Art-J Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 9 hours ago, Porkchopper said: Nor do I. Comparing screenshots taken today in the current open beta, with those taken a year ago, show no difference. Same oversaturated colors. I think the wording of the announcement is confusing. They're saying the Normandy map "is getting" a major update, but this appears in a newsletter released in concert with an update. Just not the update the blurb refers to. Hopefully something is still forthcoming. It's my least flown map due to it's bizarre color palette. Get Barthek's texture mod for the Normandy and give it a go. It only changes summer textures so far, but these are the worst offenders in stock version anyway. Makes the map more pleasant to fly. 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistking Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 13 hours ago, Art-J said: Get Barthek's texture mod for the Normandy and give it a go. It only changes summer textures so far, but these are the worst offenders in stock version anyway. Makes the map more pleasant to fly. wait. normandy has seasonal textures by default? My personal wishlist after half a decade with DCS: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/184968-my-personal-wishlist-after-half-a-decade-with-dcs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art-J Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) ^ Yes it does, although no snowy ones. There's spring, summer and autumn scenery. Winter mission dates share textures with autumn. These are the best ones in my opinion, as an artist who made them was not on LSD or acid and because of that they're the only ones with relatively normal colours :D. Spring ones are bad but acceptable if your're drunk or wear sunglasses, but summer ones are absolutely over the top with colour balance. Unplayable without Barthek's mod for me. Edited August 4, 2021 by Art-J 1 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunterlund21 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 I thought I read some where that there was a plan to remove all the airfields in France that the allies built to get a pre invasion version of the map. Is that correct? I was in Art of the Kill D#@ it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvi Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 8/15/2021 at 4:10 PM, gunterlund21 said: I thought I read some where that there was a plan to remove all the airfields in France that the allies built to get a pre invasion version of the map. Is that correct? Never saw a official statement on this, sadly. 1 Serious uglies Discord 4YA - Project Overlord WW2 Server My DCS Videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callsign112 Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 Now that there has been a recent update to the Normandy map, does anyone know what Ugra plans on doing next? Are they still working on Normandy, or have they gone back to Syria/started something else? There are still a lot of issues on the Normandy map. Follow the river from Le Harvre for example, and just about every bridge is either borked (vehicles fall through), under water, or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westr Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Normandy map seems to benefit from disabling Motion reprojection, in VR where I have not seen much benefit to it in other maps. Despite keeping a steady 45fps looking left or right on the Normandy map and rolling I notice stuttering. This goes by disabling the MR. Otherwise Normandy works well and for me is the only map I can use for WW2 in VR as the channel map runs awful still after all this time. Unfortunately though the Normandy map looks outdated now, colours look wrong and it just lacks a little quality for me. RYZEN 7 3700X Running at 4.35 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti 32gb DDR4 RAM @3200 MHz Oculus CV1 NvME 970 EVO TM Warthog Stick & Throttle plus 11" extension. VKB T-Rudder MKIV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 a little teaser on the ED discord 'dcs-wwii-chat channel indicates that the Normandy map will receive an update to expand and include London and Paris 7 Regards, Paul "Dodge / LondonLad" SYSTEM SPECS: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x , 64GB 3600MHz RAM, ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Gaming, NVIDIA RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6, IIYAMA 34" Curved GB3466WQSU Monitor, VPC WarBRD-D Base, VPC MongoosT-50CM2 Grip, Thrustmaster HOTAS Throttle, VPC ACE Interceptor Pedals, VKB Pedals (v4) (backup) + TM MFD w/CUBESIM (x2), PointCTRL, HP Reverb G2 VR Headset, Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset, & TrackIR Group: DCAF (Now Left, but a great group to be apart of - UK Based) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinkickef Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) I wonder if the textures will be updated across the entire map to include the latest developments. I am a map addict, always buy a new terrain, but thought that ugra dropped the ball a little with Normandy on first release. It got better but still needs a revamp to bring it up to Syria and channel standards. I say channel standards now because after the last update, it is finally playable in VR. Still can't help thinking that ED and the third parties should be getting together with shared basic grid technology so the maps can be slotted together seamlessly. Instead of having to redo the channel map, then they could have gone North to East Anglia and Lincolnshire bomber counties, or gone South to italy. Edited December 25, 2021 by Tinkickef 2 System spec: i9 9900K, Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra motherboard, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 RAM, Corsair M.2 NVMe 1Tb Boot SSD. Seagate 1Tb Hybrid mass storage SSD. ASUS RTX2080TI Dual OC, Thermaltake Flo Riing 360mm water pumper, EVGA 850G3 PSU. HP Reverb, TM Warthog, Crosswind pedals, Buttkicker Gamer 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinman Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 So basically the entire area of the channel map will be covered by the expanded normandy map, rendering the channel map even more pointless than it already was before. Or am I missing something here? A quick look on Google Maps shows that Paris is almost as far east as Dunkerque, which itself seems to be close to the end of the detailed area on the channel map. Hopefully they found a way to merge the two. I seem to remember a statement discarding that idea, but this would be the only way it would make any sense. At least the multiplayer-community would certainly like that, I guess. 4 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FupDuck Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 I always wondered why the two maps weren't one. There's lots of overlap already and both maps are pretty small. The two together I think would still be smaller than Syria. Personally, as someone who bought the Normandy map but not the Channel, I'm pretty stoked to hear this! The country between Paris and Normandy has lovely rolling green hills that would be a dream to fly through! I'm also a little surprised this hasn't generated more chatter, I thought this would be huge news! "...I just wanna fly; put your arms around me baby, put your arms around me baby" - Sugar Ray RTX 3090, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, MSI MPG B550 Gaming mobo, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB game install drive, Oculus Quest Pro via link cable, Standalone DCS beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick10 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 So then we need a mk2 spit and a bf109e4 then we have the Battle of Britain. plus a couple ai He-111s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterH Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 16 hours ago, nick10 said: mk2 spit and a bf109e4 Oh, I for one, would love that so much, been wanting them in DCS since forever! Besides, an emil would be a decent playmate for I-16 too. 2 Wishlist: F-4E Block 53 +, MiG-27K, Su-17M3 or M4, AH-1F or W circa 80s or early 90s, J35 Draken, Kfir C7, Mirage III/V DCS-Dismounts Script Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunfreak Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 WW2 definitely needs some 1940s love, but also 1942-1943 love. Really need a 109G model as they were the most produced and longest service life. And a more appropriate adversary for the IX. 2 i7 13700k @5.2ghz, GTX 3090, 64Gig ram 4800mhz DDR5, M2 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick10 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 I don’t see any European theatre ww2 aircraft on the horizon at all sadly? I know there is talk of a Hellcat and Corsair (lovely) but can’t see any others coming anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FupDuck Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, nick10 said: I don’t see any European theatre ww2 aircraft on the horizon at all sadly? I know there is talk of a Hellcat and Corsair (lovely) but can’t see any others coming anytime soon? Well, they did just release the Mosquito and the C47 AI. But yah, maybe this European map expansion will be accompanied by some more new period modules! Rather than different variants of existing planes though, I'd like to see something new. The He111 posted above is a great candidate, or Hurricane, Typhoon, Me262... Any of these would be awesome! Edited December 27, 2021 by FupDuck "...I just wanna fly; put your arms around me baby, put your arms around me baby" - Sugar Ray RTX 3090, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, MSI MPG B550 Gaming mobo, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB game install drive, Oculus Quest Pro via link cable, Standalone DCS beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy55 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 I have the Channel map which I like but it does seem it will be engulfed by an expanded Normandy map so wonder that that will play out. Improving the Normandy map is good news. 1 Rig: RTX 4080, 11th Gen Intel Core i7 11700K, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 3xSSD Drives, TM F/A18 Grip on Virpil WarBrd base, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, VKB-Sim T Rudder Pedals MkIV, Virpil MongoosT-50CM throttle, Varjo Aero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 GS has a video regarding the "2022 and Beyond" but he gets the Normady map wrong. The map covers almost the entire Channel map but some how, it does not have the white cliff textures. But I agree with him that the two maps may eventually merge into an even bigger one. VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants -- this is how I fly. We do not fly at treetop height, we fly between trees(TM) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9BDi-STaqgWsjNiHbW0fA My simple missions: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/284071-vr-flight-guy-in-pj-pants-simple-missions/ NSRI - National Strategy Research Institution, a fictional organisation based on wordplay of Strategic Naval Research Institution (SNRI), a fictional institution appears in Mobile Suit Gundam UC timeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogster Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 A pre and post D-Day Normandy would need two maps I suppose. Maybe the Channel could stay as the post June 1944 map. That does mean big changes to Normandy though, and people have already bought it… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Fenrir Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 My suspicions are that Normandy will, after the update to bring in London and Paris, for the foreseeable future, be limited to the new boundaries that including these two cities sets; this looks like it will cover an area from Bristol to Paris. However it massively opens up an AO for the inclusion of a large number of Allied and Axis airfields and a wider useful chronology for mission builders. Concurrently, I forsee that the Channel Map will be used as a foundation point for pushing East and maybe slightly North to include Belgium, Holland and the Rhineland, making the map more useful for Autumn/Winter 1944 scenarios. Having a useful amount of overlap is no bad thing; plenty of times I would run into hurdles wanting to portray historical missions from an airbase on the Channel map that pushed further West or South into territory that was only available on the Normandy Map. If my theory bears out then it could spell more opportunity for realistic historical mission and campaign developments. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71st_AH Rob Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Or perhaps, they will completely overlap in space but not in time. ED has indicated a desire to see the Battle of Britain in the future. Maybe the Channel Map will evolve to cover the time period of 1940 - 1942 and Normandy will handle 1943-1944, there were many major changes to existing and a significant increase in the number of new airfields in 1943 with the arrival of the 8th and 9th Air forces and the growth of the RAF, both existing squadrons and the influx of Article XV squadrons. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ala13_ManOWar Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Good point, and it would be awesome to have them both in different time frames. "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_sukebe Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 22 hours ago, 71st_AH Rob said: Or perhaps, they will completely overlap in space but not in time. ED has indicated a desire to see the Battle of Britain in the future. Maybe the Channel Map will evolve to cover the time period of 1940 - 1942 and Normandy will handle 1943-1944, there were many major changes to existing and a significant increase in the number of new airfields in 1943 with the arrival of the 8th and 9th Air forces and the growth of the RAF, both existing squadrons and the influx of Article XV squadrons. Now THAT would be a good way to differentiate them. Another option would be to offer the option for one of them to be in a more modern setting, e.g. cold war 80s. System: 9700, 64GB DDR4, 2070S, NVME2, Rift S, Jetseat, Thrustmaster F18 grip, VPC T50 stick base and throttle, CH Throttle, MFG crosswinds, custom button box, Logitech G502 and Marble mouse. Server: i5 2500@3.9Ghz, 1080, 24GB DDR3, SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomaKrelian Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I'm really happy to hear about Paris being added. I have had some campaign ideas on hold for the longest time. I just hope we can get it this year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramstein Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Almost looks like the Stalker map, just change the broken old vehicles to Russian. ASUS Strix Z790-H, i9-13900, WartHog HOTAS and MFG Crosswind G.Skill 64 GB Ram, 2TB SSD EVGA Nvidia RTX 2080-TI 55" Sony OLED TV, Oculus VR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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