Kola Development Report | Bat Bomb Progress | F4U-1D on Finals

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

9 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

doesn't appear to be any major advantage over the lightning

Less drag is a major advantage when it comes to DCS, and it’s not a Frankenstein pod like our current pod is.

[YoYo]

Just 1 day to the patch and release to see this over WWII Marianas :

Edited yesterday at 07:28 AM by YoYo

[YoYo]

Btw. I'm curious about the price. Is there any news? In this case, there is no pre-order. So there is no -30% discount perhaps. I don't know if F4U is supposed to be released as EA or not (EA usually guarantees a -20% discount). Sometimes there is something like "Launch discount" in a very short time. So maybe that will be an incentive? Last option, no EA, full price.

Edited yesterday at 07:38 AM by YoYo

[TheBiggerBass]

vor 32 Minuten schrieb YoYo:

Btw. I'm curious about the price.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/terrains/kola_terrain/

[YoYo]

6 minutes ago, TheBiggerBass said:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/terrains/kola_terrain/

What is this link for? 

Edited yesterday at 08:16 AM by YoYo

[TheBiggerBass]

vor 1 Minute schrieb YoYo:

Wow.  What is this link for?

You asked for the price of Kola map, didn't you?

[YoYo]

4 minutes ago, TheBiggerBass said:

You asked for the price of Kola map, didn't you?

You don't read with understanding, or maybe you don't know what F4U is and what this thread is mainly about? Kola came out over a year ago, everyone or most have it. Even logically, if you write about something in terms of "pre-order" - it means one thing, it has not been released into the world yet. 

Edited yesterday at 08:21 AM by YoYo

[dmatt76]

1 hour ago, YoYo said:

Just 1 day to the patch and release to see this over WWII Marianas :

Iranian drones shahed?

[YoYo]

13 minutes ago, dmatt76 said:

Iranian drones shahed?

Looks like however Todays stock is empty!

[killjoy73au]

Great to see the Kola map out of EA after only a year. Really going against the trend there.

4 hours ago, YoYo said:

Just 1 day to the patch and release to see this over WWII Marianas :

It's like the most random niche thing to include in the game out of the hundreds of other things people want.

[Gunfreak]

3 hours ago, killjoy73au said:

Great to see the Kola map out of EA after only a year. Really going against the trend there.

It's like the most random niche thing to include in the game out of the hundreds of other things people want.

It's the same people that added nukes to the MiG21, lets just hope the Bat bomb get actually graphical effects.

[TheBiggerBass]

vor 43 Minuten schrieb Gunfreak:

It's the same people that added nukes to the MiG21, lets just hope the Bat bomb get actually graphical effects.

Afaik ED has generally restricted any nukes in DCS. But we are in need of MOP bunker busters now 

[Beirut]

45 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

It's the same people that added nukes to the MiG21, lets just hope the Bat bomb get actually graphical effects.

 

It might get me to buy the Corsair if the implementation is cool enough.

 

'Cause I mean... it has to be cool. 

[dmatt76]

30 years ago we could get all the planes, all the battles, all the ships, maps, great realism, ubeatable immersion in one package - on a few floppies... Now we are happy if we get one plane with not much else after years of waiting... 

[71st_Mastiff]

27 minutes ago, dmatt76 said:

30 years ago we could get all the planes, all the battles, all the ships, maps, great realism, ubeatable immersion in one package - on a few floppies... Now we are happy if we get one plane with not much else after years of waiting... 

30 years ago the software wasn't as complex. and 3-D simulation was at an infant stage. Heck the one guy who was able to make a 3-D model and import it to work in a gaming software should be awarded a artistic award!

 

AI written for me, 

Back in the early '90s, the ability to create a 3D model and actually get it working in a game engine was incredibly complex and required a mix of artistry, technical prowess, and sheer ingenuity. Tools were primitive by today’s standards. No Blender. No Unity or Unreal with drag-and-drop workflows. Often it was:

• Modeling in basic software like 3D Studio DOS or early Light Wave.

• Manually tweaking vertices and normals. (*Geometric Normals)

• Exporting in custom or obscure formats.

• Writing code to get the model into the engine.

• Hoping it didn’t crash everything.

And yet some of the earliest pioneers managed to create groundbreaking work—look at Doom (1993), which wasn’t even fully 3D but used clever tricks to simulate it, or Quake (1996), which was true real-time 3D.

People like John Carmack and the early modding communities were effectively software artists and engineers rolled into one. They laid the foundation for what we now take for granted with photorealistic 3D games and simulations.

artistic award, and maybe a Nobel Prize in patience and creative problem-solving!

 

so thank you modding community, with out them and experimenting with different way is the way to keep supporting them!!

 

*https://www.google.com/search?q=normals&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1002US1002&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

 

[YoYo]

More hype! ;>

19h to go.

[draconus]

1 hour ago, dmatt76 said:

30 years ago... great realism

Good one  I'd say a lot of imagination was needed.

[SOLIDKREATE]

My wallet is already wagging its tail and jumping in circles yapping like a Pomeranian. Cant wait guys, I own your MiG-21BiS too!

[YoYo]

7h to go: https://magnitude-3.com/ ("subject to change" ;)).

[Beirut]

I feel like a bit of a cheesebag, but I can buy it on Steam and try it out for two-hours and return it if I don't like it. I usually don't do that intentionally as a "free trial", but I might this time. I've returned four or five modules I've bought over the years, but then rebought all but one. 

 

I find with the WWII planes it's more hit and miss with first impressions than with the jets and choppers.

[T.Power]

17 minutes ago, Beirut said:

I feel like a bit of a cheesebag, but I can buy it on Steam and try it out for two-hours and return it if I don't like it. I usually don't do that intentionally as a "free trial", but I might this time. I've returned four or five modules I've bought over the years, but then rebought all but one. 

 

I find with the WWII planes it's more hit and miss with first impressions than with the jets and choppers.

The Spitfire springs to mind.

[Czar66]

On 6/18/2025 at 4:18 AM, YoYo said:

Just 1 day to the patch and release to see this over WWII Marianas :

What the hell is that?

 

48 minutes ago, Beirut said:

I feel like a bit of a cheesebag, but I can buy it on Steam and try it out for two-hours and return it if I don't like it. I usually don't do that intentionally as a "free trial", but I might this time. I've returned four or five modules I've bought over the years, but then rebought all but one. 

 

I find with the WWII planes it's more hit and miss with first impressions than with the jets and choppers.

Don't beat yourself on that one. It means your values over the digital product lies deeper within hours spent rather than the initial novelty.

I can't think of any module I've purchased that I have a slight remorse over. The Mirage 2000C perhaps was the only one on its early years as it was rough, nowadays after the massive updates, it is right along the rest of my beloved jets. (current dispute subject excluded). The Mustang is the only WWII bird I own so far, perhaps that's a factor.

[YoYo]

The latest:

Edited 6 hours ago by YoYo

[julpeuz]

15 hours ago, YoYo said:

 

 

Damn that deck feels empty

[YoYo]

47 minutes ago, julpeuz said:

Damn that deck feels empty

I don't know what the problem is for you.

As it should, depending on the phase of the operation, but you can always add as many objects as you want.

Example:

Edited 5 hours ago by YoYo