DCS World 2.0 and New Maps Discussion Thread

[TimeKilla]

Simply fantastic

[TaliG]

No source, it didnt happen:D..

[luckybob9]

No source, it didnt happen:D..

 

Their kick starter page:

[verana_ss]

BOOM! Headshot!

 

 

 

 

Amazing :thumbup:

 

beautiful

[BHawthorne]

 

Trying to understand the context of that photo. The left is EDGE and the right is their old game engine?

[karambiatos]

Trying to understand the context of that photo. The left is EDGE and the right is their old game engine?

left is real, right is EDGE, with WIP textures.

[BHawthorne]

left is real, right is EDGE, with WIP textures.

 

They need to work on their textures then ;)

[cichlidfan]

Low res, place holder textures.

 

Yes, the Point du Hoc is most certainly a comparison image. Note that game image is using low resolution, placeholder textures.

[upupandaway]

Low res, place holder textures.

 

Oh boy, I think I´m gonna faint.

Wish there were at least higher-res images, but the screenshots already look very promising.

[maturin]

BOOM! Headshot!

 

 

 

 

Amazing :thumbup:

Holy shit! Are those cliffs modeled with a heightmap? Are those trees rendering all the way out there?

 

Will be able to crash into them now?

[SkateZilla]

i think the middle shot has a russian carrier, lol.

[Silver_Dragon]

Ir RRG put more EDGE engine photos, surely people come more to the KickStarter:

[Cenobite]

Edge?

 

Hey guys,

Reasonably new to DCS, I have heard some talk about Edge and what it could mean for DCS performance.

Could someone explain briefly what this is and answer some questions like will it be implemented in the campaigns, release date and so forth.

As my current box is reasonable but still has performance issues, this got my attention.

Thanks.

[Nate--IRL--]

It is basically a new terrain engine allowing for more detailed terrains.

 

Nate

[upupandaway]

Restating all the info here in a new thread would be quite redundant, so there´s a sticky thread with most of the relevant info probably buried in there somwhere. ;)

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=80468

 

It seems that there is going to be another map beside Nevada somewhere down the road - a map on/around Corse of yet unknown size.

What´s also interesting is that in the Kickstarter video of DCS WWII Europe 1944 ED officially states a number of 20 new releases in the next 18 months, so there´s that... ^^

Edited September 8, 2013 by upupandaway

[Cenobite]

Thanks mate, shame it's not incorporated into the current map, tho understandable.

[JackDant]

In case someone missed this bit of info:

 

BOOM! Headshot!

 

 

 

 

Those are examples of terrain based on EDGE technology that will also be used for the Normandy map. However, those two images are from an unannounced map that is in development.

 

Try Ajaccio, Calvi

 

Compare to first one for confirmation:

 

https://maps.google.com/?ll=41.923546,8.762541&spn=0.027843,0.055189&t=h&z=14

 

So it looks like a Corsica map is in development for DCS. I'm really curious about the extension of the map. It's not a very obvious location for a combat sim.

[OttoPus]

I can understand better Sardinia, since there are many inter-force ranges and a couple of NATO bases... We'll see :)

[Erforce]

Ah ? it's happening, finally ?

 

Corsica has declared their independance, killed once again their governor, bombed every police and army bases ? and the Charles De Gaulle is deployed in mediterranean sea?

 

This island can't survive without the mainland. Maybe some Rafales and Mirages 2000 can show them why ?

 

haha, good find by the way.

[JackDant]

Corsica has declared their independance, killed once again their governor, bombed every police and army bases ? and the Charles De Gaulle is deployed in mediterranean sea?

 

This island can't survive without the mainland. Maybe some Rafales and Mirages 2000 can show them why ?

Now you just need to work the russians into it somehow, and you have a perfectly good plot for a DCS campaign.

[Robin_Hood]

Now you just need to work the russians into it somehow, and you have a perfectly good plot for a DCS campaign.

 

Easy peasy.

 

After Corsica has proclaimed itself independant, Russia becomes the first major country to recognize it as a sovereign state, and to prevent France from taking it back by force, Vladimir Putin sends a "peacekeeping" force, led by his trusted newly-appointed General, Gérard Depardieu.

:smartass:

[Suchacz]

Imho Corsica will be only a part of a much bigger map... Let me speculate that the new map will include also Sardinia, Sicilia and north coast of Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, and mainly Libya). That should be great battlefield for naval ops, starring DCS: Hornet and also WWII ops like support of invasion to Sicilia or battles in Africa.

[*Rage*]

Would not have guessed corsica...the closest russians will be in super yachts off the coast of monaco..

[upupandaway]

At the current point I´d say that´s not even speculation anymore. Eventually we will have stuff like this in DCS. Just look back to BS1 and the release of the A-10C compared to what we have now - who would have guessed?! :) All it takes is (a lot of) time.

[*Rage*]

Will Edge benefit from multi-gpu?