DCS: Normandy WW2

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***DCS Normandy year in review***

 

DCS: World War II, a Year in Review and Looking Forward

As 2016 closes, we are looking back to what we have done during the past year and reveal some of plans for 2017.

We completed several new tasks in 2016 for DCS:WWII. This included the official release of DCS: Bf 109 K-4, which was preceded by extensive work on flight model, skins, and training missions. We also added two FW 190 D-9 rocket types for air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.

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The main event this year though was the Early Access release of DCS: Spitfire LF Mk. IX. The huge project to recreate this legendary British fighter included the virtual reconstruction of the external model, cockpit, systems and flight dynamics. We are proud to add this to our stable of DCS World War II aircraft. In 2017, our Spitfire work will continue with bug fixes and the addition of bombs and an external fuel tank.

Our next big World War II event will be the Early Access release of the DCS: Normandy 1944 map in the 1st quarter of 2017. The postponement of this release was the result of two primary factors:

• DCS: Normandy 1944 will be the first DCS World map to use our new lighting system. As a result, we have had to remake all landscape textures and objects. This has been a massive task, but we believe it will be worth the time and effort.
• As our first map for DCS: World War II, a great deal of time and effort has gone into creating many new period objects like tanks, trucks, air defense units, trains, ships, and AI bombers. We are also creating many objects that make up the “Atlantic Wall” along the Normandy coast. We believe these objects are essential for making great missions.

We hope these efforts will bring DCS: World War II to new level for us.

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We are also still working on other previously announced features:

• New aircraft damage model systems. This new system will be based on a much more precise system of positional agregats within an aircraft structure such that it will give players a new level of realistic air combat damage modeling- especially with machineguns. Because this system will dramatically change simulation balance, the system will be released for all World War II planes simultaneously.
• Unpaved airfields. This feature will provide the ability to place additional, small airfields on flat ground surfaces via the Mission Editor. Such airfields were used by all sides in World War II for refuelling, emergency, and dummy airfields.

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This is only a small part of our plan for 2017. Our goal is to create an entire World War II environment for our warbirds which will continue our strategic goal of creating an air combat simulation that spans the world and across the decades. Strap in!


Happy New Year!
The Eagle Dynamics Team

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Last edited by Chizh; 12-30-2016 at 08:06 AM.

    

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Racoon (WW2 ED team) show WW2 Normandy map extension to South England, and new airbases.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3026496&postcount=2

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From Racoon

  

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Wags posted New WIP Shots

More Normandy images released by ED, they look awesome

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More Normandy images released by ED, they look awesome

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Sorry for Repeat pictures....Copy/Paste Problems :smile:

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From MudSpike Forums.......

[jcomm 5,925]

Reminds me a  lot of CloD :-)

[HiFlyer 9,358]

Reminds me a  lot of CloD :-)

 

Reminds me very much of Wings Of Prey!  :smile:

[charlie130 196]

Looking forward to Normandy!

 

If the "Europe" theatre could be expanded to the Russian borders and north to Sweeden, not only could we fly ww2 to its conclusion but perhaps I could fly the SAAB in its, post ww2, cold war, hunting ground. (Excluding ww2 tanks or perhaps swapping in some cold war units?)

 

I could foresee many hours spent at the mission/campaign planner!

 

I guess I just yearn for a bigger sand box!:-)

 

Regards

 

David

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Folks,

 

Yeah - looking forward to this too as a precursor to my favorite plane of all time in the Pacific - whistling death - the venerable F4U... Screens look great !!!

 

Regards,
Scott

[vololiberista 205]

Nice work!

You absolutely MUST do a map for the Dambusters run. At night under the Moon and flown at 15-30metres altitude all the way there and back. A challenge?? Noooooo, release it as a DCS tutorial :-)

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New Soundtrack :smile: 

https://soundcloud.com/btd/soundtrack-for-dcs-normandy-trailer-dramatic-version

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****From Wags****

 

Happy Friday everyone! Here are a few WIP images of the upcoming Normandy map. One of the big items we are working on now is populating the towns and cities to make them look more lived in. Cars, bicycles, carts, telephone poles, laundry hanging on lines, tractors, etc. We also have two different types of trains based on the year of the mission.

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***FROM WAGS***

"Hello England!

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[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Folks,

 

That looks REALLY good...

 

Anyone know what the first full blown American aircraft that's planned for this theater ???

 

From what I understand - the Mustang is a somewhat "lite" model in DCS ?

 

Regards,

Scott