New DCS Theater Maps Wish Wish List

[Wichid]

If we get carrier ops we should get a map that is just deep blue sea... great for fleet defence in the Hornet.

[Sierra99]

Something absolutely brilliant would be to add Afghanistan. These high mountains would make some pretty eye-candy, don't you think?

 

I'm inclined to believe if they are going to the trouble to create desert terrain for Nevada, the same textures could be adapted to middle eastern maps. Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan...throw a dart at a map of that part of the world and ya have some good combat options.

[Frogisis]

After some consideration I picked Western Europe - Pretty rolling terrain, a few mountainous areas, some ocean, and more than anything lots of big, famous cities to fight over.

[71st_Mastiff]

Eastern europe because of the obvious...:thumbup:

[uksub]

A decent Gulf map would be great, as would Korea.

[Kaktus29]

for some reason i'm fed up with bombing huts and mig-21 with F-22)) thats why i prefer western europe theater.. i mean its modern, i can't imagine the feeling of flying F-15 through Munchen, or Paris.. and a well modelled Paris and Berlin.. thats unheard of..

 

i think it would also be more balanced as in HARD to win since both sides would be on the same tech level..

 

bombing Iran or Pakistan is very easy for the Blue force.. but try France vs. Germany and you have 50:50 chance of dying and succeeding..

[TC]

The Nevada map is what it is, it could be used for training but seems like a waste to be used for training only.. so, how to conceive it in a war scenario..?

 

As DCSW doesn´t handle a war scenario too well anyway, a training map where one can fly training missions does make the most sense anyway. Thus Nevada, if it´s ever released, is most appreciated by me.

 

Cheers

TC

[Lib]

Why does it have to be real ?

 

What about making a large map area that is fictitious, but has everything we all want, urban, desert, jungle, forest's and of-course the sea :)

 

any thing to get out of Georgia lol !!!

 

 

I prefere it to be real, because as i'm found of wwII planes and hélicoptères like Huey witch don't use "modern" navigation systems. And navigating in the sim is an other well done chalenge i like a lot !! The actual Georgia map is close to reality and finding all éléments to navigate are easyer to find than... fictional ones. :smilewink:

[ron533]

Middle East, Israel region has a diverse terrain, from mountains in the north to deserts in the south, sea, lakes, real war history, and unfortunately present as well, all that and more in a realistic environment and reasonably flyable distances.

Take for example the "battle for Sinai" campaign running now at the Falcon online/BMS F16 community.

 

And don't forget you can fly almost in any era planes here, and it would be realistic! Like Spitfire and Messerschmitt in 1948, Mustangs, Mirage, Phantoms, Skyhawks , F15 ,F16, Mig 21/23/27/29 and many more who fought in the skies of this amazing region up to these days.

 

Gulf map is also nice but it wouldn't have the terrain diversity of the Middle East since it's mostly flat desert and rather boring after a short time.

Same goes for Europe and the Far East, mostly just green. Been there done that... :)

Edited April 26, 2013 by ron533

[The_Pharoah]

We've GOT TO have a persian gulf map. Over the last 100 years, how much of this region has seen war?

[xcom]

Without doubt the Israel and surrounding countries terrain will be the best pick out of the 10.

[TIGER]

Why you didnt put an option about Aegean theatre? :/

[Ham Sandwich]

Honestly, i don't think most people outside of Greece and Turkey view the aegean as a hotspot. I think they'd be catering to a very small number of fans by exploring that option. That's why i didn't include it - would be kind of like me suggesting a Quebec vs Canada scenario. Not really in the forefront of most people's minds outside of that region.

Edited April 26, 2013 by Ham Sandwich

[Ham Sandwich]

So, has anyone heard any info about what the map sizes might be with EDGE?

 

It would be interested to know, so we could speculate further about what sizes the future theaters might be.

[Haukka81]

I would like to see a new theater taking in scandinavia, the baltic states etc, basically northern europe.

 

 

Finland, Norway and even sweden :D

 

+1

[VincentLaw]

Honestly, i don't think most people outside of Greece and Turkey view the aegean as a hotspot. I think they'd be catering to a very small number of fans by exploring that option. That's why i didn't include it - would be kind of like me suggesting a Quebec vs Canada scenario. Not really in the forefront of most people's minds outside of that region.

 

The Aegean is so perfect for naval/amphibious ops though! So many little islands... Even if you are not interested in the factions, the terrain is very interesting. Besides, it could be extended up to include parts of Yugoslavia or something. 64 bit only is supposed to give us larger maps right? (if the EDGE improvements don't already)

 

Or maybe even extend an Aegean map down to include part of Egypt or Libya. Open water doesn't count as "terrain size" does it? And a lot of people have been wanting longer mission flight times for refueling and bombing.

Edited April 28, 2013 by VincentLaw

[Kaktus29]

for amphibious and naval ops ED would need totally new sea engine, to make the sea much more interactive ..

[VincentLaw]

Well they have "SEA" in their icon at the top left don't they? I am willing to bet money that we will see revamped sea physics in the future, but probably not until there is a high/medium fidelity player naval module. These things are usually developed logically. Give it time.

 

Is there somewhere else people would rather see for their naval module?

Edited April 28, 2013 by VincentLaw

[Toten]

I would love for Eastern/ Western Europe, with a full 1980ish selection of weapons. To me the golden era of fighter aircraft.

[KaspeR32]

Like some others suggested, I'd love to see the entire globe.. Any unfinished areas could just display a generic texture, but would allow 3rd parties to eventually "stitch" together different theaters.

 

Although, I would be curious from any programmers, (cptSmiley maybe?) If ED creates a circular globe for the scenery, would that change the AFM characteristics considering "down" would be just one point in the center of the globe, where as now "down" is a pretty broad space since it's flat.

[ericoh]

Isreal and surounding country? BOOORINGGGGG..... Friggin deserts, we want mountains for low level action!

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Western Europe with the UK included would be fantastic!

 

Cross-Channel missions and low level fun on the Mach loop when the Hawk is out :D

 

And it would allow the good old scramble to intercept that one bloody Russian aircraft that strayed into British airspace :music_whistling:

 

Or the Baltic region (with Nordic countries)? Quite some room for both air, sea and ground operations of all kinds, and Kaliningrad squeezing up the Baltic states makes it all even more interesting :)

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Something I noticed, no one (no one at all) mentioned any portion of South America as a potential conflict zone.

 

Although it's a mostly stable region, it has enough potential for troublesome scenarios.

 

It's full of borders, there is a wide variety of terrain (from thick jungle to valleys and flat deserts), and it doesn't take much creativity to spark a conflict there - especially considering that Venezuela

 

Additionally, the majority of local air forces, armies and navies count with fairly modern inventories and share equipment in common with NATO and Russia. Older factions can easily join in - US/NATO through the north and through its allies to intervene/invade, Russia through Venezuela and other allies, France has territory there with some deployments, France and NATO can use it.

 

Territory is fairly massive (in other words, f***ing HUGE), we can use literally every single country we have there (perhaps not Georgia, although they did deploy troops in Afghanistan and so did Ukraine, so they're in again :D), all (literally) sorts of missions are possible, including COIN, intercept or long range strikes, there are two oceans and very wide rivers where ships can easily travel through.

 

Anyone up for it?

 

Of the aircraft that are not modelled currently (not to mention the ones which'd need upgrades), a lot are in the works by third parties and/or match the Vietnam-era people crave for. Not to mention that most countries fly the UH-1H :D

[rss0900]

DCS needs a new map in a bad way

 

I'm content to fly DCS a10-c on the current engagement area, but simply can't adjust to any of the other aircraft on this map. At least for me any success of add'ons will be dependent upon new areas to fly.

 

I think this should be a priority for DCS or 3rd parties in development, the entire simulation is evolving but we have no new engagement areas. Release an aircraft with a new engagement area and I'll be happy to pay $50.00. I don't care who does it DCS or a 3rd party, but someone needs to.

 

Yes I know there is some work in progress but it should be a priority if you ask me, and no need to tell me you did not ask ... I already know :)

[Shaman]

No one wants to develop new maps since ED announced they are replacing terrain engine soon. No SDK has been released by ED for new terrain engine supposedly called "edge".

Yes, DCS needs new terrain. I'd be happy to pay 50$ for cold war era Baltic.

Edited May 10, 2013 by Shaman