News On Release Of Updated Ground Troops Please

[DD_Friar]

Salute,

New models for ground troops featured in both the "2024 and Beyond"  and "2025 and Beyond" videos.

Is there any information available about when these might be released into the sim please?

[Rudel_chw]

16 minutes ago, DD_Friar said:

Is there any information available about when these might be released into the sim please?

why does it matter? Would you hold your dcs flying to wait for them?

[DD_Friar]

@Rudel_chw

No, I wont stop playing DCS, of course not.

However I do create a lot of missions with helicopters transporting troops so get down and dirty with them and it would, for example be nice to create missions in Iraq or Afghanistan with troops that look like they should be there.  

[Rudel_chw]

I try not to think about DCS elements that are not yet here, I’ve found it isn’t productive, so I’d rather focus on the elements we already have, to create my missions, plus I also like to try and test User Mods that provide additional elements, like those of @currenthill @Eight Ball and @Massun92 (plus so many others, the list is too long to mention here)

[DD_Friar]

I prefer not to use mods as I build missions for my squad (multiplayer) and it is a pain to get everyone to install them.

 

 

 

[Rudel_chw]

13 minutes ago, DD_Friar said:

I prefer not to use mods as I build missions for my squad (multiplayer) and it is a pain to get everyone to install them.

whenever I read something like that, I feel so grateful to only do Single Player and having to please just myself when flying DCS 

 user mods enhance DCS so much that it hurts to think ever playing without them.

[Melv428]

There is no substitute for ground troops except for more ground troops. It is better to have than to need.

[Silver_Dragon]

ED has not posted yet any new troops release date yet, waiting for news.

On fact, that year has not a "2025 Roadmap"

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[BIGNEWY]

Hi all, 

we will post more news as soon as we are ready to. 

thank you 

[DD_fruitbat]

8 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

whenever I read something like that, I feel so grateful to only do Single Player and having to please just myself when flying DCS 

 user mods enhance DCS so much that it hurts to think ever playing without them.

Horses for course, whenever I read posts like this I feel so grateful that I only play DCS with other people, because I find flying single player and not working together with other people completely boring.....

[Rudel_chw]

27 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Horses for course, whenever I read posts like this I feel so grateful that I only play DCS with other people, because I find flying single player and not working together with other people completely boring.....

 

I actually tried MP for over a year, with a spanish-speaking Squadron, and for me boring was:

 

• having to wait for that last chap to arrive to the Briefing
• and while waiting, having to endure the bad jokes, rude comments, and juvenile lingo over the intercom
• and once the mission did start, enduring the interminable questions of those that didn't fully knew their aircraft
• and of course witnessing the ones that abandoned the mission mid course
• so it wasn't uncommon that a 2 hour mission evolved into a 3 hours plus affair, where no one had any time for a proper return to base or debriefing.

 

So, finally able to fly by myself isn't really boring to me, its truly enjoyable   

 

Edited February 6 by Rudel_chw

[rob10]

6 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

I actually tried MP for over a year, with a spanish-speaking Squadron, and for me boring was:

• having to wait for that last chap to arrive to the Briefing
• and while waiting, having to endure the bad jokes, rude comments, and juvenile lingo over the intercom
• and once the mission did start, enduring the interminable questions of those that didn't fully knew their aircraft
• and of course witnessing the ones that abandoned the mission mid course
• so it wasn't uncommon that a 2 hour mission evolved into a 3 hours plus affair, where no one had any time for a proper return to base or debriefing.

So, finally able to fly by myself isn't really boring to me, its truly enjoyable   

I enjoy SP, but in fairness your MP experience sounds like you needed to find a different group.  If you get a good one people show up on time, are mature, and no-one abandons the mission mid-course barring hardware issues, or there is very rarely not enough for a proper RTB.  Not having time for RTB is poor planning -- either late takeoffs or mission isn't designed well to allow for enough time.

[Rudel_chw]

30 minutes ago, rob10 said:

I enjoy SP, but in fairness your MP experience sounds like you needed to find a different group. 

honestly, the experience left me drained and with no desire to repeat it, after trying pretty hard to fit in, be present on every planned mission in spite of a 4 hour time-difference with the server, the drop that overfilled the glass was when I was falsely accused of trying to steal their missions  … so, never again.