2026 and Beyond Speculation (and Wishlist) Thread

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

DCS: Crayfish will become a reality.

[kotor633]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb Cab:

You know you don’t have to participate in Early Access, right?

Okay, without wanting to start another endless discussion about Early Access: Yes, I'm aware of it, I've been playing DCS for quite some time now.

What does that have to do with my statement regarding ATC & Dynamic Campaign? This thread is about speculation and wishlists for 2026. And I'd like to see a feature-complete ATC and Dynamic Campaign (and GCI if possible) for 2026.

And by the way: Yes, if I want to play certain modules and/or maps, I HAVE to participate in Early Access. Otherwise, I might wait until the corresponding product is feature-complete, but I might have lost interest in it by then.

[SteelPig]

Wishlist?

Point 1 to 10 would be a SuperHornet for me. 

Also cool stuff:

-UH-60
-Electronic Warfare stuff
-A big South-China Sea map, with the coast of Vietnam in the west, the Philippines in the East and Okinawa in the north. 

-A new NTTR map, going all the way to the pacific. 

 

[Snoopy]

3 hours ago, SteelPig said:

-A new NTTR map, going all the way to the pacific. 

 

And up to the North to include all the UTTR and all USAF and other military installations & training ranges included.

[Lace]

Here's a speculative wish - maybe the reason the AI A-6 is taking so long is that it isn't AI but FF.......

[Silver_Dragon]

On 11/26/2025 at 3:00 PM, Snoopy said:

And up to the North to include all the UTTR and all USAF and other military installations & training ranges included.

On the last interview, was talked Caucasus and NTTR need a 2.0 version but actuly has a long time plan. Has other maps planned first.

4 minutes ago, Lace said:

Here's a speculative wish - maybe the reason the AI A-6 is taking so long is that it isn't AI but FF.......

On a last interview, Heablud has talked they has working on the A-6E FF module, but has to early to talk about a release.

[Snoopy]

56 minutes ago, Silver_Dragon said:

On the last interview, was talked Caucasus and NTTR need a 2.0 version but actuly has a long time plan. Has other maps planned first.

On a last interview, Heablud has talked they has working on the A-6E FF module, but has to early to talk about a release.

Yes I listen to interviews too doesn't negate the points I put.

[Buzzer1977]

On my wishlist:

Improve VR performance and quality
Especially improve VR performance on AMD GPUs
Improve multithreading to make use of more cores (can be done - offloading workload to a dedicated server on the same machine works pretty well, could be better)
Get some airfields on the other side of the border on the Afghanistan, Iraq and Persian Gulf map
Get some historical important sceneries on the cold war germany map, like the Pershing-Ia/II sites

@Heatblur
Finally release the Iranian F-14A with the quirky HAWK and Magic-II missiles