DCS World Steam Edition News

[h2]15 Years of DCS[/h2]
[h3]60% off Sale[/h3]



The 15 Years of DCS Sale will soon be coming to a close and we would like to thank you all for celebrating our 15th anniversary with us. None of this would have been possible without you, our faithful and loyal community!

The 15 Years of DCS Shop Sale will end on the 17th of September at 16:00 GMT, 2023. Please do not miss this grand opportunity to lock in some of our most popular modules including DCS: F/A-18C, DCS: F-16C Viper, and DCS: AH-64D all with a whopping 50% discount! Check out the Shop.

[h2]PC-9/A[/h2]
[h3]Development Progress[/h3]



We are pleased to announce that Check Six Simulations is making good progress with their PC-9/A and they will soon be submitting the external and internal 3D models for evaluation. In parallel, they are also working on the flight model. Check out their Development Screenshots.

[h2]Roughmaster Liveries[/h2]
[h3]F-16C Viper Livery[/h3]



Roughmaster Liveries has created a special skin to represent the FA-95’s 8000 hour service limit milestone and to honour all those personnel that made this possible. The livery made its debut in DCS and we would like to extend Roughmaster’s thank you to the Belgian Air Force, Kleine Brogel Air Base and its commander as well as Tiziano R, Bram T, Robin Meus, 349 and 31 squadrons, the Keebee paintshop and the plottersection in making this happen.

The F-16 in the picture above was delivered to Belgium in 1985 and flew from the Kleine Brogel and Florennes Air Bases. During its career it was deployed in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as for QRA air policing duties in the baltics. Because of the excellent care and maintenance by the BAF crews this plane managed to fly right up until its structural design limit of 8000 hours!



On the 8th of September 2023, FA-95 flew its last hour as part of a four-ship demonstration with the Belgian Thunder Tigers from 31 sqn. The plane will be used to train the next generation of engineers and maintainable personnel. The “Global Viper” scheme will soon be available from the User Files section on our website.

Thank you again for your passion and support,

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics

The 15 Years of DCS Steam Sale will end on Friday, the 15th of September at 8 AM PDT (6 PM GMT+3). Please do not miss some of our most popular modules including:

[h3]DCS: F/A-18C[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/411950/DCS_FA18C/

[h3]DCS: F-16C Viper[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090850/DCS_F16C_Viper/

[h3]DCS: AH-64D[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1770580/DCS_AH64D/

All with a whopping 50% discount!

Check out the full 15 Years of DCS Steam Sale now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition/

15 Years of DCS Anniversary Sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-IQS1CiiU

[h2]15 Years of DCS[/h2]
[h3]Up to 60% Savings[/h3]



Check out the biggest DCS savings in years with up to 60% savings off most products! The sale will continue on our eShop until Sunday, the 17th of September 2023 at 16:00 GMT and on Steam until the 15th at 18:00 GMT.

All our most popular aircraft, terrains and campaigns are now available with up to 60% discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition/



[h2]Supercarrier[/h2]
[h3]Development Progress[/h3]



We continue to add the logic and animations that govern how aircraft are directed from a parking location to a catapult and how aircraft are directed out of the landing area after recovering. This includes new yellow shirt plane directors and brown shirt plane captains. Aircraft will be handed off between multiple plane directors to reach their assigned catapults with realistic animations. Closed Beta Testing of this is on-going. This is a complex and time consuming task to account for a myriad of conditions that could “break” the logic. Thank you for your patience as we strive to complete this new feature soon.



[h2]F/A-18C Pilot Model[/h2]
[h3]Development Progress[/h3]



We are thrilled to present you with the above screenshots of the new F/A-18C pilot’s helmet and facemask. There will be two versions of the helmet. The first is the U.S. Navy JHMCS flight helmet with a Digital EyePiece Night Vision Cueing Display (NVCD) option. The second is the U.S. Navy HGU-68P flight helmet with AN_AVS-9(V) NVG night vision goggles, via the Banana Mounting adapter option. The Gentex MBA-20AP facemask, with new US Navy microphone, will also be integrated with the helmet. The helmet will include convenient mapping and a texture template so that you can customize it and add your squadron’s emblems!


[h2]SPQR[/h2]
[h3]Multiplayer Server[/h3]



The SPQR multiplayer server features all the modern aircraft (generation 3 and 4, including the F-15E) and rotary wing aircraft (AH-64D and Ka-50 III) available in DCS. The only limitations are no GPS-guided glide bombs and cruise missiles.

Key features:

• The frontline objective locations are marked on the F10 map (circles representing general location).
  
• Real-time statistics tracking is available using SpecialK's DCSServerBot (plus many other bot features)
  
• Integration with the DTC user-mod that will automatically import objective waypoints (based on real-time frontline location)
  
• Yink's EWR tool provides an "overlord" type picture/bogey-dope in text format
  
• CSAR missions help preserve your coalition's attrition (which affects frontline movement)
  
• The server offers missions for everyone: A2A, A2G, SEAD/DEAD, Naval operations, etc
  
• The server is hosted on high-end hardware that offers high frame rates with no lag. Join their Discord for more information.
  

Thank you again for your passion and support,

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics

[h2]15th Anniversary Celebration Sale[/h2]
[h3]Up to 60% off[/h3]



All our most popular aircraft, terrains and campaigns are now available with up to 60% discount.

[h2]What to expect this 15th Anniversary year[/h2]
[h3]Announcement[/h3]



Throughout the year, this 15-year badge will be used to mark our celebratory events.

DEVELOPER Q&A

We are incredibly grateful to our dedicated community members who have been the driving force behind development ideas and priorities, bug notifications and product requests as well as the engine behind the steady user growth over the years. To put even more focus on your contribution, we’d like to invite all of you to add your most important questions and requests to a special Developer Q&A, which will help us prioritise things for the near and medium term.

Please submit your questions via the Forum Thread here.

This Q&A is your best opportunity yet for answers to your most burning questions. We are excited to share news on topics we know are important to you, such as a Dynamic Campaign roadmap, updates for ATC, progress of DLSS and Vulkan API integration, the future of the Mission Editor, and Flaming Cliffs.

We will answer everything we can. Submissions are open until Monday 11th September. Thank you!


CELEBRATING OUR COMMUNITY CREATORS



The dedication of those talented users who create free content for all to enjoy never ceases to impress us and we would like to thank them by showcasing their work and by featuring some of the very best content including mods, campaigns, skins, help-guides, videos and more.



Please take the time to browse some of the thousands of User Files available totally free of charge. In addition, please take a look at some of the influential community-made content:



Our community of creators produce a massive amount of content each year. We are sure you know most of them already, but if not, please take a moment to explore and enjoy their work via the list below:

deephack | G. Skouras | The Ops Center By Mike Solyom | Reflected Simulations | Pricklyhedgehog72 | DCS Sport | phil style | Bullet4MyEnemy | Nightwolf | Command T | THE AIR WARFARE GROUP | Phenom | Hornet Productions | Rakuzard | HIP Games | Reload Gaming | Keller Dominik | Flight Simulation | Enigma | Adrian Caparzo | Hellreign82 | TacticalPascale | 104th_Maverick | VRFlightSimGuy | CasmoTV | FIXEDIT | Fast Jet Performance | TheSkyline35 | J.P. Ferre | しきしま56 | Bogey Dope | RedKite | DCS WORLD PAK | iceman_fox1 | XCHECK | TheWarthogProject | Spudknocker | Tricker | LongShot | Retalha | ralfidude | RKProGaming | Infante760 | Mushroom Cloud Confetti | Grim Reapers | C.W. Lemoine | Growling Sidewinder | DevildogGamer | OperatorDrewski | Chuck's Guides

MULTIPLAYER EVENTS



DCS can be a fabulous shared experience and has become a large part of what makes it important to so many players.

We are very grateful to all the DCS server owners who do a superb job hosting, tailoring gameplay experiences and curating community spaces, from carrier ops, to aerobatics and warbirds, to helicopters.

We will be working with server owners to set up special events throughout the year and will share more details soon. We will also be joining in on a number of these community events, so keep an eye out for more details and for the opportunity to fly with and against ED Team members.

15 YEARS OF DCS: WHERE DID WE COME FROM?



Many of you have been with us on this incredible journey since the start and we are deeply grateful for your loyalty.

The creation of the Digital Combat Simulator brand in 2008 was not our first entry into the combat simulation genre; upon release in 2008, our core team already had 13 years experience. Here is a summarised timeline of the Eagle Dynamics story so far:

• 1991 Eagle Dynamics is founded
  
• Nov 1995 Su-27 Flanker. Runner-up for Computer Gaming World's ‘Simulation of the Year’
  
• Sep 1999 Flanker 2.0. The direct sequel to Su-27 Flanker added the SU-33 to the lineup
  
• Mar 2002 Flanker 2.5. Awarded ‘Best Simulation of 2002’ by PC Gamer
  
• Nov 2003 Lock-On: Modern Air Combat. Published by Ubisoft
  
• Apr 2005 Lock-On: Flaming Cliffs release. Advanced Flight Model for Su-25 and Su-25T
  
• Oct 2008 DCS: Black Shark. Advanced Flight Model and first clickable cockpit in the ED history. The first ‘DCS’ release earned SimHQ's ‘Sim Product of the Year’ 2008
  
• 2009 DCS: Black Shark wins PC Gamer Simulation of the Year 2009
  
• Feb 2011 DCS: A-10C Warthog. The first full-fidelity jet
  
• 2011 DCS: A-10C Warthog wins PC Gamer Simulation of the Year 2011
  
• May 2012 DCS: P-51D Mustang. The first WWII module
  
• Aug 2013 DCS World Steam Edition
  
• Jan 2015 DCS: Su-27 The Ultimate Argument Campaign for DCS World
  
• Oct 2015: DCS: L-39 Albatros. The first MultiCrew
  
• Nov 2015 DCS World 2.0. Detailed terrain support of the Nevada map
  
• Jun 2017 DCS World 2.1. Added deferred shading and physically-based rendering
  
• Jun 2017 DCS: WWII Asset Pack
  
• Apr 2018 DCS World 2.5 Significant improvement to the Caucasus map.
  
• May 2018 DCS: F/A-18C. Our most popular module to date
  
• Apr 2019 Dedicated Servers released for Multiplayer
  
• Oct 2019 DCS: F-16C Viper
  
• May 2020 DCS: Supercarrier Nimitz-class flight deck Operations
  
• Apr 2021 DCS World 2.7. Eagle Dynamics Weather Engine
  
• Jun 2021 DCS: Mi-24P HIND and MultiCrew
  
• Mar 2022 DCS: AH-64D
  
• Oct 2022 DCS World 2.8. Improved atmospheric conditions and AI basic flight manoeuvres
  
• Mar 2023 Multi-threading is introduced
  

We are working hard on DCS World 3.0, with 2.9 coming soon. Your simulation now boasts 44 aircraft modules, 66 campaigns, 7 maps, and nearly 20,000 FREE mods and user-files created by the community along with over 4.5 million Videos on Youtube, with billions of views.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE



We shared passion and a desire to create historically important combat aircraft in uncompromising detail for all of you to enjoy, making aviation dreams come true and the inaccessible a virtual reality.

DCS will continue to grow, with more focus on the graphics environment, spherical earth, core ‘game’ functionality, improved multiplayer and cooperative play with extended ground and naval warfare. Many much-anticipated aircraft are coming soon, including the mighty F-4E Phantom, OH-58D Kiowa, F4U Corsair, C-130J, CH-47 Chinook. So much to look forward to!

We are moved by the positivity and dedication of our loyal community and privileged to be part of your lives.

Thank you for your passion and support, and thank you for making our dreams come true.

Thank you again for your passion and support,

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics

[h2]F-104[/h2]
[h3]Announcement[/h3]



The Aerges Team is excited to present their upcoming DCS: F-104 module. Using the experience gained developing the DCS: C-101 Aviojet and the DCS: Mirage F1 modules, they will certainly deliver the most accurate simulation of this exceptional and iconic machine.

Designed by the legendary Kelly Johnson, of P-38, U-2 and SR-71, the F-104 was initially designed to counter the threat posed by the MiG-15 over Korea, and later the MiG-17. Equipped with a single J79-GE-19 turbo jet installed in a very small and lightweight aircraft, the F-104 had excellent airspeed and acceleration qualities that outmatched aircraft of the same era.

Armed with a 725-round M61A1 20mm autocannon and up to two AIM-9 Sidewinders, the F-104 was a within visual range fighter that relied on high-speed slashing attacks rather than turning dogfights due to its poor turn rates. Although optimized for the interceptor role, it could also be armed with unguided rockets and bombs for ground attack.

An AN/ASG-14T1 ranging radar and fire control computer enabled the F-104 to search for aerial targets out to 40 nm and track them within 10 nm.

The F-104 took part in the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis and played a deterrent force during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Between 1965 and 1967, it flew 5,206 sorties during the Vietnam War. In 1971, Pakistani F-104s took part in the Indo-Pakistan War.



[h2]Mirage F1BE[/h2]
[h3]Development Progress[/h3]



Aerges is happy to announce that the Mirage F1BE (two-seater) is now entering the final testing phase before public release. This version will be ideal for conversion training, and it will provide the opportunity to fly with friends in multiplayer using DCS multicrew.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071330/DCS_Mirage_F1/

The second seat adds an additional 30 cm to the length of the aircraft, which results in reduced internal fuel and the removal of the twin 30mm cannons. All other combat capabilities are retained from the single-seat version, with the loss of the internal cannons and internal fuel being compensated for with the addition of cannon pods and external fuel tanks. The back seat also includes a heads-up sight repeater which is unique in DCS.



The addition of the Mirage F1BE adds an interesting role playing option for the Mirage F1 pilot journey. Starting with the C-101 to learn basic airmanship, then transitioning to the Mirage F1BE, a part of the Mirage F1 Basic Course (B-Course), and then concluding with a Mirage F1 tactical unit. Aerges provides this unique experience, available nowhere else in DCS World.



[h2]ARCCO[/h2]
[h3]F2023[/h3]



The Asia Region Combat Competition welcomes spectators, aviation enthusiasts, and the media to follow this remarkable display of aerial artistry. Witness the triumphs and challenges as virtual pilots take flight and be crowned the true Air Supremacy Champions of the Asia region.

The event will be streamed live online, allowing viewers from all over the world to witness the action as it unfolds. Treat yourself to a thrilling showcase of skill and dedication as teams compete in heart-pounding BVR and Dogfights for glory and recognition. Join them this weekend for the quarter finals.

Thank you for your passion and support,

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics