I like the Bomber suggestion and I think we largely forget about that segment of aircraft as viable options to add in. Would be very cool for sure.

​@@callsigngrimey I have been told by an F-15 pilot that he has known the exact target a B-1B was going to hit and _did not see it_ on his radar as it went in. And could not catch it, on the way out. He was low, with tanks, to avoid an associated SAM site. B-1B: Tag, you're it. MiG-31: Why you....*#%@!!

fair enough

I appreciate it man!

I'm a nerd in the comments...yeh, well. (see how that works? cool)

Appreciate it!

Great point, I haven't flown on a "green" map with all the newer desert maps in a while so I forgot about the indestructible trees issue.

Got rifled by a Hornet while driving a BRDM on a public PvP server some days ago. Fled into some dense vegetation and what shall I say? The tree nearby caught the Maverick and I was just fine.

Here's the thing what I need them to do is add the ability for those trees to be damaged, because if they can be damaged, for example, if I drop a thousand pound bomb on the tree, let's say the tree might be big.Enough to actually stop it hitting whatever's under that big a** tree fine, but that tree should be blown to smithereens. At the very least now, you don't actually have to texture. The tree being blown up or anything. You just create a blank spot with no tree anymore. If they would add napalm to the game, this would make napalm very useful as a tree removal device. Hell they could even allow for certain creators of missions to send out Agent Orange flights on the back of C1 30 Hercules. Yes, I understand the Hercules is not the same Hercules that was featured in the Vietnam war. But it's good enough. And if they just add an ability to send Agent Orange flights, even if it's again not modeled, but the planes go up, they do their thing and then they come back. And now the map is clear, that would be Be f****** phenomenal, and it's something that they could do with their current code base for certain, because they already have the technology on other maps to remove trees and foliage. Once you get past a certain height, while they are still physicalized on the ground. Sure I don't think it would be much of a stretch to remove physicalization from them. Either given certain components hit the map at a certain spot. It's just a quick solution from my thought now the implementation is nowhere near quick.They're working with legacy code so they're going to have to do some finagling and f****** around, but that's everything in dcs

Great minds think alike

That's legit.

I recommend joining the developer community server and hit the LFG section. You can usually fine ppl that want to do tactical gameplay in there

Honestly, I think the % of players that fly in VR is fairly small and therefore the priority for any VR work probably takes a back-burner to everything else.

I recorded my video prior to seeing that but yeah....all we can do is wish for an early surprise perhaps.

This is a big mistake on ED's part. Pumping out more modules is not what is needed. 90% play single player exclusively, and more and more people (like me) have stopped buying anything from them until they fix the core AI and produce 'something to do' in the game besides learn systems.

I don't think that the dynamic campaign would be that much of a game changer. I strongly believe that peoples expectations about DCSDC are kind of off. Think that most people are just tired of doing the same things over and over again. Assuming you reached that point the DC only can do very little to get the fire started again. Think we will see some real complaining and frustration once it has been released. Time will tell.

@@slavic8430 We will see complaints and frustration no matter what ED does and no matter how good the DC will be...

Fair.

Some interesting points made in your comment. I also believe many others spend a lot of time in ME and not flying as well. Yet another pain point for many of us.

100% man and it would be so valuable to many in the community.

Well I am more inclined to do a one-time payment for a good product or meaningful feature vs any type of subscription service. There's no way in hell I want DCS to become iRacing and if any subscription system is rolled out, I'll never play DCS again.

Oh man don't tell me my beloved Harrier is now broken...I'll have to go test it out.

@@callsigngrimey i noticed some strange behavior myself with the harrier

lol oh man that was funny.

As others have rightly pointed out, the tech debt has caught up to ED now. Their old codebase makes it hard to change anything or add new stuff and takes ages. They might have to make a new game but obviously wouldn't do that as they'd lose their player base. ED is going down only a matter of time.

@RossPlaysGames44 but they still have some time for grabbing money. And that`s what they do. Just try to sell you more "promised" modules that will never be completed while the base of sim is degrading.

@@rocknarkom1535 Agree there

Not to give ED any excuse or an out but I can only imagine how complex that backend is. Lets be honest...COD breaks, seemingly, every update and it isn't even remotely near the level of complexity as DCS. I say that to say, I think its par for the course to expect bugs and ED play whack-a-mole each patch. So long as its not totally game-breaking, I personally can live with it.

@@callsigngrimey i understand it, but i think it is not a problem of 2025 or 2024. In my opinion after DCS author passed away several years ago the company turned the wrong way of extensive development. They lost primary passion for true detailed immersive sim and started filling it with huge amount of unfinished modules, first of all "blue" aircrafts for western consumers who have more money. Their attempt to improve performance through multithread core showed so unstable result, especially in VR. So i think it has no future without major changes, sadly.

Well the point is to communicated to ED through a video which the community also vocalizes their opinions in the comments. I'm sure they see and probably skim the comments. It's essentially feedback for them to know how the community is feeling. I think it can have some level of impact with them. Maybe I'm too optimistic though?

Dude, if what you said is even remotely the case...it's scary to think all we've invested in the game could just be gone. I know its a complex issue but I hope this isn't the case at all.

Thats never going to happen

@@janvonmoger91 never is a very long time. And there is plenty of precedent of companies launching games on entirely new code bases entirely incompatible with previous content and putting the old game on to the obsolete list for future development. At the end of the day video game development is a ruthless, cutthroat, maximise profit model. They truly don't care what current users think if they can turn more bucks by launching something new and making people buy it again. This is the reality of ED's chosen model. If you want a more customer focused model buy into IL-2 Great Battles been around for a long time just like DCS but every release of paid DLC doesn't break what already exists. True it's not 'study level' but NO home simulator is perfect, even a full USAF or commercial jet simulator has compromises because the only way to build a 'full fidelity' aircraft simulator is to BUILD THE AIRCRAFT.