Patch notes discussion October 2025

[Oberst Struppi]

08:05PM over her. This is gonna be a late one.

i‘am hitting my sofa now

[NRG-Vampire]

4 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Change log and patch come when we are ready usually and it can vary, sometimes we aim for around 15:00 ZULU / GMT but its not set in stone. 

thank you 

3-4 hour late is not a big bang  I can wait: maybe ED is waiting for HB to post/transmit the new F-14A-75-GR and the A-6 Intruder 

 

[Rudel_chw]

changelog is out:

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/

 

[BIGNEWY]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/release/2.9.21.16362/

Log live patch to follow soon

[Jayhawk1971]

Alright, from my end, I'm good to go: ED, initiate transfer.  

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

4 minutes ago, rob10 said:

Until I upgraded my internet this summer a big patch was nearly 24 hrs to get it downloaded.  So all the anticipation of waiting for the patch followed by the long wait after everyone else started raving (or cursing) it 

I feel you, dude. I was stuck on 1.5mb DSL until early 2021. My state put a lot of funding from both its own coffers and federal funds to upgrade out infrastructure. Now I have fiber. It's as if I have stood for my entire life and only now sat down.

[NRG-Vampire]

7 minutes ago, NRG-Vampire said:

3-4 hour late is not a big bang  I can wait: maybe ED is waiting for HB to post/transmit the new F-14A-75-GR and the A-6 Intruder 

 

Yeah baby: NEW: Added F-14A-135-GR (Early) variant,
However it's dead sure you CANNOT call the "Early" variant 135-GR, must be call/name 70/75-GR.
 

Edited Wednesday at 06:12 PM by NRG-Vampire

[JupiterJoe]

1 minute ago, NRG-Vampire said:

Yeah baby: NEW: Added F-14A-135-GR (Early) variant,
However it's dead sure you CANNOT call the "Early" variant 135-GR, must be call 70/75-GR.
 

Okay, now I'm really confused by block numbers 

[NRG-Vampire]

4 minutes ago, JupiterJoe said:

Okay, now I'm really confused by block numbers 

http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-serial.htm

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Visors for F-16 and F-18, nice! I was hoping for them to be added to all other ED modules too, however.

[NRG-Vampire]

6 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Visors for F-16 and F-18, nice! I was hoping for them to be added to all other ED modules too, however.

 Normandy and Kola map surprise updates
In next time update: ED please add SurfaceDetail-SmallSh*t bushes/shrubs/flowers to the Caucasus and Modern-Marianas map(s) 

Edited Wednesday at 06:21 PM by NRG-Vampire

[BIGNEWY]

patch is live, we hope you all enjoy 

[JupiterJoe]

Thank you @BIGNEWY, and thank the team for staying late please. 

Nothing for the Corsair?  Just extraordinary for so recent and so eagerly awaited a module.

Edited Wednesday at 06:24 PM by JupiterJoe

[BIGNEWY]

Just now, JupiterJoe said:

Nothing for the Corsair?  Just extraordinary for so recent and so eagerly awaited a module.

When devs are ready to push content or fixes they will, it wont always be to your desired schedule however. 

[ThorBrasil]

2 hours ago, Czar said:

@Raven (Elysian Angel) and @ThorBrasil are both right.

2.2 is the neutral gamma visual industry wise (refer to external sources), but that value in DCS is off balance with over exposure. There are much worse offenders out there, btw. DCS still looks good.

All games have their look based on artistic vision, DCS just happens to be one of the few that references the industrial value being the default 2.2, which is correct.

Use a lower gamma to counter over exposure and the lack of a tinted visor. ...even for calibrated monitors without any blown up whites.

(we need those visors across all modern modules...)

You can disable Lens Effects to resolve overexposure.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

There’s a 2nd patch planned for today, it seems

[scommander2]

2 hours ago, scommander2 said:

Agreed with @draconus, I think that HB would like to fulfill the early model that mentioned in the HB document section about "Modelled F-14 versions in DCS".

Sorry, I made a mistake that HB only fulfilled F-14A-135-GR (Early) this time only  

Edited Wednesday at 07:00 PM by scommander2

[Gunfreak]

Great patch. But I thought the AI A6 was coming this time?

[MAXsenna]

28 minutes ago, NRG-Vampire said:

 Normandy and Kola map surprise updates

Surprise? These updates were actually announced.  

29 minutes ago, NRG-Vampire said:

In next time update: ED please add SurfaceDetail-SmallSh*t bushes/shrubs/flowers to the Caucasus and Modern-Marianas map(s) 

You really want these? Well, IF, the draw distance can be increased I'll be happy, and totally removed during winter. As Norwegian flying low on the Kola map during full winter and having shrubs, bushes, stones and what-not pop-up through the snow is totally unrealistic, physically hurts my eyes and makes my brain melt.  

Cheers! 

Just now, Gunfreak said:

Great patch. But I thought the AI A6 was coming this time?

Cross your fingers. HB often has their own version of patch notes.

[Gunfreak]

1 minute ago, MAXsenna said:

Surprise? These updates were actually announced.  

You really want these? Well, IF, the draw distance can be increased I'll be happy, and totally removed during winter. As Norwegian flying low on the Kola map during full winter and having shrubs, bushes, stones and what-not pop-up through the snow is totally unrealistic, physically hurts my eyes and makes my brain melt.  

Cheers! 

Apparently it's a DCS terrain engine thing. To get a proper vinter, you'd need a completely different map just for winter to get proper snow and ice on lakes and rivers. 

What annoys me is the "dead trees" during winter they just look like they are grey with grey leafs. But they are leafless. But are made such a way they don't look it, unless you put the camera right into the branches of the tree. 

 

 

[MAXsenna]

 

24 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

Apparently it's a DCS terrain engine thing. To get a proper vinter, you'd need a completely different map just for winter to get proper snow and ice on lakes and rivers.

It probably is. BUT! I think it is som sort of setting. Fly over Sïnai, and watch that the shrubs stuff does not appear in plowed fields, so it's not some "global everywhere", it rather seems to follow some exclusion zones, and makes me feel it could be doable during winter.

 

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What annoys me is the "dead trees" during winter they just look like they are grey with grey leafs. But they are leafless. But are made such a way they don't look it, unless you put the camera right into the branches of the tree. 

 

I've noticed too. Looks like the snow rests on leafs still not fallen, which can be realistic in late fall/early winter. While it would be much better if the snow was resting on leafless branches. Can't remember how snowy pines look in the game. But I'm sure it's different from what it actually is, or I should've noticed.


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Edited Wednesday at 07:24 PM by MAXsenna

[NRG-Vampire]

22 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Surprise? These updates were actually announced.  

You really want these? Well, IF, the draw distance can be increased I'll be happy, and totally removed during winter. As Norwegian flying low on the Kola map during full winter and having shrubs, bushes, stones and what-not pop-up through the snow is totally unrealistic, physically hurts my eyes and makes my brain melt.  

Cheers! 

Cross your fingers. HB often has their own version of patch notes.

Yeah, surprise to me: I was expecting both map (Normandy and Kola) at a later date: somewhere in November

About: SurfaceDetail-SmallSh*t: those are the "spice" on the ground of the maps. All the maps have bushes/shrubs/flowers. except: Normandy, Caucasus and Modern-Marianas. Also hoping a slider for surfacedetail-visibility range in the Options. (then you will able to kill those SmallSh*ts if you don't like them)

Edited Wednesday at 07:14 PM by NRG-Vampire

[Czar]

52 minutes ago, ThorBrasil said:

You can disable Lens Effects to resolve overexposure.

Overexposure is not affected by lens effects, only when looking directly at the sun.

[MAXsenna]

1 minute ago, NRG-Vampire said:

Yeah, surprise to me: I was expecting both map (Normandy and Kola) at a later date: somewhere in November

Excellent!  

1 minute ago, NRG-Vampire said:

. (then you will able to kill those SmallSh*ts if you don't like them)

Not what I said. Yes, please give me a slider. I want to see them at a thousand meters, not ten metres, in front of my helicopter. We're not playing Outrun here.

And like I wrote in the post above. Please remove them from plowed files, lawns etc. I fore sure don't what them in my rice field when Nam drops.

Cheers! 

[BIGNEWY]

45 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

There’s a 2nd patch planned for today, it seems

edited, its been a long day for me