Patch notes discussion September 2025

[Oldcooltronix]

7 hours ago, Hotdognz said:

Thanks for the patch, plenty of great map updates which i'm looking forward too trying this weekend and the update to the Apache which is welcome.

No fixes for the black screen CDU on the CH-47 is again disappointing to see and re affirms why I didn't buy the Mig29 in EA, but good luck ED with its EA release and happy a full fidelity Redfor plane is in the game now.
 

It's more than disappointing that there has been no development of the CH-47 for months. More and more modules are coming onto the market, but none are truly finished.

The helicopters are still very neglected, as seen in the Gazelle or Kiowa. We end users are spending money on modules that neither function properly nor are even remotely operational.

It's no longer fun!

[Tomcatter87]

Wow, what a giant patch. Can't wait to try out the new airfields on the Iraq map. 

Also thanks a LOT to ED for listening to the skin making community and adressing the problem of livery creators regarding the encrypted 3D models. Still have to try this out, but it sounds like a good solution.

[TheBiggerBass]

Lots of great changes and updates. Will take some time to examine all of them.

But I'm missing my Afghanistan map. It's still there on the SSD but although selected to be included it doesn't show up anymore in DCS.

[Roy35150]

Super stuff Dev Team,

I have all the maps and it great to see them get some love.

Loving your viper and again great to see the module get some tlc.

[ShinyMikey]

7 hours ago, Oldcooltronix said:

It's more than disappointing that there has been no development of the CH-47 for months. More and more modules are coming onto the market, but none are truly finished.

The helicopters are still very neglected, as seen in the Gazelle or Kiowa. We end users are spending money on modules that neither function properly nor are even remotely operational.

It's no longer fun!

The Kiowa was released basically complete...then it got a great sound update. The Kiowa isn't waiting for anything as far as I know. As for the CH-47, it is still waiting for things but it's totally operational. I use the CH-47 all the time in my group's missions for capturing bases by bringing troops or units with CTLD, and also bringing warehouse supplies with dynamic cargo. I don't know what other helicopters you may be talking about.

[BIGNEWY]

folks please stay on topic here.

thank you 

[ouky1991]

Great update! Thank you for not making the 3D model / textures of Mig-29A encrypted, much appreciated! Is there gonna be a livery contest?

Edited yesterday at 02:28 PM by ouky1991

[MAXsenna]

folks please stay on topic here.
thank you 

Apologies! Got carried away!

Congrats on a great patch and a fantastic MiG-29 release!

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[Raisuli]

12 hours ago, Art-J said:

Allegedly unmodded all-modules install should be closer to 1.1 TB, so you either have tons of custom mods and skins installed, or there's a lot of leftover installer junk from previous updates. Check for "backup"-named folders in your root DCS directory and if they're not empty, delete them.

Any skins (and mods) are going to be in c:\ but you just reminded me I have to run a script to re-fix all the luas (you know, like control bindings) that DCS breaks on every update, because $greaterDiety forbid someone have a realistic set of control bindings, or export a display.

</rant>  

I wrote a powershell script to handle that rather than use a mod.  I'm kind of an anti-modder.  In the meantime I'll get the broom out; thanks for the info!!

[Glide]

Is that a new LOD system at play on the Caucasus map?  From altitude the mountains look a little bit too soft to me.  

[cvandenberg01]

After this patch, my controller settings got messed up for the F16. I have to keep going in and resetting the TMS and DMS switches each time I open the game. They also have the red icons next to them even after I reset them to what I need. Anyone else having this issue after the update? 

[Hotdognz]

2 hours ago, Glide said:

Is that a new LOD system at play on the Caucasus map?  From altitude the mountains look a little bit too soft to me.  

I flew Caucasus last night to see if I could see any of the changes, TBH I couldn't see any difference, it would be nice if ED showed some comparison shots to show what changed.

I also flew SA last night using the instant action F4 free flight mission and noticed a lot of blurry low res textures on the lower half of the snow capped mountains, it ws as if the textures wouldn't load in.

[Bowie]

Any plans to arm the forward firing guns on the A-20G, so that AI could implement strafing?

Great and well used A/C in the ETO, as well as a stand-in for the B-25 in the PTO now emerging.

Please advise.

@BIGNEWY

 

Bowie

[MAXsenna]

I flew Caucasus last night to see if I could see any of the changes, TBH I couldn't see any difference, it would be nice if ED showed some comparison shots to show what changed.

I also flew SA last night using the instant action F4 free flight mission and noticed a lot of blurry low res textures on the lower half of the snow capped mountains, it ws as if the textures wouldn't load in.

Deleted the Fxo and metashader folders?

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[Hotdognz]

27 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Deleted the Fxo and metashader folders?

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Yeh every update its part of my update routine to remove those and let them rebuild along with removing any mods I have

[MAXsenna]

Yeh every update its part of my update routine to remove those and let them rebuild along with removing any mods I have

Yeah, it was a shot in the dark anyway.

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[draconus]

Some absolute killers in this patch like redfor weapons overhaul, The MiG, Caucasus improvements, a step to deal with encrypted liveries or ME searchbars, thx!

[draconus]

On 9/17/2025 at 7:24 PM, Fisherman82 said:

Sadly it seams the Kola Map is abandonware by now 

Think again: