Thunder but in different genre. Or it can be my situation. I have a friend, who I want to bring into DCS. I'm not sure if he would like DCS. On the one hand FC modules are not enough to undrestand if you like the game and it worth buying FF modules that aren't cheap. On the other hand I just realized how hard it is to teach someone who has never been into fly sims. So, in my opinion, it would be much better to make 39 or 101 as free modules. Both are FF, so new player can understand what DCS is all about, both are trainer AC, so they are easy to learn and to fly, and both can be used to teach people better P.S. FF 25A is better than FF 35A, for community at least. Change my mind Edited January 31 by JD 7
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