Who is Specter?

[JuiceIsLoose]

Is Specter Studios taking over for RB on the SA map? Are they taking over anything else?

[MadKreator]

He ( a team I assume) made SA , works for Orbx too if I’m not mistaken. It was only published under RB name. It wasn’t actually an official RB product. I believe. 

Edited September 4 by MadKreator

[corbu1]

Would be nice if specter studios team introduces itself. 

[dsc106]

I’d also like to know, as I was under the impression kola and SÁ were the same team. However only SÁ is listed here under specter.

[AdrianL]

They not the same team but some of the same individuals.

They did the SA map on their own time. 
And then did the Kola map as part of their day job i.e. working for Orbx.

 

[VIKBELL]

Thank you for assuming updating this map. 

[rob10]

15 hours ago, VIKBELL said:

Thank you for assuming updating this map. 

In fairness, he never stopped updating this map (and since it's "his" map, he's been the one updating it all along).  Razbam was only the publisher and even after they publicly announced they were stopping pushing updates to the F-15 etc, there were still SA map updates pushed.

[Moose_Jaw]

Awww, great, I love this map, great news it aint abandoned! Thanks Specter! 

Edited Wednesday at 12:34 PM by Moose_Jaw

[Qiou87]

On 9/5/2025 at 7:24 PM, AdrianL said:

They not the same team but some of the same individuals.

They did the SA map on their own time. 
And then did the Kola map as part of their day job i.e. working for Orbx.

 

Now that is someone dedicated to bringing us some beautiful sceneries in DCS World. I would never imagine doing more of my day job as a side gig afterward. Thank you Specter for this level of dedication, which we all get to enjoy when flying through those maps.

[YoYo]

On 9/3/2025 at 10:47 PM, JuiceIsLoose said:

Is Specter Studios taking over for RB on the SA map? Are they taking over anything else?

He was already working on a map for DCS long before the idea of merging with Razbam arose. Essentially, in this case, Razbam merely lent the brand, and Specter published the map under Razbam's brand, taking advantage of their agreements with ED. The same with Kola and ORBX. In other words, he's a freelancer publishing his work under a large, different brand. This is a different situation than the Razbam team working on flight modules.

[Stratos]

Wish this guy could take over the cancelled Australian map, finish it and add Timor! would buy it inmediatly!

[Minsky]

4 hours ago, Stratos said:

Wish this guy could take over the cancelled Australian map, finish it and add Timor! would buy it inmediatly!

By the time he finishes, DCS would be missing another key element of the Harrier Assault reenactment.

[Timghetta]

On 9/11/2025 at 3:37 AM, YoYo said:

He was already working on a map for DCS long before the idea of merging with Razbam arose. Essentially, in this case, Razbam merely lent the brand, and Specter published the map under Razbam's brand, taking advantage of their agreements with ED. The same with Kola and ORBX. In other words, he's a freelancer publishing his work under a large, different brand. This is a different situation than the Razbam team working on flight modules.

This is not true, Ron came to him about the idea of developing the map and asked him, 2 weeks later he agreed. 
Razbam then funded the start up of the map including the geo-sat tools used to create the map and licensed by Razbam not them.

[Stratos]

4 hours ago, Minsky said:

By the time he finishes, DCS would be missing another key element of the Harrier Assault reenactment.

Sorry, don't get you.