What ever happened to the Crimea map?

Are non WWII players really going to spring for another "alpha" map?

I think I might wait for the other Alpha map to you know, get out of alpha.

Use your imagination guys, the Soviets have pushed allies to the coast of France, can you stop the from pushing you out of Europe? And if you don't want to bomb spits, don't put the in your mission ;)

yes, i would love to overrun france. :-)

but, there is everything ww2 style, the infrastructure, the towns, the airfields. . . or isnt it? not very realistic. :-(

but, there is everything ww2 style, the infrastructure, the towns, the airfields. . . or isnt it?

In some places it looks pretty much the same these days ;)

yes, i would love to overrun france. :-)

 

but, there is everything ww2 style, the infrastructure, the towns, the airfields. . . or isnt it? not very realistic. :-(

It should be good for Sabre vs MiG-15 scenarios. Hope it will have paved runaways?

Anyway, I can already see myself blowing up panzers in A-10. :music_whistling:

There is no expansion to the Caucasus map planned, only upgrading it to use more of the new tech for maps.

But that does mean retexturing and remodeling pretty much everything, right ?

And the heightmap is gonna get more precise ?

EDIT: Nevermind, I guess I forgot, and found that update now.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2878286&postcount=44

This is true, but they may want to continue exploring other parts of the world :)

I just thought that with Crimea extension, the map can get a refresh for all those who try DCS for free and at least some kind of base-level advancement but, you also make sure that Caucasus Map is not being left alone and forgotten, some people may still go back from time to time.

It's that kinda philosophy that you just don't let one thing fizzle out to much.

It already feels better when the old map is taken care of first before we get our hands on the newest and latest stuff.

I do not want to overuse the nevada map and then find myself being forced to pick the old map, that would be a unrefreshing feeling if the old map wouldn't be updated, but if that happens to someone it will be refreshing now.

NTTR is pretty much compete, it just needs the version merge, I wouldn't call that early access beyond that.

Then I would really like for grass airfields to work, they didn't, only helipads, and I think they didn't in Caucasus either, maybe that's an editor issue not sure.

Yo-Yo who does FMs has no idea how to build a map. That is one example. I do one job where I work, I don't have any idea how to do someone else's job there.

Yo-Yo may only do FM's. And Skippy may only do maps... But, as you know, those FM's and maps have to be integrated into each other in order to create a simulation, which means someone or group has to wait on the others before moving certain things forward. I find it hard to believe, when I see a change log like the most recent one for 1.5.6, that those changes (such as Su27's braking system) were just now finished after having been worked on at 100% resource capacity and released upon completion.

PS - Sith, where do you work where you only have to do one job? I'm envious. :-)

Things are prioritized

I guess that's my whole point: Things keep getting prioritized over other things because things keep getting added, then updated, etc. etc. before previous priorities are completed. Please hear this as criticism from a guy who loves and supports ED.

Back on topic: Adding Crimea would be very cool; maybe after 2.5, S. of Hormuz, Normandy, the Hornet etc.

I always thought the Crimea was excluded due to legal issues with Lock On. That said it was so long ago now I probably imagined it.

Nate

I always thought the Crimea was excluded due to legal issues with Lock On. That said it was so long ago now I probably imagined it.

 

Nate

I recall reading that.

I also recall reading it was excluded due to memory and performance issues.

Either way, it's moot. We don't have it, and currently, we're not getting it :)

As for the reason:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=517423&postcount=9

I had alot of fun flying crimea and I really miss it but I'd rather see new theatres. There are just so many great options it would be a shame to go back and redo the crimea.

Whos not up for a Korea/Middle east/fulda gap/falklands/vietnam/scandinavia-russian/south china sea type scenarios?

In some places it looks pretty much the same these days ;)

Agree. Sure, the cities are a bit bigger nowadays, but nothing like skyscrapers or anything like that. The countryside didn't change much over the last 100 years.

Technically the "terrain" part is still there, there's just no objects (buildings, airfields, etc etc), and the terrain looks like a generic repeated pattern once you go further inland from the shore line.

MAKE CRIMEA GREAT AGAIN!!! :D

Bye

Phant

"Technically the "terrain" part is still there, there's just no objects (buildings, airfields, etc etc), and the terrain looks like a generic repeated pattern once you go further inland from the shore line. "

Yep, if the place-able strips were finished, there would be nothing to stop you creating a forward airbase in the Crimea to operate out of & adding objects around it to add immersion... (I'm not sure if it's still possible to move airfields around the map by editing files. From memory there used to be a mod that moved a Georgian airfield into Turkey).

If ED keeps this endless addition of new in-house and 3rd party aircraft coming, (and in unfinished, alpha/beta condition) there won't be a millisecond of time left to work on anything but aircraft. I'd love to see them start focusing on a few things and finishing them, rather than the endless addition of aircraft. Maybe I'm one of the only ones that feels this way.

totally agree, strait of hormutz for istance was announced so many years ago and so far no relaese date is scheduled nor we have any idea when and if it'll ever see the light.;)

Lots of interesting feedback. I am not surprised it was a design limitation on the old engine, but I will be surprised if it turns out to continue being a design limitation on the new engine.

That all said, I'd love to see more maps in general. How about Korea? :D Roughly the same area size as our current maps.

I understand Normandy is also on the way, and Nevada. Really, more maps in general would be wonderful. I'd like it if ED released their tools for creating maps. There are some of us in the modding community who are very passionate about what we do.