Which ED 'Development' are you most looking forward too?

[sobek]

The mission editor could be better. A few more triggers etc so I don't have to learn LUA just to make a decent mission? :cry:

 

But lua is so easy to learn :cry: ;)

[VapoR]

Anytime there is a poll and F/A-18 is one of the options, it will always be huge. I'm actually surprised that EDGE is edging the F/A-18 out. The first company to get an F/A-18 of any variant into this sim is going to make a mint!

 

I voted for dynamic campaign. :P

 

All these amazing aircraft and beautiful aircraft still don't mean much if we don't have a war to use them in!

[James.]

For me, updated graphics. I would love a multi-role jet like an F18 but I think the graphics in DCS world are falling behind. It just takes away from the emersion when everything looks….well…the same. As small fly in an otherwise perfect ointment though I love DCS world !!

[Chain]

F/A-18C before anything else!

[upupandaway]

DCS needs more RPG elements.

[Cali]

I'd even like a (FC3) F-16

[Sharpe_95]

Anytime there is a poll and F/A-18 is one of the options, it will always be huge. I'm actually surprised that EDGE is edging the F/A-18 out. The first company to get an F/A-18 of any variant into this sim is going to make a mint!

 

Probably coz ED have effectively waved the white surrender flag on the F/A18c. Wags has said not to expect any notices on the F/A18c till at least next summer, which means don't expect to see/use it till at least Xmas 2014. Sounds to me like they just don't have the resources available to devote to 'fixing'/sorting out the carrier operations and the ground radar.

 

In the final analysis I will put money on them canning it totally coz if its going to be late 2014 in 'ED time' before we can expect to see anything of use about the F/A18c then that probably means it might have been ready some time in 2015.

 

My money is on ED canning it and letting 3rd parties take the reins on new platforms for the most part (or entirely). I mean, with a 3rd party F/A18E due out it is like that will beat the F/A18c out the blocks and I really cant see many people wanting to 'downgrade' from a super hornet to a normal hornet. For that 18c to make ED money it needed to be first out the block of at least the Hornets - that's before you look at all the other good stuff we can hope to see: Typhoon, F15E, JSF, Mig21Bis etc etc.

 

Mind you, ED are going to have to extend the same kind of love to the 3rd parties that they have given to Belsimtek - otherwise we wont be getting nothing but transport helos till the end of time :music_whistling:

 

Thus I recon people are shifting to ED getting EDGE done so the whole world (so to speak) can move on. I agree that a multirole is high on the list (top in my books) but I really can see why people are going for EDGE above F/A18c

 

Its also suprising to see how well Nevada is doing - after all...."Its just a desert. Its not that cool".

:lol:

 

-Sharpe

Edited September 12, 2013 by Sharpe_95

[NineLine]

Sounds to me like they just don't have the resources available to devote to 'fixing'/sorting out the carrier operations and the ground radar.

 

As your poll suggests everyone has their own idea of what the want next, also we should know that ED probably has a plan laid out on what the deem most important, and I am sure their resources are assigned based on that plan. No, they probably dont have a team the size of say BF4, so things arent turned over as fast, but then they probably dont have the budget of the BF4 team either.

 

So then look at whats going on, although most of it isnt as exciting on the surface like the Hornet would be to have, its all important. They are basically rebuilding DCS:W completly under our feet as we go along, we can expect a new IG, which will/should bring dedicated server tool, new map tools, a more stable experience (although we feel the growing pains every patch), they are trying to stabilize the 3rd party system (least as an outsider looking in thats what I see), and the amount of content thats gonna ride the 3rd party wave in is going to be incredible by the sounds of it.

 

Also, if you want, look at the glass half full, see the subtle hints of change in the air... improving anti ship missiles, changes to effects for different ships, etc. Things are moving forward, maybe not at the pace we all want, I want to fly a DCS level Hornet... I am chomping at the bit as much as the next guy, but I also am enjoying the ride towards those goals. To be honest they could have said, ok development has stopped on DCS:W, we will release DCS:W2 in a few years... so there is more at work here than we always see right?

[zaelu]

EDGE... then ME then AI, ATC, Dynamic Campain...

[Gh0st007]

F-18C first then the Upgraded graphics Engine (EG: EDGE). Than you can do what ever you like :P

[Sharpe_95]

Also, if you want, look at the glass half full, see the subtle hints of change in the air... improving anti ship missiles, changes to effects for different ships, etc. Things are moving forward, maybe not at the pace we all want, I want to fly a DCS level Hornet... I am chomping at the bit as much as the next guy, but I also am enjoying the ride towards those goals. To be honest they could have said, ok development has stopped on DCS:W, we will release DCS:W2 in a few years... so there is more at work here than we always see right?

 

I get your pint SS and I am really not whining here (to be honest I think I am waving the white flag too) But its the pace that really concerns me. As you say they will (probably) go to an whole new level/non compatible/start from scratch DCSW2 in the future (hopefully it will continue to evolve and not just die out). BUT if it takes 2 years to do 1 product then I wonder how much life is in this as a whole if it takes so long to a a product (albeit a hard one with SAR and carriers). Don't get me wrong I am not criticising, but with all the good will in the world ED is a small team and can only do so much at one time, and pushing any news (let alone a product) back 10-15 months is not an encouraging sign.

 

But yes, I am a glass empty kind of guy and I apologise for that. But I would say the old quote in my defence 'a realist is what an idealist calls a cynic'.

-Sharpe

[NineLine]

No need to apologize... its frustrating when you know how good the Hornet from ED will be. But we have lots coming, in the meantime so I hope we start seeing some of that flow through... Multi-role is my thing too, I want the Hornet, perhaps CTD will be done sooner than later, or an and F-15E.... but being a WWII guy, I also have alo to look forward to as well... so its easier to see the glass half full for me I suppose. I like to think of myself as a realist, and in that I see what needs to be done and there are things that need done before the Hornet for ED in order to push DCS forward.

 

I get your pint SS and I am really not whining here (to be honest I think I am waving the white flag too) But its the pace that really concerns me. As you say they will (probably) go to an whole new level/non compatible/start from scratch DCSW2 in the future (hopefully it will continue to evolve and not just die out). BUT if it takes 2 years to do 1 product then I wonder how much life is in this as a whole if it takes so long to a a product (albeit a hard one with SAR and carriers). Don't get me wrong I am not criticising, but with all the good will in the world ED is a small team and can only do so much at one time, and pushing any news (let alone a product) back 10-15 months is not an encouraging sign.

 

But yes, I am a glass empty kind of guy and I apologise for that. But I would say the old quote in my defence 'a realist is what an idealist calls a cynic'.

-Sharpe

[Sharpe_95]

No need to apologize... its frustrating when you know how good the Hornet from ED will be. But we have lots coming, in the meantime so I hope we start seeing some of that flow through... Multi-role is my thing too, I want the Hornet, perhaps CTD will be done sooner than later, or an and F-15E.... but being a WWII guy, I also have alo to look forward to as well... so its easier to see the glass half full for me I suppose. I like to think of myself as a realist, and in that I see what needs to be done and there are things that need done before the Hornet for ED in order to push DCS forward.

 

You know I think your last point is the critical one 'what needs to be done'. I think that's why so many people are going for EDGE first. Sadly for me, the only things I am interested in for DCSW is multi role 4/5th gen HiFi, dynamic campaign, new maps; that's really all I want from the game. While I don't suggest having the other stuff (and more) isn't good, its just not going to float my boat.

 

Sigh, if only it were two years from now......

-Sharpe