DCS: Roadmap (unofficial - NO DISCUSSION HERE)

[Silver_Dragon]

Flyingiron A-7E progress

 

[Gierasimov]

BalticDragon teasing Kola campaign. 

Finnish Hornet driver. No carrier. 

Looks like a screenshot from Kola as well.  Thanks NineLine.

https://twitter.com/BalticDragonDCS/status/1555119229334179840?t=ejt4ar9EPH6d5JhWfCLAuQ&s=19

Edited August 5, 2022 by Gierasimov
moderator comment

[NineLine]

29 minutes ago, Gierasimov said:

Looks like a screenshot from Kola as well.

I don't think so, sorry.

[Northstar98]

The Kola map will get the Aurora Borealis and Sea Ice - both will be firsts in DCS.

See the last image posted here.

 

[Killshot0597]

Razbam MiG-23MLA
R-23R and R-23T


R-13M

[Northstar98]

Some new development screenshots:

IAI Kfir:

 

New AI B-1B Lancer:

[Silver_Dragon]

From official news, Kfir by AVIRON 3rd Party. New infantry animations, and B-1B AI progress

 

 

[Silver_Dragon]

From rusian forum:
Planeed loading / unloading troops animations on helos to a future.

 

[Northstar98]

MB 339 Status Update, from Discord.

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DCS MB-339 UPDATE

First, we'd like to apologize for the lack of updates on this project: rest assured we have been working tirelessly to deliver an extremely accurate rendition of this aircraft. In these days we are completing a build which we will submit to Eagle Dynamics as a release candidate. Contrary to other companies, our strategy on this aicraft, being our commercial debut on DCS, is to deliver a module which is as complete as possible...and we think we are at a very good point.

At the moment we think that the MB.339 will be fully featured at launch with two exceptions:

• Flight Director will not be functional
• Multicrew will have the standard basic implementation (full state synchronization will come at a later date)

Apart from these two features, the aircraft will be fully functional and all the aircraft systems will be simulated in detail and very close to the flight manual.

Release date will be announced by ED pending their testing and approval, but we are confident it will not be too far away in the future.

Edited August 6, 2022 by Northstar98

[YoYo]

Update from Miltech.

[Silver_Dragon]

 

[Silver_Dragon]

Russian forum, new infantry animations centred on infantry movement on ground and cities. Helo loading movements no started yet.

 

[Gierasimov]

Strike Eagle aerial refueling by Razbam

https://twitter.com/RAZBAM/status/1556800804706713604?t=-zrzXrzLPh3HFP0JhRSqTw&s=19

Edited August 9, 2022 by Gierasimov

[Silver_Dragon]

New Air Combat Sim Podcast. Heatblur.

 

[Killshot0597]

On 8/9/2022 at 8:41 AM, Silver_Dragon said:

New Air Combat Sim Podcast. Heatblur.

 

Time stamps for the video, this will include every single question I can catch. Maybe even some of the more personal ones. Let me know if I missed anything.

2:33 : How many people are there? The whole team?
3:25 : Tell us a little bit about yourself
4:28 : You are well known in Heatblur for very good movies or trailers your aircraft, that is also part of your love for movie or cinematography?
5:49 : So on that note are you gonna be be doing anymore trailers for the near future?
7:08 : Are there going to be anymore Swedish aircraft? Like a full fidelity Draken?
8:30 : Speaking of other modules there is a few aircraft that are always coming up as a kind of dream for players and one of them is Panavia Tornado, anything about that as a possibility?
9:42 : What the status was for the venerable A-6E and KA-6 tanker as part of the F-14 wrap up?
11:24 : And just to confirm we are looking at the A-6E model or the KA-6 or you talking about a Prowler?
12:26 : Supercarrier version of Forrestal?
14:03 : What other famous cold war jets, i guess either gen 3 or gen 4 that are missing. We know that quite a few of them are being done. Are there any that Heatblur has been thinking about?
15:16 : Is ther a chance or willingness to do a full fidelity Su-27?
16:08 : Which one would be your dream aircraft to develop and bring to DCS?
17:09 : (About module development) What would be the most challenging area? Model, graphics, systems integration, what is the most difficult part of it all?
19:40: You would ever consider dipping your toes into creating maps and especially the South East Asia map which is linked with the F-4?

Viggen
21:08: Question about Viggen skins and some issues it currently has according to people, fuel regines, flight models tend to overperform, possible problems with damage model. What's your take on that?
22:53 : Does it also include more skins for it?
23:56 : I wonder how the Viggen pre-order drew award of getting one's name on a F-14 skin is going?

Eurofighter:
24:41 : What's the division of responsibilities between Heablur and Truegrit for Eurofighter, who is doing what and how did it come to being a cooperation?
26:09 : What variant are  we going to get? Which Tranche?
30:06 : is that primarily going to be A-A or A-G as well and if A-G, what are we looking at for munitions?
31:09 : Will the Eurofighter have a music album like the Tomcat's defender of the fleet?

Tomcat:
32:57 : How you did the sound for the F-14? Is it from archives? Get an actual F-14?
36:12 : What would you say would be the timeframe for some of the other F-14 items? Like IRIAF version? TARPS Pod?
39:36 : Is there a chance to change the lights on the Tomcat?
41:04 : Make the refueling door on or off clickable?
41:57 : AIM-54, are there any change in general that are coming? Or is it an ED thing?
44:20 : Could you tell us more about this 2 free campaigns coming up for the F-14.
46:23 : What kind of updates are we looking at for our absolute favourite RIO (Jester) and of course his counterpart our absolute favorite AI pilot (Iceman)?
50:42 : Iceman will be one day able to fly the whole mission from start to end, so the player can focus on just focus on the RIO seat for the whole duration of the mission?
52:33 : What is the estimated man hours put on the development of the F-14 thusfar

Phantom:
53:59 : We'd love to hear some overall insight on the F-4 development, like what can we expect as far as capability of it, or what versions when it launches.
56:19 : when it comes to the actual F-4 early access, are we looking at getting both variants? or are we getting one and how long can we expect the 2nd?
57:57 : Would you say a lot of the lessons learned from the Tomcat are greatly fueling what you are doing with the F-4?
59:14 : How have they (SMEs) reacted so far to what's been done? or have they been involved?
1:00:44 : Somebody who I guess is interested in doing a home cockpit, they wanna know if HeatBlur is going to release the 3D scans and or dimensions for the F-4?
1:01:57 : What's your build, I mean you have a home cockpit? What do you use as HOTAS?
1:03:51 : So you will start with the F-4E which is not the navy one, any plans to move to navy one?
1:04:37 : What about things like early TPODs? Or some of the weapons made famous in Vietnam?
1:06:38 : What about the possibility of branching to other variants like the RF-4, Wild Weasel?
1:09:34 : You know with the Phantom out, you will need to do a Vietnam map right?
1:10:48 : How did the F-4 migrate from being something that way back in the day Belsimtek was supposedly working to something that Heatblur is working on?
1:12:25 : I'm assuming we are gonna get some awesome campaigns to go along with it like some previous modules?
1:14:05 : Would you rather fight a horse sized duck or 50 duck sized horses?
1:14:31 : When are you going to make him a helicopter?

[Silver_Dragon]

 

[Antartis]

Razbam F-15E

Afterburner test WIP

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Antartis

[51EG Sklang]

[Silver_Dragon]

Today newsletter New DCS Sinai map and DCS WW2 marianas update.
 

 

Edited August 12, 2022 by Silver_Dragon

[Silver_Dragon]

Develop Screenshots:
DCS WWII Marianas:

DCS Sinai

 

[Northstar98]

South Atlantic changelog for the next patch, from RAZBAM_Prowler on Discord

South Atlantic Assets:

Added:

• Animated Nodding Donkey Static object.
• Added Ski ramp 02 (less angled version for Hornets)
• Ski Ramps can be found in Airfield Deck Equipment Category (missions that did include the first itteration will require adjustement)
• Sounds enabled for all Frigates & invincible

Fixed:

• Added launchers with New weapon number for torpedo fixed
• Ski ramp 01 rotated 180° in mission editor
• Adjusted position of offshore wind turbines to now sit at their pivot point on the surface of water
• Standarised naming convention
• Swapped Achilles LOD - commented out error
• Removed the "common" from the ships all individual entities.
• Landing point on Invincible - AV-8B NA now lands on the flight deck instead of in the sea.
• Set landing runway as per value recommended by ED.

South Atlantic Map:

Added:

• Aeropuerto Internacional Comandante Armando (El Calafate Airport)
• Aeropuerto de Santa Cruz
• Aerodromo Guardiamarina Zanartu (Puerto Williams)
• El Calafate Fixed - Collision with Hanger R04 with some plains
• Development of new ground detail textures (WIP)

Edited August 13, 2022 by Northstar98

[Silver_Dragon]

From twitter by ED:

 

[Silver_Dragon]

RAZBAM South Atlantic Map new airbases WIP

 

Edited August 12, 2022 by Silver_Dragon

[Silver_Dragon]

Magnitude 3 intervew

Enviado desde mi RNE-L21 mediante Tapatalk

[Ian Boys UK]

Razbam Interview