i wanna buy English DCS: BS, i can use the serial to play DCS - A10 ??

[carlos22cps]

i wanna buy English DCS: BS version, i can use the serial to play DCS - A10 too??

A10 is new sim that will need buy another serial?

[Nate--IRL--]

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A10 is new sim that will need buy another serial?

 

Correct A-10 will be a new, seperate sim.

 

Nate

[carlos22cps]

WHy can not be a ADDon to DCS: BS??

[EtherealN]

Because it will use an updated engine, and it costs a lot of money to develop a simulation of that fidelity wherefore it's not economically feasible to develop as an "addon" if, but addon, you mean a product of reduced price.

 

Their intention is to have multiplayer compatibility, though, but both products will be stand-alone.

[carlos22cps]

so i can understand that all modules will be stand alone. Apache, A10 etc... or i'm wrong. Thanks for answer.

[Nate--IRL--]

so i can understand that all modules will be stand alone. Apache, A10 etc... or i'm wrong. Thanks for answer.

 

Yes, they are stand alone, but compatible in multi player.

 

Nate

[nemises]

so just consider that DCS is the product, and Blackshark is just the first addon module to it...A10 will be the second module to it

...both modules use DCS...the underlying stuff (Mission editor, multiplayer engine, rendering engine, AI, flight dynamics engine, GUI) are all DCS, irrespective of what mudule..

 

...at least, that s the theory

[Esac_mirmidon]

For me the important thing is:

 

The flyables would be selected from the same GUI screen like FC in Single Player and Multi Player or i must run different .exe files in different installations to run every module?

 

And if all the flyables shares the same GUI what happens with the serial activation number of each module?

[Nate--IRL--]

For me the important thing is:

 

The flyables would be selected from the same GUI screen like FC in Single Player and Multi Player or i must run different .exe files in different installations to run every module?

 

And if all the flyables shares the same GUI what happens with the serial activation number of each module?

 

The Launcher.exe (GUI) and DCS.exe (SIM) are separate. It is DCS.exe that handles the Serial No.

 

Nate

[carlos22cps]

so i will wait and see what happens

[joey45]

yes, just like all of us..... that are not part of ED.

[f-18hornet]

Yes, they are stand alone, but compatible in multi player.

 

Nate

I'd like single player compatible and installed over DCS BS like LOMAC and FC.:joystick:

[-Bazong-]

I'd like single player compatible and installed over DCS BS like LOMAC and FC.:joystick:

 

What difference would it make, other than being able to fly all aircraft from the same GUI? Or am I missing something??

[EtherealN]

Technically speaking it might be possible to do that, since there's actually two applications. Now, I have very limited understanding of the internals of the launcher executable, but in principle it should be possible to have it be compatible with both a ka-50 executable as well as an A-10 one. (Aside from memory management one other possible gain in having the two-executable design.)

 

Note of course that I am not really a programmer at all, I have never seen any of the source code, and I have no affiliation with ED that would give me any insight into the particular case, so it is speculation.

 

But yes, it would be convenient to have a combined launcher. Whether it would be convenient enough to merit possible extra development work for ED I don't know. Let's remember that if DCS maintains a good revenue stream and ED is able to keep developing modules it might become very difficult to maintain a single launcher that can be compatible with all possible module combinations in a simple enough way to avoid unforseen bugs.

[Esac_mirmidon]

So i need to change every time from .exe to .exe if i want to fly the Ka-50, then the A-10C and then back to the Hokum?

[EtherealN]

In singleplayer, yes, but then it's no difference.

 

In multiplayer, yes, since integrating everything into the same simulation EXE can be a big job.

 

Note that this is all speculation on my part.