DCS World 2.0 and New Maps Discussion Thread

[Lane]

while we're talking about dead horses:

 

No way!

I bet that FO-Beta is ready to release... - but we have to wait a little for a appropriate Operating System/Hardware that is able to run a 128bit application - because FO is codded this way...

 

Any cpu today use 128bits FMAC for floating points or is 128bits data capable ( 4x32bits ).

 

 

• 128-bit processors could be used for addressing directly up to 2128 (over 3.40 × 1038) bytes, which would greatly exceed the total data stored on Earth as of 2010, which has been estimated to be around 1.2 zettabytes (over 270 bytes).[1]
  
• Quadruple precision (128-bit) floating point numbers can store qword (64-bit) fixed point numbers or integers accurately without losing precision. loating points that store and process 64-bit signed integers (-263...263-1) accurately.
  

Why will you use full 128bits in a processors when yet, it's just completely impossible to have the need of it on a CPU. The best HPC with 500 000 cpu count on Petaflops, why want you we use a CPU capable of Zetta flops ?

Edited November 23, 2011 by Lane

[lobo]

Looks fantastic! This will be a great upgrade. I just hope I don't have to upgrade my hardware to run it. :)

[lobo]

That's not trees, it's bushes.

 

See this one: http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=59216&d=1321993202

 

Compare the flight line bushes with the trees around the base buildings.

EDIT: What you are seeing is this:

 

 

If those are trees... that is one bug mutha UAV! :lol:

[h00t74]

Actually, those bushes are also Joshua trees. Creech has a lot of them. Btw creech aft looks pretty dang accurate.

[h00t74]

Hrrmmm...

 

Why do the runways not look parallel in this shot?

 

 

I just Google Earthed it, in case things have changed THAT much since last I flew in the airspace.

 

New overhangs all over from the `90's, but the runways are still side-by-side.

 

Oh, heck, I had a *DOH* moment as I was typing it. This is Creech, innit?

 

It is creech afb

[EtherealN]

If those are trees... that is one bug mutha UAV! :lol:

 

That's the point - it is NOT trees in reality, and it was NOT trees in the screenshot either. ;)

 

There are no "trees in the flight line" in that screenshot. ;)

[Phantom88]

It's been asked before,How much area will the new Nevada Map be? I searched but came up empty.:doh:

[sobek]

It's been asked before,How much area will the new Nevada Map be? I searched but came up empty.:doh:

 

Has not been disclosed, i guess it's not set in stone yet.

[Phantom88]

OK Sobek,Thanks:thumbup:

[hsth]

Any thoughts how the add-ons are going to be sold? As I do not have a credit card I could not buy the beta version and had to wait for the box.

So I hope there will be some other method of paying besides a credit card.:smilewink:

[Speedbrake]

Nevada Terrain Questions

 

Two questions comcerning the upcoming Nevada terrain which is in work.

 

1). Can the same download be used for DCS A-10C and DCS Black Shark 2?

 

2). Will there be a ME addition with desert camo vehicles, objects, etc.?

 

 

Question 2 was never answered in the Nevada Update thread.

Edited November 26, 2011 by Speedbrake

[nomdeplume]

1). Can the same download be used for DCS A-10C and DCS Black Shark 2?

Yes. From the roadmap: "Nevada map. This will be a $19.99 add-on that will be compatible with A-10C, Black Shark 2, and FC3. Users that purchased the A-10C beta will get this map for free."

[Steel Jaw]

Users that purchased the A-10C beta will get this map for free."

 

Wonder how they will determine that, by purchase date I suppose.

[jeffyd123]

thats mighty nice of ED to give that map to us long-suffering Beta-oids

[RglsPhoto]

Wonder how they will determine that, by purchase date I suppose.

 

 

Maybe there is a Beta Key Database

[cichlidfan]

Maybe there is a Beta Key Database

 

Actually, Wags has a list on a napkin in his back pocket!:P

[jeffyd123]

who's been naughty and nice... Im pretty well screwed.

[galagamo]

thats mighty nice of ED to give that map to us long-suffering Beta-oids

The map was available in the first Beta then they removed it at some point during the beta patches.

Back then we thought Nevada was included with DCS:A-10C, so I'm pretty sure there's an alterior motive to this kind gesture.

But still I aint complaining :D I think this new map will be more than we anticipated

[mooshim]

any plans to include one of these too?

 

 

I posted months ago about a UFO over Georgia, with screenshots, and nobody listened.:cry:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwvjXo_sHQ

[BigBANGtheory]

As I recall the pre-release beta cost $50 or $60 for A-10C, with I suspect a fair % now owning BS(2) and highly likely to pony up for the next DCS project as well at beta stage with the Nevada engine powered update.

 

I would say ED are simply looking after their core customer base which is a good move all round.

[Jona33]

Those who bought the beta paid for Nevada, those who paid afterwards didn't and they knew that (this includes me) ED can't make people pay for a program (Nevada) when they have already paid for it but they can make the people who always knew it was payware when they bought the game.

[Speedbrake]

Will the Nevada also include the addition to the ME of camo colored vehicles, etc.?

[BrumTx]

The original A-10c Beta seems so long ago now, for some reason I got up early and went online and came to the site, there to my amazement was the A-10c beta being advertised, 30 seconds later I'd paid for it and started downloading.

Best $60 I'd spent in a while, even though the Wife was a little put out, still the A-10 has lasted longer than some recent superstar marriages I've read about lol. Let's hope it has FC Heater's bombing targets and other mods included for Red Flag, it's a whole other game then and as I have said well worth the $60 all those months ago. What happens in Red Flag stays in Red Flag.

[BrumTx]

As I recall the pre-release beta cost $50 or $60 for A-10C, with I suspect a fair % now owning BS(2) and highly likely to pony up for the next DCS project as well at beta stage with the Nevada engine powered update.

 

I would say ED are simply looking after their core customer base which is a good move all round.

 

Silly thing was people didn't moan and gripe as much for the $60 and A-10c as they did paying $20 for BS2, a different type of crowd / players I suppose

[EtherealN]

Back then we thought Nevada was included with DCS:A-10C, so I'm pretty sure there's an alterior motive to this kind gesture.

 

The "ulterior motive" was ED saying: let's survive and stay in business so we can keep making sims. ;)

 

And as a general reminder, the beta Nevada is not the same as this Nevada. The only real thing they have in common is that the subject matter is Nevada. ;)