Caucasus Wishlist Thread

[Ironhand]

On 12/21/2024 at 12:43 AM, smoking_ace420 said:

Would it be possible for a few Turkish airbases such as Merzifon and Rize to be added to the Caucasus map via the downloadable update?… It could even be done with the same level of quality the existing airbases in the Caucasus map are made.

 

https://minstrelboy.blogspot.com/2016/10/map-of-turkish-military-bases.html

 

 

This would be most welcome.

Edited December 30, 2024 by Ironhand

[Dragan]

I support it,the idea is excellent,and I like the map of the Caucasus the most...

[smoking_ace420]

On 2/4/2025 at 5:51 AM, Dragan said:

I support it,the idea is excellent,and I like the map of the Caucasus the most...

I think that map sucks actually mainly because of the lack of NATO airbases. The original Crimea map was better.

[Honez]

I would love for them to simply update the Caucuses map to the new standard Orbx has established. I would even pay for it!

[Honez]

I'm I the only one that loves the terrain of the Caucuses? If DCS/Orbx would update and expand it the current standards being used, I would pay for it as an enhancement. 

[carss]

On 5/28/2025 at 6:43 AM, Honez said:

I'm I the only one that loves the terrain of the Caucuses? If DCS/Orbx would update and expand it the current standards being used, I would pay for it as an enhancement. 

Nope, I'm sure a lot of us feel that way, and I feel that way for the Nevada map too! I feel like it should include part of Southern California with some coast too

[Ironhand]

I would love to see it updated. And, yes, I would pay for it, if it were updated with architectural features that actually exist and not just cookie cutter buildings. Batumi, for instance, would be a sight to behold.

[Logan54]

Seriously best geographical location for being remastered as high res map (in UGRA style). Even if we can not see Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, there is a lot of cool places in present Georgia. And lots of already maded locations needed to be remastered. ED can do additional to already presented Caucasus like layer with better resolution. Or if that technology too old to be improved, to do new one. I think that many ppl like Caucasus map, and probably good idea to do high detailed Caucasus.

[MAXsenna]

I wish they could redo the whole map, and add areas. But that would probably break all older missions and campaigns unfortunately.  

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

We already have a remastered Caucasus map, so your proposal would make it Caucasus 3.0, not 2.0 .

Other than that, you should use the forum's search function and read the existing threads about this exact same topic. Feel free to reply there to give it more traction so it stands out more to ED.

[R_0xD]

I agree, I've already seen post like this but with the photo that you are showing, I am 100% with it, maybe a little bit expanded to Ukraine to "play" with the current conflict, but it can be wonderful 

[Ironhand]

+1

It would be best to release it as a new payware map, not an update of the existing map. I love “flying” in that part of the world. It’s got a bit of everything: sea, shoreline, mountains, steppes, cities and towns with amazing architecture…

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

3 minutes ago, Ironhand said:

It’s got a bit of everything: sea, shoreline, mountains, steppes, cities and towns with amazing architecture…

I agree: that’s exactly why it’s still so popular even to this day

[Czar66]

Yeah... current Caucasus map feels like an alternative universe in comparison to the real place.

Anyone with that civilian flight sim from that large company, take a flight on the region. Literally anywhere and fly bellow 10k ft, and that's just an approximation to what's really there. The differences are wild. Not talking about graphics lighting or tech, it is just 'what's there' instead of blank spaces and different buildings.

It is a very rich region visual wise, both in human structures and nature.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Yup, many dried up riverbeds there for example that are missing completely from DCS.

[Lace]

I think the only reason the Caucasus map is so popular is because it is the original bundled map, therefore the bulk of the training missions and MP servers use it.  Everyone owns it and it is one of the better performing maps from a FPS point of view.  For years it acted as a stand-in for the plains of central Europe, the fjords of the North Cape, the hills of Korea.  Now we have many of those places we don't have to pretend.  People talk of a red/blue imbalance in most of the module releases, Caucasus is a 100% red map, with zero realistic historical Bluefor scope.  It was popular because it was all we had.  Given the massive competition it now has, I think that if it didn't exist, there wouldn't really be any great urge to make it.  It lacks broad appeal. 

Personally I'm a bit tired of it and was disheartened when I started the F-4U training mission only to find myself back in Batumi.  Given the WWII Marianas is also a free map, this was a perfect opportunity to showcase the two together.  Instead, my initial reaction was 'why on earth is a Corsair in mid-90s Batumi!'

 

[Schmidtfire]

Caucasus just has a very good layout for a multiplayer map. With that perfect coastline running from north to south and high mountains in the middle. Airfields are well placed and within practical distances too. That's why players are still on the map (in multiplayer).

[cfrag]

25 minutes ago, Lace said:

I think the only reason the Caucasus map is so popular is because it is the original bundled map,

Plus, it performs really, really good...

[Lace]

28 minutes ago, cfrag said:

Plus, it performs really, really good...

I did go on to mention that.  Which is of course nothing to do with its geography, just a result of the simpler terrain and lower detail/textures.  Which ironically is exactly what the OP & others propose changing.

[ruxtmp]

The minimum I would ask is for is the ability of AI to use some of the current abandoned airfields as FARPs (ie the X shaped runway near kobuleti). These make create FARPs for AV-8s.

[killjoy73au]

+1 if they finish off the Crimean Peninsula and the rest of the Ukrainian territory bordering the Black Sea.

[MAXsenna]

On 7/4/2025 at 6:03 PM, killjoy73au said:

+1 if they finish off the Crimean Peninsula and the rest of the Ukrainian territory bordering the Black Sea.

Absolutely my wish, while it seems they won't be dipping their toes in the current conflict. 

[virgo47]

I wasn't around when Caucasus 2.0 dropped, but from what I've heard it was originally more detailed but not performant enough, and some buildings were removed - those are all the blurry patches on the map surface that look like low-res satellite image.

Perhaps they could at least add some of those buildings back? It would make the map look better. Even in some training mission, "a water tower on your left" (or something similar) is mentioned, and there in nothing there. Those patches look really ugly.