Currenthill Asset Pack (from 4/25/25 Newsletter)

[DD_wingflyr]

Congratulations Currenthill !       

FANTASTIC NEWS,  and THANKS ED for including this wonderful Modder, and his much needed additions. 

[RobTX]

В 25.04.2025 в 23:53, currenthill сказал:

Никаких спойлеров! Но я думаю, что первая партия активов — хороший индикатор того, насколько широкий разброс типов активов можно ожидать. 

Спасибо!

Edited April 28 by RobTX

[bephanten]

Only thing I didn't like about ch assets is they didn't have visible interiors. 

[currenthill]

On 4/25/2025 at 11:05 PM, Ian Boys UK said:

This is all fantastic news and a great decision by ED

Thank you!

On 4/25/2025 at 11:12 PM, YoYo said:

@currenthill, finally! 

Thanks!

On 4/25/2025 at 11:30 PM, Bartek16194 said:

Great news, hope for more advanced sam sites and cold war assets

Stay tuned for upcoming batches of assets, we try to find an interesting mix. 

On 4/25/2025 at 11:34 PM, SDsc0rch said:

@ ED and @Wags and the team... GOOD DECISION and THANK YOU!!  : )  looking forward to currenthill's work showing up in DCS : )

Thank you!

On 4/26/2025 at 12:03 AM, heroe said:

Thank you so much!!. My wishlist:

BMD-2, BMD-3, CV-90 and artillery pieces.

 

Thanks for your input!

On 4/26/2025 at 10:10 AM, ThePops said:

There are more sides to this. CH assets was a thing all by itself. Lots of cool stuff with regular updates adding lots of new cool stuff. This is now gone, dead, replaced with a more stringent and bureaucratic update path. The assets have also become more complex, LOD, consistent damage model etc to adhere to ED standard.

The good:

• Higher quality assets, better graphic performance
• More consistent assets and therefore more usable in general
• Available for everyone from the start.

The bad:

• No more "old school" Currenthill assets, other than the leftovers
• Much slower updates
• Any new assets are likely to be decided by ED, no more "odd and cool" stuff

In essence it's a good thing right now. DCS will natively come with lots of cool stuff that wasn't there before, but it still was available for everyone! At the same time it's the death of CH assets for all foreseeable future. New stuff, not already in the current CH asset packs, will grind to a halt more or less. Good for ED right now, much bleaker for the community looking a few years ahead.    

I see your point, it's definitely different from before. But I consider the good things completely overshadowing the bad ones. We finally get more advanced weaponry in DCS, like the Iskander, ATACMS, GMLRS etc. Weapons that we could only badly emulate with mods. And they will be available for everyone, without them knowing anything about mod installation. I hope you'll enjoy the new core assets!

On 4/28/2025 at 7:23 PM, DD_wingflyr said:

Congratulations Currenthill !       

FANTASTIC NEWS,  and THANKS ED for including this wonderful Modder, and his much needed additions. 

Thank you very much!

12 hours ago, bephanten said:

Only thing I didn't like about ch assets is they didn't have visible interiors. 

Yep, that's a compromise done to keep development time and polygon count lower. Since they are AI assets primarily made to enhance immersion and most often viewed from afar.

[aaronwhite]

On 4/25/2025 at 2:01 PM, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

Pretty sure I know what the answer is but I gotta ask anyway . What are chances of getting a full flyable module of the Mi-28N in future?

I'm with you. I would absolutely love to have one and rekindle the Apache vs Havoc days when I was a kid, but with how things have gone with just selling the Russian helicopters in DCS and the cool upgrades for the Ka-50III like the President-S system getting the last minute axe, I'm guessing the odds of an Mi-28 are about as high as my odds of ever flying one in real life...

[heroe]

It would be incredible to see some pontoon bridge truck and a pontoon bridge to put on the rivers.

[MAXsenna]

Late to the party. Due to Easter and what not, my backlog in the Forum is pretty substantial!
Anyways! Thank you ED, this is the way and thank you @currenthill for what you brought us and what you're gonna bring us. Wasn't too hard to guess what was going on when you went "silenthill" and everyone was scrambling and worried about you. That's the impact you've had, and will have in this community! (Now convince ED to let you put the Volvo in. )
Cheers!

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[ThePops]

On 4/28/2025 at 4:41 PM, Rudel_chw said:

Honestly, I can't really share this "new is good, old is bad" viewpoint

I never stated that "old is bad", nor that "new is good". As a matter of fact, that seems to be your view all things considered. What I said was that this is the end of an era with new and surprising assets from Currenthill every other month, and lots of them. It was a very cool thing, sort of a game within the game, like a mini Christmas every now and then  

Now, these assets becoming a native part of DCS is of course a positive direction. Nevertheless, there are other aspects here. We have gained some and lost some, even though the gain is larger than the loss. 

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, ThePops said:

As a matter of fact, that seems to be your view all things considered.

 

My apologies, now I re-read my words and truly can't understand what was the point I was trying to make .. I must have been falling asleep   ... sorry.

 

eduardo

[Nipil]

It's so great to see all these great assets to gain official status! I have one question: will Currenthill's assests replace existing models, or will they become new, unrelated units? That is, will there be, say, two separate Tu-95s, or will the old one simply be upgraded? I ask because there are hundreds of missions, both from ED and the community, which use decades old assets, and we know that many of them are not going to be updated.

[MAXsenna]

It's so great to see all these great assets to gain official status! I have one question: will Currenthill's assests replace existing models, or will they become new, unrelated units? That is, will there be, say, two separate Tu-95s, or will the old one simply be upgraded? I ask because there are hundreds of missions, both from ED and the community, which use decades old assets, and we know that many of them are not going to be updated.

Excellent question. I assume they will be different ones.

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[currenthill]

51 minutes ago, Nipil said:

It's so great to see all these great assets to gain official status! I have one question: will Currenthill's assests replace existing models, or will they become new, unrelated units? That is, will there be, say, two separate Tu-95s, or will the old one simply be upgraded? I ask because there are hundreds of missions, both from ED and the community, which use decades old assets, and we know that many of them are not going to be updated.

 

43 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Excellent question. I assume they will be different ones.

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Correct, my assets will be additions. And they will most likely have a suffix to identify them.

[tripod3]

4 hours ago, currenthill said:

And they will most likely have

Ahh, this assumption gives reason to believe that the end of development is not very close yet. Just guessing!