Matt will give us a DCS World 2 Live Stream

It's possible a viewer recorded it, I considered doing so but my upload speeds are so awful that I decided not to. In any case, I can try to list off what all you missed in terms of info gleaned from the video and wags talking.

1) Greyed out "F-5E WIP" icon shown in the list of background icons on the main menu screen. Might be an upcoming module or maybe just a background for the NTTR map, who knows. I hope it's a full module though, love the F-5 :). MiG-29 icon also present, presumably for the recently confirmed FC3 MiG-29 stand alone.

2) New AI options in the mission editor, you can tell them to not drop their payload when shot at, what range to fire missiles (max, middle, certain, random), where to attack ground units (or not to) and some general rules such as AB usage and RTB on low fuel. The mission editor is a lot better looking. It looks like a satellite view of the map, rather than the topographic map we currently deal with.

3) Graphics options are largely the same, but there was an added drop down menu for aircraft scaling. I can't remember the exact names of the options, but I think there were 3, with none being the top and I think one was called multiplier. Not sure on this, it was only a quick glance. With it on the strongest setting, enemy planes were clearly visible at 10km. On my end they looked like blurry dots but twitch compresses that stuff. I don't know how they looked on his machine other than visible. Also saw some new smoke effects off of missiles and flares. They looked good to me, the smoke can best be described as poofy. It also lingered longer. Contrails were also much improved, they fade in behind the aircraft rather than instantly materializing at full intensity. Wags mentioned new clouds being made too, but they were not shown.

4) Terrain LoDs transition smoothly and large buildings can be seen from far away. I never saw the strip pop up out of nothing, it was always there so long as I saw vegas. Same deal for other big things. Only the little residential houses disappeared as distance increased.

5) Some surprising details are on the map such as the craters from underground nuclear tests. These were only seen at high altitude this stream, I'm curious what they look like close up. There are also a lot of cars/trucks/buses in Vegas. The amount of stuff shown is something unseen before in flight sims. His system appeared to run it fine but it did stutter in a few places. The stutters seemed unrelated to what was in view though, might have just been twitch.

6) The main menu, mission editor and flying part are all one program now, going from one to the next was very quick. It also CTD'd constantly the first 15 minutes of the stream. It seemed to be related to that particular airfield since as soon as he got away from it, the stream went uninterrupted for the remaining hour or more.

It's possible a viewer recorded it, I considered doing so but my upload speeds are so awful that I decided not to. In any case, I can try to list off what all you missed in terms of info gleaned from the video and wags talking.

It was advised to Not re record, re upload or re broadcast the live feed without written permission fron ED.

Any user that does this will be dealt with harshly, as it was stated MULTIPLE times here and in the chat.

I look at it this way. The stream, which I could not view, (so those of you that DID see it, quit yer bitching), was A GIFT. It was announced and conducted under specific parameters and placed him under zero obligation to do anything more. Who has any right to demand anything beyond that point, especially since it was FREE?

It's like people that show up to a yard-free and trash what's there for free because they aren't happy with the quality. Freaking A. Maybe if you PAID for the show, but... you DIDN'T.

DCSW 2 Matt's screen shots

Go to Matt's twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/wagmatt/b/671529026 and there is a video. Go to 1:02:12 for where the slide show of screen shots starts.

Arnt those just images from the past newsletters?

I didn't recognize all of them.

he just uploaded another one. but it looks to be the same shots, just not an hour long one

EDIT: he is live streaming right now... im guessing that its a screen saver