DCS: Cold War Germany - preview

[Smith]

2 hours ago, Northstar98 said:

If that's the case - it doesn't look like it at all. It looks dug up.

Yes, exactly, the colours ugra is using reminds me of a golf course

Edited March 17 by Smith

[ouky1991]

23 minutes ago, CommandT said:

From the material shown so far this map is on completely different level to Kola or SA. 

A different level, but because it's completely different environment that needs a different approach. Its makes sense to use texture tiles in part of the world that's almost entirely fields with some town/cities in between. Kola, SA and Afghanistan have a lots of mountains and uninhabited places, it would look more like Caucasus with repetitive texture tiles if those maps would be done the same way as Fulda Gap. Or they would have to be something like 1TB each to match the same texture quality as tiles. I'm convinced they chose the best possible way to do those maps. 

That being said, it certainly must take far more time to make this type of heavily populated map compared to sat textures with a few tiles here and there. It seems they've done brilliant job, can't wait so see this.

[Thamiel]

Hopefully they dont get wet feet after that mountain of expectation raised by these trailers....

[skywalker22]

Personally I would just make textures for these brawn soil more green, and problem salved. So there wouldn't be so much of a difference between the spring pure green and summer dry green. Now there is really too much of a difference between these two textures, it looks unreal.

Edited March 17 by skywalker22

[MiGCap1]

4 hours ago, Meerschweinmann said:

I can hardly wait. Taking off from Laage in the FF Mig-29A with a little bit of Sabaton playing. 

If You take off with a FULCRUM at Laage instead of Preschen, it is not Cold War anymore ... and You have different markings on wings and fuselage ... 

[Fighter29]

Wittstock Dosse 33 ИАП regiment 

[gulredrel]

Su-22 needed for Laage, I think.

[Wacky]

On 3/15/2025 at 11:52 PM, TheBiggerBass said:

F-4E is a good start.  F-104 starfighter would be great. Eurofighter too.

It seems the Eurofighter entered service in 2003, ie. obviously after the cold war.
However as I remember, in addition to the Phantom, A-10s and Tornados were flying rather frequently in Germany back in the 80s.

[Beirut]

I do a lot of tourism flying in DCS and this looks like a great map for sight seeing. And I'm loving those big airfields.

[VFXBLENDER]

I wish I had much more memory on my hard disc so I could buy maps for DCS, especially this one because it looks A-MAZING. The game itself took up half of my remaining memory when I first downloaded it.

[skywalker22]

6 hours ago, VFXBLENDER said:

I wish I had much more memory on my hard disc so I could buy maps for DCS, especially this one because it looks A-MAZING. The game itself took up half of my remaining memory when I first downloaded it.

If you have some spare money, buy a new SDD or M.2, they are really cheap now. 1TB or 2TB. I have 5 of them already, running out of space 

Example: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB for $130.

[VFXBLENDER]

Thanks man, appreciate the suggestion! I already have one actually, just never had the time to install it. But if i'll need more I'll buy them. Thanks again!

[Meerschweinmann]

vor 17 Stunden schrieb MiGCap1:

Wenn Sie mit einem FULCRUM in Laage statt in Preschen abheben, herrscht kein Kalter Krieg mehr ... und Sie haben unterschiedliche Markierungen auf Flügeln und Rumpf ... 

I want to make love, not war.

[VFXBLENDER]

On 3/15/2025 at 6:52 PM, TheBiggerBass said:

F-4E is a good start.  F-104 starfighter would be great. Eurofighter too.

Speaking of the F-104 Starfighter, there's a DCS mod, right? If there is, where can I find a link? I saw a bunch of videos on YouTube of people flying the mod but there was no link in the description, and I couldn't find it.

[MiGCap1]

59 minutes ago, VFXBLENDER said:

Speaking of the F-104 Starfighter, there's a DCS mod, right? If there is, where can I find a link? I saw a bunch of videos on YouTube of people flying the mod but there was no link in the description, and I couldn't find it.

I would suggest to wait for the announced official F-104 module from Aerges.

But if You want the mod, You find it in the "Flyable/Drivable Mods for DCS World" section of the forum.

 

 

Edited March 18 by MiGCap1

[TheBiggerBass]

vor 16 Stunden schrieb Wacky:

It seems the Eurofighter entered service in 2003, ie. obviously after the cold war.

That's correct.

However, DCS is a simulator and we can do things here which are not possible or did never happen IRL

Edited March 18 by TheBiggerBass

[VFXBLENDER]

1 minute ago, MiGCap1 said:

I would suggest to wait for the announced official F-104 module from Aerges.

There's an official module coming? I never knew! Is there any information about it here on the Formus?

[dief47]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb VFXBLENDER:

There's an official module coming? I never knew! Is there any information about it here on the Formus?

https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1188-dcs-f-104/

[SDsc0rch]

16 hours ago, VFXBLENDER said:

I wish I had much more memory on my hard disc so I could buy maps for DCS, especially this one because it looks A-MAZING. The game itself took up half of my remaining memory when I first downloaded it.

remember you can move the terrains to another HDD/SSD and keep dcs on your current drive 

[VFXBLENDER]

3 minutes ago, SDsc0rch said:

remember you can move the terrains to another HDD/SSD and keep dcs on your current drive 

Yeahhh but both of my drives are full. One has like 130 gigabytes left and the other one has 10. I can't risk running out of memory on the larger one and then wasting an hour of time deleting long-lost files I never use.

13 minutes ago, dief47 said:

https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1188-dcs-f-104/

Thanks! I searched myself and couldn't find anything somehow.

[OneEyeRoss]

A few things I want to do:  Overfly Hohenfels, Grafenwohr and Wildflicken training areas.  Land a chopper in Romerplatz, Ffm.  Drive a jeep from Friedberg to Alsfeld.  Drive a jeep down Kaiserstrasse, Ffm and see how the lights of the "houses" look in DCS.   Too many things....going to be fun.

[Stanlesuper]

This map looks OK regarding 3D objects, but the colors and textures on the ground, roads and trees are really disappointing.

I'm sure they'll deliver it like it is, as it has been done since Normandy and Syria...

The care taken is not the same as Iraq, for example.

We're in 2025 I think the dcs customers deserve something much more realistic in terms of fidelity.

 

Stan

Edited March 18 by Stanlesuper

[VFXBLENDER]

I mean Afghanistan and Kola look pretty decent in some parts, but then they look like crap for 70% of the map.

[Hotdognz]

This map looks amazing, my hope is that they assigned Dynamic Spawn slots correctly for the appropriate aircraft and helicopters to each base, many DCS maps have them set wrong.

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[Punkmonkey22]

What year is the map set in?